I, Robot Robbie
“Ninety-eight, ninety ____, one hundred! Here I come!”
Gloria ____ aloud and began to search around the house.
The ____ old girl was playing hide and seek with Robbie.
Robbie was a robot who ____ to her house two years ago.
He was her ____ friend.
Robbie was ____ and better at hiding, but he always let her win.
In return, ____ told him his favorite story, Cinderella.
Robbie’s metal eyes blinked with ____.
“Gloria, come back inside!” Mrs. Weston, Gloria’s ____, shouted.
She ____ not like Robbie.
She felt that a robot ____ not take care of a child.
She ____ to her husband, “Gloria plays only with Robbie.
She does not play with ____ children.”
Mr. Weston did not ____ with her.
He thought that ____ was a great help to Gloria and the family.
After a long talk
After a long ____, however, they decided to return Robbie to the factory.
When Gloria ____ that Robbie was gone, she cried,
“He is a person just like you and me, and he is my friend! Bring him ____!”
Gloria’s ____ was gone.
Even a new pet and a ____ to New York did not help.
Nothing ____ make her smile.
In the ____, her parents took Gloria to the factory.
Mrs. Weston pointed to the robot ____ and said,
“Look at them, Gloria. They are ____ machines, not people.”
Gloria was ____ listening to her mother.
She was ____ for Robbie.
“____ he is!” She shouted with joy.
She was so happy that she ran toward ____.
At that moment, a ____ machine was rushing toward her.
Robbie saw this, ran quickly ____ her, and saved her just in time.
Gloria hugged ____ tightly.
This time, even Mrs. ____ could not separate them.
Gloria’s parents changed their ____ about Robbie and brought him back home.
____, the two friends lived together happily.