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Once upon a time, there was a man called Rip Van
Winkle. He was a likeable ___1___
lazy man who never did an ounce of ___2___
in his life. His wife was always nagging ___3___
him for being so lazy.
One day, to ___4___
his wife's nagging, Rip Van Winkle took a stroll in
the woods. In these mysterious woods, he encountered
a
___5___ of old men with long beards. ___6___
they saw Rip Van Winkle, they offered him a drink
from a flask. Rip Van Winkle took a ___7___
and found the drink delicious. As he was very
thirsty, he drank to his heart's ___8___
. Immediately after the drink, he felt his eyelids
becoming heavy. Before he knew it, he had ___9___
into a deep sleep.
When he ___10___
up, the sun was shining brightly.
"I must have slept the whole night," he thought
to ___11___.
As Rip Van Winkle ___12___
his way home, he discovered, to his astonishment,
that the landscape around him had changed. As he
approached his village, he was even ___13___
dumbfounded. He found that he could not recognise ___14___
in the village ! Not only ___15___
the people look different, they were also ___16___
in a different fashion. Everyone was staring at his
chin. As Rip Van Winkle looked ___17___
at his own chin, he realised, to his surprise, that
he had ___18___
a very long beard.
After ___19___
some enquiries, Rip Van Winkle realised that one
hundred years had passed from the time he drank the
liquid ___20___
the time he woke up. This meant that he had been
asleep for one hundred years !
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