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Three thousand head of bawling Hereford cattle were being 1  from little grassy patches and wooded breaks up in Togwotee Pass country.

The cool mountain air was 2 free from the swarms of biting flies and gnats that would have 3 them miserable at the lower elevations and the high meadows had made the red and white cattle sleek and fat 4  the spring and summer.

Fall was 5 to the northern Wyoming mountains at the southern edge of the Absaroka range. It was time to push the animals back into the low country for the shelter of the valleys and the grass that had 6 there during the long summer days.

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The Pitcairn Islands are 1 in the South Pacific Ocean, about halfway between Peru and New Zealand. The larger island of Pitcairn was 2 in 1767 by the British and settled in 1790 by the mutineers from the English ship ‘Bounty’ and their Tahitian companions.

Pitcairn was the first Pacific island to become a British colony (in 1838) and today remains the last 3of the British empire in the South Pacific. The population of about 50 are the 4 of the Bounty 5 and their Tahitian wives.

English is the official language, but many islanders 6 in Pitcairnese (a pidgin language comprising of elements of 18th century English and a Tahitian dialect).

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Mary, Queen of Scots was one of the most 1  and controversial monarchs of 16th century Europe. 2  the Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old, Mary was the last Roman Catholic ruler in Scotland. King Henry VIII of England wanted Mary to marry his son Edward.

Mary was sent to France at the age of 6 to 3  her from Henry VIII. She was 4  at the French court and married Francis the Dauphin of France at the age of 16. When Francis became King a year later, Mary was named Queen of France. Unfortunately, Francis died soon after. When Mary‟s mother died, she returned to Scotland to rule as Queen.

In 1587, at the age of forty-four, Mary was executed. The English government had all of her 7 burned.

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English has without a (1)  become the second language of Europe and the world. European countries which have most (2)  assimilated English into daily life are England’s neighbors in Northern Europe: Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, and the rest of Scandinavia.

The situation is so marked that any visitor to the Netherlands will soon be (3)  of the pressure of English on daily life: television, radio and print bring it into every home and the schoolyard (4) of children; advertisers use it to (5)  up their message, journalists take refuge in it when their home-bred skills fail them.

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A good percentage of the population of India is tribal. The tribals live in the hills and forests of the country and have been little (1) by the cultural currents of the plains. Practically all the states of India have their tribal population. The tribes are numerous, computed to be about 200, some living in (2) regions in dense forests, and others on the borders of villages. Some tribes are (3) to a few souls, while others like the Santhals, run into millions and are steadily increasing in numbers. During the British period some of them were known as ‘criminal tribes’ for they showed (4) respect for the Indian Penal Code.

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Educational planning should aim at meeting the educational needs of the (1) population of all age groups. While the traditional structure of education as a three layer (2) from the primary stage to the university represents the (3), we should not overlook the periphery which is equally important. Under modern conditions workers need to (4) or renew their enthusiasm, or strike out in a new direction or improve their skills as much as any university professor.