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Complete the missing words in the text and translate the ones in bold.

THE BARE NECESSITIES

Look for the bare necessities

The 1. ____________________ bare necessities

Forget about your worries and your strife

I mean the bare necessities

Old 2. ____________________ Nature's recipes

That brings the bare necessities of 3. ____________________

Wherever I wander, wherever I roam

I couldn't be fonder of my big 4. ____________________

The 5. ____________________ are buzzin' in the tree

To make some honey just for me

When you look under the 6. ____________________ and plants

And take a glance at the fancy ants

Then maybe try a few

The bare necessities of life will come to you

They'll come to you!

Look for the bare necessities

The simple bare 7. ____________________

Forget about your worries and your strife

I mean the bare necessities

That's why a 8 ____________________ can rest at ease

With just the bare necessities of life

Now when you pick a pawpaw

Or a prickly 9 ____________________

And you prick a raw paw

Next time beware

Don't pick the prickly pear by the paw

When you 10 ____________________ a pear

Try to use the claw

But you don't need to use the claw

When you pick a pear of the big pawpaw


Have I given you a 11. ____________________ ?

The bare necessities of life will come to you

They'll come to you!

Complete the missing words from the text and translate them.

Bagheera: Many __________strange__________ _______legends_____________ are told of

these jungles of India. But ______none______________ so strange as the story of a small boy

named Mowgli. It all began when the ____silence________________ of the jungle was broken

by an unfamiliar sound. It was a sound like one _________never___________ heard before in

this part of the ______jungle______________ . It was a man-cub. Had I known how deeply I was

to be involved, I would have obeyed my first impulse and walked away. This man-cub would

have to have ________nourishment____________ , and soon. It was many days' travel to the

nearest man-______village______________ and without a _________mother’s___________

care, he would soon perish. Then it occurred to me. A family of ________wolves____________ I

knew had been blessed with a litter of cubs. Why, there'd be no problem with the mother, thanks

to maternal instinct, but I wasn't so sure about Rama, the _______father_____________. 10

times the rains have come and gone. And I often stopped by to see how Mowgli, the man-cub,

was getting along. He was a favorite with all young wolf _________cubs___________ of the

pack.

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