高考英语外刊阅读模拟强化训练：语法填空专题十八

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高考英语外刊阅读模拟强化训练语法填空专题十八

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It’s one of the most damaging US intelligence breaches in years – and also one of the weirdest. The leaks of top cret Pentagon files ____1_____(apparent) xlsdbegan some time in January, on a small online forum on Discord, a messaging platform popular _____2___ video gamers, t up by a group of people connected by a ___3_____(share) love of guns and military gear. The leader of the group, known as “O.G.”, worked at a military ba and began sharing images of classified documents, many _____4_____(reveal) nsitive information about the war in Ukraine. In early March, another member of the group reposted the files on a ____5____(large) Discord forum devoted to the Minecraft computer game and a Filipino YouTube celebrity. From there, the images made their way – some times in doctored form – ___6____ a Russian propaganda account on Telegram, and thence to Twitter and the mainstream media. That’s ____7_____ the leaks finally came to the attention of officials.

“We’re eing the emergence of a new type of leaker,” said Fred Kaplan on Slate. In the past, most foreign policy leaks _____8_____(come) from officials eking to push some agenda, or from outraged whistleblowers. But O.G. – identified by the pressquite a few ___9___ Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old IT technician拉丁语在线翻译 rving in the Massachutts Air National 正品英文Guard, who was arrested and charged last week – ems to have been motivated less by ideology than a simple desire _____10___(show) off. It shows there’s something riously wrong with America’s system of managing crets.

【The Week UK(April 22, 2023)】

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“You can almost hear the collective sigh of relief emanating from the Palace,” said Sarah Vine in the Daily Mail. Last week, after months of “will they, won’t they”, ___1___ more than a week after the RSVP deadline, Prince Harry finally confirmed that he would be attending his father’s coronation on 6 May – though his wife will remain at home in California with their two children. Meghan’s ____2_____(reject) of King Charles’s invitatio

n was “unmistakably a snub”. But ___3___ was probably for the best, given all the hurt the pair ____4______(cau) through their Netflix documentary and Harry’s memoir, Spare. At least Charles, Camilla and the rest won’t have to walk on eggshells, for fear ___5___ uptting “the two moaning minnies with their tiresomely _____6____(end) grievances and perceived slights”.

Meghan was never going to appea the haters, ____7____ she did. Stay away from the coronation, and it’s a snub. Attend, and she’d be stirring up trouble or trying to “upstage” the King. But ____8_____(skip) the coronation was the smart move. She has stayed out of trouble and won “a small latinavictory against her detractors in the British press” – robbing them of countless column inches _____9___ they would have no doubt devoted to her “disrespectful” body language, or ____10____ she “singlehandedly ruined the big day by smiling too much or looking too attractive or, perish the thought, holding her husband’s hand, thenair absolutely sicko”. Instead, she can enjoy the event from the comfort of her sofa, like the rest of us.

【blue filmThe Week UK(April 22, 2023)】

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Throughout its 184-year history, the Grand National（全国越野障碍赛马）has reliably produced equal quantities of “drama and danger”. And this year’s edition had “pretty much everything: sorrow, ____1______(suffer), glory and pain”. The chaos began before the race even started, ___2______ spectators were greeted by the “extraordinary sight of dozens of animal rights activists ____3_____(u) ladders to climb into Aintree’s grounds”. The goal of the protesters was not so much _____4_____(prevent) the race taking place as to draw attention to their message: ____5_____ hor racing is an unacceptably cruel sport. When the “world’s most famous steeplecha” finally got under way, 15 minutes later than _____6_____(schedule), it proved both exhilarating and distressing. Of the 39 runners who started, only 17 made ____7__ to the finish – and there were somefull hou dreadful falls along the way. The worst of the claimed the life of Hill Sixteen, who ____8_____(put) to sleep after breaking his neck while falling at the first jump. A later fall caud jockey Johnny Burke to break his arm.

There’s a reason the Grand National is the only one of Britain’s 10,000 hor races that ____9____(reliable) “gets the entire nation interested”. At four-and-a-quarter miles, it is Britain’s longest hor race; its 30 fences are more numerous and more challenging than tho of any other steeplecha; and its “40-runner field” is unique. The characteristics make the Grand National by far the “riskiest”, for both hors and ______10____(ride).

【The Week UK(April 22, 2023)】

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This “dazzling” animation, Suzume (铃芽之旅) , from Japane director Makoto Shinkai has already become ____1___ box-office hit around the world, and dervedly so. An unconventional“teen romance”, it follows Suzume, a 16-year-old ___2____ mother was killed in an earthquake some years ago. One day when she ____3____(cycle) to school, she bumps into a handsome student named Souta, who turns out to be a “Clor” – a person ____4____(charge) with “closing doors to another world”. When “a ginormous, city-destroying worm” escapes from that other world, Souta and Suzume must join forces

to stop it. “There is a touch of Stranger Things” to this“rich” tale, which mines the “trauma felt by the young _____5____(follow) Japan’s 2011 earthquake and tsunami”; and the result is “extraordinary enough to appeal ____6____ even non-anime fans”. The film has rather a lot of cha quences which become “repetitive”; but it has real merit. With its “stark warnings about the real risk of ecological disaster”, Suzume is a “powerful coming-of-age tale ____7____ plucks at the heartstrings” while delivering some real laughs along the way. It is beautiful to look at too. An “epic adventure about hormone-fuelled teenagers facing up to _____8_______(environment) destruction”, the film is sometimes a “little too worthy for its own good”. Still, it has “boundless ambition, and the courage _____9______(place) weighty issues ____10___ the heart of a kids’ film”.

【The Week UK(April 22, 2023)】

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