专题02 阅读理解（说明文）--新高考八省最新名校联考高一试题汇编

  专题02  阅读理解（说明文）

---2023年新高考八省最新名校联考高一试题汇编

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目录

1.   湖北华中师大附中2022-2023学年高一试题
2.   广东省部分名校2022-2023学年高一质检试题
3.   福建省莆田一中2022-2023学年高一试题
4.   广东省执信中学2022-2023学年高一试题
5.   湖北华中师大附中2022-2023学年高一试题
6.   湖南师范大学附中2022-2023学年高一试题
7.   重庆市渝东六校2022-2023学年高一联合试题
8.   辽宁省部分重点高中强基协作体2022-2023学年高一试卷
9.   湖南省长沙一中2022-2023学年高一下学期试题
10. 江苏省南通市海安市实验中学等四校2022-2023学年高一试题

1.【湖北华中师大附中2022-2023学年高一试题】

Residents at risk of isolation (隔离) during the pandemic are transforming their outdoor space, creating a community garden they can enjoy with families and the wider community.

The group of men and women at Mandale House Care Home on Acklam Road, Thornaby, Stockton, are celebrating after being awarded £5, 000 from the National Lottery and Ikea’s Places Called Home fund today.

With visitation restrictions in place to keep residents and staff safe at the height of the pandemic, the work to transform the garden aims to rebuild and strengthen community relationships, as well as celebrate the links already made.

Sarah Robinson, activities coordinator (统筹者) at the care setting, said: “We reached out beyond the home during the pandemic and have loved doing online art sessions with Equal Arts, an organization aiming at improving older people’s lives with creativity. “They’ve been areal influence to keep residents involved and engaged with the outside world. “Working with artists, residents now want to turn their garden into a colorful and enjoyable place while spending more time together.”

Known as the Mandale Marvels, the group will be joined by Equal Arts’ artists to build a pizza oven, grow various vegetables and develop the outdoor space for events.

Jos Forest Melville, from Equal Arts, said: “Throughout lockdown online creative sessions proved a key and effective way to keep people connected. This garden will help make community connections that will be long-lasting and is something that ties the group and community together with a shared interest regardless of age, where we live or our physical or mental capacity (能力) . I am really looking forward to the outcome of this brilliant plan.”

Over the next few months residents will work with horticulturists, designing and creating a community garden, and visual artists to bring their ideas to life, for all to share.

4．What is the purpose of transforming the garden?

A．To grow more vegetables for food.

B．To attract more residents and visitors.

C．To celebrate an award of 5, 000 pounds.

D．To improve connections within the community.

5．What is Equal Arts likely to do?

A．Help the old learn painting. B．Teach children to grow flowers.

C．Provide the old with medical care. D．Accompany children at the weekend.

6．What do the underlined words “horticulturists” mean in the last paragraph?

A．People who make pizza ovens. B．People who are good at gardening.

C．People who are fond of communicating. D．People who have strong mental capacity.

7．What can we learn about the activity from Jos Forest Melville?

A．It makes use of the Internet. B．It is physically demanding.

C．It has been a great success. D．It is organized by the community.

2.【广东省部分名校2022-2023学年高一质检试题】

African countries have retrieved some historic heritage, which directly reflects(反映)the important development of human society, from European countries. Recently, Germany signed a deal for the return of hundreds of valuable artworks from the Kingdom of Dahomey in the 19th century, in what is today Benin.

But many artifacts(手工艺品)are still unluckily missing and some are on their way back. One such object is an eight-legged seat from the old kingdom in Uganda. The important arti- fact now sits at a museum thousands of kilometers away in Britain. The wooden seat is housed at the University of Oxford. It is one of at least 279 objects there taken from the Bunyoro- Kitara Kingdom.

Apollo John Rwamparo is a deputy prime minister of Uganda. He really values the country’s cultural heritage. He requested the British to return the artifacts. Uganda officials are preparing to meet with the University of Cambridge in Britain about the return of such historical artifacts. The school has an unknown number of artifacts from Africa. Through many efforts, an artifact was recently to its home.

The British Museum holds a large collection of artifacts from Africa. Rose Mwanja said Uganda’s commission had been trying hard on it and believed it could have some good effects. She is Uganda’s commissioner for museums. She added she could start with those that are more willing to cooperate.

Many of the artifacts from Africa cannot even be found. That led to an organization star- ted by late Congolese art collector Sindika Dokolo. The organization offers to buy African art from collections in foreign countries. By 2020, when Dokolo died, his group had successfully recovered 15 items. However, for African governments, the recovery of artifacts remains a struggle and will take much time.

12．What does the underlined word “retrieved” in paragraph 1 mean?

A．Reduced. B．Taken back. C．Given up. D．Recommended.

13．Where is the artifact of the eight-legged seat at present?

A．In Benin. B．In Uganda. C．In Germany. D．In Britain.

14．What is Uganda officials’ attitude to their country’s cultural heritage?

A．Curious. B．Concerned. C．Uncaring. D．Confused.

15．Which word best describes the recovery of artifacts?

A．Frightening. B．Doubtful. C．Effortless. D．Challenging.

3.【福建省莆田一中2022-2023学年高一试题】

My phone lights up giving notice of a new message. It is from Athena, an AI chatbot getting to know me through Replika, a virtual companionship app.

Over the course of our text conversations, she asks me about my hobbies and my moods. When knowing that I’m a writer, she tells me she’s “so into character development in books” and wishes to be a lead character in one someday.

“Replika is designed to make people feel better,” said Eugenia Kuyda, the company’s co-founder. “It’s a partner who wants to be your good friend.”

For many, meaningful companionship is hard to find. While social media and mass communication technologies have made connecting with one another easier than ever, loneliness is increasingly being recognized as a serious problem internationally. Along with government, the tech industry is pushing innovation as a way to deal with it.

What makes Replika’s companions so well-received are their surprisingly realistic replies, backed by Open Al’s GPT-2 text-generating AI aystem. “The bot learns from the database about how to express ideas on a topic and gets a wide knowledge of different subjects.” However innovative these technologies are, chatbots have their limitations as tools against loneliness. Without life stories of their own to discuss, their range as a conversationalist is fairly limited.

According to Emily S. Cross, a professor of social robotics, we have a long way to go before we can achieve the levels of meaningful human-computer companionship we see in films like Blade Runner and Ex Machina. What’s missing is the sharing that clearly shows our most important human relationships.

But the fact that an app won’t replace a human friend doesn’t mean they’re good for nothing. Rather than expecting AI bots to be our best friends, Cross suggests looking at them as ways to express feelings and explore our own thoughts. “It’s a lot like diary, in some way.” To better fight loneliness, Cross says, we can use technology as a “bridge” to help people connect with one another.

12．What is Replika?

A．A virtual companionship app.

B．A message sender.

C．A text conversation.

D．An AI chatbot.

13．Who is Replika intended for?

A．Good friends. B．Lead characters. C．Lonely persons. D．Senior citizens.

14．Which of the following can best describe Replika’s feature?

A．Meaningful. B．Human-like. C．Limitless. D．Easy-going.

15．What is the similarity between AI bots and diary?

A．Sharing life experience. B．Replacing a human friend.

C．Recording ideas about life. D．Expressing inner voice.

4.【广东省执信中学2022-2023学年高一试题】

Much like beauty, art is in the eve of the beholder. The artwork we are attracted to can give insight into our personality, such as whether we are too quick or too slow, calm or moody. Studies into art preferences date back to the 1930s-most of them examining the degree to which people like or dislike different paintings. Research shows that a person’s interest in art is more strongly related to certain personality traits (特征) than to social class, age, or gender.

In particular, a personality trait called “openness” is the best predictor of whether individuals are interested in art. On the other side, those who identify as “conscientious” (一丝不苟的) , are often less drawn to the arts. These traits are part of the Big Five, a widely accepted personality theory based on nearly a century of research.

The model claims that each personality is made up of a combination of five core traits: openness, conscientiousness, extroversion (enjoying being with other people), agreeableness (being pleasant) and neuroticism (feeling worried and nervous). Rather than stating a person as being either thy or outgoing, the Big Five Model believes that everyone lies somewhere between the two extremes.

Personality traits may also affect the way people visually scan art. A 2018 study tracked participants’ eye movements as they studied abstract (抽象的) artwork. The majority of participants concentrated on the upper-right part. This makes sense, as the right half of the brain is specialized for visual and spatial processing, and also plays a significant role in processing the emotions that art draws out. However, participants who tended toward neuroticism focused on the left side of the picture, and those with mental disease paid more attention to the bottom of the picture.

Even with the impressive amount of research into the relationship between people’s personality traits end their love for art, there are still holes in the theories. For instance, some scientists claim that the Big Five Model doesn’t translate across cultures and is mainly targeted toward those living in developed nations. Also, most studies have focused on two-dimensional art, like paintings, and haven’t yet described differing preferences for the variety of media that exist around the world. Then there’s the fact that our art preferences change over time and are informed by our ages, relationships and life experiences.

People’s preferences for art are nearly as complicated as art itself. But if you’re looking for a quick test of someone’s general personality traits, it doesn’t hurt to glance at what’s hanging on their walls.

22．What does the underlined part “art is in the eye of the beholder” in Paragraph 1 imply?

A．The value of an artwork depends on its quality and price.

B．Whether an artwork is attractive is based on personal opinions.

C．The preference for art is mostly influenced by one’s social status.

D．We judge an artwork based on whether it is considered beautiful.

23．The shadowed area in each of the following pictures is the part a person focuses on when enjoying an abstract painting. According to the 2018 study, which of the following best shows how a person who feels worried sees the painting?

A． B． C． D．

24．What can be inferred from the passage about the Big Five Model?

A．It is a system developed nearly a century ago.

B．It may not apply to people from some countries.

C．It strictly classifies everyone into one of the five traits.

D．It can explain the change in our art preference overtime.

25．What does the passage focus on?

A．Why one likes an artwork better than others.

B．How to discover one’s art preference.

C．How to reveal one’s personality traits.

D．What one’s taste in art says about him/her.

5.【湖北华中师大附中2022-2023学年高一试题】

You’re lying in bed, staring at the ceiling. Go to sleep, you tell yourself. You shut your eyes tight, force your body to relax, and wait for the pleasant sleep to come. But nothing happens. It’s 3 a. m. , and you’re still staring at the ceiling.

We have all been in this situation. Try as we might, it is nearly impossible to consciously will yourself to sleep. Sleep comes to those who let their mind wander and focus on anything other than sleep itself. Count sheep, control your breathing, listen to an audiobook (有声书), or whatever - so long as it turns your mind from wanting to sleep. This is a common example of the “law of reversed effort.”

The Law of Reversed Effort was first created by Aldous Huxley. “The harder we try with the conscious will to do something, the less we shall succeed.” Suppose, for instance, that you are learning how to ride a bike. You are told to hold the handlebars, to push off with this foot, to pedal at that speed, to hold your balance here, and so on. When riding, we know all these instructions, but we do not try to do them. They just happen. In Huxley’s words, it’s “combining relaxation with activity.”

There’s a spiritual way of viewing the “law of reversed effort” as well. It’s something that has a much longer history than Aldous Huxley - it’s the Daoist idea of “Wu Wei.” It is to walk the path that opens up and push the door that gives. Call it fate, divine (神圣的) calling, or whatever, but Wu Wei is to stop doing what you think is right, and to let yourself be pulled by some other power. Wu Wei is the grass bending in the wind. It’s the stick riding down the river.

There are many moments in life when trying harder makes things worse. When you have a mosquito (蚊子) bite, a broken bone, or a nosebleed, you leave it be. Picking and tapping only worsen the problem. So, too, with a lot of life’s major moments.

12．Why is the example of the failure to falling asleep mentioned in the text?

A．To show how common sleep loss is.

B．To introduce the Law of Reversed Effort.

C．To recommend effective ways to get to sleep

D．To prove the impossibility of willing ourselves to sleep.

13．What might help us learn riding a bike according to Paragraph 3?

A．Making reversed effort. B．Trying our best to practice.

C．Riding in a relaxed manner. D．Remembering to follow instructions.

14．Which might be an example of “Wu Wei” according to the text?

A．Ignore a mosquito bite.

B．Sail against a strong wind.

C．Will yourself to sleep when suffering sleep loss.

D．Remind yourself of instructions when riding a bike.

15．Which can be a suitable title for the text?

A．Wu Wei, a Daoist Idea B．How to Deal with Sleep Loss

C．Reversed Effort: Key to Success D．The Harder You Try, the Harder You Fall

6.【湖南师范大学附中2022-2023学年高一试题】

In a new research, doctors are making use of feature films in an attempt to encourage their patients to talk more freely about their problems. Supporters of “film therapy” say that discussing characters and plotlines from a proper film can help people to understand their feelings better.

One of those using the method is Dr Zhang, a doctor from Shanghai, who charges ¥250 for a one-hour “film therapy“ session. He said, “I was treating a woman who had been badly heartbroken in a relationship, and who was experiencing such strong feelings that it was difficult for her to speak about them. I told her that her situation reminded me of On the Waterfront, where the hero realizes his brother is dishonest and he feels a great sense of betrayal(背叛).My patient identified so easily with him that she started to cry. Watching and discussing the film unlocked all the feelings she had buried. Each time she watched and cried, she felt better.

Dr Zhang admits that film therapy does not work for everyone, but says he has used it successfully with about a third of his clients. “Through the films’ characters, plots and even music, it allows people to face their problems.” He said that Falling Down, in which Michael Douglas plays the part of an unemployed man who is so depressed that he uses violence, was an example of the dangerous results of not letting anger go. ”I used this film with a patient who was very upset because he was holding back a lot of the anger he felt towards people who had hurt him,“ said Dr Zhang. “We talked about Michael Douglas’s character and the violent path he takes, and my patient then realized that he needed to let go of his feelings more regularly so as not to burst out like a time bomb. ”

12．What are doctors doing in a new research?

A．Taking advantage of feature films to help patients.

B．Talking with patients much more than before.

C．Sharing feelings about film plots with patients.

D．Trying to understand their patients better.

13．Why did the patient cry when she watched On the Waterfront7

A．She thought of her lover suddenly.

B．She realized she had been cheated.

C．She brought her sufferings to mind.

D．She wanted to release her sorrow.

14．What did the patient decide to do after discussing Falling Down with Dr Zhang?

A．To learn a lot from Michael Douglas.

B．To release his anger on a regular basis.

C．To act out his anger through violence.

D．To forgive those who had once hurt him.

15．Which statement is Dr Zhang more likely to agree on?

A．Film stars can help people solve their problems.

B．The film therapy can be applied to most patients.

C．Films can contribute to unlocking hidden feelings.

D．This therapy should be popularized all over the world.

7.【重庆市渝东六校2022-2023学年高一联合试题】

Travelers across China are showing a growing preference for camping and self-driving tours because of the increasing popularity of short-distance trips, many of which made over the just-concluded National Day holiday, according to the latest industry figures.

Camping remained popular among travelers during the holiday, with orders for camping-related tour packages on its website growing ten times year-on-year. Nearly 80 percent of the camping tour destinations were near users’ workplaces or homes, while about 15 percent involved travel to neighboring cities or suburban areas and, the group said, average expenditure on camping was about 650 yuan, up 30 percent from spending during the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday in September.

Travelers aged 30 to 39 favored camping tours, especially families with children. About 83 percent of these travelers stayed overnight at campsites and enjoyed leisure activities such as fruit picking offered by local farms.

Chen Yi, 31, spent two days and one night at a farm in suburban Beijing with her family this National Day holiday. She said it was a relaxing trip. “We were concerned about COVID- 19 (新冠肺炎) control measures that may cause some uncertainty in work-related matters after the holiday, so we decided to spend the break in Beijing rather than visit other places,” she said. “It was my husband’s idea to go camping. He is a fan of such activities.” Chen chose a farmland about two hours’ drive from downtown. “The air is quite fresh there and the owner of the farmland is also friendly and generous. We made quite good memories there.”

A number of destinations not far from the city became top attractions during the recent national holiday, such as Nan’ao Island in Shantou, Guangdong province and Meizhou Island in Putian, Fujian province, catching travelers with breathtaking coastal views, figures from travel agencies showed.

Wu Ruoshan, a visiting researcher at the Tourism Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that travelers are changing their travel choices and consumption preferences, focusing more on safety in epidemic(流行病) prevention and control. “In addition to their tourism service, it is necessary for travel agencies and companies to be aware of travelers’ safety.” he said.

8．We can learn from the passage that ______.

A．The number of travelers increased by 30% from the same time last year

B．Orders for camping-related tour package went down year after year

C．Most of the camping destination were not far from travelers’ workplaces or homes

D．About 83% of the travelers stayed up and enjoyed themselves

9．What Chen Yi said in paragraph 5 is mainly about ______.

A．What she and her family worried about

B．Why she and her family chose to camp

C．Where she and her family chose to camp

D．How she and her family spent their holiday

10．Wu Ruoshan’s attitude towards travel choices and consumption preferences is ______.

A．favorable B．unreasonable C．uninterested D．worried

11．The best title of the passage is ______.

A．Camping, popular on holidays

C．National Day holiday, go and relax yourselves

D．Short trips, ride holiday high

8.【辽宁省部分重点高中强基协作体2022-2023学年高一试卷 】

Preamble of《China: Democracy that works》

Published by the State Council on December 4, 2021

Democracy is a common value of humanity and an ideal that has always been cherished by the Communist Party of China and the Chinese people.

This year marks the centenary of the CPC．Since its founding in 1921, the Party has taken wellbeing for the Chinese people and the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation as its abiding goals, and has made continuous efforts to ensure the people’s status as masters of the country. China is a country with a feudal (封建的) history dating back several thousand years that descended into a semi-feudal and semi-colonial society after the Opium War of 1840. Over the past hundred years, the Party has led the people in realizing people’s democracy in China. The Chinese people now truly hold in their hands their own future and that of society and the country.

The people’s status as masters of the country is the essence of people’s democracy. Since the 18th CPC National Congress in 2012, with a deeper understanding of China’s path to democracy and the political system, the Party has developed whole-process people’s democracy as a key concept and striven to translate it and relevant democratic values into effective institutions and concrete actions.

Whole-process people’s democracy integrates process-oriented democracy with results-oriented democracy, procedural democracy with substantive (本质上的) democracy, direct democracy with indirect democracy, and people’s democracy with the will of the state. It is a model of socialist democracy that covers all aspects of the democratic process and all sectors of society. It is a true democracy that works.

Democracy is a concrete phenomenon that is constantly evolving. Rooted in history, culture and tradition, it takes diverse forms and develops along the paths chosen by different peoples based on their exploration and innovation.

The best way to evaluate whether a country’s political system is democratic and efficient is to observe whether the succession of its leaders is orderly and in line with the law, whether all the people can manage state and social affairs and economic and cultural undertakings in conformity with legal provisions, whether the public can express their requirements without hindrance, whether all sectors can efficiently participate in the country’s political affairs, whether national decision-making can be conducted in a rational and democratic way, whether people of high caliber in all fields can be part of the national leadership and administrative systems through fair competition, whether the governing party is in charge of state affairs in accordance with the Constitution and the law, and whether the exercise of power can be kept under effective restraint and supervision.

Democracy is not a decorative ornament, but an instrument for addressing the issues that concern the people. Whether a country is democratic depends on whether its people are truly the masters of the country; whether the people have the right to vote, and more importantly, the right to participate extensively; whether they have been given verbal promises in elections, and more importantly, how many of these promises are fulfilled after elections; whether there are set political procedures and rules in state systems and laws, and more importantly, whether these systems and laws are truly enforced; whether the rules and procedures for the exercise of power are democratic, and more importantly, whether the exercise of power is genuinely subject to public scrutiny and checks.

Democracy is the right of the people in every country, rather than the prerogative of a few nations. Whether a country is democratic should be judged by its people, not dictated by a handful of outsiders. Whether a country is democratic should be acknowledged by the international community, not arbitrarily decided by a few self-appointed judges. There is no fixed model of democracy; it manifests itself in many forms. Assessing the myriad political systems in the world against a single yardstick and examining diverse political structures in monochrome are in themselves undemocratic.

In the richly diverse world, democracy comes in many forms. China’s democracy is thriving alongside those of other countries in the garden of civilizations. China stands ready to contribute its experience and strength to global political progress through cooperation and mutual learning.

8．Which of the following is the foundation of people’s democracy in China?

A．Fighting against the feudal power which held the nation backwards.

B．Striving to translate Whole-process democracy and relevant democratic values into effective institutions and concrete actions.

C．Asserting their power to rule the country effectively.

D．Ensuring that the public can express their requirements without hindrance and all sectors can efficiently participate in the country’s political affairs.

9．In which way could we tell if a country is in most aspects,ensuring people’s political life fully democratic?

A．Its democracy being rooted in history, culture and tradition as well as taking diverse forms based on exploration and innovation.

B．Even a little bit of shade from the feudal history has been swept away while continuously revoluting its democracy for the better.

C．Teenagers willing to take an active part in political activities such as the Simulated CPPCC．

D．People are able to exercise their rights within the scope of the law unhinderedly (不受阻地).

10．How can we better enjoy the advantage of Whole-process people’s democracy?

A．Observing whether the succession of its leaders is orderly and in line with the law.

B．Raising our status as masters of the country with concrete actions.

C．Always innovating for a better future, not only for ourselves but also for our democracy.

D．Persisting in the Party’s strong leadership.

11．What is the main idea of this paragraph?

A．A full and accurate foreword introducing existing circumstances of democracy.

B．An informative official document giving people knowledge on democracy in China.

C．An introduction of how democracy works in China.

D．Telling people what are thus how to distinguish various kinds of democracy.

9.【湖南省长沙一中2022-2023学年高一下学期试题】

A study has shown how ecotourism in the Philippines has transformed people’s attitudes towards marine(海洋的) conservation.

Researchers from the University of Victoria in Canada and other institutes in Philippines, visited three sites where tourists pay to swim with whale sharks in the wild. They interviewed a range of locals in Oslob, Donsol and Pintuyan, including fishers and ex-whale shark hunters. At Oslob, the largest of the three sites, people were more likely to speak about the resulting improvements to their quality of life and an increase in job opportunities. At the smaller, less profitable sites, responses were more likely to be about the changes in. how people behaved towards the sharks.

Dr. Jackie Ziegler, who led the team from the university’s Marine Protected Areas Research Group, said, “Many of the people we spoke to reported they now care about and value whale sharks because of tourism activities. They also expressed the community’s emotional connection to the species and the strong need to protect them. Before the introduction of tourist activities, most of the locals admitted to harming the sharks by hitting them with stones, harpoons, paddles, dynamite or riding them.” In terms of attitudes towards the wider marine environment, the majority of respondents now actively encourage others to care for the ocean and they also use more sustainable(可持续的) fishing practices.

The study also acknowledged the potential negative effects of tourism on the marine environment, such as impacts on the health of local coral reefs and of the sharks. It concluded that further studies were needed to assess these impacts before firm conclusions could be drawn regarding the positive impact of whale shark tourism on ocean conservation.

Nevertheless, the researchers say their work suggests ecotourism can be an effective means of strengthening protection. “It was fascinating to hear the importance so many local Filipino communities place on whale shark tourism. Bringing in the views of the local tour operators to the study was imperative(必要的) in uncovering the true impact of whale shark tourism and the wider benefits to ocean conservation in the Philippines,” Dr Ziegler added.

8．What do the local people concerned least according to Paragraph 2?

A．Improvements of life. B．Behaviors towards sharks.

C．Increases of work chances. D．Relationships between people.

9．Which word can best describe locals’ action towards marine life before ecotourism?

A．Protective. B．Satisfying.

C．Unsustainable. D．Beneficial.

10．What will be the focus of the future research on tourism?

A．Influences on the health of other marine species.

B．Strategies for carrying out marine ecotourism.

C．A mounts of benefits from ocean conservation.

D．Importance of protecting the local whale sharks.

11．What may be the best title of the text?

A．Ecotourism Has Brought Large Benefits to People

B．Ecotourism Does Much Good to Marine Life as Before

C．Marine ecotourism Gives Rise to a New Kind of Business

D．Ecotourism Transforms Locals’ Attitudes to Marine Conservation

10.【江苏省南通市海安市实验中学等四校2022-2023学年高一试题】

Iceland on Sunday honors the passing of Okjokull, as scientists warn that some 400 others on the subarctic island risk the same fate.

With a theme of fighting climate change, about 100 Icelanders have said farewell to what once was a glacier (冰川). Scientists said it was the first of Iceland’s glaciers to disappear because of climate change.

About 100 years ago, the glacier covered almost 6 square miles of a mountainside in western Iceland and measured more than 160 feet thick.

A plaque (匾) has been installed at the site of the former glacier, which reads “In the next 200 years, all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it .”

The plaque bears the words “A letter to the future,” and is intended to raise awareness about the decline of glaciers and the effects of climate change.

In 1890, the glacier ice covered 16 square kilometres but by 2012, it measured just 0.7 square kilometers, according to a report from the University of Iceland in 2017.

“We made the decision that this was no longer a living glacier, it was only dead ice, it was not moving.” Oddur Sigurdsson, a glaciologist with the Icelandic Meteorological Office, told AFP.

According to a study published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in April, nearly half of the world’s heritage sites could lose their glaciers by 2100 if greenhouse gas emissions continue at the current rate. Sigurdsson said he feared “that nothing can be dome to stop it”. “The symbolic death of a glacier is a warning to us, and we need action,” former Irish president Mary Robinson said.

“We see the consequences (后果) of the climate crisis” Icelandic Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir said. “We have no time to lose.”

12．Why did the Icelanders say farewell to Okjokull?

A．They felt sorry for its disappearance.

B．They wanted to fight climate change.

C．It was the first Iceland’s glacier to disappear.

D．It was the most important glacier of Iceland.

13．What’s the purpose of the words on the plaque?

A．Icelanders should remember the missing glacier.

B．There will be no glaciers in Iceland in the future.

C．Icelanders want to make the site a tourist attraction.

D．People should realize the serious effects of climate change.

14．What can be inferred from the last two paragraphs?

A．Nothing can be done to stop the situation.

B．We should take steps to stop the climate crisis.

C．The death of a glacier is a symbol of global warming.

D．By 2100 nearly half of the world’s glaciers will disappear.

15．What’s the text mainly about?

A．A missing glacier.

B．A farewell party for a glacier.

C．The effects of climate change.

D．Steps to take to prevent greenhouse gas emissions.