Passage Thirteen
There is no month in the whole year, in which nature wears a more beautiful appearance than in the month of August! Spring has many beauties, and May is a fresh and 1 month, but the charms of this time of the year are enhanced by their 2 with the Winter season. August has no such advantage. It comes 3 we remember nothing but clear skies, green fields and sweetsmelling flowers, when the recollection of snow, and 4 , and bleak winds has faded from our minds are completely as they have disappeared from the earth, and 5 what a pleasant time it is! Orchards and cornfields rings with the hum of labour; treeｓ 6 beneath the thick clusters of rich fruit which bow their branches to the ground; and the corn, piled in graceful sheaved, or 7 in every breath that sweeps above it, as if it wooed the sickle, tinged the landscape with a golden hue. A mellow softness appears to 8 over the whole earth; the influence of the season seems to extend itself to the very wagon, 9 slow motion across the wellreaped field, is perceptible only to the eye, but strikes with no harsh sound 10 the ear.
1.［A］ beautiful ［B］ shining ［C］ blooming ［D］ cosy 2.［A］ comparison［B］ contrast［C］ connections［D］ conflicts 3.［A］ if ［B］ when ［C］ as if ［D］ that 4.［A］ water ［B］ storms ［C］ ice ［D］ sun 5.［A］ yet ［B］ still ［C］ already ［D］ however 6.［A］ break ［B］ reflect ［C］ bend ［D］ crash 7.［A］ waving ［B］ dozing ［C］ jerking ［D］ bending 8.［A］ rise ［B］ dangle ［C］ stay ［D］ hang 9.［A］ whose ［B］ that ［C］ and ［D］ for 10.［A］ to ［B］ upon ［C］ into ［D］ for
