B4

Once there lived an old emperor who had no children. He ______ choose his successor for a long time.

NOT CAN

B5

Then he called all the young people in the kingdom together and said, «I’ll give each one of you a seed today. I want you to go home, plant it, water it and come back here one year from today with what you have grown from this one seed.» A boy named Ling also got a seed. He came home and told his mother that he ______ the best plant.

GROW

B6

She helped ______ plant the seed. Every day he watered it but nothing grew.

HE

B7

A year passed and Ling took his empty pot to the palace while all the rest brought some beautiful plants. The emperor said, «Lying is the ______ thing in the world. I gave you all spoilt seeds. Nothing grows from spoilt seeds.» So Ling became the new emperor.

BAD

B8

Roald Dahl, a famous British writer, was Norwegian by birth. Dahl ______ after the Polar explorer Roald Amundsen, a national hero in Norway at the time. During the Second World War Dahl served in the Royal Air Force as a fighter pilot.

NAME

B9

Dahl became well-known in 1940s with works for both ______ and adults.

CHILD

B10

One of his highly popular tales was ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’. Since 1945 his books ______ in almost 50 languages.

PUBLISH