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2024届新高三英语暑假提升语法填空训练十
(一)
Two vegetarian meals each day. A monthly budget of 200 yuan. Working just one or two months a year. In April, an Internet 1 (use) posted this brief description of his simple, stress-free life. He described his philosophy 2 Tangping. “I can be like Diogenes, who slept in his wine cask (桶) in the sun, ” he wrote.
The post spread 3 (crazy). On social media, people showed their approval of Tangping by sharing pictures of themselves (and, often, their cats) 4 (lie) in bed. More than 60% of over 240, 000 respondents to a poll (民意测评) on Weibo, said Tangping was their idea of the good life.
Tangping 5 (describe) a longing to escape the pressure of modern life in China, where young people 6 (expect) to work long hours, buy property, get married and have children. Many people in their 20s and 30s grumble (抱怨) that hard work no longer rewards them with a 7 (good) quality of life. They have adopted an academic term, neijuan or “involution”, to describe how extra input no longer produces more output.
8 academic from Tsinghua University thought of Tangping to be “extremely irresponsible”. “The only way 9 (ensure) a happy life is working hard, ” said a commentary in one newspaper, “this attitude disappoints one's parents 10 hundreds of millions of taxpayers as well”.
(二)
Goats are known for being sweet and lovable creatures and they can make humans smile 1 (simple) by being cute. Now, a research team 2 (make) up of scientists from the UK, Brazil, and Germany has concluded that goats can actually tell when humans are smiling and that goats greatly prefer happy faces 3 angry ones.
The researchers wanted to see whether goad could read human expressions, even though they aren't bred to be companion animals. In going about this, the experts showed the goats two 4 (picture) of an unfamiliar human, one with a happy face and the other 5 (look) angry.
6 (complete) this study, the researchers used 35 goats 7