Question

閱讀下面材料，在空白處填入適當?shù)膬?nèi)容或括號內(nèi)單詞的正確形式。

There was no one quite like my father. When any other man had an extra dollar, he bought a drink; when Father had an extra dollar, he bought a book. Other people had pictures on their walls, or at least a calendar; we had books, 3000 of them, 1. (line) every surface of our little four-room house 2. every subject. Father was the 3. (more) persistent (固執(zhí)的) scholar I ever knew. Every summer he took a month or so off to attend classes. Eventually, he earned seven degrees, attended 11 different colleges and universities. My sister and I were the immediate beneficiaries of Father’s insatiable (不能滿足的) 4. (hungry) to learn.

Before I was three, my father was reading aloud to me. Thereafter, I read aloud to him so he’d work on my 5. (pronounce). By the time I was in the fifth grade, I’d recite 6. classical literature to poetry and had to be prepared to do 7.. Then Father would warn by quoting a saying from Shakespeare, “8. all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious(乏味的) as to work. “Obviously, his efforts weren’t 9. (entire) in vain, for my voice has enable me to earn a fair livelihood. But that fact doesn’t begin to define the most debt 10. I owe my father.

Answer 1