Focus 4 Unit 6

Read the text. Choose the correct answer.

This novel is the story of two women whose lives change dramatically over the course of one summer. It doesn’t have a(n) 1___ plot like some of Kingsolver’s other books, but neither is it too slow or 2___ , with one or two surprising twists along the way. First and foremost, it’s about the characters. Both women have 3___ opinions about how they want to live their lives and both 4___ believe in the importance of respecting the natural world. It’s set in the 5___ USA, in the small farming community of Egg Fork in the Zebulon Mountains, a 6___ place, but typical of the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina, and the landscape and its wildlife are ever-present in the 7___ . The women’s stories are also linked up with a third character, an elderly local farmer who is 8___ for a past way of life and who initially seems angry and bitter, but who turns out to be surprisingly 9___ .

This novel is the story of two women whose lives change dramatically over the course of one summer. It doesn’t have a(n) 1___ plot like some of Kingsolver’s other books, but neither is it too slow or 2___ , with one or two surprising twists along the way. First and foremost, it’s about the characters. Both women have 3___ opinions about how they want to live their lives and both 4___ believe in the importance of respecting the natural world. It’s set in the 5___ USA, in the small farming community of Egg Fork in the Zebulon Mountains, a 6___ place, but typical of the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina, and the landscape and its wildlife are ever-present in the 7___ . The women’s stories are also linked up with a third character, an elderly local farmer who is 8___ for a past way of life and who initially seems angry and bitter, but who turns out to be surprisingly 9___ .

This novel is the story of two women whose lives change dramatically over the course of one summer. It doesn’t have a(n) 1___ plot like some of Kingsolver’s other books, but neither is it too slow or 2___ , with one or two surprising twists along the way. First and foremost, it’s about the characters. Both women have 3___ opinions about how they want to live their lives and both 4___ believe in the importance of respecting the natural world. It’s set in the 5___ USA, in the small farming community of Egg Fork in the Zebulon Mountains, a 6___ place, but typical of the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina, and the landscape and its wildlife are ever-present in the 7___ . The women’s stories are also linked up with a third character, an elderly local farmer who is 8___ for a past way of life and who initially seems angry and bitter, but who turns out to be surprisingly 9___ .

This novel is the story of two women whose lives change dramatically over the course of one summer. It doesn’t have a(n) 1___ plot like some of Kingsolver’s other books, but neither is it too slow or 2___ , with one or two surprising twists along the way. First and foremost, it’s about the characters. Both women have 3___ opinions about how they want to live their lives and both 4___ believe in the importance of respecting the natural world. It’s set in the 5___ USA, in the small farming community of Egg Fork in the Zebulon Mountains, a 6___ place, but typical of the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina, and the landscape and its wildlife are ever-present in the 7___ . The women’s stories are also linked up with a third character, an elderly local farmer who is 8___ for a past way of life and who initially seems angry and bitter, but who turns out to be surprisingly 9___ .

This novel is the story of two women whose lives change dramatically over the course of one summer. It doesn’t have a(n) 1___ plot like some of Kingsolver’s other books, but neither is it too slow or 2___ , with one or two surprising twists along the way. First and foremost, it’s about the characters. Both women have 3___ opinions about how they want to live their lives and both 4___ believe in the importance of respecting the natural world. It’s set in the 5___ USA, in the small farming community of Egg Fork in the Zebulon Mountains, a 6___ place, but typical of the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina, and the landscape and its wildlife are ever-present in the 7___ . The women’s stories are also linked up with a third character, an elderly local farmer who is 8___ for a past way of life and who initially seems angry and bitter, but who turns out to be surprisingly 9___ .

This novel is the story of two women whose lives change dramatically over the course of one summer. It doesn’t have a(n) 1___ plot like some of Kingsolver’s other books, but neither is it too slow or 2___ , with one or two surprising twists along the way. First and foremost, it’s about the characters. Both women have 3___ opinions about how they want to live their lives and both 4___ believe in the importance of respecting the natural world. It’s set in the 5___ USA, in the small farming community of Egg Fork in the Zebulon Mountains, a 6___ place, but typical of the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina, and the landscape and its wildlife are ever-present in the 7___ . The women’s stories are also linked up with a third character, an elderly local farmer who is 8___ for a past way of life and who initially seems angry and bitter, but who turns out to be surprisingly 9___ .

This novel is the story of two women whose lives change dramatically over the course of one summer. It doesn’t have a(n) 1___ plot like some of Kingsolver’s other books, but neither is it too slow or 2___ , with one or two surprising twists along the way. First and foremost, it’s about the characters. Both women have 3___ opinions about how they want to live their lives and both 4___ believe in the importance of respecting the natural world. It’s set in the 5___ USA, in the small farming community of Egg Fork in the Zebulon Mountains, a 6___ place, but typical of the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina, and the landscape and its wildlife are ever-present in the 7___ . The women’s stories are also linked up with a third character, an elderly local farmer who is 8___ for a past way of life and who initially seems angry and bitter, but who turns out to be surprisingly 9___ .

This novel is the story of two women whose lives change dramatically over the course of one summer. It doesn’t have a(n) 1___ plot like some of Kingsolver’s other books, but neither is it too slow or 2___ , with one or two surprising twists along the way. First and foremost, it’s about the characters. Both women have 3___ opinions about how they want to live their lives and both 4___ believe in the importance of respecting the natural world. It’s set in the 5___ USA, in the small farming community of Egg Fork in the Zebulon Mountains, a 6___ place, but typical of the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina, and the landscape and its wildlife are ever-present in the 7___ . The women’s stories are also linked up with a third character, an elderly local farmer who is 8___ for a past way of life and who initially seems angry and bitter, but who turns out to be surprisingly 9___ .

This novel is the story of two women whose lives change dramatically over the course of one summer. It doesn’t have a(n) 1___ plot like some of Kingsolver’s other books, but neither is it too slow or 2___ , with one or two surprising twists along the way. First and foremost, it’s about the characters. Both women have 3___ opinions about how they want to live their lives and both 4___ believe in the importance of respecting the natural world. It’s set in the 5___ USA, in the small farming community of Egg Fork in the Zebulon Mountains, a 6___ place, but typical of the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina, and the landscape and its wildlife are ever-present in the 7___ . The women’s stories are also linked up with a third character, an elderly local farmer who is 8___ for a past way of life and who initially seems angry and bitter, but who turns out to be surprisingly 9___ .