10th form "Are You an Adult?" Grammar

1. A crow once said to her children: "It's high time for you to look _____ food".

2. With these words she turned them _____ the nest and took them to the field.

3. But the _____ children did not like the idea.

4. "We'd rather ______ back to the nest," they cried. "It's so nice when you bring food to us!"

5. "Indeed!" said their mother. "You are big _____ to feed yourselves."

6. "My mother turned me out of the nest when I was _____ , and I had to take care of myself"

7. "But people will kill us with their guns," said the young crows. "No fear of that," answered their mother. "Before people ____ , they take aim and and that takes time."

8. "When you see a man ____ a gun to his face, you must just fly away."

9. "That's a simlpe thing to do," said the children, "but supposing a man or a boy wants to throw a stone at us: in ______ case he won't have to take aim."

10. "Well, then he will have to bend down to pick up a stone," said the crow. "But if he ____ a stone in his hand ready?"

11. "Why, if you are clever enough to think of that," said the mother, "you are clever enough to take care of _____."

12. And she flew away _____ the young crows in the field.