Holidays out of City - Lesson 223
Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase. Nobody likes staying at home ___(1)___ a public holiday - especially if the weather is ___(2)___. Last August we decided to ___(3)___ the day in the country. The only difficulty was that millions of other people had just the ___(4)___ idea. We moved ___(5)___ the city ___(6)___ behind a long line of cars. But at last, we came to a ___(7)___ country road, after ___(8)___ , stopped at a farm far from the town. We had brought ___(9)___ food with us and we ___(10)___ it out of the car. Now everything was ___(11)___ , so we sat down near a path at the foot of a hill. It was very quiet in the cool grass … until we ___(12)___ bells ringing at the top of the hill. What we saw made us pick up our things and ran back to the car as quickly as we could. There were about two hundred sheep coming towards us down the path.
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