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Reading Comprehension (Banked Cloze) Directions: Fill in the blanks in the following passage by selecting suitable words from the Word Bank. You may not use any of the words more than once. A agreeable B boring C comfortable D tedious E merry F skilled G disguise H festival I pretend J financially K convince L keen M encourage N eager O reckoned Passage1. My fourteenth birthday was the best I ever spent. Instead of having a big party with lots of presents and kids, I spent the day with my mother and father. This was their idea and as a teenager I was not very (1)___________ on it at first. The sheer simplicity of the idea seemed (2)__________. Shouldnt there be some kind of (3)__________ or something? I asked. My father just laughed and said, Lets start off at the bakery with some cake. I smiled to (4)__________ how disappointed I was. I tried to understand because I knew that we had (5)__________ fallen on hard times. We walked down the slope from our home to a small cafe. There my father tried to (6)__________ the shopkeeper to give us one big piece of cake instead of a whole one. My father was (7)__________ in the art of getting what he wanted. The shopkeeper was a(n) (8)__________ man and brought out one big piece with a couple of candles on top. As we sat with three forks eating that cake I (9)__________ that it was quite a luxury to be able to spend time with my parents. How many other parents could spend a weekday with their child? We spent the entire day talking, and together we had a party as (10)__________ as any has ever been. Ive never forgotten that special day. A swore B battling C wore D swinging E particular F swaying G curious H staggered I heal J displayed K restore L blew M accomplish N blossomed O knit Passage 2. I have had one article of clothing for twenty years. On my 12th birthday, I recei