专题03 完形填空 -学易金卷：2023年高考英语二模试题分项汇编 （上海专用）

专题03：完形填空 -2023年高考英语二模试题分项汇编（原题版） （2023·上海静安·统考二模）In a letter he wrote in 1884, Mark Twain complained that “Telephones, telegraphs and words are too slow for this age; we must get something that is faster.” “We should communicate by thought only, and say in a couple of minutes what should have ballooned into ____1____ in an hour and a half,” said him. Despite the progress the previous century brought for our understanding of both language and the brain, we are no closer to telepathy(心灵感应), communication from one mind to another by ____2____ means, than we were in Twain’s time. The reason is that the telepathy we’ve been promised, the sort imagined by Twain, and ____3____ in countless movies and TV shows, is, for the time being, groundless. “Good old-fashioned telepathy” (GOFT) involves a direct transfer of ____4____ from one mind to another. It has fascinated people for good reasons. It removes the ____5____ of language. With GOFT, we no longer need to put each concept into words or to ____6____ someone’s language. You know instantly what one means as the former channel of communication, language, is not at all necessary. The ____7____ of language is the central feature of GOFT. It is what enables science-fiction writers to imagine humans and aliens from other planets communicating telepathically despite not sharing a language. But can it really come true with current science and technology? Besides, GOFT promises genuine communication. However, ____8____ is universal. We all have experiences of saying one thing, only to be understood as saying something else. Because language is so flexible, it is also easy to lie or ____9____ oneself.  We aren’t even certain if Bob’s expression could be in line with what he believes in a year’s time. These weaknesses have driven people to look for alternatives and finally inspired inventions of artificial languages trying to remove misunderstanding. Of course, one day when technology allows, a direct thought-to-thought transfer