Vocabulary Building Cloze Passage

Name: _______________________________
Date: _______________________________

Instructions:

Read the passage carefully. Use the word bank below to fill in the blanks. Each word should be used once.

Word Bank:

ancient curious discovered mysterious explore enormous carefully treasure adventure entrance excited journey

The Hidden Cave

Last weekend, my friends and I went on an exciting _________________________ through the forest near our town. We were feeling _________________________ about what we might find along the way.

As we walked deeper into the woods, we _________________________ a small opening behind some rocks. It looked like the _________________________ to a cave! We had never seen anything so _________________________ before.

Being _________________________ children, we decided to _________________________ the cave. We stepped inside _________________________ because it was very dark. The cave was much more _________________________ than we expected – the ceiling was so high we could barely see it!

On the walls, we noticed some _________________________ drawings that looked hundreds of years old. We wondered if pirates had once hidden _________________________ in this secret place. It felt like we had stumbled upon a _________________________ hideout from long ago!