二、勤练高考题型，多练自能生巧

　　Ⅰ.完形填空

　　Farming and Gardening

　　Agriculture has a long history in China. Much of the wisdom __1__ by early Chinese scientists is still useful for farmers and gardeners today. One of China's early __2__ scientists was Jia Sixie, who lived in the sixth century AD. He spent his time doing __3__ into agriculture. He collected information, studied it, did experiments and learnt from the __4__ of farmers.

　　Around 540 AD, he wrote a book called Qimin Yaoshu. The book is about both farming and __5__. It includes advice on the following __6__： growing green vegetables and fruit trees, keeping animals, and fish in lakes. There are also __7__ for making wine. Jia Sixie's book is a(n) __8__ guide for farming. Firstly, as a farmer you should do things at the right time of the year. If you sow seeds and __9__ young plants in the fields at the correct time of the year, your work will be less and __10__ will be better. But if you __11__ nature and do things at the wrong time of the year, you will have to do more work and the results will not be so good. The __12__ of the soil is also very important. Examine the soil on your farm __13__. If the condition of your soil is not good, you should improve it. Before sowing or planting crops, you must clean rough ground and __14__ weeds. Let sheep or cows walk on the land to __15__ the weeds or eat them. The best harvest is reached when farmers __16__ the crops in their fields. For example, do not plant rice __17__ in the same field. But if you plant rice in a field one year and wheat in the field the next year, you will __18__ good crops. Other scientists said that wheat should be planted with __19__ between the plants, but Jia did experiments and __20__ that planting wheat close together is better.

　　语篇解读：本文是议论文和说明文的结合。主要介绍了我国古代农业科学家贾思勰对我国古代农业的研究和贡献。他的耕种方法对我国古代农业起了重要的指导作用。

　　1．A.discovered　　　　　　　 B．recovered

　　C．reported D．repeated

　　解析：选A　从词语和搭配考虑，此处只有discovered才能与wisdom搭配。wisdom后的__1__ by early Chinese scientists是过去分词短语作定语。

　　2．A.industrial B．agricultural

　　C．cultural D．article

　　解析：选B　根据常识或上下文可知，贾思勰是我国古代的农业科学家，故选agricultural。

　　3．A.search B．research

　　C．experiment D．movement

解析：选B　do research into为固定搭配，意为"进行......的研究"，符合语境。