Compre Cloze Tips

Here are tips for compre cloze:
a) read entire passage to have a feel of content first
b) read the paragraph and underline clues
c) choose 2 or more suitable words (maximum 3) and write neatly on top in pencil
d) Select the best word by "reading aloud" softly because sometimes the eyes are misleading. Write in your choice.
Here is an exercise for you.
(Comment below if you want answers)
Maricel Apatan, 22, stands in the kitchen of the Edsa Shangri-La Hotel in Manila, preparing to _________ a cheesecake. It would seem to be a routine task for a pastry chef, but Maricel is no _________ chef – she has no hands.

Her disability, however, barely slows her ________. Using her wrists, Maricel coats the sides of the cake ________crushed nuts. Next, she grips a chef’s knife tightly between her hip and left inner elbow and uses her left wrist to delicately slice grapes, kiwi and strawberries in _________. In short order, she arranges the fruit on the cake, adds blueberry filling, and sets an elegant chocolate curl on top.

Maricel has come a long way since the day in September 2000 when she and her uncle were attacked near their farm in a __________area of Zamboanga City, Mindanao. Five machete-wielding men, who were trying to force Maricel’s family off their land, brutally hacked into her uncle, then turned on 11-year-old Maricel. She passed out as she tried to protect herself from the savage blows. After she _________ to, Maricel pretended to be dead until she was sure the attackers were gone. As she _________ home, she looked down to see her hands dangling loosely on threads of bloodied flesh. Miraculously, she survived a long, arduous trip to the hospital, but doctors could not save her ________.

Maricel eventually __________ from high school and enrolled in a two-year Hotel and Restaurant Management course in Cagayan de Oro City. "I have really enjoyed cooking since I was seven years old." Thanks in large part to her parents’ unwavering support, Maricel flourished even though she was the only __________student in the course. "I wasn’t shy or ___________ to sign up for class competitions like cake decorating."

When managers at the Edsa Shangri-La Hotel saw Maricel on television, they hired her as part of the hotel’s Care for People project. Fellow chef Aljamil Borja marvels at Maricel’s skills. "She asks for ___________ only if she needs to move a hot kettle or large saucepan from the stove, or open slippery bottle caps," says Aljamil. Maricel has also ____________her goal of inspiring others.

"It is difficult to make ends __________ but I don’t lose hope. I believe anything is possible if you dream, work hard and pray." Maricel commented.