Unit 3 Under the sea language points课时作业

I. 完形填空

　　I've been obsessed (困扰) with languages for as long as I can remember. My dad could talk to everyone with ease, confidently 　1　 between languages. His abilities made a big impression on me, but he didn't 　2　me to follow his lead.

　　I wasn't a(n) 　3　 language learner. I made slow progress in French at school and almost gave it up. But things felt different when I 　4　 German at university-loving many German writers in translation, I wanted to read them in their 　5　 tongue, and that's been my main 　6　 for learning new ones since. Once I got German, I was 　7　;French, Latin, Greek and Sanskrit quickly followed. The idea of having a 　8　 overview of the world has always fascinated me, and 　9　 languages seemed a good way of achieving that. By my 20s, I'd set my heart on

　10　 the rest of my life to learning as many as I could.

　　I'm often asked what the 　11　 is, and whether some people have a gift for absorbing words and phrases. The truth is that it's down to endless hours of 　12　-reading, studying and practicing grammar. 　13　, all these wonderful languages start to swim into focus, and ever-increasing numbers of great works become 　14　.

　　It's hard, but the 　15　 can be thrilling. When I started studying Spanish, there was a moment when the living language suddenly 　16　 itself to me. Something 　17　 happened when I heard Swedish spoken around me. It seemed to 　18　 elements of languages I was familiar with. The more of them I know, the more I see how interrelated they are. All it took was three weeks and I was able to 　19　 effectively in complex conversations.

　　Now, I can read about three dozen languages and speak most of them fluently. I think I'm much richer for that-it makes me more 　20　.

2.A.threaten B.encourage C.promise D.trust

3.A.sensitive B.average C.individual D.natural