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V. Passage Construction

(A)which take their rise in a glacier
(B)soaring amidst the clouds
(C) as if it had been but a plaything in their hands
(D)reverberated along the mountains, of the accumulated ice I spent the following day roaming through the valley. I stood beside the sourcesof the Arveiron, __32__ , that with slow pace is advancing down from the summitof the hills to barricade the valley. The abrupt sides of vast mountains were beforeme; the icy wall of the glacier overhung me; a few shattered pines were scatteredaround; and the solemn silence of this glorious presence-chamber of imperial Naturewas broken only by the brawling waves or the fall of some vast fragment, the thundersound of the avalanche or the cracking, __33__ , which, through the silentworking of immutable laws, was ever and anon rent and torn, __34__ . Thesesublime and magnificent scenes afforded me the greatest consolation that I wascapable of receiving. They elevated me from all littleness of feeling, and althoughthey did not remove my grief, they subdued and tranquillised it. In some degree, also,they diverted my mind from the thoughts over which it had brooded for the lastmonth. I retired to rest at night; my slumbers, as it were, waited on and ministered toby the assemblance of grand shapes which I had contemplated during the day. Theycongregated round me; the unstained snowy mountain-top, the glittering pinnacle,the pine woods, and ragged bare ravine, the eagle, __35__ —they all gatheredround me and bade me be at peace.
【題組】32.
(A)which take their rise in a glacier
(B)soaring amidst the clouds
(C) as if it had been but a plaything in their hands
(D)reverberated along the mountains, of the accumulated ice

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