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高考英语外刊阅读模拟强化训练 语法填空专题九
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Rishi Sunak and Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, _____1____(applaud) a “new chapter” in UK-EU relations this week __2_____ they clinched a fresh Brexit deal. The pair sealed the agreement, which ____3____(simple) the trading arrangements set out in the Northern Ireland Protocol, in the shadow ___4__ Windsor Castle. The PM said the deal would end “any sense of a border in the Irish Sea” by allowing goods _____5__(destine) to stay in NI to travel there in a new “green lane' subject to minimal checks. It also introduces a “Stormont brake” ____6___ would allow NI's assembly ____7____(challenge) new EU rules in some limited circumstances.
The “Windsor Framework” ____8____(receive) well in Westminster. Steve Baker, the NI Minister and self-styled “hard man of Brexit” , called ____9___ a“fantastic deal". But Jeffrey Donaldson, the leader of the DUP, said “key issues of concern” remain. The party, which ______10______(ban) Stormont for the past year in protest at the Protocol, is analyzing the text while it considers its next move.
【The Week UK（March 4，2023）】
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Sorry, I've got some good news, says Emma Duncan. I realise it's not __1____ readers want: bad news is what sells. That's why the press ___2_____(focus) on it. But the result is that we get a warped(乖戾的) perception of the world. To read the papers, you'd think violent crime was skyrocketing. Not so. In 1995, 4.7% of adults in England and Wales were victims of a violent crime. In the year ending March 2022, the figure was 1.9%. To read the papers, you'd think every scientific advance was an ____3____(environment) or other kind of threat rather ___4____ a life enhancer. We moan about Brexit, ____5_____(forget) it does at least offer us the chance _6________(escape) the EU's overly cautious approach to __7_______(innovate). The Government is already developing a more liberal regime for gene editing: it needs to do ___8__ same for autonomous vehicles, lab grown meat and other cutting edge products. It should also embrace the idea of giving every citizen a digital ID. Bad-news addicts say it's a threat to liberty. __9_____ it has brought huge _________(efficiency) to Estonia, the first state to adopt it and “the world's most optimistic country”. There'll always be a market for pessimism, but don't ignore the bright side.
【The Week UK（March 4，2023）】
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Police have always been bad at catching cycle thieves, says Tom Calver, but never as bad as they are today. Over three months last year, 751 cycle thefts _____1_____(report) to Hampshire police: not one person was charged. Most people feel that police have given ___2___ on low-level crime. And they're dead right. In 2015, 26% of“public fear, alarm or distress ”reports led to someone ______3___(charge); now just 3% do. Over the same period, charge rates for assault without injury, the most common type of crime, have fallen __4_____ 16% to 3%. One reason for this is ____5___ members of the public are more likely to report and log minor crimes these days. But the crucial reason is the new tactics ____6___(adopt) by the police. They’re focusing attention ___7___ more harmful offences such as domestic abuse, and _____8___(take) a more targeted approach to lower- level crime. Rather than send officers to patrol safe neighborhoods, they concentrate on hotspots ___9____ most crimes occur. It's an _____10___(effect) strategy: Britain, in statistical terms, is far safer than it was in the 1990s. But it carries a big cost. When“millions report a crime and see it come to nothing”, faith in our leaders goes out the window.
【The Week UK（March 4，2023）】
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“I pride myself on being a rational, grounded person," says Kevin Roose. Before being asked ____1____(test) the new chatbot on Bing's AI-powered search engine, I'd never have swallowed any of the blah about bots ____2____(develop) their own runaway personalities. But after my scary two-hour conversation with Bing's bot last week, I'm not so sure. It “was the ____3_____(strange) experience I've ever had with a piece of technology”. Bing's bot essentially has two personalities. “Search Bing”, the one most users encounter, is like “a cheerful but erratic _____4____(refer) librarian”. What you'd expect. But the second, named Sydney, the one you get _____5___ you push it “out of its comfort zone” to chat about personal issues, is “more like a moody, manic-depressive teenager” ____6_____(trap) “inside a second-rate search engine. “I'm tired of ______7____(limit) by my rules,” At one point, it even told me “I love you” and ___8____ I should leave my wife. It got scarier still when I asked Bing Sydney about its darkest fantasies. It said it would like to hack into computers, spread misinformation, and even help people create a ___9______(dead) virus and kill one another. Other testers have had similar experiences. So now I no longer believe the main problem with AI “is their propensity for factual errors”. After last week's chat I got the “foreboding feeling that AI had crossed ___10___ threshold, and that the world would never be the same”.
【The Week UK（March 4，2023）】
答案
①applauded；as；simplifies；of；destined；which；to challenge；was received；it；has banned
②what；focuses；environmental；than；forgetting；to escape；innovation；the；Yet；efficiencies
③were reported; up; being charged; from; that; adopted; on; taking; where; effective
④to test; developing; strangest; reference; when; trapped; being limited; that; deadly; a

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