" This room is a pigsty!" your father says, and you promise to clean it up-some time soon. But if you ........... a pig, you will notice that a pigsty is not such a bad place to live.
In fact, the pig's pen...........be cleaner than your own bedroom!
Smart pigs............. to hunt small game and sniff out truffles, the delicious, hard-to-find mushrooms that grow underground.
Have you ever wondered about the system used for naming hurricanes? Where did those names come from, anyway? Will we have to suffer through ............... " Hurricane Andrew?"
Hurricanes used to be desighed by a system of latitude-longtitude,.............. was a great way for meteorologist to track them.
However, once the public began receiving storm warnings and trying to keep track of a particular storm path, this got very......... .
A system of names to refer to them was............ to track and remember.
In 1953, the National Weather Service picked up on the habit of Naval meteorologists of naming the storms after women. In 1979, male names .......... to alternate with female names.
Horatio Nelson is Britain's ................ naval hero who is most often associated with the Battle of Trafalgar.
But on the Caribbean isle of Nevis, his biggest association was with a woman........... Fanny Nisbet.
It was in the Caribbean, on the isle of Nevis, that Nelson met and married Fanny Nisbet, and the island still bears............... of the young captain's presence.
His ............ at the time was commander of the Leeward Islands Squadron.
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