It was warm last Sunday, so I went and sat on the river     1     as usual….The ball     2     me so hard that I nearly fell into the water. I turned to look at the children, but there weren’t any in     3    : they had all run away! I laughed.    4    I realized what had happened.

This wonderful plane can     1     seven passengers. The most surprising thing about it, however, is that it can     2     anywhere: on snow, water. … The man wanted to fly to Rockall, a     3     island in the Atlantic Ocean, but Captain Fawcett did not take him….

He has just     1     a new house in the city, but ever since he moved in, he has had trouble with cars and their owners….It is one of the     2     faces I have ever seen….Jasper hopes that she will turn cars and their owners to stone. But     3     of them has been turned to stone yet!

He slept very well for the first two nights, but on the third night, a storm    1    .A gust of wind    2    the bed off the roof and sent it    3    into the courtyard below. The young man did not wake up until the bed    4    the ground.

I sat in the front of the bus to get a good    5    of the countryside. After some time, the bus stopped.    6    , I realized with a shock that I was the only passenger left on the bus. “You’ll have to get off here,” the conductor said. … “We are going back now,” said the conductor.“Well, in that case, I    7    stay on the bus,” I answered.

First of all, he wrote out a long list of all the foods which    8    . The list    9    most of the things Herbert loves: butter, potatoes, rice, beer, milk, chocolate, and sweets. Yesterday I paid him a visit. I rang the bell and was not surprised to see that Herbert was still as fat as ever. He led me into his room and hurriedly hid a large parcel under his desk. It was    10    that he was very embarrassed.

I. Bluebird, the car he was driving, had been     1     built for him. It was over 30 feet in     2     and had a 2500 horse-power engine...However, a few days     3    , he was told that a mistake     4    . His average speed had been 301 miles per hour. Since that time, racing drivers have reached speeds of over 400 miles per hour.     5     his father’s footsteps, Sir Malcolm’s son, Donald, also set up a world record.

II. They have all been put to shame by a boy     6    , while playing truant, travelled 1600 miles. He hitch-hiked to Dover and,     7     evening, went into a boat to find somewhere to sleep. When he woke up next morning, he discovered     8     the boat had, in     9     meantime, travelled to Calais. No one noticed the boy     10     he crept off.