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高二英语选择性必修三Unit 1同步测试(Reading for Writing)
I.根据提示写出所缺单词的正确形式。
1.The car is still under g________, so you should be able to get it repaired free of charge.
2.(2022·全国乙卷)Selected from collections throughout the world, it is the first major e_________ of his works to be held in over forty years.
3.He glanced briefly towards her but there was no sign of r__________.
4.Sometimes, the e_______ tickets are available free of charge from the university.But for the media, journalists can gain e_______ to the club only through a member.
5.The lawyer defended his c______ against the charge of attempted murder.
Ⅱ.完形填空
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(2023·湖北省武昌区质检)I was in the middle of the Amazon with my wife, a medical researcher there. We did not speak the local language, did not know the customs, and even did not entirely 1 the food. We could not have felt more 2 .
Then one perfect Amazonian evening, with monkeys calling from beyond the village green, we played soccer. 3 darkness came over the field and the match ended, the goal keeper, Juan, walked over to me and said in a matteroffact way, “In your home, do you have a moon too? ” I was surprised. After I 4 to Juan that yes, I felt a sort of awe at the 5 that existed in his world, where the unknown and undiscovered was 6 and amazing. Anything was possible.
In our society, we know that Earth has only one moon. I can, from my computer at home, 7 satellite images of Juan's village. There are no more moons to search for, little 8 to discover. Yet, as an ant biologist, I knew that much in the world of insects remains unknown. How much, though? How 9 are we? The question of what we know and do not know 10 bothered me.
I began to 11 newspaper articles about new species, and on and on they 12 . In looking into the 13 of biological discovery, I also began to find a collection of scientists, who very often focused on common phenomena more to the point of exhaustion (筋疲力尽), and even at the risk of the 14 of