【正文】 he temperature climbed through the eighties, into the nineties, and moved towards the hundred plained, but there was no serious death number in the quite small, thanks largely to the airconditioning units that had been fitted during previous years and rose to the limit of human endurance throughout the whole country and people were obliged to remain indoors for weeks on airconditioning units failed and it was then that fatalities were utterly desperate throughout the tropicsas may be judged from the fact that 7943 species of plants and animals became totally survival of Man himself was only possible because of the caves and cellarshe was able to could be done to reduce the hot air than seven hundred million persons are known to have lost their the temperature of the surface waters of the sea rose, not so fast as the air temperature it is true, but fast enough to produce a dangerous increase of was indeed this increase that produced the disastrous conditions just of people between the latitudes of Cairo and the Cape of Good Hope were subjected to a choking atmosphere that grew damper and hotter from day to human movement was nothing to be done but to lie breathing quickly as a dog does in hot the fourth week of July conditions in the tropics lay balanced between life and total quite suddenly rain clouds appeared over the whole temperature declined a little, due no doubt to the clouds reflecting more of the Sun s radiation back into space, But conditions could not be said to have rain fell everywhere, even as far north as insect population increased enormously, since the burning hot atmosphere was as favorable to them as it was unfavorable to Man many other the British Isles the )stayed at eightyB)ranged from eighty to ninetyC)approached one hundredD)exceeded the hundred mark 可銳教育官網(wǎng) people in the United States lost their lives )the temperature was tolerableB)people remained indoors for weeksC)the government had taken effective measures to reduce the hot temperatureD)people were provided with the most fortable airconditioners of people in Cairoand the Cape of Good Hopewere subjected to a choking atmosphere )the temperature grew extremely hotB)the temperature became damper and hotter as the humidity of the surface waters of the sea increasedC)their conditions were too dangerousD)nothing could be done with the hot temperature the fourth week of July conditions in the tropics were such )human survival would be impossibleB)more and more people would lose their livesC)fewer people could be savedD)survival or death was still undecided insect population increased due )the hot airB)the tropical climateC)the rain cloudsD)the damp atmosphere答案： 可銳教育官網(wǎng)Tea drinking was mon in China for nearly one thousand years before anyone in Europe had ever heard about in Britain were much slower in finding out what tea was like, mainly because tea was very could not be bought in shops and even those people who could afford to have it sent from Holland did so only because it was a fashionable of them were not sure how to use thought it was a vegetable and tried cooking the they served them mixed with butter and soon discovered their mistake but many people used to spread the used tea leaves on bread and give them to their children as remained scarce and very expensive in England until the ships of the East India Company began to bring it direct from China early in the seventeenth the next few years so much tea came into the country that the price fell and many people could afford to buy the same time people on the Continent were being more and more fond of then tea had been drunk without milk in it, but one day a famous French lady named Madame de Sevigne decided to see what tea tasted like when milk was found it so pleasant that she would never again drink it without she was such a great lady her friends thought they must copy everything she did, so they also drank their tea with milk in this habit spread until it reached England and today only very few Britons drink tea without first, tea was usually drunk after dinner in the evening No one ever thought of drinking tea in the afternoon until a duchess found that a cup of tea and a piece of cake at three or four o clock stopped her gettinga sinking feelingas she called invited her friends to have this new meal with her and so, teatime was of the following is true of the introduction of tea into Britain?A)The Britons got expensive tea from )Tea reached Britain from )The Britons were the first people in Europe who drank )It was not until the 17th century that the Britons had passage mainly )the history of tea drinking in BritainB)how tea became a popular drink in BritainC)how the Britons got the habit of drinking teaD)how teatime was born 可銳教育官網(wǎng) became a popular drink in )in eighteenth centuryB)in sixteenth centuryC)in seventeenth centuryD)in the late seventeenth century in Europe began to drink tea with milk )it tasted like milkB)it tasted more pleasantC)it became a popular drinkD)Madame de Sevinge was such a lady with great social influence that people tried to copy the way she drank tea may infer from the passage that the habit of drinking tea in Britain was mostly due to the influence )a famous French ladyB)the ancient ChineseC)the upper social classD)people in Holland答案： 第二篇：2018年可銳考研英語完形填空模擬題可銳教育官網(wǎng)2018年可銳考研英語完形填空模擬題（一）Text1．Fill each of the numbered blanks in the following passage with one suitable the beginning, water has furnished man with a source of food and a highway to travel first civilisations arose____________(1)water was a dominant element in the environment, a challenge__________(2)man’s Egyptians invented the 365___________(3)calendar in response___________(4)the Nile’s annual Babylonians, who were among ___________(5)most famous lawmakers___________(6)antiquity, devised edicts regulating water inspired the