Question

阅读短文，从方框中选择适当的词并用其正确形式填空，使短文通顺、意思完整。每空限填一词，每词限用一次。方框中有两个词是多余的。将答案写在答题卡相应位置。

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We know from our textbooks that cormorant (鱼鹰）fishing is a traditional Chinese skill that might disappear in the near future． 66  ，we still can find some fishermen fishing with those big birds in some parts of China．Let’s  67  one of those fishermen，Wang Yousheng．

Wang and his cormorants live in a small town in Leping，Jiangxi province．He has been practicing cormorant fishing for many  68  ．

Every morning，he  69  his cormorants for fishing．The cormorants stand on a long bamboo pole，and Wang carries them to his little boat．

  70   going fishing，the cormorants stand along the sides of the boat．Wang ties a piece of grass  71  the neck of each cormorant，preventing them from swallowing (吞）big fish．Then he starts off．

Wang is an experienced fisherman，so it’s not  72  for him to find fish．When the boat stops，the cormorants dive into the water to hunt fish．Soon，they come up from the water，each with a big fish in  73  mouths．Wang brings the birds back to the boat and collects the fish．

Wang says he really enjoys  74  with the birds．But as more and more young people in his town are moving to cities to live，he doesn’t know  75  there will be fishermen like him in the near future．

Answer 1

66. However     67. meet      68. years     69. prepares     70. Before  

71. around       72. difficult    73. their      74. working    75. whether