Fill in the missing word
Fill in the missing word
Read the following passage,then choose appropriate words from the word box and write them in the following passage
Evening and sunrise in London
Then the crowd for ever passing and (Q1) on the bridges where many stop on fine evenings looking (Q2) down upon the water with some vague idea that by and by in runs between green banks which grow wider and wider until at last it joins the broad vast sea- where some halt to rest from heavy loads and think as they look over the (Q3) that to smoke and lounge away one's life,and lie sleeping in the sun upon a hot (Q4),in a dull slow sluggish barge must be happiness (Q5) and where some,and a very different class,pause with heavier loads than they,remembering to have heard or read in some old time that drowning was not a hard death,but of all means of (Q6) the easiest and best.
Convent Garden Market at sunrise too,in the spring or summer,when the fragrance of sweet flowers is in the air overpowering even the unwholesome streams of last night's (Q7),and driving the dusky thrush,whose cage has hung outside a garret window all night long half mad with joy.Poor bird.The only neighbouring thing at all (Q8) to the other little captives,some of whom,shrinkign from the hot hands of drunken purchasers,lie (Q9) on the path already,while others,soddened by close contact,await the time when they shall be watered and freshened up to please more (Q10) company.
word box
A.debauchery B.drooping c.suicide D.listlessly E.parapet F.repassing G.tarpaulin H.unalloyed I.akin J.sober
Q1) F - repassingQ2) D - listlesslyQ3) E - parapetQ4) G - tarpaulinQ5) H - unalloyedQ6) C - suicideQ7) A - debaucheryQ8) I - akinQ9) B - droopingQ10) J - sober