【2022.06·浙江卷】To understand a painting,we’re taught to look for color,composition,and light.But how can a painting56(appreciate)by someone who’s blind?Through touch,the one thing gallery signs tell you not57(do).John Olson,a former58(photograph)and his team turn paintings into fully textured3D models.The tactile(可触知的)paintings work as a way to show art to59blind because we don’t see with just our eyes:We see with our brains.Research in the field of neuroplasticity--the brain’s adaptability--shows that the visual cortex(大脑皮层)is made active by touch.Blind people recognize shapes with their60(exist)senses,in a way similar to that of61(sight)people, says Ella Striem-Amit,a Harvard scientist.Luc Gandarias,who’s now thirteen,went blind suddenly62age seven.When he felt a3D version of Leonardo da Vinci’s“Mona Lisa”he63(notice)her smile right away.“I can actually feel what you see when you look at it,”he said.For Luc,this means64(independent).“The feeling of being able to see it65to form my opinion is like breaking down another wall as a blind person.”【2022.01·浙江卷】Kim Cobb,a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta,is one of a small but growing minority of academics__56__are cutting back on their air travel because of climate change. Travelling to conferences,lectures,workshops,and the like--frequently by plane--__57__(view)as important for scientists to get together and exchange information.But Cobb and others__58__(be) now questioning that idea--pushing conferences to provide more chances to participate remotely, and__59__(change)their personal behavior to do their part in dealing with the climate change crisis. On a website called No Fly Climate Sci,for example,__60__(rough)200academics--many of them climate scientists__61__(promise)to fly as little as possible since the effort started two years ago.Cobb,for her party,started to ask conference organizers who invited her to speak__62__she could do so remotely;about three-quarters of__63__time,they agreed.When the answer,was no, she,declined the__64__(invite).That approach brought Cobb’s air travel last year down by75%, and she plans__65__(continue)the practice.“It has been fairly rewarding.”she says,“a really positive change.”【2021.06·浙江卷】It doesn’t impress like George Washington’s plantation on the Potomac,but Lincoln’s home in downtown Springfield,Illinois,56(prove)irresistible to visitors since it opened to the public. Beautifully restored(修复)to its1860appearance,the house was Abraham and Mary Lincoln’s home for17years.In1844they bought it57$1,200and some land from Charles Dresser,who performed their58(marry)ceremony in1842.When the house was built,it was much59(small)than it is today.Mary’s niece wrote,“The little home60(paint)white.It was sweet and fresh.Mary loved it.She was extremelypretty,and her house was a reflection of61(she),everything in good taste and in perfect order.Although Mary loved flowers,62she nor her husband was known as a gardener.A long-time neighbor said they never planted trees and only kept a garden for one year.Mary’s sister, Frances Todd Wallace,often came over63(plant)flowers in the front yard.64Lincolns enlarged the house to a full two stories in1856to meet the needs of their growing family.Three of the four Lincoln sons were born here.After Lincoln was elected President of the US in1861,they rented the house and65(sell)most of their furniture.【2021.01·浙江卷】In a study of33years of trends in Body Mass Index(体重指数)across200countries,the scientists found that people worldwide are getting heavier__56__that most of the rise is due to gains in BMI in rural areas.BMI is an internationally recognized measurement tool__57__gives an indication of whether someone is a healthy weight.It is calculated by dividing a__58__(person)weight in kg by their height in meters squared,and a BMI of between19and25__59__(consider)healthy.The study found that between1985and2017,average rural BMI increased__60__2.1in women and men.In cities,however,the gain__61__(be)1.3in women and1.6in men.The researchers described“striking changes”in the geography of BMI.In1985,urban men and women in more than three quarters of the countries__62__(study)had higher BMIs than men and women in rural areas.But30years later,the BMI difference between urban and rural people in many countries had narrowed__63__(sharp).This may be due to some disadvantages for people__64__(live)in the countryside,including __65__(low)levels of income and education,higher costs of healthy foods,and fewer sports facilities.【2020·浙江7月】Some time after10,000BC,people made the first real attempt to control the world they lived 56,through agriculture.Over thousands of years,they began to depend less on57could be hunted or gathered from the wild,and more on animals they had raised and crops they had sown.Farming produced more food per person58hunting and gathering,so people were able to raise more children.And,as more children were born,more food59(need).Agriculture gave people their first experience of the power of technology60(change)lives.By about6000BC,people61(discover)the best crops to grow and animals to ter, they learned to work with the62(season),planting at the right time and,in dry areas,63 (make)use of annual floods to irrigate(灌溉)their fields.This style of farming lasted for quite a long time.Then,with64rise of science,changes began.New methods65(mean)that fewer people worked in farming.In the last century or so, these changes have accelerated.New power machinery and artificial fertilizers(化肥)have now totally transformed a way of life that started in the Stone Age.【2020·浙江1月】Something significant is happening to the world population--it is aging.The median(中位数的) age of an American in1950___56___(be)30--today it is41and is expected___57___(increase)to 42by2050.For Japan,the___58___(number)are more striking--22in1950,46today and53in 2050.In2015,one in12people around the world were over65;by2050,it will be one in six.This aging of the population is driven___59___two factors.The first is declining birthrates, which means old generations are large___60___(compare)to younger generations,and so,on average,the population becomes___61___(old)than before.This is___62___(particular)true in the US.The second reason is that people are living longer.A child born in the US today has___63___ very realistic chance of living beyond100and needs to plan accordingly.People tend to focus on the first factor.However,greater attention should___64___(place)on longevity(长寿).It isn’t just that people are,on average,living longer.It’s also that they are on average healthier___65___more productive for longer.Therefore,they can work for longer, consume more and in general be a boost to the economy.【2019·浙江】There are several reasons why school uniforms are good idea.First of all,uniforms help the school look smart.The students feel that they belong to a particular group.When every pupil in the school wears the uniform,nobody___56___(have)to worry about fashion(时尚).Everybody wears ___57___same style of clothes.Uniforms can be useful in unexpected ways.A school in Ireland has introduced an interesting new uniform.On the edge of the jacket,there is a piece of cloth___58___ gives off light in the dark.When the children are walking or___59___(cycle)to school on dark mornings,car drivers can___60___(easy)see them.But can uniforms help improve school standards?The answer___61___this question is not clear.One study in America found that students’grades___62___(improve)a little after the school introduced uniforms.But some students didn’t want___63___(wear)the uniform.Other American studies showed no___64___(connect)between uniforms and school performance.School uniforms are___65___(tradition)in Britain,but some schools are starting to get rid of them.Some very good schools don't have a uniform policy.However,uniforms are still popular. Pupils at about90percent of British secondary schools wear uniforms.【2018·浙江】Few people I know seem to have much desire or time to cook.Making Chinese___56___(dish) is seen as especially troublesome.Many westerners___57___come to China cook much less than in their own countries once they realize how cheap___58___can be to eat out.I still remember ___59___(visit)a friend who’d lived here for five years and I___60___(shock)when I learnt she hadn’t cooked once in all that time.While regularly eating out seems to___61___(become)common for many young people inrecent years,it’s not without a cost.The obvious one is money;eating out once or twice a week may be___62___(afford)but doing this most days adds up.There could be an even___63___(high)cost on your health.Researchers have found that there is a direct link between the increase in food eaten outside the home and the rise in___64___(weigh)problems.If you are not going to suffer this problem,then I suggest that the next time you go to your mum’s home___65___dinner,get a few cooking tips from her.Cooking food can be fun.You might also begin to notice the effects not only on your health but in your pocket.【2017·浙江】Last October,while tending her garden in Mora,Sweden,Lena Pahlsson pulled out a handful of small___56.___(carrot)and was about to throw them away.But something made her look closer, and she noticed a___57.___(shine)object.Yes,there beneath the leafy top of one tiny carrot was her long-lost wedding ring.Pahlsson screamed___58.___loudly that her daughter came running from the house.“She thought I had hurt___59.___(I),”says Pahlsson.Sixteen years___60.___(early),Pahlsson had removed the diamond ring___61.___(cook)a meal.When she wanted to put the ring back on later,it was gone.She suspected that one of her three daughters—then ten,eight,and six—had picked it up,but the girls said they hadn’t.Pahlsson and her husband___62.___(search)the kitchen,checking every corner,but turned up nothing.“I gave up hope of finding my ring again,”she says.She never replaced it.Pahlsson and her husband now think the ring probably got___63.___(sweep)into a pile of kitchen rubbish and was spread over the garden,___64.___it remained until the carrot’s leafy top accidentally sprouted(生长)through it.For Pahlsson,its return was___65.___wonder.答案：【2022.06】be appreciated,to do,photographer,the,existing,sighted,at,noticed,independence,and 【2022.01】who,is viewed/has been viewed,are,changing,roughly,have promised,whether/if,the, invitation,to continue【2021.06】has proved,for,marriage,smaller,was painted,herself,neither,to plant,The,sold 【2021.01】and,which/that,person’s,is considered,by,was,studied,sharply,living,lower 【2020.07】in,what,than,was needed,to change,had discovered,seasons,making,the,meant 【2020.01】was,to increase,numbers,by,compared,older,particularly,a,be placed,and 【2019】has/will have,the,which/that,cycling,easily,to,improved,to wear,connection(s), traditional【2018】dishes,who/that,it,visiting,was shocked,have become,affordable,higher,weight,for 【2017】carrots,shiny/shining,myself,earlier,to cook,searched,swept,where,a。
