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1、高考英语外刊阅读模拟强化训练语法填空专题二【题源 The Week UK (14 January,2023 )】Esports players might not experience the physicaldemands that traditional athletes do,1 thepressures they face are extreme even so, says JuliaLlewellyn Smith in The Times. They have intensetrainingschedules, under supervision from anentourage o
2、f coaches. Players for Team Liquid, a major esports team with 2(base) in the Netherlands, Brazil and the US,share flatsandcomplete full 12-hour days in their “office _3 theyprepare to compete in 4(pack)auditoriums in front ofthousands or millions of viewers online. Often, theythen practise more5 the
3、y get home.Professional players can start their careersexceptionally young. US-born Victor De Leon III,professionally known as Lil Poison, started playingHalo aged two, and 6(sign) his firstcontract at the ageof six. But most also end them pretty early too: playersreport feeling 7(burn) out by their
4、 gruelling schedules,8 dont leave much time for life awayfromscreens; their reflexes also begin to slow. By theirlate 20s, many professional esports players retire 9(mean) their career spans can often be far shorterthan even 10 oftraditional athletes.Makers of luxury goods, restaurants, theme parks
5、- these are justsome of the businesses in line for a much-needed cash injection in2023, says Leo Lewis. Why? Because ifs 1(like) to seethe welcomereturn of the Chinese tourist. In 2019, some 155 million people from China, a population slightly 2(large) thanRussia,s,3(journey) outside the mainland. I
6、nfact, pre-pandemicChinese travel spending accounted 4 17% of the entire outlay ofglobal5(tour)6 its peak it was “just over a quarter-of-a-trilliondollars, or roughlythe size of Portugals GDP. But thanks toBeijing strict pandemic policies, the Chinese havent been able totake a foreign holiday for th
7、ree years. Now that the ban 7(lift), there911 bea huge surge in Chinese global travel. And thatwill have a major geopolitical impact as well as a8(commerce) one.Three years of seclusion(隔绝)have helped strengthen Chinas image 9 the West 9s “bogeyman”, yet that view is bound 10(soften) when Chinasbusi
8、ness leaders and shopaholic middle classes“ are once againcriss-crossing the planet in their tens of millions.For most of my life, Ive rejected claims 1 America is a sick society”, says William A.Galston.For all our problems, there were positive developments 2(fall) rates of smoking,nairowing gaps a
9、mong racial and ethnic groups - that made me feel that the US3(move) ina healthier direction. 4 Ive come to the conclusion I was wrong. Justlook at the data. In 2019,before Covid 5(strike), the US ranked 29th for life6(expect) among the 38 member nations of theOECD,7(trail) every European and Asian
10、country in infant mortality. Americas high death rate inthe pandemic made things8(bad): by the end of 2021, the life-expectancy gap between the US andGermany had widened from 2.5 to 4.3 years, and between the US and France from four _9 six years.Quite10 the nation is so afflicted by theseproblems is
11、 a matter of debate, but its hard to denythat America today is “indeed a sick society”.The Amazon is far and away theworlds 1(important) rainforest,said Karl Mathiesen onPolitico(Brussels). A huge carbon sink, it iskey to 2(tackle) climate change. Yet thiswasof little concern 3_ Brazils fbrmerpresid
12、ent, Jair Bolsonaro: he strippedback enforcement offorest protections,4(attack) indigenous landowners andencouraged industry. During his term,there was a 60% surge in deforestation 5(compare) with the previous fouryears.6(thankful), all that may change underBrazifs new president Luiz Inacio Lulada S
13、ilva, who was sworn in for a thirdterm on 1 January.7(promise) to reverseand eventually end the deforestation, he has already pledged to unfreeze 8(contribute)to the multibillion-dollar Amazon Fund, which they had frozenduring Bolsonaro presidency. And he has named Marina Silva -a high-profile Amazo
14、n activist 9 served under Lula in his firstterm10 his environment and climate change minister.A furniture restorer from London may havesolved one of the great 1(mystery) of caveart.Archaeologists have long debated thesignificance of the various dots, lines andother markings2 often accompany StoneAge
15、 paintings of wild horses, fish and otheranimals. Ben Baconmade 3 his mission tocome up with an answer.4(examine)carefully asmuch dataon European cave painting as hecould get his hands on, he started to observecertain patterns in the markings. He alsonoted that a Y sign appeared repeatedly.Concludin
16、g that it might be a symbol forfertility, and 5(assist) by experts fromDurham University and University CollegeLondon, he looked into the seasonal behaviour of the animals 6(describe), and7(spot)that the sequences of dots and dashes tied in with key moments in their natural cycles,such as mating and
17、 birthing. It seems, he says in a paper in the CambridgeArchaeological Journal,8 Stone Age hunter-gatherers had devised a lunar calendar,along 9 whatcould be described as a “proto-writing“ system, and were using theircave walls 10(create) a database of useful information about their prey.答案：but;base
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