阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为31～40的相应位置上。

I have the greatest job in the world. I travel to unusual places and work alongside people from all over the world.  31   my job is occasionally dangerous, I don’t mind because danger excites me and makes me feel alive. 海南高考英语试题真题由精品学习网提供!

I   32  (appoint) as a volcanologist working for the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory twenty years ago. My job is collecting information for a database about Mount Kilauea,   33  is one of the most active volcanoes in Hawaii. Having collected and evaluated the information, I help other volcanologists to predict   34  lava from the volcano will flow next and how fast. Our work has saved many lives because people   35  the path of the lava can be warned to leave their houses _  36   (fortunate), we cannot move their homes out of the way, and many houses have been covered with lava or burned to  37   ground.

Today, I am just   38   enthusiastic about my job as the day I first started.  39    (study) volcanoes now for many years, I am still amazed   40  their beauty as well as their potential to cause great damage.

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31.Although/Though   32. was appointed  33. which   34. where   35. in

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