2024年6月六级 第2套 Section A 选词填空

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.