English Paper (2)

Here are the answers for english paper 2(vocabulary cloze):
A long time ago when the world was first born, it was always dark in the north where the Inuit people 1)lived.

They thought it was dark all 2)over the world until an old crow told the them about daylight and how he had seen it on his long journeys.

The more they heard about daylight, the 3)more the people wanted it.

"We could hunt further and for longer," they said. "We could see the polar bears coming and run before they 4)attack us."The people begged the crow to go and bring 5)them daylight, but he didn't want to. "It's a long way and I'm too old to fly that far," he said. But the people begged until he finally 6)agreed to go.

He flapped his wings and launched into the dark sky, 7)towards the east. He flew for a long time until his wings were 8)tired. He was about to turn back when he saw the dim glow of daylight in the distance. "At last, there is daylight," said the tired crow.

As he flew towards the dim light it became brighter and brighter until the whole sky was bright and he could see for miles. The exhausted bird landed in a tree near a village, wanting to 10)rest. It was very cold.
*I kinda forget what's the answer for question 9
-Hong Jing