【名校好题】专题02：词汇填空-2023届上海市名校高三最新英语试题精选速递（第三期）

【名校好题】专题02.词汇填空 -2023届上海市名校高三最新英语 试题精选速递（第三期） 学校:___________姓名：___________班级：___________考号：___________ （2022·上海市复旦中学校考）Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need. A．defensively     B．exited     C．initiatively      D．landscape      E. respond      F. thought G. towered           H. unaffected     I. uninhabited     J. welcoming      K. winding Danger in the desert That day we were deep in Chile’s Atacama Desert. There the ____1____  could often be compared to Mars. Our team of four female microbiologists watched as a car full of curious men pulled up beside us. Because we were strangers in a(n)  ____2____ place, our minds immediately jumped to ways we could protect ourselves. So, ____3____ , our Chilean fellow guide lifted the strong tool she’d been using to dig up plant roots. The rest of us tried to look braver than we felt. We had come to this desert to conduct DNA studies on giant horsetails that somehow grow well in one of Earth’s driest places. We were searching for plants in the most remote locations, where they would be ____4____ by human activities such as mining and agriculture. We’d been warned that the trip could be dangerous. Because we were traveling so far from fuel sources, we were told to take along a can of gas. Our destination was at the end of a(n) ____5____  single-lane dirt road lined with burned-out vehicles that had not successfully negotiated the steep downslope. Our sample site was near a village, and the people might not, we were told, ____6____ positively to us. We were instructed to report our travel plans at the nearest police station so that search parties would know where to look for us if we disappeared. We had found the amazing plants and their bright green stocks  ____7____  over our heads. They aroused the ____8____  of ancient wetland plants. The men approached as we finished collecting our samples. We waited tensely as