Unit 2 The United Kingdom Reading课时作业

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　　(2019·福州四校联考)Back in 1959, when I was 13, I attended a school in Brooklyn. Because of the Sabbath on Friday, we had an early __1__ from school. Most of the students would go to local parks to play basketball or baseball. I always __2__ myself instead in a small public library, __3__ for hours before sundown, the beginning of the Sabbath.

　　There was a kind of __4__ in that library that led me to worlds that I thought I'd never see. I was __5__ to the Green Mountain Boys, to Isaac Asimov robots, to the swashbuckling novels of Thomas B. Costain and to a whole host of __6__ of the mind. I found a paradise(乐园) of silence where I could __7__ my inner self and find the treasures of other worlds.

　　__8__， after watching the current generation of teens __9__ in the troubled waters of technology, I had little confidence in the __10__ of the book. I felt sure that the physical object would be a thing of the past which the Twitter(推特) world had already __11__， limiting the imagination of this __12__ to the few characters that they could __13__ in the shortest period.

　　But on a Saturday in August, I was shocked into the __14__ that my fears might be unnecessary.

　　Stony Brook University __15__ a competition for teens representing local public libraries. The participation of my granddaughter, Kayla, brought it to my __16__．

　　In the Student Activities Center, hundreds of young people came in character costumes, __17__ ready to respond to a multitude of questions about books they had read. They had spent the summer in __18__．

　　Imagine an entire summer reading when they could have lazed with their smartphones and followed the president into the Twitter universe. __19__， they followed their imaginations and __20__ themselves to the books. Perhaps there is hope for the world.

　　【解题导语】　本文是一篇记叙文。文章讲述了"我"与阅读之间的故事以及"我"对阅读的态度的转变。

　　1．A.start B．release

　　C．reply D．warning

　　B　解析：根据上文中的"Because of the Sabbath on Friday"可知，周五是安息日，故此处表示"我们"放学很早。release"释放"；warning"警告"。

　　2．A.found B．imagined

　　C．amused D．noticed

A　解析：根据上文中的"Most of the students would go to local parks to play basketball or