Unit 3 Computers using language课时作业

I. 完形填空

A minister(牧师)was on a long flight. The first ___1___ of approaching problem came when the sign on the airplane ___2___ on: Fasten Your Seat Belts.

As the minister looked ___3___ the aircraft, it became obvious that many of the passengers became ___4___. Later, a voice over the intercom(内部通话系统) said "We are so sorry that we are unable to ___5___ the meal at this time. The currents are ahead of us." And then the storm broke. Lightning lit up the darkening skies, and ___6___ moments the great plane was tossed(使动来动去) around.

The minister recalled, "As I looked around the plane, I could see the nearly all the ___7___ were scared. Then I suddenly saw a little girl. Obviously, the storm ___8___ nothing to her. She was reading a book on her seat and everything within her small world was ___9___. Sometimes she closed her eyes, then she would read again. Sometimes she straightened her legs, but worry and ___10___ were not in her world."

The minister could ___11___ believe his eyes. It was not surprising, ___12___, that when the plane finally reached its destination and all the passengers were hurrying to___13___the plane, the minister came up to the girl whom he had ___14___ for such a long time. Having talked about the storm, he asked why she had not been afraid.