In the waning year of the nineteenth century, the Time Traveler is entertaining some friends after dinner with a discussion of time (31)_______. All things, he says, exist not only in length,breadth, and thickness, but in time as well. The only reason we cannot properly perceive the dimension of time is that (32)_____.
To correct this condition and to test his theories，the Time Traveler has constructed a machine designed to help him move backwards or forwards (33) ____________. He jolts his skeptical guests (a politician, a doctor, and a psychologist) when he shows them an actual model of the machine, (34) _____________. He persuades the psychologist to press a lever，and suddenly the model disappears. The Time Traveler tells his astonished guests that as soon as his machine is perfected (35)____________.
The next week the same group gathers at the Time Traveler’s house, joined by a newspaper editor. Their host is late for dinner, and (36)________. Can he actually have traveled into the future?
Suddenly the door bursts open and the Time Traveler appears, dirty，disheveled，and bedraggled, (37)_________. After he has cleaned up and dressed and they have all dined, he tells the guests his extraordinary story.
In the week (38)_，the Time Traveler perfected his machine. That very morning,strapping himself into the time machine, he took off (39)______. The travel was very uncomfortable, for the days and nights sped past in such rapid succession that his eyes hurt (40)________. Eventually, in the misty, strange world of the future, he brought his machine to a jolting halt and found himself in the year AD 802 701.
(From The Time Machine)
A.he hopes to launch himself into the future
B.we ourselves are moving in it
C.after demonstrating his model
D.from the alternating light and dark
E.as the fourth dimension
F.with a nasty cut on his chin
G.which has taken him two years to construct
H.like a rocket into the future
I.he wishes to get there in time
J. from one place to another
K.his guests wonder what is keeping him
L. through the centuries
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