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【正文】 to read stories about exciting journeys and quests. I usually don39。m ready to (40) almost any book, no matter how long! Your answer Correct answer (31) remendation remendation (32) adventurer adventurer (33) stereotypical stereotypical (34) gratuitous gratuitous (35) confront confront (36) enlightenment enlightenment (37) sacrifice sacrifice (38) undoing undoing (39) desperately desperately (40) tackle tackle Part III: Reading ComprehensionQuestions 41 to 45 are based on the following passage. It is difficult, by sheer popularity and fame of the story, to read or listen to Charles Dickens39。s standards) message: seize the day and take advantage of all that life has to offer. The reader is left with the notion that, within all of us, there exist qualities that can be improved to unknowable benefit, and it is our responsibility to make necessary improvements in order to realize those benefits. We see, in Ebenezer Scrooge, an individual almost entirely consumed by greed with little or no worries for the rest of humanity. He is, obviously, an extreme case with whom it is difficult to identify. His days are spent in concentration over his money and how best to underuse it, and his life has been wasted on this cause. He squanders his days while those around him, such as his nephew and Bob Cratchit, attempt to live their lives and make them worthwhile. When Marley visits Scrooge in his bedroom, he explains what will soon happen and why and says, It is required of every man, that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellowmen, and travel far and wide. Marley never did this and is condemned to walk forever in chains after death. Scrooge, also, has never done this, and his visits with the three ghosts are meant to awaken that inside of him which has been dead all his life. Scrooge39
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