It was getting dark when Laura got to her sister’s place. The entrance door ______was LOCKed______.
Laura pressed the doorbell and ______HEARd______ quick footsteps. “It’s
so nice of you to come,’ Laura’s sister Betty opened the door. “Come
in. We ______have PUT______ a meat pie into the oven. I think it’ll be ready
in forty minutes or so. You aren’t very hungry, are you?” Betty was seven years ______YOUNGer______ than Laura, but she was much better at housekeeping. When Laura entered the house, she saw four ______WOMeN______ in the sitting room. They nodded and went on talking. “Where’s Ken?” asked Laura. “He ______is REPAIRing______ his car in the garage,” Laura said. “He ______will JOIN______ us soon.” Dr Michael Werner says that he has eaten nothing for
four years. The German _________SCIENtists_________ explains that he gets
all his energy from sunlight. He says he drinks only water and
________DIFFERent__________ fruit juices. Dr Werner has written an
_________EXCITing_________ book about his experiences. In it he says that
when he started the experiment he even put on weight. He says: "I can't really give an ________EXPLAnation_________ of what’s happening to me; perhaps I just believe in my theory."
Dr Werner’s colleagues say that only plants can produce energy from the
sun, and they cannot explain how he is able to stay
________HEALTHy_________. “This case ,_________PROBABLy_________, needs a lot more research before we will be able to explain it,” they say.
What is the largest animal on the planet? My uncle says that it’s the
blue whale. He is a ______SCIENtist______ and knows a lot about them. The
blue whale is an endangered animal, nowadays, people protect whales.
______FORTUNATly______, They study these ______BEAUTiful______ animals
instead of killing them. Blue whales are not______DANGERous______ to
people. It’s ______unBELIEVABLE______ but these huge whales eat plankton –
small plants and animals.