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The Chinese-owned video platform，TikTok，is the fastest growing news source for UK adults, according to a survey. TikTok is used by 7% of adults for news, according to the UK’s communications watchdog, up from 1% in 2020. The growth is    1    (primary) driven by young users, with half of its news followers    2     (age) 16 to 24.

“Teenagers today are increasingly unlikely to pick up a newspaper or turn to TV news, instead preferring    3     (keep) up to date by scrolling (滚屏) through their social feeds,” said Yih-Choung Teh, Ofcom’s group director for strategy and research.“And     4    youngsters find news on social media to be less reliable, they rate these services more highly for serving up a range of    5     (opinion) on the day’s topical stories.”

Nic Newman, a senior research associate at the Reuters institute for the Study of journalism, said the institute’s own research     6     (indicate) that TikTok was not used    7    a platform for serious current affairs. “Even young people, mostly, don’t see it as a platform for serious news. But they see it as    8    good place to get news about celebrities or issues that are not about life and death. They will often use TikTok in     9     (combine) with traditional news when something really big    10     (happen) like the war in Ukraine,” he said.

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Ukrainian officials say their forces struck Russia’s flagship in the Black Sea with missiles,     1     (cause)it to sink Thursday. Russia said the ship     2     (damage)but did not sink.

The Moksha is named for the Russian capital, Moscow. If the ship did sink, it would be     3     major victory for Ukraine and a big loss for Russia. Russia said a fire on the warship forced all crew members     4       (leave)but it was being taken back to a port. A spokesperson did not say the cause. The ship carries 16 long-distance missiles.     5     it is not able to be used, it will reduce Russia’s firepower in the Black Sea while it is repaired. Satellite images could not     6     (independent)show if the ship was still afloat because of     7     (cloud)weather.

The news of the attack came     8     the same time when Eastern European leaders gave statements of support for Ukraine. The country     9     (be)under attack by Russia since February 24.

Ukrainian military advisers said the removal of the ship had great     10     (significant)because it carries 16 long-range missiles.

【推荐3】Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

What Lies Beneath

“EARTH” has always been an odd choice of name for the third planet from the Sun. After all, an alien examining it     1     a telescope would note that two thirds of its surface is covered not by earth at all, but by oceans of water.

Marine biologists think the oceans might host more than 2m species of marine animals, of which they     2     (record) perhaps only a tenth so far. A new initiative hopes to change this.     3     (launch) in London on April 27th, Ocean Census aims to discover 100,000 new species of marine animal over the coming decade.

The initiative is happening now for two reasons. One is that, the longer scientists wait, the less there will be to catalogue. Climate change is heating the oceans, as well as making them more acidic. One of Ocean Census’s priorities will be cataloguing species thought to be in     4     (great) danger from climate change. Otherwise, the risk is of the forest burning down and not knowing     5     was there before it was lost.

The second reason is technological. Marine biologists find about 2,000 new species a year, a rate hardly changed since Darwin’s day. Ocean Census is betting that it     6     go faster. “Cyber taxonomy”, for instance, involves     7     (feed) DNA sequences from animals into computers,     8     can quickly decide whether it is a new species. The ability to describe new creatures, as well as simply cataloguing them, has also improved. Fancy cameras on remote-operated vehicles, for instance,     9     (allow) scientists to make laser scans of deep-sea creatures such as jellyfish without removing them from their habitat. Just as the immense pressures of the deep sea are fatal for humans, so taking such a jellyfish to the surface for examination is a dangerous move     10     it may be reduced to gooey slime (粘稠的黏液).