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【完形填空】Cloze: The Last Tree
Maria Tun stood outside her stilt house and watched a yellow machine (1) through a tree her grandfather had called a neighbour.
Her husband, Elias, a former logger turned beekeeper, put a hand (2) her shoulder.
The village of Santa Rosa sits on the edge of a territory that has lost 38 per cent of its tree cover (3) 2011.
After two or three harvests, the soil turns acidic and compact, and the farmers move (4) in.
Elias once earned good money cutting timber and was paid a premium (5) mahogany and cedar.
Then a mudslide in 2018 buried four houses and killed two children, and his own son left for the city and never (6) back.
Maria, a former teacher, has become a militant of sorts, logging every tree cut and sending reports to a prosecutor (7) in Belém.
Her files have helped impose three fines, (8) only 180,000 reais has been collected.
She has been threatened twice, and her daughter in Manaus begs her to stop, saying, 'You are not a journalist, you are a grandmother.' Maria adjusts her glasses and keeps (9).
In 2021, a Chinese-owned meat company signed a supply contract with three ranches on the cleared land, pledging to monitor deforestation, but the monitoring stops at the fence line, (10) thin strips that are technically legal.
Choices
(1) A. chewing B. chew C. chewed D. to chew
(2) A. at B. in C. on D. by
(3) A. for B. since C. from D. in
(4) A. deeply B. deep C. deeper D. depth
(5) A. for B. on C. at D. with
(6) A. came B. coming C. come D. comes
(7) A. base B. based C. basing D. bases
(8) A. through B. though C. although D. even
(9) A. writing B. write C. wrote D. to write
(10) A. leaving B. leaves C. leave D. left