2017年6月第1套 选词填空

The method for making beer has changed over time. Hops (啤酒花), for example, which give many a modern beer its bitter flavor, are a 26__________ recent addition to the beverage. This was first mentioned in reference to brewing in the ninth century. Now, researchers have found a 27__________ ingredient in residue (残留物) from 5000-year-old beer brewing equipment. While digging two pits at a site in the central plains of China, scientists discovered fragments from pots and vessels. The different shapes of the containers 28__________ they were used to brew, filter, and store bee. They may be ancient “beer-making tools,” and the earliest 29__________ evidence of beer brewing in China, the researchers reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. To 30__________ that theory, the team examined the yellowish, dried 31__________ inside the vessel. The majority of the grains, about 80%, were from cereal crops like barley (大麦), and about 10% were bits of roots, 32__________ lily, which would have made the beer sweeter, the scientists say. Barley was an unexpected find; the crop was domesticated in Western Eurasia and didn’t become a 33__________ food in central China until about 2,000 years ago, according to the researcher. Based on that timing, they indicate barley may have 34__________ in the region not as food, but as 35__________ material for beer brewing.

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

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