I. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate preposition or adverb.
1. There was no real need for a calendar or a watch to keep track ____of___ the hours, days, months, and years.
2. The seasons rolled _____by___ and we sowed seed and harvested and ate and played and married our cousins and had babies.
3. A big snow caused the roof on the mayor’s house to cave ___in_____.
4. The story was incorporated ____into____ Magdaluna’s calendar.
5. Sometimes the arguments escalated _into_______ full-blown, knockdown-dragout fights.
6. Finally the teacher talked Li Yuan ___into_____ taking part in the English Speaking Contest.
7. When the truck came ___into_____ view, everybody dropped what they were doing and ran to Abu Raja’s house…
8. Some of the rich villagers walked right into the store and stood ____by____ the elbows of the two important-looking men.
9. “Where is the new mayor?” a third voice chimed ____in____.
10. The women complained __to_____ one another __about______their men’s unfaithfulness.
11. They attended ____to____ their endless chores.
12. ____on____ a good day, I ran nice to ten of those errands.
13. In the evenings, the laughter and noise of the men trailed ____off____ and finally stopped.
14. Im Kaleem was also a kind of confessor and troubleshooter, talking sense ___of_____ those men who were having family problems, especially the younger ones.
15. They delivered the hostages ___to_____ the terrorists.
II. Word formation.
1. I was growing up in Magdaluna, a small _____lebanese_____ village in the terraced, rocky mountains east of Sidon. (Lebanon)
2. He overworked and I detected a faint note of ______weariness____in his voice. (weary)
3. I am embarrassed by my complete _____ignorance_____ of history... (ignore)
4. Abu Raja grabbed the receiver and turned the crank __forcefully_______. (force)
5. Fish and oranges fall from the sky, which is ___increditable_______ in my eyes. (credit)
6. That little clearing was always packed full of noisy kids with big brown eyes and ____sticky______ hands,…(stick)
7. Jack is the owner of a hotel with a ___homey_______ atmosphere. (home)
8. I am catching evidence for the man’s __unfaithfulness________ to his wife. (faithful)
9. The Bible describes the ____creation______ of the world as a divine act. (create)
10. After the death of his father, his family led a wretched ____existence______. (exist)
