精品解析：上海南汇中学2023-2024学年高三学期上10月阶段练习英语试题

2024届南汇中学高三英语十月试卷 II. Grammar and Vocabulary Section A Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank. It’s harder to heal at night Circadian rhythm, better known as our body clock, is the cycle that keeps us moving on. During a 24-hour cycle it helps ____1____ (drive) multiple processes in the body, from hormone secretion and sleeping patterns to metabolism. And researchers at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge have discovered that this cycle can affect the healing of wounds such as cuts and burns. Dr John O’Neill, the senior author of the study, said, “This is the first time that the circadian clock within individual skin cells ____2____(show) to determine how effectively they respond to injuries.” The study found that, on average, burns that ____3____(occur) at night took 60 per cent longer to heal than burns that happened during the body clock daytime cycle. Nighttime burns (sustained between 8pm and 8am) healed around 28 days ____4____ when it was 17 days if a burn was sustained during the day (between 8am and 8pm). The study drew these conclusions after ____5____(analyse) data from 118 patient records from all major burns units in England and Wales. The reasoning behind the differences in healing time is due to ____6____long it takes for skin cells to move to the site of the wound and begin repairs, a process that occurs more quickly during the daytime. This is driven by increased activity of the proteins within the cell, ____7____act like a muscle within the cell. In a statement, Dr Ned Hoyle, the lead author of the study, said, “We’ve shown that the daily cycles in our body clock control how well cells can repair ____8____ (damage) tissue by affecting an essential protein called actin