1. Another way of putting this is how many red ________ the author can throw in the reader's path.

2. They were so ________ in their work that they didn't notice a grasshopper.

3. The detective story is sometimes called 'whodunit'because the reader has to work ________ who did it, who committed the crime.

4. All the house dog did was simply to feed himself on the results of the ________ that the hound dog undertook.

5. The moral of this fable is: slow but ________ always wins the race in the end.

6. Their plan was to eat this ________ during the winter.

7. The moral of this fable is: you mustn't ________ children for the mistakes of their parents.

8. A man had two dogs: a hound ________ to help him with his sports and another to guard the house.

9. Sensibly as all ants do, they had ________ the grain during the summer.

10. It wasn't long before the hare fell into a ________ sleep.