2020timeout was reached高考英语语法填空10篇附解析 Day 8
Passage 1
Thursdays in Iceland were traditionally a day to connect ____1____family and friends. This may sound strange, ____2____until 1987, there was no TV broadcast in Iceland on a Thursday. It’s believed that this came from a desire not to have a nation ____3____ (fill) with TV addicts.
If you were to visit Iceland in 1966, you would have noticed that nothing____4____(show) on the country’s only state-run television station on Thursdays. The idea behind the ____5____(decide) was to reserve Thursdays as a day for socializing. The ban expanded to the month of July ____6____ it was decided that there would be nothing on television during the whole month.
As July was considered a vacation month, it was also expected for locals to spend their days outdoors. ____7____ (luck), the Thursday ban ended in 1983 while the July ban laste
d until 1987.Finns respect the personal space of each other a lot. You might have seen this funny picture already about Finns ____8____(wait) at the bus stop. If you are standing too close to someone while talking you will notice that the other person is trying to get a bit ____9____(far) from you. You should notice and respect it and leave as much personal space for the other person so that he or she can feel ____10____(comfort).
Passage 2
Since ____1____ first fully artificial plastic was invented in 1907, humans____2____ (find) innumerable uses for the material. It has found ____3____ (it) way into our tools, our clothes and even our bodies. In a new study in ____4____ (environment) science and technology, researchers estimate the average American eats more than 50, 000 pieces of microplastic particles, ____5____ (small) than 5 millimeters in length every year and breathes in another 50, 000. Although the health ____6____ (effect) of consuming these tiny bits of plastic are unclear, researchers stress the real volume that people are ____7____ (casual) swallowing is alarming. The largest contributor came ____8____ drin
king bottled water, in ____9____ the bottle itself added more than 32 times more plastic to a diet ____10____ (compare) with tap water, The Guardian reports.
    Passage 3   
A week ago, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan ____1____ Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, were promoting the Summer Olympics in Tokyo as the comfort the world needed____2____ (show) victory over the coronavirus pandemic.
On Tuesday, the virus won out. I.O.C．and Japan ____3____ (formal) agreed to Postpone Tokyo Olympic Games, ____4____ had been scheduled to begin in late July, until 2021.
The decision became all but inevitable after the ____5____ (nation) Olympic committee in Canada announced on Sunday that it was withdrawing from the Games, and Australia’s committee told its athletes that it was not possible to train under the widespread ____6____ (restriction) in place to control the virus.
At a time when Japan’s economy is already ____7____ trouble, the delay of the Olympics could deal a serious blow. In a report early this month, Nikko Securities predicted that a cancellation of the Games ____8____ (reduce) by 1.4 percent of Japan’s economic output.
The complications will spread beyond the Games themselves. The international ____9____ (govern) bodies for track and field and swimming, for example, planned to hold world championships in 2021 and will have to work with ____10____ (they) athletes and host cities to possibly reschedule those events.
Passage 4
When people ____1____(face) with health or nutrition questions, it is____2____(increase) common to go online and diagnose themselves. But the Internet is full of conflicting health warnings with no regulation to get rid of the wrong advice, some of which____3____ (be) extremely dangerous! Also, search engines rank results by ____4____(popular) rather than accuracy, so solid facts can be quite tricky to find. It is wo
rth ____5____(check) if the writer of an online piece is properly qualified as an expert. Anyone can call____6____ (he) a “diet expert”, “nutritionist” and even a “doctor” — given it could refer to qualifications like a PhD．But remember, only officially____7____ (recognize) doctors as well as dietitians have degrees____8____ giving practical medical  suggestions. So if you are unsure and still wondering ____9____ the chocolate diet really does work or not, then it pays to make ____10____  appointment with your dietician or doctor. The truth is out there, and you just need to look in the right place!

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