专题一 阅读理解3 词义猜测题（课件+word）-2020高考英语【步步高】考前三个月(全国版)

3.词义猜测题 一 A (2019·湖南怀化二模) 话题：韩国宠物热 难度：★ 建议用时：6分 SEOUL(Reuters)—Kang Sung­il buys Sancho，his Pomeranian，a toy every business trip and this lunar New Year holiday will dress him up in a new $50 suit to visit “grandma”，Kang’s mother.Kang and his wife say children are too expensive and bring too much pressure.Instead they have chosen to shower Sancho with love and gifts. They are not alone.South Korea’s pet industry is booming，fuelled by the same factors that have made the country’s birth rate，at 1.05 births per woman，the lowest in the world：the high cost of education and housing as well as extremely long working days. “Social pressures in South Korea are such that parents are required to provide resources for decades from private schooling to art classes，”said Kang，a 39­year­old manager of a pet funeral home. On top of education expenses，an average of household must budget roughly 12.8 years of income to buy a mid­range home，compared to 8.8 years in 2014，data from Kookmin Bank shows.Adding to their stress，South Koreans work the third most hours per year among OECD (经合组织) nations，next only to Mexico and Costa Rica. Pet­owning households have rose to 28 percent of all South Korean households in 2018，compared with 18 percent in 2012，government data shows. That in turn has resulted in a prosperous pet care industry whose offerings include tailored pet diets and high­priced photo shoots.Pet­related startups are also popular with venture capitalists.The South Korean pet­related industry was worth 2.7 trillion won($2.4 billion) last year，and that could more than double in size by 2027，according to the Korean Rural Economic Institute. 语篇解读　这是一篇新闻报道。文章报道了由于在韩国抚养和教育孩子的成本很高，给人们带来了很大的压力，导致很多人不生孩子而开始养宠物，这种社会现象促进了韩国宠物业的蓬勃发展。 1．What do the underlined words “his Pomeranian” in Paragraph 1 refer to? A．His son. B．His pet. C．A toy. D．Sancho’s brother. 答案　B 解析　词义猜测题。根据第一段中的“Kang Sung­il buys Sancho，his Pomeranian，a toy every business trip...Instead they have chosen to shower San