A Picnic Spot
19. ‘It’s a perfect day for a picnic’, said Mr. Wolf. ‘Do you think you could pack
us a lunch?’ ‘I certainly could’, said Mrs. Wolf. So the decision ______ . MAKE
- But once she and Mr. Wolf and their son and daughter were out in the
summer woods, they ______ find the right spot. CAN NOT
- One picnic spot was too shady, another was too sunny and hot.
The ______ had no wild flowers around it. THREE
- And when at last they found one with all those things, Mrs. Wolf cried,
‘Oh, but here there’s no water. Surely we can find a ______ spot than this one.’ GOOD
- When it was lunchtime, everyone was very hungry. At last the ______ cried: CHILD
‘Please hurry up and choose a picnic place.’
‘Yes, please, do.’ Mr. Wolf said. ‘This basket is so heavy.’
- ‘All right,’ agreed Mrs. Wolf. ‘Let_______ just go round the next turn in the WE
path — and there we will eat.’
- So they went around the turn and soon came in to their own back yard! Mr. Wolf LOOK
quickly put down his basket. ‘It’s a perfect spot for a picnic,’ he said ______ around
with a smile. ‘Chairs, and a table, and a pool — and a beautiful flower garden!’ And
they decided to have picnics there all summer long.
- In autumn you can see large flocks of birds flying from Russia to warmer countries.
In spring, they come back to us. Migration is the periodic seasonal ______ of birds. MOVE
- The main routes connect Europe and Africa, Europe and South-Eastern Asia
and Australia, North and South America. How do we know about the seroutes?
______ study birds. They catch birds, place small band swith numbers on the birds’ SCIENCE
legs and then let the birds fly away. Some of these banded birds are caught again.
The band tells about the route.
- Some birds fly very ______ and they can feed on the wing. They migrate QUICK
in the day time.
- Swallows and swifts do this. Cuckoos fly during the night and rest and feed
during the day. Swimming birds can fly both during the day and night,
in complete ______ . DARK
- How long can birds fly for without a stop? The tiny hummingbird weighs only
about as much as a small coin. But it has ______ wings. POWER
- It flies 1,000 km across the Gulf of Mexico to the southern coast of the
United States in 24 hours without a stop! You may think it’s ______ , but other POSSIBLE
small birds can fly non-stop for up to 90 hours!
Busy Day
Let me tell you what happened once when my dear Uncle Podger decided to hang a picture on the wall. He told us not to 32 ______ and just watch him do it. He said he would do it by himself. Well, he came up to the picture which was waiting to be put up in the dining room and took it. But suddenly it fell down and the glass 33 ______ into pieces and he cut his finger. He started to 34 ______ his handker chief but couldn’t find it because he had put it in his coat and none of us knew where his coat was.
‘Six of you!’ Uncle Podger exclaimed, ‘and you cannot find the coat that I put down only five minutes ago!’ But then he got up from his chair and found that he had been sitting on his coat the whole time. ‘Oh, you can stop your 35 ______ . I’ve found it myself!’
Then after an hour was spent in tying up his finger Uncle Podger wondered where the hammer had disappeared to. And while everybody was trying to get the hammer he was standing on the chair saying: ‘Well, I want to know if you are going to 36 ______ me here all evening!’
Finally the hammer was found, but we noticed that the nail which he had prepared was lost. And, of course, Uncle Podger didn’t keep 37 ______ while he was waiting for another nail to be brought. We heard all he had to say about our habit of losing all the things he needed.
When the picture was hanging on the wall at last, everybody looked very 38 ______ , all except Uncle Podg er, who was lively as ever. Aunt Maria remarked that if Uncle Podger wanted to do a job like that again, she would spend a week with her mother until it was over.
1) scare
2) disturb
3) worry
4) fear
1) failed
2) broke
3) ruined
4) fell
1) look at
2) look to
3) look after
4) look for
1) search
2) investigation
3) exploration
4) study
1) stay
2) keep
3) put
4) take
1) dumb
2) cool
3) still
4) silent
1) dull
2) tired
3) angry
4) boring
Пояснение к заданиям:
- Was made
- Could not
- Third
- Better
- Children
- Us
- Looking
- Movement
- Scientists
- Quickly
- Darkness
- Powerful
- Impossible
- Worry
- Broke
- Lookfor
- Search
- Keep
- Silent
- Tired
Пояснение к домашнему заданию
- Could not
- would take
- Me
- Worst
- Was chosen
- Took
- Easier
- Scientists
- Global
- Impossible
- Significantly
- Inhabitants
- Researchers
- Watching
- Admit
- Tell
- Used
- Among
- Note
- Never the less
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