Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension

　　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.

　　The method for making beer has changed over time. Hops (啤酒花), for example, which give many a modern beer its bitter flavor, are a ­ 26 recent addition to the beverage. This was mentioned in reference to brewing in the ninth century. Now, researchers have found a ­­­ 27 ingredient in residue (残留物) from 5000-year-old beer brewing equipment. While excavating two pits at a site in the central plains of China, scientists discovered fragments from pots and ve__ . 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 hypothesis, 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, 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 2000 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.

　　26I 27N 28M 29C 30O 31J 32E 33L 34A 35G

　　解析

　　选项词词性意义分析

　　A) Arrived [v-ed] 到达

　　B) Consuming [v-ing] 消费

　　C) Direct [adj.] 直接的

　　D) Exclusively [adv.] 排外地

　　E) Including [prep.] 包括

　　F) Inform [v.] 通知

　　G) Raw [adj.] 未加工的

　　H) Reached [v-ed] 达到

　　I) Relatively [adv.] 相对地

　　J) Remains [v.] 保留 [n.] 剩余物

　　K) Resources [n.] 资源

　　L) Staple [adj.] 主要的

　　M) Suggest [v.] 建议

　　N) Surprising [adj.] 令人惊讶的

　　O) Test [v.] 测试 / [n.] 测试

　　26I，由空格前的a和空格后的recent，可以判定空格处缺副词，所以在D和I里面选择，根据语义，应该选I，relatively。

　　27N，由空格后的ingredient，可以判定空格前缺形容词，根据语义，选N，surprising。

　　28M， 由空着前的container和空格后的they，可以判定空格处缺谓语动词，根据语义，选M，suggest。

　　29C，由空格前的earliest和空格后的evidence，可以判定空格处缺形容词，根据语义，选C，direct。

　　30O，由空格前的to和空格后的that，可以判定空格处缺动词原形，根据空格后的的hypnosis，选O，test，意为“为了验证这个假设”

　　31J，由空格前的dried可以判定空格处缺名词，根据语义，选J，remains(剩余物/沉淀物)

　　32E，由空格前的about 10% were bits of roots,以及空格后的lily，可以判定选E，including

　　33L，由空格前的a和空格后的food，可以判定空格处缺形容词，根据语义，选L，staple

　　34A，由空格前的may have和空格后的in the region可以判定空格处缺Ved，根据语义，选A，arrived

　　35G，由空格前的but as和空格后的material可以判定选项词为形容词，根据意义，选G，raw。