closeは距離、時間が近いとか観察、注意等が綿密な周到なという意味ではクロウスと発音します。クロウズと発音するのは閉じるという意味のときです。
Japan's Foreign ministry expressed displeasure after it confirmed that China has unilaterally reumed a natural gas development project close to Tokyo's exclusive economic zone in the East China Sea.
US State Secretary-designate Hillary Clinton told Congress that she will keep in closer contact with other countries than her predecessors did in forging specific US foreign policies