2024年4月3日发(作者：)

2020高考英语语法填空10篇附解析 Day 27

Passage 1

An influential American philosopher used to say “Don’t ask what the world

needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go to do it because what the world

needs is people who have come alive.”

What makes you come alive? How are you ____1____(find)aliveness in your

living? Only when paying attention____2____what makes us come alive, we

experience awakening, ____3____ (aware) and consciousness in how we live.

Brie Seavey____4____shared her story of experiencing ____5____ inspiring

awakening about five years ago, says the lesson she has learned is trying

____6____(move) forward no matter what kind of struggle you may have. If people

or things bring you happiness, then surround____7____(you) with them and if they

bring heart ache, ____8____(calm)down. You can complicate____9____simplify the

problem as it is all up to you.

Just like Brie, I believe life can be light and cheerful as long as we find

____10____(mean)ways to live, to come alive and feel alive. We can prove that art is

not a fantasy and our lives is art itself, and we are the artist, the world is our

canvas(画布).

Passage 2

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Does City Living Hurt Mental Health?

People often move to cities ____1____ better jobs and more cultural activities.

But are they putting____2____ at risk? Maybe.

Experts at the American Psychiatry Association say that “natural

environments or green spaces” do much for good our mental health and

____3____(experience) nature helps people recover from the mental tiredness that

comes from day-to-day work.

On the other hand, ____4____ they cannot say exactly why, mental health

experts say some research suggests that city living might hurt our mental health.

Andrea Mechelli is a doctor with the Institute of Psychiatry at Kings College,

London. “There have been studies ____5____ people were taken out of an urban

environment into a rural environment, and their symptoms would improve. And we

also see that the greater the city the greater the risk.”

Kings College researchers, along with city planners and land and building

designers hoped ____6____(learn) more about city living and mental illness. So, they

created a smartphone app called Urban Mind. They say they wanted to understand

____7____ different parts of the urban environment affect mental wellbeing.

The Urban Mind app ____8____ your experience of city living in the moment.

Researchers collected real time information from 108 people, who answered just

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