Since the 1940's more and more people have moved to Washington. Many took jobs in the logging industry. Puget Sound's suburbs became good sized cities. Electronics and computer software companies started in these new cities.

People found __________ there.

Cameron traded with the Navajo and other native people for artifacts. Artifacts are made by humans. They are usually used for practical tasks. She collected these artifacts and gave them to Canadian museums.

She wanted to __________ the artifacts.

Sully Gomez was known as a nice guy. I just hoped I was also known as a good detective. I stretched my right leg and shook it a little. The leg felt better. "Sit down, LaTosha," I said. "I need to know a few other things before I can get started."

Sully and LaTosha need to ____________.

Dad had been right about the wind. The minute we turned the corner onto Broadway an icy blast roared up the back of my jacket. I didn't care, though. I was too excited.

I did not mind the ________________.

He could not cross the Pacific alone. He needed five strong men to help. Thor found four of them in Norway. Their names were Knut, Erik, Torstein, and Herman. The other man, Bengt, came from Sweden.

They would go _____________.

Cal stepped up to take his turn. He was a good bowler, Jenny saw. He took the game more seriously than the other three.

Cal was ___________.

"You'll have to clean up some when we get there, Bill," Curt laughed. "Or they won't let us in to eat anywhere! And we can't miss Natchez catfish! Best there is!"

Bill is too _____________.

At first, nothing seemed to go well at Kitty Hawk. The building the brothers worked in blew down in a storm. So they had to put up another building. Then this building was almost lost in another storm!

The building was ____________.

Cherokees respected shamans. People went to see shamans if they had problems.

People went to see shamans for ___________.

Just then he saw Jessie looking up into the tall trees. He looked up, too. The wind was not blowing at all, but one tree was moving. There was a crash, and down came a coconut.

They watched the coconut ______________.

"Yes, this is my city. Wait till you see the beautiful Old City! Right now all you see is this." He pointed to the miles of tall apartment buildings on both sides of the freeway.

He is _____________ of his city.

Smith rode his bike back there the next day. He saw the woman again at the same time. It was ten o'clock sharp. She was running down the driveway from the back of her house.

The woman was _________________.

In 1880, Wilson Bentley took his microscope out in the snow. He loved looking at snowflakes with it. They were beautiful and always different. He tried sketching them. But they melted quickly. So he combined his microscope with a camera. Bentley took snowflake pictures for nearly 50 years.

Bentley liked to _________ snowflakes.

A mother cat can have between two to five kittens at once. She carries them for 60-70 days. They are very small. The mother must feed them. She cares for them until they are six weeks old.

They are _________________.

"It's a bad thing you've done," Diggory said in a whisper. "Its a bad, bad thing! Don't you know you're never to cross the captain? He's lord and master on his ship. Keep your head down. Stay out of his way till he's cooled off. If he finds you now, there's no telling what he might do."

The captain is _____________.

As her high school days came to a close, Martha enjoyed the benefits of all her efforts. She graduated as one of the top ten students in her class. She also received a Rotary Club scholarship as a reward for high grades and leadership.

Martha had been a(n) ________ student.

Arriving in Orlando with her mom, Kristi was the center of the media's attention. When reporters asked Kristin about her years of training and dedication, she was quick to thank her mom and dad. "My parents have worked hard and made a lot of sacrifices," she said.

She was ____________.

The older adults did not know how to read, and the younger ones mouthed each syllable like children; nobody wrote with any confidence... I received a letter from the Dukas a year after I had been to stay with them. It was a piece of card covered with their autographs, which were elderly and tremulous, or else childishly deliberate. Below, there were a few lines which were not in any language at all, but which gave the graphic sense of a letter, and that was the point.

They want to _________.

Speed skaters lean forward at the waist for their entire race. That way, the air will pass over their backs the same way air passes over the top of an airplane. The skaters keep their backs straight and their heads up, eyes looking forward. In the 500 meters, they swing their arms vigorously from side to side for the entire race to increase their speed. In longer races, the skaters sometimes put one arm flat against their back to conserve their energy. Speed skating is hard work, but Bonnie makes it look natural.

The skater's _____________ is important.

If you're interested in playing hockey, it may be a long time before you actually join a team. You need time to learn how to skate, practice the basics, get in shape, and figure out what your skills are and what position you want to play. Each position in hockey gives equally to the success of the team.

You need to ____________.

He never knew exactly what it was that woke him. When, through the confusion of half-dreams and imagined noises, he realized that he was awake, the room was quite dark. There was no sound but the constant murmur of the sea, very faint on this side of the house but always in the air. But from the way all his senses were straining to catch something, he knew that a part of him which had not quite gone to sleep at all was warning him of some danger very near. He lay very still, but he could hear nothing. Then there was a very faint creak behind him, from the direction of the door.

He was _____________.

They hiked uphill for an hour. It was a hard climb. The terrain was steep. Sagebrush and dead branches scratched at their bare legs. Rocks of varying sizes slid under their feet, making it more difficult to keep a steady pace. Finally, Leon stopped. He bent over and leaned his hands on his knees, gulping in giant breaths of air.

The journey was a _____ .

Often toys, clothes, books, and even furniture are discarded before they are worn out. They are still good, but the owner doesn't want them anymore. These can be given to a resale shop or put into a garage sale—sometimes called a tag sale, yard sale, or rummage sale.

The items can be _____ .