Prospector’s Special. by Robert Shekley. Ex.1. Match the word and its meaning. Ex.2. Fill the gaps using the words from the 1 Ex.

Prospector’s Special

by Robert Shekley

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Ex.1. Match the word and its meaning

Bleakly, crummy, distressing, fleck, Get out, hoist, holster, inanimate, lode, mammal, pile

Pitch, Scrape out, stake, trail, trek, veer, whirl, whirlpool

Word	Meaning
	Leave, to make another person leave
	A small area of one colour on a background of another colour
	An amount of metal ore in the earth
	The part of a business that you own because you have invested money in it
	In a way that shows no hope or confidence
	Not good in quality
	To succeed in getting enough of something, especially money, by making a lot of effort
	To put a large amount of something somewhere
	To lift someone or something to higher place
	To go on a long and difficult journey on foot
	To suddenly move in a different direction
	To move slowly and in a tired or unhappy way, often so that you are a short distance behind other people
	An animal that is born from its mother’s body, not from an egg and drinks its mother’s milk as a baby
	A leather container for a gun, that is fixed to a belt
	Make smth ready to use
	To spin quickly in circles
	A strong movement in a river or stream that makes the water move round and pulls thing under
	Not alive
	Making you fel extremely unhappy, worried, or upset

Ex.2. Fill the gaps using the words from the 1 Ex.

1. They took a 40% s____e in the company last year 2. “I doubt it”, she said b_____y. 3. P___e the cottage cheese onto the potatoes 4. Humans, dogs and cows are all m________s. 5. The volkswagen v_____d off the road and crashed into a fence 6. It took me half of the next day to locate the l____e, and while I was pilin' the monuments I looked up and saw that villain, Jacks. 7. G____ that man _____ of my bedroom! 8. It was quite dark, and round her swept as it were a w_____l of snow. 9. They have trouble even s______g together their rent 10. Tim h______d the boy onto his shoulders 11. Start by photographing i_____e objects and move on people later 12. He had t_____d across South Africa 13. W_____g gracefully, they crossed the dance floor. 14. They p_____d camp by the river 15. Detectives t______d Evans for weeks

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