阅读理解填词(三) 人物故事+环境保护+健康生活
A
Betsy was born in Brooklyn, New York. Most of her childhood was 1.s in New York City, in a house filled 2.w books. It was then that she grew to love books and reading.
Before she became a 3.w , Betsy taught kindergarten and first grade. The best part of the school day for her was story time, when she could share her favorite books with the class. She 4.d to try writing her own children’s books after she met her husband, illustrator(插画家) Giulio. Together, they have 5.c many books. She writes the words, and he draws the pictures.
Betsy believes that writers should always edit(编辑) their 6.o work and then ask someone else to look it over. “Your 7.e can be your teacher, one of your parents, older brother or sister, or someone in your class who is good at writing. Your editor will see your work 8.d from the way you see it, so you will get a new point of view(见解).”
Betsy and her husband like to travel, and they sometimes research for their books on 9.t trips. They 10.a enjoy talking to students when they visit schools and universities.
B [2020·原创题]
Cleaning a mountain
At 8,844.43 meters high, Mount Qomolangma is the tallest mountain on earth. While it is 1.f for its beautiful views, parts of the mountain are facing a problem: garbage. Every year, thousands of 2.v throw away tons of trash, such as cans(罐) and plastic bags.
According to the UN, over 140 3.t of trash has been left on the mountain. To reduce trash, China is limiting the 4.n of people who are allowed to climb up the north side of the mountain. Only 300 people will be allowed to climb it, and only 5.d spring, CGTN reported.
Local residents cleaned the mountain last year, removing trash at a 6.h of 5,200 meters. They collected about 8.4 metric tons of trash, according to the Tibet autonomous region’s government(西藏自治区人民政府).
This year, the local government plans to 7.s 4 million yuan on a new clean-up campaign. Clean-up workers will also collect the bodies of dead climbers. As of 2017, over 280 climbers have died 8.w climbing the mountain, The Paper noted.
The local government is also setting up stations to sort(分类), recycle and break down garbage collected from the mountain. A group of artists will also try to 9.t the trash into artwork. They will show these works of art locally to 10.r people not to leave trash when climbing the mountain.
C [2019·天津改编]
There are many ways to help improve your health like eating healthy food, taking exercise and getting medical help. But the easiest and cheapest way to improve your health is just to sleep eight hours or 1.m every night. The general sleeping rule is that the 2.y you are, the longer sleep you need. But regardless of (不管) age, some people need to sleep more while for some a few hours is enough.
The problem with sleep is that more and more people in the world are not sleeping enough. According to the World Health Organization, over half the people in the world may be sleep-deprived. Having less sleep not only makes people 3.f tired but also causes accidents. In the United States alone, 4.s drivers cause at least 100,000 traffic accidents a year. 5.A sleep problems can cause medical problems such as high blood pressure (血压).
Why are so many people sleep-deprived? Part of the reasons may be 6.c . In the American culture, people put a higher value on work than on sleep. In fact, people who sleep a lot are usually 7.s as “lazy”. Also, you can sometimes hear some people say proudly that they don’t have much time to sleep, they only sleep four or five hours a night. It seems that the less you sleep, the more work you’ll do.
How do we teach these people to learn the 8.v of sleep? Perhaps they may listen to the advice of Dr. James Maas, an expert in sleep. He says, “Sleep is like a credit (信用) card. When you sleep less, you are only 9.b time. You always have to pay it back. The more hours you don’t sleep, the more hours you should sleep to ‘pay back’ the hours on your ‘sleep credit card’.”
