题目内容：

默写：按照背书的内容填空，每空可填不止一个单词。

Lesson 36 NCE Book 3

We are   1. than we used to be. In the nineteenth century, a novelist would bring his story to a conclusion by presenting his readers with   2.—most of them wildly improbable. Readers happily    3.   that an obscure maidservant was really the hero’s mother. A long-lost brother, who    4.   , was really alive all the time and wickedly plotting to bring about the hero’s downfall. And so on. Modern readers would find 5.  totally unacceptable. …