CLOZE TEXT: HONEST WORKERS OR THIEVES?

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HONEST WORKERS OR THIEVES?

Once upon a time, Paul Feldman dreamed big dreams. Trained as an agricultural economist, he wanted to __________(1) world hunger. Instead, he took a job in Washington, analysing weapons __________(2) for the US Navy. He __________(3) senior-level jobs and earned good money, but he wasn’t fully __________(4) in his work. At the office Christmas party, colleagues would introduce him to their wives not as ‘the head of the public research group’ (which he was) but as ‘the guy who __________(5) in the bagels’.

The bagels had begun as a casual gesture: a boss treating his employees __________(6) they won a research contract. Then he made it a habit. Every Friday, he would bring in some bagels, a serrated knife, and cream cheese. When employees from neighbouring floors heard about the bagels, they wanted some too. __________(7) he was bringing in 15 dozen bagels a week. In __________(8) to recoup his costs, he set out a __________(9) basket and a sign with the suggested price. His collection rate was about 95 per cent; he attributed the underpayment to oversight, not __________(10).

In 1984, when his research institute fell under new management, Feldman decided to __________(11) his job and sell bagels. His economist friends thought he had lost his mind, but his wife supported him.

Driving around the office parks that encircle Washington, he solicited customers with a simple __________(12): early in the morning, he would deliver some bagels and a cash basket to a company’s snack room; he would return before lunch to pick up the money and the __________(13). Within a few years, Feldman was __________(14) 8,400 bagels a week to 140 companies and earning as __________(15) as he had made as a research analyst.

He had also, quite without __________(16) to, designed a beautiful economic experiment. By measuring the money collected against the bagels taken, he found it __________(17) to tell, down to the penny, just how honest his customers __________(18). Did they steal from him? If __________(19), what were the characteristics of a company that stole __________(20) a company that did not? In what circumstances did people tend to steal more, or less?

BRINGS	EVENTUALLY	MEANING	QUIT	WAS
CASH	FRAUD	MUCH	SO	WERE
DELIVERING	HAS	ORDER	TACKLE	WHENEVER
ENGAGED	HELD	PITCH	VERSUS
EXPENDITURES	LEFTOVERS	POSSIBLE	WANT