Exercise 1
adaptability, qualms, leprosy, adverse, shrine, ritual, dips, resiliene, curries, ritual, lumbering

When I had a house in Sri Lanka, my parents came out one winter to see me. Originally I had felt some [?] about encouraging their visit. Any one of several things--the constant heat, the unaccustomed food and drinking water, even the presence of a [?] clinic a quarter of a mile from the house might easily have an [?] effect on them in one way or another. But I had underestimated their [?]; they made a greater show of [?] than I had thought possible, and seemed entirely content with everything. They claimed not to mind the lack of running water in the bathrooms, and regularly praised the [?] prepared by Appuhamy, the resident cook. Both of them being in their seventies, they were not tempted by the more distant or inaccessible points of interest. It was enough for them to stay around the house reading, sleeping, taking twilight [?] in the ocean, and going on short trips along the coast by hired car. If the driver stopped unexpectedly at a [?] to sacrifice a coconut, they were delighted, and if they came upon a group of elephants [?] along the road, the car had to be parked some distance up ahead, so that they could watch them approach and file past. They had no interest in taking photographs, and this spared me what is perhaps the most taxing [?] of cicerone: the repeated waits while the [?] between man and machine is observed. They were ideal guests.

Exercise 2

rippling, fiercely, undulating, clumps, swinging, dazzling, wheat, cows, burning, clover, cattle, cask, cud, slope

The noon sun poured down upon the fields. They stretched in [?] folds between the clumps of trees that marked each [?]; the different crops, ripe rye and yellowing [?], pale-green oats, dark-green clover, spread a vast striped cloak, soft and rippling, over the naked body of the earth.In the distance, on the crest of a slope, was an endless line of [?], ranked like soldiers, some lying down, others standing, their large eyes blinking in the [?] light, chewing the [?] and grazing on a field of [?] as broad as a lake.Two women, mother and daughter, were walking with a [?] step, one behind the other, towards this regiment of [?]. Each carried two zinc pails, slung outwards from the body on a hoop from a cask; at each step the metal sent out a [?] white flash under the sun that struck full upon it.