Аудирование №43 (SB Part 1, p.137 ex.27)

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No. 43. Listen to the text “I Hit Him Back First”.

I Hit Him Back First

      Once upon a time 1___________________lived two brothers. 2__________________ names were Allan and Ted. They lived with their parents in a small 3______________________town in the north of 4_________________________. They lived in a house which 5__________________of five rooms. Allan and Ted were good friends, they were good pupils as well. Allan was seven, Ted was ten. They went to the same primary school. The brothers never felt 6_____________________. They read a lot, played many sports games because 7_________________of them liked sports and games very much.
      The brothers were good boys but they were not 8___________________. They liked fighting very much too. But their mother was against their fights, 9__________________ when they fought at school. “When you fight with each other, when you fight with your friends, it is always a 10____________________of something bad,” she used to say.
      One day Allan came home from school and went to his room. His elder brother Ted was in the room too. He was playing on the computer. Ted was 11____________________when he saw that Allan was crying. “Why are you crying, Allan?” he asked. “Because William hit me,” answered the younger brother. William was one of the boys at school with whom Ted and Allan often had fights.
      Ted looked at his brother, 12__________________ and said: “Now, listen to me 13___________________, Allan. Did you hit him back or did you run home crying like a little baby?”
      “I hit him back, of course,” said Allan 14_____________________. “I hit him back first and then he hit me.”