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2024外刊及中国日报精选改编-语法填空第一篇Japanese society：Stale and male A disorientating time for Japanese men日本男性迷失方向的时代本篇原文出自：《The Economist 经济学人》February 24th 2024【Asia】Fukushima Michihito wanted to marry his girlfriend. ______ a decade ago he fell ill, had to stop working, and ______(consequent) broke up with her. “I thought: if I can’t support my family, I shouldn’t get married,”he recalls. He later realized that many Japanese men are similarly weighed by pressure to fill the traditional male role. He now runs a “men’s hotline”in the city of Osaka, ______encourages men to discuss their ______(anxious).In Japan, relations between men and women are shifting as marriage rates decline and more women enter the workforce. But the idea that men are breadwinners remains deeply entrenched. In 2022 only 17% of eligible men took parental leave, ______(compare) with 80% of women. Japanese women spend five times longer doing chores than men. A survey in 2022 by Lean In Tokyo, an activist group, suggested that over 60% of Japanese men feel awkward at work because of pressure to behave in a manly way. In Japan, which has the ______(high) suicide rate in the G7, men are twice as likely to kill themselves as women.The hotline Mr Fukushima helps run ______(establish) in 1995. It was founded mainly in an effort to reduce domestic violence by giving anxious men an opportunity to air their grievancesto ______ discreet stranger. Since then, the hotline ______(receive) calls on an expanding range of concerns, including relationships, sexuality and work. “More men are growing tired of behaving in a manly fashion, and want to be free,”says Mr Fukushima. The government has also taken an interest ______ the problem. In 2010 it included an objective to promote “men’s counselling”in its gender equality plan. There are now over 80 counselling centres ______(offer) this service.Japan’s archetypal gender roles—the salaryman husband and stay-at-home mum—were cemented during the country’s long post-war boom. Following the oil crisis of the early 1970s, those rigid roles began to break down in many Western countries, as more and more women entered work in response______ economic stagnation and labour shortages. By contrast, Japan tried to overcome the crisis by extending men’s working hours—then by inflating the great “bubble economy”of the 1980s. While Western countries went through a “transition point”in gender relations, says Tanaka Toshiyuki, a sociologist, “Japan missed the opportunity to change.”Since the 1990s, as fears about a slumping birth rate increased and more Japanese women entered the workforce, ______(call) for men to participate in domestic work have grown. In 2010 the government tried to promote the concept of ikumen—which combines ikuji (child-rearing) and ikemen (cool men). But culture is slow to change at many companies, in part due to gerontocratic male management.The great extent to which Japanese men are encouraged to commit themselves to work isanother barrier to change. Retired workaholic men are described as a nureochibazoku, or “wet fallen leaf”, because,______(lack) hobbies or friends, they follow their wives around like a wet leaf ______(stick) to a shoe. A staple magazine article offers advice to wives suffering a severe case of “Retired Husband Syndrome”.For men, the pain of being considered a nuisance by their lifelong spouse can be immense. Mr Fukushima laments that “so many men sacrifice ______(they) for work to provide for their family—only to realize later in life that they don’t belong at home.”Mr Fukushima, who describes men’s tendency to assert their dominance as “the armour of masculinity”, ______(hope) more men will feel able to show weakness. That is still not easy. He says some men who call the hotline quickly become ______(agree), probably to hide their sense of humiliation. As for Mr Fukushima himself, when ______(ask) what he would do if he had his choice of proposing to ______ breaking up with his girlfriend again, he says he would probably still take the second course. “Even if I’m fine with the idea [of being a disempowered husband], the question is: what would she think? What would people around us think?”he says.背景知识退休丈夫综合症（Retired HusbandSyndrome）是指在日本文化中，一些妻子在丈夫退休后经历的心理和情绪压力。

外刊英国卫报改编完形填空3素材源：英国卫报（原文有删改）Guardian graphic△Global team of scientists find ecosystem below earth that is twice the size of world's oceans Reading ComprehensionDirections:For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A.B.C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.Scientists identify vast underground ecosystemThe Earth is far more alive than 1 thought,according to"deep life"studies that reveal a rich ecosystem beneath our feet that is almost twice the size of that found in all the world's oceans.Despite extreme heat,no light,minuscule nutrition and intense pressure,scientists estimate this subterranean biosphere is teeming with between 15bn and 23bn tonnes of micro-organisms, hundreds of times the combined weight of every human on the planet.Researchers at the Deep Carbon Observatory say the 2 of underworld species bears comparison to the Amazon or the Galapagos Islands,but unlike those places the environment is still largely original because people have yet to 3 most of the subsurface.The team combines 1,200 scientists from 52 countries in 4 ranging from geology and microbiology to chemistry and physics.A year before the conclusion of their 10-year study,they will 5 an amalgamation(融合）of findings to date before the American Geophysical Union's annual meeting opens this week.Samples were taken from boreholes more than 5km deep and undersea drilling sites to construct 6 of the ecosystem and estimate how much living carbon it might contain.One organism found 2.5km below the surface has been buried for millions of years and may not 7 at all on energy from the sun.Instead,the methanogen(甲烷微生物) has found a way to create methane in this low 8 environment,which it may not use to reproduce or divide,but to replace or repair broken parts.The strangest thing is that some organisms can exist for millennia.They are metabolically active but in stasis,with less energy than we thought possible of 9 life.Rick Colwell,a microbial ecologist at Oregon State University,said the timescales of subterranean life were completely different.Some microorganisms have been alive for thousands of years,barely moving except for 10 in the tectonic plates,earthquakes or eruptions.Underworld biospheres vary depending on geology and geography.Their combined sizeis estimated to be more than 2bn cubic kilometers,but this could be 11 further in the future.The researchers said their discoveries were made possible by two technical advances:drills that can penetrate far deeper below the Earth's crust,and improvements in microscopes that allow life to be 12 at decreasingly minute levels.The scientists have been trying to find a lower limit beyond which life cannot exist,but the deeper they dig the more life they find.There is a temperature maximum-currently l22C-but the researchers believe this record will be broken if they keep exploring and developing more 13instruments.Mysteries remain,including whether life colonizes up from the depths or down from chemical processes,and what this might the surface,how the microbes 14 revealing about how life and the Earth co-evolved.The scientists say some findings enter the realm of philosophy and exobiology-the study of extraterrestrial life.Robert,a mineralogist at the Carnegie Institution for Science,said:"We must ask ourselves:if life on Earth can be this different from what experience has led us to expect,then what strangeness might 15 as we probe for life on other worlds?"paratively B.dramatically C.elegantly D.previously2.A.variety B.diversity C.variability D.transformation3.A.distinguish B.faint C.probe D.drain4.A.disciplines B.subjects C.regions D.branches5.A.deliberate B.expose C.present D.promote6.A.patterns B.models C.imitations D.assumptions7.A.rely B.focus C.concentrate D.touch8.A.nutrition B.element C.fuel D.energy9.A.earning B.supporting C.breeding D.generating10 A.conditions B.stabilities C.shifts D.transmissions11 A.extended B.expanded C.calculated D.tempted12 A.scratched B.mortgaged C.monitored D.detected13 A.sophisticated B.feasible C.precise D.rough14 A.stick to B.strive for C.interact with D.see to15 A.await B.alter C.erase D.knit【词汇详解】注意：参考答案是本页右下方：释义及例句来自柯林斯词典minuscule/"mɪnɜ,skju:1/ADJ If you describe something as minuscule,you mean that it is very small.极小的例：The film was shot in 17 days,a minuscule amount of time.这部电影用了短短的17天就拍摄完成了。

素材源：英国卫报（原文有删改）Guardian graphic△Global team of scientists find ecosystem below earth that is twice the size of world's oceans Reading ComprehensionDirections:For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A.B.C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.Scientists identify vast underground ecosystemThe Earth is far more alive than 1 thought,according to"deep life"studies that reveal a rich ecosystem beneath our feet that is almost twice the size of that found in all the world's oceans.Despite extreme heat,no light,minuscule nutrition and intense pressure,scientists estimate this subterranean biosphere is teeming with between 15bn and 23bn tonnes of micro-organisms, hundreds of times the combined weight of every human on the planet.Researchers at the Deep Carbon Observatory say the 2 of underworld species bears comparison to the Amazon or the Galapagos Islands,but unlike those places the environment is still largely original because people have yet to 3 most of the subsurface.The team combines 1,200 scientists from 52 countries in 4 ranging from geology and microbiology to chemistry and physics.A year before the conclusion of their 10-year study,they will 5 an amalgamation(融合）of findings to date before the American Geophysical Union'sannual meeting opens this week.Samples were taken from boreholes more than 5km deep and undersea drilling sites to construct 6 of the ecosystem and estimate how much living carbon it might contain.One organism found 2.5km below the surface has been buried for millions of years and may not 7 at all on energy from the sun.Instead,the methanogen(甲烷微生物) has found a way to create methane in this low 8 environment,which it may not use to reproduce or divide,but to replace or repair broken parts.The strangest thing is that some organisms can exist for millennia.They are metabolically active but in stasis,with less energy than we thought possible of 9 life.Rick Colwell,a microbial ecologist at Oregon State University,said the timescales of subterranean life were completely different.Some microorganisms have been alive for thousands of years,barely moving except for 10 in the tectonic plates,earthquakes or eruptions.Underworld biospheres vary depending on geology and geography.Their combined sizeis estimated to be more than 2bn cubic kilometers,but this could be 11 further in the future.The researchers said their discoveries were made possible by two technical advances:drills that can penetrate far deeper below the Earth's crust,and improvements in microscopes that allow life to be 12 at decreasingly minute levels.The scientists have been trying to find a lower limit beyond which life cannot exist,but the deeper they dig the more life they find.There is a temperature maximum-currently l22C-but the researchers believe this record will be broken if they keep exploring and developing more 13 instruments.Mysteries remain,including whether life colonizes up from the depths or down from chemical processes,and what this might the surface,how the microbes 14 revealing about how life and the Earth co-evolved.The scientists say some findings enter the realm of philosophy and exobiology-the study of extraterrestrial life.Robert,a mineralogist at the Carnegie Institution for Science,said:"We must ask ourselves:if life on Earth can be this different from what experience has led us to expect,then what strangeness might 15 as we probe for life on other worlds?"paratively B.dramatically C.elegantly D.previously2.A.variety B.diversity C.variability D.transformation3.A.distinguish B.faint C.probe D.drain4.A.disciplines B.subjects C.regions D.branches5.A.deliberate B.expose C.present D.promote6.A.patterns B.models C.imitations D.assumptions7.A.rely B.focus C.concentrate D.touch8.A.nutrition B.element C.fuel D.energy9.A.earning B.supporting C.breeding D.generating10 A.conditions B.stabilities C.shifts D.transmissions11 A.extended B.expanded C.calculated D.tempted12 A.scratched B.mortgaged C.monitored D.detected13 A.sophisticated B.feasible C.precise D.rough14 A.stick to B.strive for C.interact with D.see to15 A.await B.alter C.erase D.knit【词汇详解】注意：参考答案是本页右下方：释义及例句来自柯林斯词典minuscule/"mɪnɜ,skju:1/ADJ If you describe something as minuscule,you mean that it is very small.极小的例：The film was shot in 17 days,a minuscule amount of time.这部电影用了短短的17天就拍摄完成了。

原创外刊改编语法填空题打卡Day 31Indian railways have an impressive safety recordFrom: The Economist It was around 7pm on June 2nd when a train travelling from Kolkata in West Bengal to Chennai, 1,700km down India’s east coast, smashed at full speed into a parked freight train in the state of Odisha, 250km south of Kolkata. The passenger train’s coaches were derailed and collided with the rear coaches of another train travelling in the opposite direction.The trains were carrying around 2,000 people, many of _____1_____ migrants from West Bengal off to seek work in the richer south. At least 288 were killed and more than 1,100 injured, many of them gravely.The cause of the accident, the deadliest on India’s railways since 1999, when at least 290 people died in a train _____2_____ (collide) in West Bengal, was still unclear. An initial report pointed to a signal failure, _____3_____ experts suggested that would not normally lead to such a calamity. The railways minister has hinted that equipment was tampered with and ordered a _____4_____(crime) probe.Notwithstanding this disaster, rail travel is not especially dangerous in India, where some 20m people take a train every day. Of the roughly 25,000 who died in train-related accidents every year before the pandemic (a number that had changed little in a decade), most _____5_____(run) over or fell from trains. And the number of such serious incidents is decreasing. By contrast, some 300,000 people are estimated to die on India’s roads each year.Even so, the tragedy in Odisha is potentially embarrassing for the government of Narendra Modi, _____6_____(give) its great emphasis on developing India’s railways and roads. This year it plans to spend the equivalent of 1.7% of GDP on them, more than four times as much as India was spending a decade ago, and around double the proportion spent by most developed countries. Mr Modi had been due to inaugurate a new high-speed Vande Bharat service the day after the disaster. Instead he visited the crash site, where he, too, promised to find the culprit: “_____7_____ is found guilty will be punished severely”.Despite the railways’ reasonable safety record, the crash is likely to exacerbate claims that, in its push for new tracks and faster trains, his government is neglecting upgrades to existing tracks and equipment. Last year an audit of derailments by India’s comptroller-general found railway officials had not spent the budget set aside for track repairs, even though it had declined.A special fund to pay for safety improvements was not adequately replenished in any year between 2017 and 2022. Two days after the crash in Odisha, a new bridge _____8_____(build) now over the Ganges in the northern state of Bihar collapsed for the second time in just over a year, killing nobody but casting doubt on the quality of flagship construction projects.The government denies that it is skimping on safety. It notes that it has accelerated the elimination of dangerous level-crossings, particularly on lines _____9_____ trains travel at higher speeds, and begun the roll-out of an anti-crash system on some trains. _____10_____ the wake of the tragedy in Odisha, it vowed to install additional security features on signalling equipment.Indian railways have an impressive safety recordFrom: The Economist It was around 7pm on June 2nd when a train travelling from Kolkata in West Bengal to Chennai, 1,700km down India’s east coast, smashed at full speed into a parked freight tra in in the state of Odisha, 250km south of Kolkata. The passenger train’s coaches were derailed and collided with the rear coaches of another train travelling in the opposite direction.The trains were carrying around 2,000 people, many of them migrants from West Bengal off to seek work in the richer south. At least 288 were killed and more than 1,100 injured, many of them gravely.The cause of the accident, the deadliest on India’s railways since 1999, when at least 290 people died in a train collision (collide) in West Bengal, was still unclear. An initial report pointed to a signal failure, but experts suggested that would not normally lead to such a calamity. The railways minister has hinted that equipment was tampered with and ordered a criminal (crime) probe.Notwithstanding this disaster, rail travel is not especially dangerous in India, where some 20m people take a train every day. Of the roughly 25,000 who died in train-related accidents every year before the pandemic (a number that had changed little in a decade), most were run (run) over or fell from trains. And the number of such serious incidents is decreasing. By contrast, some 300,000 people are estimated to die on India’s roads each year.Even so, the tragedy in Odisha is potentially embarrassing for the government of Narendra Modi, given (give) its great emphasis on developing India’s railways and roads. This year it plans to spend the equivalent of 1.7% of GDP on them, more than four times as much as India was spending a decade ago, and around double the proportion spent by most developed countries. Mr Modi had been due to inaugurate a new high-speed Vande Bharat service the day after the disaster. Instead he visited the crash site, where he, too, promised to find the culprit: “Whoever is found guilty will be punished severely”.Despite the railways’ reasonable safety record, the crash is likely to exacerbate claims that, in its push for new tracks and faster trains, his government is neglecting upgrades to existing tracks and equipment. Last year an audit of derailments by India’s comptroller-general found railway officials had not spent the budget set aside for track repairs, even though it had declined.A special fund to pay for safety improvements was not adequately replenished in any year between 2017 and 2022. Two days after the crash in Odisha, a new bridge being built (build) now over the Ganges in the northern state of Bihar collapsed for the second time in just over a year, killing nobody but casting doubt on the quality of flagship construction projects.The government denies that it is skimping on safety. It notes that it has accelerated the elimination of dangerous level-crossings, particularly on lines where trains travel at higher speeds, and begun the roll-out of an anti-crash system on some trains. In the wake of the tragedy in Odisha, it vowed to install additional security features on signalling equipment.印度铁路有着令人难忘的安全记录6月2日晚上大约7点，一列从西孟加拉邦的加尔各答开往印度东海岸的金奈的列车以全速撞向在奥里萨邦停放的一列货车，距离加尔各答以南250公里。

高考英语外刊阅读天天练完形填空专题二十五①The Breakout Stars of Awards Season: Lip Readers【TheWall Street Journal (February 6, 2024)】It was only a matter of time before the lip readers weighed in. Cameras had caught Selena Gomez ___1____ with Taylor Swift and Keleigh Sperry at the Golden Globes. Swift opened her mouth in apparent shock. No audio was ___2___, but fans were left wondering—what’s the gossip?This year, readers of celebrity lips are more ___3____ than ever, introducing a dynamic where possible quotes and exchanges between celebrities are reported and then sometimes ___4____. Many of these _____5___ spread on TikTok, where lip readers on the platform are summoned to ____6___ what celebrities are saying in videos. TikTokers like Nina Dellinger, who calls herself Lip Reading Girl on the platform, and Jackie Gonzalez, who ____7____ a“Deaf Girl Reads”series, have seen an influx of ___8____ in their pages this year. Dellinger has over 1.3 million followers and Gonzalez’s videos of celebrities often rack up millions of ___9____.“Lip reading is more of an art than a science,”said Dellinger.But it is often taken ___10_____. In the United Kingdom, for instance, it is __11_____ in court under certain circumstances. Freeman became a ____12____ in 2008 after responding to a call from an academic institution in London that was looking for lip readers in the ___13_____ realm. Forensic lip readers, according to Freeman’s website, are trained to look at homophones, mouth ___14____ that make the same sound.Gonzalez, who also grew up deaf, said that having context helped with lip reading’s ___15____. Gonzalez says confirmation bias may play a role in the most viral celebrity lipreading clips.“People see what they want to see, right?”Gonzalez says. “So they see a quick clip and want to believe It’s some juicy gossip. But a lot of times, it’s not.”1.A. chatting B. debating C. commenting D. arguing2.A. remianed B. recorded C. produced D. manufactured3. A. popular B. serious C. delighted D. enlighted4. A. scolded B. yelled C. contributed D. denied5. A. priciples B. theories C. rules D. desciplines6. A. reach B. code C. interpret D. demonstrate7. A. posts B. announces C. scores D. publishes8. A. gossip B. rumor C. facts D.interest9. A. assistance B. views C. support D. strength10. A. exceedingly B. seriously C. desperately D. incredibly11.A. major B. admissible C. immerse D. enormous12.A. correspondance B. relative C. academic D. professional13.A. entertianment B. legal C. abstract D. suspect14.A. mirrors B. organs C. shapes D. hooks15.A. emergency B. accuracy C. agency D. frequency②A moment that changed me--I met a fellow deaf student and no longer felt alone【The Guardian(February 7, 2024)】As I waited for my university lecture to start, I felt a tap on my shoulder. Looking up, I found a young woman smiling at me, ____1____ a notebook. I knew immediately who she was. The week before we had ___2_____ emails, and I'd told her I would be sitting in the front ___3___. I always sat at the front and the reason was that I'm deaf and needed to lipread the ___4____. “I'm Rosie," the young woman said. She was the first person I'd ever met who was my ___5___ and wore hearing aids. At my school, I was the only person who wore hearing aids. So I was ____6_____ and fascinated to see Rosie wearing them. She tied her hair back, and didn't try to ___7____ them like I did.After the lecture, Rosie and I carried on talking. She always remembered to look at me when we talked. I didn't have to worry that she'd ____8____, and I'd miss a joke or remark. There was an instinctive awareness between us about making communication clear and ___9____.I'd grown up thinking that deafness was some kind of ____10____, but here was Rosie, who was clever, wise, full of fun and deaf. What was the big deal?I felt like a window had opened on my own experience as a deaf person. Partly it was the joy of being able to talk ____11___. We discussed noisy social events, or group conversations, where we felt on the fringes. The ____12____ that I wasn't the only deaf student at the university made the experience feel less lonely.We continued to share notes on being deaf. Learning to advocate for myself as a deaf person in the professional world was ____13___. But Rosie was more enlightened, and she was a fierce advocate. She held up a ____14_____ to my own experience, but also set an example for me, offering an alternative ___15_____. Our friendship has become an essential part of who I am as well.1.A. pitching B. rejecting C. discarding D. clutching2.A. exchanged B. received C. sent D. communicated3. A. section B. part C. row D. profile4. A.lecturer B. constructor C. composer D. advisor5. A. stage B. positon C. age D. class6. A. hopeless B. bewildered C. overwhelmed D. startled7. A. occupy B. hide C. absorb D. involve8. A. put away B. give away C. glance away D. take away9. A. visible B. visual C. superficial D. vanished10. A. routine B. standard C. flaw D. average11.A. openly B. supremely C. thoroughly D. vastly12.A. view B. dialogue C. knowledge D. bargaining13.A. stout B. rough C. tenacious D.tough14.A. furniture B. mirror C. department D. aid15.A. solution B. overlook C. perspective D. energy③Harry Potter star and the curse of the towed Audi【The Time(February 8, 2024)】Harry Potter and Ron Weasley famously crashed a flying Ford Anglia into the Whomping Willow. However,Emma Watson has ___1_____ a far more down-to-earth car problem. Her Audi S3 has been impounded（扣押) by police in Stratford-upon-Avon.Watson, 33, who ___2_____Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films, ___3____ her blue Audi S3 outside a car park _____4___ in the centre of the Warwickshire town on Monday while she spent the evening in the ____5____ Rose and Crown pub.Watson’s choice of parking spot, ___6____ in a no-parking zone, meant that the manager of a pizza restaurant could not get his car out of the compound for three-and-a-half hours. The man, who did not want to be named, said his ____7_____ was delayed after his a 12-hour ____8___ at the Red Hot Mamma pizzeria. He said that he had spent several hours asking around for the car’s owner before ____9____ calling the police. It was not until the moment the car was being towed away that Watson flew out of the pub, ___10___ “That’s my car!”, the manager said.A bystander said: “It must have been about 11pm when I saw Emma Watson outside in the street. Police had impounded her Audi and it had been ____11____ onto a recovery truck. She was out ___12____ with them not to take her car away. But they weren’t listening.”Watson will receive a letter about where her car is being kept. She may have to pay a £192 charge for the ___13____ of the vehicle and an additional £26 charge for every 24 hours the car remains at the pound. Watson’s last on-screen ___14____was in Little Women in 2019. Since then, she has turned to other projects, including directing a Prada perfume advertisement, ____15____ a brand of gin with her brother, and enrolling on a master’s degree in creative writing at Oxford.1.A. countered B. demanded C. suffered D. tackled2.A. cast B. outperformed C. played D. acted3. A. polished B. parked C. decorated D. observed4. A. entrance B. zone C. area D. corner5. A. nearby B. handy C. accessible D. forthcoming6. A. apparently B. casually C. relaxedly D. unaffectedly7. A. opening B. release C. mouth D.exit8. A. procedure B. shift C. resort D. accomplishment9. A. shortly B. imminently C. eventually D. directly10. A. roaring B. shouting C. shrilling D. squeaking11.A. afflicted B. pressed C. weighed D. loaded12.A. maintaining B.pleading C. recommending D. submitting13.A. collection B. removal C. accumulation D. acquirement14.A. withdrawal B. appearance C. vanish D. evaporation15.A. quitting B. launching C. clearing D. departingABADB CADBB BDBCBDACAC DBCAC ACDBCCCBAA ADBCB DBBBB。

外刊阅读之完形填空Sun Yang Was Sanctioned with an 8-Year Period of IneligibilityLausanne, 28 February 2020 -The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has upheld the appeal filed by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) against the Chinese swimmer Sun Yang and the Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA). As a(n) (41) ______, Sun Yang (the Athlete) is sanctioned with an eight-year period of ineligibility, starting on the date of the CAS award.Following a conflictual anti-doping test at the residence of Sun Yang in September 2018 which (42) ______ in the testing not being completed, the matter was initially referred to the FINA Doping Panel (FINA DP) which found that the International Standard for Testing and Investigations (ISTI), the protocol (43) ______ by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) for the (44) ______ of doping controls, had not been properly followed. Therefore, the FINA DP invalidated the sample collection. As a consequence, the FINA DP determined that the athlete had not (45) ______ an anti-doping rule violation.WADA filed an appeal at CAS against that decision, asserting that Sun Yang had (46) _______ refused to submit to sample collection and requesting that a period of ineligibility between a minimum 2 years and maximum 8 years be imposed on him.The arbitration on appeal was referred to a panel of CAS arbitrators, composed of Judge Franco Frattini (Italy), President, Mr Romano F. Subiotto QC (Belgium/UK) and Prof. Philippe Sands QC (UK), which held a hearing on 15 November 2019. Further to the parties’ request, thev hearing was conducted (47) ______ .The CAS Panel unanimously determined, to its (48) ______ satisfaction, that the Athlete violated Article 2.5 FINA DC (Tampering with any part of Doping Control). In particular, the Panel found that the personnel in (49) ______ of the doping control complied with all (50) ______ requirements as set out in the ISTI. More specifically, the Athlete failed to establish that he had a compelling justification to destroy his sample collection containers and forego the doping control when, in his opinion, the collection protocol was not in compliance with the ISTI. As the Panel noted, it is one thing, having provided a blood sample, to question the accreditation of the testing personnel while keeping the intact samples in the (51) ______ of the testing authorities; it is quite another thing, after lengthy exchanges and warnings as to theconsequences, to act in such a way that results in destroying the sample containers, thereby eliminating any chance of testing the sample at a later stage.(52)______ that, in June 2014, the Athlete was found guilty of a first anti-doping rule violation (ADRV), the Panel concluded that, in accordance with Article 10.7.1 FINA DC, an eight-year period of ineligibility, starting on the date of the CAS award, has to be (53) ______ the Athlete for this second ADRV.Considering 1) that FINA refrained from seeking the imposition of a provisional suspension on the Athlete when charging him with an anti-doping rule violation, 2) that doping tests performed on the Athlete shortly before and after the aborted doping control in September 2018 were negative, and 3) that in the (54) ______ of any evidence that the Athlete may have engaged in doping activity since 4 September 2018, including on the (55) ______ of the FINA World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea in July 2019, the results achieved by the Athlete in the period prior to the CAS award being issued should not be disqualified.The Arbitral Award will be published on the CAS website in a few days, unless the parties agree that it should remain confidential.【参考答案】DBACA DCDAB ADDCB【原文翻译】Lausanne, 28 February 2020 -The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has upheld the appeal filed by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) against the Chinese swimmer Sun Yang and the Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA). As a consequence, Sun Yang (the Athlete) is sanctioned with an eight-year period of ineligibility, starting on the date of the CAS award.洛桑，2020年2月28日-国际体育仲裁法庭（CAS）支持世界反兴奋剂机构（WADA）对中国游泳运动员孙杨和国际泳联（FINA）提出的上诉。

外刊英国卫报改编完形填空1Reading ComprehensionDirections:For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A.B C and D.Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.Stephen Hawking remembered by Bernard Carr8January 1942-14 March 2018 The physicist 's former research student recalls their close relationship at Cambridge,the sheer might of his intellect, and how he once bored the great man to sleepStephen was not so famous when I began my PhD at Cambridge in 1972,but his brilliance was already clear to his peers and I found it rather daunting when,on becoming his research student,I was informed by one of my tutors that he was the brightest person in the department.(1) ,it soon became(2) that my relationship with him would not be the usual type of supervisor-student relationship.In those days,before he had his entourage of nurses and assistants,students would necessarily have to help him in various ways (3) his disability.This was not an arduous task,but it did mean that my relationship with him became quite (4) . Indeed,I shared an office with him, lived with his family for a while and (5) him as he travelled around the world,giving talks and collecting medals.I soon discovered some of Stephen's singular (6) .The first,of course,was that he was very smart.Students are probably always in awe of their (7) and with Stephen the awe was even greater.Indeed,on matters of physics,I always regarded him as an oracle,just a few words from him yielding(产生)insights that would have taken weeks to (8) on my own.However,Stephen was only human and not all encounters led to illumination.Once I asked a question about something that was (9) me.He thought about it silently for several minutes and I was quite (10) with myself for asking something that Stephen couldn't answer immediately.His eyes then closed and I was even more impressed with myself because he wasclearly having to think about it very deeply.Only after some time did it become clear that he had fallen asleep.Nowadays,I also sometimes fall asleep while talking to students,so I recall this incident with amusement.The other human side of Stephen is that he didn't suffer fools gladly and sometimes got annoyed.One of the stories put around is that he would vent his frustration by running over students 'toes.I'm not sure about that-he once ran over the toes of the Prince of Wales,and I'm sure that was just an accident.On the other hand,I well recall one occasion when I made a remark in the departmental common room at tea time that showed I had misunderstood what he'd been saying.Stephen screamed “No!"so loudly that his wheelchair shot back halfway across the room under the recoil.I was most impressed that a single word from him could have such (11) consequences.I also learned about Stephen's stubbornness and determination to continue doing things for himself as long as possible,despite the relentless progress of his illness.For example,because he had an office in both the department of applied mathematics and theoretical physics and the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge,I also had offices in both places.I recall that he sometimes gave me a lift(probably illegally!)between the two places in his three-wheeled invalid car.I found this rather (12) because I thought he drove faster than was ter,he had to discontinue the use of the car but he never lost his drive and the desire to travel as far and wide as possible.One regret is he didn't live long enough to achieve his dream of going into space.I'm often asked where Stephen stands in the pantheon(名流群)of great physicists.There are many ways of being a great physicist and they cannot be (13) like runners in an Olympic race.Stephen himself never (14) to have the status of Newton or Einstein, but I strongly disagree with people who suggest that his scientific contributions have been (15) because of his iconic status.His disability was clearly a factor in his becoming so famous,but I doubt any other (16) physicist will achieve the accolade of being interred next to Isaac Newton in Westminster Abbey.Stephen died on Einstein's birthday and was born on the date of Galileo's death,so it's (17) that he should be connected to his two greatest heroes in this way.I doubt Stephen would haveattributed much significance to this,but he would certainly (18) that we don't understand the mystery of time.In any case,the synchronicity is fitting because his first major discovery was that spacetime trajectories can have singular endpoints where strange things may happen.Stephen was the most (19) person I have ever known and I feel truly (20) that he was my friend.1.A.Otherwise B.Nevertheless C.Moreover D.Therefore2.A.worldwide B.popular C.evident D.neutral3.A.in process of B.on account of C.in possession of D.accounting for4.A.familiar B.acquainted C.intimate D.related5.A.accompanied B.served C.treated D.entertained6.A.habits B.habitats C.tempers D.characteristics7.A.supervisors B.inspectors C.tutors D.conductors8.A.work out B.pick out C.put out y out9.A.bothering B.puzzling C.disordering D.suffering10 A.satisfied B.delighted C.impressed D.amused11 A.distant B.dramatic C.remote D.distinct12 A.fairy B.chilly C.scary D.nasty13 A.leveled B.classified C.ranked D.awarded14 A.claimed B.appealed C.fastened D.applied15 A.outnumbered B.emphasized C.outlined D.exaggerated16 A.optimistically B.potentially C.positively D.contemporary17 A.magic B.odd C.mysterious D.procedure18 A.overtake B.promote C.confess D.acknowledge19 A.singular B.strange C.single D.simple20 A.enjoyable B.grateful C.privileged D.rewarding【答案】BCBCA DAABC BCCAD DBDAC【解析】1，根据前面一句中，我的其他导师告诉我Stephen是整个部门里最耀眼的人，后面说很快我和Stephen的关系不是一般的导师和学生之间的关系可知，作者虽然认为Stephen聪明耀眼，但是与自己关系密切，所以用让步比较合适，答案选B.2，由本段后文中可推出，我和Stephen关系密切是很明显的。

高一英语新闻报道完形填空题30题1News Report:In recent days, there has been a significant event in the city. A large-scale art exhibition was held, attracting thousands of visitors. The exhibition showcased a wide range of artworks from different periods and styles. Many famous artists ___1___ their masterpieces to the event. People were amazed by the beauty and creativity of the artworks. The organizers also arranged various activities, such as lectures and workshops, to promote art education. This event has not only enriched people's cultural life but also ___2___ the development of the local art scene.1. A. contributed B. donated C. presented D. offered答案：A。

“contribute...to...”表示“为……贡献……”，符合语境。

B 选项“donate”主要侧重于“捐赠”；C 选项“present”一般指“呈现，展示”；D 选项“offer”侧重于“提供”。

2. A. promoted B. advanced C. encouraged D. sped答案：A。

外刊英国卫报改编完形填空2Reading ComprehensionDirections:For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A,B, C and D.Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.Country diary:a chainsaw massacre in the alder woodsOn an overcast,drizzly afternoon at Durham Wildlife Trust's Low Barns nature(1) ,alder provided the brightest splash of colour in the (2) .A tree had been felled and sawn into (3) ..Chainsaw wounds on this species can look like a massacre,because soon after the timber is cut,it turns a lurid shade of red,almost like blood,in stark contrast to the battleship-grey bark.(4) those wounds,which briefly (5) raw meat,fade to orange and finally to chestnut brown.When this reserve was established half a century ago,around old gravel pits(采沙场），some moisture-loving alders were planted to help (6) a bare,windswept site.Alder wood is one of the finest sources of charcoal,and the plantation trees are old enough now to be coppiced,to produce barbecue fuel.There is also an important natural alder wood here,created by a cataclysm almost two and a half centuries ago,which led to the designation of the reserve as a site of special scientific interest.The Great Flood of 1771 (7) Weardale,washing away bridges all the way to the coast.When the water subsided,the course of the River Wear had (8) half a mile south,and the old riverbed became what is now the reserve's Long Alder Wood,the finest example of its kind in the region.When it sometimes floods,this tangle of gnarled(苍劲鳞峋的）trees has a (9) of the Florida Everglades(佛罗里达大沼泽)about it,with mossy,fallen trunks sinking back into the ooze(淤泥).Year round,there are wonderful (10) to watch birds from an embankment level with the tree canopy.This afternoon an acrobatic flock of about 3o goldfinches(金翅雀）(11)and chattered through the twigs,feeding on tiny seeds that fall from the woody cones.Sadly,since the mid-199os,another (12) has befallen this locally (13) woodland:alder dieback disease has killed around half the mature trees.Coppicing is leading to some regeneration,though in this precious (14) dead timber is allowed to lay where it falls,reserved for the needs of a (15) community of fungi,invertebrates and woodpeckers,rather than back-garden burger-flippers on summer evenings.1.A.reserve B.preserve C.conserve D.deserve2.A.scene B.view C.scope ndscape3.A.logs B.materials C.resources D.sources4.A.Everlastingly B.Eventually C.Continually D.Sustainably5.A.assemble B.present C.overcast D.resemble6.A.rejuvenate B.revegetate C.reform D.remain7.A.gone through B.got through C.swept through D.cut through8.A.changed B.shifted C.reversed D.revised9.A.clue B.plot C.evidence D.hint10 A.opportunities B.possibilities C.alternatives D.probabilities11 A.schemed B.crawled C.bounced D.scattered12 A.misfortune B.catastrophe C.setback D.adversity13 A.unique B.peculiar C.especial D.particular14 A.frontier B.territory C.habitat D.boundary15 A.various B.versatile C.multiple D.diverse【答案】1-5 ADABD 6-10 BCBDA 11-15 CBACD【解析】1，reserve有保护区的意思。

专题26 完形填空（说明文）8．A．creative B．personal C．academic D．skillful9．A．remember B．commend C．judge D．process10．A．defeated B．predicted C．prevented D．supported11．A．subject B．resistant C．sensitive D．accustomed 12．A．responsibility B．belief C．command D．contribution13．A．shared B．confirmed C．boosted D．calmed14．A．unexpectedly B．importantly C．fortunately D．obviously15．A．ban B．help C．save D．facilitate【答案】1．B 2．C 3．A 4．C 5．B 6．C 7．B 8．A 9．D 10．C 11．B 12．A 13．D 14．B 15．C【导语】这是一篇说明文。

文章主要介绍了Jerry Siegel和Joe Shuster创造出了超人的原因以及意义。

1．考查动词词义辨析。

句意：那是1933年，当时国家还在经历大萧条，杰里·西格尔和乔·舒斯特把他们的想法写在了纸上。

A. evaluating评估；B. undergoing经历；C. controlling控制；D. overcoming克服。

由下文“the Great Depression,”可知，1933年，当时国家还在经历大萧条，故选B。

2．考查名词词义辨析。

句意：那是1933年，当时国家还在经历大萧条，杰里·西格尔和乔·舒斯特把他们的想法写在了纸上。

A. concepts概念；B. principles原则；C. ideas主意；D. disputes争论。

外刊及中国日报精选文章改编：语法填空（答案+译文）第一篇世界首例！猪到人的异种肝移植临床手术在安徽完成The world's fifth living-body alien organ transplant, the first liver transplant from a pig to a living human, was successfully completed by the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University on May 17,______ brings new hope to the over 140,000 domestic registered patients waiting for an organ transplant and the possibly higher number of unregistered people facing organ failure.________ a living person can donate part of his or her liver without sacrificing his or her life, the operation in Anhui province is still a significant development because compatible(兼容的) liver sources are not that easy _______(find) and a liver transplant________(involve) high medical costs and pain to get part of the liver from a donor. A liver transplant is even _________(complicated) than that of a heart and kidney that function as blood pump and water cycler respectively, as the liver is involved in metabolism, immunity, digestion and many more functions.The Anhui hospital's transplant operation is ________(medical) considered a success because the transplanted pig liver is reportedly operating normally in the patient's body, secreting 200 millilitres of gall every day._______ fact that cannot be omitted(遗漏) is that in previous cases the patients in the United Kingdom and the United States who received heart and kidney transplants(移植的器官) _______ pigs all passed away within two months after receiving the organs. The transplant operations have still prolonged the patients' lives and sustained them without a rejection reaction after the transplant operations till their _______(death). Further, the transplanted liver in the domestic case had only 10 genes edited to prevent a rejection reaction, fewer than the transplanted hearts and kidneys in the US and UK cases, which shows that domestic medical experts may have developed a methodology that can support the patient's _______(survive) without changing the liver too much.With the gene-editing technology aimed at "cutting" more gene clips that trigger a rejection reaction away from pig organs maturing, the risks of transplanted alien organsbeing rejected will be minimized and the technology will be applied more widely to save lives.第二篇社会：英格兰收养儿童的悲惨故事【经济学人】The sorry story of children in care in EnglandJADE BARNETT learned that she was being moved from foster c are(看护中心) into a children’s home a few years ago when she saw her possessions in the back of a taxi. The children’s home turned out ______(be) near Blackpool, in north-west England—330 kilometres from London, where she grew up and where the social workers who were meant to be lookingafter her were based. She expected to stay in the home for two weeks. It turned into one and a half years.Some 84,000 children in England are in the care of local authorities _______their parents cannot look after them for one reason or another. In an extremely centralised(集中的) country, it is one of the few important responsibilities that those _______( institution) still have. Every year councils spend more money on the children in their care. Every year the system serves the country’s most vulnerable children less well.Adult social care, including ________(nurse) homes for the old and frail, is notorious(臭名昭著的) for straining local authorities’ budgets. But spending on children in care is rising ________a faster rate, says Roger Gough, the leader of Kent County Council. In England as a whole, local authorities spent more than £7bn ($8.6bn) on looked-after children in the 2022-23 fiscal year, a 36% increase in real terms ________(compare) with 2015-16. That squeezes budgets for everything else, including help for families not yet in crisis.Over the ten years to 2023 the number of children in care swelled(增加) by 23%, or by 16%if you do not count unaccompanied children seeking asylum（庇护）, _______numbers have risen recently. And the children who enter the care system are becoming older and needier. Whereas(然而) young children tend to live with foster carers, older ones are more likely to end up inchildren’s homes; some require intensive, round-the-clock attention. Caring for them can be costly—sometimes amazingly costly.The Local Government Association estimates that in the 2018-19 fiscal year, England had 120 children who were each costing local authorities at least £10,000 per week. By 2022-23 the number had jumped to 1,500. One explanation is that local authorities are now looking after some teenagers who might once have ended up in psychiatric wards（精神病病房）or young offenders’ institutions. Over the past two decades the number of children in custody________(go) from 2,800 to around 400, reflecting not only less youthful offending but also a growing reluctance(不情愿) to lock them up.But the main reason for the increase in costs is economics. “It’s simply a supply-and-demand issue,” says Stuart Ashley, the head of children’s services for Hampshire County Council. England has too few foster carers _______ too few children’s homes. Councils end up competing for scarce places, with predictable consequences.England has a “mixed model” of care (in Scotland the state plays a bigger role). About half of children________(place) in foster care by independent agencies, which charge local authorities for their services; four-fifths of children’s homes are privately run. To judge by the ratings they receive from inspectors, private homes are no worse than state ones. But they are often in the wrong places, because firms tend to build them where property is cheap (see map). North-West England has fewer inhabitants than London, but it has 746 children’s homes compared with 164 in the capital.第三篇经济：为什么花钱让妇女多生孩子是行不通的？【经济学人】Why paying women to have more babies won’t workAS BIRTH RATES plunge, many _______(political) want to pour money into policies that might lead women _______(have) more babies. Donald Trump has v owed(发誓) to dish out bonuses if he returns to the White House. In France, _______ the state already spends 3.5-4% of GDP on family policies each year, Emmanuel Macron wants to “demographically rearm(人口统计上的重新调整)” his country. South Korea is contemplating(考虑) handouts worth astaggering（难以置信的）$70,000 for each baby. Yet all these ________(attempt) are likely to fail, because they are built on a misapprehension(误解).Governments’ concern is ________(understand). Fertility rates(生育率) are falling nearly everywhere and the rich world faces a severe(严重的) shortage of babies. At prevailing birth rates, the average woman in ______ high-income country today will have just 1.6 children over her lifetime. Every rich country except Israel has a fertility rate beneath the replacement level of 2.1, at which a population is stable without immigration. The decline(减少) over the past decade________(be) faster than demographers(人口统计学)expected.Doomsayers such as Elon Musk warn that these shifts threaten civilisation_______(it). That is ridiculous, but they will bring profound(深刻的) social and economic changes. A fertility rate of 1.6 means that, without immigration, each generation will be a quarter smaller than the one before it. In 2000 rich countries had 26 over-65-year-olds for every 100 people _______(age) 25-64. By 2050 that is likely to have doubled. The worst-affected places will see even more dramatic change. In South Korea, where the fertility rate is 0.7, the population is projected to fall by 60% _______ the end of the century.The decision to have children is a personal one and should stay that way. But governments need to pay heed to rapid demographic shifts(人口变化). Ageing and shrinking societies will probably lose dynamism and military might. They will certainly face a ________(budget) nightmare(噩梦), as taxpayers(纳税人) struggle to finance the pensions(养老金) and health care of legions of oldies.Many pro-natalist（亲出生主义者）policies come with effects that are valuable in themselves. Handouts for poor parents reduce child poverty（短缺）, for instance, and mothers who can afford child care are more likely to work. ________, governments are wrong to think it is within their power to boost fertility rates. For one thing, such policies ________(found) on a false diagnosis(判断) of what has so far caused demographic decline. For another, they could cost more than the problems they are designed to solve.One common assumption is that falling fertility rates stem from professional women________(put) off having children. The notion that they run out of time to have as many babies as they wish before their childbearing years(生育年龄) draw to a close explains why policies tend tofocus on offering tax breaks and subsidised child care. That way, it is argued,women do not have to choose between their family and their career.That is not the main story. University-educated women are indeed having children later in life, but only a little. In America their average age at the birth of their first child has risen from 28 in 2000 to 30 now. These women are having _______(rough) the same number of children as their peers did a generation ago. This is a little below what they say is their ideal family size, but the gap is no different from ________ it used to be.答案第一篇：Which Although to find involves more complicated medically A from deaths survival第二篇：to be because institutions nursing at compared whose has gone and are placed第三篇：politicians to have where attempts understandable a has been itself aged by budgetary However are founded putting roughly what译文第一篇：5月17日，安徽医科大学第一附属医院成功完成了世界上第五次活体外来器官移植，这是第一次猪向活人的肝移植。

2024年中考英语选练（10）（阅读理解+完形填空+语法填空）一、阅读理解。

AI will always remember my mother‘s last few days in this world.On February 14th，2000，my class went on a field trip to the beach. I had so much fun. When we returned to school，my teacher told me to go to the headmaster ‘s office. When I got into the office，I saw a police officer. Suddenly I realized something was wrong. The police officer told me what had happened and we went to pick my sister up. After that，we went to the hospital and waited. Time went slowly. Finally，we got to see our mother. It was terrible.On the next day，the headmaster came and told my two teachers what had happened.I was taking a rest that day. I knew it had something to do with my mother. I kept thinking that she either died or had gotten better. How I wished that she had gotten better. When my teacher took me outside，my sister ran up to me. She started crying，“She‘s gone. Teresa，mommy’s gone. She‘s dead.” I couldn’t’t believe it. We jumped into the car and drove straight to the hospital. Most of my family were there. The silence was terrible. I knew I had to say goodbye.Today when I look back，I still miss my mother very much，but I know that I will live. My mother was a strong mother，who had the biggest heart. My mother was an angel walking on the earth. I will always remember her as living. When someone is asked who their hero （英雄） is，they usually say someone famous，like Michael Jordan or Britney Spears. When someone asks me who my hero is，I tell them，my mother. My mother lives every day. That is what makes her a true hero.依据以上短文内容，然后从每题所给的四个选项中选择最佳选项。

高考英语外刊阅读模拟强化训练完形填空专题二十一①On a late January evening in 2008, Rachel Lapierre bought a $4 scratch ticket while picking up groceries. For years, Lapierre had done humanitarian work overseas for organizations and she longed to be able to one day 1 her nursing job and focus on the volunteer work she found most 2 . She vowed to herself that if she ever won the lottery, that’s what she would do.Lapierre went home and 3 her ticket, revealing three sunny faces. Not sure what they meant, she took it to a corner store, where the ticket-checking machine went berserk but didn’t 4 the prize. The next day, the Loto-Quebec office 5 her that she had won a lump sum of $675,000 or $1,000 a week for life. She chose the 6 . “I know myself,” she says. “The lump sum would have melted like snow in the sun.”Staying true to her 7 , Lapierre quit her nursing job and 8 her life to helping others through her passion project, Le Book Humanitaire, which has since become a registered 9 . Le Book, as Lapierre, now 62, affectionately calls it, began as a simple list of good deeds she jotted down in a black-and-white wire-coiled notebook. She had been using it to keep 10 of what she had done to help those living in the small 11 around her.To her, the deeds were just small acts of kindness—buying clothes for a family of newly arrived immigrants, delivering a meal to an isolated 12 or or giving medical attention to someone living on the streets—that anyone else might have done. But word started spreading, her phone began ringing and a Facebook page she created for the project became an efficient way to 13 requests from those in need and those who wanted to help.Sixteen years later, Le Book Humanitaire now has a team of 80 volunteers. The book itself? It has since been replaced by dozens more, representing millions of deeds. In 2022 alone, the organization 14 nearly 450,000 acts of service.“When you do a good deed, it has a butterfly 15 ,” says Lapierre. “One good deed can affect 10 people. So if we all do a good deed? That can save the world.”【Reader’s Digest Canada (July & August, 2023)】1.A. quit B. manage C. replace D. apply2. A. challenging B. demanding C. rewarding D. fulfilling3. A. cleaned B. scratched C. announced D. noticed4. A. distribute B. comment C. drop D. reveal5. A. informed B. warned C. required D. covered6. A. value B. former C. last D. latter7. A. word B. plan C. position D. pose8. A. owed B. led C. dedicated D. saved9. A. plant B. charity C. company D. agency10. A. informed B. busy C. road D. track11. A. areas B. regions C. apartments D. communities12. A. senior B. mother C. staff D. homeless13. A. appeal B. reject C. field D. recite14. A. carried out B. carried off C. carried on D. carried up15. A. situation B. effect C. phenomenon D. condition②The Deadly Swamp（Excerpt）BY Derek BurnettLosing his arm to an alligator was just the start of Eric Merda’s three-day ordeal（磨难）. Now Merda spent another couple of hours wandering among the orange trees, which were laidout in an endless grid. No 1 of civilization, so he re-entered the woods and soon found himself mucking around in swamp water.He 2 for hours as the sun sank. Tall, thick grasses and thorns clogged his way; mud and water 3 his boots. He tried to 4 by the sun but kept losing it. Each time he picked out a 5 or chose a beeline course, he became hopelessly lost again after just a few minutes.Darkness was falling when at last he re-emerged onto the shore of the lake.The water was surprisingly cold, especially as it deepened. Merda started out paddling strongly for the opposite 6 , drinking lake water to quench his awful thirst. He swam on, but some strange 7 prevented his progress. He was a good swimmer, yet he somehow kept 8 from his goal. It was maddening, but he refused to surrender to 9 . The sun disappeared and the stars came out, and still he struggled. And that’s when he saw the alligator.Before he could swim a stroke, before he could save himself, before he could 10 a scream, the creature 11 like a snake. It sank its teeth into Merda’s forearm, breaking it at the elbow, and 12 him underwater.Merda went into 13 mode. He flung his other arm around the gator’s middle, clutching at its heaving belly as he kicked his feet to keep from going to the bottom. Man and beast resurfaced and Merda gulped 14 —but just as quickly the gator yanked him under again. The third time, the alligator did what alligators do: It barrel-rolled its entire body in a vicious coup de grâce（致命一击）, and Merda felt the flesh of his arm 15 as the limb was severed. The creature disappeared into the darkness, carrying Merda’s forearm with it.No pain yet, only terror.Then he realized, I’m the only one who can get myself out of this. He positioned himself up against the trunk of the tree and waited for dawn.【Reader’s Digest Canada (July & August, 2023)】1.A. sign B. recognizing C. identity D. guarantee2. A. sighted B. fought C. sought D. labored3. A. treated B. filled C. wrapped D. packed4. A. navigate B. site C. position D. follow5. A. direction B. shape C. landscape D. landmark6. A. river B. bank C. dam D. equipment7. A. local B. resident C. police D. current8. A. diverging B. preventing C. escaping D. borrowing9. A. enemy B. rival C. emotion D. dilemma10. A. let out B. try out C. carry out D. pull out11. A. swam B. flew C. struck D. bit12. A. dragged B. pushed C. contacted D. destroyed13. A. low B. fight C. defensive D. noble14. A. mud B. air C. breathe D. tears15. A. tearing away B. washing away C. setting away D. driving away③As a woman in the space sector, I take great pride in smoothing the path for leadership and innovation – although I find the lack of gender diversity within the industry still quite concerning.Despite an 1 in the number of women entering the space industry over the past 20 years, particularly at a senior level, it remains a male-dominated 2 . To this day, only 11 percent of all people that have been to space are women. The roots of the space sector 3 within the government and the military, which means the culture remains very 4 : male-dominated and highly technical. Limit to 5 breeds limit to success, and the breadth of skills within the sector is curbed if the talents and 6 that women can offer aren't incorporated.In my own experience, it can be intimidating at times to be confronted with 7 around being taken seriously. I have learned to find strength in 8 and I firmly believe we can drive 9 toovercome these challenges through 10 , inclusivity and support.There are vibrant female entrepreneurs making 11 across the industry, and their expertise and diversity of thought should be 12 . It's encouraging to see 13 taking an active role in recruiting female entrepreneurs onto their programmes.Representation of women in the space industry is vital in 14 to young women and children that space exploration is not just reserved for men, but for all those who are passionate about it. The space industry needs to 15 girls from an early age, encouraging more children and young people to study aerospace engineering.【BBC Sky at Night (July, 2023)】1.A. improvement B. slump C. decrease D. spike2. A. company B. industry C. field D. program3. A. engage B. lie C. put D. participate4. A. traditional B. normal C. typical D. general5. A. entrance B. door C. key D. access6. A. warnings B. capabilities C. advice D. demonstrations7. A. matters B. challenges C. issues D. problems8. A. range B. project C. diversity D. device9. A. progress B. process C. report D. movement10. A. production B. results C. collaboration D. control11. A. replacement B. strides C. improvement D. requirement12. A. known B. celebrated C. succeeded D. admitted13. A. intelligence B. initiatives C. patterns D. globe14. A. demonstrating B. selecting C. sending D. claiming15. A. educate B. attract C. argue D. inform答案①ADBDA DACBD DACAB②ADBAD BDACA CABBA③ACBAD BBCAC BBBAB。

英语外刊阅读六级
1. 《纽约时报》（The New York Times）：这是一份全球知名的报纸，提供广泛的新闻报道和深入的分析。

它的文章质量高，语言规范，适合提高阅读理解和词汇量。

2. 《经济学人》（The Economist）：这是一份全球知名的经济和商业杂志，提供深入的经济分析和商业报道。

它的文章语言简洁明了，适合提高阅读理解和词汇量。

3. 《卫报》（The Guardian）：这是一份英国知名的报纸，提供广泛的新闻报道和深入的分析。

它的文章质量高，语言规范，适合提高阅读理解和词汇量。

4. 《科学美国人》（Scientific American）：这是一份全球知名的科普杂志，提供最新的科学研究和技术进展。

它的文章语言简洁明了，适合提高阅读理解和词汇量。

5. 《时代》（Time）：这是一份全球知名的新闻杂志，提供广泛的新闻报道和深入的分析。

它的文章质量高，语言规范，适合提高阅读理解和词汇量。

以上是一些适合六级英语外刊阅读的推荐，你可以根据自己的兴趣和需求选择适合自己的外刊。

同时，阅读外刊需要坚持和耐心，不要期望一蹴而就，要逐渐提高阅读速度和理解能力。

Elon Musk reveals Tesla will not accept Bitcoin citing fossil fuel use埃隆·马斯克表示，由于对化石燃料的消耗，特斯拉将不再接受比特币付款Tesla CEO, Elon Musk has announced that the company has suspended customers’ use of Bitcoin to purchase its vehicles, citing concerns about the use of fossil fuel for bitcoin mining.特斯拉首席执行官埃隆·马斯克宣布，特斯拉将不再接受客户使用比特币买车，理由是担心挖矿过多消耗化石燃料。

In a statement, Musk noted that Tesla was concerned about rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for Bitcoin mining and transactions, especially coal, which has the worst emissions of any fuel.马斯克在一份声明中指出，特斯拉对比特币开采和交易中所消耗化石燃料的迅速增加感到担忧，尤其是对碳排放影响最大的煤。

“Cryptocurrency is a good idea on many levels and we believe it has a promising future, but this cannot come at great cost to the environment,” Musk says.马斯克称：“从很多层面上来说，加密货币是个好点子，我们相信它会有一个光明的未来，但这绝不能以牺牲环境为代价。

”The Tesla and SpaceX chief is an ardent supporter of cryptocurrencies and has inspired big market swings in the prices of digital coins this year, including Bitcoin and Dogecoin.身为特斯拉和SpaceX首席执行官的马斯克也是加密货币的狂热支持者，他今年推动了比特币和狗狗币等数字货币价格的大幅波动。

小猫钓鱼第3篇素材源：英国卫报（原文有删改）http://guardian.bz/bus-crisis-averted/VocabularyDirections: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.Bus crisis avertedLocal operators will get more from tourists travelling in the country!After several months of negotiations, the Government has agreed with the Belize Bus Association to limit the number of foreign-owned buses that can ____1__ business in Belize. The local bus operators will start to ____2___ from more business opportunities because a change is coming in the form of a Statutory Instrument.This was a big deal to the local operators because they are of the firm belief that they were being ___3___ out of a possible revenue-earning source. They believe that these foreign-owned companies from ___4____countries should not be given the opportunity to provide transportation services in Belize that locals are also able to ___5_____ provide.After multiple meetings over the last few months, the Government began to see things from their _____6_____, but when the impending changes became public knowledge, the tourism sector began to ____7____concerns.Attorney General Senator Michael Peyrefitte discussed those concerns with the press this week. He explained, “Immediately after the decision we made on August 7th there was starting to be some kickback from the Mexicans from the Guatemalans, it was already ____8____the local tourism industry. We felt that it was important that we would not change our mind based on the agreement we had on August 7th.Among the concerns raised by the tourism industry stakeholders was the level of service that the local operators will provide to tourists visiting Belize via these foreign-owned buses. Some of these visitors, from all over the world, have planned their trips for over a year in advance, and they’ve made ____9_____with the foreign-owned buses to be transported to Belize. The tourism stakeholders wanted to be certain that the experience of these visiting travelers wouldn’t be ___10____ impacted by a lower quality of transportation services, should this change be implemented.So, to ensure that these concerns were adequately tabled and ventilated, the Government decided to postpone the implementation of a statutory instrument that would have made the foreign bus restrictions law.【词汇讲解】1.avertv.to prevent something bad from happening防止，避免例：to avert a crisis/conflict/strike/famine避免危机／冲突／罢工／饥荒to avert disaster/economic collapse防止灾难／经济崩溃2.revenuen.the income that a government or company receives regularly（政府的）税收，岁入；（公司的）收益例：Taxes provide most of the government's revenue.政府收入的大部分来自税收。

原创外刊改编语法填空题打卡Day 39Calling Black WhiteA rice dish served at a Chinese technical college cafeteria_____1_____ (contain) what a student claimed was a dead mouse’s head in a viral video has renewed concerns about food safety in China’s school canteens.The Paper reported that an_____2_____ (identify)student at the Jiangxi Industry Polytechnic College in Jiangxi province in southeastern China was shocked _____3_____ he found the object in his meal on June 1.In a viral video taken by the student, he is seen picking up the mouse head with his chopsticks, with what seem to be teeth, eyes and a nose visible.In the video, the student describes _____4_____ unsettling detail what he sees when looking at the “foreign object” — pointing out _____5_____ he says are teeth, eyes and even a nose.The student shared the video online and reported the incident to the canteen. In response to the online speculation caused by the video, the college called the local food regulatory department to conduct a food safety check of the canteen.The officers assessed the item and reported that it was a piece of cooked duck neck.“It’s a duck neck, not a mouse head,” said a food safety _____6_____ (inspect), surnamed Jiang, after the team examined the dish, but more samples were collected for further tests.On June 3, after the canteen inspection, the college issued a public notice saying it had been cleared of any safety and hygiene _____7_____ (breach).The college administration said the video shared by the student _____8_____ (damage) its reputation and requested the student clarify the matter online.After several hygiene scandals in recent years, the incident has reignited long-held concerns about food safety at China’s educational institutions.The college also promised to improve food hygiene management at the canteen to reassure students and staff.However, _____9_____ (unconvince) it was an open and shut case, many people shared their views online. At the time of writing, the Weibo news post with the story had received nearly 3,500 comments.Another commenter asked: “The foreign object also has a nose and eyes; how can I believe it’s just a neck?”Weird food hygiene stories often caught the attention of the public in China. In December last year, a woman in southwest China divided opinion on mainland social media after revealing that she washed her dishes in pigswill.In September 2022, a group of students at a university in southern China blew _____10_____ whistle online about food safety at the university’s canteen with evidence, including photos, after students found cockroaches and worms in their food while eating.Calling Black WhiteA rice dish served at a Chinese technical college cafeteria containing (contain) what a student claimed was a dead mouse’s head in a viral video has renewed concerns about food safety in China’s school canteens.The Paper reported that an unidentified (identify)student at the Jiangxi Industry Polytechnic College in Jiangxi province in southeastern China was shocked when he found the object in his meal on June 1.In a viral video taken by the student, he is seen picking up the mouse head with his chopsticks, with what seem to be teeth, eyes and a nose visible.In the video, the student describes in unsettling detail what he sees when looking at the “foreign object” — pointing out what he says are teeth, eyes and even a nose.The student shared the video online and reported the incident to the canteen. In response to the online speculation caused by the video, the college called the local food regulatory department to conduct a food safety check of the canteen.The officers assessed the item and reported that it was a piece of cooked duck neck.“It’s a duck neck, not a mouse head,” said a food safety inspector (inspect), surnamed Jiang, after the team examined the dish, but more samples were collected for further tests.On June 3, after the canteen inspection, the college issued a public notice saying it had been cleared of any safety and hygiene breaches (breach).The college administration said the video shared by the student had damaged (damage) its reputation and requested the student clarify the matter online.After several hygiene scandals in recent years, the incident has reignited long-held concerns about food safety at China’s educational institutions.The college also promised to improve food hygiene management at the canteen to reassure students and staff.However, unconvinced (unconvince) it was an open and shut case, many people shared their views online. At the time of writing, the Weibo news post with the story had received nearly 3,500 comments.Another commenter asked: “The foreign object also has a nose and eyes; how can I believe it’s just a neck?”Weird food hygiene stories often caught the attention of the public in China. In December last year, a woman in southwest China divided opinion on mainland social media after revealing that she washed her dishes in pigswill.In September 2022, a group of students at a university in southern China blew the whistle online about food safety at the university’s canteen with evidence, including photos, after students found cockroaches and worms in their food while eating.指鼠为鸭在一段广为流传的视频中，中国一所技术学院食堂的盖饭中含有一名学生声称的死老鼠头，这再次引发了人们对中国学校食堂食品安全的担忧。