【明報專訊】The Smarties have discovered that they cannot avoid fighting with Eason even they are on a time travel journey. How sad it is!

Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the following words.

element / escape /desire / character

Do you love the idea of (1)______________ to another place in time? If you do, you would surely love reading time travel novels. Time travel is a common (2)______________ of fiction. For instance, it is included in A Christmas Carol and Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban.

In these novels, there are usually devices which help their (3)______________ to travel to the past or future. They may step through a magic door or wardrobe like the characters in The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe or make use of a machine which take them to the places they (4)______________ to go to.

■English highway-words and collocations

"For instance" has the same meaning as "for example".

e.g. He's not a punctual person. For instance, he was an hour late for the meeting yesterday.

■Vocab Cards

Collect them all!

journey (n) 旅程

amazed (adj) 感到驚奇

time machine (n) 時光機

forward (adv) 向前

■Glossary

in time (prep phr) 及時

device (n) 器具

best-selling (adj) 暢銷的

rescue (v) 營救