Lesson 4 Open a Book, Open Your Mind
Holes
“Dig harder, Stanley! ____ harder you dig, the faster you’ll finish!” yelled Mr. Sir.
Stanley Yelnats couldn’t dig any harder since every single ____ hurt.
He was ____ and hungry. He wanted to go home.
Unfortunately, Stanley’s home for the next 18 months would ____ right here, at Camp Green Lake.
Camp Green Lake was a terrible name.
It wasn’t green and there was no ____
Camp Green ____ was hot and full of sand.
In fact, it wasn’t even a camp. It was ____ place for bad boys.
Then what was a good ____ like Stanley doing here?
He was sent to the camp ____ stealing a pair of sneakers.
Stanley didn’t ____ steal a pair of sneakers.
____ was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
One day, he was walking home ____ school.
Suddenly, a pair ____ old sneakers fell from the sky.
The sneakers hit him on the head.
He ____ running with the sneakers to tell his father what happened.
A few minutes later, the police stopped Stanley and asked him why ____ was running.
Unfortunately for Stanley, the sneakers belonged ____ a famous baseball player, Clyde Livingstone.
That was why Stanley ____ up at Camp Green Lake.
Stanley was ____ to Group D in the camp.
There were six other boys in ____ group.
____ all had cool names like X-Ray, Zigzag and Zero.
Each boy ____ to dig one hole every day.
It had to ____ about 150cm deep and 150cm wide.
Mr. ____ said, “You are digging to build character.”
The more Stanley dug, the stronger he became.
It took ____ time to finish his hole each day.
In his second week, as Stanley was finishing his hole, he saw something shiny in ____ dirt.
Stanley’s ____ beat faster.
He heard that anyone who found something interesting would be given the day ____
He carefully picked up the shiny object and brushed ____ the dirt.
____ was a small gold tube.
But it couldn’t be real gold since ____ was too light.
There were two letters, ____ at the bottom of the tube.
What did KB ____ for?
____ heart beat even faster.