Question

 (陕西省师大附中2009届高三第四次模拟考试)

When we read books we seem to enter a new world. This new world can be similar to the one we are living in, or it can be very __2 1__. Some stories are told   __22__ they were true. Real people who live in a __23__ world do real things; in other words, the stories are about people just like us doing what we do. Other stories, such as the Harry Potter books, are not  __24__ . They are characters and creatures that are very different from us and do things that would be   __25__ for us.

But there is more to books and writing than this. If we think about it, even realistic writing is only   __26__. How can we tell the difference between what is real and what is not real? For example, when we read about Harry Potter ,we   __27__ seem to learn something about the real world. And when Harry studies magic at Hogwarts, he also learns more about his real life than   __28__. Reading, like writing, is an action. It is a way of  __ 29__. When we read or write something ,we do much more than simple look at words on a page. We use our __30__--which is real—and our imagination—which is real in a different way --- to make the words come to life in our minds.

Both realism and fantasy(幻想) __ 31__ the imagination and the “magic” of reading and writing to make us think. When we read  __32__ realistic, we have to imagine that the people we are reading about are just like us, even though we __33__ that we are real and they are __34__. It sounds __35__ , but it works. When we read, we fill in missing information and __36__ about the causes and effects of what a character does. We help the writer by __37__ that what we read is like real life. In a way, we are writing the book, too.

Most of us probably don’t think about what is going on in our __38__ when we are reading. We pick up a book and lose __39__ in a good story, eager to find out what will happen next. Knowing how we feel __40__ we read can help us become better readers, and it will help us discover more about the real magic of books.

21. A. different            B. possible                  C. easy                D. new 

22. A. as if                   B. that                         C. what                D. whether

23. A. common            B. usual                      C. normal                    D. certain

24. A. instructive         B. realistic                   C. reasonable             D. moral 

25. A. necessary         B. difficult                    C. impossible              D. important

26. A. planned                   B. thinkable                 C. designed         D. imagined

27. A. are                           B. do                           C. make               D. have

28. A. magic                B. lessons                   C. dreams            D. experience

29. A. understanding  B. working                   C. thinking           D. living

30. A. grammar           B. knowledge                     C. skill                  D. words

31. A. have                 B. make                      C. get                   D. use

32. A. a story                     B. a newspaper           C. something              D. everything

33. A. hope                 B. find                         C. learn                D. know

34. A. so                            B. too                          C. not                   D. all 

35. A. terrible                     B. dangerous                     C. serious            D. strange

36. A. think                  B. talk                         C. learn                D. read

37. A. guessing           B. telling                      C. pretending              D. promising

38. A. society                     B. mind                       C. life                   D. world 

39. A. ourselves          B. heart                       C. time                 D. money

40. A. why                   B. what                        C. how                 D. when

Answer 1

答案  21.A  22.A  23.C  24.B  25.C  26.D  27.B  28.A  29.C  30.B  31.D  32.C  33.D  34.C  35.D  36.A  37.C  38.B  39.A  40.D