1. Every Thursday I would ____, my pockets bulging with match-boxes and ____ full of specimens, to be driven into the town by Spiro. It was an appointment that I would not have missed for anything.2. Theodore would welcome me in his study, a room that ____ with my full ____. 3. Thus Sherlock Holmes ____ Darwin,... 4. At one window of the room stood Theodore’s telescope, its nose to the sky like a howling dog, while the ____ of every window bore a parade of jars and bottles containing ____ (tiny) freshwater fauna, whirling and twitching among the delicate fronds of green weed. 5. Now, I’ll just ____ the microscope… There!… You see? Very curious. 6. To me his knowledge seemed inexhaustible. He was a ____ of information, and I mined him assiduously. No matter what the subject, Theodore could ____ something interesting ____ it. 7. At last I would hear Spiro ____ his horn in the street below, and I would rise ____ to go. 8. The dawns were pale and ____ (not transparent, but clear enough to allow light to pass through) until the sun rose, mist-wrapped, like a gigantic silkworm cocoon, and washed the island with a delicate bloom of gold dust.9. ‘Well, to begin with, he stank of the most frightful perfume,’ said Margo, ‘and that ____ straight away.’ 10. Then in the interval he went out and came back with some of that horrible, sickly Turkish Delight, and ____ we were all covered with white sugar, and I had a dreadful ____. 11. She ____ her bag and produced a minute ____ of violets that looked as though they had been ____ on by an exceptionally hefty horse. 12. ‘But the worst ____ was coming home,’ said Margo. 13. ‘A ____ journey!’ Mother agreed. ‘When we came out of the cinema I thought we were going to get a car, but no, he hustled us into a cab, and a very smelly one at that. Really, I think he must be ____ to try and come all that way in a cab. 14. He insisted on coming up with us, armed with a huge stick, because he said the forests were full of serpents at this time of the year. I was so glad to ____ of him. 15. I’m afraid you’ll just have to choose your boyfriends more carefully in the future, Margo. I can’t ____ that sort of thing again.16. The turtle-dove, one minute so swift and intent in its flight, now fell languidly to earth, followed by a swirl of soft, ____-coloured feathers. 17. The island was ____ (wet) with ____(tiny drops), ____ with early morning sun, full of stirring life. Be happy. How could one be anything else in such a season?

The Durrells (The sweet spring)

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