2024届高三英语外刊阅读天天练 完形填空专题二十五（含答案）

高考英语外刊阅读天天练 完形填空专题二十五
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The Breakout Stars of Awards Season: Lip Readers
【TheWall Street Journal (February 6, 2024)】
It was only a matter of time before the lip readers weighed in. Cameras had caught Selena Gomez ___1____ with Taylor Swift and Keleigh Sperry at the Golden Globes. Swift opened her mouth in apparent shock. No audio was ___2___, but fans were left wondering—what’s the gossip
This year, readers of celebrity lips are more ___3____ than ever, introducing a dynamic where possible quotes and exchanges between celebrities are reported and then sometimes ___4____. Many of these _____5___ spread on TikTok, where lip readers on the platform are summoned to ____6___ what celebrities are saying in videos.
TikTokers like Nina Dellinger, who calls herself Lip Reading Girl on the platform, and Jackie Gonzalez, who ____7____ a“Deaf Girl Reads”series, have seen an influx of ___8____ in their pages this year. Dellinger has over 1.3 million followers and Gonzalez’s videos of celebrities often rack up millions of ___9____.“Lip reading is more of an art than a science,”said Dellinger.
But it is often taken ___10_____. In the United Kingdom, for instance, it is __11_____ in court under certain circumstances. Freeman became a ____12____ in 2008 after responding to a call from an academic institution in London that was looking for lip readers in the ___13_____ realm. Forensic lip readers, according to Freeman’s website, are trained to look at homophones, mouth ___14____ that make the same sound.
Gonzalez, who also grew up deaf, said that having context helped with lip reading’s ___15____. Gonzalez says confirmation bias may play a role in the most viral celebrity lipreading clips.“People see what they want to see, right ” Gonzalez says. “So they see a quick clip and want to believe It’s some juicy gossip. But a lot of times, it’s not.”
A. chatting B. debating C. commenting D. arguing
2.A. remianed B. recorded C. produced D. manufactured
3. A. popular B. serious C. delighted D. enlighted
4. A. scolded B. yelled C. contributed D. denied
5. A. priciples B. theories C. rules D. desciplines
6. A. reach B. code C. interpret D. demonstrate
7. A. posts B. announces C. scores D. publishes
8. A. gossip B. rumor C. facts D.interest
9. A. assistance B. views C. support D. strength
10. A. exceedingly B. seriously C. desperately D. incredibly
11.A. major B. admissible C. immerse D. enormous
12.A. correspondance B. relative C. academic D. professional
13.A. entertianment B. legal C. abstract D. suspect
14.A. mirrors B. organs C. shapes D. hooks
15.A. emergency B. accuracy C. agency D. frequency
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A moment that changed me--I met a fellow deaf student and no longer felt alone
【The Guardian(February 7, 2024)】
As I waited for my university lecture to start, I felt a tap on my shoulder. Looking up, I found a young woman smiling at me, ____1____ a notebook. I knew immediately who she was. The week before we had ___2_____ emails, and I'd told her I would be sitting in the front ___3___. I always sat at the front and the reason was that I'm deaf and needed to lipread the ___4____. “I'm Rosie," the young woman said. She was the first person I'd ever met who was my ___5___ and wore hearing aids. At my school, I was the only person who wore hearing aids. So I was ____6_____ and fascinated to see Rosie wearing them. She tied her hair back, and didn't try to ___7____ them like I did.
After the lecture, Rosie and I carried on talking. She always remembered to look at me when we talked. I didn't have to worry that she'd ____8____, and I'd miss a joke or remark. There was an instinctive awareness between us about making communication clear and ___9____.I'd grown up thinking that deafness was some kind of ____10____, but here was Rosie, who was clever, wise, full of fun and deaf. What was the big deal
I felt like a window had opened on my own experience as a deaf person. Partly it was the joy of being able to talk ____11___. We discussed noisy social events, or group conversations, where we felt on the fringes. The ____12____ that I wasn't the only deaf student at the university made the experience feel less lonely.
We continued to share notes on being deaf. Learning to advocate for myself as a deaf person in the professional world was ____13___. But Rosie was more enlightened, and she was a fierce advocate. She held up a ____14_____ to my own experience, but also set an example for me, offering an alternative ___15_____. Our friendship has become an essential part of who I am as well.
1.A. pitching B. rejecting C. discarding D. clutching
2.A. exchanged B. received C. sent D. communicated
3. A. section B. part C. row D. profile
4. A.lecturer B. constructor C. composer D. advisor
5. A. stage B. positon C. age D. class
6. A. hopeless B. bewildered C. overwhelmed D. startled
7. A. occupy B. hide C. absorb D. involve
8. A. put away B. give away C. glance away D. take away
9. A. visible B. visual C. superficial D. vanished
10. A. routine B. standard C. flaw D. average
11.A. openly B. supremely C. thoroughly D. vastly
12.A. view B. dialogue C. knowledge D. bargaining
13.A. stout B. rough C. tenacious D.tough
14.A. furniture B. mirror C. department D. aid
15.A. solution B. overlook C. perspective D. energy
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Harry Potter star and the curse of the towed Audi
【The Time(February 8, 2024)】
Harry Potter and Ron Weasley famously crashed a flying Ford Anglia into the Whomping Willow. However, Emma Watson has ___1_____ a far more down-to-earth car problem. Her Audi S3 has been impounded（扣押) by police in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Watson, 33, who ___2_____Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films, ___3____ her blue Audi S3 outside a car park _____4___ in the centre of the Warwickshire town on Monday while she spent the evening in the ____5____ Rose and Crown pub.
Watson’s choice of parking spot, ___6____ in a no-parking zone, meant that the manager of a pizza restaurant could not get his car out of the compound for three-and-a-half hours. The man, who did not want to be named, said his ____7_____ was delayed after his a 12-hour ____8___ at the Red Hot Mamma pizzeria. He said that he had spent several hours asking around for the car’s owner before ____9____ calling the police. It was not until the moment the car was being towed away that Watson flew out of the pub, ___10___ “That’s my car!”, the manager said.
A bystander said: “It must have been about 11pm when I saw Emma Watson outside in the street. Police had impounded her Audi and it had been ____11____ onto a recovery truck. She was out ___12____ with them not to take her car away. But they weren’t listening.”
Watson will receive a letter about where her car is being kept. She may have to pay a 192 charge for the ___13____ of the vehicle and an additional 26 charge for every 24 hours the car remains at the pound.
Watson’s last on-screen ___14____was in Little Women in 2019. Since then, she has turned to other projects, including directing a Prada perfume advertisement, ____15____ a brand of gin with her brother, and enrolling on a master’s degree in creative writing at Oxford.
A. countered B. demanded C. suffered D. tackled
2.A. cast B. outperformed C. played D. acted
3. A. polished B. parked C. decorated D. observed
4. A. entrance B. zone C. area D. corner
5. A. nearby B. handy C. accessible D. forthcoming
6. A. apparently B. casually C. relaxedly D. unaffectedly
7. A. opening B. release C. mouth D.exit
8. A. procedure B. shift C. resort D. accomplishment
9. A. shortly B. imminently C. eventually D. directly
10. A. roaring B. shouting C. shrilling D. squeaking
11.A. afflicted B. pressed C. weighed D. loaded
12.A. maintaining B.pleading C. recommending D. submitting
13.A. collection B. removal C. accumulation D. acquirement
14.A. withdrawal B. appearance C. vanish D. evaporation
15.A. quitting B. launching C. clearing D. departing
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