（十三）题组51-【金版教程】2026年高考英语一轮总复习首选用卷全书Word

题组51

Ⅰ　阅读

(2025·山东省济南第一中学高三期中)In the summer of 2021, wildfires caused a disaster on an Italian island, burning over 69，000 acres of land and displacing thousands. The Montiferru region, badly affected by the fires, is testing out a new warning system for wildfires, developed by a German company called Dryad.

Due to climate change, the number of extreme wildfire events is expected to increase up to 14% by 2030. Apart from billions of dollars of damage they cause, the chemicals they produce are strong pollutants and in 2023, wildfires gave out a record 1.76 billion metric tons of carbon in the atmosphere—equal to more than double Germany's yearly CO2 emissions.

Existing early warning systems are based on the visual detection of smoke, either through satellite imaging, cameras on the ground or human observers. “But these systems are too dilatory. In order to generate smoke that can be seen from a distance of, say, 10 to 20 miles, the fire has to be very big—you might already have half a football field on fire underneath. Then, if you add the time for firefighters to arrive at the scene, it may have become too big to be put out at all，” said Dryad's co­founder and CEO, Carsten Brinkschulte.

Dryad aims to reduce the detection time of wildfires and catch them early. To do so, the company has designed a solar­powered sensor fitted with a gas detector. “It can detect hydrogen, carbon monoxide, etc. Think of it like an electronic nose that you attach to a tree，” says Brinkschulte. Once the sensor detects a fire, it sends out a signal which is then sent to the Internet by satellite and 4G. Finally, what the forest managers get is an alarm with the exact GPS location of the sensor that picked up the fire.

So far, Dryad has tested 300 sensors across Europe and plans to make 230，000 units next year. “Our goal is to set up 120 million of them by 2030, which would be able to save 3.9 million hectares of forest from burning and prevent 1.7 billion metric tons of CO2, from reaching the atmosphere，” says Brinkschulte.

1．What do the facts mentioned in Paragraph 2 mainly show?

A．The danger of wildfire pollutants.

B．The climate change over the years.

C．The environmental stress from wildfires.

D．The problem of CO2 emissions in Europe.

答案：C

解析：推理判断题。根据第二段内容可知，本段数据主要体现了由于气候变化，野火事件的增加幅度，造成的经济损失以及释放的污染物质数量，由此可推知，这些数据主要强调了野火给环境带来的压力。故选C。

2．What does the underlined word “dilatory” mean in Paragraph 3?

A．Slow.   B．Distant.

C．Wasteful.   D．Expensive.

答案：A

解析：词义猜测题。根据画线词所在句后的“In order to ... a football field on fire underneath.”可知，现有的早期预警系统存在一些问题，在火势大到一定程度时才能启动，即它们反应太慢。由此可推知，画线词dilatory意为“缓慢的”，与slow同义。故选A。

3．How does the new warning system operate?

A．By putting out the fire directly in its early stages.

B．By smelling the fire and reporting its location.

C．By forecasting the weather to prevent the fire.

D．By going around the forest to check the fire.

答案：B

解析：细节理解题。根据第四段内容可知，新的预警系统是通过传感器检测到火灾后，发送信号到互联网，然后森林管理者收到包含精确GPS位置的警报，即该系统是通过“嗅到”火灾并报告其准确位置来运作的。故选B。

4．What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

A．The system has great possibilities for use.

B．Europe especially suffers from wildfires.

C．The system needs further improvement.

D．Climate change will deepen wildfires.

答案：A

解析：推理判断题。根据最后一段内容可知，Dryad公司已经在欧洲进行了测试，并计划在未来大量生产这种传感器，且设定了远大的目标。由此可推知，该系统有很大的使用可能性。故选A。

Ⅱ　完形填空

(2025·九省联考高三联考)Children are not often invited to address the United Nations General Assembly (联合国大会). But there stood Felix Finkbeiner, with a(n) __1__ question about climate change.

“We children know that adults are __2__ the climate challenges and that they have the solutions，” he said. “But we don't understand why there is so little  __3__．”

Before his speech, Finkbeiner had been  __4__ a remarkable environmental campaign for four years and it has since __5__ into a global network of children working to __6__ the earth's warming by reforesting the planet. Most of them are between the ages 9 and 12.

The reforesting effort could be traced to a fourth grade school __7__ in Finkbeiner's hometown. The topic was climate change.

In his report, Finkbeiner __8__ to plant one million trees in Germany. Finkbeiner's teacher was deeply impressed with the idea and asked him to __9__ his report to other students and the headmaster.

Of course, no one  __10__  anything to come out of it. But two months later, he planted his first tree, an unimpressive apple tree, near the entrance to his school. His campaign was a __11__ and had a dramatic close. By the time he delivered his  __12__  at the UN in New York in 2011, at the age of 13, Germany had planted its millionth tree.

“If I had known then how much international media coverage that apple tree would __13__，”