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高三 冲刺阶段 外刊话题阅读补充文件 语法填空 Passage A 9月12日，备受瞩目的新书《埃隆·马斯克传》全球同步发售。这本书由《乔布斯传》的作者、美国知名传记作家沃尔特·艾萨克森撰写，马斯克本人亲自参与并公开推荐。艾萨克森通过长达两年的深度跟访，给读者呈现了一个更全面、更真实的马斯克。 At various moments in "Elon Musk," Walter Isaacson's new biography of the world's richest person, the author tries to make sense of the billionaire entrepreneur he (1)____________ (shadow) for two years. Musk is a mercurial "man-child," Isaacson writes, (2)_______ was bullied relentlessly as a kid in South Africa until he grew big enough to beat up his bullies. As the people (3)_______(close) to him will attest, he lacks empathy. Yet even as Musk struggles to relate to the actual humans around him, his plans for humanity are grand. He pushes employees at his companies to slash costs and meet brutal deadlines (4)________ he needs to pour resources into the moonshot of colonizing space "before civilization crumbles." Isaacson has ably conveyed that Musk doesn't truly like pushback. Some of his lieutenants insist that he will eventually listen to reason, but Isaacson sees firsthand Musk's habit of deriding (5)_______ a saboteur or an idiot anyone who resists him. The musician Grimes, the mother of three of Musk's children, calls his roiling anger "demon mode" — a mind-set (6)________ "causes a lot of chaos." She also insists that it allows him to get stuff (7)_________(do). Musk has accrued enough power to dictate his own rules. The overall sense you get from this biography is that for all of Musk's talk about the world-changing magic of "the algorithm," he ultimately does what he wants. Isaacson believes that Musk wanted to buy Twitter because he(8)_________ so bullied as a kid and "now he could own the playground." Passage B Our Big Brains Have Shrunk. Scientists Might Know Why. 众所周知，人类拥有独一无二、高度发达的大脑，并且凭借智慧“统治”了地球。经过数百万年的进化，人类脑部相对于身体的比例远高于其他动物。但是不久前，《生态学与进化前沿》期刊上发表的一项研究显示，在近几千年里，人类大脑变小了，而且缩小的体积还不是一点点。这表示人类变笨了吗？ The development of bigger brains has long been considered a hallmark of our species' (1)__________(increase) i