EPT Khordad 1400 Cloze Passage

A young soldier, whose plane was shot at during the war, landed his plane in a forest and escaped with minor injuries. He tried to …(1)… his way out of the forest but …(2)… up walking deeper and deeper into it. …(3)… he wandered around, he came to an old cottage. It seemed strange …(4)… him that a solitary cottage should exist in the heart of the …(5)…. All the same, he thanked fortune for taking pity on him

.…(6)… elderly couple lived in the cottage. They took the soldier in and nursed him carefully back to health. They treated him …(7)… he was their own son. When he was fully …(8)…, they gave him precise directions to …(9)… the forest. He was grateful to them and …(10)… to visit them again.

The soldier reported back to camp and told his captain …(11)… the old couple’s hospitality. The soldier …(12)… when the captain revealed that the forest …(13)… by bombs much earlier in the war. The elderly couple, …(14)… were officially listed as dead in their …(15)…, were the parents of one of their young soldiers who had died in the war.

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