gum-collector (树胶采集者), went into the jungle, as he did almost every day, 1　(look) for gum in the jungle. To do this, he had to climb the trees. On his particular day, he got to 　2　 top of one tree and something caught his eye. He looked out across the trees and saw the tops of some old buildings.

Tut didn't 　3　(real) know what he had seen but he knew it was something special. He ran to tell the local governor, and together they 　4　(walk) into the jungle. There they found Tikal (蒂卡尔), the city that the Mayans (玛雅人) had built hundreds of years before. The two men saw temples and pyramids, squares and houses, and places where kings 　5　(live) when the Mayan people ruled the region.

For a long time before that day, local people had known that somewhere in the jungle there was an old Mayan city, 　6　 no one had seen it for centuries. 7　 200 and 900 AD, the city of Tikal had been the center of Mayan 　8　(civilize) in the region, but then the Mayans left it and nobody knows why! After 1, 000 AD, the jungle began to cover it and people forgot that it was there.

Seven years before Tut looked out for the trees, two British explorers had gone to Guatemala and had written a report about Mayan treasures in the jungle, but they didn't mention Tikal. Even 　9　(early) than this, local Indians had told European travelers about a great city 　10　(hide) in the trees, but no one would listen to them. Now the lost city had been found again, and archaeologists went there immediately to see it.

【文章大意】1848年夏天, 在危地马拉有个名叫Ambrosio Tut的采胶人在丛林中偶然发现了古代玛雅人遗址。

1. 【解析】looking。考查非谓语动词作状语。主语Tut与look为逻辑上的主动关系, 且表示伴随, 故用looking。

2. 【解析】the。考查冠词。一棵树的树冠, 表示特指。

3. 【解析】really。考查词性转化。此处应用副词形式修饰谓语。

4. 【解析】walked。考查时态。根据上下文的时态可推知本空要用一般过去时。

5. 【解析】had lived。考查时态。此句的时间参考点为主句的谓语"saw", 故应用过去完成时。

6. 【解析】but。考查并列连词。前后两个分句之间为转折关系, 故用并列连词but。

7. 【解析】Between。考查介词。between . . . and . . . "在......和......之间"。

8. 【解析】civilization。考查词性转化。此处作介词of的宾语, 意为: 玛雅文明。

9. 【解析】earlier。考查副词比较级。根据后面的than可知设空处用副词的比较级。

10. 【解析】hidden。考查非谓语动词作定语。a great city与hide之间为逻辑上的被动关系, 且表示状态, 故用过去分词作定语。

Ⅳ. 完形填空

When my sister Diane began playing the violin, she was seven. How did she sound? Terrible. But she didn't 　1　. At twelve, she asked our parents if she could 　2　 a full-time music school. They said no. Actually, everyone agreed that my sister 　3　 talent.

I was better at my 　4　. My teacher had told my parents that I had great 　5　.