Week 6 语法填空专项练习-2024届高三英语二轮复习

Week6 Day 22-26 （04.15-04.19） —————————————————————————————————————————————— Day 22 Mon. Solar eclipse Pilots have chased a total eclipse of the sun. It happened while people in North America looked at this rare celestial event. NASA sent high-altitude planes 1.____ special sensors and instruments 2._______(gather) information from the eclipse. Pilots 3.______ (flow)15,240 meters high to get a view of the corona – the sun's outer surface. NASA also fired rockets into Earth's upper atmosphere to try to find out about some of the sun's 4.________(mystery). A total solar eclipse blocks the sun, and 5._________( momentary) turns day to night. Totality means the sun's corona is a million times 6.______(dim) than the sun. A solar astrophysicist explained that: "Total solar eclipses let us study and see the corona in ways 7._____ just would not be possible at any other time." Solar eclipses often confuse animals. They wake up nocturnal(夜间活动的) animals, and make birds fall 8.________(silence). Together in wonder: North America awed by total solar eclipse 跨越北美三国，日全食奇观震撼数千万人 Across Mexico, the US and Canada, inside a ribbon of land 1._______( stretch)155 miles wide but more than 4,000 miles long, tens of millions of people craned their necks, tilted their heads to the sky and watched in wonder as the day turned to night. 2.______ many saw on Monday was a phenomenon like no other: the Moon moving between the Earth and the Sun, 3._________(extinguish) its light in a total solar eclipse. 跨越墨西哥、美国和加拿大，在宽155英里、绵延4000多英里长的土地带内，数千万人伸长脖子，抬头仰望天空，惊奇地看着白昼变成黑夜。 许多人在周一看到了一种独一无二的现象：月球在地球和太阳之间移动，在日全食中太阳熄灭了光芒。 来自BBC 今日生词 awe v. 使敬畏，使惊叹 crane v. 伸长（脖子）看，探头看 extinguish v. 熄灭，消灭 Day 23 Tues. For China’s Factories, the Paris Olympics Have Already Started 巴黎奥运还有三个月，义乌工厂已集体“出征” The opening ceremony of Paris 2024 isn’t due to take place for another three 1.______(month). But in China’s manufacturing hubs, “Olympic fever” has already struck. Merchants in Yiwu — a city in eastern China famous f