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Kettle Valley Railway
Comprehension
Cloze Exercise - Andrew
McCulloch
The following paragraph comes from the KVR vignette. After
reading the story, fill in the blanks from memory. Then review the paragraph
from the vignette until you have all the blanks filled.
Andrew McCulloch was hired as the chief (1)_____________
of
the Kettle Valley Railway. He was born to a poor (2) ____________
family in (3) __________ in 1864. When he was (4)_________, he
began working for the (5) _______________. He started by repairing
(6)_____________. He then took on other jobs to gain (7) _________.
He
became famous for his work on the Spiral Tunnels at Kicking Horse
Pass
on the BC-Alberta border near (8) _________________. He
was (9)
_________ when he moved with his wife and children to
(10)
_______________ to work on the KVR. A great fan of
(11)
________________, McCulloch named the train stations in the
Coquihalla
section after the heroes and heroines in Shakespeare’s plays.
Trains would stop at Juliet, (12) __________, Iago, Portia, Jessica,
Lear, and Othello. After construction was completed, McCulloch
agreed
to become (13) _________________ of the KVR operations. He said
that the (14) _____________ ___________ ___________ was his
favourite piece of work. |