选词填空：The method for making beer has changed over time. Hops （啤酒花) for example

选词填空：The method for making beer has changed over time. Hops (啤酒花)，for example, which many a modern beerits bitter flavor, are a 26 recent additions to the beverage. Thiswas mentioned in reference to brewing in the ninth century. Now, researchershave found a 27 ingredient in residue (残留物) from 5000-year-old beer brewingequipment. While excavating two pits at a site in thecentral plains of China, scientists discovered pottery fragments from pots,funnels, amphorae, and stoves (stove fragment pictured). The different shapesof the containers 28 theywere used to brew, filter, and store beer—they may be ancient “beer-making tools,” and the earliest 29 evidence of beer brewing in China, the researchers report online today in theProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.To30 thathypothesis, the team examined the yellowish, dried 31 insidethe vessels. The majority of the grains—about 80%—were from cereal cropslike barley (大麦), andabout 10% were bits of roots, 32 lily,which would have sweetened the brew, the scientists say. Barley was anunexpected find: The crop was domesticated in western Eurasia and didn’t becomea 33 food incentral China until about 2000 years ago, according to the researchers. basedon that timing, they suggest barley may have 34 in theregion not as food, but as 35 material forbeerbrewing.

A) arrived

B) consuming

C) direct

D) exclusively

E) including

F) inform

G) raw

H) reached

I) relatively

J) remains

K) resources

L) staple

M) suggest

N) surprising

O) test

正确答案：
26.I (relatively)
解析：空格前为冠词，空格后为形容词，空格处为副词，根据上下文选I。
27.N (surprising)
解析：空格前为冠词，空格后为名词，空格处为形容词，根据上下文选N。
28.M (suggest)
解析：空格前为名词短语，空格后句子，空格处为谓语动词，根据上下文选M。
29.C (direct)
解析：空格前为形容词，空格后为名词，空格处为形容词，根据上下文选C。
30.O (test)
解析：空格前为动词不定式to，空格处为动词原形，根据上下文选O。
31.J (remains)
解析：空格前为形容词，空格后为介词短语，空格处为名词，根据上下文选J。
32.E (including)
解析：空格所在的句子结构完整，缺少修饰语，且空格后为名词，缺少非谓语作状语的成分，根据上下文选E。
33.L (staple)
解析：空格前为冠词，空格后为名词，空格处为形容词，根据上下文选L。
34.A (arrived)
解析：空格前为助动词mayhave，空格处缺少实意动词，根据上下文选A。
35.G (raw)
解析：空格后为名词，空格处为形容词，根据上下文选G。