1 . 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_______ Some stories are told_______they were true. Real people who live in a_______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_______ They are characters and creatures that are very different from us and do things that would be_______for us.
But there is more to books and writing than this. If we think about it, even realistic writing is only
_______. How can we tell the difference between what is real and what is not real? For example, when we read about Harry Potter, we
_______seem to learn something about the real world. And when Harry studies magic at Hogwarts, he also learns more about his real life than
_______ Reading, like writing, is an action. It is a way of
_______ When we read or write something, we do much more than simple look at words on a page. We use our
________--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)________the imagination and the “magic” of reading and writing to make us think. When we read________realistic, we have to imagine that the people we are reading about are just like us, even though we________that we are real and they are________ It sounds________, but it works. When we read, we fill in missing information and________about the causes and effects of what a character does. We help the writer by________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________when we are reading. We pick up a book and lose________in a good story, eager to find out what will happen next. Knowing how we feel________we read can help us become better readers, and it will help us discover more about the real magic of books.
1. | A．possible | B．easy | C．new | D．different |
2. | A．that | B．What | C．whether | D．as if |
3. | A．usual | B．normal | C．certain | D．common |
4. | A．realistic | B．reasonable | C．moral | D．instructive |
5. | A．difficult | B．impossible | C．important | D．necessary |
6. | A．thinkable | B．designed | C．imagined | D．planned |
7. 8. | A．lessons | B．dreams | C．experience | D．magic |
9. | A．working | B．thinking | C．living | D．understanding |
10. | A．knowledge | B．skill | C．words | D．grammar |
11. 12. | A．a newspaper | B．something | C．everything | D．a story |
13. | A．find | B．learn | C．know | D．hope |
14. 15. | A．dangerous | B．serious | C．strange | D．terrible |
16. | A．talk | B．learn | C．read | D．think |
17. | A．telling | B．pretending | C．promising | D．guessing |
18. | A．mind | B．life | C．world | D．society |
19. | A．heart | B．time | C．money | D．ourselves |
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