Comprehensive Exercises I. Cloze 1. Text-related Complete the passage with words chosen from the Words and Phrases to Drill box. Change the form where necessary. blast boundary budget combine device digest economic generate haul illustrate improvement indoor insurance invest involve lower minor profit pursue requirement resist scale stack supplement suspect temptation wicked aside from at that point cut back dine out get by get through just about on a small / large scale on balance Jim Doherty may not be a born farmer, but he ________ _____ (1) without too much trouble. Not that he has had it easy. That first hard winter he faced must have left him with the ______________ (2) to give up and go back to the city. But he managed to ______ ____________ (3) it without losing heart. He's picked up a lot of skills since then and made some real ___________________ (4) to his farm, though without much laborsaving machinery, __________ ___________ (5) that old rotary cultivator. I ____________ (6) he doesn't make all that much, though he does have his writing to ______________ (7) what little __________ (8) he makes from the farm. I guess he does it primarily for the quality of life. Certainly, they seem a happy family and you can often see them out working together, one day spraying apple trees, the next __________ (9) firewood.