When Harry Met Sally: Cloze exercise (1)


Sally (S): I (1)____________ it all figured (2)____________. It's an (3)____________ -hour (4)____________, which breaks (5)____________ into six shifts of three hours (6)____________. Or, alternatively, we (7)____________ break it down (8)____________ mileage... There's a...there's a (9)____________ on the, uh, visor that (10)____________ marked to (11)____________ the (12)____________ where we can (13)____________ shifts.
Harry (H): Grapes?           S: No, I don't like to eat (14)____________ meals.
H: (munches on grapes, spits out seeds onto window) I'll roll (15)____________ the window. ... Why don't you (16)____________ me the (17)____________ of your (18)____________?
S: The (17)____________ of my (18)____________?
H: (19)____________ got (3)____________ hours to (20)____________ (21)____________ we hit New York.
S: The (17)____________ of my (18)____________ isn't (22)____________ going to (23)____________ us (24)____________ of Chicago. I (25)____________, (26)____________ happened (27)____________ me (28)____________. (29)____________ why (30)____________ going to New York.
H: So something happened (31)____________ you? S: Yes.           H: Like, like what?
S: Like, I'm going to journalism (32)____________ to (33)____________ a (34)____________.
H: So you (35)____________ write (36)____________ things that happen to (37)____________ people.
S: That's (38)____________ way to (39)____________ (40)____________ it.
H: (41)____________ (42)____________ happens to you. (41)____________ you lived out your whole life and (42)____________ happens. You never (43)____________ anybody, you never (44)____________ anything, and (45)____________ you (46)____________ one of those New York (47)____________ but nobody (48)____________ for two (49)____________ (50)____________ the smell drifts (51)____________ the hallway. (Ptui!)
S: Amanda (52)____________ you had a (53)____________ side.
H: That's (54)____________ drew her (55)____________ me.
S: Your (53)____________ side.
H: Sure. Why? Don't you have a (53)____________ side? Uh, no, (56)____________ (57)____________ one of those (58)____________ people (59)____________ dots their i's with (60)____________ hearts.
S: I have (61)___________ as (62)___________ of a (53)___________ side as the (63)___________ person.
H: Oh, (64)____________. When I (65)____________ a new (66)____________, I (67)____________ read the last (68)____________ (69)____________. That way, in (70)____________ I (71)____________ before I (72)____________, I (73)____________ how it (74)____________. That, my (75)____________, is a (53)____________ side.
S: That (76)____________ mean you're (77)____________ or (78)____________. I mean... Yes, (79)____________, I'm a (80)____________ person.
H: So (81)____________ I. S: And I don't see (82)____________ (83)____________ anything (84)____________ with that.
H: Of (85)____________ not. You're too (86)____________ being (87)____________. Do you (88)____________ think about (89)____________? S: Yes...
H: Sure (90)____________ do. A fleeting (91)____________ that drifts in (92)____________ out of the transom of your (93)____________. I spend (94)____________, I spend (95)____________...
S: And you (96)____________ that (97)____________ you a (98)____________ person?
H: Look. When the shit comes down, I'm gonna be (99)____________ and (100)____________ not. That's all (101)____________ saying.
S: And in the (102)____________, you're gonna (103)____________ your (104)____________ life (105)____________ for it. H: (Ptui!)
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S: (106)____________ wrong. H: (107)____________ not wrong.
S: (106)____________ wrong. I don't think she (108)____________ to (109)____________.
H: Of course she (108)____________ to (109)____________! (110)____________ you (111)____________ be with Humphrey Bogart (112)____________ the other (113)____________?
S: I don't want to (114)____________ the (115)____________ of my (116)____________ in Casablanca, (117)____________ to a man who (118)____________ a (119)____________. That (120)____________ sounds (121)____________ snobbish to you, (122)____________ I don't.        H: You'd rather be (123)____________ a (124)____________ marriage...
S: And be (125)____________ (126)____________ of Czechoslovakia...
H: ...than (127)____________ with the man (128)____________ had the greatest sex of your life with just because he (129)____________ a bar and that is (130)____________ he does.
S: Yes. And so (131)____________ any (132)____________ in (133)____________ (134)____________ mind. Women are very (135)____________. Even Ingrid Bergman, which is why she (136)____________ on the (137)____________ at the (138)____________ of the (139)____________.
H: I (140)____________.

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