2020年浙江卷
第三部分 语言运用(共两节，满分45分)
第二节(共10小题;每小题1.5分，满分15分)
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
Some time after 10, 000 BC, people made the first real attempt to control the world they lived 56 , through agriculture. Over thousands of years, they began to depend less on 57 could be hunted or gathered from the wild, and more on animals they had raised and crops they had sown.
Farming produced more food per person 58 hunting and gathering, so people were able to raise more children. And, as more children were born, more food 59 (need). Agriculture gave people their first experience of the power of technology 60 (change)lives.
By about 6000 BC, people 61 (discover)the best crops to grow and animals to raise. Later, they learned to work with the 62 (season), planting at the right time and, in dry areas, 63 (make)use of annual floods to irrigate(灌溉)their fields.
This style of farming lasted for quite a long time. Then, with 64 rise of science, changes began. New methods 65 (mean)that fewer people worked in farming. In the last century or so, these changes have accelerated. New power machinery and artificial fertilizers(化肥)have now totally transformed a way of life that started in the Stone Age.
答案解析：
56. in
解析：根据句意，这里应该是表示人们开始尝试控制他们生活的世界，live in是一个固定搭配，意为“生活在……”。
57. what
解析：根据句意，这里应该是一个宾语从句的引导词，表示可以被猎取或从野外收集的东西，what在这里作宾语。
58. than
解析：根据句意，这里应该是比较农业和狩猎采集生产食物的效率，所以用than引导比较级。
59. was needed
解析：根据句意，这里应该是表示更多的食物被需要，所以用过去时的被动语态。
60. to change
解析：根据句意，这里应该是表示技术改变生活的力量，to change作定语，表示目的。
61. had discovered
解析：根据句意，这里应该是表示人们在公元前6000年左右就已经发现了最好的作物种植和动物饲养方法，所以用过去完成时。
62. seasons
解析：根据句意，这里应该是表示人们学会了如何根据季节工作，seasons是名词复数形式。
63. making
解析：根据句意，这里应该是表示人们学会了如何利用年度洪水来灌溉田地，making是动名词，作介词of的宾语。
64. the
解析：根据句意，这里应该是表示科学的兴起，the rise of是一个固定搭配，意为“……的兴起”。
65. meant
解析：根据句意，这里应该是表示新方法意味着更少的人从事农业工作，所以用过去时。
