Many people believe the glare from snow causes snow blindness. However, the U. S. Army has now【B1】______that glare from snow doe

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问题     Many people believe the glare from snow causes snow blindness. However, the U. S. Army has now【B1】______that glare from snow does not cause snow—blindness in troops in a snow— covered country. Rather, a man’ s eyes frequently find nothing to focus on in a broad【B2】______of barren snow—covered terrain. So his gaze continually【B3】______and jumps back and forth over the entire landscape in search of something to look at. Finding nothing, the eyes never stop searching and the eyeballs become【B4】______and the eye muscles ache. Nature【B5】______this irritation by producing more fluid which covers the eyeball. The fluid covers the eyeball in【B6】______quantity until vision blurs, then is【B7】______, and the result is snow blindness.
    Experiments led the Army to a simple method of overcoming this problem. Scouts ahead of a main body of troops are trained to shake snow from evergreen bushes, creating a dotted line as they cross completely snow-covered landscape. Even the scouts themselves throw lightweight, dark colored objects【B8】______on which they too can focus. The men following can then see something . Their gaze is【B9】______. Their eyes focus on a bush and having found something to see, stop scouring the snow-blanketed landscape. By focusing their attention on one object at a time, the men can cross the snow without becoming hopelessly snow-blind or【B10】______. In this way the problem of crossing a solid white terrain is overcome.
A. lost
B. blurred
C. increasing
D. surveyed
E. determined
F. arrested
G. shifts
H. obscured
I. expanse
J. offsets
K. ahead
L. sore
【B5】

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答案J

解析 空格前为“Nature”,空格后是“this irritation by producing more fluid”,空格处应填入动词的第三人称单数。备选项中符合条件的这时只有offsets.offsets意为“抵消,弥补”,nature可理解为“本性,天性”,此处的意思即“为了缓解这种刺激,眼睛会自然地分泌更多的液体来覆盖眼球”。
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