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【完形填空】Cloze: The River's Truth
At 2:14 a.m., hydrologist Li Wan knelt on the wet pavement and pressed her ear (1) the ground.
Beneath the concrete, the river's low hum seemed to (2) through the iron lid of the well.
Her assistant, Zhou Ke, passed her the scanner (3) saying a word.
The reading was 4.7 metres and (4).
For six years, Li Wan had argued that the county's flood warnings (5) on a wrong equation.
The equation assumed the river ran straight, but it (6) through a curve of old warehouses.
Her superiors called her method dubious, but she (7) 1,200 soil samples and catalogued 38 illegal drains.
In 2019, she got a pilot project (8) 2.3 million yuan to test sensor networks.
She worked for 90 days, sleeping in a requisitioned cabin and (9) her field notes into a sticky mess.
After the project, funding was cut, but she (10) to warn people when disaster struck.
Choices
(1) A. on B. to C. at D. in
(2) A. vibrated B. vibrate C. vibrating D. vibrates
(3) A. with B. without C. by D. in
(4) A. rises B. rising C. rose D. risen
(5) A. relied B. relying C. rely D. relies
(6) A. spin B. spins C. spun D. spinning
(7) A. gathered B. gathering C. gathers D. gather
(8) A. worthy B. worth C. worthwhile D. worthless
(9) A. lets B. letting C. to let D. let
(10) A. continue B. continuing C. continued D. continues