There was once a boy who was afraid of darkness. He thought that when it was dark, his 1 was filled with monsters. 2 there came a time when he was too old to be allowed to sleep with the light 3 .
The first night he was awake with 4, his mind was full of monsters. So he went over to his wardrobe to get a flashlight. But when he opened the wardrobe door, he came 5 with a monster. He let out the 6 scream in the world.
The monster took a step 7 , held its colorful hair with its tentacles（触须）and started 8! The monster cried for so long that the boy's fear 9 went down. He calmed the monster down as much as he could and started talking to him, asking him 10 he was crying and what he was doing there. The monster told him he lived in the wardrobe, but almost never went out, because he was afraid of the 11 . When the boy asked him why, the monster told him the boy's face seemed to be 12 thing he'd ever seen. The boy felt exactly the same way about the monster, who had a huge head with many 13 and hair.
14 of them talked so much that they became quite friendly, and they realized that they had been afraid of the same thing—the unknown. 15 their fear, all they had to do was to get to know each other.
