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高三一轮复习英语试题集（三十七） 一、完形填空 When Mt Vesuvius erupted （爆发）in 79 A.D, it destroyed the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. The first excavators (挖掘者)were the people of Pompeii who, 1 to their city when the eruption stopped, dug down through the 2 of their buried homes and salvaged (抢救)what they could 3 their furniture and 4 . the tunnels they 5 through the solidified ash can still be seen in place. But a time came 6 Pompeii and Herculaneum were forgotten. Throughout the Middle Age these two buried cities were not 7 . and it was not until 1709 8 an Austrian prince sank a shaft at Herculaneum then, by means of underground tunnels, 9 the city of its treasures, in 1729 systematic(系统地)excavation began on the same site. From the end of the eighteenth century to the present day, digging had gone practically continuously,_ 10 slowly, and often with few resources. Perhaps this slowness has not been entirely a 11 ., since it has resulted in large, untouched sections of both cities left preserved for modern, scientific 12 . Archeological(考古学的)techniques have 13 so much in the last fifty years that a 14 can now be shown far more archeological information than was possible before. Today most of Pompeii and a substantial section of Herculaneum have been 15 . They are the best archaeological sites in 16 , and the most wonderful. For here, and 17 else on earth are ancient cities in which 18 did not die out but was suddenly 19 . “Behind these walls”, as one writer has said, “lies an ancient Italian town, stilled in a moment of time. To enter the 20 of this city is to walk 2000 years in the past. 1. A. arriving B. retuning C. coming D. going 2. A. walls B. floors C. gates D. roofs 3. A. of B. from C. out of D. in 4. A. thing B. tools C. ownings D. belongings 5. A. went B. got C. drove D. moved 6. A. when B. and C. that D. until 7. A. discovered B. researc