CLOZE TEST – I

CLOZE TEST – I

Reading the following paragraph carefully and fill the up blanks from the given box:

time         this         Feeling          What       goes          After     up       pressed     despite      with         behind              give         shut              showed    let         explain   kind           asked           buy

John Amos is a salesman. He ___1___ from door to door selling vacuum cleaners. On his first day of work, he decided to sell his goods by ___2___ on the doors of a private housing area.

"My first customer," he thought as he ___3___ the doorbell of the first house. A middle aged woman ___4___ curlers in her hair opened the door.

John began to ___5___ who he was and the product he was selling. The next minute, the door was slammed ___6___.

"Not interested!" John heard her shout ___7___ the closed door. She refused to open the door ___8___ John's persistent knocking.

John was given a similar ___9___ of treatment from the next few houses. ___10___rather discouraged, he knocked at the door of the ninth household. This ___11___ , the occupants of the house ___12___ him in. They also ___13___ interest in his product. Encouraged by ___14___ , John began to explain the merits of his vacuum cleaner. When the family ___15___ him for a demonstration, he vacuumed the place for them. ___16___ the demonstration, the family, however, did not ___17___ his product. Instead, they politely but firmly told him that they would ___18___ him a call if they want to buy a vacuum cleaner later.

The family never called him ___19___, John suspected that they had not been really interested in his product. ___20___ they had wanted was the 'free service' given by John, who had vacuumed their entire living room.