牛津英语译林9A精英班( Unit 1)拓展培优训练(教师(15)

9A Unit 1精英班拓展培优训练（教师版+学生版）

To walk around their small home and imagine the angry storm outside beating a(6)_____ the walls, is to take a step towards understanding the lives they had. The reasons for visiting a lighthouse are not all so

backward-looking in time. It is t(7)____ that lighthouses were in out-of-the-way places. But on a pleasant sunny summer day, this very loneliness has a natural beauty that many people will love to e(8)______.Therefore, with the gentle waves touching all round the lighthouse, the visitor is likely to think it is a world preferable to the busy and noisy modem life.

Another reason for considering a visit is that the lighthouses t(9)____ can be very attractive buildings. Mankind could often not be content just to put up a basic structure, but felt the need, even in such an isolated place, to build with an artistic touch.

F(10)______, lighthouses have a romantic attraction, summed up by the image of the oil-skin coaled keeper climbing his winding stairs to take care of the light to warn ships and save lives.

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