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2025届高考英语外刊阅读天天练 语法填空专题一
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618 shopping gala stimulates consumption
【China Daily(June 20, 2024)】
The ___1____(enthusiastic) of Chinese consumers has been evident during this year’s June 18 shopping carnival, as major e-commerce platforms ramped up efforts to provide steep discounts ___2__ shopping subsidies as well as simplify promotional methods ____3___(attract) price-conscious shoppers and bolster sales.
Industry experts said the midyear promotional campaign has played a vital role in stimulating people’s purchasing appetites, promoting the ____4____(recover) of consumption and shoring up the economy, with electronic devices containing innovative technologies and domestic brands ___5____(prove) popular among consumers.
As Chinese shoppers have become ____6____(rational) about potential purchases, online retailers have adopted ____7___ more pragmatic and simpler approach by canceling pre-sale campaigns this year, with a key focus on cost-effective ___8____(product) and the use of livestreaming to further unleash the immense potential of consumption, they added.
Data from e-commerce giant JD, ___9____ initiated the midyear promotional event, showed that more than 10,000 brands saw their sales surge over fivefold in the first four hours of the June 18 shopping carnival, which ___10_____(kick) off at 8 pm on May 31.
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Southern regions working to battle heavy flooding impact
【China Daily(June 22, 2024)】
At least 38 people have died and two others went missing when catastrophic floods ___1____(strike) Pingyuan county in Meizhou, Guangdong province, over the previous week. A total of 55,388 residents have been affected by the floods, with 2,247 houses ____2_____(collapse) and 3,202 others suffering damage.
All-out efforts are being made to restore production and normal traffic operations ___3__ floodwaters have begun to recede in major ___4_____(deluge)areas around the country starting Thursday. Authorities urged relevant departments to continue ____5_____(alert) for possible landslides, flashfloods, dike failures and building collapses, as geological hazards often appear after floodwaters recede.
The Office of State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters launched a Level-4 emergency response on Thursday, the ____6____(low) in China’s four-tier emergency response system, for floods in Anhui and Hubei provinces and Chongqing. It maintained a Level-3 emergency response to flooding in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region ___7_____ a Level-4 emergency response for Zhejiang, Guizhou, Guangdong, Hunan and Jiangxi provinces.
Wu Hongyu, chief forecaster with the Guangdong Meteorological Service, said unique weather ____8____(condition) led to frequent and prolonged heavy rainfall in South China this spring. Meanwhile, temperatures in Guangdong have been ____9_____(relative) high since the beginning of the flood season, atmospheric moisture content is abundant and high-pressure fronts are prevalent, resulting in abnormally high precipitation and rain ____10____(intense), said Wu.
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One in five in Gaza now face 'catastrophic' food insecurity- UN report
【The Guardian(June 25, 2024)】
More than half of households in Gaza have had to sell ___1___ swap their clothes to be able to buy food, the UN is to report, as ___2____ high risk of famine remains across the whole of the territory after a new round of violence in recent weeks.
The latest“special snapshot" of Gaza from the UN's hunger monitoring system, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC),____3___(publish) today also says that one in five of the population are now“facing catastrophic levels of acute food insecurity" _____4___(involve)“an extreme lack of food, starvation and ____5_____(exhaust)".
The IPC said that in March and April the amount of food deliveries and nutrition services reaching northern Gaza sharply ____6_____(increase), "likely averting a famine" there and helping to improve conditions in southern parts of the territory. But in recent weeks the situation had“started deteriorating again following renewed hostilities" and“a high risk of famine persists across the whole of the Gaza Strip as long as conflict continues and humanitarian access _____7____(restrict)", a draft report obtained by the Guardian says.
The warning comes ___8______ months of pressure on Israel to do more to facilitate aid efforts, the installation of a $230m US-built pier that has been beset by problems, and repeated airdrops by multiple countries _____9____ aid agencies say are insufficient to meet vital needs. Israel imposed a complete siege on the territory at the start of the war in October and has only gradually eased it under pressure from Washington. The war has destroyed most of Gaza's ____10___(capable) to produce its own food.
enthusiasm;and;to attract;recovery;proving;more rational;a;products;which;kicked
struck; collapsing;as;deluged ;to be alert;lowest;and ;conditions;relatively;intensity
or; a;to be published;involving;exhaustion;increased;is restricted;despite;which;capacity
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