外刊改编题——上海高考语法专训二
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Scientists in Antarctica have recorded, for the first time, unusually warm water beneath a glacier (冰川)the size of Florida that is already melting and contributing to a rise in sea levels.
The researchers, working on the Thwaites Glacier, recorded water temperatures at the base of the ice of more than 2℃,above the normal freezing point. Critically, the measurements were taken at the glacier's grounding line, the area 1_________ it transforms from resting wholly on bedrock to spreading out on the sea as ice shelves. It is unclear 2________ fast the glacier is getting worse: Studies have forecast its total collapse in a century or in a few decades. The presence of warm water in the grounding line 3_______ support estimates at the faster range.
That is worthy of 4________(pay) attention to because the Thwaites, along with the Pine Island Glacier and several smaller glaciers, 5________(act) as a brake on part of the much l
arger West Antarctic Ice Sheet, 6________ if melted, would raise the world's oceans by more than a meter over centuries, an amount that would put many coastal cities underwater.
“Warm waters in this part of the world, as remote as they may seem, should serve as a warning to all of us about the potential terrible changes to the planet 7_______(bring) about by climate change," said David Holland, director of New York University's Environmental Fluid Dynamics Laboratory.
Glaciologists have previously raised alarm over the presence of warm water melting the Thwaites from below. This is the first time ,though, that warm waters 8_____________(measure) at the glacier's grounding line.
9___________(observe) activity beneath the glacier, Dr. Holland's team drilled a hole -about 30 centimeters wide and 600 meters deep-from the surface to the bottom and then placed equipment that measures water temperature and ocean turbulence, or the mixing of freshwater from the glacier and salty ocean water. Collecting the data took about 96 hours i
n subzero weather. Warm waters beneath the Thwaites are actively melting it, the team found.
10________ scientists may not yet be able to definitively predict how soon glaciers like the Thwaites will melt, human-caused climate change is a key factor. The biggest predictor of "how much ice we will lose and how quickly we will lose it," Dr. Holland said, “is human action."
参考答案
2.how，考察主语从句，it做形式主语
3.may/can，考察情态动词
4.time in a bottlebeing paid，考察动名词，worthy的用法
6.which，考察定语从句，后面if引导定语从句中的状语从句
7.brought，考察过去分词
8.have been measured，考察时态语态，现在完成时句型
9.To observe考察不定式表目的
10.While/though/although，考察状语从句
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What makes us love some things and hate others? We know that sometimes even 1_______(tiny) change can result in a huge difference in how we perceive something, so is there any rhyme or reason to our tastes and preferences? Here are three factors 2_______ play a role.
1. Conforming to expectations
In London a few years ago, two 3________(talent) rappers called Silibil N’ Brains took to the stage to perform at a music industry show for unsigned bands. They were 4______ instant hit. Their outrageous West Coast-American style, brilliant rap lyrics and couldn’t-care-less attitude had the music industry’s talent spotters falling over themselves to sign the pair. In a shortspace of time, Silibil N’ Brains had a deal with a top management company, a contract with a major record label and an advance of $70, 000 — and they hadn’t even made a record. Before long, they were on tour with Eminem and out partying with Madonna. They were living the dream.
But two years ago the same two rappers 5_________(laugh) off stage by the same talent spotters for singing the same songs. So what was the difference? Amazingly, it was their accent. You see, Silibil N’ Brains weren’t, in fact, from West Coast U.S.A. at all. They were from Dundee in Scotland. During the first audition they had used their Scottish accents when rapping and it hadn’t gone down well. “They just laughed at us,” recalled Brains. “We were heartbroken. We went back to Scotland with our tail between our legs.” The lesson for them was 6________ to succeed, you have to conform to expectations and at that time eve
ryone expected rappers 7_______(be) American.
2. The benefit of hindsight
Some people are simply ahead of their time. It’s common knowledge that Vincent van Gogh sold only one painting in his lifetime — the other 900 or so were unknown and unloved until after his death. Monet’s paintings, at least in his early career, was considered incomplete and ugly by critics at the time, while Vermeer, the painter of Girl With a Pearl Earring, even had to use his mother-in-law as a guarantor when he borrowed money — so unable was he to sell any of his work! Now that public taste has caught up with these artists, more or less anything they touched has an astronomical price tag attached to it. Perhaps the reason is that it just takes a while to get used to something — after all, not all beauty is obvious at first sight.
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