UNIT - 9 : The Great Stone Face – I English - UNIT - 9 : The Great Stone Face – I

They did not know that the Great Stone Face had become a teacher to him.

They saw nothing remarkable in his way of life. 

The boy was still gazing up the valley 

most never forgot the story that his mother told him. 

others took it to be nothing but idle talk. 

And, what greatly _____________________ (puzzle) Ernest, they seemed actually to believe that here was the likeness which they _____________________ (speak) of. He turned away sadly from the _____________________ (wrinkle) shrewdness of that unpleasant face, and gazed up the valley, where the Stone Face seemed to say: He _____________________ (will+come)! Fear not. Ernest; the man will come !

Ernest had _____________________ (have) no teacher, but the Great Stone Face _____________________ (become) one to him. When the work of the day was over, he _____________________ (will + gaze) at it for hours, until he began _____________________ (imagine) that those vast features recognised him, and gave him a smile of kindness and encouragement.

(resemblance, seaport, appeared, throughout, rumour, settled)
About this time there went _____________________ a _____________________ the valley that the great man, who was to bear a _____________________ had _____________________ to the Great Stone Face, at last. It seems that many years before, a young man had left the valley and _____________________ at a distant _____________________.

(fanciful. proper, thoughtful, Perhaps, discourage, affectionate)
His mother was an _____________________ and _____________________ woman. It was _____________________, she thought, not to _____________________ the _____________________ hopes of her little boy. So she said to him, " _____________________ you may."

He attracted little notice from the inhabitants of the valley. (Turn into Negative.)

When the work of the day was over, he would gaze at it for hours. (Make It Simple.)

Ernest had had no teacher. (Add a question tag.)

His mother was really an affectionate and thoughtful woman. (Turn into Exclamatory.)

Others took it to be nothing but idle talk. (Turn into Affirmative.)