The main purpose of newspapers are to provide | 76.________ |
news. If you examine newspapers closely, you find that | 77.________ |
there are all sort of news: accidents, floods, fires, wars, | 78.________ |
sports, books, etc. The news cover everything that happens | 79.________ |
to people and their surroundings. Sometimes there are | 80.________ |
news items which are very interested. | 81.________ |
A news report is usual short, except when | 82.________ |
it is very important, but has a lot of information. It | 83.________ |
is also writing in short paragraphs. The first paragraph | 84.________ |
is in the fact a summary of the news items. It gives all | 85.________ |
the necessary information, what, when, where, how, and why. |
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__.
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 |