外刊改编语法填空2.docx

1、外刊改编语法填空2外刊改编语法填空汇编(1)Cheap, fast or goodTheres an adage in engineering, you can have something cheap, fast or good-choose two. Thats the reality of online shopping. Getting goods 1 (deliver) quickly and cheaply means that good security tends to go by the wayside.One result of making delivery as eff

2、icient as possible is 2 buyers almost never get to choose 3 will make their delivery. They might know their local UPS driver and even give them keys 4 their garage, but these days you cant count on UPS, or any other carrier, being the one to arrive at your house.Various companies sell electronic loc

3、ks, and locked boxes, that consumers 5 put on their porch for deliveries. But that assumes that you have a porch. And that the delivery person 6 (take) the time to use itFrom the reviews of such products posted online, thats frequently a failure point. Theyre rife with people 7 (post) scathing comme

4、ntary about delivery people who ignored large notes saying PL EASE PUT PACKAGES IN BOX and instead left them at the door.In fact, notes never seem to do much good. Yan Gelman lives in a four-unit condo building he and his neighbors have a prominent sign 8 (ask) delivery people to ring all the doorbe

5、lls to find 9 to leave packages with.“We have a woman whos retired and whos home a lot. We have a couple who sometimes works from home and I always work from home, said Gelman, who heads human resources for a San Francisco startup.None of it did any good recently 10 he received a text at 3: 10 p.m.

6、from Amazon telling him his package had been delivered. I clicked on the link, and it said that at 3: 06 it had been directly handed to me, he recalled.Keys: 1. delivered 2. that 3. who 4. to 5. can 6. will take 7. posting 8. asking 9. someone 10. when(2)Suicide rates are up 33% in the U. S.More tha

7、n 47,000 Americans killed themselves in 2017, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday, contributing to an overall decline in U.S. life expectancy. Since 1999, the suicide rate 1 (climb) 33 percent.Americans are more than twice as likely 2 (die) by their own hands, of their o

8、wn will than by someone elses. But while homicides spark vigils and protests, entering into headlines, presidential speeches and police budgets, suicides dont. Still shrouded in stigma, many suicides go unacknowledged save for the celebrities-robin Williams, Kate Spade, Anthony Bourdain-punctuating

9、the unrelenting rise in suicide deaths with a brief public outcry And research suggests American peoples ways of living may be partly 3 (blame), in ways that dont bode well for the future.Alcohol and substance abuse are risk factors, and both are increasing. Isolation raises the risk, and nearly hal

10、f of Americans say they sometimes or always feel alone. Increasing smartphone use 4 (link ) to suicidal thoughts in teens. Even climate change has been found to have roughly the same effect on increasing suicides 5 an economic recession.“Were trying to reduce suicide death rates in the face of a cul

11、ture thats ever more fascinated with violence, 6 has a bunch of opiates around left and right, where family structure isnt getting more cohesive and 7 is community structure,” said Thomas Joiner, a leading suicide researcher. Thats a lot to fight against. 8 suicide is the 10th leading cause of death

12、 in the U.S., it is often called a public health emergency. 9 money to research and combat suicide continues to lag behind other leading killers and even non-fatal conditions. The National Institutes of Health, the largest public funder of biomedical research in the world, spent $68 million on suici

13、de last year. It spent nearly five times that studying sleep and 10 times more 10 breast cancer which killed fewer people in 2016.Keys: 1. has climbed 2. to die 3. to blame 4. has been linked 5.as 6. that 7. neither 8. Because/Since/As 9. But 10. on(3)Aquaman (海王) is king of the box office, with $67

14、. 4MNEW YORK -In a flood of new releases, Aquaman easily swam past Mary Poppins Returns（欢乐满人间）and Bumblebee（大黄蜂） to lead the busy pre Christmas weekend with an 1 (estimate) $67.4 million for the weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.Without a Star Wars film on the December schedule for the f

15、irst time in four years, a crowded slate of films sought to capitalize on the lucrative holiday period in theaters.The DC Comics superhero film 2 cost Warner Bros. $200 million to make, proved already to be a great success overseas 3 it has grossed more than $400 million in three weeks of release. T

16、he Jason Momoa-led Aquaman reeled in (卷走) $72.1 million in U. S. and Canada theaters, bringing its global total to $.8 million.Aquaman, directed by James Wan 4 (prove)to be a stabilizing Justice League spinoff(续集 )for Warner Bros. after bumpier DC releases outside of Wonder Woman. The film garnered an A-minus from audiences on CinemaScore. For the studios, the we