专题02 说明文(20篇）-备战2022-2023学年高二年级英语下学期期末考试真题汇编（全国通用）

专题02 阅读理解(说明文20篇) 一 (2022春·河北石家庄·高二校联考期末)Emerging economies (新兴经济) struggled to grow through the 2010s. People wonder how they will pay debts rung up during the pandemic and how they can grow rapidly as they did in the past — by exporting their way to wealth — in a new period. The freshest of many answers to this puzzle is the fast spreading digital revolution. Emerging nations are adopting advanced technology at a lower cost, which is allowing them to fuel domestic demand and overcome traditional barriers to growth. Over the past decade, the number of smartphone owners has increased from 150 million to 4 billion worldwide. More than half the world’s population now carry the power of a supercomputer in their pockets. Now, often by adopting rather than innovating, China’s emerging market peers are getting a push from the same digital engines. Since 2014, more than 10,000 tech firms have been launched in emerging markets — nearly half of them outside China. From Bangladesh to Egypt, it is easy to find companies who worked for Google, Facebook or other US giants before coming home to start their own companies. In societies featured by bricks and-mortar stores (实体店) and services, customers are often comfortable with and slow to abandon the providers they have. In countries where people have difficulty even finding a bank or a doctor, they will jump at the first digital option that comes along. The “digital divide” is narrowing in many places. Last decade, the number of Internet users doubled in the G20 nations, but the biggest gains came in emerging nations such as Brazil and India. The digital impact on productivity, the key to sustained economic growth, is visible on the ground. Many governments are moving services online to make them more accessible and less immune from corruption (腐败), perhaps the most feared barrier to doing business in the emerging world. 1. What is the main idea of the first paragraph? A. To introduce the topic of emerging economies. B. To info