- intermediate-24
English Grammar / Incomplete Sentences / Intermediate level # 24 (Answer Keys)
The Two Dogs
A1 A man had two dogs: a hound trained to help him with his sports and another to guard the house.
answer: (a) trained
A2 Whenever the hunter came home, he always gave the house dog a large portion of what he caught.
answer: (c) portion
A3 The hound dog was very upset about this.
answer: (d) upset
A4 He told the house dog he found it very annoying having to do all the hard work.
answer: (b) annoying
A5 What made things worse, he continued, was that the house dog never took part in any of the hunting.
answer: (c) took
A6 All the house dog did was simply to feed himself on the results of the exertions that the hound dog undertook.
answer: (a) exertions
A7 The house dog felt he had to defend himself in the face of all this criticism.
answer: (c) defend
A8 The house dog asked him not to pick on him if he wanted to blame someone.
answer: (b) blame
A9 The house dog told him to criticize their master who had taught him not how to work but how to depend on the
work of others.
answer: (d) depend
A10 The moral of this fable is: you mustn't reproach children for the mistakes of their parents.
answer: (a) reproach
