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HSC - English 1st Paper2. Cloze Test & RearrangingFill in the blanks (With Clues))

4. Read the following text and fill in the blanks with suitable words from the box. There are more words than needed. (Make any grammatical change if necessary.)\\ without  recent  river  face  last  native  clothes  farther  by  take  across  cause \begin{array}{|l|l|l|l|l|l|}\hline \text { without } & \text { recent } & \text { river } & \text { face } & \text { last } & \text { native } \\\hline \text { clothes } & \text { farther } & \text { by } & \text { take } & \text { across } & \text { cause } \\\hline\end{array}An old man sat (a) _____ the side of the road beside a pontoon bridge (b) _____ the river. The man had steel rimmed spectacles and very dusty (c) _____ . Carts, trucks, and men, women and children were crossing the (d) _____ . The old man sat there (e) _____ moving because he was too tired to go any (f) _____ . The man came from San Carlos, his (g) _____ town. The name brought smile to his (h) ______. He was the (i)_____ man to leave the town because he (j) _____ care of the animals.

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