RNE. GRAMMAR AND LEXICS. TASK 3

They knew where we were going, and when we should have been back. Dan hurt his right foot badly. So we had to 6. ______ the night in the cave.

The park rangers had 5._______ us to stay there if anything happened.

We could not have been more different, but we got on because we shared the same 3. ______ of humor.

When the rangers came the next morning, we didn’t want to 10. ______ . ‘Can’t we just tell a few more stories?’ In the cave, that night, I became a storyteller.

To 8. ______ the time, we told stories. That night in the cave we moved from one family story to another.

In my early 20s, after a year and a half in England, and four months in France, I returned to the United States and got a job at a camp in northern Virginia. My 1.______ that summer was Dan from Mississippi, and I am from Rhode Island.

We worked together with a group of boys from 12 to 14 years old. I've always been a bit untidy, but Dan was 2. ______ and clean, even after a night in the woods with our campers.

At the end of the summer, a few of us went to 4. ______ a cave in West Virginia and got stuck in the cave for the night. It wasn’t as dramatic as it sounds.

As the night wore on, I 9.__________ more and more. I was not alone—the cave, the blue light and the flowing water released stories and memories that we had never revealed to anyone. It was as if a river of stories had started flowing in each of us.

Food and water were not a problem, but we turned 7.________ our lights to save power. In the distance, we could hear the sound of running water.