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选择性必修第三册　 3 　 选择性必修第三册 课时作业 21　 Wish you were here Ⅰ. 阅读理解 " (2022·江苏盐城一模) I􀆳m rather good at using maps. But I forgot the maps and here we were, late afternoon, last day of vacation, my daughter, my cousin and I, driving along a two-lane highway in Oregon. No other car in sight, and the sun had just gone down. Where was that sweet little village? It was supposed to be right along this river. We drove on, farther into the unknown, river always at left as our guide. We kept passing farms and fields and now a few lights were coming out. In my head, I was doing a lot of self-criticisms: Why didn􀆳t we start earlier, bring the map and on and on? My cousin and I were both impatient and stressed. My daughter, at least, was happy in the back seat, text-messaging a friend. I pulled up on the shoulder of the road to think. Just then—WOW! Amazing! A new scene had appeared. Where did it come from? Right there, out of nowhere: a magical misty landscape. Fields stretched in silent purples, with rows of tall trees, darkening in the dusk (黄昏) . I turned the car engine off. All was silent in the hot summer air. Beside us, a plum-coloured river hardly moved between a border of trees, its dark lazy water reflecting the last light of day. How breathtaking! Where had it been? If I had seen even a bit of this beauty while driving along, I could have stopped and taken a look. I had missed it all. We miss a lot, almost everything, in fact, in our world. Our task-focuse