There once was a blind man who decided to visit Texas. When he arrived on the plane, he (1)_______ the seats and said, "Wow, these seats are big!" The person next to him answered, "(2)_______ is big in Texas."

When he finally arrived in Texas, he decided to visit a bar. Upon arriving in the bar, he (3)_______ a beer and got a mug (4)_______ between his hands. He exclaimed, "Wow these mugs are big!" The bartender replied, "Everything is big in Texas."

After a (5)_______of beers, the blind man asked the bartender where the (6)_______ was located. The bartender replied, "Second door to the right."

The blind man (7)_______ for the bathroom, but accidentally tripped over and skipped the second door. (8)_______, he entered the third door, which (9)_______ to the swimming pool and fell into the pool by accident. (10)_______ to death, the blind man started shouting, "Don't flush, don't flush!"

1. A. saw               B. felt                  C. took                  D. touched

2. A. Everything            B. Nothing           C. Something    D. All

3. A. took                     B. bought             C. drank               D. ordered

4. A. placed                  B. lain                  C. stood                D. spread

5. A. few               B. amount            C. couple               D. pair

6. A. bathroom                                          B. living room     

  C. waiting room                            D. kitchen

7. A. looked                  B. headed             C. went                D. searched

8. A. As a result             B. In fact             C. Instead             D. So

9. A. turns                    B. opens              C. gets                  D. leads

10. A. Starved        B. Scared             C. Moved              D. Frozen

Cloze Test

Read the following passage, and choose the one that best fits into the passage.

　　I had walked all day in the mountains. It had been a beautiful hot day. It 1 still five miles from the nearest town 2 I reached a tiny village. Although it 3 late, I decided to stop at the grocer's shop for a beer. I needed 4 to help me over the next five miles, for it would certainly be long after dark by the time I reached the town. “You can come and stay at my house,” a middle－aged man said. “That would be 5 trouble for you,” I said. “No trouble at 6 ,” he said, “It would be a pleasure, 7 it?”

　　By the time the wife had begun to cook 8 , and her husband and I had gone off to take a bath together, we had already drunk 9 beer, 10 each other our telephone numbers, and decided that we liked each other a lot. The two of them lived alone in the house. In the 11 I 12 to mention that that day was my wedding anniversary and, 13 the husband had taken his, he dried himself quite hurriedly and 14 the bathroom. I spent ten minutes sitting alone in the hot water, 15 how kind my new friends were. When I had put on my clothes again and come back into the living room, 16 my surprise I found that the husband had telephoned my wife, and that she was waiting five hundred miles away in Tokyo to wish 17 a happy anniversary. As I spoke to her, the Japanese couple stood watching me and laughing with pleasure. We spent the 18 drinking more beer and singing songs and discussing the wife's plans to go to 19 in ten years' time when she had learned to speak French. When I woke in the morning, the 20 had already left for work.

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