2017古美高中高二下册月考试卷含答案.docx

2017七宝高三3月测试试卷
II. Grammar and Vocabulary
Section A Directions After reading the passages below fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word for. The other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
In the countries of south and Southeast Asia the elephant has been an intimate part of the culture, economy and religion, and nowhere more so than in Thailand. Unlike its African cousin, the Asian elephant is easily domesticated (驯化). The rare so-called white elephants have actually lent the authority of kingship to its rulers and 21_______ the 1920s the national flag was a white elephant on a red the early Western visitors the country's romantic name was “Land of the White Elephant”.
Today, however, the story is very different. Out of work and out of land, the Thai elephant struggles 22______ survival in a nation that no longer needs it. The elephant has found itself more or less abandoned by previous owners who have moved on to a different economic world and a westernized society. And 23________ the elephant's problems began many years ago, now it rates a very low national priority.
How24________ this reversal from national icon (圣像) to neglected animal came about is a tale of worsening environmental and the changing lives of the Thais 25_______. According to Richard Lair, Thailand’s experts on the Asian elephant and author of the report Gone Astray, at the turn of the century there 26________ well have been as many as 100,000 domestic elephants in the country. In the north of Thailand alone it was estimated that more than 20,000 elephants were employed in transport, 1,000 of them alone on the road between the cities of Chiang Mai and Chiang Saen. This was at a time when 90 per cent of Thailand was still forest—a habitat (栖息地) 27________ not only supported the animals but also made them necessary to carry goods and people.