人教高中英语复习课堂练习20 ：选择性必修1 Unit 2　Onwards and upwards Word版含解析.doc

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选择性必修第一册　Unit 2　Onwards and upwards
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(2020·浙江教育绿色评价联盟联考)Morley Safer has worked in television news for 61 years. He's spent 46 of those years on his broadcast, longer than anyone else. As a 1. ________ (travel), he holds some sort of record, 2. ________ (take) planes, trains, boats, even bicycles to the ends of the Earth.
When he was 24, a door that would change his life opened. He was hired 3. ________ a television news writer at the CBC, Canada's premier broadcasting network. And soon enough, he was 4. ________ foreign correspondent (记者), the job he'd dreamed of. His passport filled up quickly. In late 1963, Morley caught the eye of the American network executives, 5. ________ hired him to join the prestigious CBS bureau in London. From his base in London, he covered shooting wars in Algeria and Cyprus.
By the time he was 35, he 6. ________ (cover) news in Europe, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. It's fair 7. ________ (say) that nobody alive today has seen as much and reported on it as 8. ________ (brilliant) as Morley. Simply by example, he's made the rest of us better journalists. His writing 9. ________ (consider) the best in the business. His toughness and kindness and sense of humour are legendary.
In a business that's fast­moving and sometimes competitive, he survived and prospered, either outworking 10. ________ outliving everyone