A walk in the

woods
Bill Bryson is a famous American author. He has written books about life
in the UK, the USA and Australia. This ______________is from A Walk in
the Woods and describes Bill’s adventures with his friend Stephen
Katz when they hiked along the Appalachian ____________.
The trail is 3,540 km long and stretches along the east coast of the
USA, passing through some of the most beautiful ______________in the
country.

During their ____________________, they had lots of experiences,

including ___________with wild animals and poisonous plants. In this
extract, Bill describes what happened when he heard strange noises
outside his tent one night.
It was perfect sleeping weather, __________enough to need a bag, but
warm enough to sleep in your______________, and I was looking
forward to having a long night’s rest, which is what I was doing
when, at some point during the night, I heard a sound
_____________that made my eyes fly open. Normally, I slept through
everything – through____________, and through
Katz’s___________, so something big enough to wake me was
unusual. There was a sound of ______________________being disturbed
– a click of breaking branches, a weighty pushing through low foliage
– and then a kind of large, vaguely irritable ___________noise.
Bear!

I sat bolt_____________. Instantly, every neuron in my brain was

awake and dashing around________________, like ants when you
disturb their nest. I reach instinctively for my knife, then realized I
had left it in my pack, just outside the tent.

I couldn’t find any replacement_____________, so I flung the

_____________aside and put my miner’s lamp on my head, made sure
it worked, then switched it off. Then I sat for ages on
my_______________, facing the front of the tent, listening keenly,
gripping my walking stick like a____________, ready to beat back an
attack, and with my knife open and at hand as a last line
of____________. The bears – animals, whatever they were – drank
for perhaps twenty minutes more, then quietly departed the way
they had come. It was a ________________moment – but I knew from
my reading that they would be likely to return. I listened and
listened, but the forest returned to silence and stayed there.

knees upright snoring hike thunderstorms joyous

frantically underwear batteries landscapes

extract incidents Trail nearby club cool defence

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