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根据短文内容及所给首字母提示写出所缺单词,使短文意思完整,每空一词。
If you ask most people about the desert, they might describe sand and rocks. Arches National Park in Utah, the USA shows a different scene. 1. V there are amazed by the life and colour in the desert. Wildflowers and cactuses(仙人掌) 2. a bright colours to the red rock. Blue jays and red-tailed hawks fly up high in the sky.
Of course, the park is 3. f for its amazing landforms. More than 2,000 natural arches have been found in the park. Some of them stand alone against the cloudless sky; 4. o stand out from the rocky hills. They were formed over the course of 100 5. m years, as wind and water slowly broke down the rock. The arches took millions of years to form, but it takes only seconds to lose an arch forever. In 1991, Landscape Arch, the
park's largest arch, 6. l a piece of rock about 60 feet long. The arch still stands, but it is now much easier to break.
In the beauty of this desert park, roads and cars are the 7. o interruption to the natural scene. But they make it easy for people to enjoy nature's great work 8. w it is still there.
In 2025, the park started a new entry system. It 9. a visitors to buy tickets up to six months early. In this way, they can 10. b enjoy the natural beauty in the park in an organized way.

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本文通过介绍美国拱门国家公园独特的沙漠景观、自然地貌的形成与脆弱性以及公园的管理措施，展现了人类与自然奇观共存的方式。
1. Visitors 根据句意和结合最后一段内容理解可知，此处谈论的是去拱门国家公园旅行的游客们。
2. add 根据前句中的 life 和 colour 理解可知，此处谈论的是野花和仙人掌为红色的岩石增添了鲜艳的色彩。句子主语是复数，故此处答案应该填动词原形 add。
3. famous be famous for 意为“因为……而著名”。
4. others 有的天然拱门耸立在万里无云的天空下，有的从嶙峋的山丘中突兀而出。此处使用固定句型“some ... others ...”，意思为“一些……另一些……”。
5. million 根据 The arches took millions of years to form 可知，这些拱门花了数百万年才形成，所以此处说的是这些拱门是在一亿年的时间里形成的，空格前的数词 100 之后需要接量词。
6. lost 根据前文理解可知，拱门花了数百万年才形成，但是永远失去一座拱门只需要几秒钟。此处列举了1991年公园最大的拱门“景观拱门”失去了一块约60英尺长的岩石，此处是一般过去时，故填 lost。
7. only 在这片沙漠公园的美丽中，道路和汽车是自然景观中唯一的干扰。
8. while 根据句意理解以及首字母提示可知，此处应填 while，意为“当……的时候”。
9. allows 2025年，该公园开始实行新的入园系统，该系统允许游客们提前六个月购票。allow sb. to do sth. 意为“允许某人去做某事”，句子主语 It 是第三人称单数，故填 allows。
10. better 结合前句理解可知，新的入园系统能够更好地服务于游客，他们就能有组织地更好地欣赏公园的自然美景。