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2023高考英语浙江省名校模拟真题速递
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专题01 语法填空
(2023春·浙江·高三天台中学校联考一模)阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
The power of Chinese emperors rose and fell with their control of the Grand Canal. Today, this waterway is shorter than it was once, ____1____ it is still the longest man-made river in the world. ____2____ (important), the Grand Canal continues to provide a vital cultural and economic link for modern China.
The original Canal system began around the year 605, ____3____ China’s emperor Yang realized that he needed a better way to move food and feed his army, so the emperor ordered the construction of the first section of the Grand Canal, ____4____ (connect) those existing canals, lakes and rivers.
For more than a thousand years, goods ____5____ (transport) along the Grand Canal. Even today the country’s watery highway plays an important economic role in China. Boats continue to carry tons of coal, food and other goods ____6____ Hangzhou and Jining. However, local governments eager to increase ____7____ (tour) and city development have torn down almost all of the older canal-side buildings. In 2005 a group of citizens proposed that the historic Grand Canal be made ____8____ UNESCO world heritage site, hoping this status would protect both the waterway and the architecture around it. With UNESCO status officially ____9____ (grant) in 2014, the world’s greatest engineering accomplishments continue to link north and south China for _____10_____ (century) to come.
(2023·浙江舟山·舟山中学校考模拟预测)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。
Water shortage is one of the ____11____ (great) crises facing us today, with two thirds of the global population living in areas ____12____ water is scarce(稀缺的) for a month or more every year. There are two contributing factors ____13____ this problem: increasing global demand for water, and unsustainable means by which these demands are being met. Yet, despite global water usage already increasing threefold (三倍) over the last fifty years, it ____14____ (predict) th