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The World (January 1st-15th, 2023)
1.《泰晤士报》2023年1月3日7页
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Flowers that have rarely, if ever, opened ___________ (blossom) in English gardens,while figs were ripe and ready ______ (eat) in the second week of December.
Horticultural experts have described _____ last year’s unusual weather led to extraordinary trends that could herald a bountiful spring. People have reported fruits such as figs growing and ________ (ripe) on trees until well into December.
Guy Barter, chief horticulturist of the Royal Horticultural Society, suggested that the long hot summer last year, with extra light and heat, _________ (combine) with a relatively late frost may have contributed to certain plants and flowers deciding to give the unthinkable ___ go.
“The flowering season was ______ (vast) extended,” he said. “When I was young, we’d expect frost in late September, early October.
“But the growing season [in 2022] has been extraordinary. Roses have been still in flower late into the season, and there are plants ______ will just keep going until the weather gets too cold that have been going until December, like fuchsias and dahlias.”
A single year’s _________ (evident) was not enough to say that climate change was the cause, Barter said. But “it’s certainly consistent ____ what we expect [to become] the norm under climate change”.
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这些谈判可能预示着新的和平时代的来临。_______________________________________________________________________________
她对待孩子反复无常。
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2.《华盛顿邮报》2023年1月8日 G1&G4版面
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Digital natives communicate _________ (different) — and confuse older colleagues. When 24-year-old Mary Clare Wall read a message ________ said her colleague would be “out of pocket,” she and her young co-workers _______ (giggle). As Generation Z workers, Wall and her peers interpreted the phrase to mean that their colleague planned to do something crazy or inappropriate, not that they would be unavailable. But