College Writing Skills with Readings 8th Edition by John Langan

Exercise 11

Read the selection below and then answer the questions about it that follow.
1 When I think about my childhood in the 1930s, life today seems like the greatest of luxuries. 2 In our house, we had only a wood-burning cookstove in the kitchen to keep us warm. 3 In the morning, my father would get up in the icy cold, go downstairs, and light a fire in the black iron range. 4 When he called us, I would put off leaving my warm bed until the last possible minute and then quickly grab my school clothes. 5 The water pitcher and washing basin in my room would be layered with ice, and my breath would come out as white puffs as I ran downstairs. 6 My sisters and I would all dress-as quickly as possible-in the chilly but bearable air of the kitchen. 7 Our schoolroom, once we had arrived, didn't provide much relief from the cold. 8 Students wore woolen mitts that left their fingers free but covered their palms and wrists. 9 Even with these, we occasionally suffered chilblains. 10 The throbbing swellings on our hands made writing a painful process. 11 When we returned home in the afternoon, we spent all our indoor hours in the warm kitchen. 12 We hated to leave it at bedtime to make the return trip to those cold bedrooms and frigid sheets. 13 My mother made up hot-water bottles and gave us hot bricks to tuck under the covers, but nothing could eliminate the agony of that penetrating cold when we first slid under the bedclothes.
Write here the words in sentence 3 that are used as a synonym for cookstove: ______ ; write in the words in sentence 10 that are used as a synonym for chilblains: ____________; write in the word in sentence 12 that is used as a synonym for cold: ________.