Multiple-choice cloze

The night the lights went out It was a cold evening in February, and Joaquín was doing his homework when suddenly all the lights went out. At first he thought it was only his house, but when he looked out of the window, the whole street was 1. (1) darkness. His mum found some candles in a drawer, and his dad tried to 2. (2) in touch with the electricity company, but nobody answered the phone. With no television and no internet, the family didn’t know what to do. Then his grandmother suggested a card game she used to play when she was a girl. Joaquín didn’t 3. (3) much interest at first, but soon everyone was laughing. They played for hours, and his little sister 4. (4) to win almost every game. When the power finally came back 5. (5), nobody wanted to stop. ‘We should switch everything off more often,’ Joaquín said, and for once his parents 6. (6) with him.

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