Question

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

People eat rice all over the world

Rice is believed to have been first grown in China or possibly somewhere else in eastern Asia around 10,000 years ago. The earliest evidence of rice farming comes from a 7,000-year-old site near the lower Yangtze River village of Hemudu in Zhejiang province in China.

Rice is a kind of food which requires much labor. In developed countries, the planting and harvesting is done 1. (most) with machines.2., in much of the world, these things are still largely done by hand. It takes one farmer 1,000 to 2,000 working hours 3. (raise) a rice crop on 2.5 acres of land. The fact that rice 4. (need) so much labor means 5. (keep) a lot of the population on the land.

Rice is also a crop6. need of lots of water. The wet rice 7. (grow) in most of Asia needs hot weather after a period of rain and conditions provided by the Asian 8. (rain) seasons affect many places 9. rice is grown.

Rice straws (稻杆) 10. (leave)in the fields add nutrients (营养物) to the soil after rice is harvested. For the next crop, rice farmers can often enjoy a good harvest by adding little or no fertilizer (肥料).

Answer

1. mostly

2. However

3. to raise

4. needs

5. keeping

6. in

7. grown

8. rainy

9. where

10. left

【解析】

本文是一篇说明文。文章介绍全世界的人都吃的水稻的种植及生长。

1.考查副词。句意：在发达国家，种植和收获主要是用机器完成的。此处是副词修饰动词，故答案为mostly。

2.考查副词。句意：然而，在世界上许多地方，这些事情仍然主要是手工完成的。与上句构成一种转折关系，因为有“，”，故答案为However。

3.考查固定句式。句意：固定句式：It takes sb. some time to do sth.“做某事花费某人多长时间”，故答案为to raise。

4.考查时态。句意：水稻需要这么多劳动力这一事实意味着要让大量人口留在土地上。此处that引导的同位语从句中用一般现在时态，主语是The fact，单数第三人称形式，故答案为needs。

5.考查动名词作宾语。句意：水稻需要这么多劳动力这一事实意味着要让大量人口留在土地上。mean doing sth.“意味着做某事”，此处是动名词作宾语，故答案为keeping。

6.考查词组。句意：水稻也是一种需要大量水分的作物。固定词组：in need of“需要”，故答案为in。

7.考查过去分词。句意：亚洲大部分地区种植的水稻在一段时间的降雨后需要炎热的天气，并且亚洲雨季所提供的条件影响许多种植水稻的地方。此处rice 和grow之间是被动关系，是过去分词作后置定语，故答案为grown。

8.考查形容词。句意：亚洲大部分地区种植的水稻在一段时间的降雨后需要炎热的天气，并且亚洲雨季所提供的条件影响许多种植水稻的地方。此处是形容词修饰名词，故答案为rainy。

9.考查定语从句。句意：亚洲大部分地区种植的水稻在一段时间的降雨后需要炎热的天气，并且亚洲雨季所提供的条件影响许多种植水稻的地方。此处places作先行词，在后面的定语从句中作地点状语，故答案为where。

10.考查过去分词作后置定语。句意：田里剩下的稻秆在水稻收割后为土壤增加养分。此处Rice straws 和leave之间是一种被动关系，所以这里是过去分词作后置定语，故答案为left。