2024届高考英语复习外刊及中国日报精选改编-语法填空

2024外刊及中国日报精选改编-语法填空 第一篇 Japanese society：Stale and male A disorientating time for Japanese men 日本男性迷失方向的时代 本篇原文出自：《The Economist 经济学人》February 24th 2024【Asia】 Fukushima Michihito wanted to marry his girlfriend. ______ a decade ago he fell ill, had to stop working, and ______(consequent) broke up with her. “I thought: if I can’t support my family, I shouldn’t get married,” he recalls. He later realized that many Japanese men are similarly weighed by pressure to fill the traditional male role. He now runs a “men’s hotline” in the city of Osaka, ______encourages men to discuss their ______(anxious). In Japan, relations between men and women are shifting as marriage rates decline and more women enter the workforce. But the idea that men are breadwinners remains deeply entrenched. In 2022 only 17% of eligible men took parental leave, ______(compare) with 80% of women. Japanese women spend five times longer doing chores than men. A survey in 2022 by Lean In Tokyo, an activist group, suggested that over 60% of Japanese men feel awkward at work because of pressure to behave in a manly way. In Japan, which has the ______(high) suicide rate in the G7, men are twice as likely to kill themselves as women. The hotline Mr Fukushima helps run ______(establish) in 1995. It was founded mainly in an effort to reduce domestic violence by giving anxious men an opportunity to air their grievances to ______ discreet stranger. Since then, the hotline ______(receive) calls on an expanding range of concerns, including relationships, sexuality and work. “More men are growing tired of behaving in a manly fashion, and want to be free,” says Mr Fukushima. The government has also taken an interest ______ the problem. In 2010 it included an objective to promote “men’s counselling” in its gender equality plan. There are now over 80 counselling centres ______(offer) this service. Japan’s archetypal gender roles—the salaryman husband and stay-at-home mum—were cemented during the country’s lon