Louis listened to the sound of the voice again but couldn't make out any words. Then he heard footsteps coming towards the storeroom. For a second he was unable to move, but as the footsteps got closer he quickly made his way to the back door and slipped into the alley. He ran down the alley until he came to the street, where he slowed down. If people saw him running up the street, they would know something was wrong. He didn't run, but walked as fast as he could to Reverend Brown's.

There, he would be _____ .

But I still saved food that would keep for a week or more, in case we failed to catch anything with all of Mando's hooks. The boat was well stocked by the time we were ready to go. Our store would last a week should we need it.

We were _____ .

Saaski ate because Yanno said to, then, after the first mouthful, because she seemed to grow hungrier with every bite. Weariness eased and energy seeped back. She felt much stronger when she had eaten all she could hold, and drained her mug. It began to seem possible to get through the rest of the night.

She felt _____ .

To be really good, your writing must be like a chain. The sentences and paragraphs must be linked together for strength and unity. Each sentence should have a connection to the one before it and, similarly, each paragraph should be a natural extension of the previous one. Making logical connections in your writing relies on good use of transitional words and phrases.

Sentences should be _____

Students have suggested that the city has so much smog because of the high number of cars that are on the roads. The students think that the number may be so high because most people do not carpool. They want to find out if this is so. They decide to count cars on a main road and calculate the average number of people per car.

They are testing a(n) _____ .

Anyone who competes in BMX racing is going to fall from time to time. You may collide with another racer, or lose control while going over a jump or a series of whoops. It can't be avoided. Serious injuries in BMX racing are rare, but you must be prepared anyway.

BMX racing can be _____ .

With so many children, Paul Revere had to be sure he could always earn a living. Only wealthy people could afford to buy things made of silver, so Paul learned other trades. He worked as a goldsmith. He learned to clean real teeth and make false ones. He engraved copper plates and printed pictures and business cards, fixed umbrellas, and made eyeglasses.

Paul Revere was _____ .

On the other hand, money and math and clothes aren't the only things I care about. I love to go to museums, and dance performances and Broadway shows, and yes, even the opera. (Well, not all operas.) I guess I'm a "culture vulture"—another result of growing up in Manhattan. My parents were always dragging me to one event or another, and eventually I learned to appreciate and love the arts.

I have many _____ .

Just past the midpoint of the lake, the sonar picked up a surface disturbance in front of Boat One. The signal indicated something large and moving. As the boat closed, a cluster of swimming beavers was sighted. The beavers smacked the surface of the water with their tails and dove beneath the surface, splintering the signal.

Boat One _____ something.

Anna had a problem with biting her nails. To make herself aware of when she was biting them, she put a sour-tasting liquid on her nails. Her friend Chuck asked Anna to remind him when he cracked his knuckles. They both found a way to call attention to the habit they wanted to break.

Anna _____ Chuck.

Before long we were flying over an arm of the Great Slave Lake. Ice was showing all along the shore. Out Clint's side of the airplane I could see the open lake, vast like an inland sea. In another hour it would be noon, but the sun was pathetically low by Texas standards for the thirtieth of October.

We flew over _____ .

All this rainy day I worked with the women as we made moccasins in the longhouse, and I did not lay eyes upon him. I looked around the camp whenever I had the excuse to fetch water or wood. But he is nowhere to be seen.

I could not _____ him.

"It tastes awful," he said after one mouthful, "but I'll just have to get used to it." And sure enough, the more grass he ate the better he liked it. Pretty soon Droofus found the grass so tasty he was stuffing it down by the fistful.

He changed his _____ .

She left Maryland and went to the Atlantic City Race Course in New Jersey. In her first race, she dropped her whip but still won by a head. The victories just kept coming. Julie went on to win the riding title. She rode more winners in the two-month meet than any male jockey at the track.

She was a(n) _____ jockey.

Adam Severyn had not even waited for the valet to bring up his car. His heart pounded so hard he could barely think. Blood slammed around the corners of his body, screeching through his gut like bad breaks.

Adam was _____ .

The landscape of gently rolling hills holds many small lakes. The lakes are home to different kinds of ducks and geese. In the marshy places along the shore, my sisters and I hunt for cranberries, salmonberries, and blueberries.

The lake _____ life.

It was very hot in the sugarcane field. The tall cane cut off any breeze and heat came up from the ground, so it felt like being in a stove. Roberto's entire body was wet with sweat. He could feel it running down his face into his eyes. He tried to rub the sweat with the back of his hand, but the rough scratchy hair of the cane scraped his face. He wiped behind his neck, and the fuzzy, rough hair of the cane went all down his back.

He was _____ .

In the past, fire spotters watched from high lookout towers in the forest for wisps of smoke rising above the trees. Today, people often use airplanes to help them survey forests for fires. Satellites are also used to monitor Earth for forest fires. Wildfires usually start when the weather is hot and dry. During summer plants are often very dry, so they catch fire easily. Lightning, a natural cause, starts many wildfires. Sometimes people accidentally start fires.

Now, technology helps people _____ fires.

Researchers recently discovered that bonobos are likely to share food with other bonobos—especially strangers. Scientists from North Carolina's Duke University conducted two experiments with bonobos in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in Africa. In the first test, the researchers gave a bonobo fruit and nuts. The ape could then choose to open one of two see-through doors leading to other rooms. One room housed a familiar bonobo, the other a stranger. All the bonobos opened a door to let in another. Nine of the 14 chose to eat with the stranger.

Bonobos are _____ .