中考模拟，题型全面，实战演练。

II. 完形填空（共10小题，每小题1分，计10分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各小题所给的四个选项中选出最佳答案。

Workers in the Gulf of Mexico are trying their best to stop an oil spill. The oil spill is the result of an accident that  ___ 1   on April 20, 2010. An oil rig (石油钻井平台) of a British oil company caught fire and sank. It started to  __2__  into the water from the four days later.

About 5,000 barrels of oil are going into the  _3    every day. The spill has grown to more than 10,000 square kilometers. This part of the sea is home to dolphins, sea turtles and other sea animals. The oil spill is putting them in  ___4   . Rescue workers have found many birds covered in thick black oil.