江苏省部分市2022-2023学年高二下学期期中考试英语试卷分类汇编：完形填空

江苏省部分市 2022-2023学年高二下学期期中考试英语试卷分类汇编 完形填空 江苏省徐州市2022-2023学年高二下学期4月期中英语试题 第一节(共15小题;每小题1分，满分15分) 阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 Walk into any bookstore, and you can ____21____ avoid “bumping into” Charles Dickens. From Oliver Twist to A Tale of Two Cities, many of Dickens’ works still sell well today and are placed on ____22____ shelves. As someone who teaches Dickens, the question of why we still read him is often on my mind. That question, however, was never more troubling to me than when I was giving a lecture one day, nearly ten years ago. I was telling the students that his writing created a “tune-in-next-week” type of ____23____ among readers. Then, a hand shot up. “But why should we still read this stuff?” the student asked. The answer I gave at that time was merely ____24____. “Because he teaches you how to think,” I said. The question ____25____ me for years, and for years I told myself answers, but never with complete satisfaction. We read Dickens because he was not just a man of his own times, but also a man for our times. We read Dickens because his ____26____ of the human psyche (心灵) is deep. We read Dickens because we can learn from the experiences of his characters almost as ____27____ as we can learn from our own experiences. These are all wonderful reasons to read Dickens. But these are not exactly the reasons why I read Dickens. My search for an answer ____28____ but never with success, until one day a text message came from a student of mine. “We still read Dickens’ novels,” she wrote, “because the tell us why we are what we are.” Simple as it was, that’s the explanation I had ____29____ for years. Like most people, I knew who I was without _____30_____ it. I was Oliver Twist, always asking for more. I was Nicholas Nickleby, _____31_____ that my dead father was watching me from beyond the grave. I was Pip, in love with someone far beyond my _____32_____. I was all of these _____33_____ and I began to understand more about why I was who I