专项训练3 人与环境（大自然调节时间感）-【China Daily·时事热点】2025年高考英语题型30分钟限时精练原卷版

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大自然调节时间感
D yu ever get that feeling that there aren't enugh hurs in the day? That time is smehw racing away frm yu, and it is ____________(pssible) t fit everything in. But then, yu step utside int the cuntryside and suddenly everything seems slwer, mre relaxed, like time has smehw changed.It's nt just yu – recent research shwed nature can regulate ur sense f time.
Fr many f us, the __________(cmbine) demands f wrk, hme and family mean that we are always feeling like we dn't have enugh time. Time pverty has als been exacerbated by digital technlgies. Permanent cnnectivity extends wrking hurs and can make _______difficult t switch ff frm the demands f friends and family.
Recent research suggests that the antidte t ur lack f time may lie _______ the natural wrld. Psychlgist Richard Crreia, at the University f Turku in Finland, fund that __________(be) in nature may change hw we experience time and, perhaps, even give us the sense f time ______________(abundant) .Fr example, peple are mre likely t perceive a walk in the cuntryside as lnger than a walk f the same length in the city. Similarly, peple reprt perceiving time as passing mre slwly while perfrming tasks in natural green envirnments than in urban envirnments. Nature seems t slw and expand ur sense f time.
It's nt just ur sense f time in the mment ________ appears t be altered by the natural wrld, it's als ur sense f the past and future. Previus research shws that spending time in nature helps t shift ur fcus frm the immediate mment ________ ur future needs. S rather than fcusing n the stress f the demands n ur time, nature helps us t see the bigger picture.
This can help us t priritise ur actins s that we meet ur lng-term gals rather than living in a perpetual state f "just abut keeping ur head abve water". This is in part because spending time in nature appears t make us less impulsive, ___________(enable) us t delay instant gratificatin in favr f lng-term rewards.
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It’s a warm June afternn, and in a grup f bushes and trees, a bird sings. A small insect climbs ver a leaf. The Muziekplein frest, next t an 18-stry building and a railway line, is abut the size f a basketball curt; befre it was planted in 2018, the area was a parking place. The frest is ne f seven such extremely small frests in the Dutch city f Utrecht, and 144 acrss the Netherlands. By the end f this year, accrding t IVN Nature Educatin, the rganizatin prpsing the cuntry’s initiative (计划), there will be 200.
Since the first frest was planted in the Netherlands in 2015, the cncept has becme ppular. Daan Bleichrdt, wh launched IVN’s Tiny Frest initiative with the gal f making it easier fr children t get int and cnnect with nature, said that he thinks it is ppular because peple are becming mre aware f majr envirnmental challenges. It’s a very practical way t d smething psitive in the light f climate change and lss f bidiversity.
Jeren Schenkels, a senir adviser fr the city f Utrecht n green planning, said he sees the mini-frests as nature-based appraches that are able t help the city weather heat waves and imprve water retentin (保持). But ne f the biggest interests is scial. “One f the mst imprtant things is that they give peple the pprtunity t be invlved in nature in the neighburhd,” Schenkels said.
Between 2018 and 2020, 40 different plant and animal grups and 121 ttal animal species were fund in the Muziekplein frest alne. Accrding t Wageningen University researchers, acrss the 11 tiny frests in their study, vlunteers bserved 636 animal species. They als identified 298 plant species in additin t the riginal species planted in the plts. Maintenance(维护) f the frests ccasinally invlves remving aggressive weeds, but in general new plant species, such as wild flwers that appear, are allwed t grw.
1．What d we knw abut the Muziekplein frest?
A．It is newly planted.B．It sits in an urban area.
C．It grws alng a railway.D．It is shaped like a basketball curt.
2．What’s the purpse f the Tiny Frest initiative?
A．T make peple realize envirnmental challenges.
B．T make nature mre accessible t children.
C．T increase the Netherlands’ bidiversity.
D．T call fr actin n climate change.
3．What des Paragraph 3 fcus n?
A．Benefits f mini-frests in cities.B．Ways t keep neighbrhds green.
C．Inspiratin fr planting frests in cities.D．Imprtance f being expsed t nature.
4．Hw des the authr state the frests’ effect n bidiversity?
A．By listing figures.B．By giving examples.
C．By ding experiments.D．By making cmparisns.
B
“It’s nt unusual fr guests t feel emtinal when they discver the stry behind ur fd,” says Patrick Navis. “Nt t mentin when they taste it. One even cried with happiness.” The setting fr these tearful scenes? Navis’s restaurant in a Dutch city. Here, the wner and his team create experimental fd using herbs, rts, flwers and nuts— sme cmmn, thers less s.
Mst f these ingredients cme frm the Ketelbrek Fd Frest nearby. T the untrained eye, it’s like an rdinary wd. But there’s ne key difference: everything in it is edible (可食用的). It was set up in 2009 by Dutch btanist and envirnmentalist Nah Eck as an experiment in slw farming, t see what wuld happen if the right cmbinatin f fd plants were left t grw tgether like a natural frest, withut chemicals.
“It’s the first ‘fd frest’ f its kind in Eurpe and we’re ne f the few restaurants arund the wrld cperating in this way,” says Navis. “We have ver 400 different species f edible plants we plan ur menus arund, including sme we previusly knew little abut.” He harvests the ingredients and, with his fellw chefs, wrks them int beautifully presented tasting menus, served in a dining rm hidden in the backstreets f the city,
“T us, fine dining is nt abut the fame f a restaurant, its lcatin, expensive decratin, fancy cking and wine list,” says Navis. “It’s abut adding value thrugh creativity and using ingredients nbdy knws f, which are grwn with great attentin.” Hwever, he adds, luxury cking can be abut enhancing everyday ingredients, t.
“When lking at cking in this way, wh can argue that caviar (鱼子酱), fr example, is mre valuable than a carrt grwn with specialist knwledge?”
Experimentatin is extremely imprtant t Navis. In the next five years, he hpes t pen an utdr restaurant. But fr nw, the mst imprtant thing is t cntinue fcusing n hw plants are being grwn and the perennial system used in the Fd Frest, reducing the need fr replanting each seasn.
5．What can we learn abut Navis’s restaurant?
A．It is knwn fr its rare fd surces.B．It serves fd with mving stries.
C．It ffers experimental fd fr free.D．It is well received by its guests.
6．Hw is Ketelbrck Fd Frest different frm rdinary wds?
A．It is a natural frest.B．Diverse plants cexist in it.
C．It prvides safe fd ingredients.D．Plants there take lnger t grw.
7．What is the key element f fine dining accrding t Navis?
A．Cnvenient lcatins.B．Expensive ingredients.
C．Innvative menus.D．Fancy cking techniques.
8．What des “the perennial system” in the last paragraph prbably refer t?
A．Farming with prper use f chemicals.B．The sustainable farming practice.
C．Natural farming withut human interventin.D．An experimental farm fr an utdr restaurant.
C
Last summer, tw nineteenth-century cttages were rescued frm remte farm fields in Mntana, t be mved t an Art Dec building in San Francisc. The huses were made f wd. These cttages nce hused early settlers as they wrked the dry Mntana sil; nw they hld Twitter engineers.
The cttages culd be an example f the industry’s dd lve fr “lw technlgy”, a cncept assciated with the natural wrld, and with ld-schl craftsmanship that exists lng befre the Internet era. Lw technlgy is nt virtual — s, t take advantage f it, Internet cmpanies have had t get creative. The rescued wd cttages, fitted by hand in the late eighteen-hundreds, are an bvius example, but Twitter’s designs lie n the extreme end. Other cmpanies are using a brader interpretatin f lw technlgy that fcuses n nature.
Amazn is building three glass spheres filled with trees, s that emplyees can “wrk and scialize in a mre natural, park-like setting.” At Ggle’s ffice, an entire flr is carpeted in grass. Facebk’s secnd Menl Park campus will have a rftp park with a walking path.
Olle Lundberg, the funder f Lundberg Design, has wrked with many tech cmpanies ver the years. “We have lst the cnnectins t the maker in ur lives, and ur tech engineers are the nes wh feel impverished (贫乏的), because they’re surrunded by the digital wrld,” he says. “They’re lking fr a way t regain their individual identity, and we’ve fund that intrducing real crafts is ne way t d that.”
This craft-based thery is rted in histry. William Mrris, the English artist and writer, turned back t pre-industrial arts in the eighteen-sixties, just after Industrial Revlutin. The Arts and Crafts mvement defined itself against machines. “Withut creative human ccupatin, peple became discnnected frm life,” Mrris said.
Research has shwn that natural envirnments can restre ur mental abilities. In Japan, patients are encuraged t “frest-bathe”, taking walks thrugh wds t lwer their bld pressure.
These health benefits apply t the wrkplace as well. Rachel Kaplvin, a prfessr f envirnmental psychlgy, has spent years researching the restrative effects f natural envirnments. Her research fund that wrkers with access t nature at the ffice — even simple views f trees and flwers — felt their jbs were less stressful and mre satisfying. If lw-tech ffices can ptentially nurish the brains and imprve the mental health f emplyees then, fine, bring n the cttages.
9．Why did the writer mentin the tw nineteenth-century cttages?
A．T shw that Twitter is having a hard time.
B．T shw that ld cttages are in need f prtectin.
C．T shw that early settlers nce suffered frm a dry climate in Mntana.
D．T shw that Internet cmpanies have rediscvered the benefits f lw technlgy.
10．Lw technlgy is regarded as smething that _____.
A．is related t natureB．is ut f date tday
C．cnsumes t much energyD．exists in the virtual wrld
11．What’s the main idea f Paragraph 5?
A．Human beings have destryed many pre-industrial arts.
B．Human beings have a traditin f valuing arts and crafts.
C．Human beings can becme intelligent by learning histry.
D．Human beings can regain their individual identity by using machines.
12．What can be the best title fr the passage?
A．Past Glries, Future Dreams
B．The Virtual Wrld, the Real Challenge
C．High-tech Cmpanies, Lw-tech Offices
D．The Mre Craftsmanship, the Less Creativity
D
A recent study fund that there is cnvincing evidence that time in nature reduces depressive symptms, decreases stress and imprves cgnitive functin. Mre time in the green is assciated with lwer bld pressure, strengthened immune systems, alleviated risk f heart discase and imprved sleep.
In a 2024 study, Maddck and his clleagues lked at utpatient mental health service usage, mstly fr depressin, anxiety r stress, acrss 1,169 zip cdes in Texas. They fund that rates f mental health service use were abut 50 percent lwer in neighbrhds with mre greenery. In 2022 Jimenez and her clleagues published a paper in JAMA Open Netwrk using data frm the lng-running Nurses' Health Study II t shw that living in areas with mre green space was assciated with higher scres fr verall cgnitin and fr psychmtr speed and attentin. This difference culd be partly explained by fewer depressive symptms.
There are several pssible explanatins fr these findings. One thery hlds that nature prvides a shrt break frm the mental fatigue f mdern life and the built envirnment, thereby restring attentinal resurces. A 2024 experiment that had nearly 100 participants ffers supprt fr the idea: the researchers fund that a 40-minute walk in nature enhanced peple's ability t adjust higher-level cgnitive functins — such as prblem-slving and multitasking — mre than a40-minute walk in an urban envirnment did.
A secnd thery suggests that time spent in nature activates the parasympathetic(副交感的)nervus system, which reduces the bdy's stress respnses. Studies shw reductins in crtisl(皮质醇) levels — part f thse respnses — after expsure t greenery. In additin, green space affects health indirectly because time utdrs encurages physical activity and ffers chances fr scial cnnectin, bth f which imprve mental and physical well-being.
Studies such as Jimenez's and Maddck's are aimed at plicymakers mre than individuals, but they remind us all f the imprtance f seeking ut greenery wherever we live. And we shuld all try t heed the advice that Jimenez gives t her students: “I see hw stressed they are, especially during exams,” she says. “I tell them, ‘G ut fr a walk.’”
13．What des the underlined wrd “alleviated” in paragraph 1 mean?
A．Increased.B．Eased.C．Remved.D．Avided.
14．Hw did Maddck and his clleagues get their findings?
A．By ding an experiment.B．By referring t previus data.
C．By analyzing a field case.D．By adapting bservatinal methd.
15．What des the 2024 experiment with100 participants clarify?
A．An escape t nature can be refreshing.
B．Nature ffers inspiratin fr mdern life.
C．A walk in nature benefits the envirnment.
D．City walk is equally imprtant t nature walk.
16．Why des Jimenez ask her students t g ut fr a walk?
A．T take exercise.B．T reduce pressure.
C．T becme prepared.D．T seek advice.
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Nature Therapy
We need the tnic f wildness... At the same time that we are earnest t explre and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterius and unexplrable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathmed by us because unfathmable. We can never have enugh f nature.
--Threau
One majr difference between ur current lifestyle and thse f ur evlutinary past is an increasing 17 frm natural settings with increased urbanizatin. But des this change have a majr impact n ur mental health? 18 , a remedy fr ill health r lw spirits, if the means were available, wuld be t send smene t the quiet f the cuntry r seashre and away frm the bustle f city. The ppularity f vacatins t beautiful natinal parks, camping, utward bund, and even breaks fr a picturesque walk in a 19 greenspace t clear the mind wuld speak t sme empirical (经验主义) 20 that nature des sthe the savage beast. And recently, scientists have been studying the idea f nature therapy with a bit mre seriusness than a dashed-ff prescriptin (处方) fr a(n) 21 .
We are nw far 22 frm the natural wrld f ur than 50% f peple live in urban areas (increasing t > 70% by 2050). Increased urbanizatin is assciated with increased levels f mental illness, particularly anxiety and depressin. Grwing up in a natural setting is relevant t a less 23 stress respnse, and expsure t greenspace 24 relates t a psitive effect n well-being in a large tw-decade study. Images and sunds f a natural envirnment can decrease stress in peple expsed t negative stimuli. A large survey f mental health and neighbrhd greenspace in Wiscnsin shwed significant crrelatin between the 25 f nature and lwer levels f depressin, anxiety, and stress. There are many studies shwing a similar relatinships between nature expsure, relaxatin, and well-being. But hw des expsure t green space help us 26 , exactly?
Dr. Gregry Bratman’s grup at Stanfrd has published a cuple f paper fllwing a small grup f healthy vlunteers tld t have a 5 kilmeters walk in the San Francisc Bay area. Half walked alng a busy street while the ther half went fr a/an 27 walk. The nature walk cmpared t walk alng a busy street. Later, the same researchers did MRIs and measured bld flw in brain areas f healthy peple wh went n a 90 minute walk in the same urban vs. Mre natural setting. They fund that the nature walkers had 28 activity in a particular brain regin, the subgenual prefrntal crtex. This area f the brain is assciated with ruminatin, r wrrying n the same issues ver and ver, a prblem described ften in depressive and anxiety disrders.
S there we have it in a wrld and envirnment where ur brains are wrking vertime and we think and rll ver ideas and wrry, 29 t nature seems t get us ut f ur heads, with likely psitive benefits. In the hyper-urban wrld t cme, designing accessible, safe 30 may help the mental health f the ppulatin, and preserving ur natural landscapes t be enjyed by ur descendants will cntinue t be a natinal must. 31 , a prescriptin fr a nice weekend hike culd have sme real measurable brain benefits.
17．A．resistanceB．islatinC．interruptinD．distance
18．A．CurrentlyB．GenerallyC．HistricallyD．Frtunately
19．A．lcalB．impsingC．fascinatingD．standard
20．A．assistanceB．evidenceC．beliefD．apprach
21．A．cyclingB．swimmingC．adventureD．hike
22．A．remvedB．ridC．drivenD．drpped
23．A．slightB．severeC．similarD．negative
24．A．dminantlyB．livelyC．merelyD．significantly
25．A．expsureB．linkC．availabilityD．necessity
26．A．tlerateB．unwindC．swingD．reslve
27．A．casualB．earnestC．uprightD．scenic
28．A．reducedB．increasedC．intensifiedD．balanced
29．A．respnsesB．cntributinC．apprachD．expsure
30．A．cmmunitiesB．transprtatinsC．greenspacesD．facilities
31．A．In a wrdB．Fr instanceC．In the meantimeD．In particular