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

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

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

4. The house dog felt he had to ________ himself in the face of all this criticism.

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. What made things worse, he continued, was that the house dog never ________ part in any of the hunting.

7. The house dog asked him not to pick on him if he wanted to ________ someone.

8. At the end of the race the tortoise, ________ by all his hard work, was quietly slumbering on the line.

9. Whenever the hunter came home, he always gave the house dog a large ________ of what he caught.

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