CLOZE TEST   (10MKS)

Fill in each blank space in the passage below with the most appropriate word.

Chilling reports about child abduction and molestation continue to (1)  headlines, sending terrified parents, the police and child (2) organizations on high alert.  (3)  shocking are the profiles of the offenders, (4) can easily pass for ordinary law abiding citizens that parents feel they (5) readily trust their children.  (6) include shopkeepers, neighbours, school teachers, relatives and (7) church leaders.

Although the abductions and molestations are cruel ties that have (8) for a long time, a (9) solution is yet to be found.  Many parents and guardians, therefore, continue to live in fear, not knowing when or where the cradle snatcher will strike (10) .