Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices, Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
Questions 26 to 35 are based on the following passage.
The method for making beer has changed over time. Hops (啤酒花)，for example, which give many a modem beer its bitter flavor, are a (26)_______ recent addition to the beverage. This was first mentioned in reference to brewing in the ninth century. Now, researchers have found a (27)_______ingredient in residue (残留物) from 5,000-year-old beer brewing equipment. While digging two pits at a site in the central plains of China, scientists discovered fragments from pots and vessels. The different shapes of the containers (28)_______they were used to brew, filter, and store beer. They may be ancient “beer-making tools,” and the earliest (29_______evidence of beer brewing in China, the researchers reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. To (30)_______that theory, the team examined the yellowish, dried (31)_______inside the vessels. The majority of the grains, about 80%, were from cereal crops like barley (大麦),and about 10% were bits of roots, (32)_______lily, which would have made the beer sweeter, the scientists say. Barley was an unexpected find: the crop was domesticated in Western Eurasia and didn't become a (33)_______food in central China until about 2,000 years ago, according to the researchers. Based on that timing, they indicate barley may have (34)_______ in the region not as food, but as (35)_______material for beer brewing.
A) arrived | B) consuming | C) direct | D) exclusively |
E) including | F) inform | G) raw | H) reached |
I) relatively | J) remains | K)resources | L) staple |
M) suggest | N) surprising | O) test |
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答案解析：
26. 根据“Hops (啤酒花)，for example, which give many a modem beer its bitter flavor, are a...recent addition to the beverage.”，这里说啤酒花给现代啤酒带来苦味，是啤酒相对较晚才加入的成分，I选项“relatively”(相对地)符合语境，所以选I。
27. 根据“Now, researchers have found a...ingredient in residue (残留物) from 5,000-year-old beer brewing equipment.”，从5000年前的啤酒酿造设备残留物中发现一种成分，结合前文说啤酒花是较晚加入的，这里发现的成分应该是令人惊讶的，N选项“surprising”(令人惊讶的)符合，所以选N。
28. 根据“The different shapes of the containers...they were used to brew, filter, and store beer.”，容器不同形状表明了它们的用途，M选项“suggest”(表明，暗示)符合，所以选M。
29. 根据“They may be ancient ‘beer - making tools,’ and the earliest...evidence of beer brewing in China”，这里说它们可能是古代酿酒工具，是中国酿酒最早的直接证据，C选项“direct”(直接的)符合，所以选C。
30. 根据“To...that theory, the team examined the yellowish, dried...inside the vessels.”，为了验证这个理论，团队检查了容器内黄褐色的干燥物，O选项“test”(测试，验证)符合，所以选O。
31. 根据“the team examined the yellowish, dried...inside the vessels.”，检查的是容器内黄褐色的干燥残留物，J选项“remains”(残留物)符合，所以选J。
32. 根据“about 10% were bits of roots,...lily, which would have made the beer sweeter”，这里说大约10%是根的碎片，包括百合，E选项“including”(包括)符合，所以选E。
33. 根据“Barley was an unexpected find: the crop was domesticated in Western Eurasia and didn't become a...food in central China until about 2,000 years ago”，大麦直到大约2000年前才成为中国中部的主食，L选项“staple”(主要的，常用的，staple food主食)符合，所以选L。
34. 根据“Based on that timing, they indicate barley may have...in the region not as food”，根据时间判断，大麦可能到达这个地区不是作为食物，A选项“arrived”(到达)符合，所以选A。
35. 根据“but as...material for beer brewing.”，而是作为酿酒的原材料，G选项“raw”(生的，未加工的，raw material原材料)符合，所以选G。
