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CLOZE TESTS (20)
C1. We’ve just come back exhausted after a two-week holiday in France. We were really exhausted. On the last
day, we drove non-stop from Marseille to Calais –we should have (1)_____our journey in Lyon or Paris. As if
that wasn’t enough, the sea was so rough in the English Channel that the (2)_____ took three hours instead of
one and a half. Next year, we plan to book a cheap (3) _____holiday to Italy. It sounds marvellous — the cost
of the flight, the hotel and all our meals are (4)_____ in the price. While we’re in Rome, we’ll be going on a
guided (5)_____ to Coliseum. The last time I was (6)_____ Italy, I was in a business (7)_____. I couldn’t see
many of the famous tourist (8)_____on that occasion, but my wife was really interested (9)_____ Italy. We
have work hard these years to save money for the next trips in the (10)_____ years.
1. A. stopped
B. paused
C. interrupted
D. broken
2. A. expedition
B. crossing
C. cruise
D. passage
3. A. party
B. overall
C. package
D. inclusive
4. A. involved
B. included
C. contained
D. combined
5. A. tour
B. view
C. sightseeing
D. trip
6. A. in
B.....

C.....
D......
7. A. excursion
B. journey
C. trip
D. travel
8. A. views
B. visits
C. scenes
D. sights
9. A. in
B......
C......
D......
10. A. Next
B.....
C......
D......
C2. According (1)_____computer models that were used to estimate the running speeds of dinosaurs, the
Tyrannosaurus Rex would have been able to outrun a footballer. The study shows that the dinosaur could reach
a top (2)_____of 8 metres a second, which is (3)_____faster than the average professional footballer. There has
been a lot of controversy (4)_____whether the Tyrannosaurus Rex was a predator or a scavenger; some believe
that its highly developed sense of smell indicates that it was a scavenger, (5)_____others say that its keen
eyesight shows that it was a hunter. The (6)_____group will appreciate the recent study, as a hunter is more
(7)_____to require such speed. The University of Manchester study used a powerful supercomputer to calculate
the running speeds of five meat-eating dinosaurs and used data taken (8)_____ from dinosaur fossils,
(9)_____than referring to previous work on (10)_____animals.
1. A. with
B. as
C. to

D. ---2. A. fast
B. speed
C. swift
D. rate
3. A. fraction
B. fractional
C. fractionally
D. fractionals
4. A. about
B. as
C. at
D. to
5. A. since
B. while
C. however
D. as
6. A. former
B. later
C. latter
D. first
7. A. likely
B. probable
C. probably
D. possible
8. A. directs
B. direction
C. directed
D. directly
9. A. instead
B. rather

C. other
D. better
10. A. modern
B. …….
C. …….
D. ………
C3. In 1993, Greg Mortenson took a (1)_____to Pakistan to climb K2, the second tallest mountain in the world.
On his way down the mountain, he got lost. Food and water were (2)_____, but Mr. Mortenson found a small
village. The people there saw that he was (3)______and helped him. While in the village, Mr. Mortenson
watched the children write in the dirt for their school lessons. The village did not have money to build a school
or (4)______a teacher. Before he left, Mr. Mortenson (5)______to return to the village and help them build a


school. Mr. Mortenson returned to the US and wrote to many (6)______people. That idea did not work very
well, but (7)______enough people heard about Mr. Mortenson's plan and helped him. That was the beginning of
the Central Asia Institute, an organization that has (8)______in building or helping to build more than 130
schools in small villages in Pakistan and Afghanistan. With the help of (9)______David Relin, Mr. Mortenson
wrote the famous book Three Cups of Tea. Some people have criticized him, however, Mr. Mortenson was
given an (10)_____in 2009 by the government of Pakistan for his work in that country.
1. Trip
2. Hard to find
3. In need
4. Pay for
5. Volunteered
6. Rich
7. At last
8. Succeeded
9. Journalist
10. Prize
C4. Beijing is the capital city of the People’s Federal Republic of China. “Beijing” comes from the Chinese

words “northern” and “capital” and follows a(n) (1) _____East Asian tradition of naming capital cities literally.
Other similarly named cities (2)_____Nanjing in Southern China which means “southern capital”, and Tokyo in
Japan, which means “eastern capital”. Beijing is the political and cultural (3) _____of China and is worldfamous for its many historical attractions. Four million people visit Beijing each year to see (4)_____such as the
magnificent Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square and The Great Wall of China. It is also one of the world’s great
modem metropolises and is (5)______of 21st century vitality. Towering skyscrapers, huge shopping malls, and
modem commercial areas are just as much a (6)_____of modern-day Beijing. In 2001, Beijing celebrated the
news that it had been selected to (7)______the 2008 Summer Olympics. Hundreds of thousands of flag-waving
Chinese poured into Beijing’s streets, singing and cheering. Fireworks (8) _____up the sky as the city rejoiced.
The morning after the (9) ______, the titles of all Beijing’s newspapers were printed in red — a special colour
in Chinese (10)______that is reserved for good and important news.
1. A. Past
B. Ancient
C. Antique
D. Older
2. A. Include
B. Contain
C. Involve
D. Consist
3. A. Square
B. Centre
C. Middle
D. Heart
4. A. Sight
B. views
C. Visions
D. Heart
5. A. Total
B. Rich
C. Full
D. Complete

6. A. Piece
B. Part
C. Section
D. Bit
7. A. Host
B. Show
C. Display
D. View
8. A. Glowed
B. Lit*
C. Shone
D. Flamed
9. A. Statement
B. Declaration
C. Announcemet D. Trasmission*
10. A. Tradition
B. Custom
C. Habit
D. Folklore
C5. Most people think that the capital of the (1)_____world is Hollywood, in the (2)_____. However, the real
movie capital is Mumbai, in (3)_____. Mumbai used to be known as Bombay, and the movie industry there is
often called “Bollywood.” Bollywood makes twice as many movies each year as Hollywood — more than
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1,000 movies a year. The (4)_____ from Bollywood are very different from those made by Hollywood studios.
For one thing, Bollywood movies are much (5)_____than most Hollywood movies. Most Bollywood movies
are more than three hours long, and contain singing, dancing, action, adventure, mystery, and romance (but
usually no kissing). Because Bollywood movies contain so many different features, this (6)_____of movie is
sometimes called a “masala” movie — “masala” is an Indian word for a mixture of spices. Another big (7)

_____between Bollywood and Hollywood movies is the way the movies are made. It takes much longer to
make a movie in Hollywood than in Bollywood. (8)_____, filming may begin on a Bollywood movie before the
script is even finished. The director and writers can make (9)_____the story while the movie is being made.
Sometimes they will even write the script by hand instead (10)_____taking time to type it. Bollywood actors are
very popular and some are in such high demand that they may work on several movies at the same time.
1. Movie
2. United States
3. India
4. Movies
5. Longer
6. Style
7. Difference
8. In fact
9. Up
10. Of
C6. There is an old English (1)_____, “Laughter is the best medicine”. One person who certainly would have
agreed with this is Norman Cousins. Norman Cousins the editor of a magazine called Saturday Review for
almost forty years. He also wrote and (2) _____about world peace and anti-nuclear and anti-war issues,
traveling (3)_____many different countries to share his ideas. In the 1960s, after returning to the United States
from a busy and tiring trip to Europe, Mr. Cousins got sick. He discovered he had a rare disease known as
<i>ankylosing spondylitis</i> that caused the joints between his bones to (4)_____ stiff. In less than a week
after he got (5)_____, he could not stand. Every move that he (6)_____was painful. He was not able to sleep at
night. The doctors told Mr. Cousins that they did not (7)_____how to cure his problem and he might never get
over the illness. Mr. Cousins, however, refused to give (8)_____hope. Mr. Cousins thought that the illness
could be caused (9)_____unhappy thoughts. He did not want to (10)_____medicine to cure himself. Instead, he
felt that happy thoughts or laughter might cure his illness.
1. Saying
2. Spoke
3. To
4. Become

5. Back
6. Made
7. Know
8. Up
9. By
10. Take
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C7. Human memory, formerly believed to be rather inefficient, (1)_____really much more sophisticated than
that of a computer. Researchers approaching the problem from a variety of (2)_____of view have all concluded
that there is a great deal more stored in our minds than has been generally supposed. Dr. Wilder Penfield, a
Canadian neurosurgeon, proved that by stimulating (3)_____brains electrically, he could elicit the total recall of
complex events in his subjects’ lives. Even dreams and other minor events supposedly forgotten (4)_____many
years suddenly emerged in detail. The memory trace is the term for (5)_____forms the internal representation of
the specific information about the event stored in the memory. Assumed to have been made by structural
changes in (6)____brain, the memory trace is not subject to direct observation but is rather a theoretical
construct that is used to speculate about how information presented at a particular time can cause performance
at a later time. Most theories include the (7)____of the memory trace as a variable in the degree of learning,
retention, and retrieval possible for a memory. One theory is that the fantastic capacity for storage in the brain is
the result (8)____an almost unlimited combination of interconnections between brain cells, stimulated by
patterns of (9)_____. Repeated references to the same information support recall. Or, to say that another way,
improved performance is the result of (10)_____the chemical bonds in the memory.
1. Is
2. Points
3. Their
4. For
5. Whatever
6. The
7. Strength

8. Of
9. Activity
10. Strengthening
C8. Psychologists generally (1)_____memory into (2)_____least two types, short-term and long-term memory,
which combine (3)_____form working memory. Short-term memory contains what we are actively (4)_____on
at any particular time, but items are not retained longer (5)_____twenty or thirty seconds without verbal
rehearsal. We use short-term (6)_____when we look up a telephone number and repeat it to ourselves until we
can place the call. On the other (7) _____, long-term memory can store facts, concepts, and experiences after
we stop thinking (8)_____them. All conscious (9)_____of information, as in problem solving for example,
involves both short-term and long-term memory. As we repeat, rehearse, and recycle information, the memory
trace is strengthened, allowing that information to move (10)_____ short-term memory to long-term memory.
1. Divide
2. At
3. To
4. Focusing
5. Than
6. Memory
7. Hand
8. About
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9. Processing
10. From
C9. I have (1)____ to my hometown of Wilson Creek after an absence of 10 years. So many things have
changed around here. When I left Wilson Creek, there (2)____ a small pond on the right as you left town. They
have filled in this pond and they have built a large shopping mall (3) ____ . A new post office has also been
built just across from my old school. There is a baseball (4) ____ on the outskirts of Wilson Creek which has
been changed (5) ____. They have now added a new stand where probably a few thousand people could sit. It
looks really great. The biggest changes have taken place (6) ____ the downtown area. They have pedestrianised

the centre and you can't drive there anymore. A European-style fountain has been (7) ____ and (8) ____
benches have also been added along with a grassy area and a new street cafe. My street looks just the same as it
always has but a public library has been built in the next street along. There (9) ____ to be a great park there but
they have cut down all the trees which is a pity. The library now has a large green area in front (10) ____ it but
it's not the same as when the park was there.
1. Returned
2. Was
3. There
4. Stadium
5. Completely
6. Place
7. Built
8. Some
9. Used
10. Of
C10. Philology (1)_____the traditional study of language, especially of written languages in their cultural
settings. Because philology (2)_____with the relationship of languages, it is usually comparative; because these
relationships evolve (3)_____time, it is typically historical. Languages (4)_____ to change in the direction of
greater diversity; one language tends to be superseded by several: a (5)_____“dead” language preserves
evidence of the earlier forms from which “living” languages developed. The descendants of Latin have diverged
to the point that, though Italian is related (6)_____English, they are now foreign to each other as is their
common “parent” to both. Also cultures change the meaning and use of many words. In English, piano is a
keyboard (7)_____; in Italian piano not only names the instrument, it also means “soft” as opposed to “loud”.
The original name for the instrument was pianoforte (soft-loud), because it was more (8) _____of varying
sound volume than instruments like the harpsichord that came before it. The special meaning of the Italian
phrase results from its (9)_____context and the distinctive feature of the instrument it names. But in English
and other languages, we abbreviate it to piano. The English word still (10)_____the same instrument but the
abbreviation discards “and loud" from the original Italian phrase and hence becomes a name and not a
description.
1. Is

2. ?
3. ?
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4. Appear
5. Written
6. To
7. Instrument
8. Capable
9. Cultural
10. Names
C11. Edward Patrick Eagan was (1)_____April 26, 1897, in Denver, Colorado, and his father died in a railroad
accident when Eagan was only a year old. He and his four brothers (2)_____raised by his mother, who earned a
small income from teaching foreign languages. Inspired (3)_____Frank Merriwell, the hero of a series of
popular novels for boys, Eagan pursued an education for himself as well as an interest (4)_____boxing. He
(5)_____the University of Denver for a year before serving in the U.S. Army as an artillery lieutenant during
World War I. After the war, he entered Yale University and, while studying there, won the U.S. national
amateur heavyweight boxing title. He graduated from Yale in 1921, attended Harvard Law School, and received
a Rhodes scholarship to the University of Oxford (6)_____he received his A.M. in 1928. While studying at
Oxford, Eagan became (7)_____first American to win the British amateur boxing championship. Eagan won his
first Olympic gold medal as a light heavyweight boxer (8)_____the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp,
Belgium. Eagan also fought at the 1924 Olympics in Paris as a heavyweight but failed to get a medal. Though
he had (9)_____ the sport just three weeks before the competition, he managed to win a second gold medal as a
member of the four-man bobsled team at the 1932 Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. Thus he became the
only athlete to (10)____gold medals at both the Summer and Winter Olympics.
1. Born
2. were
3. by
4. in

5. attended
6. where
7. the
8. at
9. taken up
10. win
C12. Vitamins, taken in tiny doses, (1)_____a major group of organic compounds that regulate the mechanisms
by which the body converts food (2)_____energy. They should not be confused (3)_____minerals, which are
inorganic in their makeup. Although in general the naming of vitamins followed the alphabetical order of their
(4)_____, the nomenclature of individual substances may appear to be somewhat random and disorganized.
Among the vitamins (5)_____today, five are produced in the body. Because the body produces
(6)_____quantities of some but not sill vitamins, they must be supplemented in the daily diet. (7)_____each
vitamin has its specific designation and cannot be replaced by another compound, a lack of one vitamin can
interfere with the processing of (8)_____. When a lack of even one vitamin in a diet is continual, a vitamin
deficiency may (9)_____. The best way for an individual to ensure a necessary supply of vitamins is to maintain
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a balanced diet that includes a variety of foods and provides adequate quantities of all the compounds. Some
people take vitamin supplements, predominantly in the (10) _____of tablets.
1. Are
2. Into
3. with
4. identification
5. known
6. sufficient
7. Although
8. another
9. result
10.form

C13. What has caused these major changes? One reason (1)_____economic necessity may be that the husband
has (2)_____his job and the wife must support the family. Or even if the husband is working, some families say
they can’t survive on only (3)_____paycheck. But probably a (4)_____important influence has been the
“women’s liberation movement”. Women are being told in (5)_____magazines and TV programs that “You can
be successful on your own. Don’t be satisfied with (6)_____being a wife and mother. Use your intelligence and
talents to do something bigger. And you should be paid (7)____much as a man.” (8)_____doubt this movement
has accomplished much good. But it has also contributed to a selfish “me first” attitude that is breaking up
many families. Sometimes women (9)_____are happy staying at home feel that working women look
(10)____them. There are no easy answers to these problems. But certainly women’s influence will continue to
grow in business, education and politics.
1. Is
2. Lost
3. One
4. More
5. Many
6. Just
7. As
8. No
9. Who
10. Down on
C14. Leisure is generally seen as an (1)______ which takes place outside (2)_____ hours. The peak leisure time
for most people is between 6.00 pm and 12.00 am, although in recent years there has been an increase in people
working (3) ____hours and shifts, together with more "flexitime". Leisure is often thought of purely as a
(4)____ activity, i.e. playing sport. Although many people use their (5)
time in this way, there are plenty of
other leisure opportunities that are more (6) ____in nature, such as of one's life- watching television or
sunbathing on a beach. It is important to realise that leisure can embrace a whole range of experiences and
activities, although personal choice may be limited due to factors such as age or provision of local (7)_____.
The leisure emphasis will normally change at different (8)_____ cycle. Different types of leisure (9)______tend
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to be popular with varying age groups. It's probably true, however, that some members of the older
(10)______are more capable of pursuing active pastimes than they are sometimes given credit for.
1. A. Event
B. Incident
C. Affair
D. Experience
2. A. Labor
B. Working
C. Employment
D. Jod
3. A. Unsocial
B. Unreasonable
C. Unsociable
D. Unsuitable
4. A. Cultural
B. Physical
C. Social
D. Mental
5. A. Rest
B. Unoccupied
C. Free
D. Empty
6. A. Passive
B. Selective
C. Productive
D. Creative
7. A. Conveniences B. Capabilities
C. Capacities

D. Facilities
8. A. Parts
B. Stages
C. Sections
D. Levels
9. A. Period
B. Era
C. Age
D. Generation
10. A. Entertainment B. Occupations
C. Pastimes
D. Games
9. activities
10. generation
C15. Our journey to Greece began at six in the morning, when my family and I set off from the house in our old
car. We'd only gone a mile when we got a (1) ____tyre, and after we'd fixed that we had to hurry to the airport.
We (2)____to reach the check-in just before it closed, then went through to the departure lounge. Soon we were
(3)_____the plane, and looking forward to our week on an island in the sun. I had a window seat, but since I
was directly above the (4)____I couldn't see much, so I asked the flight (5)____if I could move to another seat.
She found me one nearer the front of the plane, and later on I had a wonderful (6) ______ of the snow-covered
mountains as we crossed over the Austrian Alps. The weather became sunnier as we approached Greece, and
our plane arrived right on (7)____ at Athens' very smart new airport. Half an hour after we landed, we
(8)____the train for the centre of Athens, where we (9)_____trains for the port of Piraeus. It wasn't long before
we were on the waterfront. After a short wait we were on board our ferry and sailing out to sea. It was a lovely
trip, and when finally we reached our destination, the holiday was a (10)___come true.
1. A. Flat*
B. Level
C. Dead
D. Broken
2. A. Could

B. Managed
C. Able
D. Succeeded
3. A. Riding*
B. Flying
C. Stepping
D. Boarding
4. A. Wing
B. Mast
C. Platform
D. Sail
5. A. Officer*
B. Helper
C. Assistant
D. Attendant
6. A. Scene*
B. View
C. Sight
D. Scenery
7. A. Moment*
B. Hour
C. Time
D. Minute
8. A. Got into
B. Got onto
C. Got up
D. Got over
9. A. Changed*
B. Moved
C. Replaced

D. Exchanged
10. A. Plan*
B. Hope
C. Thought
D. Dream
C16. Right now, I am (1)_____at a shelf full of relics, a collection of has-beens, old-timers, antiques, fossils.
Right now, I am looking at a shelf full of books. If you have some spare cash (the going rate is about $89) and
(2)_____looking to enhance your reading experience, then I highly suggest you consider (3)_____an e-reader.
E-readers are replacing the books of old, and I welcome them with open (4)_____. If you haven't heard of an ereader and (5)_____ know what it is, then please permit the following explanation. An e-reader is a device
(6)_____allows you to read e-books. An e-book is a book-length publication in digital (7)_____, consisting of
text, images, or both, and produced on, published through, and readable on computers or other electronic
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devices. Sometimes the equivalent of a conventional (8)_____book, e-books can also be born digital. The
Oxford Dictionary of English defines the e-book as "an electronic version of a printed book," but e-books can
and do exist without any printed equivalent. So now you know what an e-reader is. But you still may be
wondering why they put printed books to shame. E-readers are superior to printed books because they
(9)_____space, are (10)____friendly, and provide helpful reading tips and tools that printed books do not.
1. Looking
2. Are
3. Purchasing
4. Arms
5. Don't
6. That
7. Form,
8. Printed
9. Save
10. Environmentally
C17. Many of us are trying to think of new (1)____to help the environment. Groups which are involved in

protecting the environment think they may have found a long-term (2)_____. Most of the current ways of
getting people involved in helping the environment mean that people have to (3)_____a large organisation and
they can sometimes feel the problem is too large or (4)_____to manage. A new (5) _____is that groups are set
up locally to deal with small issues that affect just the community they (6) _____in. It is hoped this will make
people more (7) _____
of the importance of helping. Also, this plan means that each community works
together by contributing (8)_____the environment and this makes for a strong community. If every community
does this then organisers are (9) _____the effect will be national. The government may even offer some (10)
_____help for projects set up by these local groups. The idea came from someone who thought that reducing
the size of what we do would actually be more productive. Also, it should mean that helping becomes a
pleasure rather than a chore.
1. Approaches
2. Solution
3. Join
4. Impossible
5. Aware
6. To
7. Hoping
8. Financial
9. Reducing
10. Pleasure
C18. E-readers are superior (1)_____printed books because they save space. The average e-reader can store
thousands of digital books, (2)_____a veritable library at your fingertips. Moreover, being the size and weight
of a thin hardback, the e-reader (3)_____is relatively petite. It is easy to hold and can fit in a pocketbook or
briefcase easily. The average novel is about 300 pages (4)_____. Therefore, if a novel is printed 1000 times, it
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will use 300,000 pieces of paper. That's a lot of paper! If there are about 80,000 pieces of paper in a tree, this
means it (5)_____almost 4 trees to make these 1000 books. We know that the average bestseller sells about

20,000 copies per week. That means that it takes over 300 trees each month to sustain this rate. And for the
super (6)_____, these figures increase dramatically. For example, the Harry Potter book series has sold over
450 million copies. That's about 2 million trees! Upon viewing these (7)_____, it is not hard to grasp the
(8)_____impact of printed books on the environment. Since e-readers use no trees, (9)_____represent a impact
significant amount of preservation in terms (10)_____the environment and its resources.
1. To
2. Providing
3. Itself
4. Long
5. Takes
6. Bestsellers
7. Figures
8. Severe
9. They
10. Of
C19. The latest blockbuster to hit our cinemas is an adventure film which was made (1)______location in
Spain. The (2)______is quite simple; a teenager discovers (3)_____secret papers which show that the President
is in danger. Then she disappears! We interviewed the actress who (4)_____the part of the teenager in the film,
Juliet Roberts. It (5)______things did not always go well during the production. First, Juliet nearly missed
being in the film. Apparently, a copy of the (6)______, which the producer had sent her to read, got lost in the
post. Then, in the middle of filming, part of the background (7)_______fell on a member of the camera
(8)_______. Luckily, the man was not seriously hurt but they had to (9)_____ another cameraman to take his
place at short notice. Something even worse happened a few days later when the director slipped and broke his
leg. It (10)_____him quite a long time to recover from the shock and he had to direct the final scenes of the film
from his wheelchair.
1. A. On
B. In
C. At
D. To
2. A. Drama

B. Intrigue
C. Plot
D. Line
3. A. Any
B. The
C. Few
D. Some
4. A. Does
B. Plays
C. Makes
D. Holds
5. A. Looks
B. Tells
C. Strikes
D. Seems
6. A. Lines
B. Words
C. Script
D. Little
7. A. Scenery
B. Setting
C. Scene
D. View
8. A. Party
B. Crew
C. Artists
D. Workers
9. A. Rent
B. Buy
C. Hire

D. Purchase
10. A. Needed
B. Took
C. Lasted
D. Used
C20. Mona (1)_____ like to ask people for help. But it is hard (2)_____her to perform daily activities on her
own. She is almost 13, yet she is no larger than a 5-year-old. Mona has trouble (3)_____her balance and can’t
walk very far. When she uses a wheelchair, she can’t push it (4)_____. Fortunately, Mona has a wonderful
service dog (5)_____Sam. A service dog is a dog that has been trained to assist someone who has a physical
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problem. Sam (6)_____Mona lean on him when she walks. He also pulls her wheelchair and turns lights on and
off. When Mona drops something, Sam picks it up. He (7)_____pulls her socks off at night. Sam also helps
Mona with everyday tasks at school. He carries her books from class to class in a special backpack. He puts
Mona’s completed assignments in her teachers’ homework trays. In the lunchroom he throws away her trash.
(8)_____making Mona less dependent on other people, Sam helps her lead a fuller life. Mona’s classmates
flock around Sam like geese. This has helped her (9)_____friends. Sam also helps Mona be more active. With
his aid, she raised over $500 in a walk-a-thon for her local society. Because of Sam, Mona doesn’t have to ask
people for help. Sam brings her closer to other kids. And he even helps her (10)_____to her community.
1. Doesn’t
2. For
3. Keeping
4. Herself.
5. Named
6. Lets
7. Also
8. Besides
9. Make
10. Contribute

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