The bell (English exercise n°22413 - Please quote this number when contacting us)Other English exercises on the same topicThe bellComplete the sentences.English exercise "" created by bridg (10-06-2007) with The test builderClick here to see the current stats of this English test In the narrow streets of a large town people often heard inonfor the evening when the sun was setting, and his last rays gave a golden tint to the chimney-pots, a strange noise whichwhowhose resembled the sound of a church bell; it only lastedlast an instant, for it was lost in the continual roar of traffic and hum of voices which rose from the town. 'The evening bell is ringing,' people are useduseduses to say; 'the sun is setting!' Those who walked outside the town, where the houses wasiswere less crowded and interspersed by gardens and little fields, saw the evening sky much bettermore bestmuch best , and heard the sound of the bell much more clearly. It seemed as though the sound come fromcame fromcome to a church, deep in the calm, fragrant wood, and hither and thither people looked with devout feelings. A considerable time elapsedelaps : one said at the otherto the otherat the others, 'I really wonder if there is a church out in the wood. The bell has indeed a strange sweet sound! willshalllet we go there and see what the cause of it is?' The rich drove, the poor walked, but the way seemed to them extraordinarily long, and when they arrivedthey will arrivethey arrive at a number of willow trees on the border of the wood they sat down, looked up into the greatgreats branches and thought they were now really in the wood. A confectioner ontofrom the town also came out and put up a stall there; then came another confectioner who hung a bell over hisherthere stall, which was covered with pitch to protect it from the rain, but the clapper was waitingwaittedwaits . When people came home they used to say that it had been very romantic, and whatthat really means something else than merely having tea. Three persons declared that they had gonewentgo as far as the end of the wood; they had always heard the strange sound, but there it seemed for themthemto them as if it came from the town. One of them wrote verses about the bell, and said that it was likeas the voice of a mother speaking to an intelligent and beloved child; no tune, he said, was sweeter thanthat the sound of the bell. End of the learn English: The bell (21.06.2008 22:23)A free English exercise to learn English.
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