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   If you had to choose the single most important 1___________(discover) of the 20th century, you would have a real 2_________ on your hands. In just 100 years, the world changed completely. Amazing discoveries were made in medicine, communications and transport, not to 3____________ our knowledge of the world and space. Medical advances 4 ________  from discovering the causes of diseases under microscopes to surgical procedures 5____________(replace) 6__________(disease) organs with 7________ (donate) ones. Communications changed 8______ the introduction of mobile phones and the way we _9_________(通信) went 10________ writing letters to emailing. We started flying around the world and 11____________（同时）, scientists figured 12________ how to 13______(劈开) the atom,  14________（过去） thought to be the smallest particle of matter 15______  the universe.

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to put it another way,   in detail,  look into,   click into,  in terms of ,  link to , die of ,   as a result of ,   on demand,   figure out,   do with

1.I can’t give you any good suggestions until you tell me the whole thing ________.

2.If you like listening to rock music, you can ______________ this website.

3.The murder case is _____________ by the police now.

4.You can __________your computer _________the Internet only after you have paid the service.

5. ______________ population, China is the largest country in the world.

6.His speech was very long but few people could _____________ what he meant .

7.His sister _______________ cancer last year.

8.The boss is not satisfied with your work, ______________ , you lose your job.

9.What have you been __________________ the conflict?

10.He is unable to work _______________ the fall from his horse.

单词拼写。

1.Tom and Jack had ___________________( 通信 ) for many years.

2.Professor Smith , an ear ____________(专家 ), organized a national survey of nose  disease in children.

3.Singing, playing games, and reading are forms of _____________(消遣)

4.The chairman is considering changes to the sex ________________(歧视)　law to promote equal opportunities.

5. A p_______ gives the owner their right to be the only one who can make , use or sell an invention or product for a particular number of years.

6.Everyone was encouraged to d________ a day’s pay to help survivors of the disaster.

7.Had not Tom dived into the river to r___________ him, the boy would have drowned.

8.A car is very h______ for people who live some little distance from town.

9.Some good sources of information can a_______ us in making the best selection.

10.his medicine is ____________( 有毒的)　if taken in large quantities.

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    21   . 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  2 7   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.

 You can’t imagine ______ when they received these nice Christmas presents.