Unit 3 The Million Pound Bank Note课时作业

Language points

第一节　完形填空 (共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分)

　　阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

　　[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.