根据课文内容填空(每空不限词数；共12个空格，每空格0.5分，满分6分)

NCE 1

Imagine a star _____1_____ twenty times larger, brighter and hotter than our own sun. A planet would have to be a very long way from it to _____2_____ supporting life.

NCE 2

...All the cattle had been moved into stalls and we _____3_____ little. ...As the floods had put the telephone _____4_____, we could not find out how they were managing.

NCE 3

I hired a car the day after landing and bought a ____5_____ book of maps, which I found most helpful on the _____6_____ journey, but which I did not...

NCE 58

It was _____7_____ then that burglars had forced an entry during her absence. ... but then she decided that at her age it might be more prudent to have someone with her, so she went to _____8_____ porter from his basement.

NCE 4

It provides relaxation for leisure hours, as just _____9_____ is always a joy. ... This hobby educates one not only in the chosen subject, but also in general matters which have _____10_____ it.

NCE 5

Only in a sparsely-populated _____11_____ community is it possible to

disregard it....The intellectual, who is working on some abstruse problem, has everything coordinated and organized _____12______.