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Passage1
Seeing the disappintment n his daughter’s face because,at 400 punds,her dad culdn’t play with her,was the fuel ne father needed t turn his life arund after 25 years.
In 1994,Murphy was vilently attacked by three men.It tk him seven mnths t recver frm his injuries,including relearning hw t walk.
“I used that as an excuse t be lazy,”he said.“Over the years,I ate a lt and drank a lt and put n a lt f weight.”
Over the next tw decades,Murphy gained 200 punds,drank nearly every day and struggled with PTSD frm the attack.“I hid it fr almst 25 years.I lked like the happy guy at the pub.But I was drinking t escape,” he said.“And then she came alng.”
The birth f his daughter,Chle,in 2014 sparked a desire t turn his life arund.Murphy went t a nearby gym.But just 20 minutes after getting n a treadmill,he heard tw men mcking him,saying the back f his neck lked like “a pack f sausages”.Serius anxiety frm his PTSD made him give up and g hme.
Fur years later,in 2018,Murphy was leaving a playgrund with Chle when she asked him t race her hme.
“I said,‘Srry sweetie,yu knw Dad can’t run,’and the lk f her was nt just sadness,but disappintment.I’ll never frget it,” Murphy said.“That lit a fire in me.”
He started bxing,eating healthily and stpped drinking.Murphy eventually lst 170 punds and gt his PTSD under cntrl.
“Nw,we race all the time,and she’s smiling all the time,” he said f his daughter.
Almst five years int his transfrmatin,Murphy said Chle remains his mtivatin every day.
“I used t smetimes sit arund and wnder what my purpse was and why I was kept arund,” he said.“And then I lk at her and that’s pretty clear.”
1.Why did the father make up his mind t lse weight?
A.The fuel his daughter gave him.
B.Failing t play with his daughter.
C.A disappinted lk frm his daughter.
D.The incnvenience f being verweight.
2.What was he drinking t escape?
A.The fact f gaining 200 punds.
B.The seemingly happy guy at the pub.
C.The attack by three men 25 years ag.
D.PTSD,the disease he gt after the attack.
3.What des the underlined wrd “mcking” mean in paragraph 5?
A.Making fun f. B.Laying blame n.
C.Finding fault with.D.Thinking highly f.
4.What is the text mainly abut?
A.A man struggled with besity and PTSD frm an attack.
B.A man wh struggled with besity and PTSD was cured.
C.A lk f disappintment mtivated him t get healthy.
D.A man driven t lse weight after disappinting his daughter.
Passage2
Hmebuyers interested in relcating t Gergetwn,Texas,may have the pprtunity t live in a large,3D-printed neighbrhd.
ICON,a cnstructin tech cmpany,alng with Lennar,a hme cnstructin cmpany and Bjarke Ingels Grup (BIG),an architecture cmpany,are teaming up t develp Wlf Ranch—a 100-hme,3D-printed cmmunity.
“Wlf Ranch marks the largest cmmunity f its kind in develpment in the wrld and in partnership with ne f the largest hme builders in the cuntry,Lennar,” Dmitri Julius,chief f special prjects at ICON,tld Fx News Digital.
The partnership between Austin-based ICON and Lennar “ffers a prmising path twards an alternate methd f delivering technlgy-driven hmes that meet the rising demand in desirable cmmunities,” Julius added.
Printing fr Wlf Ranch started in the fall f 2022—and reservatins fr hmes are set t begin n June 10,2023.The verall gal fr Wlf Ranch is t “get peple excited that the future f hmebuilding is here,” Julius als said.
ICON and its team are building a cmmunity with new innvative technlgy.“By cmbining innvative rbtics,sftware and advanced materials,we are creating beautiful,resilient hmes c-designed by a wrld-renwned architecture firm,BIG,that are technlgically advanced,envirnmentally sustainable and architecturally striking,” Julius tld Fx News Digital.
Thse at ICON,Lennar and BIG believe nw is a gd time t get started n this prject because f America’s husing shrtage.“This prblem is a prblem f scale(规模) and the slutin als has t be at scale,” Julius said.
“In the future,we believe rbts and drnes will build entire neighbrhds,twns and cities,” he added.“We hpe t lk back at Lennar’s Wlf Ranch cmmunity as the place where rbtic cnstructin at a large scale began.”
Gergetwn is ne f the fastest grwing suburbs nrth f Austin,accrding t Julius,making it an ideal lcatin t break grund.
While ICON is creating the first neighbrhd entirely made f 3D-printed hmes,this isn’t the first time 3D hmes in America.In 2021,Habitat fr Humanity partnered with Alquist t build the first-ever 3D-printed,habited hme.
1.Why is Wlf Ranch t be develped?
A.T try ut new innvative hmebuilding technlgy.
B.T meet the rising demand in satisfying huses.
C.T get peple excited abut the future f life.
D.T satisfy increasing need f gd neighbrhds.
2.What can we knw abut Wlf Ranch?
A.Tw cmpanies are teaming up t develp it.
B.It will be the first 3D-printed neighbrhd in the wrld.
C.It will be envirnmentally friendly with cmmn structure.
D.It was designed by a remarkable architecture firm,ICON.
3.What can we infer frm paragraph 7?
A.There is a severe husing shrtage in the U.S.
B.It is a gd time t start develping Wlf Ranch nw.
C.Wlf Ranch will be the largest cmmunity in America.
D.Inadequate husing is a cmmn prblem f the wrld.
4.Which can be a suitable title fr the text?
A.Wlf Ranch,Yur Mst Desirable Cmmunity
B.Hustn Welcmes the Cuntry’s First 3D-Printed Hme
C.Rbts and Drnes Will Build Entire Neighbrhds
D.3D-printed Texas Neighbrhd Is Ging Up as Hmes
Passage3
Grwing up,Pittsburgh native Judy Baumgartner saw big plastic pipes frm industrial plants ging int the Ohi River.This was during the 1960s and 1970s,when industrial plants still dminated the city’s waterfrnt.Pittsburgh’s steel,cal and ther industries had lng sustained the lcal ecnmy,but they als released pllutin int the water.
Many f thse industries have largely disappeared nw.Baumgartner assumed the Ohi River was in gd health.
The river is much healthier than it was 50 years ag.Cngress passed grundbreaking legislatin,the Clean Water Act,in 1972,which helped t clean up plluted waterways like the Ohi River.
But the river—which supplies drinking water t 5 millin peple and is hme t mre than 150 species f fish—is still under threat,accrding t a reprt released this week frm the cnservatin advcacy rganizatin American Rivers.
Fr nearly fur decades,American Rivers has been identifying the mst endangered rivers in the U.S. and creates its annual list.This year,the reprt lists 10 rivers as endangered.A sectin f the Clrad River,which flws thrugh Grand Canyn Natinal Park,is the mst endangered river in the cuntry.
The Clrad River supplies millins f peple thrughut the West with water fr drinking and agriculture.Prlnged drught wrsened by climate change,hwever,has left the river’s reservirs insecurely lw.That means there’s less water t send past Glen Canyn Dam and int the Clrad River,which flws thrugh the Grand Canyn.
Just like the Clrad River,climate change als threatens the Ohi River,alng with legacy pllutin and new industrial pllutin.
Prtecting this precius resurce is essential.The rganizatin is calling n Cngress t designate(指定) the Ohi River as a federally prtected water system,which wuld help fund its restratin.Prtecting the Ohi River shuld be a pririty because it will becme an even mre crucial freshwater surce as ther parts f the cuntry,like the West and Suthwest,struggle with water scarcity and drught.
1.What des the authr want t shw by telling the stry f Judy Baumgartner?
A.Judy thught the Ohi River was in gd health in the past.
B.Industrial factries were majr cntributrs t pllutin.
C.The Ohi River was seriusly plluted but nw it’s better.
D.Industrial develpment has bth advantages and disadvantages.
2.What is the rt cause f the Clrad River’s being endangered?
A.Legacy pllutin.
B.Its reservirs’ lw levels.
C.New industrial pllutin.
D.Acute shrtage f rainfall.
3.What can we learn frm the last paragraph?
A.The Ohi River is imprtant t the whle cuntry.
B.The whle cuntry is suffering frm lack f water.
C.The Ohi River is a federally prtected water system.
D.There will be a special fund t restre the Ohi River.
4.What is the text mainly abut?
A.The annual list f the mst endangered rivers.
B.Prtecting the Ohi River shuld be a pririty.
C.There is n delay in prtecting the Clrad and Ohi rivers.
D.The Clrad and Ohi rivers are amng the mst endangered.
答案：
Passage1
[语篇解读]本文是一篇记叙文。一名男子在令他4岁的女儿失望后,减掉了170多磅的体重。25年来,他一直与肥胖症和创伤后应激障碍作斗争,直到看到女儿脸上失望的表情,他才下定决心减肥。
1.C 细节理解题。根据第一段可知,因为400磅的体重,他不能和女儿一起玩,他看到了女儿脸上的失望,这成了一个父亲要改变的动力。因此C项正确。
2.D 细节理解题。根据第四段可知,在接下来的20年里,他体重增加了200磅,几乎每天都喝酒,并因受袭击而患有PTSD。他把它藏了将近25年。虽然看起来就像酒吧里那个快乐的家伙,但喝酒是为了逃避。 因此这里逃避的是PTSD这种疾病,因此D项正确。
3.A 词义猜测题。根据后面的“sayingthebackfhisnecklkedlike ‘apackfsausages’”可知,说他脖子后面看起来像“一包香肠”,显然是在取笑他,因此选A项。
4.D 主旨大意题。文章主要讲述了一名男子在遭受暴力袭击之后体重剧增,他不能与女儿一起玩耍让女儿失望。女儿失望的表情让他下决心减肥,并且在他瘦身近五年之后,女儿依然是他的动力。因此D项正确。
Passage2
[语篇解读]本文是一篇说明文。在美国,人们对理想社区的需求不断增长,住房短缺成了一个问题。三个各有专长的建筑公司正在合作开发WlfRanch,一个拥有100个家庭的3D打印社区。
1.D 细节理解题。从第四段中的“meettherisingdemandindesirablecmmunities”可知,开发这种3D社区的目的是满足人们对美好社区的需求,而不是对房子的需求,因此D项正确,B项错误。
2.B 细节理解题。从第二段的“ICON,acnstructintechcmpany,”可知,是三家公司联合开发的WlfRanch,因此A项错误;从第二段的“WlfRanch—a100-hme,3D-printedcmmunity”和最后一段的“thefirstneighbrhdentirelymadef3D-printedhmes”可知,B项正确。从第六段的“envirnmentallysustainableandarchitecturallystriking”可知,这种社区环保而且架构上引人注目,因此C项错误;从第六段的“c-designedbyawrld-renwnedarchitecturefirm,BIG”可知,D项错误。因此选B项。
3.A 推理判断题。由第七段可知,由于美国的住房短缺,现在是开始这个项目的好时机。由于这是一个规模问题,因此解决方案也必须是从规模上解决,由此可知,美国的住房短缺问题非常严重,因此A项正确。
4.D 主旨大意题。本文主要介绍了三家公司正在合作开发WlfRanch,一个拥有100个家庭的3D打印社区。因为美国的住房短缺,现在开始这个项目,以此来开辟一个新途径,满足人们对理想社区日益增长的需求。
Passage3
[语篇解读]本文是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了科罗拉多河和俄亥俄河成为全美最濒危的河流的主要原因,以及政府可能要采取的措施。
1.C 推理判断题。根据第一段可知,在20世纪60年代和70年代,JudyBaumgartner从小就看到工厂的大塑料管向水中排放污染物,那时候,钢铁、煤炭和其他工业长期以来支撑着当地经济。第二段说,现在许多这样的行业基本上消失了,因此他认为俄亥俄河很健康了。由此可知C项正确。
2.D 细节理解题。从第六段可知,气候变化导致的长期干旱加剧了科罗拉多河的水库处于不安全的低位,这意味着通过格伦峡谷大坝进入,流经大峡谷的科罗拉多河的水量减少了。因此,河流濒危是由长期干旱造成的,故选D项。
3.A 推理判断题。最后一段的第一句承接上段,这里的thispreciusresurce指的是俄亥俄河。这句话也是整段的主旨句,意思是保护好这条河至关重要。最后一句说,保护俄亥俄河应该是一个优先事项,因为它将成为更重要的淡水来源,而美国其他地区正与缺水和干旱作斗争。因此A项正确。
4.D 主旨大意题。全文介绍了由于气候变化、工业污染等原因,科罗拉多河和俄亥俄河成了全美最濒危的河流。这两条河流是提供饮用水和农业用水的重要淡水来源,因此,政府将会采取措施保护它们。