Birthdays are great (A)________ for children. They (B)________ to breakfast and find lots of presents on the table. They cut the string as (C)________ as they can. They want to know what is inside the parcel. It is so (D)________ that sometimes they almost forget to say “Thank you.” But no one (E)________, because birthdays come only once a year.

On her birthday Margaret got a lovely doll, a mobile phone, a book of stories, (F)________ furniture (G)________ her dolls’ house and an enormous box of chocolates. She forgot all about breakfast as she opened each parcel.

Her brother John didn’t. He wanted his breakfast. “If I don’t get breakfast soon, I shan’t be alive to your party tonight,” he said. But I don’t think John was really as bad-tempered as he pretended to be.