中英语外刊阅读语法填空March 10
1 管理层女性占比高的公司盈利能力更强
Companies with female leaders outperform tho dominated by men
Women should play a 1____(centre) role in the post-pandemic economic 2_____(recover), with evidence 3_____(reveal) companies with more female leaders outperform tho 4____(dominate) by men, according to Hou of Commons rearch.
Accusing the government of ignoring women’s needs during the coronavirus pandemic and side-lining them in plans for recovery, the shadow cretary for women and equalities, Annelie Dodds, said the data showed women held the key 5____ a stronger economy, but they were being held back by a lack of investment and the risk of “childcare derts”(育儿荒漠).
She warned that the UK was facing a “childcare emergency” with early years ttings struggling to recruit staff and the Early Years Alliance reporting that some areas of England 6____(e) a 25% decline in the number of places in the past six years.
"The childcare ctor is facing a short-term emergency, eing childcare derts in different parts of the country, with providers going bust and not being able to continue operating – that has 7_____awful impact on working women,” said Dodds. “Childcare providers are part of our economic infrastructure(基础设施), we have to find a more sustainable way forward.”
To mark International Women’s Day, 8_____is on Tuesday, Labour have collated(整理) d
ata from the Hou of Commons library. It cited McKiny rearch 9_____ shows companies in the top quartile for gender diversity on executive teams were 25% more likely 10_____(have) above-average profitability than companies in the bottom, while companies with more than 30% female executives(高管) were more likely to outperform companies that don’t, according to rearch from academics from the Universities of Glasgow and Leicester.
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1 central 2 recovery 3 revealing 4 dominated
5 to 6 have en 7 an 8 which 9 that 10 to have
2睡前玩手机8分钟兴奋1小时！
Screen-Time Before Bed Can Disrupt Sleep
Digital screen time before bed can have a negative impact 1_____ the quality of your sleep. A US study found that as little as eight minutes of 2_____(expose) to blue light keeps you 3_____(mental) stimulated for over one hour, 4_____ tends to throw off the body's circadian rhythm or biological clock.
Exposure to blue light suppress（抑制） the production of melatonin(褪黑素), a hormone that induces（诱导） sleepiness. Melatonin relea in the evening helps you relax before bedtime. Suppression of melatonin can cau you to stay up 5____(late) and sleep less than you normally would.
Seeing something right before bed that either makes you upt 6____ happy can trigger a respon that prolongs falling sleep, which 7______(conquent) delays REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. The emotions can leave you staring at the ceiling for hours 8_____(feel) wide awake.
Studies have also found that exciting or violent video games increa heart rate, make 9_____ harder to fall asleep, and impair sleep quality.
A writer named Daphne K. Lee was the first one to tweet about the whole word "revenge bedtime procrastination" saying, "a phenomenon in which people who don’t have much control over their daytime life refu to sleep early in order 10____(regain) some n of freedom during late-night hours".
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1 on 2 exposure 3 mentally 4 which 5 later
6 or 7 conquently 8 feeling 9 it 10 to regain
3 好奇号探测器在火星上发现“花朵”
Tiny 'flower' formation spotted on Mars by Curiosity rover
During its ongoing 1_____(investigate) of Martian rocks in Gale Crater, the Curiosity rover stumbled on a tiny surpri. The rock artifact(手工制品), 2____ rembles a piece of coral（珊瑚） or a flower, is 3_____(small) than a penny.
The Martian "flower" and the spherical(球状) pieces next to it were likely "made in the ancient past when minerals carried by water cemented（凝结） the rock," according to NASA.
Curiosity took 4____image of the little rock arrangement on February 24 using the Mars Hand Lens Imager, a camera 5_____(locate) on the end of its robotic arm.
6_____(previous), the Opportunity rover also spotted Martian "blueberries," little mineral spherules indicative of once watery soil on the red planet.
Early on, Curiosity discovered the chemical and mineral evidence 7____(affirm) the planet's habitability sometime in its distant past. Ever since, Curiosity has been investigating the geologic (地质的) record 8_____(understand) when Mars might have been most suitable to host life.
The car-size rover paved the way for the Perverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter, which are currently exploring Jezero Crater, located 3,700 kilometers away and will eventually return the first Martian 9_____(sample) to Earth through future missions. The combined efforts of the rovers could help answer the ultimate question of 10_____ life ever existed on Mars.
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1 investigation 2 which 3 smaller 4 an
5 located 6 Previously 7 affirming
8 to understand 9 samples 10 whether
