2 . Over the last few weeks, I have been back and forth to the hospital and working with my doctors and medical technicians. I feel very ________ and appreciative of all the great minds and efforts involved in ________ my illness. I’m very grateful to those human beings who invented the many medical ________ that have saved so many lives.
With everything I ________, I couldn’t help thinking about many life-changing ________ that we humans have come up with, from the fairly simple stethoscope to more ________ inventions like X-rays, and other great devices. Of course, one of the biggest, most basic inventions was the ________. It changed the world in all kinds of ways. Without wheels, we’d have no bikes, cars, trains, or airplanes.
________ many inventions human beings have invented through the ages, I found it ________ to imagine what if we live without some very popular inventions.
Some inventions were accidental ________ but many were matter of simply trying to solve a problem. If we pay attention to what we experience and really put our ________ to it, there is no reason why we couldn’t come up with some new inventions ourselves. Maybe make a list of ________ items, systems, and habits we all have, and then go up and down the list and see if we can put two or three items together in a way to come up with a new ________ or better way to handle life and the ________ in it. Give it a try and see what we can come up with. We could ________ ourselves, and others as well!
1. A.regretful | B.grateful | C.severe | D.pure |
2. A.ignoring | B.concerning | C.curing | D.swapping |
3. A.devices | B.antiques | C.curtains | D.manuals |
4. A.packed up | B.set down | C.went through | D.suffer from |
5. A.proofs | B.shadows | C.editions | D.inventions |
6. A.complex | B.pure | C.adorable | D.contradictory |
7. A.train | B.wheel | C.airplane | D.car |
8. A.Drafting | B.Seizing | C.Adapting | D.Reviewing |
9. A.funny | B.steady | C.hard | D.safe |
10. A.discoveries | B.statistics | C.patents | D.observations |
11. A.principles | B.policies | C.minds | D.effects |
12. A.distinct | B.strange | C.legal | D.common |
13. A.current | B.product | C.powder | D.criterion |
14. A.challenges | B.directions | C.privacies | D.conclusions |
15. A.puzzle | B.frighten | C.annoy | D.surprise |