2023年高考热点命题2：补全信息

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Test 1

Wrapping paper has“paper”in its name, but that doesn't automatically mean it can be recycled.__1_Try these suggestions for cutting down the amount of wrapping paper you throw away.

Reuse what you have.__2_It's estimated that the US produces 4.6 million pounds of wrapping paper annually, and 2.3 million pounds of that stays in people's homes, awaiting reuse.

Use different materials.__3_Select basic brown thick paper that can be made up with a bow, ribbons, leaves, pinecones or markers. Repurpose newspapers, old posters and children's school artworks as wrapping paper. There are plenty of other eco-friendly alternatives to wrapping paper that are just delightful and celebratory.

____4_Use baskets, fabrics, gift boxes, bags, tea towels, and more to contain and display your presents. Learn the Japanese art of wrapping,using beautiful knots (绳结) to fasten colorful reusable fabrics in attractive ways. This way, you'll have no wrapping paper waste to deal with.

Ask for better paper. Shops store what customers want, and recyclability should be a top priority, so let that be known when you're out shopping. As explained by Simon Ellin,CEO of the Recycling Association, a trade body that represents about 90 waste management companies and paper merchants in the United Kingdom,“It's a campaign we've been on all year—do you really need to design a non-paper wrapping paper?Make paper with recycling in mind!”____5

A.Try zero waste.

B.Shop with that in mind,too.

C.You don't have to choose shining paper to decorate a present.

D.In fact,many types of wrapping paper cannot be recycled due to their materials.

E.When wrapping paper is extremely thin,it has few good quality fibers for recycling.

F.Wrapping paper can be used many times if care is taken to unwrap it without tearing.

G. Having a mix of recyclable and non-recyclable paper is a real problem for companies.

Test 2

My grandma is 95 years old and still lives independently and happily at home.She has looked after her body her whole life.She never drank or smoked a day in her life.____1

She appreciates little things in life, like having cups of tea while sitting in her chair.But what she really loves to do is READ!2How she loves reading!

Every Saturday I drive 70 kilometers to spend the day with her. I also bring my three kids.They run around the home all day and bounce their balls in her driveway.

___3_Laughing her head off, she is always laughing. I race around doing all kinds of housework. I make Grandma's bed and make sure she has enough sandwiches to keep in the fridge for later.

Every month Grandma gets a delivery from the library which she looks forward to very much, two big containers full of books.4Most have been Pay It Forward books.Grandma smiles, saying that is a good thing. She can pass my books on to her friend who then passes them on to her friend. There have been a few times when I purchased a couple of books when I didn't receive any books from others and told Grandma they were given to me when I knew she needed books.__5_You see, Grandma has respected money her whole life and she also raised three children alone like me.

I've learnt so much from her.It feels so great just to be able to do something to be kind and to make someone else smile.She tells me she would be lost without me,but the truth is that I would be so lost without her.

A.I admire her for so many different things.

B.Besides,her smile made it all worthwhile.

C.I benefit from her positive attitudes to life.

D.She puts herself heart and soul into every book she reads.

E.Grandma says the house comes to life every Saturday.

F.But she reads so much that I also bring her books to read.

G.I remember she read the telephone directory when she ran out of books.

Test 3

I left Denmark for the United States for research during my Ph.D. I hadn't made any friends by that point, so I decided to ask another Ph.D student in my office whether we'd meet up outside work. He looked at me, smiled, and then said,“Yes.”__1_I finally conquered my shyness and dared to step out of my comfort zone.

My university encourages Ph.D students to spend time abroad, so I planned from the beginning to work at a US university for six months.__2_But I was also afraid that my shyness would keep me from getting to know people, leading to a level of sadness and loneliness that would eventually force me to abandon the adventure and go back to Denmark.

___3_Finding myself in a foreign country without my habitual life terrified me.My sister advised me to go to campus every day. So later, every weekend, I would plan outings with at least one person,whether it was going out for a meal,visiting a museum,traveling to another city, or going on a hike.__4_I suddenly felt much less lonely. Even little interactions at work helped me feel part of a community.By the end of my time in Atlanta,I felt so comfortable that I actually had mixed feelings about going home.

I returned to Denmark last May, feeling fulfilled by my time abroad. I was able to travel to new places, meet interesting people, and learn new professional skills.__5_I encourage every young scientist to do a research stay abroad—and to have the courage to open up to people while you're there.

A.The advice made a huge difference.

B.It was a little thing,but it was a victory.

C.The initial few months in America were difficult.

D.I had wanted to make more efforts to get to know people.

E.I built up a small group of friends—from both within and outside the office.

F.I also came to appreciate the benefits of stepping outside my comfort zone.

G.I was excited to travel,improve my English,and expand my scientific network.

Test 4

As the proverb goes,beauty is in the eye of the beholder.__1_A paper published two years ago inNaturefound a connection between people's sense of well-being and the scenicness(美景)of where they lived.The paper's authors measured scenicness by conducting a survey among volunteers.

The connection, the paper's authors found, held true whether a neighborhood was urban or rural.__2_Nor did levels of air pollution have any influence on it. The authors also discovered that differences in volunteers' health were better explained by the scenicness of where they lived than by the amount of green space around them.

___3_The team behind thatNaturepaper have nevertheless decided to have a go.They have adapted a computer program to recognize beautiful landscapes,whether natural or artificial, using the criteria that a human beholder would employ. The program's task was to work out, by analyzing each photograph's features in the context of its Scenic-or-Not ratings,what it is that makes a landscape scenic.

Most of the results are not surprising. Lakes and horizons scored well. So did valleys and snowy mountains. In artificial landscapes, castles, churches and cottages were seen as scenic.__4_The analysis did,however,confirm one important finding from the team's previous study, which is also a message for town planners. Green spaces alone are not scenic.To be so,they need to involve contours(轮廓)and trees.____5

A.But surroundings matter.

B.Hospitals,garages and motels were not so much.

C.So people have a deep affection for where they live.

D.It bore no relation to volunteers'social and economic status.

E.Therefore,less grass and more trees and bushes would be welcome.

F.Natural landscapes are rated as scenicness as opposed to artificial landscapes.

G.Determining what scenicness is,though,has always been frustrating for scientists.

Test 5

If you travel to nearly any Chinese city in the summertime,you will see people,mostly men wearing T-shirts, sitting out on the sidewalks on low chairs in the shade, playing a game with large round disks of wood.__1_Xiangqi dates back as early as the Warring States Period.While experts have different opinions as to who created Xiangqi and how it is linked to Western chess, there is no doubt that by the Tang Dynasty Xiangqi was a popular game in China.__2_And in the 20th century both Sun Yat-sen and Zhou Enlai were big fans of the game.

And, though it may look quite a bit different than Western chess, Xiangqi is actually quite similar in what the pieces can do and how the game is played. Like Western chess,the object of the game is to capture the other player's“king”.____3

Unlike Western chess, instead of placing the pieces in squares, the pieces are placed on the intersections of lines. Another big difference between Western chess and Xiangqi is that there is a large empty space in the middle of the board, which the elephants cannot cross.__4_This space refers to an area in China where Liu Bang and Xiang Yu had a lifeor-death war. The war was so influential that“the Chu River and the Han Boundary”has become a metaphor (隐喻) referring to any boundary between two opposing armies. When the Chinese people today see this name on the board, the battle scenes come to their mind,as though they were surrounded by thick smoke,able to hear the beating of war drums.____5

A.Actually,in Xiangqi he is just a general.

B.During the Qing Dynasty its popularity grew.

C.It is called“the Chu River and the Han Boundary”.

D.The game is called Xiangqi,a game among ordinary people.

E.There are many differences between Xiangqi and Western chess.

F.An intense battle is about to take place on this small chessboard.

G.Several sayings related to Xiangqi are in common use in China today.