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华师二附中高二年级 3 月考英语测试题
(90 分钟,满分 100 分)
II.Grammar and Vocabulary(20%)
Section A(10%)
Directions:After reading the passagebelow,fill in the blanks to make the passage
coherent and grammatically correct.For the blanks with a given word,fill in each
blank with the proper form of the given word;for the other blanks,use one word that
best fits each blank.
When Jack Homer is on the job, he lives in a tent.And he hunts from sunup
to sundown (21)the plains of Montana.
When Im walking around the field looking for things, I run across snakes
and, occasionally, grizzly bears, Homer says.Horner is curator of paleontology
(古生物学)at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana. Or, to put it
another way, he is a dinosaur hunter.
Horner finds dinosaurs in the forms of fossilized bones.He uses these bones
to help scientists understand (22)dinosaurs lived when they ruled the earth
more than 65 million years ago.
Dinosaur bones are usually buried in rock.To locate a good spot to hunt for
them,Horner uses a geologic map. I just look up the geologic age (23)
dinosaurs lived, Horner says.I look on the map (24) (see) where that
rock is exposed at the surface of the ground.And then I walk around those areas
looking for bones. Later, trained workers go to the dig site.They dig out
the bones (25) (use) tools as big as jack hammers and as small as
dental picks.Then they take the bones, (26)(wrap) in plaster casts for
protection, back to the museum.
Horner is so good at finding and interpreting dinosaur bones that he
(27) (consider)one of the leading paleontologists in the world.In 1978,
he discovered the first nest of baby dinosaurs ever found.The nest was the first
evidence that Dinosaurs cared for (28) young. Horner s discovery put
paleontologists into a new area of understanding dinosaur behavior. Paleontologists
got to know how
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