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1.I wonder if it’s because I haven’t been able to be outdoors for so long that I’ve ____________everything to do with nature. I can well remember that _____________________ a deep blue sky, the song of the birds, moonlight and flowers could never have kept me spellbound.

2.I stayed awake __________ until half past eleven ____________ have a good look at the moon by myself.

3.The dark, rainy evening, the wind, the thundering clouds held me ______ in their power; it was the first time in a year and a half that I had seen the night _______________.

4.These new settlers enriched the English language and especially its vocabulary. So by the 1600’s Shakespeare was able to _______________ a wider vocabulary than ever before.

5.At that time, two big changes in English spelling happened: first Samuel Johnson wrote his dictionary and later Noah Webster wrote The American Dictionary of English Language. The latter ___________________________ to American English spelling.