Exercise 38. Follow the direction for Exercise 37.

1. He had not been here five minutes when ____ vivid flash of lightning was followed by ____ loud peal of thunder, that crashed and rolled away in____ distance with terrific noise; then came another flash of lightning. brighter than ____ other, and ____ second peal of thunder, louder than ____ first. (Dickens) 2. Sedov died on his way to ____ North Pole. Most of ____ members of his expedition died too. ____ Soviet Government built ____ Arctic station at ____ place where Sedov died, and from that station another expedition, this time ____ Soviet expedition, went to ____ North and set ____ Soviet flag over ____ North Pole. 3. Glinka was born in 1804. His uncle had ____ orchestra of his own. Very often ____ boy would take up ____ violon and try to repeat ____ notes and rhythm of ____ music he had heard. In 1818 ____ Glinkas went to St. Petersburg, where Mikhail was placed in ____ boarding school at ____ St. Petersburg Central Pedagogical Institute. In 1830 Glinka went to Italy, where he stayed for ____ number of years. However, it was St. Petersburg that was ____ Glinka's home for ____ greater part of his life. ____ St. Petersburg of Pushkin played ____ great part in ____ Glinka's life. ____ man and ____ human soul are expressed in ____ Glinka's music with ____ deep sincerity and understanding. (Soviet Literature) 4. She [Lillian] was slightly taller than he... and shapely, artistic in ____ form and ____ feature. Her hair was ____ colour of _____ dried English walnut and her complexion waxen, with ____ lips of faint pink and eyes that varied from gray to blue and from gray to brown according to ____ light in which you saw them. Her beauty measured up to his present sense of ____ artistic. (Dreiser) 5. There were ____ number of young women who were very friendly to her, but there were ____ few with whom she was really intimate. ____only person who stood out in her mind was _____ certain Mary Calligan... who had attended ____ school with Aileen in former years and was now ____ teacher in one of ____ local schools. (Dreiser) 6. Dick Stroeve, giving up his work entirely, nursed Strickland with ____ tenderness and ____ sympathy. He was dexterous to make him comfortable, and he exercised ____ cunning of which I should never have thought him capable to induce him to take _____ medicine prescribed by ____ doctor. I shall never forget _____ tactful patience with which he persuaded him to take ____ nourishment. (Maugham) 7. _____ reddish, fitful light was coming from _____ window above. Great God! His picture gallery! He ran to ____ foot of ____ stairs that led up to it. _____ stealthy sound, ____ scent of burn­ing much more emphatic, staggered him. He hurried up ____ stairs and pulled open ____ door. Heavens! ____ far end of ____ gallery, at ____ extreme left corner of ____ house, Was on fire. (Galsworthy) 8. Rosa knocked several times without getting any answer and had stepped back on to ____ pavement to look up at ____ closely curtained windows when ____ door opened very quietly to ____ gap of ____ few inches and _____ pale face peered out. Rosa sprang forwards with such ____ alacrity that _____ owner of ____ face immediately shut _____ door again, and Rosa could hear ____ chain being fixed. With this additional safeguard _____ door opened once more to _____ narrow slit and Rosa could see one pale blue eye looking out at her. (Murdoch) 9. But though so bad ____ painter he had ____ very delicate feeling for _____ art, and to go with him to _____ picture galleries was _____ rare treat. I think I have never known _____ man whose judgement was surer. And he was better educated than ____ most painters. He was not ignorant of ____ kindred arts, and his taste for ____ music and ____ literature gave ____ depth and variety to his comprehension of ____ painting. To ____ young man like myself his advice and guidance was of ____ incomparable value. (Maugham) 10. ____ Volterras had ____ six-room apartment with ____ hall which was like ____ cord holding all ____ small rooms together. ____ kitchen was nearest to ____ front door, then came three bedrooms, and ____ bath, ____ dining room, and, at ____ far end, ____ living room. Despite ____ smallness of ____ rooms, they had ____ neat cosy quality that gave Erik ____ comfortable feeling. (Wilson) 11. Mrs. Pryor looked round her, and spoke of ____ neighbourhood as she had once before seen it long ago. She... compared its aspect with that of other parts of England: revealing in quiet, unconscious touches of description ____ sense of ____ picturesque, ____ appreciation of ____ beautiful or ____ commonplace, ____ power of comparing ____ wild with ____ cultured... that gave to her discourse ____ graphic charm as pleasant as it was unpretending. (Ch. Bronte) 12. They found themselves in ____ matted hall, lined almost to ____ ceiling with ____ pictures; through this they were conducted to ____ large parlour, with ____ magnificent fire in ____ grate; ____ most cheerful of rooms it appeared as ____ whole, and when you came to examine details, ____ enlivening effect was not diminished. There was no splendour, but there was ____ taste everywhere, ____ taste, you would have said, of ____ travelled man, ____ scholar, and ____ gentleman. ____ series of Italian views decked ____ walls; each of them was ____ specimen of ____ true art; ____ connoisseur had selected them. (Ch. Bronte) 13. Mrs. Dubedut is _____ arrestingly good-looking young woman. She has some­ thing of ____ grace and romance of ____ wild creature, with ____ good deal of ____ elegance and dignity of ____ fine lady. She has ____ figureon which any dress would look well, and carries herself with ____ unaffected distinction of ____ woman whq has never in her life suf­fered from those doubts and fears as to her social position which spoil ____ manners of ____ most middling people. (Shaw) 14. "I know," said Darnay, "that between you and Miss Manette there is ____ affection so unusual, so touching, so belonging to ____ circumstances in which it has been nurtured, that it. can have ____ few parallels, even in ____ tenderness between ____ father and ____ child." (Dickens) 15. It is hard that ____ man's exterior should tally so little sometimes with his soul. Dirk Stroeve had ____ passion of Romeo in ____ body of Sir Toby Belch. He had ____ sweet and generous nature, and yet was always blundering; ____ real feeling for what was beautiful and ____ capacity to create only what was commonplace; ____ peculiar delicacy of sentiment and ____ gross manners. He could exercise ____ tact when dealing with ____ affairs of others, but none when dealing with his own. What ____ cruel practical joke ____ old Nature played when she flung so many contradictory elements together, and left ____ man ____ face to ____ face with ____ perplexing callousness of ____ Universe. (Maugham) 16. Charmian, who had taken ____ great fancy to Ellen, spoke of her warmly. At last, she felt, here was ____ suitable wife for me; and she did her best to jockey me into ____ marriage. ____ experience of worrying about my future was ____ soothing one to her, taking her mind off her own troubles. (Hansford Johnson)