2026年9-10月最新时文阅读练习(GVC+ABC+六选四)第06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 6 　 II. Grammar and Vocabulary 　 Section A　Grammar 出处：Smithsonian Magazine · Joshua Rapp Learn · 2026年10月2日 ·《Ancient Pottery Reveals Traces of Chocolate》 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. 　 Pieces of pottery found at Etowah, in the American state of Georgia, have told researchers something unexpected. They have 　　21　　(change) our understanding of how connected the ancient Americas were. The vessels are about a thousand years old. When scientists analysed the material 　　22　　(leave) inside them, they found traces of cacao — the plant that chocolate comes from. Cacao was first grown in Mesoamerica, thousands of kilometres from Georgia, and it was highly valued there. By the eleventh century, it 　　23　　(use) as both a drink and a form of money. Earlier work had found caffeine in similar pottery, but caffeine alone proved nothing, because several plants 　　24　　(native) to the Americas contain it. The team therefore turned to genetic analysis, and it was this that finally settled 　　25　　 question. Care was needed. Ancient DNA is easily damaged, and the scientists had to rule out the possibility 　　26　　 the traces were modern. The pattern of damage they found was consistent with material a thousand years old. The discovery matters because it tells us something about the people who built the great earth mounds at Etowah. For years, archaeologists debated whether their ideas came from 　　27　　(somewhere) else. The cacao suggests that goods and ideas did travel across the continent, though it does not mean the builders copied anyone. Trade was clearly 　　28　　(important) than we once thought. Kinship and exchange networks were much 　　29　　(wide) than historians used to believe. As one researcher said, the find shows that the ancient Southeast was not an isolated place, 　　30　　 part of a much larger world. 　 Section B　Vocabulary 出处：Scientific American · Jackie Flynn Mogensen · 2026年10月9日 ·《Feverish After a Vaccine?》 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. reaction　B. samples　C. move　D. exposed　E. immune　F. vegetarian　G. confirm　H. reduce　I. levels　J. common　K. severe 　 Vaccines save millions of lives, but they often cause mild side effects. Some people feel tired or sore afterwards; others develop a fever. Researchers have long wanted to know why the 　　31　　 is so different from person to person. A study published in Science suggests an answer. The researchers collected 　　32　　 from more than 170 volunteers before and after they received a COVID vaccine, and examined the bacteria in their guts. Earlier studies had hinted at a connection between gut bacteria and the body's defences, but nobody had shown it so clearly. They found that people who developed a fever had higher 　　33　　 of a protein called flagellin. Flagellin is the material that makes up the tail-like structures bacteria use to 　　34　　 around, so the result suggests that these microbes were unusually active. Exactly how the bacteria produce this effect is still being worked out. To test the idea, the team worked with mice. Animals 　　35　　 to bacteria from the feverish volunteers showed a response similar to a human fever, while animals without the relevant receptors were much less affected. This pointed to a direct link between flagellin and the 　　36　　 system. The connection was strongest in people who reported the highest fevers. Why some people carry more flagellin than others is still unclear. Diet may play a part: volunteers who described themselves as 　　37　　 tended to have less of it, though more work is needed to 　　38　　 this. The team cautions that the study shows a link, not a cause. The researchers hope the findings will eventually help 　　39　　 this side effect of vaccines. A fever after a shot is not usually 　　40　　, but it is unpleasant enough to make some people hesitate. If it could be avoided, more people might accept vaccination. If the link holds up, doctors might one day predict who will have a strong response to a shot, and advise them accordingly. 　 III. Reading Comprehension 　 Section A　Cloze 出处：素材依据：UNEP《食物浪费指数报告》（全球约三分之一食物被浪费）、法国反浪费法令与韩国厨余计量收费制度相关报道 · 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. 　 Roughly a third of the food produced for human consumption never reaches a plate. It rots in fields, spoils in warehouses, is thrown away by shops or forgotten at the back of a fridge. Because food must be grown, shipped and chilled before it can be wasted, every discarded loaf carries a hidden 　　41　　: the water, the fuel and the land that produced it. It is tempting to treat the problem as a question of personal 　　42　　 — of shopping lists and containers. In richer countries, much of the waste happens before food reaches a kitchen: farmers leave crops in fields because they are the wrong shape for the market. Households are 　　43　　 for roughly half of all food waste, but they are not acting alone. Two fixes get most of the attention, and both are smaller than they look. The first is the “ugly” vegetable: selling produce that fails a supermarket's cosmetic standards. It is an attractive idea, but it only 　　44　　 the surface, because the bigger cause is overproduction. The second fix is clearer labelling. “Best before” and “use by” mean different things, but shoppers treat both as warnings: a yogurt that is perfectly safe may be 　　45　　 simply because a date has passed. Yet none of these measures touches the deeper 　　46　　: food is cheap enough to waste. That is an uncomfortable thought, because it points towards prices. The water, the land and the emissions that went into producing food are not 　　47　　 in the price on the shelf. Economists call these hidden effects “externalities”. There is a hopeful side. Cutting waste is one of the few climate measures that costs almost nothing and pays immediately. A hospital that serves smaller portions spends less; a city that gives unused food to charities turns a cost into a 　　48　　. Some countries have shown what is possible. France requires supermarkets to 　　49　　 unsold food to charities rather than destroy it, and South Korea charges households for the food they throw away. Not every idea travels well, though: charges that work in a wealthy city may be impossible to 　　50　　 where the nearest collection point is hours away. What travels best is a change in 　　51　　. Waste was once invisible: what left a household in a bin bag was nobody's business. Once cities began to weigh it, count it and publish the figures, it became something that could be 　　52　　. None of this requires heroism. It requires better statistics and the willingness to see wasted food not as a private failing but as a public 　　53　　. In a world where millions still go hungry, throwing away a third of what is grown is also a 　　54　　 question. Plan a little, shop a little, and treat the food you already own as 　　55　　. 　 41. A. reward B. flavour C. price D. secret 42. A. taste B. wealth C. freedom D. discipline 43. A. famous B. responsible C. prepared D. grateful 44. A. scratches B. cleans C. hides D. breaks 45. A. eaten B. bought C. discarded D. imported 46. A. flavour B. cause C. recipe D. journey 47. A. listed B. printed C. praised D. counted 48. A. benefit B. burden C. mystery D. habit 49. A. sell B. cook C. donate D. export 50. A. afford B. enforce C. forget D. translate 51. A. attitude B. climate C. price D. geography 52. A. forgotten B. doubted C. sold D. managed 53. A. victory B. problem C. holiday D. secret 54. A. technical B. financial C. moral D. academic 55. A. valuable B. strange C. cheap D. endless 　 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 　 Physics has a habit of rewarding patience, and that habit has a cost. A hypothesis can be elegant, widely believed and carefully funded for decades without ever producing the evidence that would confirm it. Dark matter offers the clearest current example. The problem is not that dark matter is in doubt; the case for it is overwhelming. The problem is that the favourite explanation of what it is has never shown up. If a new kind of particle exists, and if it interacts only weakly with ordinary matter, then it should occasionally strike an atom in a detector. Build a large enough detector, shield it well enough, and wait. Several generations of instruments have done exactly this, growing from laboratory scale to installations the size of a small building, and the result is a series of ever more restrictive limits. The particles have been ruled out in one mass range after another. Defenders of the search point out, reasonably, that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. There is still a shrinking region of the parameter space that no one has yet excluded, and a single detection would transform the field overnight. Every previous generation of physicists would have been wrong to give up early. That argument is not foolish, and it explains why the search has lasted as long as it has. The objection is about the incentive structure rather than the science. When one idea dominates, it shapes what instruments get built, which students get trained, and which papers get published. Alternatives are not so much rejected as never properly tried. Meanwhile, a small number of anomalies in astronomical data that do not fit the standard picture remain unexplained, largely because nobody with the resources has had a strong reason to look. Abandoning a hypothesis is not the same as abandoning a problem. The case for dark matter rests on the behaviour of galaxies, not on the existence of any particular particle, and that case is untouched by thirty years of null results. The honest position is probably the one that feels least satisfying: we know something is there, we do not know what, and the most popular guess has now been tested hard enough that it is reasonable to start looking elsewhere. 　 56. What is the writer's view of the evidence for dark matter itself? A. It is weaker than the evidence for a particular particle. B. It is strong, regardless of what the particle turns out to be. C. It depends entirely on laboratory detections. D. It has been undermined by recent null results. 　 57. What has been the result of decades of detector experiments? A. A confirmed detection at the lowest masses. B. Progressively tighter limits on where the particle could be. C. Proof that no such particle exists. D. A decision to fund smaller instruments instead. 　 58. What does the writer identify as the main problem? A. The detectors are not sensitive enough to succeed. B. A dominant idea shapes funding, training and publishing. C. Physicists have stopped believing in dark matter. D. There are not enough researchers in the field. 　 59. What does the writer conclude in the final paragraph? A. It is time to stop studying dark matter altogether. B. The problem can be separated from the hypothesis about it. C. A detection is likely within the next few years. D. Astronomers should turn to the unexplained anomalies. 　 　 Passage B Source: compiled from archive access notices, October 2026 　 HANDWRITTEN WEATHER JOURNALS, 1780–1910　　free, no account needed Farmers, doctors and lighthouse keepers kept daily records of temperature, rainfall and wind long before official stations existed. More than 3,000 volumes have been photographed and indexed. Pages may be transcribed by volunteers; entries are matched to modern records to extend the climate series backwards. Odd spellings are kept exactly as written. UNDERWATER EXCAVATION LOGS, 1934–1999　　free with registration The field diaries of early divers, including sketches of objects as they were found, are now available. Searchable by site and by date. Because many of the sites were later disturbed by trawling, the sketches are sometimes the only surviving record of an object's position. High-resolution downloads are limited to 20 images a month per account. MUSEUM OBJECT FILES, 1850–present　　free with registration Acquisition records, conservation notes and letters from donors, covering more than a million objects. Files opened less than thirty years ago may have entries withheld for privacy. Visitors to the reading room can request the complete file; online users see the same document with those lines removed. SOUND RECORDINGS OF ENDANGERED LANGUAGES, 1950–2010　　free, no account needed Field recordings made by linguists, together with their notes on speakers and places. Some recordings are restricted at the request of the communities who made them; the catalogue states the reason and the date until which each restriction applies. No transcription is provided, because the project's policy is that writing the language down would settle questions its speakers are still debating. 　 Archive Period Access Restrictions Handwritten weather journals 1780–1910 free, no account none; spellings kept as written Underwater excavation logs 1934–1999 free with registration twenty high-resolution downloads a month Museum object files 1850–present free with registration recent files have private entries withheld Sound recordings of endangered languages 1950–2010 free, no account some recordings restricted at communities' request 　 60. Which archive can be used without creating an account? A. Underwater excavation logs. B. Museum object files. C. Sound recordings of endangered languages. D. None of them. 　 61. Why are the divers' sketches described as sometimes the only record? A. The objects were later destroyed by trawling. B. The photographers lost their negatives. C. The diaries were written in an unknown code. D. The sites have since been rebuilt as harbours. 　 62. What do the museum and language archives have in common? A. Both keep some material out of public view on purpose. B. Both charge a fee for online access. C. Both provide full transcripts of every item. D. Both are searchable only by date. 　 　 Passage C Source: Smithsonian Magazine, October 2026 　 In the first century BC, a Greek historian warned travellers bound for Egypt that its northern coast was a trap. A sandbank ran along much of the shore, he wrote, invisible to anyone without experience of those waters, and sailors who turned happily towards land would find themselves aground without warning. The only safe harbour on that coast, he concluded, was Pharos. Pharos was both an island and a building. The lighthouse that stood on it — the last of the seven wonders of the ancient world to be built, and the second tallest structure of its age — guided ships for more than a thousand years. Then, after a series of earthquakes in the fourteenth century, it fell into the sea. Some seven hundred years later, almost nothing of it remains above water. Almost nothing, but not nothing. Divers working on the neighbouring island of Antirhodos, where a royal palace once hosted Cleopatra and Mark Antony, have recovered a bronze signet ring bearing an image of the lighthouse. The excavators describe it as the first object of its kind known to exist. Its value lies in what it confirms. Ancient writers left descriptions of the tower, but their accounts disagree, and later artists filled the gaps with invention. Coins from the second century AD are the most reliable documentary evidence, and the ring's design matches them closely: a square base, an octagonal middle section and a circular top. Because signet rings were used by officials to authorise documents, the excavators suggest that the island housed an administrative office responsible for the lighthouse. Much about the ring is still unknown. The announcement gives neither its size nor a precise date, and no one can say who wore it. “The discovery is even more important,” the head of the excavation said, “because it was recovered from the legendary palace of Antirhodos, which was once a centre of power.” For a monument that has vanished, that is a great deal to recover from a single object. 　 63. What does the passage say about the Egyptian coast described by the Greek historian? A. It was easy to approach for experienced sailors. B. It was dangerous because of a hidden sandbank. C. It had several harbours of equal quality. D. It was avoided entirely by traders. 　 64. Why is the signet ring considered valuable to historians? A. It proves who ordered the lighthouse to be built. B. Its design agrees with the most reliable ancient images of the tower. C. It is the only bronze object recovered from the sea. D. It shows how sailors navigated into the harbour. 　 65. What do the excavators infer from the ring's function? A. The lighthouse was administered from the island. B. The ring belonged to a member of the royal family. C. The palace was built after the lighthouse. D. Trade goods were taxed at the harbour entrance. 　 66. What is the writer's attitude towards what the ring has revealed? A. Disappointed that so little can be established. B. Impressed that so much can be learnt from one object. C. Concerned that the site is being damaged by excavation. D. Convinced that the lighthouse has now been located. 　 　 Section C Source: Nature, 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. 　 In an outbreak of a viral haemorrhagic fever, the first obstacle is not the virus but the clothing. Staff treating patients with Ebola must put on protective suits that take twenty minutes to put on, become unbearably hot within an hour, and have to be removed in an exact sequence to avoid contamination. 　　67　　 An intensive-care physician, Richard Kojan, and his colleagues proposed a different approach. Rather than protecting each individual, they would protect the space. Their design, called CUBE, is a chamber nine metres square with transparent plastic walls, kept at negative pressure so that air cannot escape into the surrounding building. The unit can be carried by lorry and assembled on a site that has no hospital at all. 　　68　　 A team can put it up in ninety minutes. The consequences were not confined to infection control. Because the walls are transparent, relatives could stand outside and watch the patient, and staff could take off their hoods between shifts. 　　69　　 As Kojan puts it, it had never before been possible for families to see and spend time with their loved ones in such a facility, and that change did a great deal to reduce fear and tension. CUBE is not a substitute for the strict procedures that stop an outbreak from spreading, and it has not made protective equipment unnecessary in every setting. 　　70　　 What it demonstrates is that some of the hardest problems in epidemic care are not virological at all. 　 A. In a setting where human contact had been reduced to almost nothing, that visibility mattered as much as the isolation did. B. The walls are cleaned with a chlorine solution between patients. C. The result is that patients are seen briefly, and often by staff who are afraid to touch them. D. But it has changed who can be in the room, and for how long. E. Ebola spreads through direct contact with the body fluids of an infected person. F. Inside, staff work in ordinary scrubs and gloves, and can stay for hours at a time. 　 ANSWERS AND EXPLANATIONS 　 Section A　Grammar 21. changed　【现在完成时】强调对现在的影响（改变了我们的认识），用 have changed。 22. left　【过去分词作定语】material 与 leave 被动，相当于 which was left。 23. was used　【一般过去时被动】it 与 use 被动；by the eleventh century 提示过去时间。 24. native　【形容词】native to 为固定搭配，表“原产于…”，此处作后置定语。 25. the　【定冠词】settle the question 表“解决那个（特定的）问题”，特指。 26. that　【同位语从句】the possibility ___ the traces were modern；that 说明 possibility 的内容。 27. somewhere　【副词】came from ___ else 表“来自别处”。 28. more important　【比较级】than 提示；important 为多音节形容词，用 more important。 29. wider　【比较级】than 提示；much 修饰比较级。 30. but　【连词】not…but… 结构，表“不是…而是…”。 速查：21. changed　22. left　23. was used　24. native　25. the　26. that　27. somewhere　28. more important　29. wider　30. but 　 Section B　Vocabulary 31. A（reaction）　【名词】why the ___ is so different；reaction 指接种后的“反应”。 32. B（samples）　【名词复数】collected ___ from more than 170 volunteers，指采集“样本”。 33. I（levels）　【名词复数】higher ___ of a protein 表“更高的（蛋白质）水平”。 34. C（move）　【动词原形】use … to ___ around，不定式后接原形。 35. D（exposed）　【过去分词作定语】Animals ___ to bacteria；be exposed to 固定搭配。 36. E（immune）　【形容词作定语】the ___ system 表“免疫系统”。 37. F（vegetarian）　【名词】described themselves as ___ 后接名词或形容词，此处指“素食者”。 38. G（confirm）　【动词原形】needed to ___ this，表“证实”。 39. H（reduce）　【动词原形】help ___ this side effect；help (to) do 结构。 40. K（severe）　【形容词】is not usually ___ 表“通常不严重”，与 unpleasant 形成程度对比。 【多余词】J. common —— 语篇已有 usually 表达频率。 速查：31-40: A B I C D E F G H K　　多余词: J 　 Section A　Cloze 41. C（price）　【句组·复现】冒号后列举 the water, the fuel and the land 三项，都是被浪费食物所隐含的“代价／成本”，hidden price 与后文 externalities 的论证一脉相承。reward、flavour 与“代价”无关。 42. D（discipline）　【句组·例证】破折号后的 shopping lists and containers（购物清单、保鲜盒）都是“个人自律”的具体做法；下文“多数浪费发生在食物进入厨房之前”是对该视角的反驳。taste、wealth 与“清单、保鲜盒”无关。 43. B（responsible）　【句组·让步】be responsible for 表“对……负责／占……比例”；后文的 but they are not acting alone 提示家庭只是“一半”的责任方，而非唯一责任方。famous、grateful 与“占比”无关。 44. A（scratches）　【句组·转折】But 提示对“丑蔬果”方案的降级评价；only scratches the surface（只触及表面）与后文“真正的元凶是产量过剩”呼应。cleans、breaks 不能与 the surface 构成“治标不治本”的隐喻。 45. C（discarded）　【句组·因果】A yogurt that is perfectly safe 与 merely because a date has passed 形成强烈反差，故安全食品被“丢弃”。eaten、bought 与“日期过了就只能扔”的习惯相反。 46. B（cause）　【句组·递进】Yet none of these measures touches the deeper ___ 指前面的措施都未触及“更深层的原因”，冒号后的 food is cheap enough to waste 正是该原因。flavour、recipe 与“浪费成因”无关。 47. D（counted）　【句组·因果】进入价格讨论后，水、土地与排放显然“没有被计入”货架上的价格，故 hidden effects 才被称为外部性。listed、printed 只涉及“是否被列出”，不能体现“未被纳入成本核算”。 48. A（benefit）　【句组·对照】turns a cost into a ___ 是“成本—收益”对照：原本要花钱处理的余食，转交给慈善机构后变成收益。burden 与“变成”的方向相反（成本仍是成本）。 49. C（donate）　【句组·例证】rather than destroy it 提示对比行为：法国要求超市把未售出食品“捐给”慈善机构，而不是销毁。sell、export 与“反浪费法令”的语境不符。 50. B（enforce）　【句组·让步】Not every idea travels well 是让步前提，故空白应指制度“执行／落实”之难；enforce 表“强制执行”。afford、translate 与“人口稀疏、收运点遥远”的执行障碍无关。 51. A（attitude）　【句组·定义】Waste was once invisible… Once cities began to weigh it… 描述的是人们对待浪费的“态度／观念”变化：从无人过问到可以管理。climate、geography 与“观念转变”无关。 52. D（managed）　【句组·因果】被称重、被统计、被公布之后，浪费就“可被管理”了，managed 与前文 weigh, count, publish 构成“测量—管理”的因果链。forgotten、doubted 与“数据带来治理能力”的方向相反。 53. B（problem）　【句组·对照】not as a private failing but as a public ___ 是“私人—公共”对照：浪费不是个人道德缺陷，而是公共问题。victory 与 not a failing 的语义场不符。 54. C（moral）　【语篇·递进】in a world where millions still go hungry 提示层次上升：在有人仍在挨饿的世界里，浪费三分之一食物也是“道德”问题。technical、academic 削弱了“还有人在挨饿”的伦理分量。 55. A（valuable）　【语篇·收束】与前文 food is cheap enough to waste 形成相反呼应：真正改变要从“把已有的食物视为宝贵”开始。cheap 与全文批判方向冲突，endless 与“第一步很小”的收束语气不符。 速查：41-55: C D B A C B D A C B A D B C A 　 逻辑覆盖：转折/对照 5 · 因果 4 · 递进/例证 3 · 语篇统摄 3（共 15 题，四类齐全） 　 Section B　Passage A 56. B　Detail. Para 1: dark matter itself is not in doubt — 'the case for it is overwhelming'; what has failed is the favourite explanation of what it is. A reverses this; C ignores the galactic evidence; D confuses an undetected particle with the phenomenon. 57. B　Detail. Para 2: the result is 'a series of ever more restrictive limits', with the particles ruled out in one mass range after another. A contradicts the absence of any detection; C contradicts the unexplained region in Para 3; D reverses the growth in detector size. 58. B　Detail. Para 4: when one idea dominates, 'it shapes what instruments get built, which students get trained, and which papers get published'. A is a technical problem the writer does not treat as the main obstacle; C contradicts Para 1; D is not mentioned. 59. B　Inference. The last paragraph: abandoning a hypothesis is not the same as abandoning a problem, and the case for dark matter rests on the behaviour of galaxies. B captures that separation. A confuses the two; C makes a prediction the text avoids; D misreads a remark about neglected anomalies. 　 Section B　Passage B 60. C　Detail. The weather journals and the language recordings are both marked 'free, no account needed', while the other two require registration. D is therefore wrong, and A and B contradict their own entries. 61. A　Detail. The excavation-log entry: because many sites were later disturbed by trawling, the sketches are sometimes the only surviving record of an object's position. B, C and D are all invented. 62. A　Inference. The museum archive withholds private entries in recently opened files; the language archive restricts some recordings at the communities' request. Both therefore hold material back deliberately. B contradicts 'free'; C contradicts the absence of transcription; D misstates how each archive is searched. 　 Section B　Passage C 63. B　Detail. Para 1 quotes the ancient warning about a sandbank invisible to anyone without experience of those waters. A contradicts that; C contradicts 'the only safe harbour'; D is not stated. 64. B　Detail. Para 4: coins of the second century are the most reliable documentary evidence, and the ring's design matches them closely. A is not claimed; C is wrong because many other objects were found; D concerns navigation, not the ring. 65. A　Inference. Para 4 reasons that because signet rings were used by officials to authorise documents, the island probably housed an office responsible for the lighthouse. B contradicts 'no one can say who wore it'; C and D are unsupported. 66. B　Attitude. The last paragraph concedes how much is still unknown, then concludes that this is 'a great deal to recover from a single object'. A misreads that verdict; C and D are not suggested. 　 Section C　六选四 67. C　Gap 67, end of para 1 (consequence). The paragraph sets out how long protective suits take to put on, how hot they become and how carefully they must be removed. C states the result — patients are seen briefly and staff are afraid to touch them — which is what prompts the new approach. B and E are details with no link to this chain. 68. F　Gap 68, mid para 2 (working conditions). The paragraph explains that CUBE protects the space rather than the individual, with negative-pressure walls. F describes what that makes possible inside — ordinary scrubs and long shifts — and contrasts sharply with the suit described earlier. B and E are irrelevant here. 69. A　Gap 69, mid para 3 (significance). The paragraph notes that transparent walls let relatives watch and staff remove their hoods; the quotation that follows says it had never before been possible for families to see their loved ones. A generalises that value, with 'that visibility' referring back to the walls. B and E do not belong. 70. D　Gap 70, end of para 4 (qualification). The paragraph concedes that CUBE does not replace strict procedures; D turns on 'But' to say what it has changed — who can be in the room and for how long — before the closing claim. B and E add detail that the conclusion does not need. Answers: 67-C　68-F　69-A　70-D 2026 年 9—10 月最新时文阅读练习（GVC + ABC + 六选四） · 教师版 Distractors (not used): B and E 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 6 　 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. 　 Pieces of pottery found at Etowah, in the American state of Georgia, have told researchers something unexpected. They have 　　21　　(change) our understanding of how connected the ancient Americas were. The vessels are about a thousand years old. When scientists analysed the material 　　22　　(leave) inside them, they found traces of cacao — the plant that chocolate comes from. Cacao was first grown in Mesoamerica, thousands of kilometres from Georgia, and it was highly valued there. By the eleventh century, it 　　23　　(use) as both a drink and a form of money. Earlier work had found caffeine in similar pottery, but caffeine alone proved nothing, because several plants 　　24　　(native) to the Americas contain it. The team therefore turned to genetic analysis, and it was this that finally settled 　　25　　 question. Care was needed. Ancient DNA is easily damaged, and the scientists had to rule out the possibility 　　26　　 the traces were modern. The pattern of damage they found was consistent with material a thousand years old. The discovery matters because it tells us something about the people who built the great earth mounds at Etowah. For years, archaeologists debated whether their ideas came from 　　27　　(somewhere) else. The cacao suggests that goods and ideas did travel across the continent, though it does not mean the builders copied anyone. Trade was clearly 　　28　　(important) than we once thought. Kinship and exchange networks were much 　　29　　(wide) than historians used to believe. As one researcher said, the find shows that the ancient Southeast was not an isolated place, 　　30　　 part of a much larger world. 　 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. reaction　B. samples　C. move　D. exposed　E. immune　F. vegetarian　G. confirm　H. reduce　I. levels　J. common　K. severe 　 Vaccines save millions of lives, but they often cause mild side effects. Some people feel tired or sore afterwards; others develop a fever. Researchers have long wanted to know why the 　　31　　 is so different from person to person. A study published in Science suggests an answer. The researchers collected 　　32　　 from more than 170 volunteers before and after they received a COVID vaccine, and examined the bacteria in their guts. Earlier studies had hinted at a connection between gut bacteria and the body's defences, but nobody had shown it so clearly. They found that people who developed a fever had higher 　　33　　 of a protein called flagellin. Flagellin is the material that makes up the tail-like structures bacteria use to 　　34　　 around, so the result suggests that these microbes were unusually active. Exactly how the bacteria produce this effect is still being worked out. To test the idea, the team worked with mice. Animals 　　35　　 to bacteria from the feverish volunteers showed a response similar to a human fever, while animals without the relevant receptors were much less affected. This pointed to a direct link between flagellin and the 　　36　　 system. The connection was strongest in people who reported the highest fevers. Why some people carry more flagellin than others is still unclear. Diet may play a part: volunteers who described themselves as 　　37　　 tended to have less of it, though more work is needed to 　　38　　 this. The team cautions that the study shows a link, not a cause. The researchers hope the findings will eventually help 　　39　　 this side effect of vaccines. A fever after a shot is not usually 　　40　　, but it is unpleasant enough to make some people hesitate. If it could be avoided, more people might accept vaccination. If the link holds up, doctors might one day predict who will have a strong response to a shot, and advise them accordingly. 　 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. 　 Roughly a third of the food produced for human consumption never reaches a plate. It rots in fields, spoils in warehouses, is thrown away by shops or forgotten at the back of a fridge. Because food must be grown, shipped and chilled before it can be wasted, every discarded loaf carries a hidden 　　41　　: the water, the fuel and the land that produced it. It is tempting to treat the problem as a question of personal 　　42　　 — of shopping lists and containers. In richer countries, much of the waste happens before food reaches a kitchen: farmers leave crops in fields because they are the wrong shape for the market. Households are 　　43　　 for roughly half of all food waste, but they are not acting alone. Two fixes get most of the attention, and both are smaller than they look. The first is the “ugly” vegetable: selling produce that fails a supermarket's cosmetic standards. It is an attractive idea, but it only 　　44　　 the surface, because the bigger cause is overproduction. The second fix is clearer labelling. “Best before” and “use by” mean different things, but shoppers treat both as warnings: a yogurt that is perfectly safe may be 　　45　　 simply because a date has passed. Yet none of these measures touches the deeper 　　46　　: food is cheap enough to waste. That is an uncomfortable thought, because it points towards prices. The water, the land and the emissions that went into producing food are not 　　47　　 in the price on the shelf. Economists call these hidden effects “externalities”. There is a hopeful side. Cutting waste is one of the few climate measures that costs almost nothing and pays immediately. A hospital that serves smaller portions spends less; a city that gives unused food to charities turns a cost into a 　　48　　. Some countries have shown what is possible. France requires supermarkets to 　　49　　 unsold food to charities rather than destroy it, and South Korea charges households for the food they throw away. Not every idea travels well, though: charges that work in a wealthy city may be impossible to 　　50　　 where the nearest collection point is hours away. What travels best is a change in 　　51　　. Waste was once invisible: what left a household in a bin bag was nobody's business. Once cities began to weigh it, count it and publish the figures, it became something that could be 　　52　　. None of this requires heroism. It requires better statistics and the willingness to see wasted food not as a private failing but as a public 　　53　　. In a world where millions still go hungry, throwing away a third of what is grown is also a 　　54　　 question. Plan a little, shop a little, and treat the food you already own as 　　55　　. 　 41. A. reward B. flavour C. price D. secret 42. A. taste B. wealth C. freedom D. discipline 43. A. famous B. responsible C. prepared D. grateful 44. A. scratches B. cleans C. hides D. breaks 45. A. eaten B. bought C. discarded D. imported 46. A. flavour B. cause C. recipe D. journey 47. A. listed B. printed C. praised D. counted 48. A. benefit B. burden C. mystery D. habit 49. A. sell B. cook C. donate D. export 50. A. afford B. enforce C. forget D. translate 51. A. attitude B. climate C. price D. geography 52. A. forgotten B. doubted C. sold D. managed 53. A. victory B. problem C. holiday D. secret 54. A. technical B. financial C. moral D. academic 55. A. valuable B. strange C. cheap D. endless 　 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 　 Physics has a habit of rewarding patience, and that habit has a cost. A hypothesis can be elegant, widely believed and carefully funded for decades without ever producing the evidence that would confirm it. Dark matter offers the clearest current example. The problem is not that dark matter is in doubt; the case for it is overwhelming. The problem is that the favourite explanation of what it is has never shown up. If a new kind of particle exists, and if it interacts only weakly with ordinary matter, then it should occasionally strike an atom in a detector. Build a large enough detector, shield it well enough, and wait. Several generations of instruments have done exactly this, growing from laboratory scale to installations the size of a small building, and the result is a series of ever more restrictive limits. The particles have been ruled out in one mass range after another. Defenders of the search point out, reasonably, that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. There is still a shrinking region of the parameter space that no one has yet excluded, and a single detection would transform the field overnight. Every previous generation of physicists would have been wrong to give up early. That argument is not foolish, and it explains why the search has lasted as long as it has. The objection is about the incentive structure rather than the science. When one idea dominates, it shapes what instruments get built, which students get trained, and which papers get published. Alternatives are not so much rejected as never properly tried. Meanwhile, a small number of anomalies in astronomical data that do not fit the standard picture remain unexplained, largely because nobody with the resources has had a strong reason to look. Abandoning a hypothesis is not the same as abandoning a problem. The case for dark matter rests on the behaviour of galaxies, not on the existence of any particular particle, and that case is untouched by thirty years of null results. The honest position is probably the one that feels least satisfying: we know something is there, we do not know what, and the most popular guess has now been tested hard enough that it is reasonable to start looking elsewhere. 　 56. What is the writer's view of the evidence for dark matter itself? A. It is weaker than the evidence for a particular particle. B. It is strong, regardless of what the particle turns out to be. C. It depends entirely on laboratory detections. D. It has been undermined by recent null results. 　 57. What has been the result of decades of detector experiments? A. A confirmed detection at the lowest masses. B. Progressively tighter limits on where the particle could be. C. Proof that no such particle exists. D. A decision to fund smaller instruments instead. 　 58. What does the writer identify as the main problem? A. The detectors are not sensitive enough to succeed. B. A dominant idea shapes funding, training and publishing. C. Physicists have stopped believing in dark matter. D. There are not enough researchers in the field. 　 59. What does the writer conclude in the final paragraph? A. It is time to stop studying dark matter altogether. B. The problem can be separated from the hypothesis about it. C. A detection is likely within the next few years. D. Astronomers should turn to the unexplained anomalies. 　 　 Passage B 　 HANDWRITTEN WEATHER JOURNALS, 1780–1910　　free, no account needed Farmers, doctors and lighthouse keepers kept daily records of temperature, rainfall and wind long before official stations existed. More than 3,000 volumes have been photographed and indexed. Pages may be transcribed by volunteers; entries are matched to modern records to extend the climate series backwards. Odd spellings are kept exactly as written. UNDERWATER EXCAVATION LOGS, 1934–1999　　free with registration The field diaries of early divers, including sketches of objects as they were found, are now available. Searchable by site and by date. Because many of the sites were later disturbed by trawling, the sketches are sometimes the only surviving record of an object's position. High-resolution downloads are limited to 20 images a month per account. MUSEUM OBJECT FILES, 1850–present　　free with registration Acquisition records, conservation notes and letters from donors, covering more than a million objects. Files opened less than thirty years ago may have entries withheld for privacy. Visitors to the reading room can request the complete file; online users see the same document with those lines removed. SOUND RECORDINGS OF ENDANGERED LANGUAGES, 1950–2010　　free, no account needed Field recordings made by linguists, together with their notes on speakers and places. Some recordings are restricted at the request of the communities who made them; the catalogue states the reason and the date until which each restriction applies. No transcription is provided, because the project's policy is that writing the language down would settle questions its speakers are still debating. 　 Archive Period Access Restrictions Handwritten weather journals 1780–1910 free, no account none; spellings kept as written Underwater excavation logs 1934–1999 free with registration twenty high-resolution downloads a month Museum object files 1850–present free with registration recent files have private entries withheld Sound recordings of endangered languages 1950–2010 free, no account some recordings restricted at communities' request 　 60. Which archive can be used without creating an account? A. Underwater excavation logs. B. Museum object files. C. Sound recordings of endangered languages. D. None of them. 　 61. Why are the divers' sketches described as sometimes the only record? A. The objects were later destroyed by trawling. B. The photographers lost their negatives. C. The diaries were written in an unknown code. D. The sites have since been rebuilt as harbours. 　 62. What do the museum and language archives have in common? A. Both keep some material out of public view on purpose. B. Both charge a fee for online access. C. Both provide full transcripts of every item. D. Both are searchable only by date. 　 　 Passage C 　 In the first century BC, a Greek historian warned travellers bound for Egypt that its northern coast was a trap. A sandbank ran along much of the shore, he wrote, invisible to anyone without experience of those waters, and sailors who turned happily towards land would find themselves aground without warning. The only safe harbour on that coast, he concluded, was Pharos. Pharos was both an island and a building. The lighthouse that stood on it — the last of the seven wonders of the ancient world to be built, and the second tallest structure of its age — guided ships for more than a thousand years. Then, after a series of earthquakes in the fourteenth century, it fell into the sea. Some seven hundred years later, almost nothing of it remains above water. Almost nothing, but not nothing. Divers working on the neighbouring island of Antirhodos, where a royal palace once hosted Cleopatra and Mark Antony, have recovered a bronze signet ring bearing an image of the lighthouse. The excavators describe it as the first object of its kind known to exist. Its value lies in what it confirms. Ancient writers left descriptions of the tower, but their accounts disagree, and later artists filled the gaps with invention. Coins from the second century AD are the most reliable documentary evidence, and the ring's design matches them closely: a square base, an octagonal middle section and a circular top. Because signet rings were used by officials to authorise documents, the excavators suggest that the island housed an administrative office responsible for the lighthouse. Much about the ring is still unknown. The announcement gives neither its size nor a precise date, and no one can say who wore it. “The discovery is even more important,” the head of the excavation said, “because it was recovered from the legendary palace of Antirhodos, which was once a centre of power.” For a monument that has vanished, that is a great deal to recover from a single object. 　 63. What does the passage say about the Egyptian coast described by the Greek historian? A. It was easy to approach for experienced sailors. B. It was dangerous because of a hidden sandbank. C. It had several harbours of equal quality. D. It was avoided entirely by traders. 　 64. Why is the signet ring considered valuable to historians? A. It proves who ordered the lighthouse to be built. B. Its design agrees with the most reliable ancient images of the tower. C. It is the only bronze object recovered from the sea. D. It shows how sailors navigated into the harbour. 　 65. What do the excavators infer from the ring's function? A. The lighthouse was administered from the island. B. The ring belonged to a member of the royal family. C. The palace was built after the lighthouse. D. Trade goods were taxed at the harbour entrance. 　 66. What is the writer's attitude towards what the ring has revealed? A. Disappointed that so little can be established. B. Impressed that so much can be learnt from one object. C. Concerned that the site is being damaged by excavation. D. Convinced that the lighthouse has now been located. 　 　 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. 　 In an outbreak of a viral haemorrhagic fever, the first obstacle is not the virus but the clothing. Staff treating patients with Ebola must put on protective suits that take twenty minutes to put on, become unbearably hot within an hour, and have to be removed in an exact sequence to avoid contamination. 　　67　　 An intensive-care physician, Richard Kojan, and his colleagues proposed a different approach. Rather than protecting each individual, they would protect the space. Their design, called CUBE, is a chamber nine metres square with transparent plastic walls, kept at negative pressure so that air cannot escape into the surrounding building. The unit can be carried by lorry and assembled on a site that has no hospital at all. 　　68　　 A team can put it up in ninety minutes. The consequences were not confined to infection control. Because the walls are transparent, relatives could stand outside and watch the patient, and staff could take off their hoods between shifts. 　　69　　 As Kojan puts it, it had never before been possible for families to see and spend time with their loved ones in such a facility, and that change did a great deal to reduce fear and tension. CUBE is not a substitute for the strict procedures that stop an outbreak from spreading, and it has not made protective equipment unnecessary in every setting. 　　70　　 What it demonstrates is that some of the hardest problems in epidemic care are not virological at all. 　 A. In a setting where human contact had been reduced to almost nothing, that visibility mattered as much as the isolation did. B. The walls are cleaned with a chlorine solution between patients. C. The result is that patients are seen briefly, and often by staff who are afraid to touch them. D. But it has changed who can be in the room, and for how long. E. Ebola spreads through direct contact with the body fluids of an infected person. F. Inside, staff work in ordinary scrubs and gloves, and can stay for hours at a time. 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 $