"It was __ (be) my birthday yesterday: I'm fourteen years old. Some people say I'm lucky but I don't think so. Imagine, in my li
fe ! I __ (go) to eight different schools and I __ (never stay) anywhere long enough to make a best friend. We __ (live) in so many different houses that I can't remember some of them. In fact, last year we __ (move) house three times. It's true, there are some good __ (meet) some really famous people and we __ (have) some things: great holidays -I __ (go) to Disneyland at least four times, but never with mum and dad. When ! (be) young, I always __ (have) a nanny, and she __ (take) me on holiday. I'm staying with my aunt and uncle at the moment because my dad's making a film in France and my mum __ (go) to Los Angeles.
The part of this excerpt from Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat" describe the narrator's opinion of the sea as a hostile entity is "that there is another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective".
