2017届四川省广安二中高考英语一轮完形填空训练（7）及答案_高考复习指南

2017届四川省广安二中高考英语一轮完形填空训练（7）及答案

　　38．A．solve B．aC．seek D．analyse

　　39．A．affairs B．choices C．cases D．events

　　40．A．obtain B．attain C．provide D．prefer

　　—40、BCBAC

　　ABDBD

　　ACAAC

　　DDACC

　　【上海市长宁、嘉定区2017模拟】 Section A

　　Directions:

　　For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D.

　　Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.

　　Archaeologists are scientists who search for clues that help form a clearer picture of the lives people led in the past. Archaeology is a modern science, but it has been ___51___ for centuries. More than 2,400 years ago, the Greek historian Herodotus described the Egyptian pyramids and other monuments. He may have been the first writer to consider that remains and ___52___ could provide information for ___53___ generations. For more than a thousand years, however, such ___54___ were observers rather than researchers.

　　In the 1700s, scientists and adventurers from a variety of countries traveled ___55___ to explore ancient sites. Digs that are still ___56___ began in 1709 at Herculaneum, an Italian city buried in ash during the explosion of Mount Vesuvius in A. D. 79. The Danish scholar Carsten Niebuhr visited the ruins of Persepolis in the Middle East in 1765 to study cuneiform writing (楔形文字). ___57___, archaeology didn’t become a widely recognized science and schools didn’t recognize the subject as a scholarly pursuit until the 19th century. The term itself was ___58___ in 1837. It comes from a Latin word meaning “the study of antiquities (古物).” One of the first archaeologists to use a scientific approach to the discipline was Heinrich Schliemann of Germany, who in the late 1800s ___59___ the ancient civilization of the city of Troy.