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