2 . 从下面的方框中选择合适的词，将其正确的形式填入句子中。

1. It is reported that a famous film-star was fined for breaking the traffic ____________.
2. Bending themselves to online classes for several months ____________ most students some weight.
3. Artificial rainmaking technology is widely used by many countries of the world in an attempt to _________ control over nature.
4. Some people wandered anxiously outside the box-office. ____________, the tickets for Swan Lake by the White Russian Ballet National Theater had been sold out.
5. My friend is so gifted in classic music that he is able to tell who the ____________ is by simply listening to any of the New Year's Concerts from the CD.
6. He is a successful businessman; he ____________ his success more to his friends’ help than to ability
7. In the conference, ____________ the representatives voiced to tearing down the ancient buildings are that they have both commercial and historical value.
8. Nowadays more and more rural people flood into the city to find their fortune on the _________ that there are more job opportunities.
9. What matters most for us now is to build up (a) __________ to infectious disease but not just waiting for a vaccine.
10. __________ by her youth and enthusiasm, I immediately accepted her application as my assistant.
11. Storytelling was the most _________ activity for her, for it brought out her language disability.
12. My initial concern was soon replaced by delight when I was told the __________ of my new house would be finished ahead of time.
13. The motto of an outstanding HR director should always be: a career open to all talents, without _______ of birth.
14. When the novel coronavirus broke out, we _________ to go out freely for safety problems.
15. The new laboratories will be constructed this year, and local firms are said _________ the work.
16. Little Tom was terribly spoiled by his grandparents. Whenever Mum criticized him, they rushed to his ____________.
17. I was so __________ pressed between two fat women and their shopping bags that it was difficult for me to get up and leave the bus.
18. While in Yale, he was _________ to a fellow law student called Hillary Rodman, who later became his wife and lifetime political partner.
19. On the day when Valentine’s Day met the Lantern Festival, it really _________ Rose that Jack forgot to send her a bunch of flowers.
20. If a young man wants the _________ to move to a different city in future years, he should keep renting instead of buying a house.

3 . Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

Scientists have proved what students have long suspected: Maths equations can actually trigger physical pain.

Regions of the brain linked with the experience of physical     1     were activated in those fearful of maths when they were presented with a tough equation, researchers have found. The higher a person’s anxiety of a maths task, the more it     2     activity in regions of their brain associated with visceral (内脏的) threat detection, and often the experience of pain itself.

However, the researchers say their study examines the pain response associated with anticipating an anxiety-provoking event, rather than the pain associated with a     3     event itself. A maths task itself is not painful but     4     the thought of it is highly unpleasant to certain people.

“Maths can be difficult, and for those with high levels of mathematics-anxiety (HMAs), math is associated with tension, apprehension (忧虑) and fear,” the researchers said in their paper titled. When Math Hurts. “    5    , this relation was not seen during math performance,     6     that it is not that math itself hurts, rather, the anticipation of math is painful. These results may also provide a potential neural mechanism to explain why (people with) HMAs tend to     7     math and math-related situations, which in turn can bias (使有偏见) (those with) high levels of mathematics-anxiety away from taking math classes or even entire math-related     8     paths. We provide the first neural     9     indicating the nature of the subjective experience of math-anxiety.

Other forms of psychological stress, such as social     10     or a traumatic break-up, can also elicit feeling of physical pain.”