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

2. He told the house dog he found it very ________ having to do all the hard work.

3. One of the best known detectives is Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot who uses what he calls his little grey ________ his brains.

4. The hare shot ahead and then decided to ________ down at the side of the path for a rest.

5. The idea is to keep the readers in a permanent state of ________ so that they never know what's going to happen next.

6. The skill of course of the writing is how many times a reader can be sent up ________ alleys.

7. The tortoise never stopped and continued walking at a ________ pace all the time to the end of the race.

8. One winter's day when the sun was shining you could hear the ________ of great activity.

9. It was ________ that the tortoise should choose the course and also the end of the race.

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