2019 届高三英语一模汇编——完形填空
1、2019 黄浦一模
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.
Keeping The Taps Running in Thirsty Cities
Water covers 71% of Earth’s surface yet only 2% of it is accessible as a source of fresh water. ___41___ on this
limited resources is rising, a trend likely to continue.
It is important to recognize that it is not just city residents who ___42___ water. Agriculture, industry and 珍惜时间的演讲稿tourism
often require more water than the municipal water supply. Globally, 70% of fresh water is ___43___ for agriculture, but
locally政治经济学考研 in heavily irrigated（灌溉）areas this can increa to 90%. A healthy environment also requires fresh water, and
the quality of available water is as important as its ___44___.
Water stress is not always caud by physical shortages in dry areas. ___45___ for water resources between
different urs within river catchments or basins can also be a cau.
Every thirsty city operates within its own 呵护肠胃context, ___46___ to the challenge of providing adequate water supplies.
Cape Town, ___47___, has faced three years of drought during which winter rains failed to materialize. At the end of the
2017 rainy ason the好运当头 city faced the ___48___ of its dams running dry during 2018. The dams were only 37% full—in
the same week four years before they were full to the top. In January 2018, it was ___49___ that Cape Town would reach
Day Zero, when it would be forced to turn off the taps, in April. This was despite the city reducing its water u by more
than half, from 1.2 billion litres a day in 2015 to fewer than 600 million litres, and working ___50___ with industry and
agriculture to reduce demand.
On February 1, the authorities put in place a strict limit of 50 litres of water per person per day. ___51___, in Britainthis is considered enough for a five-minute shower of half a washing machine cycle on full load.
In addition, a ban was placed on using ___52___ water for gardens, water management devices were installed athouhold with a high water u and the water pressure was reduced to cut demand and leaks. At the same, the citylaunched a media ___53___ to change habits and introduced higher duties. This is not without its costs; agriculture andtourism, both significant areas of employment, have ___54___. It is a classic example of the problem of watereconomics—the cost of water is low but the cost of a lack of water is very旧玩具 high.
Cris such as the Cape Town drought are in danger of becoming the new维尼简笔画 norm. The ___55___ of Day Zero mustrve as a wake-up call for cities across the world to develop cost-effective water management strategies to cope with anuncertain future.
41. A. Impact B. Pressure C. Impression D. Obrvation
42. A. recycle B. waste C. consume D. apply
43. A. restored B. abstracted C. parated D. prerved
44.竹子的简笔画 A. change B. source C. origin D. volume
江西省大学45. A. Competition B. Protection C. Construction D. Regulation
46. A. contributing B. regarding C. responding D. referring
47. A. in addition B. for example C. on the contrary D. as a result
48. A. prospect B. illustration C. symptom D. curity
49. A. reported B. prented C. predicted D. explained
50. A. respectively B. increasingly C. restrictively D. extensively
51. A. By comparison B. In other words C. To our surpri D. What’s more
52. A. feasible B. drinkable C. inevitable D. influential
53. A. campaign B. statement C. prentation D. advertiment
54. A. invaded B. liberated C. suffered D. proceeded
55. A. change B. theory C. record D. threat
答案：41--45 BCBDA 46--50 CBACD 51--55 ABACD
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