Section A
Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
A Wrinkle in Time
Travelling faster than the speed of light is something that scientists and science-faction writers have dreamt about for a long time. In theory, if humans were able to do this, they could travel to distant planets in ____1____ matter of minutes.
In Madeleine L'Engle's novel, A Wrinkle in Time, the idea goes one step further: instead of travelling at great speeds, she processes a theory ____2____ allows humans to travel through a fifth dimension(维度). This means that you could get from Earth to another planet in a distant galaxy almost instantly.
First ____3____ (publish) in 1960, L' Engle's novel has captured the imaginations of young science-fiction fans all over the world for decades -- and now it ___4___ (turn) into a film. The story follows 13-year-old Meg Murry, played by Storm Reid, who is seen by her classmates and teachers ____5____ a troublesome pupil. She is the daughter of two world-famous physicists, but is saddened by the mysterious disappearance of her father. To help find her dad, three supernatural beings, Mrs. Who, Mrs. Whatist and Mrs. Which, transport Meg, her genius brother, Charles Wallace, and her classmate, Calvin, through the universe. ____6____ (travel) through a wrinkling of time and space, also known as "tessering", they are soon transported to worlds that they never thought ____7____ (exist).
____8____ the film follows the story of the book, not everything could be fitted in. One detail that fans of the book may notice is ____9____ Meg's twin brothers have been written out of the script.
Oprah Winfrey, who plays Mrs. Which, says the film is like The Wizard of Oz for a new generation. "It is a spaced-out Oz, with Meg as the new Dorothy, and I am Glinda [the Good Witch]," she says. "I think of it as a film for generations _____10_____ (come)."
【答案】1. a 2. that/which
3. published
4. has been turned
5. as 6. Travelling
7. existed 8. Though /Although /While
9. that 10. to come
