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【題目】Global warming could make humans shorter. Scientists claim to have found evidence that it caused the world's first horses 【1】 （shrink） nearly 50 million years ago. In fact,a team from the universities of Florida and Nebreaks says 【2】 has found a link between the Earth heating up and the size of mammals-homes，during the last time the world heated up. The scientists used fossils to follow the evolution of homes from their earliest 【3】 （appear) 56 million years ago. As temperatures went up．their size went 【4】 . The scientists say that the current warming could have the same effect 【5】 mammals and could even make humans 【6】 （small）．“Horses started out small，about the size of a small dog. What's 【7】 （surprise）is that after they first appeared，they then became even smaller and then dramatically increased in size, and that【8】（exact）corresponds to the global warming event, followed by cooling.”"It had been known that mammals 【9】 small during the last warm time， 【10】 we hadn't realized that temperature specifically was driving the evolution of body size”Dr. Bloch said in the "Science”journal.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】to shrink

【2】it

【3】appearance

【4】down

【5】on

【6】smaller

【7】surprising

【8】exactly

【9】were

【10】but

【解析】

試題分析：本文是一篇調(diào)查報(bào)告。文章講述了全球氣候變暖會(huì)使人類變矮。

【1】考查非謂語(yǔ)動(dòng)詞的用法。cause sb./sth. to do意為“使某人/某物做某事”，故填to shrink。

【2】考查代詞的用法。it指代前面提到的a team，故填it。

【3】考查名詞的用法。形容詞earliest后用appear的名詞形式，故填appearance。

【4】考查副詞和邏輯。溫度上升，馬的體型會(huì)變小，故填down。

【5】考查介詞的用法。have an effect on表示對(duì)某事有影響，故填on。

【6】考查形容詞比較級(jí)的用法。even修飾形容詞比較級(jí)，故填smaller。

【7】考查形容詞的用法。be動(dòng)詞后形容詞作表語(yǔ)，用surprise的ing形式，故填surprising。

【8】考查副詞的用法。修飾動(dòng)詞corresponds要用exact的副詞形式，故填exactly。

【9】考查主謂一致。哺乳動(dòng)物mammals用的是復(fù)數(shù)形式，后面的系動(dòng)詞也要搭配復(fù)數(shù)形式，故填were。

【10】考查連詞的用法。句意：我們已經(jīng)知道哺乳動(dòng)物在那個(gè)時(shí)期個(gè)頭較小，而那個(gè)時(shí)期氣候也較暖，但我們還未意識(shí)到正是溫度驅(qū)動(dòng)著身體大小的進(jìn)化。句意間是表示轉(zhuǎn)折的語(yǔ)氣，故填but。

考查：語(yǔ)法填空