“Gap-filling” is also the basis for what has been called “summary cloze”. An example can be found in Passage One, Test One, in Cambridge IELTS 7 (2009: 20), where questions 6 to 9 appear in the form of “summary cloze”. In this question type, candidates are required to fill in the
gaps left in a summary of a reading passage. This technique permits the setting of several reliable but relevant question tasks on a relatively short passage.