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选词填空——专项练习

Passage 1.

Some years ago I was offered a writing assignment that would require three month of travel though Europe's had been aboard a couple of times, but I could hardly _____to know my way around the continent. Moreover, my knowledge of foreign languages was ______ to a little college French.

I hesitated. How would I, unable to speak the language, ______ unfamiliar with local geography or transportation systems, set up _______ and do research? It seemed impossible, and with considerable ______. I sat down to write a letter begging off. Halfway through, thought ran through my mind: you can't learn if you don't try. So I accepted the assignment.

There were some bad _______. But by the time I had finished the trip I was an experienced traveler. And ever since, I have never hesitated to head for even the most remote of places, without guides or even _______ bookings, confident that somehow I will manage.

The point is that the new, the different, is almost by definition _____. But ach time you try something, you learn, and as the learning piles up, the world opens to you.

I've learned to ski at 40, and flown up the Rhine River in a ______. And I know I'll go on doing such things. It's not because I'm braver or more daring than others. I'm not, but I'll accept anxiety as another name for challenge and I believe I can _______ wonders.

Passage 2.

To call something "marginal" means it is not very good. Farmers have their own way

to 47 marginal and: It is the last to be planted under good conditions, and has the 48 to be avoided under poor conditions. Low soil is not the only reason land could be considered marginal. It might be in an area where rainfall is 50 or where a hillside might rise too steeply (陡峭地）.

There are uses for marginal and, however. Most often it is used as grassland. Grasses provide excellent 吃草）animals like cattle, sheep and goats. Grass seed can be bought