Essay-What is gray and zooms through the jungle at 10 miles per
Missing Words
What’s gray and zooms through the jungle at 10 miles per hour? An elephant on a motor bike! A number of words have been removed from each sentence and listed below the sentence. Use the listed words to fill the blanks in the sentence.
1. There were ______ things ___ the _________, nuts and oranges and a toy engine, and __________ almonds and a clockwork mouse, but the Rabbit was quite the best of all.
A. OTHER B. IN C. CHOCOLATE D. STOCKING
2. For nursery ______ is very strange and wonderful, and only those playthings that ____ old and _____ and experienced like ____ Skin Horse understand all about it.
A. ARE B. WISE C. MAGIC D. THE
3. He ____ so ____ that his brown coat was bald in patches and showed ____ seams underneath, and most of the hairs in his tail had been pulled out to _______ bead necklaces.
A. THE B. WAS C. OLD D. STRING
4. The Skin Horse had lived _______ ___ the nursery than ____ ___ the others.
A. IN B. OF C. ANY D. LONGER
5. Between _____ all the poor _______ Rabbit ____ made to feel himself very insignificant and ____________, and the only person who was kind to him at all was the Skin Horse.
A. THEM B. COMMONPLACE C. LITTLE D. WAS
6. There ____ once __ velveteen _______, and in the beginning ___ was really splendid.
A. RABBIT B. WAS C. A D. HE
7. He was naturally shy, and ______ only _____ of velveteen, some ___ the _____ expensive toys quite snubbed him.
A. BEING B. OF C. MORE D. MADE
8. And _____ had splendid games together, ___ whispers, when Nana had gone away to ____ _______ and left the night-light burning on the mantelpiece.
A. HER B. IN C. SUPPER D. THEY
9. For a long _____ he ______ in ____ toy cupboard or on the nursery floor, ____ no one thought very much about him.
A. TIME B. AND C. LIVED D. THE
10. Even ________, ____ jointed wooden lion, who was made by ____ disabled soldiers, and should have had broader views, put on airs and pretended he was connected with ___________.
A. GOVERNMENT B. TIMOTHY C. THE D. THE
