Ⅱ.Cloze(每題 1 分)Considered to be one of the final places in the world inhabited by human beings, New Zealand wasset up 700 years ago. The first people of New Zealand are the Maori, which is the name of their language,too. Like most first people, the Maori seldom 12 things like notes. Namely, they did not have awritten record, making it problematic for us to 13 where they came from. Reports have it that theMaori are Polynesian -- the same people who first 14 Hawaii and the various islands of the Pacific.A Maori legend said that Maori came from a place 15 was called Hawaiki. That being the case, noone knows where this place was -- 16 the Maori. Some say that maybe it was near Hawaii. Modernresearchers do not agree on where the Maori came from, but the most commonly accepted idea is thatthey first 17 in China. They then travelled to Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, and so on untilthey finally reached New Zealand.
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(A) gulped down
(B) jotted down
(C) let down
(D) broke down