新概念英语第三册课文填空训练34-Lesson 34 A happy discovery

新概念英语第三册 Lesson 34 A happy discovery What was the 'happy discovery'? Antique shops exert a peculiar ___________(fascinate) on a great many people. The more expensive kind of antique shop _______ rare objects are___________(beautiful) displayed in glass cases to keep them______ _____ dust is usually a forbidding place. But no one has to muster up ________to enter a less pretentious antique shop. There is always________that in its labyrinth of musty, ______, disordered rooms a real rarity will be __________ amongst the piles of assorted junk that little the floors. No one discovers a rarity ___ _________. A ______(true) dedicated bargain hunter must have _________(patient), and above all, the ability to_________ the worth of something when he sees it. To do this, he must be ___ ______as knowledgeable as the dealer. Like a_________bent on making a discovery, he must cherish the _____ that one day he will be amply _______(reward). My old friend, Frank Halliday, is just ____ a person. He has often described to me how he _______ ___a masterpiece for a mere £50. One Saturday morning, Frank________ an antique shop in my neighbourhood. As he had never been there before, he found a great deal to __________him. The morning passed______ (rapid) and Frank was about to leave _______ he noticed a large packing case _______(lie) on the floor. The morning passed rapidly and Frank just come in, ____ that he could not be bothered to open it. Frank begged him to do so and the dealer reluctantly prised it _____. The contents were ____________(disappoint). Apart from an ________-looking carved dagger, the box ___ ___ __crockery, much of it ______(break). Frank _____(gentle) lifted the crockery out of the box and suddenly _______a miniature painting at the ________ of the packing case. As its composition and line_________him of an Italian painting he