Cloze: The Princess and the Pea

The Princess and the Pea

adapted from Hans Christian Andersen

There was once a prince and he wanted a princess. “But she must be a real Princess,” he thought. So he travelled around the world ___________________________(1) find one. There were many princesses but there was ___________________________(2) something wrong about them. At last, he had to return home. He was very sad, ___________________________(3) he wanted a real princess so badly.

One evening, there was a terrible storm. It was ___________________________(4) heavily and there was thunder and lightning. In the middle of the storm, somebody ___________________________(5) on the door and the King himself went to open it.

There was a princess at the door. Her hair and her clothes were very wet. But she said ___________________________(6) she was a real princess.

“We shall see if that is true,” the Queen said to herself. She went to the bedroom, took all the bedsheets off and laid a pea on the bed. Then she took twenty mattresses and put them on ___________________________(7) of the pea. That was where the princess would sleep that night.

“How did you sleep, dear princess?” they ___________________________(8) her in the morning.

“Oh, very badly!” she answered. “I couldn't ___________________________(9) my eyes all night. It seemed that I was lying on something hard. My whole body is aching. It is terrible!”

“She must be a real princess if she could ___________________________(10) the pea through twenty mattresses,” they said to themselves. "Nobody but a real princess could have such a sensitive skin.

So the prince married her and they put the pea into the Museum. It may still be there ___________________________(11) no one has stolen it.