Question

Li Daiyu and her cousin Liu Qian were on a trip to Canada to visit their cousins on the Atlantic coast. Rather than take the plane all the way, they 1.（plan）to fly to Vancouver and then take the train from west to east across Canada. The thought that they could cross the whole continent was 2.(excite).

Canada is the second biggest country in the world. People say Vancouver is Canada’s most beautiful city3.(surround)by mountains and the Pacific Ocean. On the coast north of Vancouver, it is so wet there that the trees are extremely tall.

That afternoon aboard the train, the cousins settled down in their 4.(seat). Their next stop was Calgary,   5.is famous for the Calgary Stampede. They know that cowboys come from all over the world 6.(compete)in the Stampede. Many cowboys have a gift7.riding wild horses. They also learned that most Canadians live within a few hundred kilometers of the USA border and that Canada’s population is only8.(slight)over thirty million, but now they 9.(amaze)to see such an empty country. Then they arrived in10.urban area, the busy port city of Thunder Bay at the top of the Great Lakes.

Answer

1.planned

2.exciting

3.surrounded

4.seats

5.to compete

6.to compete

7.for

8.slightly

9.were amazed

10.an

【解析】本文是一篇记叙文。讲述了姐妹俩的一场旅行，同时介绍了加拿大和卡尔加里两座城市，通过本文，我们对旅行会产生一种新的看法。

1.她们没有打算一路乘飞机，她们计划飞往温哥华，再乘火车从西向东横穿加拿大。由于这个计划是在旅行前就想好的，所以应该用过去时。故填planned。

2.她们认为能够穿越整个大陆这件事很令人兴奋的，令人兴奋的，用动词的ing形式。故填exciting。

3.有人说温哥华是被山脉和太平洋所环绕的加拿大里最美丽的城市，环绕在此表被动，be surrounded。故填surrounded。

4.那天下午登上火车，姐妹俩被安顿在她们的座位上，由于是两个人两个座位，所以应该用名词的复数形式。故填seats。

5.她们的下一站是卡尔加里，那里以逃跑事件而闻名。分析句子可以看出，后半句是一个非限制性定语从句，应该由which来引导。故填which。

6.她们知道，牛仔们来自于世界各地在这一场逃跑中互相竞争，不定式作状语。故填to compete。

7.许多牛仔们都有个天赋能够驾驭野马。Have a gift for对…有天赋，固定用法。故填for。

8.她们了解到，大多数加拿大人居住在美国边境几百公里，加拿大的人口只轻微地超过三千万，over超过在此表示动词，应该用副词修饰。故填slightly。

9.但是现在她们感到吃惊的是这个国家已经如此空旷，感到吃惊的amazed，此处应该用系表结构，由于文章采用过去时，主语又为复数，应该用were。故填were amazed。

10.然后她们到了一个城市地区，没有特指哪个，应该用不定冠词。故填an。