Question

【题目】从方框中选择恰当的词语，并用其适当形式填空，使短文完整、通顺，每个词语限用一次。

use, produce, is good for, cook, do, realize, polish, from, country, thousand

Olive oil (橄榄油) is probably the most widely-used oil for cooking. It is made 【1】 fresh olives. Olive oil has been a main food in the Mediterranean (地中海的) countries for 【2】 of years, and some olive trees which are hundreds of years old still 【3】 fruit.

Almost everyone knows that olive oil 【4】 our health. But what most people may not 【5】 is that olive oil is used for a lot more than just food. People make soap out of it, 【6】 diamonds (钻石) with it, and burn it for light. In ancient times, olive oil was even【7】 as a weapon (武器).

These days, more and more people all over the world are discovering that olive oil may be the best oil for 【8】. In the United States, people use five times (倍) more olive oil today than they【9】 20 years ago.

Nowadays, most of the world’s olive oil is still produced in the Mediterranean countries, though 【10】 such as America and Australia also produce it. Spain produces the most olive oil in the world, followed by Italy and Greece.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】from

【2】thousands

【3】produce

【4】is good for

【5】realize

【6】polish

【7】used

【8】cooking

【9】did

【10】countries

【解析】

本篇文章难度适中，主要讲述橄榄油的用途，它不仅可以食用，还可以用它制造肥皂等，现在越来越多的人发现，橄榄油可能是烹饪中食用最好的油。

【1】句意“它是由新鲜的橄榄制成的”。be made from由……制成（看不出原材料），橄榄油中看不出橄榄，故填from。

【2】句意“橄榄油几千年来已经成为地中海国家主要的食物了”。thousand千，thousands of成千上万，故填thousands。

【3】句意“一些几千年的橄榄树仍然产橄榄果”。produce生产，故填produce。

【4】句意“几乎每个人都知道橄榄油对我们的身体有好处”。be good for对……有好处，故填is good for。

【5】句意“但是很多人没有意识到橄榄油不仅只是在食物中使用”。根据Almost everyone knows that olive oil ____4____ our health可知，指人们没有意识到，realize意识到，故填realize。

【6】句意“人们用它做肥皂、磨光钻石、燃烧取亮等”。polish磨亮，根据后一句中的and可知，空处与make和burn并列，用原形，故填polish。

【7】句意“在古时，橄榄油甚至用来做武器”。主语Oliver oil与谓语use之间为被动关系，be used as被用作，故填used。

【8】句意“如今，全世界越来越多的人发现，橄榄油是做饭最好的油”。cook做饭，且根据空前介词for可知，用doing，故填cooking。

【9】句意“在美国，人们使用橄榄油的数量是20年前的5倍”。根据20 years ago可知，用一般过去时，且缺少谓语，用省略形式，代替used Oliver oil，故填did。

【10】句意“尽管一些像美国、澳大利亚这样的国家也种植橄榄油，但是世界上生产橄榄油最多的国家仍然是地中海国家”。根据such as America and Australia also produce 可知，指的是国家，用复数，故填countries。