专题08 阅读理解之新闻报道(高考真题+名校模拟)-备战2025年高考英语名校模拟真题速递(新高考专用)

备战2025年高考英语名校模拟真题速递(新高考专用)

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专题08 阅读理解之新闻报道(高考真题+名校模拟)

（2024年新高考II卷高考真题）Do you ever get to the train station and realize you forgot to bring something to read? Yes, we all have our phones, but many of us still like to go old school and read something printed.

Well, there’s a kiosk (小亭) for that. In the San Francisco Bay Area, at least.

“You enter the fare gates (检票口) and you’ll see a kiosk that is lit up and it tells you can get a one-minute, a three-minute, or a five-minute story,” says Alicia Trost, the chief communications officer for the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit — known as BART. “You choose which length you want and it gives you a receipt-like short story.”

It’s that simple. Riders have printed nearly 20,000 short stories and poems since the program was launched last March. Some are classic short stories, and some are new original works.

Trost also wants to introduce local writers to local riders. “We wanted to do something where we do a call to artists in the Bay Area to submit stories for a contest,” Trost says. “And as of right now, we’ve received about 120 submissions. The winning stories would go into our kiosk and then you would be a published artist.”

Ridership on transit (交通) systems across the country has been down the past half century, so could short stories save transit?

Trost thinks so.

“At the end of the day all transit agencies right now are doing everything they can to improve the rider experience. So I absolutely think we will get more riders just because of short stories,” she says.

And you’ll never be without something to read.

1．Why did BART start the kiosk program?

A．To promote the local culture. B．To discourage phone use.

C．To meet passengers’ needs. D．To reduce its running costs.

2．How are the stories categorized in the kiosk?

A．By popularity. B．By length.

C．By theme. D．By language.

3．What has Trost been doing recently?

A．Organizing a story contest. B．Doing a survey of customers.

C．Choosing a print publisher. D．Conducting interviews with artists.

4．What is Trost’s opinion about BART’s future?

A．It will close down. B．Its profits will decline.

C．It will expand nationwide. D．Its ridership will increase.

 

（2024·四川雅安·三模）Josefa Marin went to New York from Mexico in 1987, supporting her daughter back home with the $140 a week she earned at a sweater factory. With that small income, she had to collect recyclables, trading in cans for five cents each.

When the clothing factory closed down in the late 2000s, she became a full-time recycler, picking up cans and bottles to make ends meet.

Marin’s story is not unique. Millions around the world make a living from picking through waste and reselling it — a vital role that keeps waste manageable. In New York City, the administrative department collects only about 28 percent of the cans that could be recycled. Rubbish collectors keep millions of additional recyclables out of landfills every year.

Yet collectors are ruled out by government policies. The United States Supreme Court in 1988 stated that household garbage is public property once it’s on the street. That enables police to search rubbish for evidence, but that protection hasn’t always been extended to recyclers. And in places like New York City, which is testing city-owned locked containers to hide garbage from rats, containers are made clearly inaccessible for collectors.

“There’s value in the waste, and we feel that value should belong to the people, not the city or the corporations”, says Ryan Castalia, director of a nonprofit recycling and community center in Brooklyn.

Recognized or not, waste pickers have long been treated with disrespect. Marin recalls an occasion when someone living next to a building where she was collecting cans threw water at her. “It doesn’t mean I am less of a person than anyone else because I recycle”, she says.

Some governments are starting to realize that protecting the environment and humanity go hand in hand. The United Nation’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, for example, calls for an end to poverty and all the risks it brings.

5．Why does the author start the passage with Marin’s story?

A．To suggest waste collectors’ importance. B．To reflect laid-off workers’ hardship.

C．To praise her devotion to her daughter. D．To show the seriousness of unemployment.

6．What can we learn about the waste mentioned in Paragraph 4?

A．It is always available on the street for collectors. B．It is public property no matter where it is.

C．It is actually only accessible for certain groups. D．It is hidden in containers for rats.

7．What would Marin agree with?

A．Business is business. B．No job is noble or humble.

C．The early bird catches worms. D．One good turn deserves another.

8．What’s the writing purpose of this passage?

A．To argue how important it is to get rid of poverty.

B．To call on governments to work hand in hand to protect the environment.

C．To prove that unemployed people can make a living by collecting recyclables.

D．To tell that environmental protection is closely related to preserving humanity.

 

（2024·江西·二模）Disagreements have arisen in Northern France after many ancient standing stones were damaged to make way for a new hardware chain (五金连锁店).

About 39 stones, dating back at least 7,000 years, were removed from the site, which sits on one of Europe’s most famous prehistoric attractions, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported. “The site has been damaged,” local archaeologist Christian Obeltz told AFP.

Carnac, often described as “French Stonehenge”, is famous for its spreading fields of large tall stones. The stones are arranged in long, straight lines and, according to the Carnac Tourist Office, it is the largest collection of this type of standing stone in the world. The two main sites alone, at Menec and Kermarjo, house nearly 3,000 standing monuments covering over 4 miles.

The purpose of this ancient curiosity is still unknown. Many believe it may have had something to do with religion, while others think it could have served as a farming calendar. One idea even suggests that the stones are connected to a sad event that happened to a Roman army.

The Regional Office of Cultural Affairs for Brittany, which is responsible for protecting the cultural monument, made a statement on disagreements over building the store on Wednesday. “Given the uncertain and non-major character of the remains, damage to a site of historical value has not been established,” the statement said. However, Obeltz mentioned that there hasn’t been enough research in the area to decide whether the stones were historically important.

News of building the store has caused a storm of angry comments on social media, with many expressing