Unit 2 Onwards and Upwards Understanding ideas & Developing ideas 课文填空 -2025-2026学年高二英语外研版选择性必修第一册

新外研选择性必修一 Unit 2 Onwards and upwards Understanding ideas We Regret to Inform You… “We regret to inform you...” These are the words that every writer dreads ________ (receive), but words every writer knows well. The ________ (respond) from a publisher comes back and the writer eagerly opens and reads it, their hearts ________ (sink) when they reach that final sentence. You may have spent years ________ (give) up your weekends and free time to write your life’s work, ________ still this is often not enough. Everyone knows that success ________ (rare) happens overnight, but perhaps not many know that a lot of _________(high) successful writers have previously faced ________ (reject). Take ________ example J.K. Rowling. When she received her first rejection letter, she decided that it ________ (mean) she now had something______ common with her favourite writers, and ________ (stick) it on her kitchen wall. Rowling had spent years surviving ________ little money, ____________(spend) all her time writing. When she finally finished her first book, she received ________ (comment) from publishers along the lines of “too difficult for children”, “too long”, “Children would not be interested in it”. Nevertheless, she persevered. “I wasn’t going to give up ________ every single publisher turned me__________ ,but I often feared that would happen,” she later posted. After ________ total of twelve rejections, one publisher eventually agreed to print 500 ________ (copy) of her first book, and as we know, Harry Potter became ________ global success, with over 400 million books ________ (sell) and ______________ (translated) into more than seventy different languages. All too often writers of great works have had to face ________ (criticize) along with rejection. J. D. Salinger started writing short stories in high school, but later struggled to get his works ________ (publish). “We feel that we don’t know the central character well enough” ________ (be) the criticism he received on his manuscript for The Catcher in the Rye. Despite rejections from several publishers, J.D. Salinger refused to give up. Even when ________ (serve) in the US Army during the Second World War, he carried six chapters of The Catcher in the Rye with him and worked ________ the novel throughout his war service. When it was eventually published, the book became ________ immediate best-seller and went on to sell millions and millions of copies. Perhaps the overall prize for ________ (persevere) should go to three sisters from Victorian England who dreamed ________ seeing their words in print. This, however, was a time ________ women were not encouraged to become ________ (write). As the then Poet Laureate, Robert Southey, ________ (write) to one of them: “Literature cannot be the business of a woman’s life, and it ought not to be.” Nevertheless, the sisters didn’t stop ________ (try). Their response was to write a book of poems ________ male names. Even when the book sold only two copies, the sisters still didn’t give up. They started writing novels, and today Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights and Anne Bronte’s Agnes Grey______________(regard) as classics of world literature. In fact, it is within the pages of Jane Eyre ________ we can find these words: “I honour _____________(endure), perseverance, industry, talent; because these are the means ________ which men achieve great ends...” So, it seems that talent alone isn’t enough ________ (guarantee) success. ________ a lot of hard work and a touch of luck play a part, perseverance is the key. Keep trying _______eventually you will read the words “We are______________(delight)to inform you...” 选择性必修一 Unit 2 Understanding ideas答案 receiving, response, sinking, giving, yet / but, rarely, highly,rejection, for, meant, in,stuck, on,spending, comments, until,down, a, copies, a, sold, translated criticism, published, was, serving, on, an, perseverance, of / about, when, writers, wrote, trying, under, are regarded, endurance,that, by, to guarantee, While,and , delighted 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$ 新外研选择性必修一 Unit 2 Onwards and upwards Developing ideas Three Days to See I have often thought it would be a ____________(bless)if each human being________________(strike) blind and deaf for a few days at some time during his early adult life. Darkness would make him more ________ (appreciate) of sight;silence___________(teach) him the joys of sound. Now and then I have tested my ________ (see) friends to discover what they see. Recently, I asked a friend __________had just returned from a long walk in the woods what she ________ (observe). “Nothing ________ particular,” she replied. ________ was it possible, I asked myself, ___________(walk) for an hour through the woods and see nothing ________ (worth) of note? I ________ cannot see find hundreds of things to interest me through mere touch. If I can get so much pleasure from touch, how much more beauty must ________ (reveal) by sight? And I have imagined ________ I should most like to see if I ________ (give) the use of my eyes, say for just three days. On the first day, I should want to see the people ________ kindness and gentleness and companionship have made my life worth ________ (live). I do not know _______ it is to see into the heart of a friend through that “window of the soul”, the eye. I can only “see” through my fingertips the outline of a face. I should like ________ (see) the books which have been read to me, and ________ have revealed to me the__________(deep) channels of human life and the human spirit. In the afternoon I should take a long walk in the woods and intoxicate my eyes on the beauties of the world of nature. That night, I should not be able to sleep. _______ my second day, I should like to see the pageant of ________ (man) progress, and I should go to the museums. I should try to probe ________ the soul of man through his art. The things I knew through touch I should now see. The evening of my second day I should spend at a theater or at the movies. The following morning, I should again greet the dawn, anxious to discover new ________ (delight), new ____________(reveal) of beauty. Today I shall spend in the workaday world, amid the haunts of men ________ (go) about the business of life. At midnight permanent night would close in on me again. Only when darkness had again descended__________ me should I realize how much I had left __________(see). I who am blind can give one hint to those who see: Use your eyes as if tomorrow you________(be) stricken blind. And the same method can ________ (apply) to the other senses. Hear the music of voices, the song of a bird, the mighty strains of an orchestra, as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow. Touch each object you want to touch as if tomorrow your tactile sense would fail. Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel, as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. But of all the senses, I am sure that sight must be the most ________ (delight). (Excerpts from “Three Days to See” by Helen Keller) 选择性必修一 Unit 2 Developing ideas答案 blessing ,were stricken,appreciative, would teach, seeing,who, had observed, in, How, to walk,worthy, who, be revealed, what, were given, whose, living,what, to see, which,deepest On, man’s, into, delights, revelations,going, upon,unseen would be , be applied, delightful 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$