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Tea is the steady companion of the Scottish day. Each hotel, no matter how humble? stocks its rooms with supplies for brew-ups 8__________ sea and the howling wind, we ourselves tucked into the hollow of a dune for lunch, eating cheese and apples in the sun with wind 9__________ our heads, blowing the sand into rippling ridges, flattening the beach grasses. Probably the archaeologists are right, but this utterly typical sense of Scottish 10__________ merrily planted at the edge of harsh cliffs, afternoon tea conducted in the wind and cold, suggests another possibility. A) deliver I) skimming B) sparkling J) domesticity C) confused K) cooperate D) considerate L) boiling E) slash M) respectable F) immediately N) glowing G) astonishment 0) originally H) glimpse 文章精要：文章描述了苏格兰人对茶的特殊喜爱，并从考古学的角度简单描述了茶对 苏格兰人聚居地的意义。 答案解析 1. L 空格前的electric pot for与water后的ceramic pot for brewing为并列关系。后 者的意思是用来冲泡的陶瓷壶，那么前面的意思可能为用来烧水的电 热水壶，其中烧这个词要用其动名词形式，与brewing对应。选项中只 有boiling符合题意。 | 
