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优质外刊《卫报》完形填空改编七⼋

（七）

Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phras marked A, B,C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phra that best fits the context.

Scientists identify vast underground ecosystem

The earth is far more alive than (1)_____ thought, according to "deep life" studies that reveal a rich ecosystem beneath our feet that is almost twice the size of that found in all the worlds oceans Despite extreme heat, no light, minuscule nutrition and inten pressure, scientists estimate this subterranean biosphere is teeming with between 15bn and 23bn tonnes of micro-organisms, hundreds of times the combined weight of every human on the planet.

Rearchers at the Deep Carbon Obrvatory say the (2)____ of underworld species bears comparison to the Amazon or the Galapagos Islands, but unlike tho places the environment is still largely original becau people have yet to (3)____ most of the subsurface

羊肉汤的制作The team combines 1, 200 scientists from 52 countries in (4)_____ ranging from geology and microbiol

ogy to chemistry and physics. A year before the conclusion of their10-year study, they will （5）____ an amalgamation(e G )of findings to date before the American Geophysical Unions annual meeting opens this week.

Samples were taken from boreholes more than 5km deep and undera drilling sites to construct (6)_____ of the ecosystem and estimate how much living carbon it might contain.

One organism found 2. 5km below the surface has been buried for millions of years and may not (7)____ at all on energy from the sun. Instead, the methanogen has found way to create methane in this low (8)_____ environment, which it may not u tore produce or divide, but to replace or repair broken parts. The strangest thing is that some organisms can exist for millennia. They are metabolically active but in stasis, with less energy than we thought possible of (9)____ life.

Rick Colwell, a microbial ecologist at Oregon State University, said the timescales of subterranean life were completely different. Some microorganisms have been alive for thousands of years, barely moving except for (10)____ in the tectonic plates, earthquakes or eruptions. Underworld biospheres vary depending on geology and geography. Their combined size is estimated to be more than 2bn cubic kilometres, but this could be (11)____ further in the future The rearchers said their discoveri

es were made possible by two technical advances drills that can penetrate far deeper below the Earth’s crust, and improvements in microscopes that allow life to be (12)____ at increasingly minute levels.

The scientists have been trying to find a lower limit beyond which life cannot exist, but the deeper they dig the more life they find. There is a temperature maximum- currently 122C-but the rearchers believe this record will be broken if they keep exploring and developing more (13)____ instruments.

Mysteries remain, including whether life colonis up from the depths or down from the surface, how the microbes (14)____ chemical process, and what this might reveal about how life and the Earth co-evolved

The scientists say some findings enter the realm of philosophy and exobiology -the study of extraterrestrial life. Robert, a mineralogist at the Carnegie Institution for Science, said: "We must ask ourlves: if life on Earth can be this different from what experience has led us to expect, then what strangeness might (15)____ as we probe for life on other worlds?”

1. A. comparatively B. dramatically C. elegantly D. previously

2. A. variety B. diversity C. variability D. transformation

3. A. distinguish B. faint C. probe D. drain

4. A. disciplines B. subjects C. regions D. branches

字母网名5. A. deliberate B. expo C. prent D. promote

6. A. patterns B. models C. imitations D. assumptions

7. A. rely B. focus C. concentrate D. touch

8. A. nutrition B. element C. fuel D. energy

9. A. earning B. support C. breeding D. generating

10. A. conditions B. stabilities C. shifts D. transmissions

11. A. extended B. expanded C. calculated D. tempted

12. A. scratched B. mortgaged C. monitored D. detected

李嘉欣整容

13. A. sophisticated B. feasible C. preci D. rough

14. A. stick to B. strive for C. interact with D. e to

15. A. await B. alter C. era D. knit

词汇详解

Minuscule /mIna, skju: 1/

ADJ If you describe something as minuscule, you mean that it is very small. 极⼩的

例:

The film was shot in 17 days, a minuscule amount of time

这部电影⽤了短短的17天就拍摄完成了.

teem /ti: m/ ( teeming, teemed, teems)

V-I If you say that a place is teeming with people or animals, you mean that it is crowded and the people and animals are moving around a lot. 挤满

例：

For most of the year, the area is teeming with tourists.

⼀年的⼤部分时间⾥这个地⽅都挤满了游客

bears comparison to

⽐得上；可与…相娆美

【答案】：DBCAC BADBC BDACA

（⼋）

Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phras marked A, B,C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phra that best fits the context

Country diary: a chainsaw massacre in the alder woods

On an overcast, drizzly afternoon at Durham wildlife Trust,'s Low Barns nature (1)____, alder provided the brightest splash of colour in the (2)____.

A tree had been felled and sawn into (3)____. Chainsaw wounds on this species can look like a massacre, becau soon after the timber is cut, it turns a lurid shade of red, almost like blood, in

stark contrast to the battleship-grey bark.（4）____tho wounds, which briefly (5)____ raw meat, fade to orange and finally to chestnut brown.

When this rerve was established half a century ago, around old gravel pits (采沙场), some moisture-loving alders were planted to help (6)____ a bare, windswept site. Alder wood is one of the finest sources of charcoal, and the plantation trees are old enough now to be coppiced, to produce barbecue fuel.

There is also an important natural alder wood here, created by a cataclysm almost two and a half centuries ago, which led to the designation of the rerve as a site of special scientific interest勤勉的近义词

The Great Flood of 1771 (7)_____ Weardale, washing away bridges all the way to the coast. When the water subsided, the cour of the River Wear had half (8)____a mile south, and the old riverbed became what is now the rerve's Long Alder Wood, the finest example of its kind in the region. When it sometimes floods, this tangle of gnarled(苍劲嶙峋的) trees has a (9)____of the Florida Everglades(佛罗⾥达⼤沼泽) about it, with mossy, fallen trunks sinking back into the ooze (淤泥). Ye

round, there are wonderful (10)____ to watch birds from an embankment level with the tree canopy. This afternoon an acrobatic flock of 30 goldfinches(⾦翅雀) (11)____ and chattered through the twigs, feeding on tiny eds that fall from the woody cones.

Sadly, since the mid-1990s, another (12)___ has befallen this locally (13)____woodland: alder dieback dia has killed around half the mature trees, Coppicing is leading to some regeneration, though in this precious (14)____ dead timber is allowed to lay where it falls, rerved for the needs of a (15)____ community of fungi, invertebrates and woodpeckers, rather than back-garden burger-flippers on summer evenings.

1. A. rerve B. prerve C. conrve D. derve

2. A. scene B. view C. scope D. landscape

3. A. logs B. materials C. resources D. sources

4. A. Everlastingly B Eventually C. Continually D .Sustainably

5. A. asmble B. prent C. overcast D. remble

6. A. rejuvenate B. revegetate C. reform D. remain

7. A gone through B got through C swept through D. cut through

8. A. changed B. shifted C. reverd D. revid

9. A. clue B. plot C. evidence D. hint

10. A. opportunities B. possibilities C. alternatives D. probabilities

11. A. schemed B. crawled C. bounced D. scattered

12 A. misfortune B. catastrophe C. tback D. adversity

13. A. unique B. peculiar C. especial D. particular

14. A. frontier B. territory C. habitat D. boundary

15. A. various B. versatile C. multiple D. diver

长白山大峡谷

词汇详解

overcast

adj. 阴天的：阴暗的：愁闷的vt. 使沮丧; 遮蔽

For three days it was overcast.连着三天都是阴天。lurid

adj.可怕的，耸⼈听闻的:⽕烧似的：苍⽩的:⾎红的;

fade

n.[电影电视]淡出;[电影][电视]淡⼊

adj.平淡的：乏味的

珠海社保电话

vi.褪⾊：凋谢：逐渐消失