The Sun Is Also a Star is a truly lovely story of love, romance, fate, and destiny.

Natasha is a Jamaican-born immigrant living _26_ in America, not by choice exactly. Her parents brought her over and created the situation she _27_ to be out of.

Daniel is an American born of Korean immigrants. He believes in true love, fate, and all that other nonsense that Natasha _28_ through scientific reasoning.

Daniel and Natasha meet by _29_ on the streets of New York on the day that she is to be _30_ She doesn't tell him that but does allow him to keep her company while he tries to get her to fall in love with him over the course of the day.

Natasha is me. I found her so similar to myself. She's scientifically-minded, practical, somewhat cynical, and always _31 _ . Her obsession with the universe through a scientific lens is infectious and I _32_ Daniel seeing that too

Daniel is charming and passionate and has a way with words that even _33_ Natasha's tough outer shell By the end of the book I fell in love with both of them

I used to find romance stories to always be cheap or laughable. I think now I can see the value in escaping into a story of pure optimism. I got _34_ in The Sun Is Also a Star and finished it cover to cover in a weekend. I couldn't wait to get to what I hoped would be a happy ending.

It's nice every once in a while to give in to magic. It doesn't have to be a hard fantasy novel with actual spells, it can be the magic found between two people who just have that special something. That _35_ that causes them to react and spark when they' re near each other

A) adore

B) appraise

C) assaults

D) chemistry

E) coincidence

F) cracks

G) deported

H) dismisses

I) illegally

J) lost

K) perpetually

L) prescribed

M) shrewd

N) skeptical

0) strives

答案解析：

26. I living 是现在分词作后置定语，修饰 immigrant，空格处需要应填入一个副词，修饰 living。后文提到她将被 deported (驱逐出境)，这暗示了她的身份问题。空格所在句句意为“娜塔莎是一个牙买加出生的移民，‘非法地’生活在美国”。illegally 意为“非法地”，符合语境。

27. O ...the situation she _____ to be out of 是一个定语从句，从句主语是 she，空格处所填单词是谓语，所以此处应填入一个动词，且能与 to 构成不定式。根据时态，此处应为动词第三人称单数形式或过去式。但选项中 strives 是第三人称单数，符合描述她一贯的状态。空格所在句句意为“她父母带她过来，并造成了她‘努力’想要摆脱的处境”。strives to be out of 意为“努力想要摆脱”，符合人物不甘于现状的心情。

28. H ...that other nonsense that Natasha _____ through scientific reasoning 是一个定语从句，从句主语是 Natasha，空格处应填入一个动词，且主语是第三人称单数 Natasha，因此用动词第三人称单数形式。空格所在句句意为“娜塔莎通过科学推理‘不屑一顾’的那些胡说八道”。dismisses 意为“不予理会，摒弃”，符合她科学、务实的性格。

29. E by 是介词，空格处应填入一个名词。空格所在句句意为“丹尼尔和娜塔莎在纽约街头‘偶然’相遇”。by coincidence 是固定搭配，意为“偶然地，碰巧”，符合故事情节。

30. G is to be 后面跟动词的过去分词，表示将来时的被动，空格处应填入一个过去分词。结合第上一题的分析，她非法移民的身份，所以面临被“驱逐出境”的命运。deported 意为“被驱逐”，符合语境。

31. N 空格处与 scientifically-minded, practical, cynical (愤世嫉俗的) 并列，都是描述她性格的词，空格处应填入一个形容词。前文提到她用科学推理来否定真爱和命运，说明她是一个“怀疑论者”。skeptical 意为“怀疑的”，符合人物性格。更多资料请微信搜索英语巴士小程序。

32. A I 是主语，空格处是谓语，空格处应填入一个动词原形。空格所在句句意为“我‘喜爱’丹尼尔也看到了这一点”。作者对两个角色都充满了喜爱之情，adore 意为“非常喜欢，崇拜”，符合作者强烈的情感。

33. F that 指代丹尼尔的言语魅力，空格处是谓语动词，空格处应填入一个动词第三人称单数形式。空格所在句句意为“甚至‘打破’了娜塔莎坚硬的外壳”。cracks 在这里意为“打破(沉默、僵局等)”，生动地描述了丹尼尔的话语融化了娜塔莎的防备。

34. J got 是系动词，构成 get + 形容词 结构，表示状态的变化，空格处应填入一个形容词。lost 可作形容词，意为“沉迷的，陶醉的”。空格所在句句意为“我‘沉迷于’《太阳也是一颗星》这本书”。get lost in 是一个常用短语，意为“沉浸于，沉迷于”，符合作者一口气读完书的描述。

35. D That 是主语，空格处是主语的核心词，后面跟一个 that 引导的定语从句，空格处应填入一个名词。空格所在句句意为“那种让他们在彼此靠近时产生反应和火花的‘化学反应’”。chemistry 在此语境中特指人与人之间的默契、吸引力或“化学反应”，完美地解释了两人之间的特殊感觉。