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【完形填空】Cloze: The Herder and the Mine
Tenzin Dolma had been awake for months, ever since the survey team drove past her family's pasture and stopped at the junction (1) the old trade road splits toward the glacier.
Her younger brother Lobsang had signed an apprenticeship with a mining consortium the previous autumn, (2) by wages of 4,800 yuan a month.
The company's consultant had been bold at the village meeting: the ore beneath the ridge was worth 900 million yuan, enough, he said, to (3) every household and repay every loan.
A few elders voiced an enquiry, but most simply (4).
By 2021 the road had been widened, the first trucks had begun to barge through at night, and the stream below the camp ran grey.
A vet from the county seat tested the water and found particulate levels four times the legal (5).
She cited the figures in a report, but the report was (6).
Tenzin learned the word depletion from her, and thought constantly about her grandmother's biography of the valley, a thin handwritten booklet (7) grass so thick it clutched at your boots.
Lobsang came home at the spring festival, his hands scratched raw, his fatigue (8).
"You can't fight a certificate," he told her, half joking, and she could hear the stammer of shame (9) it.
He described the tunnels, the pumps, the way dust made the workers' voices harsh by noon.
He had been asked to sign a waiver, and he had signed.
Tenzin did not congratulate him, and did not taunt him (10).
She merely asked whether he had seen any fish in the river.
He said no.
Choices
(1) A. where B. which C. that D. when
(2) A. tempted B. lured C. attracted D. drawn
(3) A. refresh B. renew C. restore D. repair
(4) A. approved B. agreed C. nodded D. consented
(5) A. threshold B. limit C. level D. standard
(6) A. delayed B. dismissed C. shelved D. postponed
(7) A. describing B. depicting C. portraying D. illustrating
(8) A. obvious B. visible C. apparent D. evident
(9) A. below B. beneath C. underneath D. under
(10) A. as well B. also C. too D. either