07-2019-2020学年高二下学期英语期末备考之语法填空集训

Day 7 As I write this, I’m sitting on a bus back to Santiago in Chile where I am working ___1___ a writer. I’ve just spent the weekend in a city called La Serena north of Santiago. I was lucky enough to see the flowering desert, a natural scene that ___2___ (occur) around every five years here in the Atacama Desert. ___3___ (follow) a particularly large amount of rainfall earlier, a(n) ___4___(vary) of flowers come into blossom. Bright purple flowers create ___5___ unbelievably beautiful scene at the base of the surrounding mountains. ___6___ (have) a look at this wonderful treasure of nature, we took a bus from La Serena to a nearby town and then rented a car to go to the desert. ___7___ we saw did not disappoint us, and as expected it was even more fascinating than the pictures we had seen online. The bloom was particularly ___8___ (impress) this year due to the strong presence of El Niño (a band of warm water in the Pacific Ocean that changes the temperatures and increases the rain