2021高考英语阅读理解专项训练(附答案)
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2019高考英语阅读理解专项训练(附答案)
A
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Known as “wolf girl” at her West Warwick, R.I. school, Alyssa Grayson has spent much of her young life teaching others to protect and respect animals. After starting a wolf club in the second grade, Alyssa learned all she could about her favorite animals. Today, she gives presentations about protecting wolves at libraries and schools—she's even spoken at a university. In fact, she's become such a wolf expert that she was appointed as the first junior advisor to the National Wolfwatcher Coalition.
When she's not teaching others about wolves, Alyssa can be found volunteering at her local animal shelter, taking care of dogs and cats. She's also trained as a citizen scientist for FrogWatch USA. In short, Alyssa Grayson proves that you are never too young to make a difference for animals.
When asked how she got interested in saving wolves, Alyssa says, “I've loved wolves since I saw them in a movie when I was 2 or 3 years old. Then one day I saw a commercial about wolf hunting. I asked my mother why people do this, and she told me because people don't like wolves. I decided from then on that I wanted to save wolves.”
Today, wolves are hunted, trapped, or poisoned. Hunters chase wolves for miles in an airplane until the wolves are too exhausted to run anymore. Then they shoot them. The animal doesn't have a chance to escape. Animals are also trapped for their fur. They are left to suffer in a trap with no food, water, or shelter. Alyssa thinks the fur looks better on the animal in the wild, where it's meant to be, than on a human.
Alyssa believes wolves are important to our worlds. She says, “Wolves are an apex predator, which means they are at the top of the food chain. Removing them from the ecosystem is a big mistake. The ecosystem is like a chain of dominoes (多米诺骨牌)—with the apex predator as the one in front. If you were to knock down that domino, the rest of the chain would go down too.”
People usually think of “the Big Bad Wolf” when they hear about wolves. However, Alyssa says, “If they would base their thoughts on facts, not fairy tales, we wouldn't have people wanting to kill wolves.”
1.Alyssa is known as “wolf girl” at her school because ________.
A.she keeps wolves as pets
B.she was raised by wolves
C.she does a lot to protect wolves
D.she started a wolf club at her school
答案：C 细节理解题。根据文章首句中的“has spent ... to protect and respect animals”以及下文所述她喜欢狼并呼吁大家保护狼这一物种可知，阿莉莎在学校中被称为“狼女”，是因为她用她的青春教会了其他人保护和尊重狼。故选C。
2.According to the first two paragraphs, Alyssa ________.
A.gained knowledge about wolves at libraries
B.cares about other animals besides wolves
C.started to give presentations since the second grade
D.is the first junior citizen scientist for FrogWatch USA
答案：B 细节理解题。根据文章第二段描述可知，她除了关心狼之外，还照顾其他的动物，如猫和狗。故选B。
3.Paragraph 4 is mainly about ________.
A.why wolves are killed
B.why wolves are trapped
C.the tools used to hunt wolves
D.how wolves are treated
答案：D 段落大意题。文章第四段主要讲述了狼被猎杀、被围困或被毒亡的事实。人们为了它们的皮毛不断地去猎杀它们，不给它们逃生的机会，所以该段讲述了狼是被如何对待的。故选D。
4.From the last paragraph we can infer that Alyssa ________.
A.doesn't need fairy tales
B.doesn't believe in fairy tales
C.encourages people to find out the facts about wolves
D.believes that more people will work to save wolves
答案：C 推理判断题。根据比较后一段可知，当人们提到狼的时候往往说“大坏狼”。如果人们把想法建立在事实的基础上，而不是童话上，我们人类就没有人想要杀死它们了。因此可推知，阿莉莎鼓励人们客观地对待狼，看到狼真实的一面。故选C。
B
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Drive through any suburb in the US today, and it's hard to miss the recycling bins that have become companions to America's trash cans. Recycling has become common, as people recognize the need to care for the environment. Yet most people's recycling consciousness extends only as far as paper, bottles, and cans. People seldom find themselves facing the growing problem of ewaste.
Ewaste rapidly increases as the technofashionable frequently upgrade to the most advanced devices, and the majority of them end up in landfills (垃圾填埋地). Some people who track such waste say that users throw away nearly 2 million tons of TVs, VCRs, computers, cell phones, and other electronics every year. Unless we can find a safe replacement, this ewaste may get into the ground and poison the water with dangerous toxins (毒素), such as lead, mercury, and arsenic. Burning the waste also dangerously contaminates the air.
However, ewaste often contains reusable silver, gold, and other electrical materials. Recycling these materials reduces environmental problems by reducing both landfill waste and the need to look for such metals, which can destroy ecosystems.
A growing number of states have adopted laws to ban dumping ewaste. Still, less than a quarter of this waste will reach lawful recycling programs. Some companies advertising safe disposal in fact merely ship the waste to some developing countries, where it still ends up in landfills. These organizations prevent progress by unsafely disposing of waste in an outofsight, outofmind location.
However, the small but growing number of cities and corporations that do handle ewaste responsibly represents progress toward making the world a cleaner, better place for us all.
5.What can we infer from the first paragraph?
A.Many Americans now have access to recycling bins.
B.Ewaste cannot be put into trash cans in the US.
C.Most Americans have realized the dangers of ewaste.
D.Most of America's trash cans are made of recycled material.
答案：A 推理判断题。根据第一段第二句可知，在美国，废弃物的回收利用变得很普遍，因为人们已经意识到需要关注环境。所以，A项(很多美国人可以利用回收箱)符合题意，故选A。
6.What can best replace the underlined word “contaminates” in Paragraph 2?
A.Pollutes. B.Heats.
C.Absorbs. D.Reduces.
答案：A 词义猜测题。根据第二段中的“this ewaste may get into the ground and poison the water with dangerous toxins (毒素), such as lead, mercury, and arsenic”可知，这些电子污染会进入土地，污染到水源，那么燃烧污染物可能会污染空气。由此可推断出contaminates的意思与pollutes相近，即“毒害，污染”，故选A。
7.How does the author feel about burying ewaste in landfills?
A.It's important. B.It's unsafe.
C.It's acceptable. D.It's uncommon.
答案：B 推理判断题。根据第二段倒数第二句中的“this ewaste may get into the ground and poison the water”和第四段尾句中的“These organizations prevent progress by unsafely ...”可知，只是把电子垃圾放在看不见的垃圾填埋场，但仍旧不安全，因为它还在那里，分析选项可知B正确。
8.What's the author's purpose in writing this text?
A.To tell us how to recycle ewaste.
B.To talk about the future of ewaste.
C.To discuss if it's necessary to recycle ewaste.
D.To encourage us to deal with ewaste properly.
答案：D 推理判断题。通读全文可知，人们对垃圾的回收普遍关注，回收普通垃圾已经成为习惯。但随着科技的发展，合理回收电子垃圾成为现代废弃物回收的。故本文的目的是鼓励我们合理处理电子垃圾，故选D。
C
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About 5,000 children die each day because of preventable diseases such as cholera and dysentery (痢疾), which spread when people use unclean water for drinking or cooking. A lack of water for personal health leads to the spread of totally preventable diseases like trachoma, which has blinded some six million people.
Water troubles also trap many lowincome families in a cycle of poverty and poor education and the poorest suffer most from lack of access to water. People who spend much of their time on ill health, caring for sick children, or collecting water at a distance averaging 3.75 miles a day don't have educational and economic chances to better their lives.
Agriculture is called the lion's share of clean water worldwide, using some 70 percent, and industrial use needs another 22 percent. Water areas have no political borders and nations don't always work together to share common resources, so water can be a frequent source of international problems as well.
Daybyday demand keeps growing, further draining water sources, from great rivers to groundwater. “We're going deeper into debt on our groundwater use，” Postel said, “and that has great effects on global water safety. The rate of groundwater use has doubled since 1960.”
Some of Earth's groundwater is fossil water created when Earth's climate was far different. Today such water is as limited as petrol. “But we're pumping much of them out faster than ever，” Postel explained. “Man's growing thirst also causes a major problem about water and our ecosystems. And that also creates a cost to us, to our sons and to our grandsons, not just to nature.”
9.What does the author mainly discuss in the passage?
A.Water shortage has been a most serious challenge.
B.So many children die of polluted water every day.
C.Diseases should be properly controlled and treated.
D.Wasting water leads to the unrest of the world.
答案：A 主旨大意题。本文讲述了目前在全世界范围内，水资源短缺给人们的健康、生活、经济等带来的不利影响，水资源短缺是人类面临的一个相当严峻的挑战。
10.Why is agriculture called the lion's share of clean water?
A.Because agriculture is much stronger than industry.
B.Because more people live on the agricultural produce.
C.Because agriculture uses about twothirds of clean water.
D.Because nations don't always work together to save water.
答案：C 细节理解题。依据文中第三段第一句中的“using some 70 percent, and industrial use needs another 22 percent”可知，世界上约70%的清洁水被农业生产耗用，农业是消耗清洁水比较多的产业。
11.According to what Postel said we can know ________.
A.groundwater is rich for us to use
B.there is no need to dig deep for groundwater
C.we are using our next generations' water
D.we should use river water instead of groundwater
答案：C 推理判断题。依据比较后两段中Postel的话，尤其是第五段比较后一句可知，我们正在消耗我们子孙的水资源。
12.What can we infer from the passage?
A.We shouldn't use water from rivers.
B.We should protect our ecosystems.
C.Water should be distributed equally.
D.Laws should be passed for groundwater.
答案：B 推理判断题。文章在讲述水资源的重要性，且用具体例子和数据进行证明;再结合尾段倒数第二句“Man's growing thirst also causes a major problem about water and our ecosystems.”可推知，我们要保护我们的生态系统。
D
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Our planet Earth is comparatively small, with only about 24,902 miles around the equator (赤道). Its surface area may seem largest at 196,935,000 square miles, but of this, 71% is covered by sea. The actual land surface covers some 57,500,000 square miles—29% of the total surface area.
Once again, this seems vast until we take into account the largely uninhabited regions such as the huge wastes of the Arctic and Antarctic, the deserts and wetlands. These regions are not always totally uninhabited, but they can usually support only very small populations.
At present there is still enough space on Earth for humans and wildlife, but what of the future? Our world cannot grow any larger, yet the human population keeps growing every year! As of July 2008, there were almost 6.7 billion people on the planet, and current estimates (估计) suggest that the population could be as high as 9.1 billion by as soon as 2050.
While the birth rate is slowing a little in parts of the Northern Hemisphere, in many other parts of the world, including developing countries, populations continue to grow. This population explosion is responsible for most world environmental problems today; so whether our main concern is to breathe cleaner air, to drink purer water, to eliminate (消除) pollution, to protect wildlife and countryside, to produce more food to eat or to reach a higher standard of living generally, our chances of achieving any of these things become faint as the population increases sharply. The Earth's resources are vast but limited. We have a tendency to look to the short term, rather than seeing the bigger picture of the future.
This is why it is so important that young people learn about looking after the planet—so that future generations of adults act responsibly with regard to the environment and create a future that is continuable, both for humans and all the other species with which we share our world.
13.What does the author worry about?
A.How to find ways to live in uninhabited regions.
B.The Earth is turning smaller and smaller.
C.Whether there is enough space for creatures in the future.
D.What people will live on in the future.
答案：C 推理判断题。根据文章第三段第一句中的疑问句“but what of the future?”可以推断出，作者对于在将来人和野生生物是否还有足够的生存空间感到担心。故选C。
14.According to the text, we can infer that ________.
A.the population will increase by about 0.6 billion every ten years
B.the birth rate around the equator is a little low
C.population explosion is caused by environmental problems
D.more population brings more resources
答案：A 推理判断题。根据第三段的比较后一句可知，从2008年的大约67亿人口到2050年的91亿人口，在42年中，人口大约要增长24亿，即每十年大约增长6亿。故选A。由第四段第一句可知，北半球的某些地区人口出生率偏低，故B项错误;由第四段第二句可知，大部分环境问题是由急剧增多的人口造成的，故C项错误;D项不合常理。
15.What does the underlined word “faint” mean?
A.Important. B.Slight.
C.Necessary. D.Interesting.
答案：B 词义猜测题。画线词前面提到人们想要呼吸更清洁的空气、喝更纯净的水、消除污染、保护野生生物和乡村、生产出更多的食物或普遍地达到一个更高的生活标准，然而人口数量的急剧增加，使人们实现这些想法的机会都变得微小了。故可推断出，faint的意思是“微小的;可能性不大的”，对比选项可知，slight“微小的”含义与其相近。故选B。
16.Which of the following ideas is suggested by the author?
A.Taking strong measures to control the birth rate.
B.Saving the Earth's natural resources.
C.Calling on the young to care for the planet.
D.Protecting the endangered species.
答案：C 推理判断题。根据文章的比较后一段可知，作者呼吁年轻人关爱地球，以便保护人类和其他物种未来的生存空间。故选C。
A
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(2018·浙江高考)Steven Stein likes to follow garbage trucks. His strange habit makes sense when you consider that he's an environmental scientist who studies how to reduce litter, including things that fall off garbage trucks as they drive down the road. What is even more interesting is that one of Stein's jobs is defending an industry behind the plastic shopping bag.
Americans use more than 100 billion thin film plastic bags every year. So many end up in tree branches or along highways that a growing number of cities do not allow them at checkouts (收银台). The bags are prohibited in some 90 cities in California, including Los Angeles. Eyeing these headwinds,_plasticbag makers are hiring scientists like Stein to make the case that their products are not as bad for the planet as most people assume.
Among the bag makers' arguments: many cities with bans still allow shoppers to purchase paper bags, which are easily recycled but require more energy to produce and transport. And while plastic bags may be ugly to look at, they represent a small percentage of all garbage on the ground today.
The industry has also taken aim at the product that has appeared as its replacement: reusable shopping bags. The stronger a reusable bag is, the longer its life and the more plasticbag use it cancels out. However, longerlasting reusable bags often require more energy to make. One study found that a cotton bag must be used at least 131 times to be better for the planet than plastic.
Environmentalists don't dispute (质疑) these points. They hope paper bags will be banned someday too and want shoppers to use the same reusable bags for years.
1.What has Steven Stein been hired to do?
A.Help increase grocery sales.
B.Recycle the waste material.
C.Stop things falling off trucks.
D.Argue for the use of plastic bags.
答案：D 细节理解题。根据第一段比较后一句并结合第二段比较后一句中的“plasticbag makers are hiring scientists like Stein to make the case that their products are not as bad for the planet as most people assume”可知，塑料袋制造商雇佣Stein这样的科学家来为塑料购物袋的使用进行辩护。故选D。
2.What does the word “headwinds” in Paragraph 2 refer to?
A.Bans on plastic bags.
B.Effects of city development.
C.Headaches caused by garbage.
D.Plastic bags hung in trees.
答案：A 词义猜测题。画线词是承接其上一句的内容描述，指在包括洛杉矶在内的加利福尼亚州的90个城市，塑料袋是禁止使用的。再结合画线词后的“to make the case that their products are not as bad for the planet as most people assume”可推断出，此处headwinds指的是“bans on plastic bags”，即对塑料袋的禁令。故选A。
3.What is a disadvantage of reusable bags according to plasticbag makers?
A.They are quite expensive.
B.Replacing them can be difficult.
C.They are less strong than plastic bags.
D.Producing them requires more energy.
答案：D 细节理解题。根据倒数第二段第三句可知，环保袋的一个缺点是生产它们需要更多能源。故选D。
4.What is the best title for the text?
A.Plastic, Paper or Neither
B.Industry, Pollution and Environment
C.Recycle or Throw Away
D.Garbage Collection and Waste Control
答案：A 标题判断题。通读全文可知，文章第一、二段介绍了塑料袋的禁用及原因;第三、四段介绍了环保袋的使用及其缺点;再结合比较后一段第二句可知，环境学家甚至希望某天也可以禁用纸袋。因此A项(到底是选择塑料袋，纸袋还是两者都不使用)准确地概括了文章的主题，适合作标题。故选A。
B
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⊕(2019·陕西省部分学校摸底检测)Scientists are preparing to launch the world's first machine to clean up the planet's largest mass of ocean plastic.
The experts believe the machine should be able to collect half of the detritus in the patch—about 40,000 metric tons—within five years. In the past few weeks they have been busy welding together giant tubes that will sit on the surface of the sea and form the skeleton of the machine, creating the largest floating barrier ever made.
The system, originally dreamt up by Mr Slat, will be shipped out this summer to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, between Hawaii and California, which contains estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic. It will be the first ever attempt to tackle the patch since it was discovered in 1997.
Mr Slat was 16 and still at school when he was diving in Greece and first saw for himself the amount of plastic polluting the sea. “There were more bags than fish down there，” he recalls. Two years later he came up with a solution, quit university after six months and set up The Ocean Cleanup as a company. Mr Slat says the first plastic to arrive on shore will be a major milestone. “We as humanity created this problem, so I think it's also our responsibility to help solve it，” he says.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) covers an area of 1.6 million square kilometers and contains at least 79,000 tons of plastic, research found last month. Most of it is made up of “ghost gear”—parts of abandoned and lost fishing gear, such as nets and ropes—often from illegal fishing vessels.
Ghost gear kills more than 100,000 whales, dolphins and seals each year, according to scientific surveys. Seabirds and other marine life are increasingly being found dead with stomachs full of small pieces of plastic. Creatures eat plastic discarded in the sea thinking it's food but then starve to death because they are not feeding properly. Others are trapped and die of starvation or are strangled or suffocated by ghost gear.
5.What does the underlined word in the second paragraph probably mean?
A.Waste. B.Ocean. C.System. D.Machine.
答案：A 词义猜测题。根据第二段画线词前的“collect half of”，第四段第一句中的“first saw for himself the amount of plastic polluting the sea”和第五段比较后一句中的“parts of abandoned and lost fishing gear, such as nets and ropes—often from illegal fishing vessels”可推知，画线词的意思是“垃圾”，故选A。
6.Which one makes up most of the garbage in Pacific from the passage?
A.Fishing vessels. B.Dolphins and seals.
C.Giant tubes. D.Abandoned fishing gear.
答案：D 细节理解题。根据第五段比较后一句“Most of it is made up of ‘ghost gear’—parts of abandoned and lost fishing gear, such as nets and ropes—often from illegal fishing vessels.”可知，太平洋里的大部分垃圾是由废弃的钓鱼用具组成的。
7.Why do some creatures in The Great Pacific Garbage Patch die of starvation?
A.Because they are killed by ghost gear.
B.Because they are suffocated by ghost gear.
C.Because they don't like eating plastic.
D.Because they are not feeding properly.
答案：D 细节理解题。根据比较后一段倒数第二句中的“but then starve to death because they are not feeding properly”可知，太平洋垃圾带的一些生物死于饥饿是因为它们不能真正地进食。
8.What is the main idea of the passage?
A.A report about the death of marine life.
B.News about the first machine to clean up ocean plastic.
C.Information about ocean plastic.
D.The reason for inventing a machine.
答案：B 主旨大意题。本文是一篇说明文，主要介绍了世界海洋垃圾清扫机的发明。第一段“Scientists are preparing to launch the world's first machine to clean up the planet's largest mass of ocean plastic.”点明了文章的主题，故选B。
C
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(2017·卷Ⅲ)After years of heated debate, gray wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park. Fourteen wolves were caught in Canada and transported to the park. By last year, the Yellowstone wolf population had grown to more than 170 wolves.
Gray wolves once were seen here and there in the Yellowstone area and much of the continental United States, but they were gradually displaced by human development. By the 1920s, wolves had practically disappeared from the Yellowstone area. They went farther north into the deep forests of Canada, where there were fewer humans around.
The disappearance of the wolves had many unexpected results. Deer and elk populations—major food sources (来源) for the wolf—grew rapidly. These animals consumed large amounts of vegetation (植被), which reduced plant diversity in the park. In the absence of wolves, coyote populations also grew quickly. The coyotes killed a large percentage of the park's red foxes, and completely drove away the park's beavers.
As early as 1966, biologists asked the government to consider reintroducing wolves to Yellowstone Park. They hoped that wolves would be able to control the elk and coyote problems. Many farmers opposed the plan because they feared that wolves would kill their farm animals or pets.
The government spent nearly 30 years coming up with a plan to reintroduce the wolves. The US Fish and Wildlife Service carefully monitors and manages the wolf packs in Yellowstone. Today, the debate continues over how well the gray wolf is fitting in at Yellowstone.Elk，deer, and coyote populations are down, while beavers and red foxes have made a comeback. The Yellowstone wolf project has been a valuable experiment to help biologists decide whether to reintroduce wolves to other parts of the country as well.
篇章导读：本文是一篇记叙文。文章详细叙述了把灰狼重新引入黄石国家公园的原因以及这一方案从提出到实施的经过和其会产生的影响。
9.What is the text mainly about?
A.Wildlife research in the United States.
B.Plant diversity in the Yellowstone area.
C.The conflict between farmers and gray wolves.
D.The reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone Park.
答案：D 主旨大意题。文章围绕重新将灰狼引入黄石公园展开讨论。故选D。
10.What does the underlined word “displaced” in Paragraph 2 mean?
A.Tested. B.Separated.
C.Forced out. D.Tracked down.
答案：C 词义猜测题。根据上文可知，灰狼曾经随处可见，再结合后文“wolves had practically disappeared”可知，与displaced意思比较接近的是C项“被迫离开”。displace “取代;替代”。test “”;separate “分开”;track down “追查到”，均与语境不符。
11.What did the disappearance of gray wolves bring about?
A.Damage to local ecology.
B.A decline in the park's income.
C.Preservation of vegetation.
D.An increase in the variety of animals.
答案：A 推理判断题。由第三段可知，灰狼的消失产生了很多意想不到的结果。鹿及麋鹿的数量增长，导致植被破坏，麋鹿吃掉了大量赤狐，并迫使河狸离开黄石公园。由此可知，灰狼的消失导致当地的生态失去平衡。故选A。
12.What is the author's attitude towards the Yellowstone wolf project?
A.Doubtful. B.Positive.
C.Disapproving. D.Uncaring.
答案：B 推理判断题。由比较后一段可知，灰狼回归后，鹿及麋鹿的数量减少了，而河狸和赤狐又回来了，再由“a valuable experiment to help”等可推断出作者对于黄石狼项目持肯定态度。故选B。
D
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(2018·卷Ⅰ)We may think we're a culture that gets rid of our worn technology at the first sight of something shiny and new, but a new study shows that we keep using our old devices (装置) well after they go out of style. That's bad news for the environment—and our wallets—as these outdated devices consume much more energy than the newer ones that do the same things.
To figure out how much power these devices are using, Callie Babbitt and her colleagues at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York tracked the environmental costs for each product throughout its life—from when its minerals are mined to when we stop using the device. This method provided a readout for how home energy use has evolved since the early 1990s. Devices were grouped by generation. Desktop computers, basic mobile phones, and boxset TVs defined 1992. Digital cameras arrived on the scene in 1997. And MP3 players, smart phones, and LCD TVs entered homes in 2002, before tablets and ereaders showed up in 2007.
As we accumulated more devices, however, we didn't throw out our old ones. “The livingroom television is replaced and gets planted in the kids' room, and suddenly one day, you have a TV in every room of the house，” said one researcher. The average number of electronic devices rose from four per household in 1992 to 13 in 2007. We're not just keeping these old devices—we continue to use them. According to the analysis of Babbitt's team, old desktop monitors and box TVs with cathode ray tubes are the worst devices with their energy consumption and contribution to greenhouse gas emissions (排放) more than doubling during the 1992 to 2007 window.
So what's the solution (解决方案)? The team's data only went up to 2007, but the researchers also explored what would happen if consumers replaced old products with new electronics that serve more than one function, such as a tablet for word processing and TV viewing. They found that more ondemand entertainment viewing on tablets instead of TVs and desktop computers could cut energy consumption by 44%.
13.What does the author think of new devices?
A.They are environmentfriendly.
B.They are no better than the old.
C.They cost more to use at home.
D.They go out of style quickly.
答案：A 推理判断题。根据第一段比较后一句可知，使用旧的电子设备对环境和我们的钱包都是坏消息。这些过时的设备做相同的事情要消耗比新设备更多的能源。由此推知，作者认为新电子设备环保、节能。故选A。
14.Why did Babbitt's team conduct the research?
A.To reduce the cost of minerals.
B.To test the life cycle of a product.
C.To update consumers on new technology.
D.To find out electricity consumption of the devices.
答案：D 细节理解题。根据第二段第一句中的“To figure out how much power these devices are using, ...”可知，Babbitt的团队研究的目的是为了弄清楚新旧电子设备的耗能量。故选D。
15.Which of the following uses the least energy?
A.The boxset TV. B.The tablet.
C.The LCD TV. D.The desktop computer.
答案：B 推理判断题。根据第三段比较后一句和比较后一段比较后一句可知，平板电脑是耗能比较少的电子设备，可以降低44%的耗能。故选B。
16.What does the text suggest people do about old electronic devices?
A.Stop using them. B.Take them apart.
C.Upgrade them. D.Recycle them.
答案：A 推理判断题。根据文章的整体内容可知，因为旧的电子设备耗能高，不环保，所以作者建议停止使用旧的电子设备。故选A。
E
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⊕(2019·山东省济宁一中高三第一次调研考试)For environmental reasons, Britain will ban all new petro and dieselpowered vehicles from its roads beginning in 22 years, a government report says.
The plan, expected Wednesday, aims to start removing petrol and diesel engines in 2040. It follows a similar official statement in France and comes after the British government was ordered by the High Court to develop new plans to reduce NO2 in the air. Judges ruled that previous cleanair plans were not enough to meet European Union pollution limits in the coming years.
Britain's government has said the poor air quality has an unnecessary and avoidable negative effect on citizens' health, and costs up to $ 3.5 billion in annual lost productivity.
Part of the new plan involves an offer of $ 260 million to local governments to change rules where vehicle emissions (排放) are over EU standards. Ideas so far include changing road layouts, reprogramming traffic lights and charging a fee for the oldest and most polluting cars on the road.
The plan also includes $1.3 billion for government purchase of extremelowemission vehicles, nearly $ 130 million to improve infrastructure for electric vehicle charging stations and $ 378 million for remodeling existing vehicles.
Climate change is also a reason for the plan to get these vehicles off the road. “We can't carry on with petrol and diesel cars，” Environment Secretary Michael Gove said. “It's important we all prepare for a significant change which deals not just with the problems of health caused by emissions, but the broader problems caused in terms of accelerating climate change.”
Gove added that local communities are partly responsible for coming up with ways to limit emissions, including possible limitations on commuters (上下班往返者) and the addition of cleaner mass transportation options. Local leaders are called on to draw up “appropriate plans” to deal with climate challenges related to emission, he said.
17.Why does the British government decide on this ban?
A.To focus on its citizens' health.
B.To respond to the court's request.
C.To promote solar energy in transport.
D.To follow in France's footsteps.
答案：B 细节理解题。根据第二段第二句“It follows a similar official statement in France and comes after the British government was ordered by the High Court to develop new plans to reduce NO2 in the air.”可知，英国比较高法院要求政府制定新的计划减少空气污染，所以决定采用这个禁令是应英国法院的要求，故B项正确。
18.Which measure may the British government take to achieve its plan?
A.To follow in France's footsteps.
B.Removing old and highemission vehicles.
C.Spending some money on electric vehicles.
D.Changing the way roads are arranged.
答案：D 细节理解题。根据第四段比较后一句“Ideas so far include changing road layouts, reprogramming traffic lights and charging a fee for the oldest and most polluting cars on the road.”可知，做法包括改变道路设置、重编交通灯、收取老旧车辆污染车辆费等，故D项正确。
19.What can be inferred from Gove's words?
A.Convenient public transportation is badly needed.
B.United efforts are required to achieve the plan.
C.Vehicle emissions are the key factor in climate change.
D.Petrol and diesel cars may hold back economic progress.
答案：B 推理判断题。根据文章比较后两段内容可知，Gove认为所有人都应该共同努力，地方社区居民和地方都要一起努力实现目标，故B项正确。
20.What is the suitable title for this passage?
A.Practical ways to reduce vehicle emissions
B.The EU forces Britain to improve the poor air quality
C.Britain plans to take petrol and diesel engines off roads
D.Relationship between vehicle emissions and climate change
答案：C 标题判断题。由全文内容并结合第一段(主旨段)可知，文章主要讲述英国计划在2040年全面禁止使用汽油车和柴油车，英国政府为此出台了一项计划并号召所有人一起努力实现这个目标，故C项正确。
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