2025届高考英语外刊阅读天天练 综合训练四

2025届高考英语外刊阅读天天练 综合训练四 I. 阅读理解 LEXINGTON: The challenger 【The Economist (October 12, 2024)】 A cynic might gaze at the photograph and sigh that nothing changes in American life: a black woman, a candidate for president, stands before a crowd with a determined look on her face, above a poster extolling a woman's right to choose abortion. The photograph, in black and white, is from 1972. It hangs in an exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York about Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman to seek the nomination of a major party. An idealist, however beleaguered, might instead see an image that captures what it takes to make change in American life. Unlike this year, when Kamala Harris, as the Democratic nominee, is running neck-and-neck with former President Donald Trump, no one had any hope then that Chisholm had a chance of winning the Democratic nomination, let alone the presidency. Shirley Chisholm lost that race, but more than half a century on is still gaining ground in the one she really cared about,“She opened up a portal for many to follow," says Yvette Clarke, a congresswoman whose district in Brooklyn, New York, contains part of Chisholm's old one, “If she didn't have the courage to take on the battle", Clarke adds,“who knows when we would have come to this day." In 2019 Ms Harris told the Grio, a news site, that she stood on Chisholm's shoulders. Ms Harris has not stressed the precedent-setting nature of her candidacy, emphasizing Americans' needs rather than her (and their) chance to make history. Chisholm, who died in 2005, did not have the option. Like Ms Harris, whose father is from Jamaica, Chisholm, born in Brooklyn 100 years ago next month, had Caribbean roots. Her parents sent young Shirley and her two sisters off to Barbados in 1928 to live with family for seven years. Chisholm ascribed her success partly to the strict British education she received there. It also accustomed her to the idea of black people in authority, and probably accounted for her habit of speaking of herself in the third person and, though she never weighed much more than a hundred pounds, her intimidating, regal bearing. Gloria Steinem, an ally, once said her decision to wear a dress rather than blue jeans to the first press conference of the National Women's Political Caucus (NWPC), which Chisholm co-founded, was“entirely due to Shirley Chisholm", of whom she was always afraid. “Of my two "handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black," Chisholm wrote in her memoir. She saw America as“racist all the way through", a place where a mere“accident of pigmentation" carried terrible weight.“l can feel in myself sometimes an anger that wants only to destroy everything in its path," she wrote. The Democratic field was crowded with white men. Chisholm ran a shoestring campaign that relied almost entirely on volunteers. Shut out of a debate, she got a court order for equal time on television. She beat several serious contenders, and though she accumulated 152 delegates that was not enough to extract the policy commitments she hoped for from the nominee,George McGovern. Most of the otherwise male Congressional Black Caucus chose not to support her, and even the NWPC deserted her for McGovern, though in the end he did not deliver the abortion-rights plank they wanted in the party platform. That struggle would continue into the future, too. 1. What can we learn from paragraph one according to the passage? A. Nothing has changed concerning black women’s political lives since 1972 B. There was no possibility that Shirley Chisholm could obtain the Democratic nomination fifty years ago C. Donald Trump has won a narrow victory in this year’s presidential campaign D. Kamala Harris is the first black woman to have a chance of leading a major party 2. What does the underlined phrase “gain ground” probably mean in paragraph two? A. remove a part of something B. make progress C. make a piece of information public D. keep hold of 3. Why was Gloria Steinem always afraid of Shirley Chisholm? A. Chisholm had the chance to make history in America B. Chisholm received the top-notch British education and treated others in a tough way C. Chisholm was such a prominent political figure that she influenced Gloria Steinem deeply D. It was Chisholm that co-founded NWPC 4. How was Shirley Chisholm’s political career going on according to the passage? A. Effortless and eye-catching B. Notable and respectable C. Acceptable and well-organized D. Struggling and arduous II. 七选五 1 + 1 = MORE (or LESS) 【Reader’s Digest USA(September 2024)】 Why does one plus one equal two? One possible answer is “It just does!” That is really an answer that has been frustrating children for generations. It is quite right to feel frustrated by that idea. Math can seem like a world of rules you just have to follow, which makes it seem rigid and boring. ____1___Both of those impulses play an important role in advancing human understanding, and in particular mathematical understanding. So rather than think about why one plus one is two, let’s go a little further and question whether it’s even true all the time. ___2_____Say you put one rabbit and another rabbit together. You might well end up with a lot of rabbits. Sometimes, one plus one is just one, like if you put a pile of sand on top of another pile of sand, then you just get one pile of sand. ____3____And in some situations, one plus one is actually zero. If I say“I’m not not hungry,”that means “I’m hungry.”The point here is that one“not”plus one“not” is the same as zero“nots.” Now, you might think that these aren’t really situations in which one plus one equals something else, because they aren’t really addition, or because those aren’t really numbers. You’re welcome to think that, but that’s not what math does. ____4____ And in doing so, we’ll understand something about the world more deeply than we did before. Math isn’t really about getting the right answer; it’s about building good justifications. ____5___ I often hear parents complaining how pointless this is because if they can do something one way, why do they need to know all these other ways? But having different ways to think about something constitutes a deeper understanding of that thing, and it gives you more ways to check that what you’re doing is secure. I hope that we will start seeing mathematics as a place to pose questions and explore answers, rather than a place where the answers are fixed and we’re supposed to know them. A.We will place more emphasis on those who are curious, and who follow their curiosity on a journey B.Or, as an art student of mine pointed out, if you mix one color with one color, you get one color. C.Whereas my love of math is somewhat driven by my love of breaking rules, or at least pushing against them. D.The solidity of math comes from not wanting to trust things, but wanting to jump and swing and know that our framework will hold up. E.This gets implemented in schools as children needing to learn different“strategies”for doing the same thing. F.Sometimes, one plus one can also equal more than two because of reproduction. G.Math instead says: Let’s work out the context in which one plus one really does equal two, and contexts in which it doesn’t. III. 语法填空 Nobel literature prize goes to South Korean author Han Kang 【The Guardian(October 11, 2024)】 The Nobel prize in literature has been awarded to the South Korean novelist Han Kang for her “intense poetic prose ___1____ confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”. Han, 53, is the first South Korean author and 18th woman ___2_____(win) the prize. Han's novels,essays and short story collections have explored themes of patriarchy(父权制), ____3___(violent) , grief and humanity. Her 2007 novel The Vegetarian, ____4_____(translate) into English in 2015 by Deborah Smith, won the International Booker prize in 2016. Anders Olsson, chair of the Nobel committee, said“She has a unique awareness ___5___ the connections between body and soul, the __6_____(live) and the dead,and in a poetic and experimental style has become an innovator in contemporary prose.” Han was born in 1970 in Gwangju, a city in the south-west of South Korea. In 1993, she made her literary debut with ___7___ series of five poems published in Literature and Society. The Vegetarian was Han's first novel to be translated into English. Her latest novel,We Do Not Part, ___8______(publish) in English in 2025, translated by Paige Aniyah Morris. It follows a writer discovering the impact of the 1948-49 Jeju uprising on the family of her friend. Simon Prosser, publishing director at Han's UK publisher Hamish Hamilton, said: “What a wonderful moment this is for Han Kang and for all who love her work. In writing of exceptional beauty and clarity she faces unflinchingly the _____9____(pain) question of ____10____ it means to be human.” BBCD CFBGE that;to win;violence;translated;of;living;a;will be published;painful;what 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$