高中英语外刊阅读语法填空August Ⅶ
1奥运会上出现的世界各国国旗里，为什么几乎没出现过紫色的？
What's wrong with purple?
There are 196 countries in the world today and 1______(bookkeepervirtual) none of them have purple on their national flag. Throughout history, purple was never ud to reprent a kingdom civilization or Empire, so what's wrong with purple? It's such a popular color. Why would no country u it in 2_____(they) flag?
No countries have purple on their flag, becau up until the 1800s, purple was worth more than their weight in gold. The color purple autumn的意思3_____( associate) with royalty power and wealth for centuries. In fact, Queen Elizabeth the first forbade anyone except clo members of the royal family 4_____( wear ) it.
Purple's elite(特权) status stems from the rarity and cost of the dye originally 5_____(u) to produce it. The dye initially ud to make purple came from the Phoenician trading city of Tyre, 6_____ is now in modern-day Lebanon. Fabric traders obtained the dye from a small a snail that was only found in the Tyre region of the Mediterranean. A lot of work went into producing the dye as more than 10,000 snails were needed to create just one gram of Tyrian and purple.
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Since only 7_____(estatewealth) rulers could afford to buy and wear the color, it became associated with the imperial class of Rome, Egypt and Persia. Purple also came to reprent spirituality and holiness, becau the ancient Emperor's kings and queens that wore the color were often thought of as gods or descendants （使者）of the gods.behave
Sometimes, however, the dye was too expensive even for royalty. The third century Roman Emperor Aurelion famously wouldn't allow his wife to buy a shawl（围巾） made from Tyrian and purple silk, becau it literally cost three times its weight in gold. A single pound of dye cost three pounds of gold, which is the equivalent(同等的) of fifty-six thousand dollars today.
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So since the sheer price of purple was so astronomically high, no one, not even the 8_____(rich) nations, could afford to have purple on their flag.
The hue became more accessible 9_____ lower-class since about a century and a half ago. In 1856, 18-year-old English chemist William Henry Perkin accidentally created a synthetic purple compound. He noticed that the compound could be ud to dye fabrics,
so he patented the dye, manufactured it and got filthy rich.
Purple dye was then mass-produced, so just about everybody could afford it. Since 1900，a handful of new national flags have been designed, 10_____ few of them have opted to u purple in their flag.
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1 virtually 2 their 3 has been associated 4 to wear 5 ud
6 which 7 wealthy 8 richest 9 to 10 but
2 完了的英文比赛or选美：女运动员穿什么该由谁决定？
Who decides what a champion should wear?
谁能决定冠军该穿什么？
In the end, the midsleeved, long-legged unitard(弹力紧身衣) didn't make 1_____ to the gymnastics team final at the Olympics. The German women 2_____ wore it to combat the "xualization" of their sport were eliminated during the qualifying rounds. Instead, the usual crystal-strewn leotards cut high on the thigh（大腿根部） were worn by the medaling teams.
The earlier shock over the Norwegian female beach handball players3_____(fine) for daring to declare that they felt better in shorts rather than tinier bikini bottoms (and act on
their own desires) was not revisited（重演） becau handball is only 4_____ Olympics Youth sport.
reply过去式The controversies over clothing have cast a spotlight on issues of xism, the objectification of the female body, and who gets to decide what kind of dress is considered "appropriate" when it comes to 5_____(athlet儿童节快乐的英文e) performance.
For as long as there have been women in competitive sports, it often ems, there have been attempts 6_____( police) what they wear.
It would make no n that men and women wear such strikingly different amounts of clothing in, say, track and field, whereas in sports like rowing, basketball and softball they wear clo to the same thing. The answer, when 7_____(ek), is usually "it's the culture of the sport."
"Culture is maybe ud 8_____ a reason and an excu, but that doesn't make it right," said Cassidy Krug, a member of the 2012 U.S. Olympic diving team.
In the end, what this should be about is choice. "We have en in study after study that when an athlete feels 9_____(good) about what they are wearing, they perform better," said Catherine Sabiston, a professor of sports and exerci psychology at the University of Toronto. But only the athletes can define what clothing 10_____(make) them feel better.
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1 it 2 who 3 being fined 4 an 5 athletic
6 to police 7 sought 8 as 9 better 10 makes
3 吃早餐真的有那么重要吗？
Have you ever heard someone say, “breakfast is the most important meal of the day”, or give you advice about why it`s vital 1_____(start) the day with a healthy breakfast?
2_____monetary ems that this feast, for many of us, is necessary for our day to start well, but is it really that important?
