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【完形填空】Cloze: Measuring the Invisible
Wu Jianmin first saw the container ship from a dock in Yantian, holding a clipboard that had gone (1) in the humid air.
A foreman named Zhao Guoqing shouted that the cargo would be (2) in forty minutes.
Wu, who had a degree in environmental science, was there to measure something (3).
Earlier, he had (4) figures showing that the port handled 14.4 million containers in 2019.
The diesel used to move them produced nitrogen oxides that (5) inland for forty kilometres.
Wu's curiosity had started with a single (6): his aunt, a nurse, kept a diary of her daughter's asthma attacks.
He began to (7) near the terminal gates with a handheld sensor, looking odd in a hard hat that did not fit.
Some guards (8) he was a journalist; one threatened to expel him.
By 2021, he had joined a small voluntary forum of eleven people, (9) nurses, teachers, and a software strategist.
Their agenda was (10): to persuade the port authority to subsidise electric yard tractors and publish hourly emission data.
Choices
(1) A. smooth B. soft C. solid D. sour
(2) A. on B. out C. in D. off
(3) A. visible B. invisible C. evident D. obvious
(4) A. scattered B. gathered C. spread D. divided
(5) A. drifted B. flowing C. moving D. floating
(6) A. protest B. criticism C. complaint D. objection
(7) A. hover B. stand C. wait D. stay
(8) A. guessed B. reckoned C. assumed D. supposed
(9) A. seldom B. mostly C. hardly D. rarely
(10) A. loose B. wide C. narrow D. broad