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Please
complete the following cloze exercise:
(word
list: 51 words)
LOST
AND FOUND
When I was walking down the street the other
day, I happened to notice a small black leather wallet _____ on the
sidewalk. I picked it up _____ opened it to see _____ I could find
out _____ owner's name. There was _____ inside except some change
_____ an old photograph
--- a _____ of a woman and a _____ girl about twelve years
old, who looked like the _____ daughter. I _____ the photograph
_____ and took the _____ to the police _____, where I handed _____
to the desk sergeant. _____ I left, the sergeant took down my _____
and address in _____ the owner might _____ to write and _____ me.
That evening I went to have _____ with my aunt and uncle. They had
_____ invited a young _____ so that there would _____ four people at
the _____. Her _____ was familiar. I was _____ sure that we had
_____ before, but I _____ not remember _____ I had seen her. In the
course of the conversation, _____, the young woman happened to _____
that she had _____ a wallet that afternoon. _____ at once I _____
where I had seen _____. She was the _____ girl in the _____, but she
was now much _____. She was very surprised, of _____, when I was
_____ to describe her _____ wallet to her. Then I explained _____ I
had recognized her _____ the old photograph I had seen in the
wallet. My uncle _____ on going to the _____ station immediately to
_____ the wallet. _____ the police sergeant handed it _____ me said
that it was an _____ coincidence that I had _____ only found the
wallet, _____ also the person who had lost it.
| could |
when |
woman |
name |
unbelievable |
insisted |
not |
where |
| nothing |
police |
claim |
table |
photograph |
portrait |
and |
young |
| course |
older |
however |
all |
woman's |
able |
but |
lost |
| lost |
that |
dinner |
quite |
remembered |
from |
say |
met |
| face |
be |
want |
thank |
station |
young |
lying |
her |
| over |
also |
case |
wallet |
before |
the |
it |
put |
| and |
if |
back |
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