Part I Banked Cloze Directions: Fill in the following ten blanks with the original words in the text. They had all reached their 1 by the same route and by the same values and 2 : vision, determination, self-control, optimism, self-respect and, above all, 3 . Tony did not begin on the 4 rung of the ladder. He began in the basement. Tony’s affairs were tiny; the greatest industrialists’ affairs were 5 . But, after all, the balance sheets were 6 the same. The only difference was where you put the decimal 7 . Tony Trivisonno came to America 8 the American Dream. But he didn’t find it--he 9 it for himself. All he had were 24 10 hours a day, and he wasted none of them.