There was once a town in the heart of America _____31_____ all life
seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings. The town lay in the
_____32_____ of a checkerboard of prosperous farms, with fields of grain
and hillsides of orchards where, in spring, white clouds of bloom
_____33_____ above the green fields. In autumn, oak and maple and birch
set up a blaze of color that flamed and flickered across a backdrop of
pines. Then foxes _____34_____ in the hills and deer silently crossed the
fields, half _____35_____ in the mists of the fall mornings.
【題組】 32. (A) midst (B) central (C) riding (D) bedding