2022最新英语时事阅读题十五（适用于初三和高一学生） WORD版含答案.docx

1、2022最新英语时事阅读题十五（适用于初三和高一学生）A篇People play the lottery(彩票) with the hopes of winning money, sometimes a lot of money. Your chances of winning are small, but the payoffs can be big. It takes a lot of luck to win. But for a woman in Massachusetts winning the lotteryinvolved more than luck. Itinvolvedext

2、remehonesty and kindness.Lea Rose Fiegaaccidentallythrew out a $1 million lottery ticket. But thanks to the kindness and honesty of the owners of the store where she bought it, she eventuallycollected her winnings.Fiega bought the $30 Diamond Millions scratch-off(刮刮乐) ticket in March at aconvenience

3、store in Southwick, Massachusetts. The store is near her workplace. And it is named the Lucky Stop. She told theAssociated Press(美联社) on Monday, I was in a hurry, on lunch break, and just scratched it real quick and it didnt look like a winner So, she handed it to the store owners to throw away.The

4、ticket lay in the store for 10 days. One evening, I was going through the tickets from the trash and found out that she didnt scratch the number, Abhi Shah, the son of the stores owners, told a local television station. So, he scratched off the number. It was $1 million ticket.Fiega is aregularcusto

5、mer. So, the family knew immediately who had thrown it away. Shah went to see her at work.Fiega said, He came to my office and said, My Mom and Dad would like to see you. She told the young man that she was busy working. But he said, No, you have to come over.So, Fiega went to the store and that is

6、when the family told her the news.I was intotaldisbelief, Fiega said. I cried. Ihuggedthem.In January, Fiega nearly died from COVID-19. She saidrecovering from that was like winning the lottery. In American English, we also say we hit the lottery to mean we have had some good luck, any type of good

7、luck. Now after winning $1million, Fiega says she feels doubly lucky.Speaking of the family, she is still in disbelief. I mean, who does that? Theyre great people. I am beyond blessed, she said.The store gets $10,000 from the state lottery company for selling the winning ticket. Fiega said she gave

8、the family some money to thank them. She is saving the rest for retirement(退休).(410 words)根据文章内容， 选择最佳答案：1. According to the report, we can learn that Fiega won the money because _.A. She was lucky enough.B. She was very kind and honest.C. The owners of the store were lucky enoughD. She was lucky en

9、ough and the owners of the store was kind and honest enough.2. Fiega got the news of winning the lottery _.A. the next day. B. three days later C. ten days later D. three months later.3. Who found the winning ticket?A. Fiega B. Shah C. Shahs father D. Shahs mother4. When will we say “hit the lottery

10、” in American English?A. When we want to buy a lottery.B. When we have won a lottery.C. When we are in trouble.D. When we have had very good luck.5. Which we are not sureat the end of the story?A. Fiega got 1 million dollars from the state lottery company.B. Fiega saved all the money for retirement.

11、C. The owners got ten thousand dollars from Fiega.D. The owners got ten thousand dollars from the lottery company.B篇A new study has found that elephant seals have to work very hard to stay fat. The researchrepresentsthe most complete study to date of the feeding behavior of northern elephant seals.N

12、orthern elephant seals live on the Pacific coast of theUnited States,CanadaandMexico. Scientists paid special attention to females of the species(物种) during difficult two-month trips, or migrations(迁徙), in the northeastern Pacific Ocean. The seals were found to spend up to 20 hours every day - and s

13、ometimes a full 24 hours - in continuous deep-diving to feed on fish. They fed 1,000 to 2,000 times daily to gain the body fat necessary for reproduction(繁殖) and warmth in the cold waters.Taiki Adachi of the University of St Andrews inScotlandled the study, which recently appeared in the journal Sci

14、enceAdvances. It is not easy to get fat, Adachi said.Scientistsbased their findings on data collected in 2011 and 2018. They used three smallremovable devices（设备，仪器）. One device,attachedunder the jaw, counted the number of times the seals fed and measured their depth. A second satellite-linked devic

15、e,attachedto the head, followed the seals oceanmovements. The third device was a smart video camera with an infra-red LED light and another depth sensor(传感器). It was alsoattachedto the head.Elephant seals get their name from the large noses of the males. These noses look like an elephants trunk. The

16、re are two species - the northern elephant seal and theslightlylarger southern elephant seal. The two are the worlds biggest seals and the largest oceanmammals other than whales. Male northern elephant seals can grow up to 4 meters long and weigh up to 2,000 kilograms. Females are smaller, getting u

17、p to about 3 meters in length and 590 kilograms. The males feed only in coastal(沿海的) waters.Some large marinemammalsdepend on deep dives to get enough food to support their large bodies. Sperm whales, for example, hunt for large prey like giant squid. Female elephant seals - which are large, but not

18、 as big as sperm whales - have a different solution(解决方案). They eat hugeamounts of small fish. But it is difficult for them to catch enough small fish to meet the energy needs of their large bodies. (388 words)根据文章内容，选择最佳答案：1. The elephant seals have to stay fat because it is good for _.A.deep-divin

19、g. B. swimming in the sea.C. migrations D. reproduction and warmth in the cold waters2. The elephant seals dive deep into the ocean to _.A. swim fasterB. get food like large prey like giant squidC. eat enough small fish to support their large bodiesD. hunt sperm whales for food3. Which device can te

20、ll the scientists the route of the elephant seals during the migrations? A.The one under the jaw. B. The one on the head. C. The one with a smart video camera. D. All of the three devices.4. What does the underlined wordattachmean?A. to join one thing to anotherB. to make something from anotherC. to

21、 build something on anotherD. to remove something from another5. According to the report, which statement istrueabout the elephant seals?A. Not all have trunks like elephants.B. They all live in the northeastern Pacific Ocean. C. They eat only small fish. D. They only get fed in coastal waters.C篇Jap

22、ans government is facing criticism(批评,指责) forpressing its plans to hold the Tokyo Olympics even as the countrydeals withthe coronavirus health crisis. More than 300,000 people have signed apetitioncalling for a cancellation(取消) of the Games, which are set to open on July 23. The 2020 Summer Olympics

23、 were delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic.Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has repeatedlystated that the government is continuing with plans to hold the Olympics. He has promised that the games will happen safely andsecurely. Some Japanese lawmakers have questioned thosestatementsas some hospit

24、als stillstruggleto find beds for those sick with COVID-19.On Wednesday, officials in some parts of Japan extended(延长,扩大) astateofemergencyas virus cases continued to rise. Last month, Suga declared(宣布) a third state of emergency in Osaka, the center of the current (当前的;) rise in virus cases, as wel

25、l as in Tokyo and two other areas. That has since been extended through May 31. On Wednesday, two more areas, Aichi in centralJapanand Fukuoka in the south, were placed under emergency measures(措施;方法;).It is estimated that only 1 percent of the Japanese public has so far been fully vaccinated althou

26、gh millions of vaccine doses sit unused in very low temperature storage(储存).Anewspaperadvertisementstated: No vaccine. No medication. Are we supposed to fight with bamboo spears? Well be killed by politics if things remain unchanged. Theadvertisement said people were in danger of being killed by pol

27、itics. It suggested the government is not doing enough to fight the pandemic and vaccines are not widely available. The ad brought a lot ofattentionon social media. It said many Japanese have faced medical and financial problems with little government support. It urged(敦促) the public todemandthat th

28、e government end poorly planned coronavirus measures. We have been deceived(欺骗;蒙骗;误导). What was the past year for? it said.The ad was created by Tokyo based publisher Takarajimasha. The company is known for speaking out on political and socialissues.(392 words)根据文章内容，选择最佳答案：1.Japans government is fa

29、cing criticism because _. A. the 2020 Summer Olympics was delayed.B. a state of emergency is extended as virus cases continued to rise.C. the plan to hold the Tokyo Olympics in July this year is being pushed on the way.D. only 1 percent of the Japanese public has so far been fully vaccinated.2. The

30、advertisement tried to tell_.A. people should get vaccinated as soon as possible.B. the government didnttry hard enough to stop the coronavirus.C. the coronavirus cases were rising in Japan.D. the government was continuing with plans to hold the Olympics.3. What did the Prime Minister promise theJap

31、anese people? A. More vaccines would be available for people.B. The government would help some hospital to find more beds for the sick with COVID-19.C. More emergency measures would be carried on during the Olympic Games.D. The Olympic Games will be held safely.4. What does the underlined wordpetiti

32、onmean?A.协议B.合同 C.请愿书D.声明5. How many areas inJapanwere placed under emergency measures? A.2 B. 3 C. 4D. 5D篇Small dinosaurs once lived in the desert in todaysMongoliaand northernChina. Their great night vision and strong hearing made themdeadlypredators(捕食者) during the nighttime.Scientists said Thurs

33、day they have found a circle of bones around the eye of a dinosaur called Shuvuuia Deserti. The bones were inside theskull, which holds the hearingorgan. Scientists say the dinosaur had hearing and sight abilities much like an owl, meaning it could hunt in the dark.Their study waspublishedin thejour

34、nal, Science. Theresearchshowed that most predatory dinosaurs had good hearing, but theirsightworked best during the daytime.The Shuvuuia, however, loved nightlife. The two-legged dinosaur was the size of a large bird and weighed about as much as a house cat. It had many small teeth, like pieces of

35、rice. It was lightweight and lived during the Cretaceous Period, about 75 million to 81 million years ago.Roger Benson is a paleontologist(古生物学家) from the University of Oxford who helped write the study. Its such a strange animal that paleontologists have long wondered what it was actually doing, he

36、 said. Its mid-length neck, small head, and very long legs, made it look like an unusual chicken. But unlike birds, it had short, strong arms with a large claw on the end, which was useful for digging.Jonah Choiniere is a paleontologist at Wits University inSouth Africaand the studys lead author. Sh

37、uvuuia might have run across the desert floor under cover of night, using itsincrediblehearing and night vision to track(追踪) small prey(受害者) such as nocturnal mammals, lizards and insects, he said.The researchers also looked at a structure called the lagena. The lagena is a curved sack that sits in

38、an area of bones around the brain. It isconnectedto the part of the ear that lets reptiles and birds keep balance and move their heads while walking. The longer the lagena is, the better hearing an animal has. The barn owl(仓鸮) can hunt even in total darkness and has the longest lagena of any living

39、bird, relative to its size. Shuvuuia also has a very long lagena, almost the same in relative size to a barn owls.The researchers also found that Shuvuuia had a very wide scleralring(巩膜环) - tiny bones that circle the eyeball. The rings large size means that it was able to see in darkness. Choiniere

40、said that hepreviously thought that during the age of dinosaurs, the night was used by mammals to come out of hiding and still avoid predators.The importance of these findings is that itforces us to imagine dinosaurs like Shuvuuia evolving(进化) totakeadvantageofthese nocturnal（夜间活动的）communities(社区，群落

41、), he said.（462 words）根据文章内容，选择最佳答案：1. What are the Shuvuuia Desertis advantages in nightime? A. It could see something well and run fast.B. It was good at digging and heard something well.C. It was lightweight and moved quietly.D. It had good sight and hearing.2. Which statement is false about Shuv

42、uuia Desertis body?A. It had only two long legs.B. It was as light as a large chicken.C. It had a mid-length neck and small head with small tooth.D. It had short, strong arms with a large claw on the end.3. Which might a Shuvuuia Desertinoteat?A. fish B. mice C. lizards D. insects4. Which statement

43、is true about a lagena and scleral ring?A. A lagena lies in the eyeball of the animals.B. scleral ringshelpanimals to keep balance when they are moving.C. The longer lagena you have, the better you can see.D. Both a Shuvuuia and a barn owl have a very long lagena and wide scleral ring.5. What can we

44、 infer from Choiniere?A. The night was only used by mammals to come out of hiding.B. Shuvuuia didnt need to avoid predators at night.C. Shuvuuia was clever enough to take its advantages at night.D. Shuvuuia was sucha strange animal that researchers didnt know how it lived.E篇The worldsglaciersare mel

45、ting quickly. Scientists from the magazine Nature looked at 20 years of satellite data of the worlds 220,000 mountain glaciers. They found that since 2015, glaciers have lost 298 billion metric tons of ice and snow per year. That is 31 percent more than 15 years ago, and enough ice melt to putSwitze

46、rlandunder 7.2 meters of water each year.Scientists say the melting is caused by climate change. They have long warned that warming temperatures are shrinking(使)收缩，减少;) glaciers around the world.Romain Hugonnet studies glaciers at ETH Zurich and the University of Toulouse in France. He led the repor

47、t. The thinning rate of glaciers is twice as high as it was 20 years ago, and thats enormous, he said.Half of the worlds glacier melt is in theUnited StatesandCanada. Alaskas melt rates are among the highest on the planet, Hugonnet said. Alaskas Columbia Glacier is losing about 35 meters a year, he

48、added. Almost all of the worlds glaciers are melting. Even glaciers that used to besolidare now melting, such as ones inTibet. The melting mirrors the worldwide increase in temperature and is from the burning of coal, oil and gas, Hugonnet said.Some smaller glaciers aretotallylost. Two years ago, sc

49、ientists, activists(活动人士) and government officials in Iceland even held a funeral(葬礼) for a small glacier.The study is the first to use satellite images to examine all of Earths glaciers that are notconnected to ice sheets(冰盖) in Greenland or the Antarctic. Past studies looked at just a small number

50、 of the worlds glaciers.Shrinking glaciers are a problem for millions of people who use regular glacial melt for drinking water. Very fast melting can also causedeadlyfloods in places likeIndia, Hugonnet said. But the biggestthreatto the world is rising sea levels. The worlds oceans are already risi

51、ng from climate change because waterexpands when it gets warmer.Glaciers areresponsiblefor 21 percent of sea level rise. Melting ice sheets in Green land and Antarctica also cause sea level rise, but to a lesseramount.Scientists said that it could take tens or even hundreds of years to regrow melted

52、 glaciers. Twila Moon studies glaciers at the NSIDC. She is not confident the glaciers can regrow, even if there is a worldwidereductionin emissions(排放物;) and the planets temperature is controlled. Were at a point where were trying to keep as much ice as possible and slow thatrateof loss, she said.(

53、428 words)根据文章内容，选择正确答案：1. How much ice smelted since 2015?A. About 300 billion metric tonsB. About 1800 billion metric tonsC. About 1500 billion metric tonsD. About 220,000 billion tons2. The worlds glaciers are melting quickly because of _.A. the warming temperatures of the worldB. the rising sea

54、level of the earth.C. the rising use of regular glacial melt for drinking water.D, the slow regrowing of the glaciers.3. The quickly melt of the glaciers will cause the following problems except _.A. reduction of land. B. reduction of drinking waterC. reduction of deadly flood. D. the reduction of g

55、laciers4. What does the underlined wordmirrormean in Chinese?A.解决B.衬托 C.反映 D.复制5. According to the report, which statement is incorrect about the glaciers? A. Most of the worlds glacier melt is in the north of the planet.B. Almost all of the worlds glaciers are melting.C. Some melted glaciers might regrow.D. Melt rates in Greenland and Antarctica are the highest all over the earth.A答案：1D2C3B4D5CB答案：1D2C3B4A5AC答案：1C2B3D4C5DD答案：1D2B3A4D5CE答案：1B2A3C4C5D