Passage 2  (陕西省师大附中2009届高三第四次模拟考试)  完形填空

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__. 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.

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 

答案  21.A  22.A  23.C  24.B  25.C  26.D  27.B  28.A  29.C  30.B  31.D  32.C  33.D  34.C  35.D  36.A  37.C  38.B  39.A  40.D