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【題目】Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words. (首字母填空):

An arctic fox walked 2,700 miles from Norway to Canada. Yes, that’s p【1】.

At first, the scientists w【2】 whether it was a mistake.

Just 21 days after leaving the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, an arctic fox had arrived in Greenland. And in less than three months, it made it to Canada. The fox averaged (平均) nearly 30 miles a day t【3】 it walked almost 100 miles some days.

"When it started h【4】, we thought ‘is this really true?' "said Arnaud Tarroux, one of the scientists who tracked (追蹤)the female fox. Was there "an error (錯(cuò)誤) in the data?"

The data was real, the scientists decided as the fox kept going. The foxes 'travels last year, recorded in a recent paper, surprised Tarroux, even though the animal is known for its a【5】to live in extremely cold areas.

Scientists already knew that some of the foxes, native to Arctic areas all around the Northern Hemisphere(北半球), made long j【6】. But the fox these scientists followed got more attention for just how fast it travelled more than 2,700 miles.

"We didn't really know how the fox would do that and how long it would take for it to do this kind of trip," Tarroux said.

The scientists think the fox may have taken off because there was not enough food for it, but they're not sure. The tracker (追蹤器) stopped working in February, so the scientists no l【7】 know the place where the fox is.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】possible

【2】wondered

【3】though

【4】happening

【5】ability

【6】journeys

【7】longer

【解析】

這是一篇科技小文章，一只北極狐從挪威到加拿大，科學(xué)家們無法解釋它是怎么從這么遠(yuǎn)的地方移動(dòng)到另一個(gè)地方。

【1】句意：一只北極狐從挪威到加拿大走了2700英里。是的，那是可能的。

根據(jù)第二段可以科學(xué)家們是懷疑這件事情的真實(shí)性的，所以這里指的是“是的，這是可能的”，所以用形容詞possible，故答案為possible。

【2】句意：起初，科學(xué)家們想知道這是否是一個(gè)錯(cuò)誤。

由“whether it was a mistake.”可知，這里說科學(xué)家們想知道。根據(jù)下文是一般過去時(shí)態(tài)，這里用一般過去時(shí)態(tài)，故答案為wondered。

【3】句意：這只狐貍平均每天走近30英里，但有時(shí)它走近100英里。

兩句之間的速度30和100 miles a day差距較大，所以有轉(zhuǎn)折含義though。故答案為though。

【4】句意：當(dāng)它開始發(fā)生的時(shí)候，我們想‘這真的是真的嗎？’

start doing開始做某事，當(dāng)這件事最開始發(fā)生的時(shí)候，happening動(dòng)詞，發(fā)生。故答案為happening。

【5】句意：盡管這種動(dòng)物以能在極寒地區(qū)生活而聞名。

根據(jù)句意可知是這種動(dòng)物聞名于它能在及其嚴(yán)寒的地方生存的能力，所以是ability，名詞，能力。故答案為ability。

【6】句意：科學(xué)家們已經(jīng)知道，一些原產(chǎn)于北半球北極地區(qū)的狐貍進(jìn)行了長(zhǎng)途旅行。

由“Scientists already knew that some of the foxes, native to Arctic areas all around the Northern Hemisphere(北半球)” 科學(xué)家們已經(jīng)知道，有些狐貍原產(chǎn)于北半球的北極地區(qū)。long journeys長(zhǎng)途跋涉。故答案為journeys。

【7】句意：追蹤器在二月份停止工作。

由“The tracker (追蹤器) stopped working in February,”可知，所以科學(xué)家們不再知道狐貍在哪里。no longer不再……；故答案為longer。