高考英语专项训练说明文2.docx

1、高考英语专项训练说明文2第四节说明文(2)2018全国卷Good Morning Britains Susanna Reid is used to grilling guests on the sofa every morning, but she is cooking up a storm in her latest role showing families how to prepare delicious and nutritious meals on a tight budget.In Save Money: Good Food, she visits a different home

2、 each week and with the help of chef Matt Tebbutt offers top tips on how to reduce food waste, while preparing recipes for under 5 per family a day. And the Good Morning Britain presenter says shes been able to put a lot of what shes learnt into practice in her own home, preparing meals for sons, Sa

3、m, 14, Finn, 13, and Jack, 11.“We love Mexican churros, so I buy them on my phone from my local Mexican takeaway restaurant，” she explains. “I pay 5 for a portion(一份), but Matt makes them for 26p a portion, because they are flour, water, sugar and oil. Everybody can buy takeaway food, but sometimes

4、were not aware how cheaply we can make this food ourselves.”The eightpart series(系列节目), Save Money：Good Food, follows in the footsteps of ITVs Save Money: Good Health, which gave viewers advice on how to get value from the vast range of health products on the market.With food our biggest weekly hous

5、ehold expense, Susanna and Matt spend time with a different family each week. In tonights Easter special they come to the aid of a family in need of some delicious inspiration on a budget. The team transforms the familys long weekend of celebration with less expensive but still tasty recipes.1What d

6、o we know about Susanna Reid?AShe enjoys embarrassing her guests. BShe has started a new programme.CShe dislikes working early in the morning. DShe has had a tight budget for her family.2How does Matt Tebbutt help Susanna?AHe buys cooking materials for her. BHe prepares food for her kids.CHe assists

7、 her in cooking matters. DHe invites guest families for her.3What does the author intend to do in paragraph 4?ASummarize the previous paragraphs. BProvide some advice for the readers.CAdd some background information. DIntroduce a new topic for discussion.4What can be a suitable title for the text?AK

8、eeping Fit by Eating Smart BBalancing Our Daily DietCMaking Yourself a Perfect Chef DCooking Well for Less2018武汉5月调研 The Maltese Islands are rich in Neolithic (新石器时代的)sites. Ggantija in Gozo, Tarxien, and the Hagar Qim/Mnajdra Complex here on Maltas south coast are perhaps the most wellknown. These

9、piles of stones are some of the earliest known manmade structures in the world. They are showing their age a bit but what would you expect for buildings that are five and a half thousand years old. My house was built in the year 2000 and is already in bad condition round the edges. These temples are

10、 older than the pyramids!In my opinion the temples are best seen after the visitors have left. Come with me for a late afternoon walk down the hill past Hagar Qim towards the Mnajdra Complex. There are chain link fences around the temples now but we can ignore those and try to image why Maltas earli

11、est people went to the trouble of building these structures on this windy and poor hillside. Of course the temples would have looked rather different when they were constructed. They may have been decorated with pigments and possibly even roofed with animal skins or other materials. Who knows? We do

12、 know that they were changed and added to over a 1,000year period or so. Getting to Mnajdra and Hagar Qim is easiest if you have a car. Or if you dont mind a hike, you could get a bus to Qrendi(3 km away) or Zurrieq (5 km away) and walk from there. Warning: although the distances are not too great,

13、walking several kilometers in the Maltese sun can be very hard and possibly dangerous. Take water and sunscreen.5What makes the writer wonder about the temples? ATheir history. BTheir appearance. CHow they were built. DWhen they were built.6What are we aware of about the construction of the temples?

14、 AThey have been transformed. BThey look the same as before. CThey were carefully designed. DThey are not what they used to be.7How can we admire the sites getting least sunburn? ABy hiking there.BBy riding a car. CBy taking water. DBy taking a bus.8Where can we possibly find this article? AIn a pol

15、itical speech. BIn a historical fiction. CIn a travel magazine. DIn a geography textbook.2018桂林三模You may be familiar with the following famous people, but have you heard of their graduation speeches, in which they either share their unforgotten experiences or give you some great inspiration.Michael

16、Dell, University of Texas at AustinAnd now youve accomplished something great and important here, and its time for you to move on to whats next. And you must not let anything prevent you from taking those first steps. You must also commit to the adventure. Just have faith in the skills and the knowl

17、edge youve been blessed(赐予)with and go.JK. Rowling, Harvard UniversityHalf my lifetime ago, I was striking an uneasy balance between my ambition and the expectation from my parents who were not rich.But what I feared most of myself at your age was not poverty, but failure. The fact that you are grad

18、uating from Harvard suggests that you know little about failure, you might be driven by a fear of failure quite as much as a desire for success.Steve Jobs, Stanford UniversitySometimes lifes going to hit you in the head with a brick. Dont lose faith. Your work is going to fill a large part of your l

19、ife, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work, and the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you havent found it yet, keep looking and dont settle.Bill Gates, Harvard UniversityWe need as many people as possible to have access to the advanced tech

20、nology to lead to a revolution in what human beings can do for one another. They are making it possible not just for national governments, but for universities, smaller organizations, and even individuals to see problems, see approaches and deal with the worlds inequities(不公平)like hunger, poverty, a

21、nd so on.9What Michael Dell said is to urge us to _.Alisten to our heart Blearn from our mistakes Cfollow others example Dpursue our dreams10What did JK. Rowling fear most when she was studying in university?AFailure. BHunger. CPoverty. DAppearance.11What does Bill Gates suggest people do?AMaster as

22、 much advanced technology as possible. BWork together to rid some global problems.CMake contributions to the environment. DTake responsibility for their own behavior.2018福建毕业班质检On a college camping trip, curiosity about waves and sand caused Rob Thieler to study shorelines around the world. Thirty y

23、ears later and now a US. Geological Survey research geologist, Thieler, is combining science and smartphone technology to help study an endangered bird, the Atlantic Coast piping plover.The piping plover is a shorebird that breeds(繁殖)along the Atlantic Coast, the Great Lakes and the Great Plains. Ri

24、sing sea levels associated with climate change, as well as increased development in their beach habitats(栖息地), threaten the species(物种). To help track changes in piping plover habitats, Thieler developed a free app called iPlover in 2012. This is a marked change from the typical way scientists colle

25、ct data, which involves gathering information using specialized equipment or writing in notebooks and then putting into spreadsheets.Since releasing iPlover, scientists have gathered data across 1500 km of breeding range. That equals about a third of the distance across the US., which is a large are

26、a to cover for only two thousand breeding pairs of piping plovers on the east coast. Instead of having to travel and spend days at each site, a number of cooperators in the field use the app to collect and send data, allowing scientists to gather data more efficiently. It also allows them to collect

27、 data at the same time during each breeding season, providing a better picture of changes that happen over longer periods of time. And fast, centralized access means scientists can look at data quickly to get a realtime idea of where and how piping plovers are using their habitats.While iPlover is u

28、sed by trained field staff, other apps like the U. S. Geological Surveys webbased “iCoast Did the Coast Change？” invite citizen scientists to identify coastal changes by comparing birdseyeview photographs taken before and after storms. All the information scientists and citizen scientists alike coll

29、ect helps federal and state agencies create policy plans for addressing climate change impacts (影响) worldwide.12What can we know about the piping plover?AIts behaviour is changing.BIts habitat is growing bigger.CIts living environment is becoming worse.DIts breeding is limited to the Atlantic Coast.

30、13Why did Thieler develop iPlover?ATo study shorelines across America.BTo advance information technology.CTo find out global climate change.DTo monitor changes of piping plover habitats.14Which of the following benefits the shorebirds?AThe camping equipment.BResearch on smartphones.CThe changeable c

31、oast.DProgress in technology.15What would be the best title of the text?AProtecting Endangered ShorebirdsBRob Thieler, a Creative ScientistCIPlover, Tool for Training Field StaffDDifferences Between IPlover and ICoast2018甘肃诊断Amazon China, one of the largest online booksellers, unveiled the bestselli

32、ng books in China for the first half of 2018 on Tuesday, disclosing Chinese peoples reading habits. Japanese author KeigoHigashinos Miracles of the Namiya General Store topped the list of the most popular paper books, followed by late Chinese writer Yang Jiangs We Three and Israeli historian Yuval Noahs