Daily Times Cloze Test

Todd: Natalie, let's — choose —talktalking about times.

Natalie: Okay.

Todd: Like, when we do — choose —thingthings.

Natalie: Sure.

Todd: First, when do you get up?

Natalie: I get up around 7:30.

Todd: Yeah, I get up early too. I don't get up at 7:30, but I get up at 8:00.

Natalie: Oh, well, sometimes I get up at 8:00. Maybe at the weekend.

Todd: Yeah. Actually, I always — choose —wakewaking up at 6:00. I wake up very early, but I don't get out of bed. I wake up. I have some — choose —waterswater, and then I sleep some more. I sleep two more — choose —hourshour.

Natalie: Oh, really?

Todd: Yeah. It's a bad — choose —habitshabit.

Natalie: Sometimes I wake up at 7:30 and I play on my phone for maybe an hour.

Todd: That's so bad.

Natalie: I know.

Todd: I read that it's not — choose —goodwell to check your phone in bed. I never — choose —checkingcheck my phone in bed.

Natalie: Oh, I should — choose —trytrying that.

Todd: What about breakfast? When do you — choose —eatingeat breakfast?

Natalie: I — choose —usuallyusual eat breakfast at around 8:30, but sometimes I don't have breakfast.

Todd: Oh, no time.

Natalie: No time. How about you?

Todd: I usually have breakfast right away. I wake up at 8:00 or I get out of bed at 8:00 and then I eat something at 8:15. I eat something as soon as I get up.

Natalie: Oh. No. I usually have to — choose —waitingwait before I can eat.

Todd: Well, I always eat and I always have coffee very early.

Natalie: Do you have coffee every — choose —daydays?

Todd: Every day. I have three — choose —cupcups of coffee. I have one cup of coffee around 8:00. I have another cup of coffee around 10:00 and then I have my — choose —lastlastly cup of coffee around 2:00 or 3:00.

Natalie: Whoa, three coffees?

Todd: Yeah. My office is by a café and the café has — choose —realreally good coffee. I love their café — choose —mochasmocha.

Natalie: Oh, I really don't like the — choose —tastytaste of coffee, but I do love a hot chocolate.

Todd: Oh, I hear you. When do you — choose —startstarting your day at work or school?

Natalie: Well, I work as a — choose —teachteacher, so I start at 9:00 a.m.

Todd: Oh, that's — choose —fairlyfair early.

Natalie: Yeah, it's okay. I work for a few hours in the morning and lunch comes by really — choose —quickquickly. How about you? When does your day start?

Todd: Well, I have two — choose —jobsjob. Now, I make — choose —websitewebsites and I work at an office. I start at 12:00, so noon. I start my day — choose —latelately. I finish — choose —workworking at 8:00 or 9:00 at night.

Natalie: I wish I started work at 12:00, but I don't think I'd — choose —enjoyenjoying working so late.

Todd: Oh, it's great. I love it, because there's no — choose —trafficstraffic at noon when I go to work and there's less traffic at night when I come home. I finish at 9:00 and the train is not — choose —crowdedcrowd and it's really nice.

Natalie: How long does it take to get to work?

Todd: It takes 15 — choose —minuteminutes by train. If the weather is nice, on nice — choose —sunnysun days I walk to work, it takes one hour and I walk home, it takes another hour.

Natalie: I bet that's really nice.

Todd: It is nice. I like to walk to work and I like to walk home. I work at night, so I eat dinner really late. I eat dinner at 10:00 and that's very late and a little — choose —unhealthilyunhealthy. When do you eat dinner?

Natalie: Well, yeah, 10:00 p.m. is really late. I'm usually in bed at that time. I usually have dinner I'd say maybe 7:30 p.m.

Todd: Wow. You have dinner before I finish work.

Natalie: I know, but if I don't eat at that time, I get really cranky.

Todd: You go to bed around 10:00?

Natalie: Yeah, most — choose —nightsnight, but at the weekend, I usually go to bed — choose —latelylater. I'd say midnight, sometimes 1:00 a.m. or 2:00 a.m.

Todd: Wow. That's — choose —interestinginterested, because on workdays, Monday to Friday, I go to bed late, but on the weekend, my days off, I go to bed early.

Natalie: Oh really?

Todd: Yeah. On Saturday night and Sunday night, I go to bed at 10:00, but Monday to Friday I work, I go to bed at 12:00 or 1:00.

Natalie: Why get up early at the weekend?

Todd: I don't know. I — choose —actualactually don't like — choose —stayingstay up late, but I do it for my job. It's — choose —strangelystrange I guess. On the weekends, some — choose —peopleperson like to sleep in. On the weekends, I like to go to bed early.

Natalie: Oh, my. At the weekend, I love to have a lie in bed. Sometimes I stay in bed all day and watch movies.

Todd: Oh, you know, I'm — choose —guiltguilty of that too. I do that also.