Tham khảo tài liệu 'reading_part9', ngoại ngữ, toefl - ielts - toeic phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Unit 19 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek But shadows spread and deepened and stayed. After thousands of years we re still strangers to darkness fearful aliens in an enemy camp with our arms crossed over our chests. I stirred. A land turtle on the bank startled hissed the air from its lungs and withdrew to its shell. An uneasy pink here and unfathomable blue there gave great suggestion of lurking beings. Things were going on. I couldn t see whether that rustle I heard was a distant rattlesnake slit-eyed or a nearby sparrow kicking in the dry flood debris slung at the foot of a willow. Tremendous action roiled the water everywhere I looked big action inexplicable. A tremor welled beside a gaping muskrat buiTOW in the bank and I caught my breath but no muskrat appeared. The ripples continued to fan upstream with a steady powerful thrust. Night was knitting an eyeless mask over my face and I still sat transfixed. A distant airplane a delta wing out of a nightmare made a gliding shadow on the creek s bottom that looked like a stingray cruising upstream. At once a black fin slit the pink cloud on the water shearing it in two. The two halves merged together and seemed to dissolve before my eyes. Darkness pooled in the cleft of the creek and rose as water collects in a well. Untamed dreaming lights flickered over the sky. I saw hints of hulking underwater shadows two pale splashes out of the water and round ripples rolling close together from a blackened center. Try to distinguish between what is actually happening and everything else the writer feels or sees. Write down the phrases or sentences which describe what s going on. The sequence of events starts with A land turtle on the bank . . . withdrew to its shell. . . . Read the second and third parts of the passage again and note down all the animals and other wildlife mentioned. What do you expect to happen next Read on and find out. At last 1 stared upstream where only the deepest violet remained of the cloud a cloud so high .
