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sloth n. 树懒 rare adj. 稀有的；罕见的 protect v. 保护
You must see sloths on TV or on 1. Internet. They look kind of lazy, but they are very funny and lovely, 2. people around the world love this kind of animals.
When we put sloths on land, they walk very 3. (slow). As we know, sloths are slow and lazy on land, but they can swim very 4. (good).
Sloths usually spend most of their day 5. ______ (sleep) in the trees. Sloths can sleep for 15 to 20 6. ______ (hour) a day! When do they eat their meals then? Of course 7. ______ night! When they wake up in the evening, they begin 8. ______ (eat) leaves in the trees. So they cannot live without forests all their lives.
Sloths can be rare 9. (animal) in the world. We can see 10. (they) mainly in the forests of Central South America. So we must protect them.

1. the 2. so 3. slowly 4. well 5. sleeping 6. hours 7. at
8. to eat/eating 9. animals 10. them

【分析】本题为介绍树懒的语法填空，需结合固定搭配、词性转换、语法规则及上下文逻辑完成填空：1. 考查固定搭配“on the Internet”；2. 考查因果连词，前因后果用so；3. 修饰动词walk用副词，slow变slowly；4. 修饰动词swim用副词，good变well；5. 考查固定搭配“spend time (in) doing sth”，sleep变sleeping；6. 数词15-20后接可数名词复数，hour变hours；7. 考查固定搭配“at night”；8. 考查固定搭配“begin to do/doing sth”；9. 主语为复数，animal变animals；10. 动词see后接宾格，they变them。
【解析】1. 固定搭配“on the Internet”，需填定冠词the；2. 前句说明树懒有趣可爱，后句表结果，用连词so；3. 修饰动词walk需用副词，slow的副词形式为slowly；4. 修饰动词swim需用副词，good的副词形式为well；5. 固定结构“spend + 时间 + (in) + doing sth”，故填sleeping；6. 数词15-20后接可数名词复数，hour变hours；7. 固定搭配“at night”，填介词at；8. 固定结构“begin to do/doing sth”，故填to eat或eating；9. 主语sloths为复数，名词用复数形式animals；10. 动词see后接人称代词宾格，they的宾格为them。
【答案】1. the 2. so 3. slowly 4. well 5. sleeping 6. hours 7. at 8. to eat/eating 9. animals 10. them
【知识点】冠词的固定搭配、副词的用法、非谓语动词的固定搭配
【点评】本题围绕树懒展开，考查初中英语核心基础知识点，涵盖固定短语、词性转换、语法结构等，难度适中，需学生熟练掌握常见英语搭配规则。
【难度系数】0.7