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词汇理解模拟题：Passage One 　　Tea is the steady companion of the Scottish day. Each hotel, no matter how humble? stocks its rooms with supplies for brew-ups (泡茶）；electric pot for 1__________ water, ceramic pot for brewing, china cups and small tea-creamers, a great number of teas, honey, fresh milk, and lemons. This is a delight and 2__________ , for not only is there no such thing in American hotels, but room service even in 3__________ ones, when asked for tea with milk, can 4__________ a plastic kettle of hot water covered by a square of Saran Wrap, and a glass of milk.It is nearing four o’clock in the afternoon. We come upon a small caravan camper with its door open to a late -middle -aged Scottish couple, sitting at a folding table, taking tea and biscuits. Passing by, one only has a 5__________ : his thick, white socks and heavy black shoes; her plump pear form and print dress; the electric kettle on the table. The archaeologists are 6__________ as to why the people of ancient Skara Brae would locate their huts so close to the sea, and have guessed that in fact the settlement was 7__________ located in a protected hollow, that time has eroded the shoreline inland toward the huts. That would make sense. Indeed, when presented at Skara Brae with the lure of a (an) 8__________ sea and the howling wind, we ourselves tucked into the hollow of a dune for lunch, eating cheese and apples in the sun with wind 9__________ our heads, blowing the sand into rippling ridges, flattening the beach grasses. Probably the archaeologists are right, but this utterly typical sense of Scottish 10__________ merrily planted at the edge of harsh cliffs, afternoon tea conducted in the wind and cold, suggests another possibility. A) deliver I) skimming B) sparkling J) domesticity C) confused K) cooperate D) considerate L) boiling E) slash M) respectable F) immediately N) glowing G) astonishment 0) originally H) glimpse 　文章精要：文章描述了苏格兰人对茶的特殊喜爱，并从考古学的角度简单描述了茶对 苏格兰人聚居地的意义。 　　答案解析　　1. L 空