题目
The Nazca Lines in Peru（秘鲁） are huge mysterious pictures drawn on the ground.An area of about 170 square miles in the Nazca Desert in Southern Peru is（1）______ by simple pictures like birds,spiders and fish.Some of these pictures are nearly 200 meters wide.
What\’s so mysterious about these lines?Well,although most of them have a history of more than 2,000 years,they were only （2）______ in the 1930s.The reason for this is that the pictures only become（3）______ when they are seen from the air.So it was only when planes started flying over the area that people（4）______ what they were.Of course,this（5）______ the question:how did these pictures get there all those years ago?（6）______ could these people have made such drawings without the ability to fly?（7）______ did they have the ability to fly?
Jim Woodman,a well-known explorer,suggested that the Nazca people could have（8）______simple hot-air balloons and used them to produce the art.He even built a balloon using materials they would have had.However,his ideas didn\’t（9）______many people.Some people even guessed the lines might be the work of(10)______!
After some wooden sticks were found in that area and were proved as(11)______as the drawings,some scientists suggested that the Nazca people might have put these sticks in the ground to help them with the drawings.By placing the sticks in the correct(12)______and connecting them with long ropes,the Nazca people could have drawn the lines to make the pictures:One scientist,Dr.Joe Nickell of the University of Kentucky,was so sure that this was the(13)______that he decided to try and show how it could be done.Using only tools that were(14)______for the Nazca people,he tried to draw a huge picture of a bird.With a few friends\’ help,he(15)______a perfect Nazca picture in a few hours and showed how these pictures probably got there.
What\’s so mysterious about these lines?Well,although most of them have a history of more than 2,000 years,they were only （2）______ in the 1930s.The reason for this is that the pictures only become（3）______ when they are seen from the air.So it was only when planes started flying over the area that people（4）______ what they were.Of course,this（5）______ the question:how did these pictures get there all those years ago?（6）______ could these people have made such drawings without the ability to fly?（7）______ did they have the ability to fly?
Jim Woodman,a well-known explorer,suggested that the Nazca people could have（8）______simple hot-air balloons and used them to produce the art.He even built a balloon using materials they would have had.However,his ideas didn\’t（9）______many people.Some people even guessed the lines might be the work of(10)______!
After some wooden sticks were found in that area and were proved as(11)______as the drawings,some scientists suggested that the Nazca people might have put these sticks in the ground to help them with the drawings.By placing the sticks in the correct(12)______and connecting them with long ropes,the Nazca people could have drawn the lines to make the pictures:One scientist,Dr.Joe Nickell of the University of Kentucky,was so sure that this was the(13)______that he decided to try and show how it could be done.Using only tools that were(14)______for the Nazca people,he tried to draw a huge picture of a bird.With a few friends\’ help,he(15)______a perfect Nazca picture in a few hours and showed how these pictures probably got there.
| （1） | A.made | B.filled | C.covered | D.planted |
| （2） | A.reported | B.posted | C.received | D.discovered |
| （3） | A.clear | B.clean | C.bright | D.beautiful |
| （4） | A.created | B.realized | C.regarded | D.suggested |
| （5） | A.came in | B.got to | C.led to | D.turned in |
| （6） | A.What | B.When | C.Where | D.How |
| （7） | A.Or | B.And | C.But | D.Then |
| （8） | A.studied | B.invented | C.taken | D.kept |
| （9） | A.surprise | B.excite | C.convince | D.refuse |
| (10) | A.spiders | B.birds | C.animals | D.aliens |
| (11) | A.old | B.long | C.big | D.high |
| (12) | A.background | B.positions | C.standard | D.environment |
| (13) | A.purpose | B.article | C.answer | D.question |
| (14) | A.basic | B.free | C.important | D.available |
| (15) | A.produced | B.reviewed | C.searched | D.printed |
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