DISCOURSE CLOZE
The following is taken from the textbook. Read the passage and fill in the numbered spaces (there are more suggested answers than necessary).

     Smiley owned a horse while he was here. We used to kid Jim and call her the fifteen-minute nag because she was so slow, but actually she wasn't too slow, we just liked to kid Jim. He used to win money betting on her. She was sick a lot, so in races the others used to give her a few hundred yards' head start. The other horses would always catch up and pass her, but then near the end of the race, . She looked as if she were going to fall down with her crazy legs going in all directions and with her coughing and sneezing and almost falling over, but somehow she would pull all of her strength together at the very end and .
     Jim also had a fighting dog which he named after the President, Andrew Jackson. That was the ugliest dog on earth, and he looked as if he were about to die any minute, and when he didn't look that way, . But when the time came to fight another dog, Jim's pup was another dog. At first, Jim's dog appeared ready to lose to the other dog. The other dog would run him around and tackle him, bite him, and throw him all over the ring. . Then, all of a sudden, Jim's pup would come alive. He'd grab the other dog by the hind legs and freeze to them. He wouldn't chew, you understand, he would just hold on until the other dog had to give up.
     Smiley always won money on that dog. Always except once, that is. The dog had to fight another dog, as usual, but this time the other dog had no hind legs. . Afterwards, he just shook his head, slinked off past Smiley as though , and then lay down and died.
      Smiley had all kinds of other animals which he used to bet on, too. He had other dogs, chickens, cats, and . One time he caught a frog and decided he would teach it to jump. He worked with that frog about three months, and you can bet that . Jim would give the little beast a punch and the frog would leap higher than any frog you’ve ever seen. That frog would whirl around in the air and come down on its feet just like a cat. He was also good at catching flies.
     Smiley named his frog Daniel Webster and claimed that all any frog ever wanted was a good education. He trained the frog so well that all he had to say was "Flies, Daniel, flies!" and quick as a wink that the frog would leap off the floor to wherever the fly was, . When he landed, the frog would act as if nothing had happened. He'd just scratch his head with his hind foot as if he did that sort of things all the time. Daniel Webster's best trick was jumping from a seated position; . Whenever there was an opportunity for Daniel to test his jumping, Smiley would try to find someone to bet with. He was proud of that frog and wanted to show him off to people.