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【题目】During most of the Stone Age, people lived by hunting and gathering their food in Egypt. They traveled【1】 place to place in the Nile Valley, harvesting wild grasses, digging up roots, and finding bird eggs. They fished in the Nile River and gathered reeds (芦苇杆) from its shores 【2】 (make) baskets.

By around 10,000 BC, Egypt had gotten so【3】(crowd) that people were forced to begin growing their own food. People also began to keep cows, sheep and pigs that they【4】. (possible) bought from their West Asian neighbors. This is【5】we call the Agricultural Revolution today.

But farming brought many other【6】 (change) too. Once people started planting crops, they had to defend the land【7】their crops were. There was more fighting. Soon people began to band together into larger communities that could fight better. They chose leaders. 【8】(see) the advantages that farming brought them, those leaders forced more and more people to start farming and settle down under their leadership.

Around 3,500 BC, donkeys【9】(use) to carry ivory and gold north into Egypt, and to carry Egyptian things south to Sudan and Kenya. That made both places 【10】(rich) than they were before. Together, the trade and the farming helped to start the Old Kingdom.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】from

【2】to make

【3】crowded

【4】possibly

【5】what

【6】changes

【7】where

【8】seeing

【9】were used

【10】richer

【解析】文章介绍了埃及人生活方式的发展变化过程。

【1】考查介词。from…to…意为“从……到……”，是固定搭配。

【2】考查非谓语动词。句意：他们在Nile River里钓鱼，收割岸边的芦苇杆来制造篮子。to make baskets是目的状语。

【3】考查形容词。crowded是形容词，做get的表语。

【4】考查副词。possibly是副词，修饰动词buy。

【5】考查名词性从句。“___5___we call the Agricultural Revolution today”是标语从句，该从句中，call少宾语，故该从句应用what引导。

【6】考查名词。many修饰可数名词复数，故该空填changes。

【7】考查定语从句。“____ their crops were”是定语从句，修饰the land，the land在从句中做表语，表地点，故该从句应用关系副词where引导。

【8】“___8___(see) the advantages that farming brought them”在句中做状语，主语those leaders和see之间是主动关系，故该空应填现在分词。

【9】考查时态和语态。该句时间状语为“Around 3,500 BC”，故该句应用一般过去时态。且主语donkeys和use之间是被动关系，根据主谓一致原则，该空填were used。

【10】该空做make的宾语补足语，故应填形容词，且根据后面的than可知，该空应填rich的比较级。