Question

【题目】阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空，在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

Chocolate was first used as a drink over 3,500 years ago in 【1】 (center) America. It was very popular with the Mayans and the Aztecs. In fact, cocoa beans were very important to people there. That was 【2】 they were used as money. In the beginning, cocoa 【3】 (plant) in Ecuador, which was, for a long time, the world’s number-one producer of cocoa beans. It is still one of the top producers of the beans, but nowadays more than 70 per cent of cocoa beans come from West Africa.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】central

【2】why

【3】was planted

【解析】

本文为说明文。讲述了可可豆的种植历史等。

【1】考查形容词。句意：在3500多年前的中美洲，巧克力首次被用作饮料。根据其后的名词可知，此处用形容词作定语，故填central。

【2】考查表语从句。句意：事实上，可可豆对那里的人们非常重要。这就是它们被用作货币的原因。根据上下两句的语义逻辑可知，此处表原因，引导表语从句，故填why。

【3】考查被动语态。句意：最初，人们在厄瓜多尔种植可可豆，厄瓜多尔曾长期是世界上第一大可可豆生产国。分析句子成分可知，所给词与主语cocoa之间为被动关系，根据上下文可知用一般过去时第三人称单数，故填was planted。