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 physical demands that traditional athletes do, _1_ the pressures they face are extreme even so, says Julia Llewellyn Smith in The Times. They have intense training schedules, under supervision from an e
2、ntourage of coaches. Players for Team Liquid, a major esports team with _2_(base) in the Netherlands, Brazil and the US, share flats and complete full 12-hour days in their “office” _3_ they prepare to compete in _4_(pack) auditoriums in front of thousands or millions of viewers online. Often, they
3、then practise more _5_ they get home.Professional players can start their careers exceptionally young. US-born Victor De Leon III, professionally known as Lil Poison, started playing Halo aged two, and _6_(sign) his first contract at the age of six. But most also end them pretty early too: players r
4、eport feeling _7_(burn) out by their gruelling schedules, _8_ dont leave much time for life away from screens; their reflexes also begin to slow. By their late 20s, many professional esports players retire -_9_(mean) their career spans can often be far shorter than even _10_ of traditional athletes.
5、Makers of luxury goods, restaurants, theme parks these are just some of the businesses in line for a much-needed cash injection in 2023, says Leo Lewis. Why? Because its _1_(like) to see the welcome return of the Chinese tourist. In 2019, some 155 million people from China, “a population slightly _2
6、_(large) than Russias”, _3_(journey) outside the mainland. In fact, pre-pandemic Chinese travel spending accounted _4_ 17% of the entire outlay of global _5_(tour) - _6_ its peak it was “just over a quarter-of-a-trillion dollars”, or roughly the size of Portugals GDP. But thanks to Beijings strict p
7、andemic policies, the Chinese havent been able to take a foreign holiday for three years. Now that the ban _7_(lift), therell be a huge surge in Chinese global travel. And that will have a major geopolitical impact as well as a _8_(commerce) one. Three years of seclusion(隔绝) have helped strengthen C
8、hinas image _9_ the Wests “bogeyman”, yet that view is bound _10_(soften) when Chinas business leaders and “shopaholic middle classes” are once again criss-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.
9、 For all our problems, there were positive developments -_2_(fall) rates of smoking, narrowing gaps among racial and ethnic groups that made me feel that the US _3_(move) in a healthier direction. _4_ Ive come to the conclusion I was wrong. Just look at the data. In 2019, before Covid _5_(strike), t
10、he US ranked 29th for life _6_(expect) among the 38 member nations of the OECD, _7_(trail) every European and Asian country in infant mortality. Americas high death rate in the pandemic made things _8_(bad): by the end of 2021, the life-expectancy gap between the US and Germany had widened from 2.5
11、to 4.3 years, and between the US and France from four _9_ six years. Quite _10_ the nation is so afflicted by these problems is a matter of debate, but its hard to deny that America today is “indeed a sick society”.The Amazon is far and away the worlds _1_(important) rainforest, said Karl Mathiesen
12、on Politico (Brussels). A huge carbon sink, it is key to _2_(tackle) climate change. Yet this was of little concern _3_ Brazils former president, Jair Bolsonaro: he stripped back enforcement of forest protections, _4_(attack) indigenous landowners and encouraged industry. During his term, there was
13、a 60% surge in deforestation _5_(compare) with the previous four years. _6_(thankful), all that may change under Brazils new president Luiz Incio Lula da Silva, who was sworn in for a third term on 1 January. _7_(promise) to reverse and eventually end the deforestation, he has already pledged to unf
14、reeze _8_(contribute) to the multibillion-dollar Amazon Fund, which they had frozen during Bolsonaros presidency. And he has named Marina Silva -a high-profile Amazon activist _9_ served under Lula in his first term -_10_ his environment and climate change minister.A furniture restorer from London m
15、ay have solved one of the great _1_(mystery) of cave art. Archaeologists have long debated the significance of the various dots, lines and other markings _2_ often accompany Stone Age paintings of wild horses, fish and other animals. Ben Bacon made _3_ his mission to come up with an answer. _4_(exam
16、ine) carefully as much data on European cave painting as he could get his hands on, he started to observe certain patterns in the markings. He also noted that a Y sign appeared repeatedly. Concluding that it might be a symbol for fertility, and _5_(assist) by experts from Durham University and Unive
17、rsity College London, he looked into the seasonal behaviour of the animals _6_(describe), and _7_(spot) that the sequences of dots and dashes tied in with key moments in their natural cycles, such as mating and birthing. It seems, he says in a paper in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal, _8_ Stone
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