Question

In the summer of 1848, in Guatemala, a man called Ambrosio Tut went into the jungle, as he did almost every day. Tut was a gum-collector(树胶采集者)，1.(look) for gum in the jungle. To do this, he had to climb the trees. 2.this particular day, he got to the top of one tree and something caught his eye. He looked out across the trees and saw the tops of some old buildings.

Tut didn't really know what he had seen but he knew it was something 3.(specially). He ran to tell the local governor, and together they 4.(walk)into the jungle. There they found Tikal(蒂卡尔)，the city that the Mayans (玛雅A) had built many hundreds of years before. The two men saw temples and pyramids, squares and houses, and places 5.kings had lived when the Mayan people ruled the region.

For a long time before that day, local people had known that somewhere in the jungle there was an old Mayan city, 6.no one had seen it for centuries. 7.200 and 900 AD, the city of Tikal had been the center of Mayan civilization in the region, but then the Mayans left 8.─nobody knows why! After 1000 AD, the jungle began to cover it and people forgot that it was there.

Seven years before Tut looked out for the trees, two British explorers had gone to Guatemala and had written a report about Mayan treasures in the jungle, but they didn't mention Tikal. Even 9.(early)than this, local Indians had told European travelers about a great city 10.(hide) in the trees, but no one would listen to them. Now the lost city had been found again, and archaeologists (考古学家) went there immediately to see it.

Answer 1

1.looking

2.on

3.special

4.walked

5.where / in which

6.but

7.Between

8.it / there

9.earlier

10.hidden

【解析】

试题分析：本文主要讲述了一个叫做Ambrosio Tut的橡胶收集者在雨林中发现了一个古老的玛雅城市，作者对这座城市做了相关介绍。。

1. (look) for gum in the jungle这个句子中逗号后面的部分作主语Tut的定语，这个句子意为Tut是一个在雨林中寻找树胶的树胶采集者，因Tut和动词look构成主动关系。故填looking

2. this particular day意为在这特殊的一天里，是具体指某个时间。故填on

3.

4. (walk)into the jungle可知and前后时态保持一致，前面用的是一般过去式，所以后面也应用一般过去式，walk的过去式为walked。故填walked

5. kings had lived when the Mayan people ruled the region这个句子中，kings had...ruled the region places的定语，而先行词places为地点名词，所以用表地点的副词where，一般情况下表地点时，where=介词+which。故填where / in which

6. no one had seen it for centuries.中空的前后都是完整的句子，故填连词；前面是这有一个古老的玛雅城市，后面意为几个世纪都没人发现它，前后句意相反，所以用转折连词承接。故填but

7. 200 and 900 AD意为在200公元到900公元之间，between..and..：在..之间。且因空在句首，首字母需大写。故填Between

8.68 ─nobody knows why!可知Tikal是城市中心但那时人们离开了这儿：没有人知道原因。left缺少宾语由于前面出现了Tikal这个名词，所以为了简介和避免重复，可用代词it/there来代替Tikal。故填it / there

9.

10. (hide) in the trees意为当地的印第安人告诉欧洲的游客树林里面隐藏着一个很棒的城市， (hide) in the trees作city的定语，city与hide构成被动关系，故用过去分词作定语，其过去分词形式为hidden。故填hidden

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