Choose the correct words from the brackets and complete the following passages:
(climbing, blankets, silent, melancholy, mist, conceal)
1. The first day of monsoon ……………..1……………. . And it’s strange how all the birds fall ……………2…………… as the mist comes …………..3………….. up the hill. Perhaps that’s what makes the mist so …………..4………….. ; not only does it …………….5………….. the hills, it ……………6………… them in silence too.
2. tropical, steady, drumming, awake, corrugated, thunder)
All night the rain has been …………….1…………… on the ……………2………….. tin roof. There has been no storm, no ………………3………… , just the ………….4………….. swish of a ……………5…………….. downpour. It helps me to lie ………….6…………… ; at the same time, it doesn’t keep me from sleeping.