CLOZE TEST: ARTISTS & WRITERS

Hello girls,
Here you have a cloze test, this one is to fill in the gaps with one suitable word, you have to choose the word you think fits best. The key is below the test.
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CLOZE TEST: ARTISTS AND WRITERS

Fill each of the numbered blanks in the following passage. Use only one word in each space. I have always admired people like artists, writers and composers (1) ________ being able to work (2) ________ their own, with no one else around. Most (3) ________ my friends all work with other people in shops and so on, and they tell me that they (4) ________ never get (5) ________ done if they worked alone. I´m not sure that all artists and writers do, either. I (6) ________ born in a small village in the country (7) ________ everyone knew everyone else: that is, they knew everyone except a writer who kept himself to himself. (8) ________ the time I was old (9) ________ to learn people´s names, he (10) ________ been living in the village (11) ________ at least twenty years, but the villagers still regarded him as a stranger! Every morning he (12) ________ walk down to the local shops (13) ________ do his shopping, and although he (14) ________ to greet everyone he met, only two or three would return his greeting. Just occasionally, someone (15) ________ feel curious enough to ask him what he (16) ________ doing, and every time his answer would be the same: “I´m still writing the book. It (17) ________ have been finished last year, but I can´t get it right”. And that was all we ever learned about him. Because no one had ever visited his house, either, I remember once (18) ________ up to the house with three or four boys to see (19) ________ we could see what he did. We crept up to the window trembling and looked in, expecting to see our writer typing furiously at his desk. Instead, he was sitting in an armchair (20) ________ a paper. 

KEY

1. for 

2. on 

3. of 

4. would

5. anything 

6. was 

7. where 

8. By 

9. enough 

10. had 

11. for 

12. would 

13. to/and 

14. used/liked 

15. would 

16. was 

17. should 

18. going/running 

19. if/whether 

20. reading/holding