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2023高考考前语法填空专练五
(一)
Kim Cobb, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, is one of a small but growing minority of academics ___36___ are cutting back on their air travel because of climate change. Travelling to conferences, lectures, workshops, and the like frequently by plane ____37____(view) as important for scientists to get together and exchange information. But Cobb and others ____38____ (be) now questioning that idea pushing conferences to provide more chances to participate remotely, and ____39____(change) their personal behavior to do their part in dealing with the climate change crisis. On a website called No Fly Climate Sci, for example, _____40_____(rough) 200 academics - many of them climate scientists ____41____ (promise) to fly as little as possible since the effort started two years ago.
Cobb, for her party, started to ask conference organizers who invited her to speak ___42___ she could do so remotely; about three-quarters of ___43___ time, they agreed. When the answer, was no, she, declined the ____44____ (invite). That approach brought Cobb's air travel last year down by 75%, and she plans ______45______(continue) the practice. "It has been fairly rewarding. ", she says, "a really positive change."
(二)
Yungang Grottoes(石窟) in Datong, Shanxi Province, are a world cultural heritage(遗产) site with a history that 56 (go) back more than 1,500 years. In Yungang's 45 big grottoes and more than 200 small grottoes, roughly 59,000 figures of the Buddha 57 (be) a priceless treasure of human culture.
58 because of the effects of climate change and natural disasters, the grottoes face damage year after year.Thanks to 59 (advance) digital technology, researchers are busy “duplicating”(复制) the Yungang Grottoes in an attempt to preserve the precious cultural relics (遗物). Employing 3D laser scanning technology, the researchers 60 (digital) record the shapes, colors and other fine details of the grottoes and later reproduce 61