2022最新英语时事阅读题十四（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十四（适用于初三和高一学生）A篇Some 3,000 tern eggs were abandoned (遗弃) at a Southern Californianestingisland after a drone (无人机) crashed and scared off the birds, a newspaper reported in June.In May, two drones were flownillegallyover the Bolsa Chica Ecological(生态的)Reservein Huntington Beach, Califor

2、nia. One of them went down in the wetlands, The OrangeCountyRegister, a local newspaper, reported. Fearing an attack from a predator(捕食者), several thousand terns(燕鸥) abandoned their ground-based nests, reported the states Department of Fish and Wildlife.Usually during June, the white birds would be

3、watching their eggs as they begin to hatch. But now, the sand is filled with eggshells.Melissa Loebl is the manager of the naturereserve. She called it one of the largest abandonment of eggs ever at the coastal area.Thereserveis about 160 km north of San Diego, California. Last year, the pandemic br

4、ought more and more people to outdoor spaces. In 2020, about 100,000 visitors came to the Bolsa Chicareserve. That is up from about 60,000 in 2019, she told the newspaper. That has led to an increase in human activity, including flying drones, walking dogs, and riding bicycles. All these activities

5、are not permitted.Loebl said that there has been a great increase in dogs,particularly those permitted to run free. She explained that this is especially bad during the nesting season. The dogs chase the birds, and the birds abandon their nests, she said.Another problem is the development of multimi

6、llion-dollar homes near thereserve, said Fish and Wildlife guardian Nick Molsberry. While most residents respect the rules of thereserve, he said, some do not. Some residents, suggested Molsberry, feelentitledand feel they should be able to use the land as they like.Officials, however, are increasin

7、genforcementand fining people who break the rules.Thereserveis the largest saltwater marsh between Monterey Bay just south of San Francisco and the Tijuana River Estuary inMexico. Some 800 species of plants and animals live at or migrate(迁移,移居) to Bolsa Chica.(350 words)根据文章内容，选择最佳答案：1. Why were the

8、 eggs abandoned?A. Some predators attacked the birds.B. The crash of a drone frightened the birds.C. Some dogs ran and scared the birds.D. The birds usually abandon some of their eggs.2. So many people come to the island because they want to _.A. watch the birds.B. scare the birdsC. pick up the eggs

9、.D. escape from the the pandemic3. The people usually do something on the island except _.A. flying drones B. walking dogsC. riding bicycles D. protecting the birds.4. What are the local officials doing to solve the problem?A. They are trying to develop homes near the reserve.B. They allow the resid

10、ents to use the land as they like.C. Theyare increasing enforcement and fining people who break the rules.D. They are cleaning the eggs on the beach.5. What does the underlined wordentitledmean?A. having a chance to do something. B. having the honour of (doing) something.C. having the right to do so

11、mething or have something.D. having right to make a decision about something.B篇As the world slowlyrecovers from the coronavirus pandemic, Egypt has been trying for months topersuadevisitors to come to its archaeological locations(地点) and museums. Officials are hoping the newdiscoverywill bring in th

12、e visitors and their money.But like countries elsewhere,Egyptcontinues tobattlethe coronavirus. It isstrugglingto get its people vaccinated. In early May, the governmentannouncedthat 1 million people had been vaccinated, though that number is believed to be higher now.Meanwhile, officials have conti

13、nued to tell the world about their new discoveries. In November, archaeologists announced the discovery of at least 100 coffins(棺木) dating back to the Pharaonic Late Period and Greco-Ptolemaic era. They also found 40 gold-coveredstatues thought to have beenburied2,500 years ago.A month earlier, they

14、 discovered 57additionalcoffins at the same place, the necropolis of Saqqara that includes the Step Pyramid. Saqqara is a treasure,Tourismand Antiquities Minister Khaled el-Anany told The Associated Press. He estimated that only 1 percent of the treasures hidden there have been found.In April, Zahi

15、Hawass,Egypts best-known archaeologist, announced the discovery of a 3,000-year-old lost city in southern Luxor. It has the remains of houses, tools and other artifacts that date to Amenhotep III of the 18th dynasty. He ruled from 1390-1353 BC. This wasEgypts golden age.That discovery was followed b

16、y a televisedparadecelebrating the moving of 22royalmummies(木乃伊) to their new home: the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization(文明). It is a large, new building just south of the capital.Prices to enter archaeological sites have been lowered, as has the cost of visas to enter the country. In 2019,

17、foreign visitors brought an estimated $13 billion to the country as some 13.1 million people came to see its museums and archaeological sites. But in 2020, only 3.5 million foreign visitors came, minister el-Anany said. He added that the number of visitors had increased in the first months of 2021,

18、but he gave noexactnumbers.Egypt is a perfect destination(目的地) for post-COVID, el-Anany said, adding that most of the places to visit are open air. It is, however, unclear ifEgypthas the virus under control. It has recorded more than 15,000 deaths and is still seeing more than a thousand new cases e

19、very day. Numbers are thought by many to be much higher. Officials have arrested doctors and others who question the governments actions or numbers.Egyptclosed itsborders completely until the summer of 2020, but later welcomed visitors back. They werepermitted first to visit Red Sea towns. Now, they

20、 can go to the heart of the country: Cairo and the Nile RiverValleythat holds most of its famous archaeological sites. Visitors still require a COVID-19 test result to enter the country.（468 words）根据文章内容,选择最佳答案:1. According to the report, the Egyptian government are in the following troublesexcept _

21、.A. More and more archaeological sites are created.B. The world slowly recovers from the coronavirus pandemic.C. Not many visitors go sightseeing inEgypt.D. It is hard to get its people vaccinated2. The Egyptian government is trying to solve the problem by _. A. persuading the visitors to get vaccin

22、atedB. attracting the visitors with new archaeological locations and museums.C. telling the world about their new rules against the coronavirus.D. opening its borders completely.3. Why are Cairo and the Nile RiverValley the heart ofEgypt? A. Because there live the most people.B. Because the visitors

23、 like to go there.C. Because most museums are built there.D. Because most of the important archaeological sites are opened there.4. How is the situation of the coronavirus inEgyptnow?A. The coronavirus is under control now.B. The coronavirus far from control now.C. Most Egyptians have got vaccinated

24、.D. More than 15,000 people have been dead because of the coronavirus.5. If you want to enterEgyptnow, you must _.A. spend more money on your visa than usual.B. enter some archaeological sitesC. have a COVID-19 test result.D. be vaccinatedC篇Australian scientists are leading an international project

25、to build anextremelypowerful ground-based telescope. The scientists say the machine will provide a deeper and clearer look into space than the Hubble Space Telescope.The telescopes short name is MAVIS. Thatstands forMulti-conjugate-adaptive-opticsAssistedVisible Imager and Spectrograph. It isdesigne

26、d to correct a problem common to Earth based telescopes: image blurring caused by atmospheric conditions.Scientists inAustraliasay the new technology will help themexplorehow the first starsformed 13 billion years ago. The telescope will also examine changes in the weather on planets and moons in ou

27、r solar system. Images produced by MAVIS are expected to be three times clearer than the Hubble Space Telescope.Launched in 1990, Hubble orbits Earth from about 550 kilometers away, well outside the planetsatmosphere.Richard McDermid of Macquarie University in Sydney says the new telescope will chan

28、ge the way we explore space. He said the telescope willpermitscientists to push into a new frontier of the furthest and faintest(最模糊的) things we can see. The newviewwill include theuniversesearliest galaxies(星系). This also means anexploration of the past, McDermid explained, because when we look far

29、 away inastronomywe are also looking far back in time because it takes time for the light to reach us.The telescope will be placed in Chile and run by the European Southern Observatory(天文台), aresearchorganization based in Germany. It is expected to take seven years to build and cost $44 million.The

30、MAVIS team is led by The Australian National University. The team also includes scientists from Macquarie University,Italys NationalInstitutefor Astrophysics andFrances Laboratoire dAstrophysique.根据文章内容，选择最佳答案：1. What is the difference ofthe new telescope from the old Hubble?A. It will be larger.B.

31、The images will be clearer.C. It will be more expensive.D. It will work faster.2. MAVIS will _.A. travel around the earth in the space.B. be set up inGermanyC. be placed inChileD. be built inAustralia.3. The scientists will _with MAVIS.A. explore how the stars come into being.B. study changes in the

32、 weather on earth.C. look further inside the sun.D. find out something about the moon in the past.4. According to the report, the scientists from the study team are from _.A.Australia,GermanyandAmericaB.Germany,Franceand ChileC.France,ItalyandAustralia.D.America,ChileandItaly.5. When will the scient

33、ists be able to use the new telescope? A. In 2025 B. In 2028 C.In 2031D. In 2035D篇The New York City restaurant Eleven Madison Park is one of the best in the world. It has three Michelin(米其林) stars. There are about 130 restaurants in the world with three stars from the famous Frenchguide. A meal at E

34、leven Madison Park, for two people, with wine, costs about $1,000.And when the restaurant re-opens on June 10 after the year-long pandemic, it will not serve meat, fish, or other animal products. Owner and chef Daniel Humm recently told theU.S.radiobroadcaster NPR that the restaurant will be 100 per

35、cent plant-based. He said the way people eat meat is not sustainable(可持续的). And that is not an opinion. This is just a fact.Humm also said he will not serve butter or cheese. He will, however, offer honey and milk to go with tea and coffee.Epicurious is a website that centers on food and cooking. In

36、 late April, the siteannounced that it will not write about beef or cookinginstructions for meals with beef. The move, it said, is an effort to encourage more sustainable cooking. Raising cows for beef, the site said, led to more greenhouse gas than feeding other animals or planting vegetables for f

37、ood.Researchers at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana agree. In a 2019 study, they wrote that food production causes about 25 percent of the worldscarbonpollution. They suggested that if Americans would eat chicken instead of beef for just one meal per day, they couldreducepollution by abou

38、t half.The question is, will other restaurants follow in the footsteps of a famous place like Eleven Madison Park?Nevin Martell is a food writer in Washington, D.C. He told VOA that Eleven Madison Park is special. Theyve always done things a little bit differently and, you know, I think that this is

39、 a big bold move(大胆的举动) for them. But I also think that its, theyre positioning themselves at the right time to be doing the right thing. Martell added that people do not come to Eleven Madison Park to eat meat. They come for a once-in-a-lifetime experience. He does not think the change will keep pe

40、ople from coming to the restaurant.Haidar Karoum is the chef at Chloe, a Washington, D.C. restaurant. The restaurant serves meat, chicken, fish and vegetables, based on what items are available in different times of the year. Recently, he said customers have been more interested in vegetables. Veget

41、arian(素食者) dishes have become far more popular than they were, lets say, 10 years ago. So because of that, because of customerdemand, and just for the sake that I actually like cooking vegetarian things, if you looked at the menu, youll find a lot of options(可选择的事物;选择;) for vegetables. But that does

42、 not mean he could make Chloes menu vegetarianovernight.Eleven Madison Park can, Karoum said, because the New York restaurant is so famous that people arewillingto travel the world just to eat in the restaurant, regardless(不顾;不加理会) of the cuisine. (511words)根据文章内容，选择最佳答案：1. Which is true about Miche

43、lin?A. It is fromAmerica.B. It tells you about excellent restaurants in the world.C. It teaches you how to cook the best food.D. It guides you to travel and eat around the world.2. If you find a restaurant in Michelin, it may _.A. serve only plant-based food.B. serve only meat, fish, or other animal

44、 products.C. cost you much money to eat there.D. not cost you too much to eat there.3. The New York City restaurant Eleven Madison Park doesnt serve animal products any more because _.A. plant-based food is more popular.B. animal products are too expensive.C. animal products are good for patients wi

45、th COVID-19.D. plant-based food is more environmental-friendly.4. From the report we can infer that _is worse for the environment.A. chicken B. fishC. beef D. vegetables5. In Nevin Martells opinion,_.A, it is unnecessary for Eleven Madison Park to serve only plant-based products.B. it is necessary f

46、or other restaurants to follow Eleven Madison Park.C. meat cooking is a sustainable cooking.D. there will be not much change on Eleven Madison Parks business.E篇Oatly is the worlds largest maker of oat milk, a vegetable-based drink made from oats. The company isbasedin Malmo,Sweden. Now, it is gettin

47、g a lot of attention frominvestorsLast Thursday, Oatly raised $1.4 billion on the Nasdaqstockexchangewhen the company offeredsharesto the public for the first time. Oatly first priced its shares at $17 each. The company was then valued at nearly $10 billion.When shares began trading Thursday, the pr

48、ice of shares jumped 24 percent to $21 each.The stock sale is the latest example of the fast rise of oat milk.The food is winning buyers andgaining the interest of famous investors like Oprah Winfrey.People like the oat milk message that says it is healthier and better for the environment than cows

49、milk.Oat milk was once a product meant for a small number of people who got bad reactions(反应) to drinking cows milk.Oatlys products can now be found at major American stores like Starbucks and Target.It is also sold online by Alibaba inChina.The company thinks there is more growth ahead.Market resea

50、rcher Euromonitor found worldwide sales of such plant-based products reached $18 billion in 2020.Thatrepresentsthree percent of the $600 billion market for milk-based, or dairy, foods.Oatly said more people are trying its oat-based drinks, yogurt and ice cream.In the last three months, between 35 an

51、d 40 percent of adults in theUnited States, theUnited Kingdom,Germany,Chinaand Swedenbought a plant-based milk product.Nielsen is an American marketing research company.It says the sale of oat milk jumped 131 percent during the last year.Nielsen also saidU.S.sales for plant-based dairy products grew

52、 15 percent during the 12-month period that ended on May 1.Oat milk is the second most popular plant-based dairy(乳制品) product behind almond milk.Cara Rasch is a researcher with Packaged Facts.She said many buyers also see oat milk as a healthier choice than cows milk.Cows milk and oat milk have diff

53、erentnutritionalqualities.Oat milk requires less land and energy to produce than cows milk and its productionreleasesless gaslinked toclimate change than dairy milk.An Oxford University study from 2018 found oat milk production has fewer bad effects on the environment than other plant-based milk pro

54、ducts.For example, California almond milk production requires a lot of water because the almond trees grow in dry areas of California.Speaking of the good effects of his products, Oatlys Petersson said,Were here to make the world better.I know it sounds stupid, but its true.(438 words)根据文章内容,选择最佳答案:

55、1. Which statement is true about the oat milk?A. It is a vegetable-based drink made from oats.B. It is winning buyers and gaining the interest of famous investors C. Its production releases less gas linked to climate change than dairy milk. D. It is the first most popular plant-based dairy product.2

56、. We can infer the followings from Oatlys shares to the public for the first time except _.A. The Oatly company has more growth ahead.B. The investors will earn a lot from its share trade.C. More customers will be more interested in the oat milk.D.Oatlys products can now be found at major American s

57、tores.3. Which is not the reason for more people trying the oat-based drinks?A. It is healthier than cows milk.B. It is better for the environment than cows milk.C. Cows milk and oat milk have different nutritional qualities.D. It is also sold online all over the world.4. How much did the sale of oat milk rise during the last year? A. 15% B. 24% C. 35%- 40%D. 131%。5. What does the underlined wordreleasemean in Chinese? A.消耗B.形成 C.释放D.吸收A答案：1B2D3D4C5CB答案：1A2B3D4D5CC答案：1B2C3A4C5BD答案：1B2C3D4C5DE答案：1D2D3D4A5C