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I. 完形填空 1. Pearl in The Sand Sea Like the storm surge of a petrified ocean, dunes a thousand feet tall roll across northern Chinas Alashan Plateau. Salty spring-fed lakes __1____ this corner of the Gobi like colored jewels. Nuoertu, it is the biggest pearl in the sand sea. ___2___ other deserts of the world, one specialty of the Badain Jaran desert is the existence of numerous permanent lakes ____3____ the dunes. However, some of the lakes even ____4___ completely.___5___, the largest one is Nuoertu, which is 1.5 km in area and 26 m in depth. Walking along the lake, it will __6_ two hours and a half to circle around. Theres no ___7___ to hurry, traveling in the Badain Jaran is a nice adventure. Gradually, one will get used to this local ___8___ of life and start to see the real: isolate, hot and beautiful…… But sand is never easy walking, and climbing each dunes pitched face ____9____. Sweat stings the eyes and soaks the shirt. However, after standing ____10___ a dune, you share back at your progress and will____11___ that youve entered a vast sand mountainscape. The sand mountains are draped in a dozen shades of saturated yellow ____12____beneath a clear blue sky. Bellowing us, Nuoertu, like a ___13___ sapphire, is set in a bowl-shaped valley. At the valleys northern end, fringed in rich green grasses and reeds. Sheep and goats drift across the dune hillsides, ____14____ the sagebrush-like artemisia that grows on them. Camels and a few horses graze near the lakeshore. And at the far ____15____of the lake, all alone, sits a pair of small square blockhouse. In the evening, you may lie on the warm sand, which is sunlit in the daytime: I have the largest house in the World Under the young moon. My house has no doors and no windows.? It has no walls and no locks. Its ceiling is painted with stars. Its floor is embroidered with sand. My cozy and comfortable place. 1. A. stud B. studded C. studed D. studs 2. A. Compared to B. Compared