2024届高考一轮复习元旦假期语法填空专项训练2

2024届高考一轮复习元旦假期语法填空专项训练2 语篇填空1 It didn't take long for Western media 1.________(notice) China's latest ban 2.______ the export of technology to extract and separate rare earths on Thursday. However, it would be better 3.______ they told all sides of the story. China has over 30 percent of the world's share of rare earth mineral resources – essential for the manufacture of smartphone chips, LCD screens and more – but it has been meeting over 70 percent of the 4._______(world) need for it. The United States, 5._______ is not adept at processing rare earth metals, has long been importing it 6.________ China. The reason is clear from a comment in the Harvard International Review in August 2021, which says: "For every ton of rare earth 7._______(produce), the mining process yields 13kg of dust, 9,600-12,000 cubic meters of waste gas, 75 cubic meters of wastewater, and one ton of radioactive residue." That has long been the plan of the US, or the Western world in general – to saddle third world countries with polluting industries, while they themselves enjoy their products. A good example is germanium, 8._______ essential component in the manufacture of semiconductor chips and photovoltaic batteries. China 9._______(account) for 41 percent of the world's total reserve of germanium and the US 45 percent, and yet the US imports 10.________ same from China. 语篇填空2 The Harvard International Review also accuses China 1._______ "lax environment regulations", 2.________(call) its mines "unsafe", but makes little mention of 3._________ the ultimate user of these rare earth metals is. The mining of some rare earth metals is not that polluting, but the resources are scattered in such 4._________ manner that it needs entire industrial departments, 5._________(especial) the metallurgical sector, to chip in. That is 6.________ Western nations have left this dirty work on third world countries while they busied 7.________(them) with making quick money. They did not even bother to devel