上海高考语法填空专训外刊改编题（4分打包）

外刊改编题———上海高考语法专训 外刊改编题———上海高考语法专训一 1 Drones Monitor Whale Health In Australia A water-proof drone is being used by Australian scientists to collect the highly-treasured nasal mucus of migrating whales. The snot is rich with fresh DNA, viruses and bacteria, and is collected by a drone that hovers over the blowholes of humpback whales 1_____ they embark on their epic annual journey along Australia's east coast. From Sydney, Phil Mercer reports. Whales, 2_____ all mammals, need air and come to the surface to breathe through a blowhole. Vanessa Pirotta, a marine biologist at Macquarie University, says that nasal mucus indicates the health of the whale. FILE - A humpback whale breaches off the coast at Clovelly Beach in Sydney, Australia, June 19, 2016. “It is the juicy biological mixture 3_____ you see as a whale takes a breath as they surface from the water," she said. "You often see that plume and it sounds like this like [sounds of sharp breaths] as a whale breathes because, after all, they are mammals like you and I and they have two nostrils, and it is the humpback whale that I am talking about. So as they take a breath it is a lot of lung bacteria coming out from their lungs, 4_____ we can collect to provide a snapshot of whale health.” Australian researchers 5_____(attach) a petri dish that is used in scientific tests to a drone which flies through the whale’s nasal mist recently. Vanessa Pirotta again. “As a whale comes to take a breath — you can actually see it coming to the surface on really good weather days that is — the drone then lowers, the petri dish is then opened and the drone is flown through the densest part of the whale snot, 6_____(collect) the sample in the petri dish. Now once this happens the lid is shut and the drone is flown back to the research vessel and we collect the sample to later process it in the laboratory.” The research could help to solve one of 7_____(mysterious) things of another magnificent creature of the deep — the Southern right whale. Its numbers have recovered on Australia’s west coast since hunting was outlawed, 8_____ its population on the eastern seaboard remains stubbornly low. In the past studies into whale health had to rely on examining whales that were either killed or those whales that 9_____(strand) on a beach. Drones allow scientists to collect samples from free-swimming whales 10_____(gather) information in a safe and non-invasive way. 参考答案 as/when，考察状语从句 like，考察介词 that，考察强调句 which，考察非限制性定语从句 have attached，考察时态，现在完成时，标志词recently collecting，考察现在分词 but，考察并列句 had been/was stranded，考察时态语态 the most mysterious，考察形容词最高级 to gather，考察to do不定式做目的状语。 2 With so many investments required of us to succeed - time, resources, talents, responsibilities, even finances for our retirement - it's easy 1_____(lose) sight of the most difficult investment of all to commit to: ourselves. 2 ... ...