2020高考英语时事热点拓展阅读(十四)【乔布斯遗孀裸捐】
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“停课不停学”：2020高考英语时事热点拓展阅读(十四)
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乔布斯遗孀将裸捐250亿美元
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Laurene Powell Jobs Plan to Give
Away Her Massive Fortune
Laurene Powell Jobs,
the widow of late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs,
joined one of the world’s most
her
husband’s multibillion-dollar
visionary’s
death.
Now, the 56-year-old billionaire
person in the world, worth a little
philanthropist — the 36th richest
exclusive groups when she inherited
fortune in 2011 after the tech
over $$US 25
billion, according to the
Bloomberg
Billionaire Index — is vowing to give her fortune
away.
“I inherited my wealth from my
accumulation of wealth,” she told
with
me.”
Since her husband’s
death, PowellJobs has become increasingly
ambitious with her business
and philanthropy.
While Steve Jobs was revolutionising the personal
technology industry, most
notably with the
introduction of the iPod,the iPhone and the iPad,
his wife founded College Track,
which help
sunderprivileged youths get into college , and
Emerson Collective,a“social change
organisation” named for Ralph Waldo Emerson.
“It’s not right for individuals to accumulate
a massive amount of wealth that’s equivalent to
millions and millions of other people
combined,” she told the Times.
“There’s
nothing fair about saw that at the turn of the
19
th
and 20
th
centuries with the
Rockefellers and Carnegies and Mellons and
Fords of the world. That kind of accumulation of
husband, who didn’t care about the
interested in legacy wealth The New York
Times. “I’m not
buildings, and my children
know that. Steve wasn’t interested in I live long
enough, it ends
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wealth is
dangerous for a society. It shouldn’t be this
way.”
Powell Jobs is not the first
billionaire to criticise the system that’s allowed
her to amass such
a huge fortune, nor the
first to pledge to give the majority of it away.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife,
Priscilla Chan, announced plans almost four
years ago to donate 99 per cent of their
Facebook shares to the Chan Zuckerberg
Initiative,a
company that uses technology to
solve challenges like eradicating disease and
reforming
the criminal justice
system,according to its website.
Microsoft
founder Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda Gates,
have also vowed to give away
their their some
$$108 billion fortune, going so far as to start the
Giving Pledge along with
their friend and
fellow billionaire Warren Buffett.
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what people read or watch.
The words “protect animals” appear everywhere
in books and on screens, because some
animals
are even in danger of dying out. But sometimes the
reality can be a little different from
About
300 black bears were killed in Florida, the US, in
October, 2015. It’s been the first
bear hunt
in the state since 1994. Local officers explained
that the black bear population (族群)
had grown
to 3,500 and become a menace to local people. In
the past two years, bears have hurt at
least
four people in Florida.
Months ago, the Swiss
government allowed the locals to kill a wolf. This
was because the
wolf killed 38 sheep, and it
was a great loss to some local farmers. Days ago
in China, three old
men were caught by the
police for killing a serow, a kind of protected
animal. They said they
killed the animal
because it ate the plants they grew.
However,
these stories don’t always mean that animal
protection stops because of human
interests
especially when it is related to economic
development. A man named Zhou Weisen set up
a
wild animal base in Guilin, Guangxi. He saved over
170 tigers and about 300 bears. His base
also
offered jobs to local people.
“There may
never be a standard answer to the question of
whether we should give more
attention to the
environment or human development,” said Robert
May, a British expert at Oxford
University.
“But we shouldn’t put either one to one side, as
the future is uncertain.”
can we learn from
the second and third paragraphs?
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A.3,500 black bears were killed in Florida.
wolf can’t be killed in Switzerland.
serow is protected in China.
old Chinese
men’s loss was made up for.
does the author
want to tell us by mentioning Zhou Weisen’s story?
ting animals needs hard work.
was good
at feeding wild animals.
had a good
relationship with local people.
ting animals
can bring economic development.
of the
following might Robert May agree with?
can
kill animals when their interests are harmed.
should pay more attention to the future than
the present.
should consider both the
environmental and human interests.
’s easy to
find proper ways to solve environmental problems.
’s the best title of the passage?
ting
animals or killing them
ting
animals
g some dangerous animals
ulties in protecting animals
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[完形填空]生命的意义。
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explained that I'd been 4 for some time—in
research and in physical
strength—and showed
them the 5 I had from their government
authorizing my climb. I
stressed that I'd be
very 6 to keep their local traditions and
hire one of their villagers as
a guide, but it
seemed to do little to reduce their 7 .
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that the “quick mud” I'd meet would swallow me.
While they
couldn't remember anyone this bad
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real
9 . The village women, however,
smiled at me, indicating their 10 for my
climb.
The men 11 relaying stories
of unpredictable danger. However, I was
12
because my aunt's words kept 13 in my
ears—the greatest risk is not
taking a risk,
and we should always 14 our dreams.
Eventually, the men agreed to an 15 that
seemed to put them at ease with my
climb.
Besides the local guide I'd hire, they also 16
me to hire three guards with guns,
for
protection.
As I started walking down the
dirt path toward the mountain, I was 17 not
only by
my new mountain support team, but also
by every village woman. They danced in circles
around
us as if in 18 of a victory.
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make the climb. But with the women villagers
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do, is it
attainable?
跨文化沟通。
The American dream is
the faith held by many people in the United States
of America that
through hard work, courage,
creativity and determination, they can achieve a
better life for
themselves. More specifically,
they agree on how to get ahead in America: get a
college education,
find a reliable job, and
buy their own house. But do Americans still
believe in that path, and if they
The most
recent National Journal poll asked participants
about the American dream, what it
takes to
achieve their goal, and whether or not they felt
the control over their ability to be
successful. Obviously, the results show that
today, the idea of the American dream looks quite
different from that in the late 20th century.
Generally speaking, people felt that their actions
and
hard work decide their lives. But the
participants had definitely mixed feelings about
what actions
make for a better life in the
current economy.
In the last seven years,
Americans have grown more pessimistic(悲观的) about
the power of
education to lead to success.
Even though they see going to college as a fairly
achievable goal, a
majority 52 percent think
that young people do not need a 4-year college
education in order to be
successful.
Miguel Maeda, 42, who has a master's degree
and works in public health, was the first in that
his family to go to college, which has allowed
him to achieve a sense of financial stability(稳定)
that his parents and grandparents never did.
While some, like Maeda, emphasized the value of
degree rather than the education itself,
others still see college as a way to gain new
viewpoints and
life experiences. To Fendley, a
sense of drive and purpose, as well as an
effective high-school
education, and basic
life skills, like balancing a checkbook(支票簿), are
the necessary elements
for a successful life
in America.
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used to be
commonly acknowledged that to succeed in America,
one had to have .
A.a sense of drive and
purpose B.a firm belief in their dream
advanced academic degree ambition to get ahead
is the finding of the latest National Journal
poll concerning the American dream?
and more
Americans are finding it hard to realize.
remains alive among the majority of American
people.
increasing number of young Americans
are abandoning it.
ans' idea of it has changed
over the past few decades.
do Americans now
think of the role of college education in
achieving success?
is no longer as important
as it used to be.
has proved to be beyond
doubt.
is much better understood now than
ever.
still remains open to debate.
do
some people view college education these days?
needs to be strengthened. helps broaden
their minds.
widens cultural diversity.
promotes gender equality.
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“停课不停学”：2020高考英语时事热点拓展阅读(十四)
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[完形填空]生命的意义。
1.B 当地的男女和外国的男子无疑都攀登过这座大山。
2.D 但是一个西方女性,独自来到这里想要攀登这座大山,却是很罕见的。
3.A
见上题解析。
4.C
我解释说我已经准备了一段时间,并且向他们出示了他们政府授权我攀登的许可证。
5.D
见上题解析。
6.B
我强调说我非常乐意遵守当地的传统,并且雇用一个村民做向导。但这似乎无法减少他
们的担心。
7.A 见上题解析。
8.C
尽管他们不记得这种倒霉的事情真的在谁身上发生过,但是他们似乎坚信这事真的可
能会发生。
9.D 见上题解析。
10.B
然而,村子里的女人们都对我微笑,表示她们对我此次登山的支持。
11.C
男人们继续在传达不可预测的危险的故事。
12.A
然而,我决心已定,因为我姑姑的话时刻在我的耳边回响。
13.B 见上题解析。
14.D 最大的风险是不去冒险,我们要追随自己的梦想。
15.A
最终,男人们同意了似乎让他们对我的登山放心的安排。
16.C
除了雇用一个当地的向导外,他们也希望我雇用三个持枪的护卫。
17.A 当我开始沿着小路往山上
走时,和我一道的不仅有我新组成的登山支援小组,还有这个
村子里的所有女人。
18.D
她们围着我们翩翩起舞,好像是在庆祝一场胜利。
19.C
有这些女村民们陪着我,我感到一种强烈的成就感。
20.B 见上题解析。
Passage4 跨文化沟通。
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