2024届高考英语外刊阅读天天练：语法填空专题十五

高考英语外刊阅读天天练：语法填空专题十五 ① The suffering in Gaza is unfathomable. Israel claims its mission is __1______(destroy) Hamas. But each Israeli strike also pulverizes nearby buildings ____2__ innocent families often die. U. S. officials have paid lip service to the idea __3___ Israel should treat Palestinian civilians humanely. But those words have had no effect. Of course they did, because the so-called international community is a club of colonizers, hypocritical __4_____ narrow-minded. The stateless Palestinian people ___5_____(suffer) for decades under the“attacks, racism, and fascism”of the occupier while the West looks away. We know ___6____ the Americans have given a green light to the occupier to carry out a mass displacement of the people of Gaza. The U.S. wants to help Israel establish a pure Jewish state on the entire land of Palestine. But even more important to American motives are the American interests ____7____ stake. The U.S. feels ____8____(threaten) by Russian and Chinese influence in the world and particularly in Africa and the Middle East. That’s why Washington hastened to send not one but two aircraft-carrier strike groups ___9_____(steam) toward the Middle East. It is part of the“global Zionist conspiracy”that welcomes a ____10____(wide), even a world, war. 【The Week USA(October 27, 2023)】 ② Scientists have used gene-editing technology to create chickens that are _____1___(resist) to bird flu, a potentially major breakthrough in the fight against a disease that _____2___(kill) tens of millions of American chickens in the past year. ____3_____(use) CRISPR technology, researchers tweaked a protein that the H5N1 virus relies on ___4_____(infect) a host. They injected the edited gene into eggs, ___5____grew into adult chickens. Once they had established that the edited gene wasn’t hampering the birds’ ____6____(grow), they tested the animals’ resistance to bird flu. Both genetically engineered chickens and regular ones ____7____(expose)to a low dos