专题07 说明文阅读-【大题精做】冲刺2023年高考英语大题突破+限时集训（上海专用）

专题07 说明文阅读【大题精做】 冲刺2023年高考英语大题突破 说明文一般为C篇，主要考查以客观事物的特点和性质，阀明事物发生和发展过程等为主要表达内容给读者以知识的一种文体。 说明文阅读量大，生僻词汇多，句式结构复杂，题目往往涉及推理判断题和主旨大意题。因此，阅读这类文章时，应把握文章结构，弄清作者所要说明的事物；另外，考生在平时的学习中应积累阅读词汇，提高分析长难句的能力。 策略指导 技法解读 抓首尾段 首段往往提出说明文的主题，尤其是研究类说明文，研究结果就是主题；尾段往往重申强调主题。 梳理文章结构 整体叙述+细节或过程说明+概括评述；现象+原因+后果/启示/措施；研究发现/调查结果+研究/调查过程。 破解长难句 结合语境和所学语法知识破解结构复杂的长难句。 上海市第三女子中学2021学年第二学期高三年级英语学科线上教学评估 About a quarter of the world drives on the left, and the countries that do so are mostly old British colonies like Australia, and Ireland. But Thailand, Indonesia and Japan have also developed this habit. This strange quirk puzzles the rest of the world; however, there is a perfectly good reason. Up to the late 1700s, everybody travelled on the left side of the road because it is the sensible option for violent, feudal societies of mostly right-handed people. Soldiers with their swords under their right arms naturally passed on each other’s right, and if you passed a stranger on the road, you walked on the left to ensure that your protective sword arm was between you and him. Revolutionary France, however, did away with this practice as part of its sweeping social rethink, and thanks to Napoleon, this change was carried out all over continental Europe. Because he was left-handed, his armies had to march on the right so he could keep his sword arm between him and any opponent. From then on, any country colonized by the French took to driving on the right. After the American Revolutionary War (1775 — 1783), the US became independent and decided to make traffic drive on the right in order to cut all remaining links to its British colonial past. Once America became the center of the car industry, if you wanted a good reliable vehicle, you bought American right-hand-drive. From then on, many countries changed out of necessity. Today, the EU would like Britain to fall into line with the rest of Europe, but this is no longer possible. It would cost billions of pounds to change everything rou