2023-2024学年高一上学期英语每日一练20

每日一练20

第二节（共10小题：每小题1.5分，满分15分）

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入一个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

As a vast country, China currently has eight major cuisine (烹饪) types. Climates, histories and dining customs differ greatly, ____41____ (lead) to differences in coking methods and flavor preferences.

For example, the Sichuan cuisine is famous ____42____ its spicy flavor and red color; the southern Guangdong kitchen, with is mild and fresh taste, ____43____ (keep) the food’s natural flavors; while the Shandong cuisine from the ____44____ (relative) northern part of China tastes salty.

Huaian is located on the north-south divide of China, with Yangzhou nearby. The geographical location provides the district with ____45____ combination of both northern and southern Chinese cooking. Thus the Huaiyang kitchen is a general term for dishes from Huaian and Yangzhou, ____46____ is also known as one of the four major ____47____ (tradition) Chinese cuisines.

The Huaiyang menu takes fish as its main feature, as both the cities are not far from the Yangtze River, the ____48____ (three) longest waterway in the world. Its cooking has a light and sweet flavor. As the cuisine drew ____49____ (inspire) from specialties (特色菜) across the country, it also spread to the more northern parts of China. According to historic records, emperors of the Qing Dynasty ____50____ (attract) to the place for its reputation as a delight and paid regular visits to have a bite.

 

第二节（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

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。

Chagan is located in the Qianguo county, Northeast China's Jilin Province. Every year, fishermen struggle with the freezing cold weather, biting winds and deep snow to search for an underwater fortune at Chagan,___36___freshwater lake in the country. The lake is the only place in China, ___37___ you can still find fishermen using an ancient fishing method.

The lake nearly ___38___(dry) up in the 1970s, and therefore fishermen were forced to give up their annual fishing tradition and take on other tough jobs for survival. However, over the past decades, these problems have been solved through projects that have allowed environmental ___39___(protect), agriculture and tourism to develop at the same time. In 2013, Jilin started a river-lake connection project, ___40___ (link) Chagan to surrounding lakes and rivers, making the lake's water even ___41___(clean). In particular, the construction of a town with eco-friendly tourism ___42___ (help) development so far. The town offers accommodations, dining, sightseeing and other businesses that have increased local incomes and made ___43___ more convenient for people to visit the area than before. Farms and tourism projects that were ___44___(previous) affecting the environment have been removed or relocated. All of this was achieved ____45____ harming the lake or the animal and plant life.

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Have you ever heard of the deepest hole in the world? Of course, it's covered and shut, but it still sounds like a horror film to me. The entrance to the center of the earth sits among the ruins of an abandoned project site in Murmansk, Russia, not far from the Norwegian border. The deepest hole ever dug may be pretty unassuming, but I suspect I'm not alone in being a little freaked by it. An Internet search about the world's deepest hole turns up the suggestion “Kola Superdeep Borehole screams". No wonder locals call it the well to hell.

Before the very idea of a superdeep hole starts coming to your dreams, keep this in mind—the hole is only nine inches in diameter (that's about 23 centimeters). There's no way you could fall into it. Known as the Kola Superdeep Borehole, the deepest hole ever dug reaches approximately 7. 5 miles below the earth's surface(or 12,262 kilometers)，a depth that took about 20 years to reach.

The hole was intended to go “as deep as possible”, which researches expected to be around 9 miles (that's