高考英语外刊阅读模拟强化训练 完形填空专题六
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I know it might sound a bit old-fashioned, but I’m a great believer in the power of letters. There’s something 1 洛下 and special about handwritten things. Yet the letter has rather fallen out of vogue and been superded by faster forms of 2 like emails or texts. But that miss the 3 of the letter. It’s not to convey 4 news. You write an email becau there’s something you need to know. But you write a letter becau there’s something you want to say. There’s also a subtler 5 to the letter. It’s a powerful and memorable way to touch the ones you 6 . People 7 letters for years. When my gran died and I 8 her hou, I found hundreds of letters and cards she had kept, and they told the story of her relationships. Sitting reading them one rainy afternoon, her words 9 out across the vista of time and I felt I knew her.
There’s also a real power in writing handwritten letters. It’s better than mindfulness. It forces
you to 10 and think of interesting things that have happened in your life. Psychological studies have shown that putting pen to paper and writing a letter—as outdated as this sounds—has superior 11 to a text or email. It takes longer and requires more thought, which demands the person to give sustained focus on the positive while they write. Psychologists have also argued that as mistakes are harder to 12 than on text or email, you have to be more deliberate and 13 . Most of all, receiving a letter is such a lovely 14 . It can enrich a relationship and allow it to grow and flourish. Be 15 and write to someone you maybe don’t know that well. Who knows where it will lead?
小钱包【Reader’s Digest UK (March, 2023)】
1. 上海篱笆论坛A. unique B. complex C. fascinating D. beneficial
2.A. connections B. communities C. communication D. technologies
3.A. point B. usage C. meaning D. significance
4.A. forgettable B. fixed C. urgent D. uful
5.A. face B. aspect C. limitation D. advantage
6.A. worry about B. complain about C. debate about D. care about
7.A. steal B. keep C. delete D. swap
8.A. arched B. damaged C. decorated D. cleared
9.A. stretched B. spread C. sped D. swept
10.A. memorize B. remind C. inform D. concentrate
11.A. benefits B. solutions C. similarities D. 文件系统ntfsbarriers
12.A. correct B. identify C. exchange D. recommend
13.A. overjoyed B. thoughtful C. overwhelmed D. considerate
14.A. surpri B. story C. experience D. relationship
15.A. 阳台上的花energetic B. helpful C. 电饭煲怎么做煲仔饭ready D. bold
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Curry lights the furnace(火炉) of his portable blacksmith’s shop. The furnace glows orange and lets off a low roar. It’ll get up to 2,000 degrees, hot enough to 1 the metal of a tray of disasmbled shotgun parts so they can be hammered against an anvil and 2 .
A(an)同学们的拼音 3 is watching, and Curry picks out a 9-year-old named Oliver to help him.“This is really magic,”Curry says.“Right before your very eyes, you’re gonna e Oliver4 this gun, this instrument of potential 5 , into something that could never be a gun ever again. It’s gonna be a trowel.”
Curry, a retired bishop, helps police departments 6 their gun buyback programs and repurpo the weapons into 7 tools. The finished tools are 8 to community gardens and agricultural high schools and the harvested 9 donated to soup kitchens and 10 shelters.
In 2021 almost 49,000 Americans were killed by guns.Curry says the hammer, anvil and f
orge are powerful 11 that the epidemic of gun 12 can be reshaped into something positive and 13 “When there’s such despair now in our country, people need to know that we can change. There is 14 ,” he says.
Curry wears a constant reminder of that hope around his neck. It’s two large pieces of metal molded into the shape of a 15 .“It’s made out of pieces of an AK-47, the weapon ud for killing. But God’s love breaks it apart, reshapes it, then transforms it into the sign of greatest hope—the cross. And that’s why I wear it.”
【Reader’s Digest USA (March, 2023)】
1. A. soften B. attach C. slide D. bend
2.A. related B. restored C. reshaped D. reheard
3.A. attendant B. pupil C. assistant D. crowd
4.A. translate B. transport C. transplant D. transform
5.A. deadly B. harm C. uless D. poisonous
6.A. manage B. charge C. exam D. display
7.A. kolumbpowerful B. available C. effective D. gardening
8.A. led B. donated C. carried D. contributed
9.A. flowers B. vegetables C. lawns D. fruits
10.A. animals B. homeless C. illegal D. advanced
