2023届高考英语外刊阅读模拟强化训练：语法填空专题十五

高考英语外刊阅读模拟强化训练 语法填空专题十五 ① “In early January, ____1____ prestige holiday fare tends to give way to trashier pleasures, a good monster and a sense of humor can be enough,” said Jason Zinoman in The New York Times. This“ludicrous and irresistible” hit new horror-comedy has both. Allison Williams plays a robotics engineer _____2____, after becoming the guardian of her orphaned niece, _____3____(bring) home an untested _____4_____(advance) android ___5_____ the girl’s companion. From day one, M3GAN the robot is “clearly pure evil,” yet M3GAN the movie is “smart enough to never take ____6____ seriously,” including when the killing begins. The title figure is a more interesting demon doll than movie forebears such as Chucky, said K. Austin Collins in Rolling Stone. M3GAN ______7_____(program) to protect her child owner from emotional or physical harm, and while the machine’s turn to violence“could be scarier on every front,” it’s thrilling to watch as the impressionable AI learns that the human world is full of threats and devises radical solutions. “You can see her thinking, which is the ____8____(true) horrifying thing.” It helps that M3GAN looks so creepy, said Odie Henderson in The Boston Globe. A video of her dancing became a viral meme months before the release of the movie, which slips in some pointed commentary about kids _____9_____(be)addicted to screens and parents looking the other way. Still, the filmmakers“clearly intended this to be __10____ goofy rollercoaster ride,” and they’ve succeeded. “I laughed like a madman.” 【The Week USA (January 20, 2023)】 ② With 21 states now _____1_____(allow) the sale of marijuana(大麻) for recreational use, more and more small children are getting sick after inadvertently eating weed-laced gummies, cookies, or other edibles. These edibles ____2____(package) to look like candy, making them ____3_____(appeal) to young kids. Calls to poison control centers about children under 6 consuming products containing THC, the psychoactive