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英语强化训练之--------Cloze Test Directions: For each numbered blank in the following passage, there are choices marked A .B .C and D .Choose the best one and mark your answer on the ANSWERSHEET with a single line through the center. Passage One During the early years of this century, wheat was seen as the very lifeblood of Western Canada . 1 the crops were good ,the 2 was good ;when the crops failed , there was 3 .people on city streets 4 the yields and the price of wheat with almost as much 5 as if they were growers .The 6 of wheat became an increasingly 7 topic of conversation . War set the stage for the most 8 events in marketing the .western crop .For years ,farmers 9 speculative(投机的) grain selling as carried on through the Winnipeg Grain Exchange .Wheat 10 were generally low in the autumn , 11 farmers could not wait for markets to improve .It had happened too often 12 they sold their wheat soon after harvest when farm 13 were coming due only to see prices rising and speculators 14 rich .On various 15 , producer groups asked for firmer controls ,but governments had no wish to become involved , at least 16 wartime when wheat prices threatened to run wild. Anxious to check inflation and rising living costs ,the federal government appointed a 17 of gram supervisors to handle deliveries from the crops of 1917 and 1918 . Grain Exchange trading was 18 ,and farmers sold at prices 19 by the board .To handle the crop of 1919 ,the government 20 the first Canadian Wheat Board ,with full authority to buy ,sell ,and set prices . 1. A . If B .Since C .When D .But 2. A .economist B .economical C .economics D .economy 3. A .depression B .deprivation C .description D .depletion 4. A .looked B .watched C .saw D .noticed 5. A .thought B .feeling C .idea D .mind 6 A .growing B .purchasing C .keeping D .mark