2024年8月时事语法填空（9）-2025届高三英语一轮复习

语法填空1 PARIS - China's legendary table tennis player Ma Long and artistic swimmer Feng Yu will carry China's flag at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games opening ceremony on Friday evening. Ma, 1 has claimed three team golds and two singles titles in previous Olympic Games, will be making his fourth Olympic appearance in Paris. 2 (lead) China's artistic swimming team to a silver medal at Tokyo 2020, the 24-year-old Feng looks to dream bigger in Paris. China has made steady progress in artistic swimming in recent years, sealing golds in all five Olympic routines at the World Championships in Doha. "The two candidates reflect our 3 (recognize) of veteran athletes who persist 4 their careers, as well as the encouragement to the rising events and youngsters," said Zhang Xin, the secretary-general of the Chinese Olympic delegation. PARIS - Chinese top tennis player Zheng Qinwen 5 (successful) created history as she 6 (defeat) top seed Iga Swiatek to reach the Paris Olympic tennis final here on August 1 at Roland Garros. Australian Open finalist Zheng improved China's previous best result of last four in the Olympic 7 (women) singles event by two-time Grand Slam winner Li Na, beating Poland's Swiatek 6-2, 7-5. PARIS -China's Liu Yukun bagged a gold medal in his Olympic debut after winning the men's 50m rifle 3 positions here on August1. 8 (qualify) first with 594 points, the world record holder registered 463.6 points in the final. This is the 9 (four) shooting gold for China at the Paris Olympics. Sheng Lihao took 10 individual gold in men's 10m air rifle, two days after winning the first gold of Paris 2024 with his pair Huang Yuting in the mixed team event on Saturday. Xie Yu won men's 10m air pistol on Sunday. 答案: 1.who 2.Leading 3.recognition 4.in 5.successfully 6.defeated 7.women's 8.Qualified 9.fourth10.his 语法填空2 Chinese swimmer Zhang Yufei won two more bronze medals on Monday at the Paris 2024 Olympics, 1. (bring) her total to six medals: one silver and five bronze. In a post-race interview, she expressed regret over not winning a gold medal and shared her desire 2. (change) her lifestyle after the Games, 3. (possible) by finding a boyfriend, going to college, or traveling. Zhang Yufei, known 4. her hard work, competed in six events at the Paris Olympics, winning six medals in all. 5. this, she expressed regret for not winning a gold medal, saying, "I'm proud but not 6. (satisfy) with just bronze and silver. I dream of winning gold." She acknowledged the harsh reality of sports: "Even if you give your best effort, you don't always get the results you want." This is Zhang's third Olympic Games. After this Olympics, she hopes to take 7. break and change her life, which 8. (focus) on swimming for many years. "I want to try a different life experience. Maybe I'll find a boyfriend, and I also want to go to university and travel," she said. In the women's 50-meter freestyle final on Monday, where Zhang won a bronze medal, 31-year-old Swedish veteran Sarah Sjostrom took the gold. This was the 9. (five) Olympics for the Swedish veteran. When 10. (ask) if Zhang could participate in five Olympic Games like her longtime rival, Zhang said, "Yes, I want to be like her. Maybe after experiencing different aspects of life, I will come back. Who knows?" 答案: 1. bringing 2.to change 3. possibly 4. for 5.Despite 6. satisfied 7.a 8. has been focused 9.fifth 10. asked 语法填空3 For years, some conservatives have framed the declining fertility rate of the United States 1. an example of eroding family values, a moral catastrophe(大灾难) in slow motion. Last year, Ashley St. Clair, a Fox News commentator, described childless Americans this way: “They just want to pursue pleasure and drinking all night and going to Beyonc concerts. It’s this 2. (pursue) of self-pleasure in replace of fulfillment and having a family.” Researchers who study trends in reproductive health see a more nuanced picture. The decision to forgo having children is most likely not 3. sign that Americans are becoming more hedonistic, they say. For one thing, fertility rates are declining throughout the developed world. Rather, it indicates that larger societal factors — such as rising child care costs, 4. (increase) expensive housing and slipping optimism about the future — have made it feel more untenable to raise children in the United States. “I don’t see it as a lack of a commitment 5. family,” said Mary Brinton, a sociologist who studies low fertility rates at Harvard. “I think the issues are very much on the societal level and the policy level.” To some extent, experts like Dr. Brinton share the concern that Americans are having less children. Last year, the total fertility rate dipped to 1,616.5 births per 1,000 women, a historic low that is far 6. (little) than the rate needed to maintain the population size, 2,100 births per 1,000 women. In addition, the average age at 7. Americans are marrying and starting to have children has increased, most likely contributing to the fertility decline. In 2023, the median age of women who were marrying 8. the first time was 28 — about six years older than in the 1980s. The average age when women give birth to their first child has also risen substantially, from age 20 during the baby boom to 27 in 2022. As fewer women opt to stay home to raise children, the absence of policies that support working families — like paid maternity leave and stable child care — may also be leading couples to believe they’re not prepared to be parents, Dr. Guzzo added. The decision 9. (have) children, which she views as the “ultimate vote of confidence” in the future, may also 10. (affect) by how optimistic people are about the state of the world, she said. 答案: 1.as2.pursuit3.a4.increasingly5.to6.less7.which8.for9.to have10.be affected 学科网(北京)股份有限公司 $$