Gap-fill exercises E 9 + Keys (2)

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Plants Need Water
He loved his plants. His plants were in pots. There were 10 pots in back (1).... the house. There (2)........ eight pots in front of the house. There was a different plant in every pot. No plants were the (3).......... They were all different. They were all beautiful. It was Friday. It was time to water the plants. He (4)....... the plants once a week. He went outside. He grabbed the hose. It was green and long. It was (5)...... 40 feet long. He turned on the water. Water came out of the end of the hose. He watered each plant in back of the house. He watered (6)....... plant until the soil was dark and wet. He watered each plant until the soil was soft. Then he went out front. The hose out front was also green. It was 30 feet (7)...... He watered all the plants out front. Puddles of water were around each pot. There were 8 puddles of water out front. Butterflies (8)...... bees visited the wet plants. He watched (9)........a while. Then he went (10)........ inside. Next week he would water the plants again.
1. of 2. were 3. same 4. watered 5. about
6. each 7. long 8.and 9. for 10. back

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My Best Friend
Laura is my best friend. We are in the six grade. We do everything together. We walk to school (1)....... We eat lunch together at school. Laura`s mother gives (2)....... tuna sandwiches for lunch. My mother gives me peanut butter sandwiches for lunch. We share our sandwiches with each (3)....... Sometimes Laura gets apples for lunch. Sometimes I (4)......... peaches. We share our fruit with each other. We help each other with our (5)....... She helps me with history. I help her with arithmetic. We spend the weekends together. Her parents invite me (6)...... their house, or my parents invite her to our house. (7)....... sleep over. I spend the night at her house, or she spends the night at my house. We (8)....... about everything. We talk about our brothers. They are so silly. We talk about our teachers and our parents. We love (9).... . We talk about the boys in class. We don`t like them. They are so silly. Why in the world do some girls like boys? (10)....... never grow up. We will never like boys.
1. together 2. her 3.other 4. get 5. homework
6. to 7. We 8. talk 9. them 10. Boys
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It`s a windy day. The (1)...... is blowing hard. Paper is blowing everywhere. The wind blew the man`s (2)....... off. It blew the woman`s hat off. It blew a bird off the telephone wire. The other birds laughed. The wind keeps blowing. The trees (3)....... bending over. The people outside are bending over. The wind makes it hard (4)..... walk. The wind makes it hard to drive. The big trucks have to pull over. They have to stop on the side of the freeway. One driver did not stop. (5).... was in a hurry. The wind blew his truck over. The big truck is on its side. The wheels are spinning in the wind. The (6)... was not hurt. He is waiting for a crane. The crane will (7)... up the truck. The crane will put the truck on its wheels again. The driver learned his lesson. He (8)... never drive in the wind again. The wind makes it hard to fly, too. Pilots know the wind is dangerous. (9)... do not fly their small planes in windy weather. They do not want to crash into the ground. A crash will kill them. They sit at the airport. They (10)... coffee. They wait for the wind to die down.
1. wind 2. hat 3. are 4. to 5. He
6. driver 7. pick 8. will 9. They 10. drink

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Today`s Mail
The mailman put the mail in the mailbox. Dad went outside. He said hello to the (1)..... The mailman said hello. Dad opened the (2).... and took out a magazine and two letters. One (3)... was from his sister. The other letter was from his brother. The magazine