Cloze test: C-side - Old Site

This time, Madeline is at the Old Site , however, instead of using platformer skills, she needs to do very difficult Cloze tests to move forward. Can you use your logic to help her complete it?

The cloze test means choosing the best possible answer to fill the blanks, given the distribution of answers.

How to submit:

Convert the string of choices into numbers and submit. $1,2,3,4$ represent $A,B,C,D$ accordingly. For example, if your answer is $ABCDABCDABCDABCDABCD$ , submit $12341234123412341234$ .

Below is our Cloze test:

   I don’t know why I came to the decision to become a loser, but I know I made the _ 1 _ at a young age. Sometime in the middle of the fourth grade, I _ 2 _ trying. By the time I was in the seventh grade, I was lazy, rebellious, _ 3 _.

   It wasn’t long after that I dropped out of school. Hard physical labor was the _ 4 _ for the choices I made as an adolescent. At the age of 21, I was _ 5 _ lost, and using drugs as a way to _ 6 _ the fact that I had no education and was _ 7 _ in a dead-end job carrying heavy construction materials up a ladder all day.

    _ 8 _, now I believe in do-overs, in the chance to do it all again. And I believe that do-overs can be made at any _ 9 _ in your life, if you have the right _ 10 _. Mine came from a surprising source.

   It was September 21, 2002, when my son Blake was born. It’s funny that after a life of _ 11 _ responsibility, now I was in charge of something so _ 12 _. Over the years, as I grew into the _ 13 _ of Dad, I began to learn something about myself. In a way, Blake and I were both learning to walk, talk, work and play for the first time. I began my do-over.

    It took me almost three years to learn how to read. I started with my son’s books. _ 14 _, I practised reading books to him until I remembered all the words in every one of them. I began to wonder if it was possible for me to go back to school. I knew I wanted to be a good role _ 15 _, so after a year-and-a-half and a lot of hard work, I _ 16 _ my GED test on my son’s fourth birthday. This may not sound like much, and I’m surely not trying to get praise for doing something that should have been done _ 17 _, but all things considered it was one of the best days in my life. Today, I’m a full-time college student, studying to _ 18 _ sociologist.

    It’s funny, growing up I always heard these great _ 19 _ stories of triumph over shortcomings. But I never thought they _ 20 _ to me. Now I believe it’s a choice anyone can make: to do it all over again.

    1.A. determination    B. wish    C. application    D. choice
    2.A. started    B. stopped    C. considered    D. fancied
    3.A. skeptical    B. defensive    C. disrespectful    D. suspicious
    4.A. consequence    B. compromise    C. compensation    D. competence
    5.A. alternatively    B. hopelessly    C. approximately    D. undoubtedly
    6.A. do with    B. deal with    C. conflict with    D. meet with
    7.A. struck    B. stuck    C. lost    D. taken
    8.A. Nevertheless    B. Meanwhile    C. Furthermore    D. Therefore
    9.A. cost    B. corner    C. point    D. occasion
    10.A. ambition    B. technique    C. opportunity    D. motivation
    11.A. avoiding    B. preventing    C. undertaking    D. overcoming
    12.A. flexible    B. enterprising    C. fragile    D. authentic
    13.A. name    B. statue    C. title    D. career
    14.A. By and by    B. Over and over    C. Back and forward    D. Now and then
    15.A. model    B. leader    C. example    D. tutor
    16.A. got through    B. went through    C. pull through    D. comb through
    17.A. for the first time    B. in the first place    C. at first hand    D. in first place
    18.A. become    B. turn    C. grow    D. make
    19.A. turn-around    B. take-off    C. pull-out    D. turn-off
    20.A. appealed    B. applied    C. attached    D. adapted

    Distribution of the answers: this cloze test has 6 A's, 8 B's, 4 C's, 2 D's.