专题02 阅读理解说明文+议论文-【好题汇编】备战2023-2024学年高二英语上学期期末真题分类汇编（新高考通用）

专题 02 阅读理解 说明文 议论文 Passage 1 （2022-2023上·江苏南通·高二江苏省如皋中学校考期末） Inventions change how we live, work, play and think about what’s possible. Every year, Time magazine lists the 100 best inventions based on their creativity and impact on our lives. What did the magazine choose this year? Let’s take a look. Easier to read OrCam Read is a lightweight, handheld device with a smart camera that can read text from any digital screen or printed surface. If you constantly read large blocks of text or suffer from reading fatigue or even dyslexia(阅读困难), OrCam Read can help. It’s been described as an exceptional on demand tool to access print in work, education and community settings. Users simply point the device at a book page, an ad, a menu or anything else containing text and press a button. The device will instantly vocalize (发声) text in a natural-sounding voice, either through its tiny speaker or a connected Bluetooth device. OrCam Read also supports text in multiple languages and can even operate without any internet connection. Easier for bees Honey is produced by bees. But today’s beekeeping business is not good for these hard-working insects. Bee farmers may kill them after harvesting honey because it’s cheaper than feeding the bees through the winter. To save bees, US company MeliBio has found a way to make the word’s first bee-free honey. They used synthetic biology to create honey directly from plants. This kind of honey tastes just like the real thing, and it is healthy, too. Easier to eat Pasta is a popular food around the world. But sometimes you may find it hard to get pasta onto your fork. It’s also difficult to keep the sauce on your pasta. Dan Pashman is a foodie from the US. To solve these problems, he created his dream pasta, called Cascatelli. It's a pasta with a half-tube (半筒型) shape and big ruffles (褶皱). It looks like the letter “J”. How does this special shape help you eat? Bigger ruffles help it catch sauce. And you can easily get it onto your fork bec