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　　The method for making beer has changed over time. Hops, 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, funnels, amphorae, and stoves (stove fragment pictured). The different shapes of the containers _____(28)they were used to brew, filter, and store beer.They may be ancient “beer-making toolkits,” and the earliest _____(29)evidence of beer brewing in China, the researchers report online today 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 millet and barley(大麦), and about 10% were bits of roots, _____(32)likely, 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 suggest barley may have _____(34)in the region not as food, but as_____(35)material for beer brewing beer.

　　A.Arrived

　　B.consuming

　　C.direct

　　D.exclusively

　　E.including

　　F.infrom

　　G.raw

　　H.reached

　　I.relatively

　　J.remains

　　K.resources

　　L.staple

　　M.surprising

　　N.suggest

　　O.Test

　　参考答案：

　　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。