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The "father of waters", the Mississippi River is one of the【C1】______ in the world. According to the United States Army Corps of
The "father of waters", the Mississippi River is one of the【C1】______ in the world. According to the United States Army Corps of
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The "father of waters", the Mississippi River is one of the【C1】______ in the world. According to the United States Army Corps of Engineers, if it is【C2】______ from the Upper Red Rock Reservoir which leads to its longest【C3】______ , the Missouri-the Mississippi【C4】______ 3,658 miles to the Head of Passes in the delta. From Lake Itasca in Minnesota to the Passes the Mississippi measures 2,550 miles. The upper Mississippi River is 1,401 miles long. The drainage basin, which【C5】______ from western Pennsylvania to Idaho, embraces two fifths of the continental United States, not【C6】______ Alaska. It is third in size only【C7】______ the Amazon and Congo river basins. The greater part of this vast region is enormously fertile,【C8】______ makes the Mississippi Valley an agricultural empire second to【C9】______ .
Early Spanish explorers in the Gulf of Mexico had noted the mouth of this great river and【C10】______ it the River of the Holy Ghost. Hemando de Soto is usually considered【C11】______ He not only【C12】______ the wide muddy stream in his explorations in 1541,【C13】______ he died upon its banks and was buried in it. More than a hundred years passed【C14】______ other Europeans saw it. Then in 1673 the brave and【C15】______ Frenchmen Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet 【C16】______ it as far as the mouth of the Arkansas River. It【C17】______ for La Salle and his party, in 1682, to【C18】______ the river to the gulf. Two years earlier Louis Hennepin, sent by La Salle,【C19】______ the upper river from the mouth of the Illinois to St. Anthony Falls, the present site of Minneapolis. A hundred and fifty years【C20】______ , in 1832, Henry Schoolcraft followed the Mississippi proper to its source in several small Minnesota lakes, including Lake Itasca.
【C17】
选项
A、remained
B、lasted
C、kept
D、left
答案
A
解析
本题区分的是remain,last,keep和leave四个词的用法。Last通常与一段时间连用表示持续一段时间。Keep后面常加sb.或sth.再加doing,done或者形容词表示使某人或某物一直处于某种状态。 Leave也常会构成leave sb./sth.doing/done/sth.表示使某人或某物一直处于某种状态,这三个词的意义均不合适。而remained表示“保持、留下”,在文中表示这个使命留待某人完成,所以为本题的正确答案。
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