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Unit 5 Into the unknown学生用书 P403
Ⅰ.完形填空
Several years ago, a neighbor kid kicked a football and broke a basement window of my house. Due to financial problems, I ____1____ it up, thinking I'd get to it someday.
Over the years, I had planned to upgrade to energyefficient windows. But with the frame rusted (锈) and firmly ____2____ in the foundation, whoever did it would need to chisel (凿) it out by hand. It would be a ____3____ process and there were six of those windows in the house. The cost was estimated at $15,000. It was simply ____4____.
Honestly, the thought of that window ____5____ me for years. I knew I needed to fix it, but I had built up the ____6____ so much in my mind that I put it off again and again.
Then I had a job change and needed to sell the house before moving away. But it was almost ____7____ to find a buyer if there was a broken window. So I pulled off the boards to face this thing headon. I grabbed some rust remover,____8____ it around the frame of the window, and gave it a pull. To my astonishment, it easily ____9____. I took the window downtown. It only cost me $12.I could have ____10____ the problem for only $12 when it occurred, but I let it bother me for five years!
11____, this isn't just about my window. Many of us live with broken windows of one type or another. They are things that seriously affect our ____12____ of life. If you recognize your broken window, don't ____13____ to mend it. It may turn out to be ____14____ than expected. Usually we suffer more in ____15____ than in reality.
[语篇解读] 这是一篇夹叙夹议文。作者讲述了自己家的窗户被打破后,没有及时修理,但这个问题困扰他多年,最后发现只需要12美元就可以解决这个问题,因此告诫人们要及时修补生活中的漏洞,否则会干扰你的生活。
1.A.tore B.fixed
C.boarded D.packed
解析:C [考查动词词义辨析。句意:由于经济原因,我用木板堵住被打破的窗户,打算以后再修。A.tore撕碎;B.fixed修理;C.boarded用木板盖上;D.packed打包。根据上句“a neighbor kid kicked a football and broke a basement window of my house. Due to financial problems(一个邻居孩子踢球,打破了我家地下室的窗户。由于经济原因)”和下文“So I pulled off the boards(所以我拆下板子)”可知,窗户被打破了,由于经济原因,作者只好先用木板堵住。故选C。]
2.A.lost