Part I Banked Cloze Directions: Fill in the following ten blanks with the original words in the text. Then, during the war, a message came from my 1 . Tony had passed away. I asked our people to check on his family and see that everything was 2 handled. They found the farm green with vegetables, the little house 3 and homey. There was a tractor and a good car in the yard. The children were educated and working, and Tony didn’t 4 a cent. After he passed away, I thought more and more about Tony’s career. He grew in 5 in my mind. In the end, I think he stood as tall, and as proud, as the greatest American 6 . They had all reached their 7 by the same route and by the same values and 8 : vision, determination, self-control, optimism, self-respect and, above all, 9 . Tony did not begin on the 10 rung of the ladder. He began in the basement. Tony’s affairs were tiny; the greatest industrialists’ affairs were great.