Q14. Updated reading and writing fill in the blanks

Reading and Writing fill in the blanks practice exercise. Below is text with blanks. Choose the correct word for each blank to complete the text. 

Richard Morris, of the school of accounting at the University of NSW, which requires an entrance score in the top 5 per percent of students, says attendance has been a problem since the late 1990s. Sometimes in the lecture we’ve only got about one third of students (1……………..) attending, he said. It definitely is a problem. If you don’t turn up to class you’re missing out on the whole (2…………..) of the (3……………..): you don’t think a whole lot, you don’t (4………………) in debates with other students or with your teachers. It is not all gloom, said Professor John Dearn, a Pro Vice-Chancellor at the University of Canberra, who said the internet was (5……………..) the way students access and use information. It is strange that despite all the evidence as to their ineffectiveness, (6……………) lectures seem to persist in our universities.

1. enrolled, applied, declared, appeared
2. richness, enrichment, variety, bunch
3. information, experience, knowledge, views
4. apply, interested, satisfy, engage
5. transforming, changing, selecting, creating
6. traditional, international, creative, interactive 

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