34　全真题测试体验卷-【提分教练】2022-2023学年新教材高中英语必修第三册(外研版2019)

全真题测试体验卷 (时间：85分钟　分值：90分) Ⅰ. 阅读理解(共4小题；每小题2.5分，满分10分) (2021·全国乙卷)You've heard that plastic is polluting the oceans — between 4.8 and 12.7 million tonnes enter ocean ecosystems every year. But does one plastic straw or cup really make a difference? An artist wants you to know that it does. He builds massive sculptures out of plastic garbage, forcing viewers to re­examine their relationship to single­use plastic products. At the beginning of the year, the artist built a piece called “Strawpocalypse，” a pair of 10­foot­tall plastic waves, frozen mid­crash. Made of 168，000 plastic straws collected from several volunteer beach cleanups, the sculpture made its first appearance at the Estella Place shopping center in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Just 9% of global plastic waste is recycled. Plastic straws are by no means the biggest source (来源) of plastic pollution, but they've recently come under fire because most people don't need them to drink with and, because of their small size and weight, they cannot be recycled. Every straw that's part of the artist's artwork likely came from a drink that someone used for only a few minutes. Once the drink is gone, the straw will take centuries to disappear. In a piece from 2018, the artist wanted to illustrate (说明) a specific statistic: Every 60 seconds, a truckload's worth of plastic enters the ocean. For this work, titled “Truckload of Plastic，” the artist and a group of volunteers collected more than 10，000 pieces of plastic, which were then tied together to look like they'd been dumped (倾倒) from a truck all at once. He hopes that his work will also help pressure big companies to reduce their plastic footprint. 【语篇解读】本文是一篇说明文。文章介绍了一位艺术家用塑料垃圾制作了一个巨大的雕塑作品，让人们通过这个雕塑重新审视自己与一次性塑料制品的关系。此外他在2018年的一件作品“Truckload of Plastic”说明了每60秒就有一卡车塑料进入海洋。他通过用塑料垃圾制造巨型雕塑来唤醒和提高人们的环保意识。 1. What are the artist's artworks intended for? A. Beautifying the city he lives in. B. Introducing eco­friendly products. C. Drawing public attention to plastic waste.