林子琪
閱讀下面材料,在空白處填入單詞或括號內單詞的正確形式(每空不超過3個單詞)。
(A)
Tom: Have you ever thought? ? 1? ??life would be like without innovative (富有革新精神的) people who are continually coming up with highly practical inventions?
Mary: It's hard to imagine that.
Tom: Yes. Imagine? ? 2? ??(climb) up to the 80th floor of your office building without an elevator. I'm pretty sure, before you reached the 30th floor, your entire body would be wet with sweat.
Mary: You will be? ? 3? ??(amaze) to find almost every aspect in our life is connected with inventions.
Tom: Now, what about having no computers, mobile phones, cars and cameras?
Mary: Life would surely be difficult for most people? ? 4? ??we had no such inventions.
Tom: Yes. One example is the medical industry. Doctors, nurses and other members of the healthcare team now rely greatly? ? 5? ??so many technological devices that can help patients survive.
Mary: There is no doubt that these devices? ? 6? ??(provide) by companies help hospitals strengthen their commitment to patients.
Tom: Besides, professionals? ? 7? ??work abroad can now communicate with their families back home with? ? 8? ??use of mobile phones or computers.
Mary: You are? ? 9? ??(absolute) right. It is these practical inventions? ? 10? ??improve the quality of everybody's life every day.
(B)
When you read a story in English, do you read it for the story? ? 1? ??for the English? This is a question? ? 2? ??is not so? ? 3? ??(fool) as it may seem, for I find that many students of English pay far more attention to the story than to the English. For instance, they care for how the mystery in the story? ? 4? ??(solve), but do not remember a single sentence in the story and cannot tell what preposition is used before a certain word in the speech of a certain character.
Of course,? ? 5? ??you want to know the story only, you need not bother about the language. But a student of English is different? ? 6? ??a student of stories or? ? 7? ??is called the general reader. As you may also have learned from the above, you ought to read not only very carefully but also aloud? ? 8? ??you learn the passage by heart and can recite it as if it? ? 9? ??(be) your own. On
? ? 10? ??hand, this will teach you many useful words and phrases; on the other hand, it will help you to avoid many errors and faults in expression.