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【题干】【完形填空题】In the waning year of the nineteenth century，the Time Traveler is entertaining somefriends after dinner with a discussion of time as the fourth dimension. All things,he says,exist not only in length, (51)_, and thickness,but in time as well. The only (52)
we cannot properly perceive the dimension of time is that we ourselves are moving
in it.
To correct this condition and to (53)____ his theories，the Time Traveler hasconstructed a machine designed to help him move backwards or (54)_.._ through thecenturies. He jolts his skeptical guests (a politician, a doctor,and a psychologist) when heshows them an actual model of the machine,which has taken him two years to construct. Hepersuades the psychologist to press a lever, and suddenly the (55).
__ disappears.The
Time Traveler tells his astonished guests that as soon as his machine is perfected he hopes tolaunch himself into the future.
The next week the same group gathers at the Time Traveler's house，joined by anewspaper editor. Their (56)____ is late for dinner，and his guests wonder what iskeeping him. Can he (57)____ have traveled into the future?
Suddenly the door bursts open and the Time Traveler (58).. , dirty, disheveled,and bedraggled, with a nasty cut on his chin. After he has cleaned up and dressed and theyhave all dined, he tells the guests his extraordinary story.
In the week after demonstrating his model, the Time Traveler perfected his machine.That very morning, strapping himself into the time machine, he took off like a (59).
into the future. The travel was very (60)__., for the days and nights sped past in suchrapid succession that his eyes hurt from the alternating light and dark.Eventually, in the misty,strange world of the future, he brought his machine to a jolting halt and found himself in theyear AD 802 701.
(From The Time Machine)

【题目】【完形填空题】51.

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