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.

Lesson 29: … Since then, Captain Fawcett     1     passengers to many unusual places. Once he landed on the roof of a block of flats and     2     another occasion, he landed in a deserted car park…. The man wanted to fly to Rockall, a     3     island in the Atlantic Ocean, but Captain Fawcett did not take him because the trip was too dangerous.

Lesson 30: The Wayle is a small river that     4     the park near my home. I like sitting by the Wayle on fine afternoons. It was warm last Sunday,     5     I went and sat on the river bank as usual. Some children were playing games on the bank and there were some people     6     on the river.     7     , one of the children kicked a ball very hard….

Lesson 31:… Frank smiled when he remembered his hard early years and the long road to     8    . He was still smiling     9     the door opened and his wife came in. She wanted him to repair     10     grandson’s bicycle!

Perhaps the most extraordinary building of the nineteenth century was the Crystal Palace,     1     was built in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition of 1851. The Crystal Palace was different from all other buildings in the world,     2     it was made of iron and glass. It was one of the     3     buildings of all time and a lot of people from many countries came to see it. A great many     4     were sent to the exhibition from     5     parts of the world. There was also     6     great deal of machinery on display. The most wonderful piece of machinery on show was Nasmyth’s steam hammer. Though in those days, travelling was not as easy as it is today, steam boats     7    thousands of visitors across the Channel from Europe.     8     arriving in England, they were taken to the Crystal Palace by train. There were six million visitors in all, and the profits from the exhibition     9     to build museums and colleges. Later, the Crystal Palace was moved to South London. It     10     one of the most famous buildings in the world until it was burnt down in 1936.

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.