cloze test section 10 Detailed Explanation And More Example

Direction:

The following questions, you have several passages where some of the words have been left out. Read the passages carefully and choose the correct answer to each blanks with its particular number, out of the five alternatives.

PASSAGE

A friend in need is a friend indeed. A man who stands ____(1)____ his friend in ____(2)____ is a true friend, Selfless love is the base of true friendship. True friends share each other's joy and sorrow, pain and pleasure. They do not fall ____(3)____ in adversity. They have full confidence in each other. They never ____(4)____ each other. ____(5)____ makes friends, adversity tries them. A selfless friend is ____(6)____; a selfish friend is a curse. The first is an angel and the second is a devil. One makes your career while the other ____(7)____ it. True friendship means great self-sacrifice on the part of both. A true friend ____(8)____ pleasure and convenience. He goes cut of his way and faces difficulties in his way with joy and even with pride. Joy and sorrow, success and failure, good fortune and misfortune, are equally ____(9)____ by a pair of true friends. They ____(10)____ the burden of life equally for they feel that they sail in the same boat and that they have to sink and swim together.