II. Grammar and Vocabulary
Section A
Directions:
After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passages 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.
A Chinese civilian unmanned airship un-intendedly entered US airspace last week due to force majeure and was shot down by the US military on Saturday. For days, US politicians and media have hyped up this incident, claiming it was a spy in the sky. Is this a part of China's surveillance program or an accidental incident overplayed by US politicians and media to smear China?
Last Friday, China confirmed that the airship was from China, noting that it was an unitended entry caused by force majeure. According to a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson, the balloon was a civilian airship used mainly for meteorological research that went off __21__ planned course due to winds and had limited self-steering capability. __22__ the US spotted the airship, the Chinese side informed the US side of the civilian nature of the airship and conveyed that its entry into the US was unexpected. China has actively communicated with the US and worked with the US to properly handle this unexpected situation in a calm, professional, and __23__ (restrain) manner.
It is not the first time in the world that balloons for scientific research __24__ (go) out of control. In 1998, a Canadian weather balloon - __25__ (conduct) scientific research for the Canadian Space Agency, Environment Canada, and the University of Denver in the US - went rogue due to a technical malfunction. The balloon failed to come down as planned and drifted across Canada toward the Atlantic Ocean. The balloons drifted in the sky for nine days, __26__ (enter) many countries' airspace, and finally landed on Finland's Mariehamn Island. The current Chinese balloon is a similar style to the Canadian balloon.
According to __27__ US official, the balloon's payload - the part under the balloon - is the size of two or three school buses. If the balloon is __28__ the US claimed as "part of an espionage program," it didn't make sense for China to choose such a giant balloon visible to civilians with the naked eye __29__ the US side would easily detect. Also, the US senior defense official acknowledged that the balloon "never posed a military or physical threat to the American people."
It is not the first time the US side has made groundless accusations __30__ China of spying. However, the US never provided any substantial evidence to prove their suspicion. As a responsible country, China strictly adheres to international law and respects other countries' sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Section B
Directions:
Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A. necessity B. strikingly C. committed D. donate E. literally F. attachments
G. incomprehensible H. eased I. switch J. green-wash K. pilot
The thrill of the old
"Few articles change owners more frequently than clothes. They travel downwards from grade to grade in the social scale with remarkable regularity," wrote the journalist Adolphe Smith in 1877 as he traced a garment's journey.
That model is almost __31__ in the era of fast fashion. The average British customer buys four items a month, often at pocket-money prices; though the low cost is a godsend for the hard-up, many purchases are discarded after a few outings, or never worn at all. Clothes Aid reports that 350,000 tonnes of used but still wearable clothing goes to landfill in the UK each year.
Yet a gradual revival of the secondhand trade has gathered pace in the last years. At fashion website Asos, vintage sales have risen by 92%. It was once worn out of __32__; then it became the quirky choice of Jarvis Cocker-style misfits and the lab
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