A：知识层面
Ⅰ.语境语法填空
A(考查派生词)
The 1．discovery (discover) of America soon brought Europeans to this continent. The immigrants from the west world were of different 2．nationalities (national) but they had common goals: to seize property and wealth from Native Americans. Their illegal 3．occupation (occupy) of the arable land left many Native Americans starved to death. There's still 4．confusion (confuse) about the number of people who died of 5．hunger (hungry) those years. After Columbus landed on America, Native Americans gradually lost their resources, 6．freedom (free) and culture. The invaders almost snatched everything!
B(考查动词)
That small farm 7．has been expanded (expand) into a modern complex farm in the past decade. Grain and vegetables grown without using chemicals are often seen 8．exported (export) into many countries. Farm workers 9．are struggling (struggle) hard to increase the output so as to satisfy the ever rising demand. But they have had their workload 10．reduced (reduce) by 50% since the farm 11．was equipped (equip) with advanced machines years ago. 12．Skimming (skim) through the local newspapers, you may find frequent reports about the farm.
C(考查句型)
The conference is to be held at 13．what is called Hilton Hotel as was expected. Over 130 heads of state and government will attend the conference, 14．making (make) it the largest summit ever. I would rather you 15．turned (turn) up at the summit and, 16．if possible, delivered a speech on how to fight terrorism. Will you please accept our invitation? If 17．so, we'll make the arrangement ahead of schedule.
