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  3. When children—and older people who should know better—think of pirates, they think of storybook characters.The most 【C1】fa______

When children—and older people who should know better—think of pirates, they think of storybook characters.The most 【C1】fa______

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问题         When children—and older people who should know better—think of pirates, they think of storybook characters.The most 【C1】fa__________ of these are Long John Silver in Treasure Island and Captain Hook in Peter Pan.These and other pirates sailed the seas in sailing ships and their flag was the "skull and crossbones." They robbed other ships and led exciting and 【C2】__________ （adventure） lives.They lived more than a hundred years ago and, although they were notorious, they were not completely wicked.This is the 【C3】__________（real） idea of pirates.The truth is very different.First, most pirates bore no 【C4】 res__________ to the storybook characters.They didn’t just rob other ships—they were murderers of the worst kind who killed for no【C5】rea __________.Second, pirates are not a thing of the past.There are probably as many—if not more-pirates on the seas today as there were in the past.Nowadays, however, they neither travel in sailing ships nor use swords.Modern pirates use fast motorboats and have machine guns and other 【C6】wea__________, which they use to kill the sailors and passengers on the ships that they attack.While pirates in history were usually caught and punished, most modern pirates are 【C7】ne__________caught because they are fast and there are too many of them.

        Modern piracy is so serious that American sailing magazines urge their readers to take guns with them—the bigger, the 【C8】__________.They also advise them to have the most modern radios.Because many people have had problems with pirates, they don’t talk about the fish that they have caught or the【C9】__________（excite） of sailing anymore.They talk about machine guns and bullets and their escapes from pirate attacks.When we, therefore, think of pirates, we should not have 【C10】rom__________ ideas.We should remember that they are really some of the most dangerous and wicked men in the history of sea travel.
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答案resemblance
解析 空格所在句的意思是首先,大多数海盗和故事书中的角色没有相似之处,空格前是no，可知空格处应填一个名词,由给出的单词部分可知本题应填resemblance。
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