Missing Words
What's gray and zooms through the jungle at 10 miles per hour? An elephant on a motor bike! A number of words have been removed from each sentence and listed below the sentence. Use the listed words to fill the blanks in the sentence.
1. A mist ___ fine snowflakes was curling and ________ about the ________ ___ low drab buildings huddled on the gray prairie, under a gray sky.
A. OF B. CLUSTER C. EDDYING D. OF
2. The farm people _____ making _____________ to start ____ _____.
A. WERE B. FOR C. PREPARATIONS D. HOME
3. The dawn in the east looked like the light from some great fire _____ was burning ______ ____ edge of ____ world.
A. THE B. UNDER C. THE D. THAT
4. A golden afterglow throbbed in the west, but the country ________ _______ ______ ____ mournful.
A. LOOKED B. AND C. ALREADY D. EMPTY
5. She was a good mother, but she ____ _____ when her children were old enough not to be ___ her way ___ the kitchen.
A. IN B. GLAD C. IN D. WAS
6. The air was cool enough to make the _____ sun pleasant on one's back and shoulders, and so clear that the ____ could follow a hawk up and up, _____ the blazing blue _______ of the sky.
A. EYE B. INTO C. DEPTHS D. WARM
7. There is even a white ____ of beehives in the orchard, under ____ _______ ______.
A. WALNUT B. ROW C. THE D. TREES
8. The ______ ___ so heavy _____ it bends toward the ______ and cuts like velvet.
A. BLADE B. GRAIN C. IS D. THAT
9. There is something frank and joyous ____ young ___ the open _____ of ____ country.
A. IN B. THE C. FACE D. AND
10. The _______ town behind _____ had vanished as if ___ ____ never been.
A. LITTLE B. HAD C. IT D. THEM