语法填空单句练习(十三)
Cycling is the most economical, sustainable and fun way (explore) the city, with
(it) beautiful canals, parks, squares countless lights.
MacBike has been around almost 30 years and is (big) bicycle rental company in Amsterdam.
With over 2,500 bikes (store) in our five rental shops at strategic locations, we make sure there is always bike available for you.
We offer the newest bicycles in a wide (vary), including (base) bikes with hand brake and gears (排挡), bikes with child seats, and children’s bikes.
When John Todd was a child, he loved to explore the woods around his house, (observe) how nature solved problems.
A dirty stream, for example, often became clear after flowing through plants and along rocks
tiny creatures lived.
When he got older, John started to wonder if this process could (use) to clean up the messes people were making.
With the right (combine) of animals and plants, he figured, maybe he could clean up waste the way nature did.
The task John set for himself was to remove (harm) substances from some sludge (污泥).
First, he constructed a series of clear fiberglass tanks (connect) to each other.
Little by little, these different kinds of life got used to one another and formed (they) own ecosystem.
The plants and animals in the eco-machine took the sludge (淤泥) food and began to eat it!
Over the years, John (take) on many big jobs.
He developed a greenhouse-like facility treated sewage (污水) from 1,600 homes in South Burlington.
The goal of this book is to make the case for digital minimalism, including a detailed
(explore) of what it asks and why it works, and then to teach you how (adopt) this philosophy if you decide it’s right for you.
In part one, I describe the philosophical foundations of digital minimalism, starting with
examination of the forces that are making so many people’s digital lives (increase) intolerable, before moving on to a detailed discussion of the digital minimalism philosophy.
This process requires you to step away from optional online (activity) for thirty days.
In doing so, I’ll draw on an experiment I ran in 2018 in which over 1,600 people agreed
(perform) a digital declutter.
The second part of this book takes closer look at some ideas that will help you cultivate (培养) a sustainable digital minimalism lifestyle.
In these chapters, I examine issues such as the (important) of solitude (独处) and the necessity of cultivating high-quality leisure to replace the time most now spend on mindless device use.
Each chapter (conclude) with a collection of practices, which are designed to help you act on the big ideas of the chapter.
You can view these practices as a toolbox meant (aid) your efforts to build a minimalist lifestyle that words for your particular circumstances.
On March 7, 1907, the English statistician Francis Galton published a paper which illustrated
has come to be known as the “wisdom of crowds” effect.
This effect capitalizes on the fact when people make errors, those errors aren’t always the same.
When enough of these errors are averaged together, they cancel each other out, resulting a more accurate estimate.
In more technical terms, the (wise) of crowds requires that people’s estimates be independent.
But a new study (lead) by Joaquin Navajas offered an interesting twist (转折) on this classic phenomenon.
The key finding of the study was that when crowds were further divided into smaller groups that
(allow) to have a discussion, the averages from these groups were more accurate than those from equal number of independent individuals.
At the end of the thirty days, you will then add back a small number of carefully
(choose) online activities that you believe will provide massive benefits to the things you value.
For instance, the average obtained from the estimates of four discussion groups of five was
(significant) more accurate than the average obtained from 20 independent individuals.
In a follow-up study with 100 university students, the researchers tried to get better sense of what the group members actually did in their discussion.
Somehow, these arguments and reasoning resulted in a (globe) reduction in error.
Although the studies led by Navajas have limitations and many questions remain the potential implications for group discussion and decision-making (be) enormous.
(take) responsibility for mistakes is a positive step, but don’t beat (your) up about them.
On this one, list all the positive things you’ve done for others. It might be the time when you helped a friend with their homework, when you did the ironing without (ask), or when you baked cookies after the family had had a tiring day.
It’s something of a cliché (陈词滥调) that most people learn not from their (succeed) but their mistakes.
Once there, Lenoue was accessed and later taken to a hospital, she learned that she had serious injuries in one of her knees.
As for Bailey, she is more confused about why her act (consider) a big deal.
Xiao long bao (soup dumplings) those (amaze) constructions of delicate dumpling wrappers, encasing hot, tasty soup and sweet, fresh meat, are far and away my favorite Chinese street food.
The dumplings arrive steaming and dangerously hot. To eat one, you have to decide to bite a small hole in it first, releasing the stream and risking a spill (溢出), or (put) the whole dumpling in your mouth, letting the hot soup explode on your tongue.
Shanghai may be the (recognize) home of the soup dumplings but food historians will
(actual) point you to the neighboring canal town of Nanxiang as Xiao long Bao’s birthplace.
There you will find them prepared differently- more dumpling and less soup, and the wrappers are pressed hand rather than rolled.
Nanxiang aside, the best Xiao long bao have a fine skin, (allow) them to be lifted out of the steamer basket without allowing them tearing or spilling any of (they) contents.
The meat should be fresh with a touch of (sweet) and the soup hot, clear and delicious.
No matter where I buy them, one steamer is (rare) enough, yet two seems greedy, so I am always left (want) more next time.
Writing was so difficult and (pain) for me that my teacher had allowed me
(present) my paper on the sinking of the Titanic by acting out a play, where I played all the parts.
(encourage) by his words, I agreed to give it a try.
Paul Revere was a silversmith (银匠) in Boston rode a horse at night on April 18, 1775 to Lexington (warn) people that British soldiers were coming.
When I handed in the essay to my teacher, he read it, laughed out loud, and (say), “Great. Now, write it again.”
When I finally finished it, thought of winning had given way to the enjoyment of writing.
答案:
to explore; its; and 2. for; the biggest 3. stored; a 4.variety; basic 5. observing
where 7. be used 8. combination 9. harmful 10. connected
their 12. as 13. has taken 14. that / which 15. exploration; to adopt
an; increasingly 17. activities 18. to perform 19. a 20. importance
concludes 22. to aid 23. what 24. that 25. in
wisdom 27. led 28. were allowed; an 29. chosen 30. significantly
a 32. global 33. are 34. Taking; yourself 35. being asked
successes 37. where 38. is considered 39. amazing 40. whether; to put
recognized; actually 42. by 43. allowing; their 44. sweetness 45. rarely; wanting
painful; to present 47. Encouraged 48. who; to warn 49. said 50. the