Directions: Fill in the blanks in this article about summer rapidly coming to an end, "Under Cover of Darkness, a New Season Slips In."
Use your own words and phrases, or scroll to the end of the post to choose from a scrambled list of the words or phrases that were removed. Another option? Read, or listen to someone read, the original article first, then fill in the blanks from memory.
Autumn begins in the night.
Now the days, often as not, are still summery, if more ______ so. The midday sun is not perceptibly lower in the sky.
But the sun has, _______, gotten faster. And with night settling in at dinner time and burrowing _______, it is in the hours of darkness that summer literally runs out of time.
In the cocoon of the home, in the _______ silence lately filled by the air-conditioner, the air flowing in feels, smells, tastes different — not just because it is cooler, but also because it is _______ air, hailing from a different part of the planet. Sultry summer nights are made of stiflingly hot air from Southwestern deserts simmered with emanations from the Gulf of Mexico into a thick gumbo. But now the jet stream, the ever-flowing border zone between hot and cold air masses, is _______ its tentative, give-and-take pilgrimage southward, and on cool nights, the air is fresh from the pine forests of Canada.
That feeling you feel, said Mark Wysocki, the state climatologist in the New York State Climate Office, "is the jet stream trying to go ______ for the winter."
No one ever seems _______ prepared for the change. In the evening, on the boulevards, sartorial confusion _______.
On Sunday night, with the ________ falling through the 60s, you could watch the season turn before your eyes: a young woman walking up Fifth Avenue pulled a ________ striped sweater over her white tank top. Along Central Park, couples wearing T-shirts rode by in horse-drawn carriages with red blankets ________ over their laps.
In Chelsea, a retired matzo baker and his wife, a retired money-printing-press inspector, left their apartment _______ dinner to go for a walk. She wore a short-sleeved blouse with lacy décolletage, he a short-sleeve button-down. They _______ turned around, went home and re-emerged, she in a denim _______, he in a windbreaker zipped to his throat. At 10 p.m. they sat on a bench on the High Line _______ down at the chilly-looking couples at the sidewalk tables in a restaurant called Sea.
… The ______ world appears caught between calendar and mercury as well.
Though most of the trees are still full green, dry brown leaves manage to _______ in the gutters. On the sidewalks, acorns have been crunching _______ for weeks now. At first, they seemed like just more summer trash. Now they bring to mind squirrels stocking the larder for ______.
- draped
- making
- underfoot
- bearably
- quite
- long-sleeved
- home
- jacket
- deeper
- natural
- after
- different
- immediately
- somehow
- winter
- reigns
- temperature
- unaccustomed
- accumulate
- gazing
For answers, go to the original article.
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By SHANNON DOYNE 17 Sep, 2012
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Source: http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/17/fill-in-autumn-slips-in-under-cover-of-darkness/?partner=rss&emc=rss
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