2024届高考英语外刊阅读天天练： 语法填空模拟训练十二

高考英语外刊阅读天天练： 语法填空模拟训练十二 ① A short video series, which tells the story of a jade teapot ____1____ miraculously comes to life and embarks on a journey from the British Museum to its homeland in China, has touched a chord with millions of viewers, intensifying calls for the museum ____2____(retrieve) relics that ___3_____(take) away from the country. With the last episode ___4_____(release)on Wednesday, the three-part series, titled Escape From the British Museum, with a total ____5____(due) of just over 16 minutes, has attracted more than 340 million views ___6_____ garnered nearly 2 million comments on Douyin, a short-video platform. In the story, the jade teapot undergoes a magical transformation, ____7_____(assume) the form of a young woman who escapes ___8______ the museum and encounters Zhang Yong’an, a Chinese journalist in the United Kingdom. She implores him to take her back to China. After the young lady returns home, she not only travels across her homeland but also carries “letters” written by other ____9______(artifact) in the museum to their respective families in China. The demand for the return of the cultural items to their countries of origin is not only __10_____ legal issue; it is also a demand to right the historical wrongs. 【China Daily (September 12, 2023)】 ② The earthquake _____1____(strike) shortly after 11pm local time last Friday. The most powerful in terms of magnitude ___2_____(hit) Morocco in more than 120 years, it brought chaos to Marrakech: at least 17 people died ____3____ dozens of buildings in the historic city collapsed. But it was the poor rural villages in the High Atlas Mountains near the epicentre of the quake ___4____ really bore the brunt, with a death toll of at least 2,900. As the dirt roads leading to these communities ____5____(clear) of debris, rescue teams discovered appalling scenes of devastation.Whole villages were reduced to rubble. People had to dig their loved ones out of the ruins with rudimentary tools, though