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Some years ago I was offered a writing assignment that would require three m

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问题     Some years ago I was offered a writing assignment that would require three months ’of travel through Europe. I had been abroad a couple of times, but I could hardly 【S1】______ to know my way around the continent.’ Moreover, my knowledge of foreign languages was 【S2】______ to a little college French.
     I hesitated.  How would I, unable to speak the language, 【S3】______ unfamiliar with local geography or transportation systems, set up 【S4】______ and do research? It seemed impossible, and with considerable 【S5】______ I sat down to write a letter begging off. Halfway through, a thought ran through my mind: you can’t learn if you don’t try. So I accepted the assignment.
    There were some bad 【S6】______ . 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 【S7】______ bookings, confident that somehow I will manage.
    The point is that the new, the different, is almost by definition 【S8】______ . But each 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 【S9】______ . 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 【S10】______ wonders.

                              WORD BANK
       A) accomplish       I) manufacture       B) advanced         J) moments
       C) balloon          K) news              D) claim            L) reduced
       E) constantly       M) regret            F) declare          N) scary
       G) interviews       O) totally           H) limited
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答案 D
解析 could hardly claim to know．．．几乎无法自称知道……claim后常接动词不定式。
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