Novel- Language Practice Ch 7- 10

1. Fill in the blanks

1. The two gentlemen never ____________________ that they are so late.

2. Jerry and Black beauty wait in the cold and the rain from eleven to ____________________ one.
3. Jerry ____________________ but cannot go back to work.
4. Jerry and his family are going to have ____________________ cottage in the country.
5. Jerry and Black Beauty do what the two gentlemen ask them but they never hear them ____________________
6. Black beauty is so tired that in one ____________________ he falls to the ground.
7. Mr. Skinner hopes to get a small ____________________ for Black Beauty at the fair.
8. The family’s little _____________ feels sorry for Black Beauty.
9. The family has mnay heavy boxes and bags from a train ____________________.
10. When a horse can’t work anymore, Mr. Skinner sells it to the ____________________.
11. The little girls thinks it’s their ____________________ that Black Beauty fell down.
12. Black Beauty feels ____________________ in the field of sweet grass until Ginger joins him.
13. When Black Beauty is ill, he take some ____________________
14. The ____________________ for Black Beauty is five Pounds.
15. Black Beauty is an ____________________
16. Nicholas Skinner owns a ____________________ of cab horses.
17. A ____________________ rides Black Beauty to Mr. Thoroughgood’s home.
18. Jerry Barker’s family move to a ____________________ in the country.
19. The little girls tells her father that Black Beauty is too ____________________.
20. A ____________________ family calls for one of Skinner’s cabs.
21. The ____________________ driver shouts at the horses that can’t pull their cart out of the mud.
22. When he was a young colt, Black Beauty lived in a big green ____________________ with his mother.
23. Ginger’s eyes are full of ____________________.
24. Joe rides Black Beauty to take a letter to a ____________________’s house.
25. It is the ____________________ for horses to keep their heads up high.
26. many horses get ____________________ knees because of bad drivers.
27. Beauty Beauty thinks something ____________________ is going to happen when the groom cleans and dresses him.
28. Joe Green is a ____________________ fellow now and Black Beauty does not remember him so well.
29. One of the ladies is ____________________ thinking that Black beauty may fall again.

2. Underline the correct word in bold.

1. Black Beauty finds a new master at the horse sale/purse.

2. His owner’s kindness soon brings Black Beauty’s spirits/steps.
3. Mr. Thoroughgood has smart/round shoulders and a kind face.
4. Black Beauty needs a place where people will count/care for him.
5. Willie hugs/pats his grandfather when he pays the money for Beauty.
6. Mr. Thoroughgood looks at Beauty’s legs kindly/closely.