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.
Ships are often sunk in order to create underwater reefs (暗礁)perfect for scuba diving (水肺式潜泳)and preserving marine 26 Turkish authorities have just sunk something a little different than a ship, and it wouldn’t normally ever touch water, an Airbus A300. The hollowed-out A300 was 27 of everything potentially harmful to the environment and sunk off the Aegean coast today. Not only will the sunken plane 28 the perfect skeleton for artificial reef growth, tut authorities hope this new underwater attraction will bring tourists to the area.
The plane 29 a total length of 54 meters, where experienced scuba divers will 30 be able to venture through the cabin and around the plane’s 31 . Aydin Municipality bought the plane from a private company for just under US$100,000, but they hope to see a return on that 32 through the tourism industry. Tourism throughout Turkey is expected to fall this year as the country has been the 33 of several deadly terrorist attacks. As far as sunken planes go, this Airbus A300 is the largest 34 sunk aircraft ever.
Taking a trip underwater and 35 the inside of a sunken A300 would be quite an adventure, and that is exactly what Turkish authorities are hoping this attraction will make people think. drawing in adventure seekers and experienced divers, this new artificial Airbus reef will be a scuba diver’s paradise (天堂).
A) create I) intentionally
B) depressed J) investment
C) eventually K) revealing
D) experiences L) stretches
E) exploring M) stripped
F) exterior N) territory
G) habitats O) victim
H) innovate
答案解析：
26. 根据“preserving marine...”，可知此处需要表示“海洋栖息地”的名词，所以选 G 。
27. 根据“The hollowed-out A300 was...of everything potentially harmful to the environment”，可知飞机被清除了所有可能对环境有害的东西，“strip of”表示“去除，剥夺”，符合语境，所以选 M stripped 。
28. 根据“the perfect skeleton for artificial reef growth”，可知沉没的飞机将“创造”出人工礁石生长的完美骨架，所以选 A 。
29. 根据“a total length of 54 meters”，可知此处需要表示“延伸，伸展”的动词，所以选 L 。
30. 根据“experienced scuba divers will...be able to venture through the cabin”，可知有经验的潜水员将“最终”能够冒险穿过机舱，所以选 C eventually 。
31. 根据“around the plane’s...”，可知此处需要表示飞机“外部”的名词，所以选 F 。
32. 根据“they hope to see a return on that...through the tourism industry”，可知他们希望通过旅游业从这项“投资”中获得回报，所以选 J 。
33. 根据“as the country has been the...of several deadly terrorist attacks”，可知这个国家成为了几次致命恐怖袭击的“受害者”，所以选 O 。
34. 根据“this Airbus A300 is the largest...sunk aircraft ever”，可知这架空客A300是有史以来被“故意”沉没的最大的飞机，所以选 I 。
35. 根据“Taking a trip underwater and...the inside of a sunken A300”，可知此处需要表示“探索”沉没的A300内部的动词，所以选 E 。
