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Cloze Test 
 
 Here is an intresting story about the environment.Fill in the blanks using the clues.            
(Note: Type in the same way in the blanks as in the clues)                                           
 
 Clues
 
Plastic Bags , environment , paper bag , contaminating , enthusiastic , message , encouraging , thrown , Pappy , bad idea , planet , mission , propose , shopping , pollute , money , avoided
 

 are used all over the world to carry everyday items such as bread, shopping, clothes, toys and lots of other things. But Pappy, the hero of our story, wasn’t a plastic bag like all the rest – he was a very special . And Pappy had a  to complete

Pappy knew that all over the world there were millions of plastic bags that had been abandoned by people and ended up floating in the seas and oceans,  the water and causing damage to the creatures that lived nearby.

 didn’t want things to go on this way, so he came up with a plan to put an end to plastic bags being away. One day he went to visit a big supermarket to talk to the manager.

“Hello Mr. Manager, my name is Pappy and as you can see I’m a paper bag. I wanted to  an idea to avoid using plastic bags in shopping,” Pappy declared.

“What? Have you gone mad? Where else would people carry their ?” answered the manager, shocked.

“Very simple,” smiled Pappy. “My plan is to replace plastic bags with paper ones like me, because we don’t  the . I’d also like to suggest something else: that we reuse both plastic AND paper bags instead of throwing them away straightaway,” Pappy went on, sounding very .

“That’s not a , but why is it better to use paper bags and reuse them?” asked the manager, interested by what he what he was hearing.

“Well, because firstly it would mean fewer plastic bags spoiling the environment. But it would also save us because we would be reusing all our bags without needing to buy new ones,” Pappy explained.

The manager of the big supermarket realised that they were wasting resources, and that this could be . So the following week, only paper bags and plastic bags were given out to the shoppers.

Pappy went all over the world supermarket by supermarket, spreading his  that we should always re-use our bags recycling and looking after the !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good Luck!!!!!!!!!!!!!