1. When I was 12 years old, my family moved to England, the fourth major move in my short life. (1)

2. My father's government job demanded that he go overseas every few years, so I was used to wrenching myself away from friends. (1)

1) In the past men generally preferred that their wives _______ in the home.

A. worked     B. would work

C. work     D. were working

2) Jean Wagner's most enduring contribution to the study of Afro-American poetry is his insistence that it ______ in a religious as well as worldly frame of reference.

A. is to be analyzed

B. had been analyzed

C. be analyzed

D. should have been analyzed

3. Loving nature, however, I was most delighted by the endless patchwork of farms and woodland that surrounded our house. (2)

4. In the deep woods that verged against our back fence, a network of paths led almost everywhere, and pheasants rocketed off into the dense laurels ahead as you walked. (2)

5. Keeping to myself was my way of not forming attachments that I would only have to abandon the next time we moved. (3)

● You can have it for the asking.

● I feel like going shopping today. How about you?

● Our family make a point of going to church every Sunday.

● The old lady had great difficulty getting on the bus.

● The children are having fun playing on the playground.

6. My own breathing rang in my ears, and the slightest stirring of any woodland creature echoed through this private paradise. (4)

7. I proceeded quietly, careful not to alarm a bird that might loudly warn other creatures to hide. (5)

● "They're not?" I asked, fascinated.

● At a quarter to three, he got up and crept downstairs, careful of the creaky boards, and let himself out.

● The cows looked at him, sleepy and surprised.

8. Soon I saw a small brick cottage that glowed pinkly in the westering sun. (18)

9. …and my well of knowledge about natural history began to brim over. (24)

10. Familiarity sometimes makes people physically invisible, for you find yourself talking to the heart—to the essence, as it were, rather than to the face. (26)

11. My mother was regarding me with a strange gentleness. (29)

12. It is a wisdom tutored by nature itself, about the seen and the unseen, about things that change and things that are changeless, and about the fact that no matter how seemingly different two souls may be, they possess the potential for that most precious, rare thing—an enduring and rewarding friendship. (37)