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中英语外刊阅读语法填空March 10

1 管理层女性占比高的公司盈利能力更强

Companies with female leaders outperform those dominated by

men

Women should play a 1____(centre) role in the

post-pandemic economic 2_____(recover), with evidence

3_____(reveal) companies with more female leaders

outperform those 4____(dominate) by men, according to House

of Commons research.

Accusing the government of ignoring women’s needs

during the coronavirus pandemic and side-lining them in plans

for recovery, the shadow secretary for women and equalities,

Anneliese Dodds, said the data showed women held the key

5____ a stronger economy, but they were being held back by a

lack of investment and the risk of “childcare deserts”(育儿荒

漠).

She warned that the UK was facing a “childcare emergency”

with early years settings struggling to recruit staff and the

Early Years Alliance reporting that some areas of England

6____(see) a 25% decline in the number of places in the past

six years.

"The childcare sector is facing a short-term emergency,

seeing childcare deserts in different parts of the country, with

providers going bust and not being able to continue operating –

that has 7_____awful impact on working women,” said Dodds.

“Childcare providers are part of our economic infrastructure(基

础设施), we have to find a more sustainable way forward.”

To mark International Women’s Day, 8_____is on

Tuesday, Labour have collated(整理) data from the House of

Commons library. It cited McKinsey research 9_____ shows

companies in the top quartile for gender diversity on executive

teams were 25% more likely 10_____(have) above-average

profitability than companies in the bottom, while companies with

more than 30% female executives(高管) were more likely to

outperform companies that don’t, according to research from

academics from the Universities of Glasgow and Leicester.

keys:

1 central 2 recovery 3 revealing 4 dominated

5 to 6 have seen 7 an 8 which 9 that 10 to have

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Screen-Time Before Bed Can Disrupt Sleep

Digital screen time before bed can have a negative impact

1_____ the quality of your sleep. A US study found that as

little as eight minutes of 2_____(expose) to blue light keeps

you 3_____(mental) stimulated for over one hour, 4_____

tends to throw off the body's circadian rhythm or biological

clock.

Exposure to blue light suppresses（抑制） the production of

melatonin(褪黑素), a hormone that induces（诱导） sleepiness.

Melatonin release in the evening helps you relax before bedtime.

Suppression of melatonin can cause you to stay up 5____(late)

and sleep less than you normally would.

Seeing something right before bed that either makes you

upset 6____ happy can trigger a response that prolongs falling

sleep, which 7______(consequent) delays REM (rapid eye

movement) sleep. These emotions can leave you staring at the

ceiling for hours 8_____(feel) wide awake.

Studies have also found that exciting or violent video

games increase heart rate, make 9_____ harder to fall asleep,

and impair sleep quality.

A writer named Daphne K. Lee was the first one to tweet

about the whole word "revenge bedtime procrastination" saying,

"a phenomenon in which people who don’t have much control over

their daytime life refuse to sleep early in order 10____(regain)

some sense of freedom during late-night hours".

keys:

1 on 2 exposure 3 mentally 4 which 5 later

6 or 7 consequently 8 feeling 9 it 10 to regain

3 好奇号探测器在火星上发现“花朵”

Tiny 'flower' formation spotted on Mars by Curiosity rover

During its ongoing 1_____(investigate) of Martian

rocks in Gale Crater, the Curiosity rover stumbled on a tiny

surprise. The rock artifact(手工制品), 2____ resembles a piece

of coral（珊瑚） or a flower, is 3_____(small) than a penny.

The Martian "flower" and the spherical(球状) pieces next

to it were likely "made in the ancient past when minerals carried

by water cemented（凝结） the rock," according to NASA.

Curiosity took 4____image of the little rock arrangement

on February 24 using the Mars Hand Lens Imager, a camera

5_____(locate) on the end of its robotic arm.

6_____(previous), the Opportunity rover also spotted

Martian "blueberries," little mineral spherules indicative of

once watery soil on the red planet.

Early on, Curiosity discovered the chemical and mineral

evidence 7____(affirm) the planet's habitability sometime in

its distant past. Ever since, Curiosity has been investigating the

geologic (地质的) record 8_____(understand) when Mars might

have been most suitable to host life.

The car-size rover paved the way for the Perseverance

rover and Ingenuity helicopter, which are currently exploring

Jezero Crater, located 3,700 kilometers away and will

eventually return the first Martian 9_____(sample) to Earth

through future missions. The combined efforts of these rovers

could help answer the ultimate question of 10_____ life ever

existed on Mars.

keys:

1 investigation 2 which 3 smaller 4 an

5 located 6 Previously 7 affirming

8 to understand 9 samples 10 whether