Unit 2 The Olympic Games reading课时作业

Ⅰ.完形填空

　　When I was young, I read only comic books. My mother, who was a keen reader, tried to get me to read regular books, but they seemed __1__ to me. Why would anyone want to read a book without pictures, I wondered? It would be __2__ watching a movie with your eyes closed. And novels seemed to be too __3__！ In my mind, a comic book was a roller coaster ride __4__ a novel was five hours in rush hour traffic.

　　Whenever she saw me with a comic book, my mother would complain, which totally __5__ my comic book reading experience. One summer, she even __6__ me. "If you don't read at least one book this summer, we're not going to go on our camping trip，" she said. What could I do? I had been looking forward to that __7__ for months!

　　"Fine，" I __8__， "I'll read one book." __9__， my mother took me down to her evil dungeon (地牢), the local __10__， where the librarian __11__ The lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the first book of The Chronicles of Narnia by C．S. Lewis. I unwillingly __12__ the book while my mother and the librarian exchanged a(n) __13__ glance.

　　When we got home, I cracked the book open and started reading. I __14__ I'd read the first few pages then skip to the end because I knew my mother would __15__ me about it. Imagine my __16__ when my mother called me to dinner and I was halfway through the book! __17__ a comic book was a roller coaster ride, the novel was all the rides at Disney world rolled into one!

　　I __18__ reading the entire The Chronicles of Narnia series that summer, which I consider the __19__ of my great friendship with books. Now I read an average of one book a week, and sometimes my wife __20__ that I read too much!

　　语篇解读：本文是一篇记叙文。文章讲述了作者从开始只喜欢漫画书，厌恶小说到迷上读书的转变过程。

　　1．A.strange　　　　　　　 B．boring

　　C．common D．easy

　　解析：选B　由下一句的疑问"为什么有人会读没有图片的书？"可知，作者认为"regular books"看起来很无趣(boring)。

　　2．A.through B．of

　　C．like D．for

　　解析：选C　承接上一句的疑问，"它就像(like)闭眼看电影一样"。

3．A.thick B．thin