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Directions: Fill in the blanks in the passage below, with the word from among the options given for each blank labelled (1) to (7). Choose the word that fits in each blank most appropriately in the context of the passage.

During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung (1) low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the (2) House of Usher. I know not how it was--but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom (3) my spirit. I say insufferable; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because of poetic sentiment, with which the mind usually receives even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible. I looked upon the scene before me--upon the (4) house, and the simple landscape features of the domain--upon the bleak walls--upon the vacant eye-like windows--upon a few rank sedges--and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees--with an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the (5) upon opium--the bitter lapse into everyday life. What was it--I paused to think--what was it that so (6) me in the contemplation of the House of Usher? It was a mystery all insoluble; nor could I grapple with the shadowy fancies that crowded upon me as I (7).

Directions: Fill in the blanks in the passage below, with the word from among the options given for each blank labelled (1) to (7). Choose the word that fits in each blank most appropriately in the context of the passage.

During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung (1) low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the (2) House of Usher. I know not how it was--but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom (3) my spirit. I say insufferable; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because of poetic sentiment, with which the mind usually receives even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible. I looked upon the scene before me--upon the (4) house, and the simple landscape features of the domain--upon the bleak walls--upon the vacant eye-like windows--upon a few rank sedges--and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees--with an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the (5) upon opium--the bitter lapse into everyday life. What was it--I paused to think--what was it that so (6) me in the contemplation of the House of Usher? It was a mystery all insoluble; nor could I grapple with the shadowy fancies that crowded upon me as I (7).

Directions: Fill in the blanks in the passage below, with the word from among the options given for each blank labelled (1) to (7). Choose the word that fits in each blank most appropriately in the context of the passage.

During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung (1) low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the (2) House of Usher. I know not how it was--but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom (3) my spirit. I say insufferable; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because of poetic sentiment, with which the mind usually receives even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible. I looked upon the scene before me--upon the (4) house, and the simple landscape features of the domain--upon the bleak walls--upon the vacant eye-like windows--upon a few rank sedges--and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees--with an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the (5) upon opium--the bitter lapse into everyday life. What was it--I paused to think--what was it that so (6) me in the contemplation of the House of Usher? It was a mystery all insoluble; nor could I grapple with the shadowy fancies that crowded upon me as I (7).