1、根据短文内容及首字母提示,填写所缺单词。The continent(洲 Antarctica is the most southern area of land on the Earth and ismostly covered with ice. People have never wanted to l 67 there because of its coldesttemperature. But now scientists from all over the w 68 come to study the ice to learnmore about the Earth’s history.Some scientists live on Antarctica for part of the y 69 . But they don’t usually staythere for more than six months b 70 there are six months of light and six months ofdarkness.Antarctica usually has a good deal of f 71 weather without any wind at all. Thestrong winds are usually only in some parts of it. It is also i 72 to learn that it isn’t verywet there. There is very l 73 snow or rain. It snows on the ice in winter, but at other timesAntarctica is d 74 , just like the Sahara Desert.In winter the sea around Antarctica freezes (结冰 for t 75 of kilometres. Butscientists tell us that the earth is getting w 76 . So in the future, there may be less ice inthe Antarctic sea. When that happens, our weather will never be the same again.参考答案:67. live 68. world 69. year 70. because 71. fine 72. interesting 73. little 74.dry 75. thousands 76. warmer2、根据短文内容及首字母提示,填写所缺单词。You may think that English dictionaries have been used for many, many centuries.In fact, an English dictionary you u 72 today wasn’t made until the Qing Dynasty. Threemen did most of the important e 73 work on dictionary. They spent nearly all their l 74trying to collect words for their dictionary. For them, it was a wonderful journey. Thelargest dictionary in the world is Oxford English Dictionary. The i 75 for this dictionarycame from an important meeting in Britain in 18...
