Choose the right option.
A poor old couple and their son lived (1)
together. One day the old
man's brother arrived. He was a colonel in the army and he had just come back from abroad. He showed the family (2)
magic things brought with him from
his (3)
journey.
These things are magic,' he told them. 'They can grant people three wishes,
although they are evil.'
That night the old man could (4)
sleep as he planned what he was going
to wish. The next day he made a wish.
'Give me £5,000 per month,' he asked. But nothing (5)
happened until
the following morning.
1. a) happy
b) happiness
c) happily
d) unhappy
2. a) various b)vary
c) variety
d) variable
3.a)distantly
b) distance
c) distant
d) distanced
4. a) hard
b) hardly c) hardship
d) hardness
5. a) uninteresting
b) interest
c) interested d) interesting