A. humble B. season C. taste D. legendary E. enterprise F. unexplored G. unattractive H. unfounded I. shelter J. adventures K. comforts |
An Excerpt from The Woods Were Tossing with Jewels
In 1899 when I was five years old and living in Palmetto, Florida, my father decided to take his family through the wilds of the Everglades and have a claim on an offshore island. His purpose was to farm this island but behind this was his wish to give us a
His life was a series of
South Florida was
He started building a covered wagon around the fourth of July and we went into the wilderness with him in the fall. We had made our home in Palmetto for a year or so where my mother’s gentle folks, the Harrisons, had settled following the Civil War. Our comfortable two- story frame house on the Manatee River was set about with live oaks, guavas, and long-leafed pine that branched out from the foot of the tree to
one happiness deeply home cold no attention back help named |
Karen was a social worker. Every day, on her way to work, she had to pass a place where many poor people lived. She had not paid much
Karen was
A. lucky B. postpone C. argument D. envelope E. bet F. odd |
The tale was set in London in 1903. The two brothers had been having a heated