Ответ: A Lion (17)___(was sleeping). A Mouse (18)____(ran) over
his body. He (19)____(woke) and (20)____(caught) her. The Mouse said: ”Let
me go, and I (21)___(will do) you a favour!” The Lion laughed: ”What can
(22)___(a mouse) do to help a lion? I am (23)___(stronger) than all of you”
but he let her go. Then the hunters (24)____(caught) the Lion and tired him with
a rope to a tree. The Mouse (25)___(heard) the Lion’s roar,
(26)___(ran), gnawed the rope through, and said: ”Do you
(27) remember? You laughed, not thinking that I (28)____(could) repay,
but now you see that a favour may come from a (29)___(smaller) and
(30)___(weaker) animal. In old times (31)___(Egyptian) children played similar games to the ones
they play today. They also played with dolls, toy soldiers
(32)____(wooden) animals, balls, marbles, spinning tops. Most children in
Egypt didn’t go to school. Instead boys learnt (33)____(farming) or other
trades from their fathers. Girls learnt (34)___(sewing), (35)___(cooking) and
other skills from their mothers. Boys from (36)____(wealthy) families
sometimes learnt to be scribes. They learnt by (37)____(COPYing) and
(38)____(memorising) and discipline was strict. (39)____(teachers) beat
naughty boys. The boys learnt reading and (40)____(writing) and also
mathematics.