外刊改编语法填空题百日Day 17-Day 18-2025届高三英语上学期一轮复习专项

原创外刊改编语法填空题打卡Day 17 Loneliness poses risks as deadly as smoking Widespread loneliness in the U.S. poses health risks as deadly as smoking up to 15 cigarettes daily, costing the health industry billions of dollars annually, the U.S. surgeon general said Tuesday in declaring the latest public health epidemic. About half of U.S. adults say they’ve experienced loneliness, Dr. Vivek Murthy said in an 81-page report from his office. Research shows that Americans, who have become less _____1_____ (engage) with worship houses, community organizations and even their own family members in recent decades, have steadily reported _____2_____ increase in feelings of loneliness. The number of single households _____3_____ (double) over the last 60 years. The loneliness epidemic is hitting young people, ages 15 to 24, especially hard. The age group reported a 70% drop in time _____4_____(spend) with friends during the same period. Loneliness increases the risk of premature death by nearly 30%, _____5_____ the report revealing that those with poor social relationships also had a greater risk of stroke and heart disease. Isolation also elevates a person’s _____6_____(likely) for experiencing depression, anxiety and dementia, according to the research. Murthy did not provide any data _____7_____ illustrates how many people die directly from loneliness or isolation. The surgeon general is calling on workplaces, schools, technology companies, community organizations, parents and other people _____8_____ (make) changes that _____9_____ (boost) the country’s connectedness. He advises people to join community groups and put down their phones when they’re catching up with friends; employers to think carefully about their remote work policies; _____10_____ health systems to provide training for doctors to recognize the health risks of loneliness. Technology has rapidly exacerbated the loneliness problem, with one study cited in the report finding that people who used social media for two hours or more daily were more than twice as likely to report feeling socially isolated than those who were on such apps for less than 30 minutes a day. Loneliness poses risks as deadly as smoking Widespread loneliness in the U.S. poses health risks as deadly as smoking up to 15 cigarettes daily, costing the health industry billions of dollars annually, the U.S. surgeon general said Tuesday in declaring the latest public health epidemic. About half of U.S. adults say they’ve experienced loneliness, Dr. Vivek Murthy said in an 81-page report from his office. Research shows that Americans, who have become less engaged (engage) with worship houses, community organizations and even their own family members in recent decades, have steadily reported an increase in feelings of loneliness. The number of single households has doubled (double) over the last 60 years. The loneliness epidemic is hitting young people, ages 15 to 24, especially hard. The age group reported a 70% drop in time spent (spend) with friends during the same period. Loneliness increases the risk of premature death by nearly 30%, with the report revealing that those with poor social relationships also had a greater risk of stroke and heart disease. Isolation also elevates a person’s likelihood (likely) for experiencing depression, anxiety and dementia, according to the research. Murthy did not provide any data that illustrates how many people die directly from loneliness or isolation. The surgeon general is calling on workplaces, schools, technology companies, community organizations, parents and other people to make (make) changes that will boost (boost) the country’s connectedness. He advises people to join community groups and put down their phones when they’re catching up with friends; employers to think carefully about their remote work policies; and health systems to provide training for doctors to recognize the health risks of loneliness. Technology has rapidly exacerbated the loneliness problem, with one study cited in the report finding that people who used social media for two hours or more daily were more than twice as likely to report feeling socially isolated than those who were on such apps for less than 30 minutes a day. 孤独感的危害堪比抽烟 美国卫生部长周二在宣布最新的公共卫生流行病时表示，美国广泛存在的孤独感造成的健康风险跟每天吸15支烟一样致命，每年给健康行业造成数十亿美元的损失。维维克·默克西博士通过自己的工作室发表的长达81页的报告中表示，大约一半的美国成年人说他们曾经历过孤独。 研究显示，近几十年，美国人与礼拜堂、社区组织甚至自己的家庭成员的接触越来越少，他们的孤独感也在不断增加。在过去的60年里，单身家庭的数量也翻了一倍。孤独感的流行对15-24岁的年轻人造成的打击尤为严重。据报告，同时期这个年龄段的群体与朋友在一起的时间减少了70%。 孤独感让早亡的风险增加了近30%，报告显示，社交关系差的人患中风和心脏病的风险也更大。研究表明，孤立也会增加一个人患抑郁症、焦虑症和痴呆症的可能性。穆尔蒂未提供证明直接死于孤独或孤立人数的任何数据。 卫生局局长呼吁工作场所、学校、科技公司、社区组织、家长和其他各方人士做出改变，从而增进整个国家的连结感。他建议人们加入社区团体，在和朋友聊天时放下手机；雇主仔细思考公司的远程工作政策；卫生系统为医生提供培训，正确认识孤独对健康造成的风险。 科技快速加剧了孤独问题，报告中引用的一项研究发现，每天使用社交媒体两个小时及以上的人感到社交孤立的可能性是每天使用时间不到30分钟的人的两倍多。 生词积累 surgeon general 卫生局局长 engaged adj. 已订婚的；从事……的，忙于……的； premature adj. 过早的，提早的; 早产的; 草率的，仓促的 isolation n. 隔离，孤立；孤独 elevate v. 提拔，提升；抬起，提起；提高，增加 dementia n. 痴呆，精神错乱 connectedness n. 连通性 exacerbate v. 使恶化，使加剧 原创外刊改编语法填空题打卡Day 18 How Online Shopping Lost Touch With Reality From: The Atlantic The idea of the “informed consumer” may have always been a myth, but online shopping has made distinguishing between reality and manipulation even _____1_____ (hard). Booking a hotel room used to be fairly easy. You might see a few good deals on booking websites, only _____2_____ (click) through and find that they’ve become unavailable. In the event that a room is genuinely up for grabs, it can turn out to be much more expensive than the price you _____3_____ (show) at first, because of additional fees and taxes. The ordeal, Jacob writes, “will leave you questioning what is true and what is false. It will beat you down until, at a certain point, you won’t even care.” One potential culprit for this hotel-booking fiasco is the airline industry, which pioneered the use of “dynamic pricing” in the 1980s, adjusting rates _____4_____ response to supply-and-demand changes. By the late ’90s, hotels _____5_____ (adopt) the practice as well. Jacob explains that the resulting price fluctuations cause problems for deal aggregators such as Expedia and Booking.com, _____6_____ are able to scrape pricing information only periodically and therefore struggle to keep up with the latest figures. In the end, the common theme of hotel booking is shoppers’ inability to tell what is really on offer. As Jacob writes: The best analogy for online hotel booking, I think, is a hall of mirrors: You can’t tell what’s real, and you can’t escape. In that sense, hotel booking, perhaps more than any other everyday _____7_____ (commerce) experience, fits perfectly into the landscape of 2023 America. This is online shopping for _____8_____ “post-truth” era. Brick-and-mortar retailers are no strangers to consumer manipulation. But shopping on the internet tricks would-be buyers into believing that _____9_____ they can’t distinguish reality from sales tactics, it’s their own fault.  Shoppers can now conduct their own mini research projects when deciding what to buy: They can read reviews, watch videos, consult the opinions of influencers and product-recommendation sites such as Wirecutter and The Strategist, compare products across multiple brands. _____10_____ access to such information offers merely the illusion of control. How Online Shopping Lost Touch With Reality From: The Atlantic The idea of the “informed consumer” may have always been a myth, but online shopping has made distinguishing between reality and manipulation even harder (hard). Booking a hotel room used to be fairly easy. You might see a few good deals on booking websites, only to click (click) through and find that they’ve become unavailable. In the event that a room is genuinely up for grabs, it can turn out to be much more expensive than the price you were shown (show) at first, because of additional fees and taxes. The ordeal, Jacob writes, “will leave you questioning what is true and what is false. It will beat you down until, at a certain point, you won’t even care.” One potential culprit for this hotel-booking fiasco is the airline industry, which pioneered the use of “dynamic pricing” in the 1980s, adjusting rates in response to supply-and-demand changes. By the late ’90s, hotels had adopted (adopt) the practice as well. Jacob explains that the resulting price fluctuations cause problems for deal aggregators such as Expedia and Booking.com, which are able to scrape pricing information only periodically and therefore struggle to keep up with the latest figures. In the end, the common theme of hotel booking is shoppers’ inability to tell what is really on offer. As Jacob writes: The best analogy for online hotel booking, I think, is a hall of mirrors: You can’t tell what’s real, and you can’t escape. In that sense, hotel booking, perhaps more than any other everyday commercial (commerce) experience, fits perfectly into the landscape of 2023 America. This is online shopping for the “post-truth” era. Brick-and-mortar retailers are no strangers to consumer manipulation. But shopping on the internet tricks would-be buyers into believing that if they can’t distinguish reality from sales tactics, it’s their own fault.  Shoppers can now conduct their own mini research projects when deciding what to buy: They can read reviews, watch videos, consult the opinions of influencers and product-recommendation sites such as Wirecutter and The Strategist, compare products across multiple brands. But access to such information offers merely the illusion of control. 网购是如何脱离现实的？ “知情消费者”的概念可能一直是一个迷，但网上购物让区分现实和伪造变得更加困难。过去预定酒店房间相当容易。你可能会在订房网站上看到一些划算的房间，但点开之后却发现商品不可下单了。等到你真的遇到了一个可以预定的房间时，它可能会比你第一次看到的价格贵得多，因为有额外的费用和税费。雅各布写道，这种痛苦的经验“会让你质疑到底什么是真的，什么是假的。它会让你挫败，直到某个时候你甚至不在乎是真是假了。” 造成这次酒店预订失败的一个潜在的原因是航空业，这个行业在20世纪80年代率先使用了“动态定价”，即根据供需变化情况调整价格。到了90年代末期，酒店也采用了这种做法。雅各布解释道，由此产生的价格波动给Expedia和Booking.com等交易聚合网站带来了许多麻烦，这些网站只能周期性地收集价格信息，因此很难跟上最新的价格变化。 发展到最后，预定酒店这件事的核心落在了购物者无法分辨平台上真正售卖的到底是什么。正如雅各布所写：我认为，对线上预定酒店一个最好的比喻就是，它像是一个布满镜子的房间：你分辨不出什么是真的，你也逃不掉。从这个意义上说，酒店预订可能比其他任何日常商业体验都更符合2023年美国的画风。这是“后真相”时代的网上购物。 实体零售商对操纵消费者并不陌生。但网上购物会诱导潜在消费者认为，如果他们无法分辨哪些是营销技巧哪些是真实商品，那就是他们自己的问题。 当消费者决定要买哪些商品时，他们现在可以自行开展迷你研究项目：他们可以查阅评论，看视频，咨询网红和产品推荐网站(如“钢丝钳”和“策略师”)的意见，对多个品牌的产品进行比较。但能获取这些信息仅仅是给大家提供了一种自己有控制权的幻觉。 生词积累 myth n. 神话；虚构的人，虚构的事 manipulation n. 操作；操纵；处理；篡改 genuinely adv. 真诚地；诚实地 aggregator n. 聚合器，整合者；汇集者，聚合 scrape n. 困境;擦痕 vt. 刮;挖成 inability n. 无才能；无能力 era n. 时代；年代；纪元 tactic n.策略，战略 illusion n. 幻觉，错觉 1 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$