Ruth W. Wilson
DIRECTIONS
: Students are to read the short paragraph below and put the correct words into the numbered spaces. You will know where they belong because you will have looked them up, right!
The Wild-boy of Averyron
His eyes were unsteady, 1. _____, wandering from one thing to another. His hearing was 2. _____ to sounds like music and loud noises. A soft 3. _____ sound 4. _____ him when he used his voice. He was 5. to color and to the smell of filth in his bed. His touch was the _____ grasping of objects and he had a 7. to trot and gallop . . . (and) had an 8. _____ habit of smelling everything given to him. He chewed like a 9. _____ and he was 10. _____ of attention and spent his time rocking backwards and forwards like animals in a zoo.