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高考英语外刊阅读模拟强化训练 七选五专题十五
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Solving the challenge of getting children to eat their greens is an endless source of anguish for parents.
_____1____Giving children more time to eat their food is the key to getting their five-a-day in and improving diet, a study has found. Allowing them 10 more minutes to eat dinner means they consume an extra portion of fruit and vegetables, on average, per meal than if they were restrained to a 20-minute dinner time.
German scientists recruited 50 children between the ages of six and 11 who had no special dietary requirements or allergies. ____2____In one scenario, the family sat down at the table for what they deemed their normal meal duration, which was 20 minutes, on average.
The experiment was then repeated with a 50 per cent longer time window, which was a 10-minute extension, on average. __3______This works out to be around an extra 100g of fruit and vegetables, or one portion, the researchers calculated.
Scientists gave children and their family a “typical German evening meal” that they knew the child liked. ___4_____“At the end of the meal, participants were offered a dessert of chocolate pudding or fruit yoghurt and cookies,” the scientists write in their study. “Water and one sugar-sweetened beverage were provided throughout the meal.”
The scientists found that when given more time the children drank around 50ml more water, 36ml more of the sweet drink, but did not have any more bread or cold cuts than in the shorter time frame. ____5____After the longer meal, children were also less likely to snack.
【The Daily Telegraph (April 4, 2023)】
A. Children will eat their greens if dinner eats up more of their time.
B. They also did not have more dessert.
C. The secret, it turns out, is easier than many would have thought.
D. The extra amount of fruit and vegetables children ate when they were given an extra 10 minutes of dinner time
E. This included sliced bread, cold cuts of cheese and meat, and bite-sized pieces of fruits and vegetables.
F. They were given two evening meals on different days and ate it with their family in a laboratory.
G. Data show that children ate 3.3 more mouthfuls of fruit when given more time, and 3.6 extra bits of vegetables.
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Ryuichi Sakamoto（坂本龙一）, an eclectic Japanese composer who was an early leader in electronic pop music and became an acclaimed composer of film scores that blended Eastern and Western cultural influences, died March 28 at 71. ___1____
Ryuichi Sakamoto was born in Tokyo on Jan. 17, 1952. ______2___“I remember our house was always full of writers, poets and creative people who were sort of outcasts in Japanese society, sitting around talking and drinking all night,” Mr. Sakamoto told the Times of London.
His mother designed women’s hats and played the piano, exposing him to classical music from infancy. _____3____He grew up on a steady diet of Western culture, from TV westerns to the Beatles, but he also gravitated toward the daring work of composer John Cage and French New Wave films.
In the mid-1970s, at what is now Tokyo University of the Arts, he received a master’s degree in music composition but also became intensely devoted to the study of electronic and ethnic music. _____4_____On the 1989 album “Beauty,” he played in a nine-piece band with musicians from England, the United States, Brazil and Japan. In 1997 he released “Discord,” a work in four movements that combined a 70-piece orchestra. In 2001, Mr. Sakamoto recorded an entire album of bossa nova — “Casa” — that was recorded in Rio de Janeiro.
_____5_____He recorded music on a waterlogged piano in a school destroyed by the resulting tsunami and incorporated those and other sounds harvested from forests and oceans into the 2017 album“async.”
【The Washington Post (April 3, 2023)】
A. He scored approximately 50 feature films, documentaries and television projects.
B. He became increasingly concerned about the environment, especially after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan.
C. Mr. Sakamoto started playing piano when he was 3, and was writing music at 10.
D. Shortly before taking the assignment, Mr. Sakamoto said he had recovered from throat cancer.
E. The death, from cancer, was announced on his website, but no further details were immediately available.
F. For his many solo albums, Mr. Sakamoto used the term “Neo Geo” to describe a musical melting pot with no geographical borders.
G. His father was a prominent editor who worked on books by Yukio Mishima and Nobel Prize winner Kenzaburo Oe.
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Employers are starting 2023 with urgent directives telling workers to return to the office, leading to a “tug-of-war” with reluctant employees. Productivity is at the heart of the squabble. Managers believe that work-from-home reduces productivity, while employees think it massively increases it. ____1____Some employers don’t even consider it, while employees calculate the time it takes to get to the office as part of the job.
___2_______In 2019, just 5 percent of working days in the U.S. were remote; more recently, that share“has been hovering around 30 percent.” In truth, employers have largely given up on going back to the old ways. _____3____The number of days workers say they want to be at home averages out to 2.8. Employers’ optimum is now 2.3 days—“that’s not a big gap in expectations.” And while talking tough, most employers are quietly accommodating their workers; in a July survey, 41 percent of executives said they were actually planning to expand remote work.
That’s bad news for cities. _____4_____In New York, Meta has scrapped leases for 450,000 square feet of office space. In San Francisco, the landmark Salesforce tower has gone nearly vacant as the tech industry has gone remote. The exodus “has had a domino effect: Less foot traffic, less public-transit use, and more shuttered businesses.” The abandonment of offices put us on track for a decline of an astounding $453 billion in commercial real estate. Both cost and zoning make one of the obvious answers— turning office space into housing—very difficult in most cases. ___5_____If cities can’t find a way to revitalize downtowns as many offices fade away, they might face a “vicious cycle” of“more decline, more crime, and a lower quality of life.”
【The Week USA(January 20, 2023)】
A. All this means less tax revenue and reduced government services.
B. Part of the disconnect hinges on commuting.
C. Downtowns are settling into a new, emptier normal
D. The most common office situation now is hybrid.
E. Despite a few prominent exceptions, employers are mostly losing this battle.
F. With office occupancy rates in major cities at less than 50 percent for 2022, companies are“losing patience with empty desks.”
G. Downtowns are becoming “ghost towns,” as big firms hollow out, with tech companies leading the retreat.
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