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※(56)の解答①(can I get to)②(not noticed it before)③(surface)④(place I left them)⑤(figure)⑥(full force of his)⑦(direction)⑧(bumped)⑨(that I was nearer)⑩(them were perched upon)⑪(shaving his face by)⑫(which he drew from)⑬(cheered)⑭(put it away for) ⑮(things which no other)⑯(what Miranda meant when)⑰(comfort)⑱(disturbed)⑲(for getting me so)⑳(orders)
(57)
How much he had lost in the ①(besides / razor / wreck / his) I did not know—everything, most likely, together with all the money he had saved up to buy the ship with. And still he was smiling as though he wanted for nothing in the world. The only things he had saved, as far as I could see—beyond the barrel of water and bag of biscuit—were his ②*(vacant : precious : vague : immediate) note-books. These, I saw when he stood up, he had strapped around his waist with yards and yards of twine. He was, as old Matthew Mugg used to say, a great man. He was unbelievable.
And now for three days we continued our journey slowly but steadily—southward.
The only inconvenience we ③*(suffered : avoided : owned : searched) from was the cold. This seemed to increase as we went forward. The Doctor said that the island, disturbed from ④(by / its / paths / usual) the great gale, had evidently drifted further South than it had ever been before.
On the third night poor Miranda came back to us nearly frozen. She told the Doctor that in the morning we would find the island ⑤(close / quite / us / to), though we couldn't see it now as it was a misty dark night. She said that she must hurry back at once to a warmer climate; and that she would visit the Doctor in Puddleby next August as usual.
"Don't forget, Miranda," said John Dolittle, "if you should hear anything of what happened to Long Arrow, to get word to me."
The Bird-of-Paradise ⑥*(resolved : begged : rushed : assured) him she would. And after the Doctor had thanked her again and again for all that she had done for us, she wished us good luck and disappeared into the night.
We were all awake early in the morning, long before it was light, waiting for our first ⑦*(greed : defect : glimpse : opponent) of the country we had come so far to see. And as the rising sun turned the eastern sky to gray, of course it was old Polynesia who first shouted that she could see palm-trees and mountain tops.
With the ⑧(became / growing / it / light) plain to all of us: a long island with high rocky mountains in the middle—and so near to us that you could almost throw your hat upon the shore.
The porpoises gave us one last push and our strange-looking craft bumped gently on a low beach. Then, thanking our lucky stars for a ⑨(to / our / chance / stretch) cramped legs, we all bundled off on to the land—the first land, even though it was floating land, that we had trodden for six weeks. What a thrill I felt as I ⑩*(encountered : realized : exposed : uttered) that Spidermonkey Island, the little spot in the atlas which my pencil had touched, lay at last beneath my feet!
When the light increased still further we noticed that the palms and grasses of the island seemed ⑪**(esteemed : withered : enriched : retained) and almost dead. The Doctor said that it must ⑫(of / account / on / be) the cold that the island was now suffering from in its new climate. These trees and grasses, he told us, were the kind that belonged to warm, tropical weather.
The porpoises asked if we wanted them any further. And the Doctor said that he didn't think so, not for the present—nor the raft either, he added; for it was already beginning to fall to pieces and could not ⑬*(attract : float : participate : conceal) much longer.
As we were preparing to go inland and ⑭*(advertise : explore : conclude : recommend) the island, we suddenly noticed a whole band of Red Indians watching us with great curiosity from among the trees. The Doctor went forward to talk to them. But he could not make them understand. He tried ⑮(to / by / show / signs) them that he had come on a friendly visit. The Indians didn't seem to like us however. They had bows and arrows and long hunting spears, with stone points, in their hands; and they made signs back to the Doctor ⑯(tell / to / that / him) if he came a step nearer they would kill us all. They evidently wanted us to leave the island at once. It was a very uncomfortable ⑰*(negotiation : lecture : revolution)situation.
At last the Doctor made them understand that he only wanted to see the island all over and that then he would go away—though how he meant to do it, with no boat to ⑱*(trust : sail : pack : save) in, was more than I could imagine.
While they were talking among themselves another Indian arrived—apparently with a message ⑲(were / that / wanted / they) in some other part of the island. Because presently, shaking their spears threateningly at us, ⑳(off / they / with / went) the newcomer.
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※(56)の解答①(can I get to)②(not noticed it before)③(surface)④(place I left them)⑤(figure)⑥(full force of his)⑦(direction)⑧(bumped)⑨(that I was nearer)⑩(them were perched upon)⑪(shaving his face by)⑫(which he drew from)⑬(cheered)⑭(put it away for) ⑮(things which no other)⑯(what Miranda meant when)⑰(comfort)⑱(disturbed)⑲(for getting me so)⑳(orders)
(57)
How much he had lost in the ①(besides / razor / wreck / his) I did not know—everything, most likely, together with all the money he had saved up to buy the ship with. And still he was smiling as though he wanted for nothing in the world. The only things he had saved, as far as I could see—beyond the barrel of water and bag of biscuit—were his ②*(vacant : precious : vague : immediate) note-books. These, I saw when he stood up, he had strapped around his waist with yards and yards of twine. He was, as old Matthew Mugg used to say, a great man. He was unbelievable.
And now for three days we continued our journey slowly but steadily—southward.
The only inconvenience we ③*(suffered : avoided : owned : searched) from was the cold. This seemed to increase as we went forward. The Doctor said that the island, disturbed from ④(by / its / paths / usual) the great gale, had evidently drifted further South than it had ever been before.
On the third night poor Miranda came back to us nearly frozen. She told the Doctor that in the morning we would find the island ⑤(close / quite / us / to), though we couldn't see it now as it was a misty dark night. She said that she must hurry back at once to a warmer climate; and that she would visit the Doctor in Puddleby next August as usual.
"Don't forget, Miranda," said John Dolittle, "if you should hear anything of what happened to Long Arrow, to get word to me."
The Bird-of-Paradise ⑥*(resolved : begged : rushed : assured) him she would. And after the Doctor had thanked her again and again for all that she had done for us, she wished us good luck and disappeared into the night.
We were all awake early in the morning, long before it was light, waiting for our first ⑦*(greed : defect : glimpse : opponent) of the country we had come so far to see. And as the rising sun turned the eastern sky to gray, of course it was old Polynesia who first shouted that she could see palm-trees and mountain tops.
With the ⑧(became / growing / it / light) plain to all of us: a long island with high rocky mountains in the middle—and so near to us that you could almost throw your hat upon the shore.
The porpoises gave us one last push and our strange-looking craft bumped gently on a low beach. Then, thanking our lucky stars for a ⑨(to / our / chance / stretch) cramped legs, we all bundled off on to the land—the first land, even though it was floating land, that we had trodden for six weeks. What a thrill I felt as I ⑩*(encountered : realized : exposed : uttered) that Spidermonkey Island, the little spot in the atlas which my pencil had touched, lay at last beneath my feet!
When the light increased still further we noticed that the palms and grasses of the island seemed ⑪**(esteemed : withered : enriched : retained) and almost dead. The Doctor said that it must ⑫(of / account / on / be) the cold that the island was now suffering from in its new climate. These trees and grasses, he told us, were the kind that belonged to warm, tropical weather.
The porpoises asked if we wanted them any further. And the Doctor said that he didn't think so, not for the present—nor the raft either, he added; for it was already beginning to fall to pieces and could not ⑬*(attract : float : participate : conceal) much longer.
As we were preparing to go inland and ⑭*(advertise : explore : conclude : recommend) the island, we suddenly noticed a whole band of Red Indians watching us with great curiosity from among the trees. The Doctor went forward to talk to them. But he could not make them understand. He tried ⑮(to / by / show / signs) them that he had come on a friendly visit. The Indians didn't seem to like us however. They had bows and arrows and long hunting spears, with stone points, in their hands; and they made signs back to the Doctor ⑯(tell / to / that / him) if he came a step nearer they would kill us all. They evidently wanted us to leave the island at once. It was a very uncomfortable ⑰*(negotiation : lecture : revolution)situation.
At last the Doctor made them understand that he only wanted to see the island all over and that then he would go away—though how he meant to do it, with no boat to ⑱*(trust : sail : pack : save) in, was more than I could imagine.
While they were talking among themselves another Indian arrived—apparently with a message ⑲(were / that / wanted / they) in some other part of the island. Because presently, shaking their spears threateningly at us, ⑳(off / they / with / went) the newcomer.
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