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Ralph could no longer ignore his speech. The blood was hot in his cheeks.

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  1. A. Read the paragraph below and choose the most appropriate words/ phrases in bold. Where could you read this extract?
  2. Again the soldier looked him up and down. The officer could hear him panting. The smile came into his blue eyes. The soldier worked his dry throat, but could not speak.
  3. BANKING ON CORD BLOOD
  4. BLOOD AND BLUE
  5. BLOOD DISORDERS
  6. Can could have to must might should
  7. Ex. 158. Put the following questions into reported speech.
  8. Ex. 160. Put the following questions into reported speech.
  9. Ex. 174. Put the following sentences into reported speech.
  10. He nodded at Ralph.

“You haven't got the conch,” he said. “Sit down.”

Jack's face went so white that the freckles showed as clear, brown flecks. He licked his lips and remained standing.

“This is a hunter's job.”

The rest of the boys watched intently. Piggy, finding himself uncomfortably embroiled, slid the conch to Ralph's knees and sat down. The silence grew oppressive and Piggy held his breath.

“This is more than a hunter's job,” said Ralph at last, “because you can't track the beast And don't you want to be rescued?”

He turned to the assembly.

“Don't you all want to be rescued?”

He looked back at Jack.

“I said before, the fire is the main thing. Now the fire must be out—”

The old exasperation saved him and gave him the energy to attack.

“Hasn't anyone got any sense? We've got to relight that fire. You never thought or that, Jack, did you? Or don't any of you want to be rescued?”

Yes, they wanted to be rescued, there was no doubt about that; and with a violent swing to Ralph's side, the crisis passed. Piggy let out his breath with a gasp, reached for it again and failed. He lay against a log, his mouth gaping, blue shadows creeping round his lips. Nobody minded frim.

“Now think, Jack. Is there anywhere on the island you haven't been?”

Unwillingly Jack answered.

“There's only—but of course! You remember? The tail-end part, where the rocks are all piled up. I've been near there. The rock makes a sort of bridge. There's only one way up.”

And the thing might live there.”

All the assembly talked at once.

“Quite! All right That's where well look. If the beast isn't there we'll go up the mountain and look; and light the fire.”

“Let's go.”

“We’ll eat first. Then go.” Ralph paused. “We'd better take spears.”

After they had eaten, Ralph and the biguns set out along the beach. They left Piggy propped up on the platform. This day promised, like the others, to be a sunbath under a blue dome. The beach stretched away before them in a gentle curve till perspective drew it into one with the forest; for the day was not advanced enough to be obscured by the shifting veils of mirage. Under Ralph's direction, they picked a careful way along the palm terrace, rather than dare the hot sand down by the water. He let Jack lead the way; and Jack trod with theatrical caution though they could have seen an enemy twenty yards away. Ralph walked in the rear, thankful to have escaped responsibility for a time.

Simon, walking in front of Ralph, felt a flicker of incredulity—a beast with claws that scratched, that sat on a mountain-top, that left no tracks and yet was not fast enough to catch Samneric. However Simon thought of the beast, there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick.

He sighed. Other people could stand up and speak to an assembly, apparently, without that dreadful feeling of the pressure of personality; could say what they would as though they were speaking to only one person. He stepped aside and looked back. Ralph was coming along, holding his spear over his shoulder. Diffidently, Simon allowed his pace to slacken until he was walking side by side with Ralph and looking up at him through the coarse black hair that now fell to his eyes. Ralph glanced sideways, smiled constrainedly as though he had forgotten that Simon had made a fool of himself, then looked away again at nothing. For a moment or two Simon was happy to be accepted and then he ceased to think about himself. When he bashed into a tree Ralph looked sideways impatiently and Robert sniggered. Simon reeled and a white spot on his forehead turned red and trickled. Ralph dismissed Simon and returned to his personal hell They would reach the castle some time; and the chief would have to go forward.




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He flung out an arm. | He proceeded to explain. | Simon grabbed the conch convulsively. | Maurice saved them. He cried out. | The assembly cried out savagely and Ralph stood up in amazement. | He raised the conch for a moment | The dancing, chanting boys had worked themselves away till their sound was nothing but a wordless rhythm. | CHAPTER SIX | The other knelt down. | Then as though they had but one terrified mind between them they scrambled away over the rocks and fled. |


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