Question

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容或括号内单词的正确形式（不多于3个单词）。

Farming and nature are like two flowers on the same tree. When farming 1._______ (go) against nature, all kinds of environmental problems are the result. In ancient times, when people began using the land, farming was not 2._______ it is today. Early farmers moved around the country. They burnt a part of a forest and used this land for one or two years. When they could no 3.________ (long) grow crops on the land, they moved on and repeated this somewhere else. Agriculture in this way destroys nature and results 4.________ floods and droughts (干旱).

Over the past thirty to thirty-five years, farmers 5. ________ (recognize) some old truths, already known to ancient Chinese farmers. Farming should not go against nature. If the soil is too poor, chemicals can help improve 6.________ and grow better crops, but this may damage or destroy land 7._______ (surround) the farms. Instead, farmers should look for other methods. In the early 16th century, brothers Tan and Xiao Zao of Jiangsu Province bought fields along lakes at 8._______ low price nobody wanted because they were too wet. They built dikes (堤坝) around the fields turning the fields9._______ fish ponds and they became fish farmers. They also planted fruit trees on the dikes and kept chickens and ducks. They were very 10._______ (success) farmers.

Answer

1.goes

2.what

3.longer

4.in

5.have recognized

6.it

7.surrounding

8.a

9.into

10.successful

【解析】

试题分析：本文属于说明文，介绍了农业和自然的关系，经过历史的发展，农民们意识到了两种之间的关系，并能在两者之间取得平衡。

1. 考查时态。本句是when引导的时间状语从句，从句中使用一般现在时代替将来时，且本句主语是farming，所以使用第三人称单数形式goes。

2.句意：在古代，当人们开始使用土地，农业不是今天这样。

3. 考查固定搭配。短语no longer意为“不再”。句意：当他们在这块土地上不能再种粮食的时候，他们就搬走，再重复做这样的事情。

4.表示“导致”。句意：这种农业破坏自然并导致洪水和干旱。

5.

6.改良土壤并能够种出更好的粮食。

7.

8.

9.“把……变成……”；句意：他们在土地边修建堤坝把土地变成鱼塘。

10. 考查形容词。横线后面是名词farmers，说明横线上应该使用形容词作定语修饰名词。句意：他们都是很成功的农民。

考点：考查语篇理解和词汇、语法知识