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第二节（共8小题；每小题1分，满分8分）

阅读下面短文。根据短文内容，在表格中第63至第70小题的空格里填上适当的单词，使信息完整。每空填一个词。

Green is an important color in nature. It is the color of grass, the leaves on trees and most growing plants. Sometimes, the word green means young, fresh and growing. Sometimes, it describes something that is not yet ripe or finished. For example, a greenhorn is someone who has no expereince, who is new to a situation.  In the 15th century, a greenhorn was a young cow or ox whose horns had not yet developed.  A century or so later, a greenhorn was a soldier who had not yet had any experience in battle. By the 18th century, a greenhorn had the meaning it has today.

Someone who has the ability to grow plants well is said to have a green thumb. The expression comes from the early 1990s. A person with a green thumb seems to have a magic touch that makes plants grow quickly and well. You might say that the woman next door has a green thumb if her garden continues to grow long after your plants have died.

The Green Revolution is the name given some years ago to the development of new kinds of rice and other grains. The new plants produced much larger crops.  The Green Revolution was the result of hard work by agricultural scientists who had green thumbs.

Green is also the color used to describe the powerful emotion, envy. The green-eyed monster is not a terrible creature from outer space.  It is an expression used about four hundred years ago by British writer William Shakespeare in his play “Othello.” It describes the unpleasant feeling a person has when someone else has something he wants.  A young man may suffer from the green-eyed monster if his girlfriend begins going out with someone else. Or, that green-eyed monster may affect your friend if you get a pay rise and she does not.

Main idea: Green is an important color which means being young, 63    and growing.
Greenhorn	It refers to someone who has 64    nothing.
Green thumb	A person with a greenthumb 65    plants well, and his/her garden continues to grow long after the 66    of your plants.
Green Revolution	It is the name given to the 67    of new plants, which were produced by agricultural scientists and had larger 68   .
Green-eyed monster	It 69    the unpleasant feeling a person has when 70    person has something he wants.

Answer 1

63. fresh  64. experienced  65. grows  66. death  67. development   68. crops  69. describes  70. another