C. Fill in the blanks with what you hear on the tape. It is indeed beautiful. To the left, across the stream, there are no buildings, merely (1) , colleges’ gardens and lines of tall trees. Everything is very (2) and (3) . On the river bank are willow trees with their branches (4) the water and, at (5) along the river, stone bridges cross the stream and lead into the colleges which line the right bank. The (6) brick or stone of the college walls, sometimes red and sometimes grey, is 500 years old. The walls rise out of their own (7) in the water and their colour (8) charmingly with glimpses of the many green (9) . It is difficult to walk around the quiet courts of the colleges without feeling a sense of (10) and (11) . And the sense of (12) that green lawns always (13) to me is found in the town too, for often one is surprised to meet open (14) of grass in the midst of the streets and houses giving a (15) countryside effect and reminding one of the more (16) days of the eighteenth century.