高中英语三年级培优练习（外刊精读——全球贸易）（附参考答案）

这是一份高中英语三年级培优练习（外刊精读——全球贸易）（附参考答案），共4页。
被“长赐号”巨轮笼罩的苏伊士小村庄
【背景介绍】近日，一艘长达400米的"长赐号"巨型货轮，在埃及苏伊士运河搁浅。苏伊士运河停运的每个小时里，造成直接和间接经济损失估计数亿美元。如今，经过各方的努力，"长赐号"已经脱离堤岸恢复自由。就在世界航海要道的河岸边，坐落着一个不起眼的小村庄。大多数当地居民表示，他们有生以来，从未见过如此严重的运河堵塞事故。我们现在就一起，从河岸第一排的视角，走进一个小村子的生活，听听运河附近居民们的声音。
‘A Very Big Prblem.’ Giant Ship in the Suez Remains Stuck.
By Vivian Yee
The gargantuan cntainer ship that has blcked wrld trade by getting stuck aslant the Suez Canal has twered ver Umm Gaafar’s dusty brick huse fr five days nw, humming its deep mechanical hum.
She lked up frm where she sat in the bumpy dirt lane and cnsidered what the vessel, the Ever Given, might be carrying in all thse cntainers.Flat-screen TVs? Full-sized refrigeratrs, washing machines r ceiling fans? Neither she nr her neighbrs in the village f Manshiyet Rugla, ppulatin 5,000-ish, had any f thse at hme.
“Why dn’t they pull ut ne f thse cntainers?” jked Umm Gaafar, 65.“There culd be smething gd in there.Maybe it culd feed the twn.”
In Manshiyet Rugla, whse name translates t “Little Village f Manhd,” traffic jams f any kind wuld be difficult t imagine in usual times.
Dnkey carts piled high with clver bumped dwn semi-paved lanes between lw brick huses and green fields lined with palm trees, trash and animal dung.A teenager hawked ice cream frm his mtrcycle.Rsters ffered prfane cmpetitin t the nntime call t prayer.Until the Ever Given shwed up, the minarets f the unimpsing msques were the tallest structures arund.
“The whle village was ut there watching,” said Yussef Ghareeb, 19, a factry wrker.“We’ve gtten s used t having her arund, because we’ve been living n ur rftps just watching the ship fr fur days.”
It was universally agreed that the view was even better at night, when the ship glwed with light: a skyscraper right ut f a big-city skyline, lying n its side.
“When it lights up at night, it’s like the Titanic,” said Nadia, Umm Gaafar's neighbr.“All it’s missing is the necklace frm the mvie.”
一、词汇过关
请写出下面文单词在文章中的中文意思。
1.gargantuan [ɡɑːˈɡæntʃuən] adj.________
2.cntainer [kənˈteɪnə] n.___________
3.aslant [əˈslɑːnt] prep.________
4.twer [taʊə] vi._________ n.______
5.hum [hʌm] v.______ n.________
6.vessel [ˈvesəl] n._________________
7.feed [fiːd] vt.______________
8.pile [paɪl] v.______________
9.bump [bʌmp] vi.____________
10.semi-paved____________
11.rster [ˈruːstə] n.______________
12.prfane [prəˈfeɪn] adj._______________
13.unimpsing [ʌnɪm'pəʊzɪŋ]adj._______________
14.msque [mɒsk] n._____________
请从文章中找到下面中文相对应的文词块。
1.长赐号__________________________________
2.A意味着B；A导致了B；A翻译成B_____________________________
3.祈祷__________________________________
4.大家都认为…，公认…___________________
二、拓展练习
阅读理解
Mst peple are hping the recent stranding (搁浅) f the 1,300-ft, 220,000-tn Ever Given cntainer ship (集装箱货运船) in the Suez Canal was a ne-ff---just a case f a very big ship getting stuck in a narrw waterway.Hwever, mre than 100 ships f similar size are passing thrugh the wrld’s waterways, and even bigger nes are being built.
Capt.Andrew Kinsey, a senir marine-risk cnsultant (海洋风险顾问) fr a glbal financial services firm, says with heavy weather in the Nrth Pacific Ocean ver the past year, a lt f cntainers are ging verbard (落水).Part f the prblem is the way the ultra-large ships handle at sea with twering stacks (堆叠) f cntainers, especially in strng winds.
Alan Murphy, chief executive f a cntainer-shipping research and advisry firm in Cpenhagen, Denmark, says it’s difficult t knw whether there has been an increase in the number f cntainers ging verbard r if trans-Pacific cntainer lsses ver the past year have just received mre attentin.In a Nvember reprt, the Wrld Shipping Cuncil fund the number f such incidents t be falling in recent years, althugh the reprt des nt cver 2020.There is n central database fr reprting cntainer lsses, s it’s nt knwn exactly hw many cntainers fall verbard, Murphy says.
Murphy says cntainer ships are ften fully laded nwadays, as demand fr cnsumer prducts has jumped during the crna virus pandemic.“In the past, these huge ships have never really sailed as fully laded as they are nw,” he says.“Obviusly, the mre the ship carries, the greater the risk f an incident happening.”
“The stranding f Ever Given in the Suez Canal is a warning,” Kinsey says.“We’ve been bring up the issue f size in ur yearly safety and shipping review and in papers fr ver five years.”
Carrying mre cntainers needs bigger and wider ships, which means it is harder fr them t sail thrugh narrw waterways like the Suez Canal and mve when they get stuck.
20.What can we imply frm paragraph 1?
A.It might be a tugh task t build bigger ships.
B.Csts f verseas shipments might rise sharply.
C.There might be changes in the wrld’s waterways.
D.Mre accidents like the recent stranding might happen.
21.What did the Wrld Shipping Cuncil find in the Nvember reprt?
A.N database fr reprting cntainer lsses had been created.
B.Trans-Pacific cntainer lsses had received mre attentin.
C.The number f cntainer lsses had drpped in recent years befre 2020.
D.Mre cntainer lsses happened in 2020 than in the past few years.
22.What leads t fully laded cntainer ships nwadays accrding t Murphy?
A.The extreme weather.
B.The increasing size f ships
C.The slw transprtatin.
D.The grwing demand fr cnsumer gds.
23.What d Kinsey’s wrds in the 5th paragraph shw?
A.Warnings abut the risks f stranding are given yearly.
B.Cncern abut larger ships has been viced fr sme time.
C.Sme cntainer ships can carry as many gds as Ever Given.
D.Ships bigger than Ever Given wn’t be allwed thrugh the Suez Canal.
附：参考答案
一、词汇过关
请写出下面文单词在文章中的中文意思。
1.gargantuan [ɡɑːˈɡæntʃuən] adj.巨大的
2.cntainer [kənˈteɪnə] n.集装箱
3.aslant [əˈslɑːnt] prep.斜跨
4.twer [taʊə] vi.像塔一样巍峨地耸立 n.塔
5.hum [hʌm] v.哼 n.嗡嗡的声音
6.vessel [ˈvesəl] n.大船，轮船
7.feed [fiːd] vt.养活，喂养
8.pile [paɪl] v.堆
9.bump [bʌmp] vi.一高一低地颠簸着前进
10.semi-paved还没完工的，半成品的
11.rster [ˈruːstə] n.公鸡
12.prfane [prəˈfeɪn] adj.世俗的
13.unimpsing [ʌnɪm'pəʊzɪŋ]adj.没留下深刻印象的；不起眼的
14.msque [mɒsk] n.清真寺
【词块学习】
请从文章中找到下面中文相对应的文词块。
1.the Ever Given长赐号
2.A translates t B A意味着B；A导致了B；A翻译成B
3.call t prayer祈祷
4.It is universally agreed that大家都认为…，公认…
【全文翻译】
巨轮堵塞苏伊士运河，这是个“大问题”
从乌姆·加法尔她们家尘土飞扬的砖房望去，这艘斜斜地卡在苏伊士运河上、阻碍了世界贸易的集装箱巨轮，已经高耸了五天，不断发出机械运转的低鸣声。
她坐在崎岖不平的泥泞小巷里抬头仰望，思考这艘“长赐号”轮船上的集装箱里可能装着些什么。是平板电视？还是大型冰箱、洗衣机或者吊扇呢？在这个大约5000人口的Manshiyet Rugla小镇，无论是哪种电器，她和她的邻居家里都没有。
“他们为什么不拉一只集装箱下船呢？”65岁的乌姆·加法尔开玩笑说。“里面可能有好东西。说不定可以养活整个小镇呢。”
Manshiyet Rugla小镇名字的寓意是“男子的小村庄”，平日里，任何形式的交通堵塞都和这个地方扯不上关系。
在低矮的砖房和绿油油的田野之间，堆满苜蓿草的驴车在未完工的小路上颠簸着，小路的两旁是棕榈树、垃圾还有动物的粪便。少年在摩托车上兜售冰淇淋。午间，公鸡开始打鸣，寺庙里的祷告声仿佛遭到了这来自世俗的挑战。在“长赐号”出现之前，那些不起眼的清真寺尖塔已经是小镇周围最高的建筑了。
“整个村子都在关注，”19岁的工厂工人尤瑟夫·格里布说。“我们已经习惯了它的存在，因为我们就住在屋顶上，观望这艘船四天了。”
村民们都认为夜晚的景色更美，夜里这艘船灯火通明，闪闪发光，宛若一座摩天大楼，侧卧在一座大城市的天际线边。
乌姆·加法尔的邻居娜迪亚说，“这艘船晚上亮灯的时候，就像泰坦尼克号，只是少了电影里的项链罢了。”
二、拓展练习
20.D 21.C 22.D 23.B