The Perfect Puzzle
It was a gloomy, rainy Saturday, but even so, Becky was very excited. Today was the day she would be picking out a new puzzle – birthday gift from Mom and Dad.
Becky was a ‘puzzle person,’ or so her mom said. She started with baby-sized wooden ones and progressed to 50 pieces, then 200 and then 500. Now it would be a bigger challenge, het first 1,000-piece puzzle.
At the shop, she was overwhelmed with the array of puzzles. Some had as many as 9,000 pieces! At last she found the 1,000-piece puzzle section and saw one she liked.
‘I found it,’ Becky said. ‘This is the one I want.’ It was beautiful – a painting of African wild animals near a watering hole. ‘It’s neat because you can see the whole picture in the water too,’ she said. ‘It’s like having two puzzles in one.’
At home Becky carefully dumped the pieces out onto the table and turned them over, right side up. She was getting impatient to get going. ‘This does look like a lot more pieces,’ she said. Now she was getting organized, by lunchtime she had two sides completed.
Later that afternoon, her dad came and sat down next to her. Dad said, ‘put all the ones with the loop out over here and the long ones over here.’ That was news to Becky! She had never considered shape as a way to separatepieces.
Dad pushed his piece in place and said, ‘Got one!’ Now thing were moving along better.
This is the end of the test.
The Perfect Answer(10 punten – B)
Read The Perfect Puzzle and choose the correct answer. Choose the best translation the fits the text.
1 progress
2 array
3 challenge
4 dumped
5 impatient
6 organized
7 loop
8 considered
9 separate
10 piece