题型：语法填空（语篇） 题类： 难易度：困难
浙江省宁波市外国语学校2024-2025学年八年级上学期开学英语试卷
Two months ago, Kate finished middle school. She left her hometown and came to the city. Her aunt helped her find work in a factory. It was small and offered rooms to the workers. She wouldn't drop it it was difficult for her to find another job there. She had to find a room for ( she). As she didn't have enough money, she had to rent one outside the city. It was about half an hour by bus. The farmer and his family lived on the first floor. They rented all the others on the second and ( three) floors to the workers. So they built an attic(阁楼) on of the building for the girl. It was low and small. She couldn't ( easy) go to sleep in the hot night. She had to stay in it, hoping ( find) a better room one day.
A month later, Kate went to pay the farmer for the rent. She found hers was the of all the boarders(房客). It made her feel strange and she asked," My room is the smallest and the lowest, you know. But why do I have to pay more rents than any other boarder, sir?"
At first the farmer didn't know to answer her. He thought and thought and at last he said," Nobody ( use) all our steps except you."
The history of chocolate begins with a plant whose name is cacao (可可豆). For centuries, people worldwide have been enjoying the rich favor of chocolate, a product made from cacao. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}Americans eat an average of more than five kilograms of chocolate per person every year. The specialty （特产） shop shows the culture of chocolate and sells chocolates from different areas of the world.
Historians believe the Mayan people of Central America first learned to farm cacao plants around 2, 000 years ago. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}Then they grew them around their homes. They cooked the cacao seeds（种子）and pressed them into soft powder （粉末）. They mixed the powder with water to make a delicious chocolate drink. There are often images of cacao plants on Maya buildings and art objects. The rulers drank chocolate at ceremonies. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}
The Aztecs also valued chocolate in the Aztec culture. But the cacao plant could not grow in the area where they lived. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} They even used cacao seeds as a form of money to pay or give as offerings（祭品）to the gods. Only the very rich people in Aztec societies could afford to drink chocolate because cacao was so valuable.
The explorer Christopher Columbus brought cacao seeds to Spain after his trip to Central America in 1502. The rich people of Spain first enjoyed the chocolate drink. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}. Nowadays, the English, Dutch and French all plant cacao trees in their own countries.
A. Chocolate is very sensitive（敏感）to temperature. B. The Mayan took the cacao trees from the rainforests. C. Chocolate is especially popular in the United States. D. Chocolate has been prepared as a drink for nearly all of its history. E. So they had to exchange goods with other societies for cacao seeds. F. Since then, the popularity of the drink has spread throughout Europe. G. And even poorer members of Mayan society could enjoy the drink sometimes. |
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