2026年9-10月最新时文阅读练习(GVC+ABC+六选四)第03套-2027届高考英语一轮复习专项

2026 年 9—10 月最新时文阅读练习（GVC + ABC + 六选四） · 教师版 2026 年 9—10 月最新时文阅读练习（GVC + ABC + 六选四） 教师版 · 含答案与解析 　 Set 3 　 II. Grammar and Vocabulary 　 Section A　Grammar 出处：Smithsonian Magazine · Margherita Bassi · 2026年10月5日 ·《Trio of Scientists Wins Medicine Nobel for Optogenetics》 Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank. 　 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded every year. This year's prize 　　21　　(go) to three scientists who laid the foundations for optogenetics, a technique that allows researchers to control nerve cells with light. Optogenetics works by 　　22　　(change) an animal's nerve cells so that they become sensitive to light. When a certain colour of light 　　23　　(shine) on these cells, they respond, and this allows scientists to see what individual cells do inside the brain of a living animal. The story began in 　　24　　 early 2000s, when Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel discovered a protein called channelrhodopsin in a type of green algae. The protein sits on the surface of the cell. When blue light hits 　　25　　, the protein opens and lets charged ions rush into the cell, creating an electrical signal. Around the same time, Karl Deisseroth was looking for a way 　　26　　(trigger) such signals in specific nerve cells. He learned about the German team's work, obtained the DNA and put it into rat cells in a dish. The cells began to react to blue light. Deisseroth and his team then worked out how to deliver light into the brains of living animals, 　　27　　(use) a very thin optical fibre. They were even able to make the whiskers of mice move. Over the years, the technique 　　28　　(help) researchers understand conditions such as depression and Alzheimer's disease. Some teams are now testing whether it can restore vision in people 　　29　　 have lost their sight because of a genetic disease. Deisseroth has said it was the riskiest approach his team considered, but the one 　　30　　 worked best. 　 Section B　Vocabulary 出处：Smithsonian Magazine · Sarah Kuta · 2026年10月8日 ·《African Elephants Produce Choruses of Low-Pitched Rumbles》 Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in each blank with a proper word given in the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need. A. emit　B. jumble　C. beyond　D. analyse　E. contexts　F. revealed　G. adopt　H. coordinate　I. mistakes　J. mistaken　K. amplify 　 Elephants communicate in many ways, from body language to their famous trumpeting. They also 　　31　　 low rumbles, some of which are too low for humans to hear and can travel long distances through the air and the ground. These rumbles often occur together in choruses. A new study suggests that these choruses are not simply a 　　32　　 of animals calling at the same time. Instead, they may work as group messages and contain information 　　33　　 what is found in a single rumble. In other words, the group may be saying more than any one animal could say alone. Researchers used machine learning to 　　34　　 902 recordings of rumbles made by wild elephants in Kenya over more than thirty years. The calls were recorded in six social 　　35　　, including greetings and calls that tell the group to move on. The program was able to guess what the elephants were doing better than chance, though it still made plenty of 　　36　　. The results suggest that a chorus, like a single rumble, contains information about who is calling and what they are doing. The study also 　　37　　 something subtler. In certain situations, the individual rumbles within a chorus became more similar to one another — rather like the way people start to 　　38　　 the accent of whoever they are talking to. Because this happened only during greetings and a few other calls, the researchers think it may help families 　　39　　 their activities. Exactly how much meaning the choruses carry is still an open question. Whether other group-living animals communicate in the same way is a question the researchers now hope to explore. Other animals are being studied in the same way. If the technology is used responsibly, it could change what researchers are able to do with the data they collect — though it would be 　　40　　 to treat a computer's guesses as facts. Careful humans, in other words, still have the final word. 　 III. Reading Comprehension 　 Section A　Cloze 出处：素材依据：Nature · 2023–2025年公民科学（citizen science）数据质量与志愿者动机研究综述 · 原创议论文编写（2026年10月） Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context. 　 Science has always depended on observation, but not always on professional observers. For centuries, farmers and sailors recorded the world around them. In recent decades, that tradition has returned in a new form: citizen science, in which volunteers — birdwatchers, gardeners, schoolchildren — collect data for studies designed by professionals. The idea sounds like an obvious success: more hands mean more data. Reality, as usual, is more 　　41　　. The benefits are real. A single research team can cover only a handful of sites, while thousands of volunteers can record birds, plants or rainfall across a whole 　　42　　. Just as importantly, volunteers learn how science works — a benefit that no table of numbers could ever 　　43　　. The doubts are real, too. Amateur observations vary in quality, and a study that combines tens of thousands of them may carry hidden 　　44　　: volunteers who love butterflies tend to walk where butterflies are, which makes the insects look more common than they are. Researchers have responded with training, with apps that check records before they are submitted, and with statistical tools designed to 　　45　　 such effects. A second concern is motivation. Volunteers are not employees: they cannot be 　　46　　 to take part, and they owe the project nothing. A long-running survey found that most participants left within a year — not because the science was uninteresting, but because they never heard how their data had been used. In other words, 　　47　　 matters as much as instruction. Projects that send updates and thank volunteers by name keep far more of them. Then there is the question of credit. Volunteers may spend years counting birds, yet their names 　　48　　 appear on the papers they made possible. Some journals now list contributors in an appendix, and a few projects allow volunteers to 　　49　　 in the design of the study, not merely collect data for others. People who feel like partners behave like partners. Whether citizen science can produce results as 　　50　　 as those of professional teams is still debated. The question is no longer whether volunteers can help; it is how projects should be 　　51　　 so that they do. The 　　52　　 of a citizen-science project lies not in the number of volunteers it attracts but in the care with which it is built. Where a study is designed well, volunteers produce data that professionals trust; where it is not, a million records are worth 　　53　　. Any organisation that asks the public for help must decide whether it wants a crowd or a community — a question that applies far 　　54　　 the world of science. A crowd is easy to gather and easy to lose. A community takes time to 　　55　　. 　 41. A. encouraging B. complicated C. expensive D. familiar 42. A. street B. garden C. species D. continent 43. A. print B. repeat C. capture D. explain 44. A. bias B. profit C. courage D. beauty 45. A. create B. correct C. excuse D. ignore 46. A. invited B. taught C. trained D. ordered 47. A. payment B. training C. feedback D. distance 48. A. always B. often C. still D. seldom 49. A. participate B. remain C. persist D. succeed 50. A. cheap B. reliable C. simple D. familiar 51. A. funded B. named C. designed D. counted 52. A. value B. cost C. danger D. mystery 53. A. double B. praise C. little D. fame 54. A. across B. behind C. above D. beyond 55. A. build B. buy C. count D. end 　 Section B　Reading Comprehension Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read. 　 Passage A Source: Scientific American, October 2026 　 Artificial intelligence has become an energy story, and the numbers are now large enough that they no longer sound like technology at all. A single training cluster can draw more power than a small city. When a company decides that the existing grid cannot be expanded quickly enough to supply it, it has two choices: wait, or build its own. One company has chosen the second. Across two states it assembled a private power system dedicated to its data centres, running ahead of permits and installing generation capacity next to residents who now live with the noise and exhaust. At moments of peak demand the system draws 150 megawatts — enough, by common rules of thumb, for something like a hundred thousand homes. The engineering is impressive. Supporters argue that speed is the whole point. Every month of delay is a month in which a rival, possibly in another country, captures the market; and because data centres can be sited almost anywhere, a company that is asked to wait in one jurisdiction can simply move. On this view, permitting rules designed for factories and power stations in the twentieth century are simply too slow for an industry whose products can be copied overnight. The objection is not that the electricity is being used, but who bears the cost of producing it. A private plant built next to a village transfers a set of burdens — noise, air quality, land use, and the risk that the operator will leave once the equipment is obsolete — onto people who did not choose them and who receive, in most cases, no share of the benefit. The arrangement also removes the project from the public processes that would normally require a company to justify a siting decision and to answer objections. It is tempting to treat this as a dispute about one company, or one technology, or one particularly impatient decade. That reading is too kind. Every industry that has ever needed a great deal of power has had to negotiate with the people who live near it, and the negotiation has usually been settled by law rather than goodwill. What is new is the speed at which the demand has arrived, and the ease with which the demand can move elsewhere. Both are arguments for deciding the rules in advance, before the next cluster is ordered. 　 56. What does the passage say about the company's decision? A. It chose to wait for the public grid to be expanded. B. It built its own power system before permits were granted. C. It moved its data centres to another country. D. It reduced its power demand to fit the existing supply. 　 57. What is the main argument made by supporters of the company's approach? A. Private power is cleaner than electricity from the grid. B. Speed matters because competitors can relocate easily. C. Data centres create more jobs than factories do. D. Permitting rules should be abolished altogether. 　 58. What is the writer's main objection to the arrangement? A. The technology is not useful enough to justify the power it uses. B. Local people carry the costs without sharing in the benefits. C. The company has broken a specific law in two states. D. Private generation is less reliable than the public grid. 　 59. What does the writer conclude in the final paragraph? A. The dispute will disappear once the technology matures. B. Rules should be settled in advance rather than case by case. C. Companies should be required to build inside cities. D. Communities should be given a share of the electricity. 　 　 Passage B Source: Smithsonian Magazine, October 2026 　 THE ROUTE　　Shikoku, Japan's smallest and least-populated major island, is circled by a 750-mile path linking eighty-eight temples associated with the monk Kūkai. Most walkers complete sections rather than the whole circuit, and there is no requirement to finish. Travelling on foot the entire way takes around six weeks; by bicycle, two. WHEN TO GO　　Spring and autumn are the traditional seasons, and the route is busiest in April. Summer is hot and humid, and the typhoon season can close mountain paths at short notice. Winter is quiet and dry on the south coast but cold in the interior, where several temples sit above 800 metres. WHERE TO SLEEP　　Accommodation falls into three kinds. Temple lodgings (shukubō) offer a room and two vegetarian meals, and must be booked well in advance. Family-run guesthouses are cheaper and found in most towns along the route. There are also free rest huts (henro-goya), but they are basic, unheated and frequently full in peak season. COSTS　　Budget around ¥8,000–12,000 a day for lodgings and food if you stay in guesthouses and eat simply. Temple lodgings cost more, from ¥9,000, meals included. Many temples accept a small offering rather than an entrance fee; the customary amount is ¥500. WHAT TO CARRY　　A white jacket and a walking stick are the traditional markers of a pilgrim and are widely available in the first town you reach. Neither is compulsory, but local people use them to recognise walkers, and the effect on how you are treated is noticeable. Bring cash: many small temples and huts have no card facilities. A NOTE ON MANNERS　　The route passes through working villages. Photography inside temple halls is usually forbidden, and the chanting of local groups should not be interrupted for a picture. Walkers who keep to the path and greet people they pass report the warmest reception. 　 Item Key information The route 750 miles circling eighty-eight temples; six weeks on foot, two by bicycle When to go spring and autumn, busiest in April; typhoons in summer; cold above 800 m Sleeping temple lodgings (book early, two meals), family guesthouses (cheaper), free rest huts (basic) Daily cost ¥8,000–12,000 in guesthouses; from ¥9,000 in temple lodgings, meals included What to carry white jacket and walking stick (optional but recognised); cash for small temples 　 60. According to the guide, how long does it take to complete the whole circuit? A. About six weeks on foot or two weeks by bicycle. B. About two weeks on foot or six weeks by bicycle. C. About six months on foot and two months by bicycle. D. It cannot be completed on foot in a single season. 　 61. What is said about temple lodgings? A. They are the cheapest option on the route. B. They provide two meals and require early booking. C. They are only available in the south of the island. D. They do not accept foreign visitors without a guide. 　 62. Why does the guide recommend carrying a white jacket and walking stick? A. They are required for entry to most temples. B. They qualify walkers for cheaper lodgings. C. They help local people recognise you as a pilgrim. D. They are needed to protect against cold mountain weather. 　 　 Passage C Source: Smithsonian Magazine, October 2026 　 A pregnancy test is, in essence, an answer that arrives in silence. The result appears as a coloured line, a plus sign or a word on a small screen, and almost every design decision in the last forty years has assumed that the person holding it can see. For a blind woman, that assumption turns a private moment into an appointment: she must ask someone to read the result for her. Sneha Rao, a design student, began thinking about the problem after a conversation with a friend who works in disability support. What surprised her was not that the gap existed but how long it had survived. Tests had been redesigned for speed, for accuracy, for early detection — never for touch. Her answer is a lollipop. Called Tact, the device uses the same chemistry as a conventional test, but it displays the outcome in two ways at once. A section of the handle swells into a raised bump if the result is positive, so it can be felt with a finger. And the sweet itself carries a taste — deliberately neutral if the answer is negative, noticeably different if it is not — so it can be read with the tongue. The choice of taste rather than sound was not accidental. Sound can be overheard, and a spoken result in a shared bathroom or a clinic waiting room is exactly the loss of privacy the device is meant to prevent. Taste, Rao argues, is the quietest channel available. “Nobody else can hear what you are tasting,” she says. Tact is still a prototype and has not yet been through clinical testing, and Rao is careful not to describe it as a finished product. Developers of assistive technology have learnt to be wary of designs that are celebrated before they are usable; the field is full of elegant ideas that reached a photograph and no further. What the lollipop has already achieved, however, is to make a familiar object strange. Once you have seen a test that answers to the tongue, it becomes hard to argue that the visual one was inevitable. 　 63. What problem does the passage identify with conventional pregnancy tests? A. They are not accurate enough for early detection. B. They assume the user is able to see the result. C. They are too expensive for many clinics to stock. D. They cannot be used without medical supervision. 　 64. What surprised Sneha Rao when she began looking into the problem? A. That so few blind women used pregnancy tests at all. B. That the problem had gone unaddressed for so long. C. That disability groups had never raised the issue. D. That the chemistry of testing was so simple. 　 65. Why did Rao choose taste rather than sound as the second channel? A. Taste is easier to detect for people who have never seen colour. B. Sound would reveal the result to anyone nearby. C. Taste testing is cheaper to manufacture at scale. D. Sound devices are not permitted in clinics. 　 66. What does the writer suggest in the final paragraph? A. The device is ready to be sold to the public. B. Its main value so far is to challenge what design had taken for granted. C. Clinical testing is unnecessary for assistive devices. D. Most assistive technologies fail for commercial reasons. 　 　 Section C Source: Nature, 13 October 2026 Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need. 　 Mangrove forests do two jobs that coastal planners care about. They absorb the energy of incoming water, and they lock carbon into the mud beneath them at rates few other ecosystems can match. Restoring them is therefore attractive, because one project can be presented as flood defence and climate policy at the same time. 　　67　　 Planting programmes have nevertheless failed often, and the reason is not always obvious. Seedlings go into the ground, they survive a season or two, and then, after a winter of unusually heavy swell, they are gone. Whether a stretch of open coast can support mangroves at all was, until recently, a question answered mainly by trial and error. 　　68　　 A team at the University of New South Wales approached it on a global scale. Using three swell zones and records from four hundred coastal stations, the researchers built a model that predicts whether mangroves can establish themselves on an exposed shore. Wave action, they found, is the decisive control. 　　69　　 Outside that window, no amount of planting will help. The result has a practical edge. A moderate increase or decrease in wave forcing changes whether a site is suitable, which means that a shifting wave climate could move the boundaries of mangrove forests over the coming decades. 　　70　　 For anyone planning a restoration project, then, the order of work is clear: measure the water first, and order the seedlings afterwards. 　 A. Where the forcing is low enough, there is a window in which seedlings can take hold. B. The model reproduced observed mangrove presence with an accuracy of about 78 per cent. C. Mangroves also shelter fish nurseries, which is why fishing communities value them. D. The difficulty is knowing in advance where they will survive. E. Sites that are suitable today, in other words, may not be suitable in fifty years. F. Sea walls, by comparison, are more expensive and provide no habitat. 　 ANSWERS AND EXPLANATIONS 　 Section A　Grammar 21. went　【一般过去时】this year's prize 已颁发，用过去时。 22. changing　【动名词】by 为介词，后接动名词。 23. shines　【一般现在时 + 主谓一致】light 为不可数名词，谓语用第三人称单数；描述客观原理用现在时。 24. the　【定冠词】in the early 2000s 为固定表达，年代前须加 the。 25. it　【代词】指代前文 the protein（单数）。 26. to trigger　【不定式】a way to do sth 结构，不定式作后置定语。 27. using　【现在分词作状语】team 与 use 主动关系，表方式。 28. has helped　【现在完成时】over the years 为现在完成时的标志性状语。 29. who　【定语从句】先行词 people 指人，从句缺主语。 30. that　【定语从句】先行词为 the one（指物），从句缺主语，用 that。【辨析】前文已用 who 指人，此处不重复关系词。 速查：21. went　22. changing　23. shines　24. the　25. it　26. to trigger　27. using　28. has helped　29. who　30. that 　 Section B　Vocabulary 31. A（emit）　【动词原形】They also ___ low rumbles；emit 表“发出（声音）”，与 communicate 呼应。 32. B（jumble）　【名词】not simply a ___ of animals calling；jumble 表“杂乱的一堆”。 33. C（beyond）　【介词】information ___ what is found in a single rumble，表“超出单个低鸣所含的信息”。 34. D（analyse）　【动词原形】used machine learning to ___；analyse 表“分析”。 35. E（contexts）　【名词复数】six social ___ 需复数，表“（社交）情境”。 36. I（mistakes）　【名词复数】made plenty of ___；make mistakes 为固定搭配。 37. F（revealed）　【动词过去式】The study also ___ something；reveal 表“揭示”。 38. G（adopt）　【动词原形】start to ___ the accent；adopt 此处指“采纳、模仿（口音）”。 39. H（coordinate）　【动词原形】help families ___ their activities；coordinate 表“协调”。 40. J（mistaken）　【形容词】it would be ___ to treat…；注意与 I. mistakes 同根，须据空格词性区分。 【多余词】K. amplify —— 语篇未讨论“放大声音”。 速查：31-40: A B C D E I F G H J　　多余词: K 　 Section A　Cloze 41. B（complicated）　【句组·转折】冒号前“听起来是明显的成功”与后文“疑虑也是真实存在的”形成对照；Reality, as usual 提示现实比想象复杂。encouraging 与转折方向相反。 42. D（continent）　【句组·对照】only a handful of sites 与 a whole ___ 构成规模对照：专业团队只能覆盖少数地点，志愿者却可覆盖整个“大洲”。street、garden 规模过小。 43. C（capture）　【句组·对照】破折号前列举植物名称、天象征兆与洪水记忆等即将随之消失的知识，说明词典从未“完整地”记录过它们；recorded in full 表“完整记录”。in turn（依次）、in advance（预先）、in short（简言之）均不能表示“完整地”。 44. A（bias）　【句组·例证】冒号后“爱蝴蝶的志愿者总去有蝴蝶的地方”正是“隐藏偏差”的例证，bias 表“偏差”。profit、courage、beauty 与数据质量无关。 45. B（correct）　【句组·因果】培训、审核记录的 App 与统计工具都是为“纠正偏差”而设，与 hidden bias 构成问题—对策关系。create、ignore 与“应对偏差”相反，excuse（找借口）不符语境。 46. D（ordered）　【句组·并列】not employees 之后接 they owe the project nothing，三个并列分句共同说明“志愿者无法被强制”，ordered 表“被命令”。invited、taught 与“无法强制”的逻辑不符。 47. C（feedback）　【句组·复现】后句“发送进展、用平实语言发布结果、点名致谢”是 feedback（反馈）的具体形式；never heard how their data had been used 是最直接的反向线索。payment 与后文列举不符。 48. D（seldom）　【句组·转折】yet 提示与“多年计数”的贡献形成反差：名字“很少”出现在论文上。后文 Some journals now list contributors 说明这是近期才出现的改变。always 与转折矛盾。 49. A（participate）　【句组·对照】not merely collect data for others 提示志愿者从“为他人收集数据”变为“参与研究设计”。participate in 表“参与”；remain、succeed 不能与 in the design 搭配。 50. B（reliable）　【语篇·统摄】全文讨论的核心正是“志愿者数据能否被专业团队信任”，reliable 表“可靠的”。cheap、simple 只涉及成本与难度，与“是否可信”无关。 51. C（designed）　【语篇·复现】末段 Where a study is designed well 与前段 allow volunteers to participate in the design 呼应，强调“项目如何被设计”。funded、counted 与“设计决定成败”的主题不符。 52. A（value）　【语篇·统摄】not in…but in… 表明作者要区分“吸引多少志愿者”与“项目价值所在”，value 表“价值”。cost、danger 与 not…but… 的褒义方向不符。 53. C（little）　【句组·对照】where it is designed well…trust 与 where it is not…worth ___ 形成正反对照，设计不佳则百万条记录“几乎一文不值”。double、praise 与对照方向不符。 54. D（beyond）　【语篇·递进】a question that applies far ___ the world of science 承接上句“任何向公众求助的组织”，说明这一教训“超出”科学界。behind、above 不能表示“范围之外”。 55. A（build）　【句组·对照】与 A crowd is easy to gather and easy to lose 对照：社群需要时间“建立”，却更能持久。buy、count 与 community 的成长逻辑不符。 速查：41-55: B D C A B D C D A B C A C D A 　 逻辑覆盖：转折/对照 6 · 复现/例证 4 · 因果 2 · 语篇统摄 3（共 15 题，四类齐全） 　 Section B　Passage A 56. B　Detail. Para 2: the company assembled a private power system 'running ahead of permits'. A is the option the company rejected; C is a hypothetical response, not what happened; D is not mentioned. 57. B　Detail. Para 3: every month of delay lets a rival capture the market, and a company asked to wait can simply move. A is never claimed; C makes a comparison the text does not make; D overstates — the complaint is that permitting is too slow, not that it should go. 58. B　Detail. Para 4: 'the objection is not that the electricity is being used, but who bears the cost of producing it.' A is not the writer's concern; C alleges a specific offence that is not described; D raises reliability, which is not discussed. 59. B　Inference. The final paragraph argues that every energy-hungry industry has had to negotiate with its neighbours, that the negotiation has usually been settled by law, and that the new factors — speed and mobility — are 'arguments for deciding the rules in advance'. A contradicts this; C and D are not proposed. 　 Section B　Passage B 60. A　Detail. The route entry: about six weeks on foot and two by bicycle. B reverses the two times; C and D are not stated — the guide only notes that most walkers complete sections. 61. B　Detail. The sleeping entry: temple lodgings provide a room and two vegetarian meals and must be booked well in advance. A contradicts 'guesthouses are cheaper'; C and D are unsupported. 62. C　Inference. The carrying entry: neither item is compulsory, 'but local people use them to recognise walkers'. A contradicts 'neither is compulsory'; B and D are not mentioned. 　 Section B　Passage C 63. B　Detail. Para 1: almost every design decision has assumed that the user can see, which forces a blind woman to ask someone to read the result. A contradicts Para 2; C and D are not mentioned. 64. B　Detail. Para 2: what surprised her was not that the gap existed but how long it had survived. A misreads 'design gap' as 'low use'; C and D are unsupported. 65. B　Detail. Para 4: sound can be overheard, and a spoken result in a shared bathroom or clinic is exactly the loss of privacy the device is meant to prevent. A is not the reasoning; C and D are not mentioned. 66. B　Inference. The final paragraph notes that the device is still a prototype, then argues that its achievement so far is to make a familiar object strange. A contradicts 'still a prototype'; C misreads the writer's caution; D invents a commercial explanation. 　 Section C　六选四 67. D　Gap 67, end of para 1 (turn to the problem). The paragraph explains why restoration is attractive; the next paragraph opens with the failure of planting programmes. D supplies the necessary pivot — the difficulty is knowing in advance where mangroves will survive. C adds a third benefit, which cannot introduce a problem. 68. B　Gap 68, mid para 2 (handover to research). The paragraph ends by saying the question was answered mainly by trial and error; the next begins 'A team … approached it on a global scale'. B reports what that model achieved, linking the two paragraphs. F compares sea walls and belongs nowhere here. 69. A　Gap 69, mid para 3 (mechanism). The paragraph names wave action as the decisive control, and the next sentence refers to 'that window'. A supplies the window — low enough forcing lets seedlings take hold. E belongs to the final paragraph; C and F were already ruled out. 70. E　Gap 70, end of para 4 (inference). The paragraph notes that a shifting wave climate could move the boundaries of mangrove forests; E draws the practical consequence — sites suitable today may not be in fifty years — and leads into the closing advice. C and F remain irrelevant. Answers: 67-D　68-B　69-A　70-E 2026 年 9—10 月最新时文阅读练习（GVC + ABC + 六选四） · 教师版 Distractors (not used): C and F Page 1 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 Page 1 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $2026 年 9—10 月最新时文阅读练习（GVC + ABC + 六选四） · 学生版 2026 年 9—10 月最新时文阅读练习（GVC + ABC + 六选四） 学生版 　 Set 3 　 II. Grammar and Vocabulary 　 Section A　Grammar Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank. 　 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded every year. This year's prize 　　21　　(go) to three scientists who laid the foundations for optogenetics, a technique that allows researchers to control nerve cells with light. Optogenetics works by 　　22　　(change) an animal's nerve cells so that they become sensitive to light. When a certain colour of light 　　23　　(shine) on these cells, they respond, and this allows scientists to see what individual cells do inside the brain of a living animal. The story began in 　　24　　 early 2000s, when Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel discovered a protein called channelrhodopsin in a type of green algae. The protein sits on the surface of the cell. When blue light hits 　　25　　, the protein opens and lets charged ions rush into the cell, creating an electrical signal. Around the same time, Karl Deisseroth was looking for a way 　　26　　(trigger) such signals in specific nerve cells. He learned about the German team's work, obtained the DNA and put it into rat cells in a dish. The cells began to react to blue light. Deisseroth and his team then worked out how to deliver light into the brains of living animals, 　　27　　(use) a very thin optical fibre. They were even able to make the whiskers of mice move. Over the years, the technique 　　28　　(help) researchers understand conditions such as depression and Alzheimer's disease. Some teams are now testing whether it can restore vision in people 　　29　　 have lost their sight because of a genetic disease. Deisseroth has said it was the riskiest approach his team considered, but the one 　　30　　 worked best. 　 Section B　Vocabulary Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in each blank with a proper word given in the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need. A. emit　B. jumble　C. beyond　D. analyse　E. contexts　F. revealed　G. adopt　H. coordinate　I. mistakes　J. mistaken　K. amplify 　 Elephants communicate in many ways, from body language to their famous trumpeting. They also 　　31　　 low rumbles, some of which are too low for humans to hear and can travel long distances through the air and the ground. These rumbles often occur together in choruses. A new study suggests that these choruses are not simply a 　　32　　 of animals calling at the same time. Instead, they may work as group messages and contain information 　　33　　 what is found in a single rumble. In other words, the group may be saying more than any one animal could say alone. Researchers used machine learning to 　　34　　 902 recordings of rumbles made by wild elephants in Kenya over more than thirty years. The calls were recorded in six social 　　35　　, including greetings and calls that tell the group to move on. The program was able to guess what the elephants were doing better than chance, though it still made plenty of 　　36　　. The results suggest that a chorus, like a single rumble, contains information about who is calling and what they are doing. The study also 　　37　　 something subtler. In certain situations, the individual rumbles within a chorus became more similar to one another — rather like the way people start to 　　38　　 the accent of whoever they are talking to. Because this happened only during greetings and a few other calls, the researchers think it may help families 　　39　　 their activities. Exactly how much meaning the choruses carry is still an open question. Whether other group-living animals communicate in the same way is a question the researchers now hope to explore. Other animals are being studied in the same way. If the technology is used responsibly, it could change what researchers are able to do with the data they collect — though it would be 　　40　　 to treat a computer's guesses as facts. Careful humans, in other words, still have the final word. 　 III. Reading Comprehension 　 Section A　Cloze Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context. 　 Science has always depended on observation, but not always on professional observers. For centuries, farmers and sailors recorded the world around them. In recent decades, that tradition has returned in a new form: citizen science, in which volunteers — birdwatchers, gardeners, schoolchildren — collect data for studies designed by professionals. The idea sounds like an obvious success: more hands mean more data. Reality, as usual, is more 　　41　　. The benefits are real. A single research team can cover only a handful of sites, while thousands of volunteers can record birds, plants or rainfall across a whole 　　42　　. Just as importantly, volunteers learn how science works — a benefit that no table of numbers could ever 　　43　　. The doubts are real, too. Amateur observations vary in quality, and a study that combines tens of thousands of them may carry hidden 　　44　　: volunteers who love butterflies tend to walk where butterflies are, which makes the insects look more common than they are. Researchers have responded with training, with apps that check records before they are submitted, and with statistical tools designed to 　　45　　 such effects. A second concern is motivation. Volunteers are not employees: they cannot be 　　46　　 to take part, and they owe the project nothing. A long-running survey found that most participants left within a year — not because the science was uninteresting, but because they never heard how their data had been used. In other words, 　　47　　 matters as much as instruction. Projects that send updates and thank volunteers by name keep far more of them. Then there is the question of credit. Volunteers may spend years counting birds, yet their names 　　48　　 appear on the papers they made possible. Some journals now list contributors in an appendix, and a few projects allow volunteers to 　　49　　 in the design of the study, not merely collect data for others. People who feel like partners behave like partners. Whether citizen science can produce results as 　　50　　 as those of professional teams is still debated. The question is no longer whether volunteers can help; it is how projects should be 　　51　　 so that they do. The 　　52　　 of a citizen-science project lies not in the number of volunteers it attracts but in the care with which it is built. Where a study is designed well, volunteers produce data that professionals trust; where it is not, a million records are worth 　　53　　. Any organisation that asks the public for help must decide whether it wants a crowd or a community — a question that applies far 　　54　　 the world of science. A crowd is easy to gather and easy to lose. A community takes time to 　　55　　. 　 41. A. encouraging B. complicated C. expensive D. familiar 42. A. street B. garden C. species D. continent 43. A. print B. repeat C. capture D. explain 44. A. bias B. profit C. courage D. beauty 45. A. create B. correct C. excuse D. ignore 46. A. invited B. taught C. trained D. ordered 47. A. payment B. training C. feedback D. distance 48. A. always B. often C. still D. seldom 49. A. participate B. remain C. persist D. succeed 50. A. cheap B. reliable C. simple D. familiar 51. A. funded B. named C. designed D. counted 52. A. value B. cost C. danger D. mystery 53. A. double B. praise C. little D. fame 54. A. across B. behind C. above D. beyond 55. A. build B. buy C. count D. end 　 Section B　Reading Comprehension Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read. 　 Passage A 　 Artificial intelligence has become an energy story, and the numbers are now large enough that they no longer sound like technology at all. A single training cluster can draw more power than a small city. When a company decides that the existing grid cannot be expanded quickly enough to supply it, it has two choices: wait, or build its own. One company has chosen the second. Across two states it assembled a private power system dedicated to its data centres, running ahead of permits and installing generation capacity next to residents who now live with the noise and exhaust. At moments of peak demand the system draws 150 megawatts — enough, by common rules of thumb, for something like a hundred thousand homes. The engineering is impressive. Supporters argue that speed is the whole point. Every month of delay is a month in which a rival, possibly in another country, captures the market; and because data centres can be sited almost anywhere, a company that is asked to wait in one jurisdiction can simply move. On this view, permitting rules designed for factories and power stations in the twentieth century are simply too slow for an industry whose products can be copied overnight. The objection is not that the electricity is being used, but who bears the cost of producing it. A private plant built next to a village transfers a set of burdens — noise, air quality, land use, and the risk that the operator will leave once the equipment is obsolete — onto people who did not choose them and who receive, in most cases, no share of the benefit. The arrangement also removes the project from the public processes that would normally require a company to justify a siting decision and to answer objections. It is tempting to treat this as a dispute about one company, or one technology, or one particularly impatient decade. That reading is too kind. Every industry that has ever needed a great deal of power has had to negotiate with the people who live near it, and the negotiation has usually been settled by law rather than goodwill. What is new is the speed at which the demand has arrived, and the ease with which the demand can move elsewhere. Both are arguments for deciding the rules in advance, before the next cluster is ordered. 　 56. What does the passage say about the company's decision? A. It chose to wait for the public grid to be expanded. B. It built its own power system before permits were granted. C. It moved its data centres to another country. D. It reduced its power demand to fit the existing supply. 　 57. What is the main argument made by supporters of the company's approach? A. Private power is cleaner than electricity from the grid. B. Speed matters because competitors can relocate easily. C. Data centres create more jobs than factories do. D. Permitting rules should be abolished altogether. 　 58. What is the writer's main objection to the arrangement? A. The technology is not useful enough to justify the power it uses. B. Local people carry the costs without sharing in the benefits. C. The company has broken a specific law in two states. D. Private generation is less reliable than the public grid. 　 59. What does the writer conclude in the final paragraph? A. The dispute will disappear once the technology matures. B. Rules should be settled in advance rather than case by case. C. Companies should be required to build inside cities. D. Communities should be given a share of the electricity. 　 　 Passage B 　 THE ROUTE　　Shikoku, Japan's smallest and least-populated major island, is circled by a 750-mile path linking eighty-eight temples associated with the monk Kūkai. Most walkers complete sections rather than the whole circuit, and there is no requirement to finish. Travelling on foot the entire way takes around six weeks; by bicycle, two. WHEN TO GO　　Spring and autumn are the traditional seasons, and the route is busiest in April. Summer is hot and humid, and the typhoon season can close mountain paths at short notice. Winter is quiet and dry on the south coast but cold in the interior, where several temples sit above 800 metres. WHERE TO SLEEP　　Accommodation falls into three kinds. Temple lodgings (shukubō) offer a room and two vegetarian meals, and must be booked well in advance. Family-run guesthouses are cheaper and found in most towns along the route. There are also free rest huts (henro-goya), but they are basic, unheated and frequently full in peak season. COSTS　　Budget around ¥8,000–12,000 a day for lodgings and food if you stay in guesthouses and eat simply. Temple lodgings cost more, from ¥9,000, meals included. Many temples accept a small offering rather than an entrance fee; the customary amount is ¥500. WHAT TO CARRY　　A white jacket and a walking stick are the traditional markers of a pilgrim and are widely available in the first town you reach. Neither is compulsory, but local people use them to recognise walkers, and the effect on how you are treated is noticeable. Bring cash: many small temples and huts have no card facilities. A NOTE ON MANNERS　　The route passes through working villages. Photography inside temple halls is usually forbidden, and the chanting of local groups should not be interrupted for a picture. Walkers who keep to the path and greet people they pass report the warmest reception. 　 Item Key information The route 750 miles circling eighty-eight temples; six weeks on foot, two by bicycle When to go spring and autumn, busiest in April; typhoons in summer; cold above 800 m Sleeping temple lodgings (book early, two meals), family guesthouses (cheaper), free rest huts (basic) Daily cost ¥8,000–12,000 in guesthouses; from ¥9,000 in temple lodgings, meals included What to carry white jacket and walking stick (optional but recognised); cash for small temples 　 60. According to the guide, how long does it take to complete the whole circuit? A. About six weeks on foot or two weeks by bicycle. B. About two weeks on foot or six weeks by bicycle. C. About six months on foot and two months by bicycle. D. It cannot be completed on foot in a single season. 　 61. What is said about temple lodgings? A. They are the cheapest option on the route. B. They provide two meals and require early booking. C. They are only available in the south of the island. D. They do not accept foreign visitors without a guide. 　 62. Why does the guide recommend carrying a white jacket and walking stick? A. They are required for entry to most temples. B. They qualify walkers for cheaper lodgings. C. They help local people recognise you as a pilgrim. D. They are needed to protect against cold mountain weather. 　 　 Passage C 　 A pregnancy test is, in essence, an answer that arrives in silence. The result appears as a coloured line, a plus sign or a word on a small screen, and almost every design decision in the last forty years has assumed that the person holding it can see. For a blind woman, that assumption turns a private moment into an appointment: she must ask someone to read the result for her. Sneha Rao, a design student, began thinking about the problem after a conversation with a friend who works in disability support. What surprised her was not that the gap existed but how long it had survived. Tests had been redesigned for speed, for accuracy, for early detection — never for touch. Her answer is a lollipop. Called Tact, the device uses the same chemistry as a conventional test, but it displays the outcome in two ways at once. A section of the handle swells into a raised bump if the result is positive, so it can be felt with a finger. And the sweet itself carries a taste — deliberately neutral if the answer is negative, noticeably different if it is not — so it can be read with the tongue. The choice of taste rather than sound was not accidental. Sound can be overheard, and a spoken result in a shared bathroom or a clinic waiting room is exactly the loss of privacy the device is meant to prevent. Taste, Rao argues, is the quietest channel available. “Nobody else can hear what you are tasting,” she says. Tact is still a prototype and has not yet been through clinical testing, and Rao is careful not to describe it as a finished product. Developers of assistive technology have learnt to be wary of designs that are celebrated before they are usable; the field is full of elegant ideas that reached a photograph and no further. What the lollipop has already achieved, however, is to make a familiar object strange. Once you have seen a test that answers to the tongue, it becomes hard to argue that the visual one was inevitable. 　 63. What problem does the passage identify with conventional pregnancy tests? A. They are not accurate enough for early detection. B. They assume the user is able to see the result. C. They are too expensive for many clinics to stock. D. They cannot be used without medical supervision. 　 64. What surprised Sneha Rao when she began looking into the problem? A. That so few blind women used pregnancy tests at all. B. That the problem had gone unaddressed for so long. C. That disability groups had never raised the issue. D. That the chemistry of testing was so simple. 　 65. Why did Rao choose taste rather than sound as the second channel? A. Taste is easier to detect for people who have never seen colour. B. Sound would reveal the result to anyone nearby. C. Taste testing is cheaper to manufacture at scale. D. Sound devices are not permitted in clinics. 　 66. What does the writer suggest in the final paragraph? A. The device is ready to be sold to the public. B. Its main value so far is to challenge what design had taken for granted. C. Clinical testing is unnecessary for assistive devices. D. Most assistive technologies fail for commercial reasons. 　 　 Section C Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need. 　 Mangrove forests do two jobs that coastal planners care about. They absorb the energy of incoming water, and they lock carbon into the mud beneath them at rates few other ecosystems can match. Restoring them is therefore attractive, because one project can be presented as flood defence and climate policy at the same time. 　　67　　 Planting programmes have nevertheless failed often, and the reason is not always obvious. Seedlings go into the ground, they survive a season or two, and then, after a winter of unusually heavy swell, they are gone. Whether a stretch of open coast can support mangroves at all was, until recently, a question answered mainly by trial and error. 　　68　　 A team at the University of New South Wales approached it on a global scale. Using three swell zones and records from four hundred coastal stations, the researchers built a model that predicts whether mangroves can establish themselves on an exposed shore. Wave action, they found, is the decisive control. 　　69　　 Outside that window, no amount of planting will help. The result has a practical edge. A moderate increase or decrease in wave forcing changes whether a site is suitable, which means that a shifting wave climate could move the boundaries of mangrove forests over the coming decades. 　　70　　 For anyone planning a restoration project, then, the order of work is clear: measure the water first, and order the seedlings afterwards. 　 A. Where the forcing is low enough, there is a window in which seedlings can take hold. B. The model reproduced observed mangrove presence with an accuracy of about 78 per cent. C. Mangroves also shelter fish nurseries, which is why fishing communities value them. D. The difficulty is knowing in advance where they will survive. E. Sites that are suitable today, in other words, may not be suitable in fifty years. F. Sea walls, by comparison, are more expensive and provide no habitat. 2026 年 9—10 月最新时文阅读练习（GVC + ABC + 六选四） · 学生版 　 Page 1 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 Page 1 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $