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Wonders of the world
Ⅰ.课文再现
(A) 阅读下面短文,在空白处填入适当的词,或填入括号内所给单词的正确形式。
Let's call Wonders of the World and join in the 1. discussion (discuss). Tony thinks natural wonders are more interesting than manmade ones. And the Giant's Causeway is the most fantastic 2. natural (nature) wonder. Lingling has never seen it, 3. so she is not sure she 4. agrees (agree) with Tony. Tony 5. visited (visit) the Giant's Causeway two years ago. It's huge. There are about 40,000 rocks, most of them with six sides. It runs for several 6. hundred (hundred) metres on the 7. eastern (east) coast of Northern Ireland. Victoria Falls in Africa is even more fantastic. It's about 1,700 metres wide 8. and 100 metres high. You can hear the loud noise a few kilometres away. But 9. in Betty's opinion, manmade wonders are more exciting than natural ones. Daming thinks so. He thinks the Three Gorges Dam is fantastic. It produces electricity for 10. millions (million) of people in China.
(B)阅读下面短文,从方框中选出恰当的单词并用其正确形式填空,使短文完整通顺。
strange, sign, clear, rain, final, in, through, mile, see, tall, wonder, fall
When I arrived, it was early morning and it was 1. raining . I looked to the east—the sky was becoming grey. I got out of the car, went 2. through a gate and walked along a dark path. There was nothing 3. to see , but I knew it was there.
After about a mile, a 4. stranger appeared beside the path. “Am I going the right way?” I asked. He knew where I was going. “Yes,” he replied, “you'll get there 5. in five minutes.” Finally, I came to some rocks and stopped. I looked over them, but it was silent and there was no 6. sign of it.
Suddenly, the rain stopped and the clouds 7. cleared . The sun rose behind me and shone on the rocks. Far below me, the ground 8. fell away and down to a river. I was looking across one of the 9. wonders of the natural world—the Grand Canyon.
I looked down to the Colorado River, a silver stream nearly one mile below me. If you put the two 10. ta