A Problem on the Planet Skronk Name______
The Skronkians live a generally happy life. They don’t have any real problems, but occasionally a Skronkian kavunches, and he or she has to go to the hospital. Generally, Skronkians don’t kavunch unless they get very slurvy. If they get really slurvy, then they can look forward to kavunching. Recently, bloshes have been introduced into the diet of Skronkians, and some Skronkians who are already fairly slurvy get slurvier and slurvier the more bloshes they eat, and there has been a rash of kavunching among the slurviest Skronkians, especially at Skronkian blosh parties, which are always slurvy affairs. Many Skronkians believe that bloshes are a danger to Skronkian society. Others believe that bloshes make them happy and that happiness is a civil right which should not be denied to anyone, slurvy or unslurvy.
Here’s a dialog between two Skronkians. Without speaking to other students or the teacher…
finish all of the incomplete words by filling in all of the appropriate word endings. (2 pts. each)
AB17: Did you hear that PM23 went to the hospital last night? The poor thing! She kav______after eating too many blo______. At first, she was so happy. She was talking happily, but then…
DC34: My goodness! I didn’t realize that she was such a slu______Skr______!
AB17: Oh, yes. She’s absolutely the slu______Skr______on the planet! In fact, slu______is a character trait that runs in her family--in addition to craziness and silliness!
DC34: Oh, dear. How many blo______did she eat?
AB17: She ate one blo______after another! She had herself a real blo______orgy! By the end of the party, she had consumed at least 40 blo______. She couldn’t control herself. She probably single-handedly emptied out the entire blo______store on the troonge!
DC34: Then I can easily understand why she kav______! How sad! Now that blo______are so readily available, I hear that at least one Skr______kav______every hour of every day! If so many Skr______are kav______, somebody should do something!
AB17: I agree. I can eat an occasional blo______because I’m not a really slu______Skr______. I’m slu______than my brother, but I’m not as slu______as my sister. She’s the slu______Skr______that you’ve ever seen! If she eats even one blo______, she becomes incredibly slu______. She starts to walk slu______and talk slu______, and then she finally kav______in a big way! She has needed to go to the hospital so many times after kav______that I can’t even count them. Doctors have had to pump all the blo______out of her klurge! Poor thing! Klurges cannot take too much abuse!
DC34: Skr______who have kav______are a sad sight to see. Their klu______always glow a deep red. Certainly, kav______is a serious problem nowadays. Once I saw one little Skr______kav______near the stroog, and my klu______glanged!
AB17: How many Skr______do you think have kav______since blo______were introduced? Is there any news about kav______in today’s shluck?
DC34: I don’t know. But I think the blo______sellers have to be regulated before things get out of hand. Blo______are delicious, but a slu______Skr______should not be allowed to eat blo______to the point of kav______. If slu______Skr______continue eating too many blo______, the epidemic will get worse and worse. They’ll just get slu______and slu______, and they can look forward to kav______in huge numbers in the coming years, and our Skr______society will never be the same.
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