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备战2025年高考英语名校模拟真题速递(江苏专用)
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专题10 阅读理解之新闻报道(高考真题+江苏名校模拟)
(2024·新高考·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·江苏南京·模拟预测)The Shanghai Museum has announced its 2024 exhibition list, and “Top of the Pyramids, Ancient Egyptian Civilization Exhibition” will be the most anticipated.
Running from July 19 to August 17, 2025, the one-year exhibition features the world’s largest and Asia’s highest level of ancient Egyptian cultural relics (文物) seen outside the country of Egypt. More than 95 percent of the Egyptian relics in this show are coming to Asia for the first time. It is also China’s first cooperation with the Egyptian government.
Occupying three exhibition halls on the first floor at the Shanghai Museum, the exhibition will display nearly 500 groups of 800 ancient Egyptian relics.
To be in concert with this exhibition, “Disappearing Pharaoh Khufu”, an immersive (沉浸的) exhibition, will be held at the same time on the second floor at the museum. Through the top virtual reality technology, visitors are able to travel back to the mysterious Egyptian civilization 4,500 years ago through a 45-minute digital experience.
Besides this exhibition, the Shanghai Museum will also arrange a group of overseas exhibitions to spread traditional Chinese culture and art to more people. Among them, “China’s Han Dynasty cultural relics exhibition” will be on display in Hungary from January to June, showing the artistic and cultural achievements during the Han Dynasty. “The World of Marco Polo” will be shown from April to September in Italy and “The Beauty of Chinese Ceramics” in Japan from October to March, 2025.
5.What’s special about the Egyptian cultural relics show?
A.It displays relics hardly shown in Asia before.
B.It features a VR experience in 3 exhibition halls.
C.It marks Egypt’s first overseas exhibition of relics.
D.It witnesses the long-term China-Egypt cooperation.
6.Which exhibition will be shown in Italy?
A.Disappearing Pharaoh Khufu.
B.China’s Han Dynasty cultural relics exhibition.
C.The World of Marco Polo.
D.The Beauty of Chinese Ceramics.
7.Where is this text probably taken from?
A.A travel schedule. B.A local newspaper.
C.A museum brochure. D.An official document.
(2024·江苏南京·模拟预测)The lights go down, music plays, and a young woman on a bike at the front of the class encourages students to spin faster and harder. When the lights go back on, the students on the bikes pullout their notebooks, and it’s clear that this is not Soul Cycle. Instead, it’s a first-of-its-kind business school course at Fordham University that is taught on spin bikes in a university.
“It’s the first class that I mention to anybody when anybody asks me what classes I’m taking,” said Amanda Vopat, 22, a business administration major. “I think people are really excited about it.”
The 75-minute, twice-weekly course is the brainchild of Jul it a Haber, a business school professor at Fordham. “I have been introducing movement and fitness in my classes for the past seven years,” she said. “I found the spin class would really allow students to exercise while a professor lectures at the same time.”
The course the students are taking while cycling is no joke. Managing Professional Relationships is an upper-level business school course taken primarily by juniors and seniors. The students are fully instrumental in each class, selecting the music, leading stretches before and after class and leading the intervals during the class.
Haber stops her lecture every 20 minutes throughout the class. While one student turns off the lights, another student turns up the music and a third student goes to a bike in the front of the class to lead their classmates in high-intensity interval that lasts two to three minutes, just enough to re-energize the students.
“It’s a fantastic way of engaging students and as a professor, as a teacher, that’s really gratifying.” she said. “They don’t have their smartphones, and they don’t have laptops so they are physically engaged and also mentally engaged in what is being said.”
The course is the first of its kind at Fordham, and Haber believes it is also a first across the United States. She has authored research on the unique classroom approach, which she calls fitness integrated learning.
Donna Rapaccioli, the head of Fordham’s Gabelli School of Business, described how students were “energized” by the class and said Fordham was open to expanding it to other courses. “Definitely,” Rapaccioli answered when asked if Haber’s course represents the future of learning.
8.Why are the lights adjusted now and then during the session?
A.To create a tense atmosphere.
B.To warn the students to work harder.
C.To remind the students of their activity.
D.To call the students’ attention on notebooks.
9.What can best describe Professor Haber?
A.Ambitious and smart. B.Hardworking and cheerful.
C.Creative and open-minded. D.Confident and humorous.
10.What is the new course aimed at?
A.Arousing the students’ interest.
B.Grabbing the student’s full attention.
C.Conducting a national research.
D.Creating a new future of learning.
11.What was the author’s purpose in quoting Rap accioli?
A.To tell the future of Haber’s course.
B.To show the success of Haber’s course.
C.To compare Haber’s course with others’.
D.To promote the popularity of Haber’s course.
(2024·江苏·二模)Deforestatio — by clear-cutting or wildfires — has massive consequences both on climate and health. But leaving reforestation to Mother Nature can take decades, particularly as disastrous wildfires are increasing in frequency and intensity. And the time, cost and labor involved makes traditional methods of tree planting not as practical as they once were.
Bryce Jones knows how hard it is to replant forests. For four months in 2013, he worked as a tree planter throughout Canada. “There’s no technology there,” he says. “The only way you can accomplish reforestation is through the air.” But it wasn’t until 2019 that he hit on the one that he thought had potential: use drones (无人机) to fire specially designed seed pods (荚) into the ground-at 10 times the normal temperature and costing 20 percent less than traditional methods. He proposed the idea to his brother and Flash Forest was born. His first goal was to plant a billion trees by 2025.
The team took out a loan, bought a drone and used 3D printers at Jones’s school to make casts of the pods. Now, only two and a half years later, the company has a group of drones with each able to carry several thousand pods per flight. Three operators work in a field, controlling five drones, whose flight take 15 to 20 minutes. Flash Forest’s big draw is its seed pod, which contains everything seedlings (幼苗) need to survive survival. And its technology allows them to reach post-burn sites or remote areas that are difficult for traditional tree planting.
There are challenges every day, Jones says, as they work to improve the engineering, hardware, software and seed-pod recipes. Then there are the challenges presented by the climate — this year, record temperatures, record wildfires and drought. “That was something that was totally out of our control,” he says.
Unlike some traditional forms of reforestation, Flash Forest is focused on biodiversity. For Jones, the target of planting a billion trees by 2025 is just the beginning. “I have a dream that the company will plant on six continents — everywhere where our technology is needed,” he says.
12.What does the author intend to tell us in paragraph 1?
A.The benefits of reforestation.
B.The power of AI machines.
C.The way of putting out wildfires.
D.The necessity of using new planting methods.
13.What contributes to the particular appeal of Flash Forest?
A.Its drone operators. B.The frequent flights.
C.Its seed pod. D.The low cost of seedlings.
14.What does the underlined word “that” in paragraph 4 refer to?
A.Extreme weather. B.Drone technology.
C.3D equipment. D.Computer software.
15.What can we infer about Flash Forest from the last paragraph?
A.It changed its focus in the past.
B.It will achieve its final target in 2025.
C.It might be available worldwide one day.
D.It has replaced traditional forms of reforestation.
(2024·江苏南通·模拟预测)Guangdong Dongpo Paper, a paper company in Guangdong Province, China, recently made international headlines for replacing its traditional performance-based employee bonus scheme with another one. To promote a healthy lifestyle among its 100 employees, management decided to reward them based on how much they exercise. For example, an employee will be eligible for a full monthly bonus if they run 50km a month. They will get 60 percent of the bonus for running 40km, and 30 percent for 30km. Running enthusiasts may stand to get up to an 30% bonus if they can prove they ran over 100km in a single month.
“My business can only endure if my employees are healthy,” said Dongpo Paper boss, Lin Zhiyong, adding that he spent the last three years encouraging his employees to enjoy sports and fitness.
The distance run by every employee is tracked by an app on their phones, which also takes into account activities like mountain hiking and speed walking, which can account for 60 and 30 percent respectively of the total exercise required. The program has proven a great success, and Lin Zhiyong himself somewhat of an exercise enthusiast, claims that all employees qualify to get the full bonus.
According to Chinese media, Dongpo Paper employees couldn’t be happier with the new bonus structure, claiming that the company now allows them to “kill two birds with one stone” as they “can get both health and money.” But while the new policy has been getting generally positive feedback online, some netizens it can lead to discrimination.
“The intention of the company’s policy is good but it should take into consideration any existing health issues among its employees,” one person commented online, asking what the policy is for employees who are at risk of heart attacks or are otherwise unable to meet the bonus requirements.
Others accused Guangdong Dongpo Paper of putting its employees’ health at risk by setting very high bonus thresholds for them. Some netizens believe that employees could ruin their knees by chasing these goals.
16.Why does the scheme of Guangdong Dongpo Paper become a hit?
A.It favors those who ran 30km most. B.It defines what a healthy lifestyle is.
C.It is based on athletic performances. D.It is to promote a traditional lifestyle.
17.What may Lin Zhiyong agree with?
A.When work is a pleasure, life is joy.
B.Constant dripping wears away a stone.
C.Don’t trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.
D.The health of employees is the wealth of employers.
18.What’s Dongpo Paper employee’s response towards this scheme?
A.Cautious. B.Positive.
C.Concerned. D.Negative.
19.What is the major concern on the Internet?
A.The employee’s physical conditions. B.The impractical bonus requirements.
C.The slim chance of chasing the goals. D.The risk of developing heart diseases.
(2024·江苏泰州·一模)Norman Lear, a genius producer and screenwriter, passed away on Tuesday in Los Angeles at the age of 101. “Lear’s hit comedy shows changed television forever,” said Darnel Hunt, a leading artist on TV.
Lear grew up in an ordinary family in Connecticut, where an unexpected accident brought about his father’s business collapse. So he had to drop out of college and joined the army. In his late 20s, he moved to Los Angeles where he struggled hard for several years, selling furniture door to door. Later on, unsatisfied with his life, he eventually turned to writing for a nightclub comedy act.
By 1971, when he was almost 50, Lear had produced and directed some shows, among which was the hit show All in the Family. In the beginning, it didn’t get on the air smoothly. However, once it did, this show made it to the top 10 for eight of its nine seasons, promising Lear’s life was to change.
This successful show was just the beginning of Lear’s dominating position in comedy shows. Then came The Jeffersons, about a family on its way up. It ran for eleven seasons, one of the longest running comedy shows on television, becoming another successful story. When interviewed about the hit of his shows, Lear said, “Our team read two or three newspapers a day, paid a lot of attention to our families, and came in to talk about everything that was affecting us in our daily lives.” Therefore, it came as no surprise that viewers had a sense of Lear’s own family after watching All in the Family.
“Routinely, Lear’s shows might get fifty or sixty million viewers. He was in direct contact with the living rooms and families of the country,” says Marty Kaplan, founding director of the Norman Lear Center. “Lear did everything with humor and sympathy.”
20.What can we learn about Lear from the first two paragraphs?
A.He led a challenging life in his twenties.
B.His shows had little impact on television.
C.His father expected him to be a screenwriter.
D.He received good education despite his father’s business failure.
21.Which factor may contribute to the success of Lear’s shows?
A.His shows reflected real daily life. B.His shows featured surprise endings.
C.His shows go on the air immediately. D.His shows dominated the comedy industry.
22.What can we infer from Marty Kaplan’s words in the last paragraph?
A.Lear promoted his shows to families directly.
B.Lear won widespread popularity for his shows.
C.Lear carried out face-to-face interactions with viewers.
D.Lear always focuses on the themes of humor and sympathy.
23.Where is this text probably taken from?
A.A comedy script. B.A story collection.
C.A literature review. D.A news report.
(2024·江苏无锡·二模)July was the hottest month on record globally. High temperatures and serious wildfires have swept across the Northern Hemisphere. Oceanic heat waves are damaging the world’s third-largest coral reef off Florida. And as the levels of greenhouse gases continue to increase, it means many even hotter summers lie ahead.
Last week, the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres coined a new term. The time of “global warming” has ended, he announced, and the time of “global boiling” has arrived.
But critics have strongly disagreed with the phrase. At one level, “global boiling” is clearly an overstatement, but “global warming” is now far too weak a description. Many climate scientists have pushed for the term “global heating” to be used in preference. Similarly, phrases such as “climate crisis” haven’t received enough attention. That’s because many of us still feel we haven’t seen this crisis with our own eyes.
But that is changing. In the past few years, extreme weather and relevant events have struck many countries. Australia’s Black Summer brought wildfires that burned an area the size of the United Kingdom. Germany suffered serious flooding in 2021. The 2022 flood in Pakistan flooded large parts of the country. China has seen both droughts and floods. Terrible droughts have hit the Horn of Africa for many years. India has stopped rice exports due to damage from heavy rain.
Critics of climate action often complain about what they see as the overuse of “crisis talk”. If everything is a crisis, nothing is a crisis.
When Guterres uses deeply impactful phrases, he’s not inviting us to imagine a Hollywood-style disaster. What he’s hoping is to make people listen and act — now we can see what climate change looks like.
Are there better phrases to describe this? Possibly. Take the challenge yourself: can you think up a brief, correct phrase to cover worsening local-and-regional-scale droughts, fires, typhoons and floods; damage to crops and food safety; water shortages; existential threats to coral reefs and low-lying communities? You can see how hard it is.
24.What does the underlined word “coined” in paragraph 2 mean?
A.Explained. B.Invented.
C.Valued. D.Accepted.
25.What do critics think of the term “global boiling”?
A.It is overused. B.It is exaggerated.
C.It is lacking in enough attention. D.It is too weak to describe the problem.
26.What can we infer from paragraph 4?
A.Climate crises are worsening. B.Several crises will be solved.
C.People will face food shortages. D.People are taking effective measures.
27.What is Guterres’s hope in using deeply impactful phrases?
A.To scare people into taking immediate action.
B.To entertain readers with Hollywood-style stories.
C.To provide a more accurate description of global warming.
D.To make people aware of the severity of the climate crisis.
(2024·江苏宿迁·三模)Over 40 students with low vision study at a school in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. It was designed by Anand Sonecha, founder of an architecture company. Featuring a bright yellow entrance door, which stands out against the white walls, the school is decorated with a variety of sweet-smelling plants everywhere. Inside the classrooms, the walls feel smooth in contrast to the rough outside of the building. These all help students familiarize themselves with the area straightforwardly, without any trouble.
The school provides an open space serving as a platform for the visually-challenged students to play, perform, or celebrate festivals and the students are easy to orient themselves according to the sound, smell, sight and touch. “The idea behind the design was to make the school more accessible to the students,” Sonecha says, “They come from remote villages and towns in Gujarat, and I am eager to help them.”
During the construction, Sonecha used contrasting colors so that students could easily distinguish between the elements. Blue was used for all classroom doors, yellow for the entrance gate, black for switch buttons, and yellow and green for the furniture. All these colors contrasted with the white walls of the school, helping the students locate different elements. Different areas are of different height and width, which makes the sounds and noises change according to the echo (回音) produced in these spaces. Furthermore, he cooperated with fellow landscape architect Lokendra Balasaria to plant more than 1,000 plants of 37 species. These sweet plants have been grown not only to lead the children to move in the school through smell but also to attract butterflies and birds, and provide shade.
“The structure of the building is designed similarly to any other school building, only with a few clever elements. My intention was to avoid making it look distinct from other schools,” Sonecha explains, “I hope that there are no different schools for such students. Instead, all these elements should be added to public spaces for them. And my follow-up efforts may be there.”
28.Why did Sonecha design the school in Gandhinagar?
A.To explore architecture styles. B.To raise funds for his company.
C.To offer convenience to the students. D.To improve students’ learning ability.
29.What does the underlined word “orient” in Paragraph 2 mean?
A.Relax. B.Waken. C.Cheer. D.Direct.
30.How does the school help students perform daily routine?
A.By expanding activity areas. B.By stimulating multiple senses.
C.By offering behavioral guidelines. D.By strengthening safety measures.
31.What will Sonecha probably do in the future?
A.Promote accessibility in the public regions. B.Modernize architecture with smart devices.
C.Build special schools for disabled students. D.Decorate schools with traditional elements.
(2024·江苏苏州·模拟预测)“Palace, Mountain, Moon?” has been selected by NASA as the Astronomical Picture of the Day for December 25, 2023.
The photo was taken by Valerio, a young photographer of Turin, Italy. It was shot on the evening of December 15, 2023. While he knew about NASA’s competition, he hadn’t considered participating until receiving much encouragement from his social media followers. Soon after, he received the message, “Your image has been chosen as the astronomical photo of the day.” It was incredible!
In a photo like this, nothing is left to luck. The concept came to him back in 2017. Walking on the hills north of Turin, he found several spots perfect for including both the Basilica of Superga Palace and Mountain Monviso. After numerous visits over several months, he identified four spots where Superga and Monviso line up just right.
After pinpointing these locations, he experimented with shooting them at different times. “I knew I needed something special to perfect the photo. The Sun was a no-go, so I turned to the Moon. Its various phases and position s reach an azimuth angle (方位角) of 230 degrees,” Valerio said. With this in mind, he researched the Moon’s phases, marked potential dates on the calendar, and planned the exact moments when the moon could join the queue.
It was very successful, especially because the Moon was in a waxing phase. This meant that in the photo, not only was its crescent (新月) lit up, but so was the left part, its shadowed side. That part is lit by reflected light, also known as Da Vinci’s glow, named after him because he was the one who theorized about why the Moon’s shadowed side is brightened. During the early days of the waxing Moon phases, the shadowed part is visible because the Sun’s light reflects off the Earth and hits the Moon’s shadowed side, giving it a greyish, silvery color. This allowed the light to outline Monviso on the left as well.
32.Why did Valerio send the photo to NASA?
A.He took an interest in astronomical advances.
B.He expected to create an impact on social media.
C.He received broad support from enthusiastic fans.
D.He wished to make his hometown a tourist hot spot.
33.In Valerio’s photo, the three objects ______.
A.shine light on each other B.stand in a straight line
C.fit each other in size D.vary from usual in color
34.What did Valerio do to prepare for the perfect photo?
A.Studying how the Moon phase changes. B.Calculating the Superga-Monviso distance.
C.Analyzing when to adjust the camera angle. D.Measuring the height of the observation point.
35.What was lit up by the Da Vinci’s glow?
A.The outline of the crescent. B.The outline of Superga.
C.The dark side of the Moon. D.The shadowed side of the Earth.
(2024·江苏南京·二模)Chaudhary weaves (编织) together lengths of rope and grass collected from the nearby riverbank in her village, skillfully shaping the materials into a gift box while instructing a group of women to follow suit.
The ropes being used were once the lifeline for mountain climbers tackling Nepal’s mountains and were then cast away. Diverse measures to remove such discarded materials have rocketed since 2019, when the government launched Clean Mountain Campaign.Around 140,000 tons of waste were collected on Mt. Everest alone, which were handled accordingly, either securely buried or recycled.
Some waste is now finding fresh life, transformed by skilled hands like Chaudhary’s into items to sell, thanks to an initiative led by Acharya, an owner of a waste processing business and an advocate for sustainable waste management. She has been working with the cleaning campaign, aiming at mountains like Mt. Everest.
“Metal waste goes through the recycling process, but we weren’t capable of recycling these ropes and cooking gas cans,” Acharya says. It didn’t occur to her that the waste which couldn’t be recycled could be reused until she met Rai at an art exhibition and a solution emerged.
Rai, a businessman dealing in craftworks, helped connect Acharya with Chaudhary and her team of craftswomen in hopes of unlocking the economic value of the mountain waste. With flexible hours, the project gives the craftswomen an opportunity to earn money even as they maintain their household responsibilities.
“While this seems insignificant compared to waste in the mountains, it’s a start. We can’t supply sufficient raw material with waste sorting and cleaning processes taking plenty of time and money,” Acharya says, desperate to expand the program to involve more women and treat more waste. But progress has been slow. “We need investment to mechanize the cleaning and processing of waste in the initial phase to provide the crafting team with enough materials to meet their demand,” she adds.
36.What were the ropes mentioned in paragraph 2 initially intended as?
A.Tools for tying up weeds. B.Villagers’ basic necessities of life.
C.Raw materials tor unique artworks. D.Life-saving devices for mountaineers.
37.What inspired Acharya’s resolution of non-recyclable waste?
A.A journey to the rural area. B.An encounter with a trader.
C.Information from a product launch. D.Attendance at an academic conference.
38.What does Acharya expect to do based on the last paragraph?
A.Train more senior technicians. B.Obtain a better reputation.
C.Drop waste washing procedures. D.Bring in advanced equipment.
39.What is the best title for the text?
A.Chaudhary: An Eco-Minded Folk Artist
B.Nepali Women Are Turning Garbage into Crafts
C.Clean Mountain Campaign Has Already Taken Effect
D.A Headache: Mt. Everest Is Heavily Littered with Waste
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参考答案:
1.C 2.B 3.A 4.D
【导语】本文是一篇新闻报道。主要报道了旧金山湾区捷运系统(BART)推出自动售货亭提供短篇故事打印服务,旨在满足乘客阅读需求,提升出行体验,Trost认为此举措能吸引更多乘客,对BART的未来持乐观态度,预期乘客量将会增长。
1.推理判断题。根据第三段““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.”(旧金山湾区捷运系统(BART)首席通讯官Alicia Trost表示:“你进入检票口,会看到一个亮着灯的信息亭,它告诉你可以得到一分钟、三分钟或五分钟的报道。你可以选择你想要的长度,它会给你一个类似收据的短篇故事。”)”可知,BART启动信息亭是为了满足乘客在乘车过程中的阅读需求,为他们提供不同长度的短篇故事或诗歌来打发时间。故选C项。
2.细节理解题。根据第三段“You choose which length you want and it gives you a receipt-like short story.(你可以选择你想要的长度,它会给你一个类似收据的短篇故事)”可知,信息亭中的故事按长度分类,乘客可以根据自己的需求选择不同长度的故事。故选B项。
3.细节理解题。根据第五段“We wanted to do something where we do a call to artists in the Bay Area to submit stories for a contest,(我们想做一些事情,呼吁湾区的艺术家为比赛提交故事)”以及第六段“The winning stories would go into our kiosk and then you would be a published artist.(获奖故事会进入我们的书报亭,然后你就会成为一名出版艺术家)”可知,Trost最近在组织一个故事竞赛,向湾区的艺术家征集故事,获胜作品将被放入书报亭供乘客阅读。故选A项。
4.细节理解题。根据倒数第二段““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.(她说:“归根结底,所有的交通机构现在都在尽一切努力改善乘客体验。所以我绝对认为,我们会因为短篇小说而吸引更多的乘客。”)”可知,Trost认为通过提升乘客体验,包括提供短篇故事阅读服务,BART可以吸引更多的乘客,乘客量将会增加。故选D项。
5.A 6.C 7.B
【导语】本文为一篇新闻报道。文章主要介绍了上海博物馆的展览安排。
5.细节理解题。根据文章第二段“More than 95 percent of the Egyptian relics in this show are coming to Asia for the first time. It is also China’s first cooperation with the Egyptian government. (此次展览中95%以上的埃及文物是首次来到亚洲。这也是中国与埃及政府的首次合作。)”可知,这次展览的埃及文物中,超过95%的文物首次来到亚洲,所以这次几乎展出了以前从未在亚洲出现的文物。故选A。
6.细节理解题。根据文章最后一段““The World of Marco Polo” will be shown from April to September in Italy and “The Beauty of Chinese Ceramics” in Japan from October to March, 2025. (《马可波罗的世界》将于4月至9月在意大利展出,《中国陶瓷之美》将于2025年10月至3月在日本展出。)”可知,《马可波罗的世界》将在意大利展出。故选C。
7.推理判断题。根据文章第一段“The Shanghai Museum has announced its 2024 exhibition list, and ‘Top of the Pyramids, Ancient Egyptian Civilization Exhibition’ will be the most anticipated. (上海博物馆公布了2024年的展览名单,其中“金字塔之巅古埃及文明展”将是最受期待的展览。)”可知,这是一篇新闻报道,最有可能来自报纸。故选B。
8.C 9.C 10.B 11.B
【导语】本文是一篇新闻报道。文章报道了福特汉姆大学开设的一项创新业务学校课程,该课程在自行车上进行,名为“管理职业关系”。该课程由教授Julita Haber提出,旨在通过让学生在上课时骑自行车的方式,同时锻炼身体和学习知识。学生们在课程中积极参与,选择音乐、进行伸展运动和高强度间歇训练。这种教学方式不仅使学生身体得到锻炼,还提高了他们的学习专注度和参与度,被认为是一种创新和有效的教学方法。
8.细节理解题。根据第一段中“The lights go down, music plays, and a young woman on a bike at the front of the class encourages students to spin faster and harder. When the lights go back on, the students on the bikes pullout their notebooks (灯光熄灭,音乐响起,教室前面骑着自行车的年轻女子鼓励学生们更快更用力地让车轮旋转。当灯重新亮起时,骑自行车的学生拿出他们的笔记本)”可知,灯光熄灭时,教室里的学生开始用力踩踏板,让自行车飞快旋转,灯光重新亮起时,学生拿出他们的笔记本上课。这说明课堂上不时调整灯光是为了提醒学生他们应该开始何种活动。故选C项。
9.推理判断题。根据第一段中“Instead, it’s a first-of-its-kind business school course at Fordham University that is taught on spin bikes in a university.(相反,这是福特汉姆大学商学院开设的首个此类课程,在大学里骑着动感单车上课)”、第三段中“The 75-minute, twice-weekly course is the brainchild of Julit a Haber, a business school professor at Fordham.(这门每周两次、每次75分钟的课程是福特汉姆商学院教授茱莉特•哈伯(Julit a Haber)的创意)”和第七段中“The course is the first of its kind at Fordham, and Haber believes it is also a first across the United States. She has authored research on the unique classroom approach, which she calls fitness integrated learning.(这是福特汉姆大学开设的首个此类课程,哈伯认为这在全美也是首创。她撰写了关于独特课堂方法的研究,她称之为健身综合学习)”可推知,哈伯教授她引入了一种独特而创新的方式,将体育锻炼与学术学习结合起来,在动感单车上教授商学院课程。这表明了她的创造力(creative)和对新的和非传统的教育方法的开放态度(open-minded)。故选C项。
10.推理判断题。根据第六段中哈伯教授的话“It’s a fantastic way of engaging students and as a professor, as a teacher, that’s really gratifying.(这是一种吸引学生的奇妙方式,作为一名教授,作为一名老师,这真的很令人满意)”和“They don’t have their smartphones, and they don’t have laptops so they are physically engaged and also mentally engaged in what is being said.(他们没有智能手机,也没有笔记本电脑,所以他们既在身体上,也在精神上也投入到学习和锻炼中)”可推知,这一门新课程的目标是吸引学生的全部注意力,让他们投入到学习中。故选B项。
11.推理判断题。根据最后一段中“Donna Rapaccioli, the head of Fordham’s Gabelli School of Business, described how students were “energized” by the class and said Fordham was open to expanding it to other courses. “Definitely,” Rapaccioli answered when asked if Haber’s course represents the future of learning.(福特汉姆大学加贝利商学院院长唐娜•拉帕乔利(Donna Rapaccioli)描述了学生们是如何被这门课程“激励”的,并表示福特汉姆大学愿意将其扩展到其他课程。当被问及哈伯的课程是否代表了学习的未来时,拉帕乔利回答说:“当然。”)”可知,拉帕乔利的话表明她对这一新课程的认可,证明了哈伯课程的成功。故选B项。
12.D 13.C 14.A 15.C
【导语】本文是新闻报道。这篇文章主要报道了一项新的科技应用——使用无人机进行森林再造。
12.推理判断题。根据第一段“Deforestatio — by clear-cutting or wildfires — has massive consequences both on climate and health. But leaving reforestation to Mother Nature can take decades, particularly as disastrous wildfires are increasing in frequency and intensity. And the time, cost and labor involved makes traditional methods of tree planting not as practical as they once were. (森林砍伐——通过砍伐树木或野火——对气候和健康都有巨大的影响。但是,把重新造林交给大自然可能需要几十年的时间,尤其是在灾难性的野火频率和强度都在增加的情况下。而且所涉及的时间、成本和劳动力使得传统的植树方法不像以前那么实用了)”可知,作者在第一段想告诉我们用传统的种树方法也不切实际,意思就是我们需要更新更先进的种树方法,也就是采用新的种植方法的必要性。故选D项。
13.细节理解题。根据倒数第三段“The team took out a loan, bought a drone and used 3D printers at Jones’s school to make casts of the pods. Now, only two and a half years later, the company has a group of drones with each able to carry several thousand pods per flight. Three operators work in a field, controlling five drones, whose flight take 15 to 20 minutes. Flash Forest’s big draw is its seed pod, which contains everything seedlings (幼苗) need to survive survival. And its technology allows them to reach post-burn sites or remote areas that are difficult for traditional tree planting. (该团队贷款,购买了一架无人机,并在琼斯的学校使用3D打印机制作了豆荚的模型。现在,仅仅两年半之后,该公司就拥有了一组无人机,每架无人机每次飞行都能携带数千个吊舱。三名操作员在一个现场工作,控制五架无人机,飞行时间为15到20分钟。Flash Forest最大的吸引力在于它的种子荚,里面包含了幼苗生存所需的一切。它的技术使它们能够到达燃烧后的地点或传统植树难以到达的偏远地区)”可知,Flash Forest最大的吸引力在于它的种子荚。故选C项。
14.词句猜测题。that为代词,应是代指前文提到的事物,根据前文“Then there are the challenges presented by the climate — this year, record temperatures, record wildfires and drought. (然后是气候带来的挑战——今年,创纪录的气温、创纪录的野火和干旱)”可知,that代指应是前文提到的极端天气。故选A项。
15.推理判断题。根据最后一段“Unlike some traditional forms of reforestation, Flash Forest is focused on biodiversity. For Jones, the target of planting a billion trees by 2025 is just the beginning. “I have a dream that the company will plant on six continents — everywhere where our technology is needed,” he says. (与一些传统形式的再造林不同,Flash Forest专注于生物多样性。对琼斯来说,到2025年种植10亿棵树的目标仅仅是个开始。他说:“我有一个梦想,公司将在六大洲——任何需要我们技术的地方——建厂。”)”可知,从本段可推断也许Flash Forest以后会推广至全世界。故选C项。
16.C 17.D 18.B 19.A
【导语】这是一篇新闻稿。文章主要讲述中国广东省的一家纸业公司广东东坡纸业最近因用基于运动的员工奖金计划取代传统的基于绩效的员工奖金方案而登上国际头条。
16.细节理解题。由文章第一段“To promote a healthy lifestyle among its 100 employees, management decided to reward them based on how much they exercise. For example, an employee will be eligible for a full monthly bonus if they run 50 km a month. They will get 60 percent of the bonus for running 40 km, and 30 percent for 30km. Running enthusiasts may stand to get up to an 30%bonus if they can prove they ran over 100 km in a single month.(为了在100名员工中推广健康的生活方式,管理层决定根据他们的运动量来奖励他们。例如,如果员工每月跑50公里,则有资格获得全额月度奖金。他们跑40公里将获得60%的奖金,跑30公里将获得30%的奖金。如果跑步爱好者能够证明自己在一个月内跑了100多公里,他们可能会获得高达30%的奖金。)”可知,广东东坡纸的员工奖金方案之所以成为热门,是因为它是以运动表现为基础而制定的。故选C项。
17.推理判断题。由文章第二段“My business can only endure if my employees are healthy,(只有我的员工身体健康,我的业务才能持续下去,)”可知,Lin Zhiyong认为只有健康的员工,公司才会有更好的业绩,所以D项The health of employees is the wealth of employers.(雇员的健康是雇主的财富。)符合文意。故选D项。
18.细节理解题。由文章第四段“According to Chinese media, Dongpo Paper employees couldn’t be happier with the new bonus structure, claiming that the company now allows them to ‘kill two birds with one stone’ as they’can get both health and money.’(据中国媒体报道,东坡纸业的员工对新的奖金结构非常满意,他们声称公司现在允许他们‘一举两得’,因为他们‘既能得到健康,又能得到金钱’)”可知,东坡纸业员工对此方案的反应是积极的。故选B项。
19.细节理解题。由文章最后一段“Others accused Guangdong Dongpo Paper of putting its employees’ health at risk by setting very high bonus thresholds for them. Some netizens believe that employees could ruin their knees by chasing these goals.(其他人则指责广东东坡纸业为员工设定了非常高的奖金门槛,从而危及员工的健康。一些网民认为,员工追逐这些目标可能会毁了他们的膝盖。)”可知,互联网上反对该方案的网民主要担心的是员工的身体健康状况。故选A项。
20.A 21.A 22.B 23.D
【导语】本文是一篇新闻报道。文章主要报道了天才制片人和编剧Norman Lear去世的消息,并回顾了他的生平,介绍了他创作的喜剧所取得的巨大成功。
20.推理判断题。根据第二段中“Lear grew up in an ordinary family in Connecticut, where an unexpected accident brought about his father’s business collapse. So he had to drop out of college and joined the army. In his late 20s, he moved to Los Angeles where he struggled hard for several years, selling furniture door to door. (Lear在康涅狄格州的一个普通家庭长大,一场意外事故导致他父亲的生意破产。所以他不得不从大学退学去参军。在他快三十岁的时候,他搬到了洛杉矶,在那里他努力奋斗了几年,挨家挨户地卖家具)”可知,Lear成长于普通家庭,因父亲生意破产而从大学退学去参军,快三十岁时得靠着卖家具努力挣钱。由此可知,他二十多岁时过着充满挑战的生活。故选A项。
21.推理判断题。根据第四段中“When interviewed about the hit of his shows, Lear said, “Our team read two or three newspapers a day, paid a lot of attention to our families, and came in to talk about everything that was affecting us in our daily lives.” (在被采访到他的节目大受欢迎时,Lear说:“我们的团队每天读两三份报纸,非常关注我们的家庭,并讨论影响我们日常生活的一切事情。”)”可知,Lear的节目创作团队关注报纸上的新闻、自己的家庭、日常生活中的一切。由此可知,他的节目反映了真实的日常生活,这一点有助于节目的成功。故选A项。
22.推理判断题。根据最后一段Marty Kaplan所说的话“Routinely, Lear’s shows might get fifty or sixty million viewers. He was in direct contact with the living rooms and families of the country (Lear的节目通常会吸引五六千万观众。他与这个国家的客厅和家庭直接接触)”可知,Lear创作的节目观众非常多,他与观众建立了紧密的联系。由此推知,Lear因节目而广受欢迎。故选B项。
23.推理判断题。通读全文,尤其是第一段中“Norman Lear, a genius producer and screenwriter, passed away on Tuesday in Los Angeles at the age of 101. (天才制片人和编剧Norman Lear周二在洛杉矶去世,享年101岁)”可知,文章主要报道了天才制片人和编剧Norman Lear去世的消息,并以此简要回顾了他的生平经历,介绍了他创作的喜剧所取得的巨大成功。因此,文章应该出自新闻报道。故选D项。
24.B 25.B 26.A 27.D
【导语】这是一篇新闻稿。文章主要讲述,随着气候变化,“全球沸腾”的时代到来了。
24.词句猜测题。由文章第二段“Last week, the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres coined a new term. The time of ‘global warming’ has ended, he announced, and the time of ‘global boiling’ has arrived.(上周,联合国秘书长安东尼奥·古特雷斯coined一个新术语。他宣布,‘全球变暖’的时代已经结束,‘全球沸腾’的时代到来了。)”可知,这里应指安东尼奥·古特雷斯“创造”出一个新术语。所以猜测coined表“创造”的意思。故选B项。
25.推理判断题。由文章第三段“But critics have strongly disagreed with the phrase. At one level, ‘global boiling’ is clearly an overstatement, but‘global warming’ is now far too weak a description.(但批评者强烈反对这个说法。在某种程度上,‘全球变暖’显然是夸大其词,但现在对‘全球升温’的描述太弱了。)”可知,批评者认为用“全球沸腾”一词把实际情况夸大了。故选B项。
26.推理判断题。由文章第四段“But that is changing. In the past few years, extreme weather and relevant events have struck many countries. Australia’s Black Summer brought wildfires that burned an area the size of the United Kingdom. Germany suffered serious flooding in 2021. The 2022 flood in Pakistan flooded large parts of the country. China has seen both droughts and floods. Terrible droughts have hit the Horn of Africa for many years. India has stopped rice exports due to damage from heavy rain.(但这种情况正在改变。在过去几年中,极端天气和相关事件袭击了许多国家。澳大利亚的黑夏带来了野火,烧毁了相当于英国大小的地区。2021年,德国遭遇严重洪灾。2022年巴基斯坦的洪水淹没了该国大部分地区。中国经历了旱灾和水灾。多年来,可怕的干旱袭击了非洲之角。由于暴雨造成的损失,印度已经停止了大米出口。)”可知,气候危机正在恶化。故选A项。
27.细节理解题。由文章第六段“When Guterres uses deeply impactful phrases, he’s not inviting us to imagine a Hollywood-style disaster. What he’s hoping is to make people listen and act — now we can see what climate change looks like.(当古特雷斯使用极具影响力的短语时,他并不是在邀请我们想象一场好莱坞式的灾难。他希望的是让人们倾听并采取行动——现在我们可以看到气候变化是什么样子了。)”可知,古特雷斯希望使用极具影响力的短语,让人们意识到气候危机的严重性。故选D项。
28.C 29.D 30.B 31.A
【导语】本文是新闻报道。文章主要介绍Sonecha设计了Gandhinagar的学校是为了给视觉障碍的学生提供方便,并努力促进公共区域的无障碍环境。
28.推理判断题。根据第一段“These all help students familiarize themselves with the area straightforwardly, without any trouble. (这些都有助于学生直接熟悉该地区,没有任何麻烦。)”和第二段“The school provides an open space serving as a platform for the visually-challenged students to play, perform, or celebrate festivals and the students are easy to orient themselves according to the sound, smell, sight and touch. (学校提供了一个开放空间,作为视觉障碍学生玩耍、表演或庆祝节日的平台,学生们很容易根据声音、气味、视觉和触觉来定位自己。)”可知,Sonecha设计了Gandhinagar的学校是为了给视觉障碍的学生提供方便。故选C。
29.词句猜测题。根据第二段“The school provides an open space serving as a platform for the visually-challenged students to play, perform, or celebrate festivals and the students are easy to orient themselves according to the sound, smell, sight and touch. (学校提供了一个开放空间,作为视觉障碍学生玩耍、表演或庆祝节日的平台,学生们很容易根据声音、气味、视觉和触觉来orient自己。)”可知,这所学校的学生有视觉障碍,所以他们应该是利用声音、气味、视觉和触觉来识别方向。所以orient的意思应该是“引导”,和选项D意思一致。故选D。
30.推理判断题。根据第三段“During the construction, Sonecha used contrasting colors so that students could easily distinguish between the elements. Blue was used for all classroom doors, yellow for the entrance gate, black for switch buttons, and yellow and green for the furniture. All these colors contrasted with the white walls of the school, helping the students locate different elements. Different areas are of different height and width, which makes the sounds and noises change according to the echo (回音) produced in these spaces. Furthermore, he cooperated with fellow landscape architect Lokendra Balasaria to plant more than 1, 000 plants of 37 species. These sweet plants have been grown not only to lead the children to move in the school through smell but also to attract butterflies and birds, and provide shade. (在建造过程中,Sonecha使用了对比色,这样学生就可以很容易地区分不同的元素。所有教室的门都用蓝色,大门用黄色,开关按钮用黑色,家具用黄色和绿色。所有这些颜色与学校的白墙形成对比,帮助学生找到不同的元素。不同的区域具有不同的高度和宽度,这使得声音和噪声根据这些空间中产生的回声而变化。此外,他还与同为景观建筑师的洛肯德拉·巴拉萨里亚合作,种植了37种1000多种植物。种植这些甜植物不仅是为了引导孩子们通过气味在学校里活动,还为了吸引蝴蝶和鸟类,并提供阴凉处。)”可知,学校是通过刺激多种感官来帮助学生完成日常生活的。故选B。
31.推理判断题。根据最后一段“I hope that there are no different schools for such students. Instead, all these elements should be added to public spaces for them. And my follow-up efforts may be there. (我希望这些学生没有不同的学校。相反,所有这些元素都应该添加到他们的公共空间中。我的后续工作可能会在那里。)”可知,Sonecha将来可能会努力促进公共区域的无障碍环境。故选A。
32.C 33.B 34.A 35.C
【导语】这是一篇新闻报道。年轻摄影师瓦莱里奥拍摄的天文照片被美国宇航局选中,文章介绍了他的拍摄经过。
32.细节理解题。根据第二段“While he knew about NASA’s competition, he hadn’t considered participating until receiving much encouragement from his social media followers.(虽然他知道美国宇航局的比赛,但直到收到社交媒体粉丝的大力鼓励,他才考虑参加比赛)”可知,瓦莱里奥把照片发给美国宇航局是为了得到了热情粉丝的广泛支持。故选C。
33.细节理解题。根据第四段“Its various phases and position s reach an azimuth angle (方位角) of 230 degrees(它的不同相位和位置的方位角达到230度)”以及“With this in mind, he researched the Moon’s phases, marked potential dates on the calendar, and planned the exact moments when the moon could join the queue.(考虑到这一点,他研究了月亮的相位,在日历上标记了可能的日期,并计划了月亮可能加入队列的确切时刻)”可知,在瓦莱里奥的照片中,这三个物体位于一条直线上。故选B。
34.细节理解题。根据第四段“With this in mind, he researched the Moon’s phases, marked potential dates on the calendar, and planned the exact moments when the moon could join the queue.(考虑到这一点,他研究了月亮的相位,在日历上标记了可能的日期,并计划了月亮可能加入队列的确切时刻)”可知,为了拍出一张完美的照片,瓦莱里奥研究月相的变化。故选A。
35.细节理解题。根据最后一段“That part is lit by reflected light, also known as Da Vinci’s glow, named after him because he was the one who theorized about why the Moon’s shadowed side is brightened.(这部分是由反射光照亮的,也被称为达·芬奇的光芒,以他的名字命名,因为他提出了月球的阴暗面为什么会变亮的理论)”可知,达芬奇的光芒照亮了月球的阴暗面。故选C。
36.D 37.B 38.D 39.B
【导语】本文是一篇新闻报道。文章主要报道了尼泊尔女性在Chaudhary的带领下,利用被丢弃的登山绳索和草料制作礼品盒的故事。
36.细节理解题。根据文章第二段“The ropes being used were once the lifeline for mountain climbers tackling Nepal’s mountains and were then cast away.(这些绳索曾是攀登尼泊尔山脉的登山者的生命线,然后被丢弃。)”可知,这些绳索曾经是尼泊尔山脉登山者的生命线,后来被丢弃。因此,这些绳索最初是为了拯救登山者的生命而设计的,即它们是登山者的救生设备。故选D。
37.细节理解题。根据文章第四段“It didn’t occur to her that the waste which couldn’t be recycled could be reused until she met Rai at an art exhibition and a solution emerged.(她从未想过这些无法回收的垃圾可以再利用,直到她在一次艺术展览上遇到了Rai,她才想到了一个解决方案。)”以及第五段“Rai, a businessman dealing in craftworks, helped connect Acharya with Chaudhary and her team of craftswomen in hopes of unlocking the economic value of the mountain waste.( Rai是一名从事工艺品生意的商人,他帮助Acharya与Chaudhary和她的女工匠团队建立了联系,希望能释放山区废物的经济价值。)”可知,Acharya之前并没有想到无法回收的废物可以重新利用,直到她在艺术展览上遇到了商人Rai,然后才找到了解决方案。因此,是与商人Rai的相遇激发了Acharya解决不可回收废物的决心。故选B。
38.细节理解题。根据文章最后一段““We need investment to mechanize the cleaning and processing of waste in the initial phase to provide the crafting team with enough materials to meet their demand,” she adds.(“我们需要在初期阶段投资机械化清洁和处理垃圾,以便为手工艺团队提供足够的材料来满足他们的需求,”她补充道。)”可知,她期望在初始阶段获得投资,以实现废物清洁和处理的机械化,从而为手工艺团队提供足够的材料来满足他们的需求。因此,她期望引进先进的设备来实现这一目标。故选D。
39.主旨大意题。根据文章第一段“Chaudhary weaves (编织) together lengths of rope and grass collected from the nearby riverbank in her village, skillfully shaping the materials into a gift box while instructing a group of women to follow suit.( Chaudhary在她村庄附近的河岸上收集绳索和草料,熟练地将这些材料编织成礼品盒,并指导一群妇女效仿她的做法。)”以及全文内容可知,文章主要讲述了尼泊尔女性在Chaudhary的带领下,正在将河流附近的废弃绳索和草料变成像礼品盒这样的工艺品。文章主要聚焦于这一过程以及它对减少废物和妇女赋权的积极影响。故选B。
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