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董洁源 出品高考英语至四级英语衔接检测说明：本卷分为阅读理解（A、B两篇，每题2分）和完形填空（C篇，每题1.5分），满分50分。ADreams can endure only so long before they are overwhelmed（压倒）by reality – and there are few realities quite so brutally（残酷地） uncompromising as the pace and finishing of Kylian Mbappé, who scored twice and won a penalty（点球）in France’s 4-3 win.After a grim trudge（跋涉，艰难前行） through the group stage（小组赛）, France, finally, are off and running and looking like potential?champions. They will meet Uruguay in the last eight. Lionel Messi, for all the hopes freighting his slight frame（骨架，身躯）, will not be winning the? HYPERLINK /football/world-cup-football World Cup?this time.Quite how? HYPERLINK /football/argentina Argentina?have ended up as this strange botch-job（拙劣之举）of parts that do not quite fit together, bound by nothing more than the magic of Messi, is a question that cannot straightforwardly be answered. But the fact is they are and, as such, they were never likely to survive a meeting with a side that looked into their eyes and were not cowed（胆怯的）by their self-romanticising will to progress.That will, though, remains ferociously strong. It was embodied by Javier Mascherano who, at 34, announced his international retirement after the game. As Jorge Sampaoli kept reiterating, Argentina fought and fought and fought. Until the midpoint of the second half, when? HYPERLINK /football/france France?opened up a two-goal lead, the game was underpinned（支撑，加固） by the question of how Didier Deschamps’?team did not already have it won.There had been talk of Argentina conjuring a repeat（创造性地重演）of 1990 when defeat by Cameroon inspired a defiant（轻蔑的，挑衅的）spirit that carried them to the final and, in some of their cruder（粗劣的）challenges, it felt they might be following that template（模板）rather too closely. But the difference between then and now is that team could actually defend; this side can merely struggle.What can we infer from the passage?France’s behaved satisfactorily since the beginning of this World Cup.Messi shoul