2026年9-10月最新时文阅读练习(GVC+ABC+六选四)第08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 8 　 II. Grammar and Vocabulary 　 Section A　Grammar 出处：Scientific American · Jackie Flynn Mogensen · 2026年10月8日 ·《This September Was the Hottest Ever on Record》 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 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has published its latest climate report. September 2026 was the hottest September ever 　　21　　(record) in the contiguous United States, according to the agency. The month was more than 4.5 degrees Fahrenheit warmer 　　22　　 the twentieth-century average. January to September were also the hottest first nine months of any year since records 　　23　　(begin) in 1895. Whether 2026 will be the hottest year on record depends on the last three months of the year. If the period from September to December 　　24　　(average) around 50.5 degrees, the current record, which 　　25　　(set) in 2024, will probably be broken. If it is cooler than that, 2026 will most likely come second or third. Scientists are careful about one thing, however. 　　26　　 2026 finishes first or third does not change the larger picture: temperatures across the country are rising, and communities are already dealing with the results. Research also shows that experiencing hot weather does not, on 　　27　　(it) own, change people's views about climate change very much. Political beliefs matter far more. What seems to work better is timing: people are more willing to change their habits at moments 　　28　　 their normal routine has already been disrupted, such as during a water shortage. In the long run, the most effective approach is probably a simple one — 　　29　　(make) environmentally friendly choices cheap, convenient and safe for as many people as possible. That, rather than another record, is 　　30　　 will actually reduce emissions. 　 Section B　Vocabulary 出处：Smithsonian Magazine · Sarah Kuta · 2026年10月2日 ·《These Wild Lemurs Sing Just Like Opera Stars》 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. territory　B. notes　C. mouth　D. protected　E. pitch　F. problem　G. ancestors　H. independently　I. endangered　J. forest　K. song 　 Madagascar is home to a lemur with an unlikely talent: it sings. The indri is the only lemur that does so, and new research shows that it produces its 　　31　　 in a way that would be familiar to any opera singer. Singers are trained to make high 　　32　　 louder without damaging their vocal cords, and they typically open their 　　33　　 wider as they go up a scale. Researchers wanted to know whether wild indris did the same thing, so they studied video recordings of nineteen animals and compared the position of their lips with the sound they produced. The recordings came from years of fieldwork in the island's eastern rainforests. The answer was yes. The higher the note, the wider the opening — a trick that helps the call carry through thick 　　34　　. This matters because the indri uses its voice to hold its 　　35　　. Groups sing, other groups reply, and the exchange can last for an hour. Neighbouring groups listen and respond, and the exchanges may continue for hours. What is striking is that humans and indris came to the same solution 　　36　　. This is a case of convergent evolution — the rise of a similar trait in unrelated lineages. Their 　　37　　 separated about 74 million years ago, so the technique must have developed twice. Both species were solving the same 　　38　　: how to send a sound a long way through a landscape full of obstacles. Sound behaves differently from light among trees, bending around trunks and carrying further than expected. Sound travels in complex ways through dense woodland, and animals that make the most of it gain a real advantage. For the indri, that advantage may decide whether it keeps its home range or loses it. Singing has not saved the species, however. The indri is critically 　　39　　, and only a few thousand are thought to remain. Cutting down trees has broken the population into small groups that struggle to find one another, and zoos have not been the answer because the animals rarely breed in captivity. If the indri is to survive, it will have to be 　　40　　 where it lives. 　 III. Reading Comprehension 　 Section A　Cloze 出处：素材依据：Anne Mangen 等关于纸张与屏幕阅读理解差异的系列研究（2013–2025）与 Stavanger 宣言（“读屏时代深阅读”呼吁）· 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. 　 Most people read more words today than their grandparents ever did. Yet something about this flood of reading has begun to worry researchers: we consume more text and 　　41　　 less of it. The strongest evidence comes from studies that compare the same text on paper and on a screen. Again and again, readers of paper do better on questions that require them to build a mental 　　42　　 of the text — to know not only what was said but how it fitted together. The reason is not that screens are evil. It is that the two media invite different 　　43　　. On a screen we skim, jump and search; on paper we settle, follow and reread. The mistake is not choosing one medium; it is to treat one as a 　　44　　 replacement for the other. There is a second factor, and it is easy to overlook: the screen itself. A phone carries not only the text but a hundred possible interruptions. Studies find that the mere 　　45　　 of a phone on the desk reduces available attention, even when it is never touched. This helps explain a puzzle. In surveys, people often say they prefer screens; in tests, they often do better on paper. What we 　　46　　 is convenience; what we need is comprehension. None of this means that digital reading is a threat to civilisation. Many kinds of text — timetables, recipes, emails — are better on a screen, where they can be searched. Longer texts may be another story, though even there the evidence is 　　47　　: some studies find no difference at all once readers are given enough time. What matters is that readers learn to 　　48　　 the medium to the purpose. The aim is not to ban screens but to make the choice 　　49　　. Much of what we call “reading” is really two activities: gathering information and following an argument. Schools measure the first because it is easy to test, and they 　　50　　 the second because it is not. A public that can follow a long argument is harder to 　　51　　; a public trained to skim is easy to move with a single headline. So what should a serious reader do? First, choose the medium on 　　52　　: if the goal is to understand, print it out; if the goal is to find something quickly, search on screen. Second, write. A margin note or a summary forces the mind to do what skimming never does: it 　　53　　 meaning. These habits are skills, and skills feel clumsy before they feel 　　54　　. Whether the next generation reads mostly on paper or on screens is not really the question. The question is whether they can still do the slow kind of reading when it 　　55　　. A tool used well is worth more than a tradition defended badly. 　 41. A. write B. choose C. sell D. retain 42. A. map B. price C. group D. copy 43. A. prices B. colours C. strategies D. authors 44. A. right B. perfect C. modern D. recent 45. A. presence B. colour C. price D. weight 46. A. fear B. doubt C. value D. sell 47. A. missing B. modern C. complete D. mixed 48. A. hide B. match C. sell D. forget 49. A. conscious B. cheaper C. faster D. public 50. A. reward B. invent C. neglect D. publish 51. A. educate B. mislead C. employ D. count 52. A. price B. holiday C. instinct D. purpose 53. A. hides B. copies C. constructs D. borrows 54. A. easy B. rare C. wrong D. famous 55. A. returns B. fails C. spreads D. matters 　 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 　 Chemotherapy is brutal in a way that doctors rarely put into words. Some of its effects — hair loss, sickness, exhaustion — pass. Others do not. Peripheral neuropathy, a painful condition that leaves the hands and feet tingling or numb, can last for years after treatment ends and sometimes for life. It is managed with ice, painkillers and opioids. It cannot, at present, be prevented. A result published in the journal Science suggests that this may change. In experiments on mice, two doses of psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, protected the animals against nerve damage caused by chemotherapy across as many as six cycles of treatment. “This is the first time where psilocybin has been used as a neuroprotective agent,” one of the authors said at a press conference. Earlier work had shown that it might relieve such damage; showing that it can prevent it is a different claim. The finding was, by the team's own account, an accident. A colleague noticed that mice given psilocybin did not develop neuropathy after chemotherapy. The senior author did not believe her and asked her to repeat the work. She did, repeatedly, with and without tumours, with different chemotherapy drugs, and the result held. “We did it so many times,” he said, “and consistently we did not see the development of neuropathy.” The proposed mechanism concerns mitochondria, the structures that supply a cell with energy. Chemotherapy damages microtubules, the internal rails along which mitochondria are moved around a nerve cell. Psilocybin appears to allow the traffic to continue. If that account is right, the drug is not treating pain but keeping a transport system intact. Two cautions are essential. The work was done in mice and in cells in a laboratory, not in patients, and promising mechanisms often fail to transfer. Psilocybin is also a controlled substance in most countries, which makes clinical research slow and administratively heavy. A trial in patients with colorectal, breast and head and neck cancers is nevertheless being prepared. With no existing way to prevent the damage, the researchers argue, the attempt is worth making. 　 56. What does the passage say about peripheral neuropathy? A. It usually disappears once treatment stops. B. It can persist long after treatment and cannot yet be prevented. C. It affects only patients receiving high doses. D. It is easily managed with existing drugs. 　 57. What is new about the finding reported in Science? A. Psilocybin relieved existing nerve pain in mice. B. Psilocybin prevented nerve damage rather than relieving it. C. Psilocybin was tested in human patients for the first time. D. Psilocybin was shown to slow the growth of tumours. 　 58. Why does the writer describe the discovery as “an accident”? A. A laboratory error produced the protective effect. B. A colleague noticed the effect while working on something else. C. The researchers were looking for a different drug altogether. D. The result appeared in data collected for another purpose. 　 59. What can be inferred about the planned patient trial? A. It will test whether psilocybin can relieve existing pain. B. It faces regulatory difficulty as well as scientific uncertainty. C. It will use a much larger dose than the mouse experiments. D. It has been approved in most countries taking part. 　 　 Passage B Source: compiled from planetarium and observatory notices, October 2026 　 PUBLIC OBSERVING NIGHT　　Clear Fridays, from 19:00, free Volunteers set up telescopes on the museum lawn and point them at whatever is best placed that evening. No booking, but sessions are cancelled if cloud is forecast; check the website after 16:00 on the day. Bring warm clothing and a torch with red light, which spoils your night vision far less than a white one. THE SKY IN YOUR STREET　　Self-guided, any clear evening, free A downloadable map marks sixteen objects that can be seen from a town or city with the naked eye or ordinary binoculars, including the Moon, Jupiter and several bright stars. Each entry gives a rough direction and the best hour to look, and explains what the object actually is. Suitable for children from about eight. WINTER SKY WORKSHOP　　Three Saturdays in January, 10:00–12:30, £18 A hands-on course for adults on finding your way around the sky without equipment: how to use your hands to measure angles, how to tell a planet from a star, and how to read a simple star chart. Participants receive a printed chart and a red torch. Places are limited to sixteen; booking opens on 1 December. TALK: WHAT THE TELESCOPES FOUND THIS YEAR　　Thursday 22 January, 19:30, £5 A review of the past year's results, from distant galaxies to objects within our own solar system, explained without mathematics. The speaker will take questions for twenty minutes after the talk. Recorded for those who cannot attend; the recording is posted free of charge two weeks later. 　 Activity When Cost Booking Public observing night clear Fridays, from 19:00 free none; cancelled if cloud is forecast The sky in your street any clear evening free none; download the map in advance Winter sky workshop three Saturdays in January, 10:00–12:30 £18 essential from 1 December; sixteen places Talk: what the telescopes found Thu 22 January, 19:30 £5 none; recording posted free two weeks later 　 60. Which activity is free of charge? A. The Winter Sky Workshop. B. Talk: What the Telescopes Found This Year. C. The Sky in Your Street. D. None of the activities. 　 61. Why does the guide recommend a torch with red light? A. It is brighter than a white torch. B. It interferes less with the eye's adaptation to darkness. C. It is required by the museum for safety reasons. D. It helps observers see the colour of stars more clearly. 　 62. What do the workshop and the talk have in common? A. Both require booking in advance. B. Both are aimed at people with some experience. C. Both will be made available afterwards in another form. D. Both charge a fee. 　 　 Passage C Source: Scientific American, October 2026 　 Alexis Nikole Nelson began foraging because she wanted to know what her neighbourhood was made of. The answer, she says, is more food than most people expect. Serviceberries, for instance, are planted in parks and along city streets across much of the world, chosen because they are tough, because their leaves turn beautifully in autumn, and because their fruit is good. “When I say that there is one hiding near you,” she says, “that is not a joke.” Her introduction to the subject was not a course but a habit of asking questions. A plant that appeared on the same corner every week was worth identifying; a berry that birds had already found was worth tasting. Over years of this, the ordinary streetscape turned into something closer to a garden with a complicated history, in which almost every planting was a decision somebody had once made. Nelson is careful about risk. The rule she repeats most often is to identify a plant with certainty and to use more than one source before eating anything, because a mistake can be serious and because the plants most often confused with edible ones are sometimes dangerous. She is equally firm that foraging is not a solution to food poverty: it supplies flavour, interest and a reason to walk, not a household's weekly calories. Her more unusual experiments come from food history. Pickling with seawater, for example, is an old technique rather than an invention: as long as it has not rained heavily, ocean water sits at roughly the salt concentration that lactic-acid bacteria prefer, strong enough to season and to keep unwanted organisms down, but not so strong that the useful bacteria stop working. She has used it on beetroot, garlic and chillies, filtering and briefly boiling the water first, and checking local water-quality figures before collecting any. What she hopes listeners take away is smaller and more durable than a recipe. Learning to name the plants in a street changes the way a person walks down it. “It is hard to feel that a place is nowhere,” she suggests, “once you can say what is growing there.” 　 63. Why are serviceberries commonly planted in cities? A. They produce the largest fruit of any street tree. B. They are resilient and attractive as well as useful. C. They require no watering once established. D. They are native to every continent. 　 64. How does the passage describe the way Nelson learnt about plants? A. Through a formal course in botany. B. By repeatedly asking what the plants around her were. C. By working with a team of professional foragers. D. By studying historical cookery books. 　 65. What is Nelson's attitude towards foraging as a response to food poverty? A. She regards it as the most reliable solution available. B. She insists it should not be presented as one. C. She believes it works only in rural areas. D. She thinks it is too risky to recommend at all. 　 66. Why does pickling in seawater work? A. Seawater kills all bacteria, including useful ones. B. Its salt level suits the bacteria needed for fermentation. C. It contains minerals that preserve vegetables indefinitely. D. The salt removes the need to filter the water. 　 　 Section C Source: Scientific American, 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. 　 Physics rests on a small number of assumptions so basic that they are rarely stated. One of them is that atoms of the same kind are identical. Two atoms with the same number of protons, neutrons and electrons should look the same, behave the same and be interchangeable in any calculation. 　　67　　 The assumption is not idle philosophy. It underpins the behaviour of lasers, the operation of semiconductor devices and the reliability of quantum computing, all of which depend on the fact that identical particles cannot be told apart. 　　68　　 If they could, the theory that makes modern electronics predictable would have to be rebuilt from the beginning. Yet the claim has never been tested directly. It has been inherited from the mathematics that made quantum theory work so well, and every experiment so far has been consistent with it without ever putting it under serious pressure. That is a different situation from being proved, and a small number of physicists have begun to argue that the difference matters. 　　69　　 Designing such a test is harder than it sounds. Two atoms of the same kind repel each other in exactly the same way, so any apparatus built to detect a difference must first rule out every ordinary explanation for the results. 　　70　　 Even a very small deviation would force a rethink of some of the most successful equations in science — and a null result would be worth reporting too, because it would convert an assumption into a measurement. 　 A. A photon emitted by one atom, for instance, cannot be distinguished from one emitted by another. B. The mathematics of quantum mechanics was built on the idea, and the idea has been extraordinarily productive. C. Atoms are, however, far too small to be photographed individually. D. Their proposal is to look for the tiniest measurable difference between two atoms of the same element. E. The measurements must therefore be precise enough to detect an effect far smaller than any experimental error seen before. F. Some elements have many more isotopes than others. 　 ANSWERS AND EXPLANATIONS 　 Section A　Grammar 21. recorded　【过去分词作定语】September 与 record 被动，相当于 which has ever been recorded。 22. than　【连词】比较级 warmer 后接 than。【易错】勿填 to——比较结构用 than。 23. began　【一般过去时】since 从句中，1895 年为过去时间点，用过去时。 24. averages　【一般现在时】if 引导的条件状语从句，主句用将来时，从句用现在时（主将从现）。 25. was set　【一般过去时被动】record 与 set 被动；in 2024 提示过去。 26. Whether　【主语从句】___ 2026 finishes first or third 作主语，whether…or 表“是…还是”，句首大写。 27. its　【物主代词】on one's own 固定短语，此处指代 hot weather，用 its。 28. when　【定语从句关系副词】先行词 moments，从句缺时间状语。【辨析】that 在从句中须作成分，此处不缺。 29. making　【动名词】破折号后解释说明；approach is ___ 需用动名词作表语，与 one 指代一致。 30. what　【表语从句】is ___ will actually reduce emissions；what 在从句中作主语。 速查：21. recorded　22. than　23. began　24. averages　25. was set　26. Whether　27. its　28. when　29. making　30. what 　 Section B　Vocabulary 31. K（song）　【名词】produces its ___，与首句 it sings 呼应。 32. B（notes）　【名词复数】make high ___ louder，指“高音”。【易错】pitch 为单数不可数，与 make…louder 搭配不当。 33. C（mouth）　【名词】open their ___ wider，与后文 lips 的观测位置呼应。 34. J（forest）　【名词】carry through thick ___ 表“穿过茂密的森林”。 35. A（territory）　【名词】hold its ___ 表“守住领地”。 36. H（independently）　【副词】came to the same solution ___ 表“独立地（各自）演化出”。 37. G（ancestors）　【名词复数】Their ___ separated 74 million years ago，指“共同祖先”。 38. F（problem）　【名词】solving the same ___ ，后文 how to send a sound… 即问题内容。 39. I（endangered）　【固定表达】critically endangered 表“极度濒危”。 40. D（protected）　【被动语态】it will have to be ___ where it lives，指就地保护。 【多余词】E. pitch —— 与 notes 近义，但空格需可数名词复数。 速查：31-40: K B C J A H G F I D　　多余词: E 　 Section A　Cloze 41. D（retain）　【句组·对照】consume more text and ___ less of it 是“读得多／记得少”的直接对照，retain 表“记住、留存”。write、choose 与“阅读量—记忆量”的对举无关。 42. A（map）　【句组·复现】破折号后 to know not only what was said but how it fitted together 是对“心智地图”的释义：不仅要记住内容，还要掌握结构关系。price、copy 无法与“结构关系”呼应。 43. C（strategies）　【句组·例证】On a screen we skim, jump and search; on paper we settle, follow and reread 正是两种不同的阅读“策略”，与上文 different ___ 的搭配呼应。prices、colours 与阅读行为无关。 44. B（perfect）　【句组·对照】前句 The mistake is not choosing one medium 先排除“选错媒介”，故后半句的过错在于把其中之一当作“完美的替代品”。right、modern 不能表达“相互替代”的假设。 45. A（presence）　【句组·因果】even when it is never touched 是让步线索：手机即使不被触碰，仅仅“在场”也会削弱注意力。weight、colour 与“在场即可分心”的研究结论不符。 46. C（value）　【句组·对照】What we ___ is convenience. What we need is comprehension. 是“看重／需要”的对照，value 表“重视、青睐”，与 preference 同义复现。fear、doubt 与“偏爱屏幕”的调查结果相反。 47. D（mixed）　【句组·让步】though 提示证据并不一致，冒号后 some studies find no difference at all 说明结论“参差不齐”，mixed 表“好坏参半”。complete、missing 与“是否有差异仍有分歧”的表述不符。 48. B（match）　【句组·复现】提出“把媒介与目的相匹配”，下文“为理解而打印、为速查而搜索”即其例证；match…to… 表“使……与……相配”。hide、forget 与教学建议无关。 49. A（conscious）　【句组·对照】The aim is not to ban screens but to make the choice ___ 承接全文“不是禁用、而是自觉选择”的主张，conscious 表“有意识的”。cheaper、faster 与“选择是否理性”无关。 50. C（neglect）　【句组·对照】Schools measure the first because it is easy to test, and they ___ the second because it is not 是“测试／忽视”的对照结构，neglect 表“忽视”。reward、publish 与“因难测而放弃”的因果相反。 51. B（mislead）　【句组·对照】harder to ___ 与 easy to move with a single headline 构成对照：能读懂长论证的公众更难被误导。educate、employ 与“被一则标题操纵”的对照不成立。 52. D（purpose）　【句组·复现】冒号后 if the goal is to understand… if the goal is to find something quickly 直接解释“按目的选择媒介”，与上段 match the medium to the purpose 呼应。instinct、price 与“按目标取舍”无关。 53. C（constructs）　【句组·对照】what skimming never does 提示对照：边注与摘要在“建构意义”，而跳读不会。hides、borrows 与“读书笔记帮助理解”的经验相反。 54. A（easy）　【句组·对照】skills feel clumsy before they feel ___ 是“先笨拙、后熟练”的时间对照，easy 与前句自然衔接。rare、wrong 与技能养成的过程性描述不符。 55. D（matters）　【语篇·收束】末句收束全文：关键不在于媒介，而在于“当慢读真正重要时”是否还能做到。returns、fails 与“工具用得好胜过传统守得差”的结论无关。 速查：41-55: D A C B A C D B A C B D C A D 　 逻辑覆盖：转折/对照 6 · 因果 3 · 复现/例证 3 · 语篇统摄 3（共 15 题，四类齐全） 　 Section B　Passage A 56. B　Detail. Para 1: the condition can last for years after treatment and sometimes for life, and 'cannot, at present, be prevented'. A, C and D contradict the text. 57. B　Detail. Para 2 and the opening sentence make clear that the new claim is prevention, not relief. A describes the earlier work; C contradicts 'not in patients'; D describes a different effect entirely. 58. B　Inference. Para 3: a colleague noticed that mice given psilocybin did not develop neuropathy, and the senior author asked her to repeat the work. A contradicts the repeated, consistent result; C and D are not stated. 59. B　Inference. The last paragraph notes that promising mechanisms often fail to transfer and that psilocybin is a controlled substance, making research slow and administratively heavy. A contradicts the prevention claim; C and D are unsupported. 　 Section B　Passage B 60. C　Detail. The Sky in Your Street is marked 'free', as is the public observing night. The workshop costs £18 and the talk £5, so D is wrong. 61. B　Detail. The observing-night entry recommends a torch with red light because it spoils night vision far less than a white one. A reverses that; C and D are not stated. 62. D　Inference. The workshop costs £18 and the talk £5, so both charge. A applies only to the workshop; B misreads the workshop as advanced when it is for beginners; C applies only to the talk. 　 Section B　Passage C 63. B　Detail. Para 1: serviceberries are chosen because they are tough, their leaves colour well in autumn, and their fruit is good. A compares fruit size; C and D are not claimed. 64. B　Detail. Para 2: her introduction was 'not a course but a habit of asking questions'. A directly contradicts it; C and D describe other activities. 65. B　Inference. Para 3: foraging is not a solution to food poverty — it supplies flavour, interest and a reason to walk. A contradicts this; C limits it without basis; D misreads her safety advice as a general objection. 66. B　Detail. Para 4: ocean water sits at roughly the salt concentration lactic-acid bacteria prefer — strong enough to season, not so strong that the useful bacteria stop. A contradicts the second half; C and D are not stated. 　 Section C　六选四 67. B　Gap 67, end of para 1 (the assumption restated). The paragraph describes the shared belief that same-kind atoms are identical and interchangeable. B traces where the idea came from and how productive it has been, leading into 'The assumption is not idle philosophy'. C and F are side facts. 68. A　Gap 68, mid para 2 (concrete example). The paragraph lists technologies that depend on identical particles being indistinguishable; the next sentence considers what would follow if they could be told apart. A gives a specific instance of indistinguishability, making the conditional concrete. C and F break the argument. 69. D　Gap 69, end of para 3 (the proposal). The paragraph notes that the claim has never been tested directly and that some physicists think the difference matters. D states what they propose to look for, and the next paragraph's 'such a test' depends on it. C and F do not fit. 70. E　Gap 70, mid para 4 (requirement). The paragraph explains why the test is hard — identical atoms repel in identical ways, so every ordinary explanation must be excluded. E draws the consequence for precision, which the closing sentences about small deviations and null results require. C and F are unrelated. Answers: 67-B　68-A　69-D　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 8 　 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 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has published its latest climate report. September 2026 was the hottest September ever 　　21　　(record) in the contiguous United States, according to the agency. The month was more than 4.5 degrees Fahrenheit warmer 　　22　　 the twentieth-century average. January to September were also the hottest first nine months of any year since records 　　23　　(begin) in 1895. Whether 2026 will be the hottest year on record depends on the last three months of the year. If the period from September to December 　　24　　(average) around 50.5 degrees, the current record, which 　　25　　(set) in 2024, will probably be broken. If it is cooler than that, 2026 will most likely come second or third. Scientists are careful about one thing, however. 　　26　　 2026 finishes first or third does not change the larger picture: temperatures across the country are rising, and communities are already dealing with the results. Research also shows that experiencing hot weather does not, on 　　27　　(it) own, change people's views about climate change very much. Political beliefs matter far more. What seems to work better is timing: people are more willing to change their habits at moments 　　28　　 their normal routine has already been disrupted, such as during a water shortage. In the long run, the most effective approach is probably a simple one — 　　29　　(make) environmentally friendly choices cheap, convenient and safe for as many people as possible. That, rather than another record, is 　　30　　 will actually reduce emissions. 　 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. territory　B. notes　C. mouth　D. protected　E. pitch　F. problem　G. ancestors　H. independently　I. endangered　J. forest　K. song 　 Madagascar is home to a lemur with an unlikely talent: it sings. The indri is the only lemur that does so, and new research shows that it produces its 　　31　　 in a way that would be familiar to any opera singer. Singers are trained to make high 　　32　　 louder without damaging their vocal cords, and they typically open their 　　33　　 wider as they go up a scale. Researchers wanted to know whether wild indris did the same thing, so they studied video recordings of nineteen animals and compared the position of their lips with the sound they produced. The recordings came from years of fieldwork in the island's eastern rainforests. The answer was yes. The higher the note, the wider the opening — a trick that helps the call carry through thick 　　34　　. This matters because the indri uses its voice to hold its 　　35　　. Groups sing, other groups reply, and the exchange can last for an hour. Neighbouring groups listen and respond, and the exchanges may continue for hours. What is striking is that humans and indris came to the same solution 　　36　　. This is a case of convergent evolution — the rise of a similar trait in unrelated lineages. Their 　　37　　 separated about 74 million years ago, so the technique must have developed twice. Both species were solving the same 　　38　　: how to send a sound a long way through a landscape full of obstacles. Sound behaves differently from light among trees, bending around trunks and carrying further than expected. Sound travels in complex ways through dense woodland, and animals that make the most of it gain a real advantage. For the indri, that advantage may decide whether it keeps its home range or loses it. Singing has not saved the species, however. The indri is critically 　　39　　, and only a few thousand are thought to remain. Cutting down trees has broken the population into small groups that struggle to find one another, and zoos have not been the answer because the animals rarely breed in captivity. If the indri is to survive, it will have to be 　　40　　 where it lives. 　 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. 　 Most people read more words today than their grandparents ever did. Yet something about this flood of reading has begun to worry researchers: we consume more text and 　　41　　 less of it. The strongest evidence comes from studies that compare the same text on paper and on a screen. Again and again, readers of paper do better on questions that require them to build a mental 　　42　　 of the text — to know not only what was said but how it fitted together. The reason is not that screens are evil. It is that the two media invite different 　　43　　. On a screen we skim, jump and search; on paper we settle, follow and reread. The mistake is not choosing one medium; it is to treat one as a 　　44　　 replacement for the other. There is a second factor, and it is easy to overlook: the screen itself. A phone carries not only the text but a hundred possible interruptions. Studies find that the mere 　　45　　 of a phone on the desk reduces available attention, even when it is never touched. This helps explain a puzzle. In surveys, people often say they prefer screens; in tests, they often do better on paper. What we 　　46　　 is convenience; what we need is comprehension. None of this means that digital reading is a threat to civilisation. Many kinds of text — timetables, recipes, emails — are better on a screen, where they can be searched. Longer texts may be another story, though even there the evidence is 　　47　　: some studies find no difference at all once readers are given enough time. What matters is that readers learn to 　　48　　 the medium to the purpose. The aim is not to ban screens but to make the choice 　　49　　. Much of what we call “reading” is really two activities: gathering information and following an argument. Schools measure the first because it is easy to test, and they 　　50　　 the second because it is not. A public that can follow a long argument is harder to 　　51　　; a public trained to skim is easy to move with a single headline. So what should a serious reader do? First, choose the medium on 　　52　　: if the goal is to understand, print it out; if the goal is to find something quickly, search on screen. Second, write. A margin note or a summary forces the mind to do what skimming never does: it 　　53　　 meaning. These habits are skills, and skills feel clumsy before they feel 　　54　　. Whether the next generation reads mostly on paper or on screens is not really the question. The question is whether they can still do the slow kind of reading when it 　　55　　. A tool used well is worth more than a tradition defended badly. 　 41. A. write B. choose C. sell D. retain 42. A. map B. price C. group D. copy 43. A. prices B. colours C. strategies D. authors 44. A. right B. perfect C. modern D. recent 45. A. presence B. colour C. price D. weight 46. A. fear B. doubt C. value D. sell 47. A. missing B. modern C. complete D. mixed 48. A. hide B. match C. sell D. forget 49. A. conscious B. cheaper C. faster D. public 50. A. reward B. invent C. neglect D. publish 51. A. educate B. mislead C. employ D. count 52. A. price B. holiday C. instinct D. purpose 53. A. hides B. copies C. constructs D. borrows 54. A. easy B. rare C. wrong D. famous 55. A. returns B. fails C. spreads D. matters 　 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 　 Chemotherapy is brutal in a way that doctors rarely put into words. Some of its effects — hair loss, sickness, exhaustion — pass. Others do not. Peripheral neuropathy, a painful condition that leaves the hands and feet tingling or numb, can last for years after treatment ends and sometimes for life. It is managed with ice, painkillers and opioids. It cannot, at present, be prevented. A result published in the journal Science suggests that this may change. In experiments on mice, two doses of psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, protected the animals against nerve damage caused by chemotherapy across as many as six cycles of treatment. “This is the first time where psilocybin has been used as a neuroprotective agent,” one of the authors said at a press conference. Earlier work had shown that it might relieve such damage; showing that it can prevent it is a different claim. The finding was, by the team's own account, an accident. A colleague noticed that mice given psilocybin did not develop neuropathy after chemotherapy. The senior author did not believe her and asked her to repeat the work. She did, repeatedly, with and without tumours, with different chemotherapy drugs, and the result held. “We did it so many times,” he said, “and consistently we did not see the development of neuropathy.” The proposed mechanism concerns mitochondria, the structures that supply a cell with energy. Chemotherapy damages microtubules, the internal rails along which mitochondria are moved around a nerve cell. Psilocybin appears to allow the traffic to continue. If that account is right, the drug is not treating pain but keeping a transport system intact. Two cautions are essential. The work was done in mice and in cells in a laboratory, not in patients, and promising mechanisms often fail to transfer. Psilocybin is also a controlled substance in most countries, which makes clinical research slow and administratively heavy. A trial in patients with colorectal, breast and head and neck cancers is nevertheless being prepared. With no existing way to prevent the damage, the researchers argue, the attempt is worth making. 　 56. What does the passage say about peripheral neuropathy? A. It usually disappears once treatment stops. B. It can persist long after treatment and cannot yet be prevented. C. It affects only patients receiving high doses. D. It is easily managed with existing drugs. 　 57. What is new about the finding reported in Science? A. Psilocybin relieved existing nerve pain in mice. B. Psilocybin prevented nerve damage rather than relieving it. C. Psilocybin was tested in human patients for the first time. D. Psilocybin was shown to slow the growth of tumours. 　 58. Why does the writer describe the discovery as “an accident”? A. A laboratory error produced the protective effect. B. A colleague noticed the effect while working on something else. C. The researchers were looking for a different drug altogether. D. The result appeared in data collected for another purpose. 　 59. What can be inferred about the planned patient trial? A. It will test whether psilocybin can relieve existing pain. B. It faces regulatory difficulty as well as scientific uncertainty. C. It will use a much larger dose than the mouse experiments. D. It has been approved in most countries taking part. 　 　 Passage B 　 PUBLIC OBSERVING NIGHT　　Clear Fridays, from 19:00, free Volunteers set up telescopes on the museum lawn and point them at whatever is best placed that evening. No booking, but sessions are cancelled if cloud is forecast; check the website after 16:00 on the day. Bring warm clothing and a torch with red light, which spoils your night vision far less than a white one. THE SKY IN YOUR STREET　　Self-guided, any clear evening, free A downloadable map marks sixteen objects that can be seen from a town or city with the naked eye or ordinary binoculars, including the Moon, Jupiter and several bright stars. Each entry gives a rough direction and the best hour to look, and explains what the object actually is. Suitable for children from about eight. WINTER SKY WORKSHOP　　Three Saturdays in January, 10:00–12:30, £18 A hands-on course for adults on finding your way around the sky without equipment: how to use your hands to measure angles, how to tell a planet from a star, and how to read a simple star chart. Participants receive a printed chart and a red torch. Places are limited to sixteen; booking opens on 1 December. TALK: WHAT THE TELESCOPES FOUND THIS YEAR　　Thursday 22 January, 19:30, £5 A review of the past year's results, from distant galaxies to objects within our own solar system, explained without mathematics. The speaker will take questions for twenty minutes after the talk. Recorded for those who cannot attend; the recording is posted free of charge two weeks later. 　 Activity When Cost Booking Public observing night clear Fridays, from 19:00 free none; cancelled if cloud is forecast The sky in your street any clear evening free none; download the map in advance Winter sky workshop three Saturdays in January, 10:00–12:30 £18 essential from 1 December; sixteen places Talk: what the telescopes found Thu 22 January, 19:30 £5 none; recording posted free two weeks later 　 60. Which activity is free of charge? A. The Winter Sky Workshop. B. Talk: What the Telescopes Found This Year. C. The Sky in Your Street. D. None of the activities. 　 61. Why does the guide recommend a torch with red light? A. It is brighter than a white torch. B. It interferes less with the eye's adaptation to darkness. C. It is required by the museum for safety reasons. D. It helps observers see the colour of stars more clearly. 　 62. What do the workshop and the talk have in common? A. Both require booking in advance. B. Both are aimed at people with some experience. C. Both will be made available afterwards in another form. D. Both charge a fee. 　 　 Passage C 　 Alexis Nikole Nelson began foraging because she wanted to know what her neighbourhood was made of. The answer, she says, is more food than most people expect. Serviceberries, for instance, are planted in parks and along city streets across much of the world, chosen because they are tough, because their leaves turn beautifully in autumn, and because their fruit is good. “When I say that there is one hiding near you,” she says, “that is not a joke.” Her introduction to the subject was not a course but a habit of asking questions. A plant that appeared on the same corner every week was worth identifying; a berry that birds had already found was worth tasting. Over years of this, the ordinary streetscape turned into something closer to a garden with a complicated history, in which almost every planting was a decision somebody had once made. Nelson is careful about risk. The rule she repeats most often is to identify a plant with certainty and to use more than one source before eating anything, because a mistake can be serious and because the plants most often confused with edible ones are sometimes dangerous. She is equally firm that foraging is not a solution to food poverty: it supplies flavour, interest and a reason to walk, not a household's weekly calories. Her more unusual experiments come from food history. Pickling with seawater, for example, is an old technique rather than an invention: as long as it has not rained heavily, ocean water sits at roughly the salt concentration that lactic-acid bacteria prefer, strong enough to season and to keep unwanted organisms down, but not so strong that the useful bacteria stop working. She has used it on beetroot, garlic and chillies, filtering and briefly boiling the water first, and checking local water-quality figures before collecting any. What she hopes listeners take away is smaller and more durable than a recipe. Learning to name the plants in a street changes the way a person walks down it. “It is hard to feel that a place is nowhere,” she suggests, “once you can say what is growing there.” 　 63. Why are serviceberries commonly planted in cities? A. They produce the largest fruit of any street tree. B. They are resilient and attractive as well as useful. C. They require no watering once established. D. They are native to every continent. 　 64. How does the passage describe the way Nelson learnt about plants? A. Through a formal course in botany. B. By repeatedly asking what the plants around her were. C. By working with a team of professional foragers. D. By studying historical cookery books. 　 65. What is Nelson's attitude towards foraging as a response to food poverty? A. She regards it as the most reliable solution available. B. She insists it should not be presented as one. C. She believes it works only in rural areas. D. She thinks it is too risky to recommend at all. 　 66. Why does pickling in seawater work? A. Seawater kills all bacteria, including useful ones. B. Its salt level suits the bacteria needed for fermentation. C. It contains minerals that preserve vegetables indefinitely. D. The salt removes the need to filter the water. 　 　 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. 　 Physics rests on a small number of assumptions so basic that they are rarely stated. One of them is that atoms of the same kind are identical. Two atoms with the same number of protons, neutrons and electrons should look the same, behave the same and be interchangeable in any calculation. 　　67　　 The assumption is not idle philosophy. It underpins the behaviour of lasers, the operation of semiconductor devices and the reliability of quantum computing, all of which depend on the fact that identical particles cannot be told apart. 　　68　　 If they could, the theory that makes modern electronics predictable would have to be rebuilt from the beginning. Yet the claim has never been tested directly. It has been inherited from the mathematics that made quantum theory work so well, and every experiment so far has been consistent with it without ever putting it under serious pressure. That is a different situation from being proved, and a small number of physicists have begun to argue that the difference matters. 　　69　　 Designing such a test is harder than it sounds. Two atoms of the same kind repel each other in exactly the same way, so any apparatus built to detect a difference must first rule out every ordinary explanation for the results. 　　70　　 Even a very small deviation would force a rethink of some of the most successful equations in science — and a null result would be worth reporting too, because it would convert an assumption into a measurement. 　 A. A photon emitted by one atom, for instance, cannot be distinguished from one emitted by another. B. The mathematics of quantum mechanics was built on the idea, and the idea has been extraordinarily productive. C. Atoms are, however, far too small to be photographed individually. D. Their proposal is to look for the tiniest measurable difference between two atoms of the same element. E. The measurements must therefore be precise enough to detect an effect far smaller than any experimental error seen before. F. 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