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2021高考英语短文故事精读与语法填空训练（二） 一：语法填空训练 A happy discovery  幸运的发现  Antique shops exert a peculiar fascination on a great many people. The more expensive kind of antique shop rare objects are (beautiful) displayed in glass cases to keep them free from dust is usually a forbidding place. But no one has to muster up courage to enter a less pretentious antique shop. There is always hope that in its labyrinth of musty, dark, disordered rooms a real rarity will be found amongst the piles of assorted junk that litter the floors. No one discovers a rarity chance. A truly dedicated bargain hunter must have (patient), and above all, the ability to recognize the worth of something when he sees it. To do this, he must be at least knowledgeable as the dealer. Like a scientist bent on making a (discover), he must cherish the hope that one day he will be amply rewarded. My old friend, Frank Halliday, is just such a person. He has often described to me how