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1. 1.

   Complete the summary of the poem given below by filling in the blanks. Choose words from the box:

   There was once a _____1_____ running through a  _____2_____. This was closed  _____3_____ years ago. Trees were _____4_____  in this place. The path now lies beneath thick forest  _____5_____. The  _____6_____ and  _____7_____ have further hidden this path. It is only the  _____8_____ of the forest, who knows where the path lay.

   If an observer enters this forest, on a  _____9_____ evening, the cool  _____10_____ air cools the place where the  _____11_____ live. The otter would wander about not  _____12_____ the observer. He will hear the  _____13_____ of a horse and the  _____14_____ of a lady's skirt. The atmosphere would be  _____15_____. It would appear as if a  _____16_____ did exist, though there is none now.

   path	seventy	swish	summer	forest	cover
   keeper	fearing	night	planted	coppice	galloping
   trouts	misty	road	anemones

    

2. 2.

   Who does 'they' refer to in the first line?

3. 3.

   What had happened to the road?
4. 4.

   Why do the creatures of the woods not fear men?
5. 5.

   What is it that enables the animals residing in the woods to know where the road exists?
6. 6.

   Write down some activities that take place in the woods.