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Name:_________________________ Date:_______________
Read the passage and fill in the blanks with the given words.
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Muscles
Our human body has over six hundred ___________. These
muscles help us to move. Muscles in our ___________ help us to
wink, smile and make ____________ faces.
Our leg muscles help us to run and ____________. To carry
and _____________ things, we use the muscles in our arms. Our
____________ muscles help to hold up our head.
Muscles are ______________ to bones by strong and tough
cords ___________ as tendons. The tendon in our ankle is called
the Archilles' tendon, it joins our calf muscles to our __________.
Not all muscles are joined to bones. Our _______________
muscles help us to digest food by ___________ and mashing the
food. When we breathe, our ____________ muscles move air in
and out of our ____________. Our heart has very ___________
muscles, working all day and all night, pumping _____________
to all parts of our body.