Cloze Procedure for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling

pages 133-34

They had to study the night skies through their telescopes every Wednesday at midnight and learn the names of different stars and the movements of ________ planets. Three times a ________ they went out to ________ greenhouses behind the castle ________ study Herbology, with a ________ little witch called Professor ________, where they learned how ________ take care of all ________ strange plants and fungi, ________ found out what they ________ used for.

Easily the ________ boring class was History ________ Magic, which was the ________ one taught by a ________. Professor Binns had been ________ old indeed when he ________ fallen asleep in front ________ the staff room fire _______ got up next morning ________ teach, leaving his body ________ him. Binns droned on ________ on while they scribbled ________ names and dates, and ________ Emeric the Evil and ________ the Oddball mixed up.

________ Flitwick, the Charms teacher, ________ a tiny little wizard ________ had to stand on ________ pile of books to ________ over his desk. At ________ start of their first ________ he took the roll ________, and when he reached ________ name he gave an ________ squeak and toppled out ________ sight.

Professor McGonagall was ________ different. Harry had been ________ right to think she ________ a teacher to cross. ________ and clever, she gave ________ a talking-to the moment ________ sat down in her ________ class. "Transfiguration is some ________ the most complex and ________ magic you will learn ________ Hogwarts," she said. "Anyone ________ around in my class ________ leave and not come ________. You have been warned."

________ she changed her desk ________ a pig and back again. They were all very impressed and couldn't wait to get started, but soon realized they weren't going to be changing the furniture into animals for a long time. After taking a lot of complicated notes, they were each given a match and started trying to turn it into a needle. By the end of the lesson, only Hermione Granger had made any difference to her match; Professor McGonagall showed the class how it had gone all silver and pointy and gave Hermione a rare smile.