Elementary Level Paragraph Completion Exercise 2

1. My father brought me to an island for us to do bird watching. An island is a piece of land with ______________________________. The only way to go to the island is by boat. It was my first time to ride a boat and to travel by water. I felt dizzy because the boat kept on rocking.

2. Parents always tell us to eat carrots because ______________________________. According to scientists, carrots are rich in a substance called beta-carotene; eating just one carrot a day can lessen the chance of having an eye problem by up to 40%.

3. People in Taranto, an Italian town, used to dance to cure spider bites. This town had a lot of big spiders called tarantulas. The people thought that the spiders could kill them. Fast dancing was believed to ______________________________ by making people sweat.

4. It used to be popular for women to have small waists. They often wore tight clothes around their waists to make them smaller. A woman with a very small waist was said to be “ wasp-waisted” because her body looked like the body of a wasp. The wasp is an insect with ______________________________.

5. It was becoming darker. I heard strong winds blew outside my window. It blew so hard that I could feel how cold it was even with the window closed. I put on my sweater, turned off my light and went to bed wishing that ______________________________.