Sentence Translation 01. There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings. _______________________________________________________________________________ 02. Oak and maple and birch set up a blaze of colour that flamed and flickered across a backdrop of pines. _______________________________________________________________________________ 03. Various flowers, delighted the traveller ’ s eye through much of the year. _______________________________________________________________________________ 04. People came to fish the streams, which flowed clear and cold out of the hills and contained shady pools where trout lay. _______________________________________________________________________________ 05. A strange blight crept over the area and everything began to change. _______________________________________________________________________________ 06. Many people spoke of them (the birds), puzzled and disturbed. _______________________________________________________________________________ 07. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of scores of bird voices there was now no sound. _______________________________________________________________________________ 08. These too, were silent, deserted by all living things. _______________________________________________________________________________ 09. No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves. _______________________________________________________________________________ 10. This book is an attempt to explain. _______________________________________________________________________________