外研必修高中英语1-4册课文完形专练(8)
SB4 MODULE 5 A Trip Along the Three Gorges
In August 1996, Peter Hessler, a young American teacher of English, arrived in the town of Fuling on the Yangtze River. He and a _______(同事)were to spend two years there _______(teach) English at a teacher training college. They were the only foreigners in the town. The first semester finished at the end of January and they had four weeks ______ for the Spring Festival. They could go anywhere they wished. They decided to take a boat downstream.
We decided to buy tickets _______ the Jiangyou boat. Our ________(同事) said, “You shouldn’t go on those ships. They are very crowded. They are mainly for goods and people _________(trade) along the river. They don’t stop at the temples and there won’t be any other foreigners.” That sounded fine to me. We just had to show our passports and they let us get on the boat.
We left the docks on a beautiful afternoon. The sun was shining _______(bright) _________we sailed downstream through a hilly region. Men ________(ride) bamboo rafts along the river’s edge and coal boats went past. ________ the sun ________(落下) we docked at Fengdu. We could see the sun ________(落下) behind the white pagoda. It was beautiful.
We _________(sleep) through the first gorge, ______ is called the Qutang Gorge. The gorge _______(变窄) to 350 feet ________ the river rushes through the two-mile-high mountains. “Oh, well,” my friend said, “at least we have two more left.”
At Wushan we made a detour up the Daning River to see some of the smaller gorges. The next day we went through the big gorges on the Yangtze River. It was a lovely morning as we went through the Wu Gorge. We passed the Xiang River, home of Qu Yuan, the 3rd_________(世纪)BC_________(诗人). There was so much history along the Yangtze River. Every rock looked like a person or animal, every stream ________ joined the great river ________(携带) its _________(传说), every hill was heavy with the past.
_______ we came out of the third gorge, the Xiling Gorge, we sailed into the _________ ________(建筑工地) of the dam. All the passengers came on deck. We took pictures and pointed at the site, but we weren’t allowed to get off the boat. The Chinese flag was _________ in the wind. On a ________(遥远的)mountain was a sign in 20-foot _________(字). “Build the Three Gorges Dam, __________(开发) the Yangtze River,” it said.
SB4 MODULE 6 The Monster of Lake Tianchi
The “Monster of Lake Tianchi” in the Changbai Mountains in Jilin province, northeast China, is back in the news after several recent _________(目击). The director of a local tourist office, Meng Fanying, said the monster, _______ seemed to be black in colour, was ten metres from the edge of the lake during the most recent _________(目击). “It jumped out of the water like a seal—about 200 people on Changbai”s western peak saw it,” he said. Although no one really got a clear look at the _________(神秘的) creature, Xue Junlin, a local photographer, _________(宣称) that its head looked like a horse.
In another recent sighting, a group of soldiers _________(宣称)they saw an animal _______(move) on the________(表面) of the water. The soldiers, _________ were walking along the side of the lake, watched the creature ________(swim) for about two minutes. “It was greenish-black and had a round head with 10-centimetre horns”, one of the soldiers said.
A third report came from Li Xiaohe, _______ was visiting the lake with his family. He_________(宣称)____________(see) a round black creature _________(move) quickly through the water. After three or four hundred metres it _________(潜入) into the water. Ten minutes later the monster appeared again and repeated the action. Mr Li Xiaohe said that he and his family were able to see the monster clearly because the weather was fine and the lake was _________(平静的).
There __________(be) reports of monsters in Lake Tianchi since the beginning of the last century, although no one has seen one close up. Some photos have been taken but they are not clear because it was too far away. Many people think the monster may be a ________(遥远的) cousin of the Loch Ness monster in Scotland. They also think that there might be similar creatures in other lakes around the world. Scientists, _______, are _________(怀疑的). They say that the low-temperature lake is_________(不可能) to be able to _________(喂养) such large living creatures.
Lake Tianchi is the highest________(火山) lake in the world. It is 2,189 metres high and ____________(覆盖面积) of about ten ________(平方) kilometres. In places it is more than 370 metres deep.
