题目内容
先通读下面的短文,掌握其大意,然后根据短文内容和所给首字母,在空格内填入一个适当的词,使短文意思完整。所填单词在题后横线上必须完整写出。
In some parts of the United States, farming is easy. But farming has always been h_________(1) in the northeastern corner of the country, which is called New England.
New England has many t_______ (2 ) and thin, rocky (多岩石的) soil (土壤). Anyone who has wanted to start a new f________ ( 3 ) there has to work very hard. The first job is to cut down trees. The n_________ ( 4 ) job is to dig (挖) the stumps (树桩) of the trees out of the soil. Then the farmer has the difficult job of m_________ ( 5 ) stones from his land.
The work of removing stones never really e_________ ( 6 ), because every winter more stones appear. They come up t__________ ( 7 ) the thin soil from the rocks below. F_________ ( 8 ) have to keep removing stones from the fields. Even today, farms which have been worked o______ ( 9 )for 200 years keep producing more stones. That is why stone walls are used i________ ( 10 ) of fences (篱笆) around New England fields. The stone walls are not high, a man can easily climb o_________ ( 11 ) them. But they keep the farmer’s cows from j_________ ( 12 ) his neighbour’s cows.
1. hard 2. trees 3. farm 4. next 5. moving 6. ends
7. through 8. Farmers 9. on 10. instead 11. over 12. joining