2021-2025年新高考卷阅读B篇 题型专项 突破 2 -2026届高三英语二轮复习专项

2021-2025年新高考I+II卷阅读B篇专题突破答案 【2025年新课标I卷】 【文章‌概要】 文章讲述了作者作为一名写作教师，通过改变教学方法，激发了学生对写作的兴趣和热情。 【逐题解析】 24. D 细节理解题。文章开头提到“I met a cowboy who saved his town, a strict father who demanded his son earn straight A’s, and a modern-day Juliet who died of heartbreak after her parents rejected the love of her young life.”（我遇到了一个拯救了小镇的牛仔，一个要求儿子拿全A的严厉父亲，以及一个因父母拒绝了她年轻时的爱情而心碎而死的现代朱丽叶。），这些都是学生创作的虚构角色。故选D。 25. D 推理判断题。根据文章第二段中的“But things were different for their first essay, which was about the question: ‘Why is writing important?’ Most of the essays filled less than one page, and few contained a sentence that could be interpreted as a thesis statement.”可知，学生们第一次写作的主题是“Why is writing important?”，大多数文章内容空洞、缺乏论点；再根据第二段中的“They could have written pages on the necessity of computers, but writing, in and of itself, simply didn’t strike them as important.”可知，作者经过反思之后，发现这些学生并非能力不足，而是对写作缺乏兴趣和共鸣，因此表现不佳。故选D。 26. B 词义猜测题。根据后文“The students took on diverse topics and turned in stories, 10 to 20 pages each, with characters that broadened my view and touched my heart.”（学生们选择了各种话题，并提交了每篇10到20页的故事，其中的人物拓宽了我的视野，触动了我的心。）可以推断出“staggering”意为“令人惊讶的”。故选B。 27. A 推理判断题。作者通过改变教学方法，不仅提高了学生的写作兴趣，还从中学到了很多东西，体现了“教学相长”的理念。故选A。 【2025年新课标II卷】 本文是一篇叙述性说明文。文章围绕医院教师Kathy Ho在斯坦福Lucile Packard儿童医院（LPCH）的特殊教学工作展开，重点探讨了医院学校的独特教育模式及其对患病儿童的深远意义。 24. A 细节理解题。根据第二段的第一句中的“about 500 LPCH patients also become students”可知，Ho的学生是生病的孩子。故选A。 25. D 细节理解题。根据第三段中的Ho自述“I’m a coach, an adviser, and a comforter”可知，她是一个教练、顾问和安慰者，暗示她工作中不仅仅是教学，而是涉及多个角色。故选D。 26. C 代词指代题。根据第四段中提到的“Some teachers don’t give the kids any assignments; they express sympathy instead.”及Ho随后的评价“It is a disservice to the kids”，由此可知“it”指代前文“不给孩子布置作业”的行为。故选C。 27. B 推理判断题。根据最后一段Good提到“School can keep those dreams alive by giving kids a way to learn and grow.”可知，学校通过给孩子们提供一个继续学习和成长的机会，帮助他们保持梦想。教育不仅仅是医学治疗的一部分，还能帮助孩子们拥有希望和生活的意义。故选B。 【2024年新课标I卷】 本文是一篇记叙文。文章讲述了一名外国兽医借鉴中医技术，通过针灸帮助动物治疗的故事。 24. A 观点态度题。根据第一段中的“If he seems a little defensive, it might be because even some of his coworkers occasionally laugh at his unusual methods.”可知，Farber的同事嘲笑他用这种异乎寻常的方法。由此推知，在Farber的同事看来，Farber是古怪的。odd“奇怪的；怪异的；反常的”。故选A。 25. C 推理判断题。根据第二段中的内容尤其是“What worked on a veterinarian seemed likely to work on his patients.”可知，Farber基于自己背疼在接受针灸治疗后显著缓解的亲身经历，深信这一方法对他的病人（动物）也同样有效。因此，他打算通过针灸帮助动物治疗。故选C。 26. D 段落大意题。根据第三段中的“Leigh Tindale’s dog”以及“And Priscilla Dewing reports that her horse, Nappy”的治疗经历可知，第三段通过举例说明了这种中西医相结合的整体疗法的功效。故选D。 27. A 目的意图题。根据最后一段中的“and if the past is any indication, he may be right: Since 1982, membership in the American Holistic Veterinary Medical Association has grown from 30 to over 700”可知，作者通过引用美国整体兽医协会日益增长的会员人数作为实证，有力地支持了Farber的观点，即整体方法在未来将愈发受到青睐和欢迎。故选A。 【2024年新课标II卷】 本文是一篇说明文。文章讲述了旧金山湾区设立了一个小亭，供乘客打印纸质材料，以满足那些在乘车途中渴望阅读纸质读物的乘客的需求，并探讨了这一项目对当地交通的影响。 24. C 推理判断题。根据第一段以及最后一段的内容可推知，旧金山湾区快速交通系统发起了小亭项目，旨在满足那些喜欢在乘车过程中阅读纸质材料的乘客的需求。这个项目让乘客在忘记携带纸质阅读材料的情况下，仍能够获得纸质读物。故选C。 25. B 细节理解题。根据第三段中的“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”可知，乘客们进入小亭后，可以自行选择所需打印的故事长度。这意味着小亭里的故事是按照长度进行分类的。故选B。 26. A 细节理解题。根据第五段内容可知，Trost最近组织一场故事大赛。此次大赛热切地邀请当地的作家们踊跃参与投稿，旨在为广大读者提供一个独特的平台，让他们更深入地 了解当地作家。故选A。 27. D 观点态度题。根据倒数第二段可知，所有交通机构都在尽最大努力改善乘客的乘车体验，Trost坚信小亭项目将吸引更多的乘客。换句话说，在Trost看来，旧金山湾区快速交通系统的乘客数量将会增加。故选D。 【2023年新课标I卷】 本文是一篇记叙文。文章讲述了John Todd从小就勇于探索，好奇心强，他很关注大自然处理问题的方式。大学毕业后，他成功设计出一个生态机器来处理污泥。之后他利用自然界生态系统可以自我修复的原理来净化污水，他将之称为“生态设计”。 24. C 推理判断题。根据第一段第一句中的“When John Todd was a child, he loved to explore the woods around his house ...”、第三句中的“John started to wonder if this process could be used to clean up the messes people were making”，以及第二段第一句中的“John went back to observing nature and asking questions ...”可推知，约翰好奇心很强。故选C。 25. D 推理判断题。根据第二段最后两句“... maybe he could clean up waste the way nature did. He decided to build what he would later call an eco-machine.”以及第三段第一句“The task John set for himself was to remove harmful substances from some sludge (污泥).”可推知，约翰把污泥放进去是为了测试生态机器处理污泥的效果。故选D。 26. B 推理判断题。根据倒数第二段最后一句“He also designed an eco-machine to clean canal water in Fuzhou, a city in southeast China.”可知，John在福州设计了一个生态机器来清理运河水。由此可推知，作者提到福州的目的是展示John的理念的应用情况。故选B。 27. A 细节理解题。根据最后一段最后两句“You put organisms in new relationships and observe what’s happening. Then you let these new systems develop their own ways to self-repair.”可知，约翰的研究依据是自然界生态系统，他认为生态系统具有自我修复的能力。故选A。 【2023年新课标II卷】 本文是一篇记叙文。文章描述了Urban Sprouts这一学校园艺项目如何帮助低收入学校的学生发展科学技能、环境意识和健康的生活方式。 24. D 细节理解题。根据第一段第二句“And at first it is, says Abby Jaramillo, who with another teacher started Urban Sprouts, a school garden program at four low-income schools.”可知，Abby Jaramillo是Urban Sprouts项目的发起人之一。故选D。 25. C 细节理解题。根据第二段中的“They come to us thinking vegetables are awful, dirt is awful, insects are awful.”可知，在项目开始时，Jaramillo面临的一个问题是一些孩子不喜欢园艺工作。故选C。 26. A 推理判断题。根据最后一段内容尤其是第一句“She adds that the program’s benefits go beyond nutrition.”可知，该项目的影响是深远的，不仅改变了学生们的饮食习惯，还可以帮助一些受特殊教育的学生控制情绪。故选A。 27. C 标题概括题。文章主要介绍了Urban Sprouts 项目的主要目标和产生的效果，即通过校园园艺项目培养学生们对蔬菜的喜爱，改变他们的饮食习惯。因此，最适合的标题是 “Growing Vegetable Lovers”。故选C。 【2022年新高考I卷】 本文是一篇夹叙夹议文。文章呼吁人们节约粮食，减少浪费，珍惜劳动成果，保护自然资源。 24. B 推理判断题。根据第一段中的“I try to be mindful of food that goes to waste”以及“But I ended up working late ... unthinkingly bought way too much;”可知，作者有心避免浪费食物，但却因加班、与朋友聚餐以及买得太多而使得芝麻菜腐坏，由此推断我们有时会在无意中浪费食物。B选项中的unintentionally与文中的unthinkingly意思相近。故选B。 25. B 细节理解题。根据第三段中的“Producing food that no one eats wastes the water ... an environmental problem.”可知，食物浪费会引发环境问题。故选B。 26. D 细节理解题。根据第四段中的“Curtin is CEO of ... recovers food and turns it into healthy meals ... by taking donations and collecting blemished (有瑕疵的) produce that otherwise would have rotted in fields.”可知，Curtin所在的公司旨在将人们不想要的瑕疵品转化为健康的食物。故选D。 27. A 细节理解题。根据最后一段中的“Everyone can play a part in reducing waste, whether by not purchasing more food than necessary ... not include the side dish you won’t eat.”可知，Curtin建议人们通过仅购买所需食品，以及让餐馆不用提供自己不吃的配菜来减少食物浪费。故选A。 【2022年新高考II卷】 本文是一篇记叙文。文章主要讲述了当今社会人们把多媒体阅读当作日常，以及作者对于这种现象的切身体会和感想。 24. B 词义猜测题。根据第一段内容以及画线词后的“as I was sitting with my 2-year-old grandson on a sofa over the Spring Festival holiday”可知，作者是记者，生活在一个讲故事的新时代，有许多新的多媒体工具。许多年轻人甚至没有意识到它是新的。对他们来说，这很正常。而在春节假期，作者和两岁的孙子坐在沙发上看书时，尤其清楚认识到了这一点。故画线词意思是“我很清楚”。故选B。 25. A 细节理解题。根据第五段中的“He was actually a stranger to books. His father frequently amused the boy with a tablet computer which was loaded with colorful pictures that come alive when you poke them. He thought my storybook was like that.（事实上，他对书本并不熟悉。他的父亲经常用平板电脑里丰富多彩的图片逗他开心，戳它们的时候，这些图片就会变得栩栩如生。他认为我的故事书就是那样的。）”可知，孩子戳故事书是因为他把它当成了平板电脑。故选A。 26. D 细节理解题。根据倒数第三段中的“Well, I may be old, but I’m not hopelessly challenged, digitally speaking. I edit video and produce audio. I use mobile payment. I’ve even built websites.（我可能老了，但从数字技术角度来说，我不是无望地受到了挑战。我编辑视频、制作音频。我用移动支付。我甚至建立了网站。）”可知，作者认为自己懂数字技术。故选D。 27. B 细节理解题。根据倒数第二段中的“There’s one notable gap in my new-media experience, however: I’ve spent little time in front of a camera, since I have a face made for radio.（然而，在我的新媒体体验中有一个明显的缺口：我很少在镜头前待着，因为我的脸是为电台而生的。）”可知，作者作为记者很少出现在电视上。故选B。 【2021年新高考I卷】 本文是一篇记叙文。白天，Robert Titterman是一个律师。但在空闲时间，他在舞台上与钢琴家并肩演出，不是作为音乐家，而是作为乐谱翻页者。 24. A 细节理解题。根据第一段中的“I’ve learnt to read music so I can help Maria in her performance”可知，要想成为一个翻乐谱的人，Titterman应该学会识谱。故选A。 25. C 推理判断题。根据第三段中的“A lot of skills are needed for the job”和第四段中的“Being a page turner requires plenty of practice.”可知，乐谱翻页这份工作需要很多技能，也需要大量的练习。由此可判断出，Titterman作为乐谱翻页者，这项工作是“难度大的，要求高的”。故选C。 26. B 细节理解题。根据第四段中的“each pianist has their own style of ‘nodding’ to indicate a page turn which they need to practice with their page turner”可知，每个钢琴家都有自己的“点头”风格来表示需要翻页，Titterman需要练习辨别钢琴家“点头”的含义，从而正确翻页。故选B。 27. D 细节理解题。根据最后一段中的“He’s absorbed in the music, feeling every note, and I have to say, ‘Turn, turn!’”可判断出，她的丈夫经常沉浸于音乐中而忘记翻页，需要她提醒。故选D。 【2021年新高考II卷】 本文是一篇记叙文。文章讲述了作者为了确保两只老虎幼崽存活，决定在家里全天候照顾它们。 24. A 细节理解题。根据第一段中的“Globally, a third of Sumatran cubs in zoos don’t make it to adulthood, so I decided to give them round-the-clock care at home.（在全球范围内，动物园里三分之一的苏门答腊老虎幼崽活不到成年，所以我决定在家里全天候照顾它们。）”可知，作者把老虎幼崽带回家是为了确保他们的存活。故选A。 25. A 词义猜测题。根据画线词上文中的“As they grew more mobile, we let them move freely around the house during the day, but when we were asleep we had to contain them in a large room, otherwise they’d ...（随着它们的活动越来越多，我们白天让它们在房子里自由活动，但当我们睡觉时，我们必须把它们关在一个大房间里，否则它们会……）”以及后文中的“We’d come down in the morning to find they’d turned the room upside down, and left it looking like a zoo.（我们早上下楼时发现他们把房间弄得乱七八糟，让它看起来像个动物园。）”可推知，画线词意思为“表现不好”。故选A。 26. B 观点态度题。根据第四段中的“Things quickly got very intense due to the huge amount of energy required to look after them. There were some tough times and I just felt extremely tired.（由于需要大量的精力来照顾它们，事情很快变得非常紧张。有一段艰难的日子，我只是觉得非常累。）”可知，作者认为在家里养小老虎累人。故选B。 27. B 推理判断题。根据倒数第二段中的“When Spot and Stripe were four months old, they were learning how to open doors and jump fences, and we knew it really was time for them to go.（当Spot和Stripe四个月大的时候，他们正在学习如何开门和跳栅栏，我们知道是时候让他们离开了。）”可推知，作者决定把Spot和Stripe送回动物园是因为他们变得难以控制。故选B。 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $ 2021-2025年新高考I+II卷阅读B篇专题突破 【2025年新课标I卷】 In my ninth-grade writing class last year, I met a cowboy who saved his town, a strict father who demanded his son earn straight A’s, and a modern-day Juliet who died of heartbreak after her parents rejected the love of her young life. More than once, I found myself wondering just how my students, who’d created these people, knew their subjects so well. But things were different for their first essay, which was about the question: “Why is writing important?” Most of the essays filled less than one page, and few contained a sentence that could be interpreted as a thesis (论点) statement. I was shocked. Then I realized that the problem was the question itself. They could have written pages on the necessity of computers, but writing, in and of itself, simply didn’t strike them as important. This would have to change. As a new unit started, I asked everyone to write a persuasive piece on a health-related topic of their choice. This time they found the exercise much more interesting. For the next two assignments, a personal-narrative unit followed by a creative-writing workshop, I only required that the piece meet the specifications of its genre (体裁) and that it contain a thesis. The results were staggering. The students took on diverse topics and turned in stories, 10 to 20 pages each, with characters that broadened my view and touched my heart. I walked into class believing that writing is important as a means of communication. However, my students demonstrated something more important to me. When the final bell rang in June, I walked away with a yearbook full of messages about writing’s most powerful significance — the ability to connect people, to put us in another’s skin, to teach us what it means to be human. 24. Who are the people mentioned at the beginning of paragraph 1? A. Ninth graders. B. Students’ parents. C. Modern writers. D. Fictional characters. 25. Why did the students perform poorly in writing their first essay? A. They were not given enough time. B. They had a very limited vocabulary. C. They misunderstood the question. D. They had little interest in the topic. 26. What does the underlined word “staggering” in paragraph 3 mean? A. Mixed. B. Amazing. C. Similar. D. Disturbing. 27. What does the author’s experience show? A. Teaching is learning. B. Still waters run deep. C. Knowledge is power. D. Practice makes perfect. 【2025年新课标II卷】 Kathy Ho teaches high school inside Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford (LPCH). “Sometimes I don’t like saying that I’m a teacher, ” says Ho. “People get in their minds an idea of what teachers do, but that’s not really what it is here.” “Here” is room 386, where each year, about 500 LPCH patients also become students. The hospital school is free of parents, doctors, and medical procedures. It’s a place of learning. About half of Ho’s students stay for a week or less; others are there for more than a year. Most of Ho’s students will recover, which means that preparing them to return to school is an increasingly important component of care. Still, in room 386, academics don’t come first. Physical health and mental health are the priority. “If you’re scared about something and thinking only about that, there’s no way you’re going to be able to learn,” Ho says. “I’m a coach, an adviser, and a comforter, and that’s what it means to be a hospital teacher. ” There are up to 30 students at any given time in Ho’s class. She generally works with their regular teachers to get lessons and tests being used at their home schools. Some teachers don’t give the kids any assignments; they express sympathy instead. “I feel like it is a disservice to the kids,” Ho says. “They think their teachers don’t care about their schoolwork.” Ho recognizes the psychological benefit of helping kids keep up with their peers (同龄人) outside the hospital. “I actually think the medicine is only a small piece for some problems,” says Julie Good, director of pain management services at LPCH. “It’s about problem-solving around what it means to have a full life. Those kids have dreams. School can keep those dreams alive by giving kids a way to learn and grow. ” 24. Who does Ho teach at LPCH? A. Sick children. B. Young nurses. C. Medical students. D. Patients’ parents. 25. What is a characteristic of Ho’s job? A. Prioritizing academics. B. Encouraging innovation. C. Treating various diseases. D. Playing multiple roles. 26. What does the underlined word “it” refer to in paragraph 4? A. Offering regular lessons. B. Paying extra attention. C. Assigning no schoolwork. D. Showing no sympathy. 27. How does the hospital school benefit the students according to Good? A. It eases peer pressure. B. It helps them live in hope. C. It frees them from aches. D. It entertains them with stories. 【2024年新课标I卷】 “I am not crazy,” says Dr. William Farber, shortly after performing acupuncture (针灸) on a rabbit, “I am ahead of my time.” If he seems a little defensive, it might be because even some of his coworkers occasionally laugh at his unusual methods. But Farber is certain he’ll have the last laugh. He’s one of a small but growing number of American veterinarians (兽医) now practicing “holistic” medicine — combining traditional Western treatments with acupuncture, chiropractic (按摩疗法) and herbal medicine. Farber, a graduate of Colorado State University, started out as a more conventional veterinarian. He became interested in alternative treatments 20 years ago when he suffered from terrible back pain. He tried muscle-relaxing drugs but found little relief. Then he tried acupuncture, an ancient Chinese practice, and was amazed that he improved after two or three treatments. What worked on a veterinarian seemed likely to work on his patients. So, after studying the techniques for a couple of years, he began offering them to pets. Leigh Tindale’s dog Charlie had a serious heart condition. After Charlie had a heart attack, Tindale says, she was prepared to put him to sleep, but Farber’s treatments eased her dog’s suffering so much that she was able to keep him alive for an additional five months. And Priscilla Dewing reports that her horse, Nappy, “moves more easily and rides more comfortably” after a chiropractic adjustment. Farber is certain that the holistic approach will grow more popular with time, and if the past is any indication, he may be right: Since 1982, membership in the American Holistic Veterinary Medical Association has grown from 30 to over 700. “Sometimes it surprises me that it works so well,” he says. “I will do anything to help an animal. That’s my job.” 24. What do some of Farber’s coworkers think of him? A. He’s odd. B. He’s strict. C. He’s brave. D. He’s rude. 25. Why did Farber decide to try acupuncture on pets? A. He was trained in it at university. B. He was inspired by another veterinarian. C. He benefited from it as a patient. D. He wanted to save money for pet owners. 26. What does paragraph 3 mainly talk about? A. Steps of a chiropractic treatment. B. The complexity of veterinarians’ work. C. Examples of rare animal diseases. D. The effectiveness of holistic medicine. 27. Why does the author mention the American Holistic Veterinary Medical Association? A. To prove Farber’s point. B. To emphasize its importance. C. To praise veterinarians. D. To advocate animal protection. 【2024年新课标II卷】 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. 24. 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. 25. How are the stories categorized in the kiosk? A. By popularity. B. By length. C. By theme. D. By language. 26. 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. 27. 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. 【2023年新课标I卷】 When John Todd was a child, he loved to explore the woods around his house, observing how nature solved problems. A dirty stream, for example, often became clear after flowing through plants and along rocks where tiny creatures lived. When he got older, John started to wonder if this process could be used to clean up the messes people were making. After studying agriculture, medicine, and fisheries in college, John went back to observing nature and asking questions. Why can certain plants trap harmful bacteria (细菌)? Which kinds of fish can eat cancer-causing chemicals? With the right combination of animals and plants, he figured, maybe he could clean up waste the way nature did. He decided to build what he would later call an eco-machine. The task John set for himself was to remove harmful substances from some sludge (污泥). First, he constructed a series of clear fiberglass tanks connected to each other. Then he went around to local ponds and streams and brought back some plants and animals. He placed them in the tanks and waited. Little by little, these different kinds of life got used to one another and formed their own ecosystem. After a few weeks, John added the sludge. He was amazed at the results. The plants and animals in the eco-machine took the sludge as food and began to eat it! Within weeks, it had all been digested, and all that was left was pure water. Over the years, John has taken on many big jobs. He developed a greenhouse-like facility that treated sewage (污水) from 1,600 homes in South Burlington. He also designed an eco-machine to clean canal water in Fuzhou, a city in southeast China. “Ecological design” is the name John gives to what he does. “Life on Earth is kind of a box of spare parts for the inventor,” he says. “You put organisms in new relationships and observe what’s happening. Then you let these new systems develop their own ways to self-repair.” 24. What can we learn about John from the first two paragraphs? A. He was fond of traveling. B. He enjoyed being alone. C. He had an inquiring mind. D. He longed to be a doctor. 25. Why did John put the sludge into the tanks? A. To feed the animals. B. To build an ecosystem. C. To protect the plants. D. To test the eco-machine. 26. What is the author’s purpose in mentioning Fuzhou? A. To review John’s research plans. B. To show an application of John’s idea. C. To compare John’s different jobs. D. To erase doubts about John’s invention. 27. What is the basis for John’s work? A. Nature can repair itself. B. Organisms need water to survive. C. Life on Earth is diverse. D. Most tiny creatures live in groups. 【2023年新课标II卷】 Turning soil, pulling weeds, and harvesting cabbage sound like tough work for middle and high school kids. And at first it is, says Abby Jaramillo, who with another teacher started Urban Sprouts, a school garden program at four low-income schools. The program aims to help students develop science skills, environmental awareness, and healthy lifestyles. Jaramillo’s students live in neighborhoods where fresh food and green space are not easy to find and fast food restaurants outnumber grocery stores. “The kids literally come to school with bags of snacks and large bottles of soft drinks,” she says. “They come to us thinking vegetables are awful, dirt is awful, insects are awful.” Though some are initially scared of the insects and turned off by the dirt, most are eager to try something new. Urban Sprouts’ classes, at two middle schools and two high schools, include hands-on experiments such as soil testing, flower-and-seed dissection, tastings of fresh or dried produce, and work in the garden. Several times a year, students cook the vegetables they grow, and they occasionally make salads for their entire schools. Program evaluations show that kids eat more vegetables as a result of the classes. “We have students who say they went home and talked to their parents and now they’re eating differently,” Jaramillo says. She adds that the program’s benefits go beyond nutrition. Some students get so interested in gardening that they bring home seeds to start their own vegetable gardens. Besides, working in the garden seems to have a calming effect on Jaramillo’s special education students, many of whom have emotional control issues. “They get outside,” she says, “and they feel successful.” 24. What do we know about Abby Jaramillo? A. She used to be a health worker. B. She grew up in a low-income family. C. She owns a fast food restaurant. D. She is an initiator of Urban Sprouts. 25. What was a problem facing Jaramillo at the start of the program? A. The kids’ parents distrusted her. B. Students had little time for her classes. C. Some kids disliked garden work. D. There was no space for school gardens. 26. Which of the following best describes the impact of the program? A. Far-reaching. B. Predictable. C. Short-lived. D. Unidentifiable. 27. What can be a suitable title for the text? A. Rescuing School Gardens B. Experiencing Country Life C. Growing Vegetable Lovers D. Changing Local Landscape 【2022年新高考I卷】 Like most of us, I try to be mindful of food that goes to waste. The arugula (芝麻菜) was to make a nice green salad, rounding out a roast chicken dinner. But I ended up working late. Then friends called with a dinner invitation. I stuck the chicken in the freezer. But as days passed, the arugula went bad. Even worse, I had unthinkingly bought way too much; I could have made six salads with what I threw out. In a world where nearly 800 million people a year go hungry, “food waste goes against the moral grain,” as Elizabeth Royte writes in this month’s cover story. It’s jaw-dropping how much perfectly good food is thrown away — from “ugly” (but quite eatable) vegetables rejected by grocers to large amounts of uneaten dishes thrown into restaurant garbage cans. Producing food that no one eats wastes the water, fuel, and other resources used to grow it. That makes food waste an environmental problem. In fact, Royte writes, “if food waste were a country, it would be the third largest producer of greenhouse gases in the world.” If that’s hard to understand, let’s keep it as simple as the arugula at the back of my refrigerator. Mike Curtin sees my arugula story all the time — but for him, it’s more like 12 boxes of donated strawberries nearing their last days. Curtin is CEO of DC Central Kitchen in Washington, D.C., which recovers food and turns it into healthy meals. Last year it recovered more than 807,500 pounds of food by taking donations and collecting blemished (有瑕疵的) produce that otherwise would have rotted in fields. And the strawberries? Volunteers will wash, cut, and freeze or dry them for use in meals down the road. Such methods seem obvious, yet so often we just don’t think. “Everyone can play a part in reducing waste, whether by no purchasing more food than necessary in your weekly shopping or by asking restaurants to not include the side dish you won’t eat.” Curtin says. 24. What does the author want to show by telling the arugula story? A. We pay little attention to food waste. B. We waste food unintentionally at times. C. We waste more vegetables than meat. D. We have good reasons for wasting food. 25. What is a consequence of food waste according to the text? A. Moral decline. B. Environmental harm. C. Energy shortage. D. Worldwide starvation. 26. What does Curtin’s company do? A. It produces kitchen equipment. B. It turns rotten arugula into clean fuel. C. It helps local farmers grow fruits. D. It makes meals out of unwanted food. 27. What does Curtin suggest people do? A. Buy only what is needed. B. Reduce food consumption. C. Go shopping once a week. D. Eat in restaurants less often. 【2022年新高考II卷】 We journalists live in a new age of storytelling, with many new multimedia tools. Many young people don’t even realize it’s new. For them, it’s just normal. This hit home for me as I was sitting with my 2-year-old grandson on a sofa over the Spring Festival holiday. I had brought a children’s book to read. It had simple words and colorful pictures — a perfect match for his age. Picture this: my grandson sitting on my lap as I hold the book in front so he can see the pictures. As I read, he reaches out and pokes (戳) the page with his finger. What’s up with that? He just likes the pictures, I thought. Then I turned the page and continued. He poked the page even harder. I nearly dropped the book. I was confused: Is there something wrong with this kid? Then I realized what was happening. He was actually a stranger to books. His father frequently amused the boy with a tablet computer which was loaded with colorful pictures that come alive when you poke them. He thought my storybook was like that. Sorry, kid. This book is not part of your high-tech world. It’s an outdated, lifeless thing. An antique, like your grandfather. Well, I may be old, but I’m not hopelessly challenged, digitally speaking. I edit video and produce audio. I use mobile payment. I’ve even built websites. There’s one notable gap in my new-media experience, however: I’ve spent little time in front of a camera, since I have a face made for radio. But that didn’t stop China Daily from asking me last week to share a personal story for a video project about the integration of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei province. Anyway, grandpa is now an internet star — two minutes of fame! I promise not to let it go to my head. But I will make sure my 2-year-old grandson sees it on his tablet. 24. What do the underlined words “hit home for me” mean in paragraph 2? A. Provided shelter for me. B. Became very clear to me. C. Took the pressure off me. D. Worked quite well on me. 25. Why did the kid poke the storybook? A. He took it for a tablet computer. B. He disliked the colorful pictures. C. He was angry with his grandpa. D. He wanted to read it by himself. 26. What does the author think of himself? A. Socially ambitious. B. Physically attractive. C. Financially independent. D. Digitally competent. 27. What can we learn about the author as a journalist? A. He lacks experience in his job. B. He seldom appears on television. C. He manages a video department. D. He often interviews internet stars. 【2021年新高考I卷】 By day, Robert Titterman is a lawyer. In his spare time though he goes on stage beside pianist Maria Raspopova — not as a musician but as her page turner. “I’m not a trained musician, but I’ve learnt to read music so I can help Maria in her performance.” Mr Titterman is chairman of the Omega Ensemble but has been the group’s official page turner for the past four years. His job is to sit beside the pianist and turn the pages of the score so the musician doesn’t have to break the flow of sound by doing it themselves. He said he became just as nervous as those playing instruments on stage. “A lot of skills are needed for the job. You have to make sure you don’t turn two pages at once and make sure you find the repeats in the music when you have to go back to the right spot,” Mr Titterman explained. Being a page turner requires plenty of practice. Some pieces of music can go for 40 minutes and require up to 50 page turns, including back turns for repeat passages. Silent onstage communication is key, and each pianist has their own style of “nodding” to indicate a page turn which they need to practise with their page turner. But like all performances, there are moments when things go wrong. “I was turning the page to get ready for the next page, but the draft wind from the turn caused the spare pages to fall off the stand,” Mr Titterman said, “Luckily I was able to catch them and put them back.” Most page turners are piano students or up-and-coming concert pianists, although Ms Raspopova has once asked her husband to help her out on stage. “My husband is the worst page turner,” she laughed. “He’s obsorbed in the music, feeling every note, and I have to say, ‘Turn, turn!’ Robert is the best page turner I’ve had in my entire life.” 24. What should Titterman be able to do to be a page turner? A. Read music. B. Play the piano. C. Sing songs. D. Fix the instruments. 25. Which of the following best describes Titterman’s job on stage? A. Boring. B. Well-paid. C. Demanding. D. Dangerous. 26. What does Titterman need to practise? A. Counting the pages. B. Recognizing the “nodding”. C. Catching falling objects. D. Performing in his own style. 27. Why is Ms Raspopova’s husband “the worse page turner”？ A. He has very poor eyesight. B. He ignores the audience. C. He has no interest in music. D. He forgets to do his job 【2021年新高考II卷】 I have worked as a keeper at the National Zoo for 11 years. Spot and Stripe are the first tiger cubs (幼兽) that have ever been born here. Globally, a third of Sumatran cubs in zoos don’t make it to adulthood, so I decided to give them round-the-clock care at home. I’ve got two children — the younger one, Kynan, was extremely happy about the tigers arriving — but all of us really looked forward to being part of their lives and watching them grow. I wasn’t worried about bringing them into my home with my wife and kids. These were cubs. They weighed about 2.5 kg and were so small that there was absolutely no risk. As they grew more mobile, we let them move freely around the house during the day, but when we were asleep we had to contain them in a large room, otherwise they’d get up to mischief. We’d come down in the morning to find they’d turned the room upside down, and left it looking like a zoo. Things quickly got very intense due to the huge amount of energy required to look after them. There were some tough times and I just felt extremely tired. I was grateful that my family was there to help. We had to have a bit of a production line going, making up “tiger milk”, washing baby bottles, and cleaning the floors. When Spot and Stripe were four months old, they were learning how to open doors and jump fences, and we knew it really was time for them to go. It was hard for us to finally part with them. For the first few days, Kynan was always a bit disappointed that the cubs weren’t there. I’m not sad about it. I’m hands-on with them every day at the zoo, and I do look back very fondly on the time that we had them. 24. Why did the author bring the tiger cubs home? A. To ensure their survival. B. To observe their differences. C. To teach them life skills. D. To let them play with his kids. 25. What do the underlined words “get up to mischief’ mean in paragraph 3? A. Behave badly. B. Lose their way. C. Sleep soundly. D. Miss their mom. 26. What did the author think of raising the tiger cubs at home? A. Boring. B. Tiring. C. Costly. D. Risky. 27. Why did the author decide to send Spot and Stripe back to the zoo? A. They frightened the children. B. They became difficult to contain. C. They annoyed the neighbors. D. They started fighting each other. 1 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $