Задание

Choose the right word for each gap. There are two extra words that you do not need to use.

The Bear and the Two Travellers

Two men were travelling together when a Bear suddenly them on their path. One of them climbed up quickly into a tree and hid in the branches. The other, seeing that he must be attacked, flat on the ground, and when the Bear came up and felt him with his snout and smelt him all over, the traveller held his breath and pretended to be dead. The Bear soon him, for it is said bears do not touch a dead body. When he was quite gone, the other traveller down from the tree and jokingly his friend what it was the Bear had whispered in his ear. “He me this advice,” his companion answered. “Never travel with a friend who leaves you at the approach of danger.”

Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.