阅读理解填词(一) 人物故事+说明介绍+观点态度
A
There are many different methods for studying languages and learning new words. One man has come up with his own 1.w to understand the meanings of words—through rhyming(押韵). He uses words 2.t end with the same sound or a similar sound.
Chris Strolin, an old man 3.f America, is working on an English language dictionary completely made up of limericks. A limerick is a short 4.p that has five lines that rhyme.
Strolin says the idea for his dictionary started out as a joke when he 5.i it to some of his language-loving friends. His way was to use limericks.
In 2004, he 6.d to start his own limerick dictionary online. He called it The Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form. He started out with a limerick explanation of the word “a”. From there, he just kept going.
Since the work is not 7.e , Strolin invited others to help come up with and add their own limericks to the dictionary. So far, 1,000 people have given their ideas. To date, more than 97,000 rhyming definitions(释义) have been created, with the number expected to 8.r 100,000 this year.
The dictionary itself will be growing for many years to come. Strolin said his dictionary would not be 9.f finished until 2076.He said he hoped his grandchildren, or maybe 10.t children, would take over the work and finish it.
B [2020·原创题]
From deserts and beaches to playgrounds, sand is a common sight. But you might not know that sand is also a 1.u resource.
Sand is the second most-used resource in the world after water, the BBC reported. 2.H , the UN said that sand is not limitless and that we might be running out of it.
Sand is made up of very small 3.p of rock, soil and minerals(矿物质). It can take tens of thousands of years to form. But now we are using sand more quickly 4.t it is being formed. According to the BBC, we use about 15 billion tons of sand every year to build houses, roads and 5.o things. That’s enough to build a 20-meter-high by 20-meter-wide wall around the equator(赤道) every year.
People also put sand in the sea to make new 6.i . Singapore, for example, is now 20 percent 7.b than it was in 1965.Palm islands are three large man-made islands in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. They took 94 million cubic meters of sand to build.
If people 8.k using this much sand, it will run out in many places. For example, Vietnam may run out of construction(建造) sand by 2020, Live Science noted.
Since people need so much sand, they are trying to mine(开采) more of it. But this is bad for the 9.e . Mining sand may cause beaches to disappear and more floods to happen in places 10.c to the sea. Also, this may affect the habitats(栖息地) of many plants and animals.
C
Our lives are flying by
Paper cups, plastic bags and old newspapers. There are so many single-use products that we throw 1.a after using only once.
But the 2.i of single-use is about more than just plastic and paper. According to news website Quartz, we are now living in a “throw-away society”. Single-use has become a natural way of life and can be seen 3.a everywhere.
Every day, we see new memes(表情包) stories and internet slang(网络俚语) on social media. With so many of them 4.c out all the time, the lifespan(寿命) of each becomes short—they become “single-use online products”. This 5.a means social media users are always searching for the next big thing.
You may 6.f frustrated when trying to keep up with these memes and slang, but you just cannot help 7.b keep scrolling(滚屏). The stream is endless—no matter whether it’s WeChat Moments(朋友圈), Sina Weibo or Facebook.
While you view single-use content online, you also produce it as well. Since 2017 WeChat Moments has allowed users to make only the last three days of their posts viewable. This encourages people to 8.s without thinking too much.
Since it doesn’t take too much time and energy to 9.c anymore, we now even have disposable(用后即扔的) friendships, according to a story in Fast Company.
