Cloze Test 3

Once upon a time, there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess, but she would have to be a real princess. He __(1)__ all over the world to find one, but nowhere could he get what he wanted. One evening during a terrible storm; there was thunder and lightning, and the rain poured down in torrents. Suddenly a knocking was __(2)__ at the palace door, and the old king went to open it. It was a princess standing out there. But, good gracious! What a sight the rain and the wind had made her look. The water ran down her hair and clothes; into the toes of her shoes and out again at the heels. And yet she insisted that she was a real princess. Well, we’ll soon __(3)__ out, thought the old queen. But she said nothing, went into the bedroom, took all the bedding off the bedstead, and __(4)__ a pea on the bottom; then she took twenty mattresses and laid them on the pea, and then twenty quilts on …(5)… of the mattresses. On this, the princess had to lie all night. In the __(6)__ she was asked how she had slept. “Oh, very badly!” said she. “I scarcely closed my eyes all night. Heaven only knows what was in the bed, but I was lying on something hard, as a __(7)__ I am black and blue all over my body. It’s horrible!” Now they knew that she was a real princess because she had __(8)__ the pea right through the twenty mattresses and the twenty quilts. Nobody but a real princess could be as __(9)__ as that. So, the prince took her for his wife, for now he __(10)__ that he had a real princess.

Once upon a time, there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess, but she would have to be a real princess. He __(1)__ all over the world to find one, but nowhere could he get what he wanted. One evening during a terrible storm; there was thunder and lightning, and the rain poured down in torrents. Suddenly a knocking was __(2)__ at the palace door, and the old king went to open it. It was a princess standing out there. But, good gracious! What a sight the rain and the wind had made her look. The water ran down her hair and clothes; into the toes of her shoes and out again at the heels. And yet she insisted that she was a real princess. Well, we’ll soon __(3)__ out, thought the old queen. But she said nothing, went into the bedroom, took all the bedding off the bedstead, and __(4)__ a pea on the bottom; then she took twenty mattresses and laid them on the pea, and then twenty quilts on …(5)… of the mattresses. On this, the princess had to lie all night. In the __(6)__ she was asked how she had slept. “Oh, very badly!” said she. “I scarcely closed my eyes all night. Heaven only knows what was in the bed, but I was lying on something hard, as a __(7)__ I am black and blue all over my body. It’s horrible!” Now they knew that she was a real princess because she had __(8)__ the pea right through the twenty mattresses and the twenty quilts. Nobody but a real princess could be as __(9)__ as that. So, the prince took her for his wife, for now he __(10)__ that he had a real princess.

Once upon a time, there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess, but she would have to be a real princess. He __(1)__ all over the world to find one, but nowhere could he get what he wanted. One evening during a terrible storm; there was thunder and lightning, and the rain poured down in torrents. Suddenly a knocking was __(2)__ at the palace door, and the old king went to open it. It was a princess standing out there. But, good gracious! What a sight the rain and the wind had made her look. The water ran down her hair and clothes; into the toes of her shoes and out again at the heels. And yet she insisted that she was a real princess. Well, we’ll soon __(3)__ out, thought the old queen. But she said nothing, went into the bedroom, took all the bedding off the bedstead, and __(4)__ a pea on the bottom; then she took twenty mattresses and laid them on the pea, and then twenty quilts on …(5)… of the mattresses. On this, the princess had to lie all night. In the __(6)__ she was asked how she had slept. “Oh, very badly!” said she. “I scarcely closed my eyes all night. Heaven only knows what was in the bed, but I was lying on something hard, as a __(7)__ I am black and blue all over my body. It’s horrible!” Now they knew that she was a real princess because she had __(8)__ the pea right through the twenty mattresses and the twenty quilts. Nobody but a real princess could be as __(9)__ as that. So, the prince took her for his wife, for now he __(10)__ that he had a real princess.

Once upon a time, there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess, but she would have to be a real princess. He __(1)__ all over the world to find one, but nowhere could he get what he wanted. One evening during a terrible storm; there was thunder and lightning, and the rain poured down in torrents. Suddenly a knocking was __(2)__ at the palace door, and the old king went to open it. It was a princess standing out there. But, good gracious! What a sight the rain and the wind had made her look. The water ran down her hair and clothes; into the toes of her shoes and out again at the heels. And yet she insisted that she was a real princess. Well, we’ll soon __(3)__ out, thought the old queen. But she said nothing, went into the bedroom, took all the bedding off the bedstead, and __(4)__ a pea on the bottom; then she took twenty mattresses and laid them on the pea, and then twenty quilts on …(5)… of the mattresses. On this, the princess had to lie all night. In the __(6)__ she was asked how she had slept. “Oh, very badly!” said she. “I scarcely closed my eyes all night. Heaven only knows what was in the bed, but I was lying on something hard, as a __(7)__ I am black and blue all over my body. It’s horrible!” Now they knew that she was a real princess because she had __(8)__ the pea right through the twenty mattresses and the twenty quilts. Nobody but a real princess could be as __(9)__ as that. So, the prince took her for his wife, for now he __(10)__ that he had a real princess.

Once upon a time, there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess, but she would have to be a real princess. He __(1)__ all over the world to find one, but nowhere could he get what he wanted. One evening during a terrible storm; there was thunder and lightning, and the rain poured down in torrents. Suddenly a knocking was __(2)__ at the palace door, and the old king went to open it. It was a princess standing out there. But, good gracious! What a sight the rain and the wind had made her look. The water ran down her hair and clothes; into the toes of her shoes and out again at the heels. And yet she insisted that she was a real princess. Well, we’ll soon __(3)__ out, thought the old queen. But she said nothing, went into the bedroom, took all the bedding off the bedstead, and __(4)__ a pea on the bottom; then she took twenty mattresses and laid them on the pea, and then twenty quilts on …(5)… of the mattresses. On this, the princess had to lie all night. In the __(6)__ she was asked how she had slept. “Oh, very badly!” said she. “I scarcely closed my eyes all night. Heaven only knows what was in the bed, but I was lying on something hard, as a __(7)__ I am black and blue all over my body. It’s horrible!” Now they knew that she was a real princess because she had __(8)__ the pea right through the twenty mattresses and the twenty quilts. Nobody but a real princess could be as __(9)__ as that. So, the prince took her for his wife, for now he __(10)__ that he had a real princess.

Once upon a time, there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess, but she would have to be a real princess. He __(1)__ all over the world to find one, but nowhere could he get what he wanted. One evening during a terrible storm; there was thunder and lightning, and the rain poured down in torrents. Suddenly a knocking was __(2)__ at the palace door, and the old king went to open it. It was a princess standing out there. But, good gracious! What a sight the rain and the wind had made her look. The water ran down her hair and clothes; into the toes of her shoes and out again at the heels. And yet she insisted that she was a real princess. Well, we’ll soon __(3)__ out, thought the old queen. But she said nothing, went into the bedroom, took all the bedding off the bedstead, and __(4)__ a pea on the bottom; then she took twenty mattresses and laid them on the pea, and then twenty quilts on …(5)… of the mattresses. On this, the princess had to lie all night. In the __(6)__ she was asked how she had slept. “Oh, very badly!” said she. “I scarcely closed my eyes all night. Heaven only knows what was in the bed, but I was lying on something hard, as a __(7)__ I am black and blue all over my body. It’s horrible!” Now they knew that she was a real princess because she had __(8)__ the pea right through the twenty mattresses and the twenty quilts. Nobody but a real princess could be as __(9)__ as that. So, the prince took her for his wife, for now he __(10)__ that he had a real princess.

Once upon a time, there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess, but she would have to be a real princess. He __(1)__ all over the world to find one, but nowhere could he get what he wanted. One evening during a terrible storm; there was thunder and lightning, and the rain poured down in torrents. Suddenly a knocking was __(2)__ at the palace door, and the old king went to open it. It was a princess standing out there. But, good gracious! What a sight the rain and the wind had made her look. The water ran down her hair and clothes; into the toes of her shoes and out again at the heels. And yet she insisted that she was a real princess. Well, we’ll soon __(3)__ out, thought the old queen. But she said nothing, went into the bedroom, took all the bedding off the bedstead, and __(4)__ a pea on the bottom; then she took twenty mattresses and laid them on the pea, and then twenty quilts on …(5)… of the mattresses. On this, the princess had to lie all night. In the __(6)__ she was asked how she had slept. “Oh, very badly!” said she. “I scarcely closed my eyes all night. Heaven only knows what was in the bed, but I was lying on something hard, as a __(7)__ I am black and blue all over my body. It’s horrible!” Now they knew that she was a real princess because she had __(8)__ the pea right through the twenty mattresses and the twenty quilts. Nobody but a real princess could be as __(9)__ as that. So, the prince took her for his wife, for now he __(10)__ that he had a real princess.

Once upon a time, there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess, but she would have to be a real princess. He __(1)__ all over the world to find one, but nowhere could he get what he wanted. One evening during a terrible storm; there was thunder and lightning, and the rain poured down in torrents. Suddenly a knocking was __(2)__ at the palace door, and the old king went to open it. It was a princess standing out there. But, good gracious! What a sight the rain and the wind had made her look. The water ran down her hair and clothes; into the toes of her shoes and out again at the heels. And yet she insisted that she was a real princess. Well, we’ll soon __(3)__ out, thought the old queen. But she said nothing, went into the bedroom, took all the bedding off the bedstead, and __(4)__ a pea on the bottom; then she took twenty mattresses and laid them on the pea, and then twenty quilts on …(5)… of the mattresses. On this, the princess had to lie all night. In the __(6)__ she was asked how she had slept. “Oh, very badly!” said she. “I scarcely closed my eyes all night. Heaven only knows what was in the bed, but I was lying on something hard, as a __(7)__ I am black and blue all over my body. It’s horrible!” Now they knew that she was a real princess because she had __(8)__ the pea right through the twenty mattresses and the twenty quilts. Nobody but a real princess could be as __(9)__ as that. So, the prince took her for his wife, for now he __(10)__ that he had a real princess.

Once upon a time, there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess, but she would have to be a real princess. He __(1)__ all over the world to find one, but nowhere could he get what he wanted. One evening during a terrible storm; there was thunder and lightning, and the rain poured down in torrents. Suddenly a knocking was __(2)__ at the palace door, and the old king went to open it. It was a princess standing out there. But, good gracious! What a sight the rain and the wind had made her look. The water ran down her hair and clothes; into the toes of her shoes and out again at the heels. And yet she insisted that she was a real princess. Well, we’ll soon __(3)__ out, thought the old queen. But she said nothing, went into the bedroom, took all the bedding off the bedstead, and __(4)__ a pea on the bottom; then she took twenty mattresses and laid them on the pea, and then twenty quilts on …(5)… of the mattresses. On this, the princess had to lie all night. In the __(6)__ she was asked how she had slept. “Oh, very badly!” said she. “I scarcely closed my eyes all night. Heaven only knows what was in the bed, but I was lying on something hard, as a __(7)__ I am black and blue all over my body. It’s horrible!” Now they knew that she was a real princess because she had __(8)__ the pea right through the twenty mattresses and the twenty quilts. Nobody but a real princess could be as __(9)__ as that. So, the prince took her for his wife, for now he __(10)__ that he had a real princess.

Once upon a time, there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess, but she would have to be a real princess. He __(1)__ all over the world to find one, but nowhere could he get what he wanted. One evening during a terrible storm; there was thunder and lightning, and the rain poured down in torrents. Suddenly a knocking was __(2)__ at the palace door, and the old king went to open it. It was a princess standing out there. But, good gracious! What a sight the rain and the wind had made her look. The water ran down her hair and clothes; into the toes of her shoes and out again at the heels. And yet she insisted that she was a real princess. Well, we’ll soon __(3)__ out, thought the old queen. But she said nothing, went into the bedroom, took all the bedding off the bedstead, and __(4)__ a pea on the bottom; then she took twenty mattresses and laid them on the pea, and then twenty quilts on …(5)… of the mattresses. On this, the princess had to lie all night. In the __(6)__ she was asked how she had slept. “Oh, very badly!” said she. “I scarcely closed my eyes all night. Heaven only knows what was in the bed, but I was lying on something hard, as a __(7)__ I am black and blue all over my body. It’s horrible!” Now they knew that she was a real princess because she had __(8)__ the pea right through the twenty mattresses and the twenty quilts. Nobody but a real princess could be as __(9)__ as that. So, the prince took her for his wife, for now he __(10)__ that he had a real princess.

Fourteen centuries ago, when the world was much younger, the ruler of all India, Rajah Balhait, was __(1)__ about his people. A new game of dice, called Hard, had __(2)__ the imagination of his subjects, teaching them that chance alone-a-roll of the dice guided the __(3)__ of men. All who played this game of fortune lost their __(4)__ in the virtues of courage, prudence, wisdom and hope. It bred a fatalism that was __(5)__ the spirit of the kingdom. Raja Balhait commissioned Sissa, an intelligent courter at his court to find an answer to this __(6)__.   After much __(7)__ the clever Sissa invented another game. Chaturanga, the exact __(8)__ of Hard, in which the four elements of the Indian army were the key pieces.  In the game these pieces – chariots, horses, elephants and foot soldiers – joined with a royal counsellor to defend their king and defeat the enemy. Forceful __(9)__ was demanded of the players? not luck. Chaturanga soon became more popular than Hard, and the __(10)__ to the Kingdom was over.

Fourteen centuries ago, when the world was much younger, the ruler of all India, Rajah Balhait, was __(1)__ about his people. A new game of dice, called Hard, had __(2)__ the imagination of his subjects, teaching them that chance alone-a-roll of the dice guided the __(3)__ of men. All who played this game of fortune lost their __(4)__ in the virtues of courage, prudence, wisdom and hope. It bred a fatalism that was __(5)__ the spirit of the kingdom. Raja Balhait commissioned Sissa, an intelligent courter at his court to find an answer to this __(6)__.   After much __(7)__ the clever Sissa invented another game. Chaturanga, the exact __(8)__ of Hard, in which the four elements of the Indian army were the key pieces.  In the game these pieces – chariots, horses, elephants and foot soldiers – joined with a royal counsellor to defend their king and defeat the enemy. Forceful __(9)__ was demanded of the players? not luck. Chaturanga soon became more popular than Hard, and the __(10)__ to the Kingdom was over.

Fourteen centuries ago, when the world was much younger, the ruler of all India, Rajah Balhait, was __(1)__ about his people. A new game of dice, called Hard, had __(2)__ the imagination of his subjects, teaching them that chance alone-a-roll of the dice guided the __(3)__ of men. All who played this game of fortune lost their __(4)__ in the virtues of courage, prudence, wisdom and hope. It bred a fatalism that was __(5)__ the spirit of the kingdom. Raja Balhait commissioned Sissa, an intelligent courter at his court to find an answer to this __(6)__.   After much __(7)__ the clever Sissa invented another game. Chaturanga, the exact __(8)__ of Hard, in which the four elements of the Indian army were the key pieces.  In the game these pieces – chariots, horses, elephants and foot soldiers – joined with a royal counsellor to defend their king and defeat the enemy. Forceful __(9)__ was demanded of the players? not luck. Chaturanga soon became more popular than Hard, and the __(10)__ to the Kingdom was over.

Fourteen centuries ago, when the world was much younger, the ruler of all India, Rajah Balhait, was __(1)__ about his people. A new game of dice, called Hard, had __(2)__ the imagination of his subjects, teaching them that chance alone-a-roll of the dice guided the __(3)__ of men. All who played this game of fortune lost their __(4)__ in the virtues of courage, prudence, wisdom and hope. It bred a fatalism that was __(5)__ the spirit of the kingdom. Raja Balhait commissioned Sissa, an intelligent courter at his court to find an answer to this __(6)__.   After much __(7)__ the clever Sissa invented another game. Chaturanga, the exact __(8)__ of Hard, in which the four elements of the Indian army were the key pieces.  In the game these pieces – chariots, horses, elephants and foot soldiers – joined with a royal counsellor to defend their king and defeat the enemy. Forceful __(9)__ was demanded of the players? not luck. Chaturanga soon became more popular than Hard, and the __(10)__ to the Kingdom was over.

Fourteen centuries ago, when the world was much younger, the ruler of all India, Rajah Balhait, was __(1)__ about his people. A new game of dice, called Hard, had __(2)__ the imagination of his subjects, teaching them that chance alone-a-roll of the dice guided the __(3)__ of men. All who played this game of fortune lost their __(4)__ in the virtues of courage, prudence, wisdom and hope. It bred a fatalism that was __(5)__ the spirit of the kingdom. Raja Balhait commissioned Sissa, an intelligent courter at his court to find an answer to this __(6)__.   After much __(7)__ the clever Sissa invented another game. Chaturanga, the exact __(8)__ of Hard, in which the four elements of the Indian army were the key pieces.  In the game these pieces – chariots, horses, elephants and foot soldiers – joined with a royal counsellor to defend their king and defeat the enemy. Forceful __(9)__ was demanded of the players? not luck. Chaturanga soon became more popular than Hard, and the __(10)__ to the Kingdom was over.

Fourteen centuries ago, when the world was much younger, the ruler of all India, Rajah Balhait, was __(1)__ about his people. A new game of dice, called Hard, had __(2)__ the imagination of his subjects, teaching them that chance alone-a-roll of the dice guided the __(3)__ of men. All who played this game of fortune lost their __(4)__ in the virtues of courage, prudence, wisdom and hope. It bred a fatalism that was __(5)__ the spirit of the kingdom. Raja Balhait commissioned Sissa, an intelligent courter at his court to find an answer to this __(6)__.   After much __(7)__ the clever Sissa invented another game. Chaturanga, the exact __(8)__ of Hard, in which the four elements of the Indian army were the key pieces.  In the game these pieces – chariots, horses, elephants and foot soldiers – joined with a royal counsellor to defend their king and defeat the enemy. Forceful __(9)__ was demanded of the players? not luck. Chaturanga soon became more popular than Hard, and the __(10)__ to the Kingdom was over.

Fourteen centuries ago, when the world was much younger, the ruler of all India, Rajah Balhait, was __(1)__ about his people. A new game of dice, called Hard, had __(2)__ the imagination of his subjects, teaching them that chance alone-a-roll of the dice guided the __(3)__ of men. All who played this game of fortune lost their __(4)__ in the virtues of courage, prudence, wisdom and hope. It bred a fatalism that was __(5)__ the spirit of the kingdom. Raja Balhait commissioned Sissa, an intelligent courter at his court to find an answer to this __(6)__.   After much __(7)__ the clever Sissa invented another game. Chaturanga, the exact __(8)__ of Hard, in which the four elements of the Indian army were the key pieces.  In the game these pieces – chariots, horses, elephants and foot soldiers – joined with a royal counsellor to defend their king and defeat the enemy. Forceful __(9)__ was demanded of the players? not luck. Chaturanga soon became more popular than Hard, and the __(10)__ to the Kingdom was over.

Fourteen centuries ago, when the world was much younger, the ruler of all India, Rajah Balhait, was __(1)__ about his people. A new game of dice, called Hard, had __(2)__ the imagination of his subjects, teaching them that chance alone-a-roll of the dice guided the __(3)__ of men. All who played this game of fortune lost their __(4)__ in the virtues of courage, prudence, wisdom and hope. It bred a fatalism that was __(5)__ the spirit of the kingdom. Raja Balhait commissioned Sissa, an intelligent courter at his court to find an answer to this __(6)__.   After much __(7)__ the clever Sissa invented another game. Chaturanga, the exact __(8)__ of Hard, in which the four elements of the Indian army were the key pieces.  In the game these pieces – chariots, horses, elephants and foot soldiers – joined with a royal counsellor to defend their king and defeat the enemy. Forceful __(9)__ was demanded of the players? not luck. Chaturanga soon became more popular than Hard, and the __(10)__ to the Kingdom was over.

Fourteen centuries ago, when the world was much younger, the ruler of all India, Rajah Balhait, was __(1)__ about his people. A new game of dice, called Hard, had __(2)__ the imagination of his subjects, teaching them that chance alone-a-roll of the dice guided the __(3)__ of men. All who played this game of fortune lost their __(4)__ in the virtues of courage, prudence, wisdom and hope. It bred a fatalism that was __(5)__ the spirit of the kingdom. Raja Balhait commissioned Sissa, an intelligent courter at his court to find an answer to this __(6)__.   After much __(7)__ the clever Sissa invented another game. Chaturanga, the exact __(8)__ of Hard, in which the four elements of the Indian army were the key pieces.  In the game these pieces – chariots, horses, elephants and foot soldiers – joined with a royal counsellor to defend their king and defeat the enemy. Forceful __(9)__ was demanded of the players? not luck. Chaturanga soon became more popular than Hard, and the __(10)__ to the Kingdom was over.

Fourteen centuries ago, when the world was much younger, the ruler of all India, Rajah Balhait, was __(1)__ about his people. A new game of dice, called Hard, had __(2)__ the imagination of his subjects, teaching them that chance alone-a-roll of the dice guided the __(3)__ of men. All who played this game of fortune lost their __(4)__ in the virtues of courage, prudence, wisdom and hope. It bred a fatalism that was __(5)__ the spirit of the kingdom. Raja Balhait commissioned Sissa, an intelligent courter at his court to find an answer to this __(6)__.   After much __(7)__ the clever Sissa invented another game. Chaturanga, the exact __(8)__ of Hard, in which the four elements of the Indian army were the key pieces.  In the game these pieces – chariots, horses, elephants and foot soldiers – joined with a royal counsellor to defend their king and defeat the enemy. Forceful __(9)__ was demanded of the players? not luck. Chaturanga soon became more popular than Hard, and the __(10)__ to the Kingdom was over.