停课不停学2020高考英语时事热点拓展阅读十九
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2020年高考英语时事热点拓展阅读(十九)
Passage1
$$66 million today, stopped over
where the Ricci Oddi is located announced the
news.
世界名画失踪多年重见天日。
A
painting was found hidden in a wall of an Italian
museum. It was authenticated as a Gustav
Klimt work that was stolen from the same
gallery in 1997. It was reported that Klimt's
Portrait of
a Lady was owned by the Ricci
Oddi Gallery of Modern Art in 1925, with only the
painting's
frame found on the roof of the
igations into the 1917 work, which is worth at
about
the next few decades. The break came by
chance last month, when a museum gardener clearing
ivy from a wall opened a metal access panel
and discovered the painting inside. It was put in
a
plastic bag. Experts finally confirmed that
the painting was not fake, and officials in
Piacenza
It's with no small emotion that I
can tell you the work is authentic, Piacenza
Prosecutor
Ornella Chicca said. An
authenticator in Bologna said the painting is
still in very good condition,
having only
suffered a scratch on an edge, possibly from a
silly effort to remove the portrait from
its
frame. officials said X-rays aided in the
authentication process, showing that Portrait of a
Lady
had been painted on the top of another
portrait.
As for why the painting had been
stored within a wall, Anne Marie O'Connor, a
journalist
who had written about another of
Klimt's paintings, said that the thief knew it
would be too
difficult to sell the painting
during the investigation at that time and perhaps
planned to return one
day and retrieve it.
The portrait has been held in Italy's central bank
during the investigation.
1. Who was the key
person to solve the case?
A Experts.
B Officials in Piacenza.
C A museum
gardener. D The owner of the
Ricci Oddi Gallery.
2. What can we infer from
the last paragraph?
A Now the painting
belongs to Italy's central bank.
B Anne-
Marie O'Connor likes collecting the paintings.
The painting was maybe hidden in the wall on
purpose. C．
D The thief had no chance to
transfer the painting at that time.
3. What
can we learn from this passage?
A X-rays
play an important role in checking the portrait.
C There isn't any damage on the surface of
the painting.
D The frame of the painting
lies beside the plastic bag.
Passage2
B The museum staff have
something to do with the case.
成为一名英雄。
美国11岁男孩当旧货店老板 立志
Obocho Peters is a
fifth-grader on a mission to make sure those who
are less fortunate are
able to dress to
impress. With that in mind, the 11-year-old boy
from Brooklyn, New York, runs
Obocho's
Closet, a thrift store selling affordable donated
clothes and shoes for kids for under $$10.
The
project first started in 2018 as an online thrift
shop, and in December Obocho opened his first
local store in the Brooklyn neighborhood of
Flatbush. “It makes me feel like the hard work
I've
been doing in this community. It finally
paid off,” he said.
Obocho was able to get
his dream off the ground thanks in part to a
GoFundMe page, which
explained the
inspirational backstory to his mission. The
student wrote that after seeing Avengers:
Infinity War, he asked his mom Sasha Peters
for eight toys from the film. When Peters said she
couldn't afford the toys, Obocho took matters
into his own hands, selling clothes and shoes he
no
longer wore to pay for them himself.
“I realized that other families must face
these same challenges when taking care of their
children,” he wrote. “That idea turned into
the mission I have today — to help the community
grow.” “I was inspired by all the superheroes
helping to make the world a better place,” he
added.
“I wanted to be a hero myself by
helping my mom.”
Peters, a single mom, helped
her son launch his website and signed him up for
business
classes after school. “You have to
nurture kids when they come up with ideas and you
have to pay
attention to everything that they
say because they're telling you how to groom them
to be a better
version of themselves,” she
said.
1. Who will be potential consumers in
Obocho's Closet?
A Street cleaners.
Servers in the community. B
C
Primary school students. D The
elderly in the nursing home.
2. What
partially inspired Obocho to go in for business？
A Working for the community. B
The backstories on GoFundMe.
C The film
Avengers: Infinity War. D His education
at school.
3. What kind of person
was Obocho according to Paragraph 3?
A
Open-minded. B Self-
confident.
C Optimistic.
D Independent.
4. Obocho's
success should attribute to many factors EXCEPT
________.
A his family education
Passage3
B his growth experiences
C
after-school educational courses
D the
help from other rich families
shoot jump
began to noticeher at other times, basketball
in hand, playing alone.
心中有梦想，风雨不折腰
。
I used to watch her from my kitchen window.
She seemed so small as she muscled her way
through the crowd of boys on the playground.
The school was across the street from our home and
I would often watch the kids as they played
during break. I remember the first day I saw her
playing basketball. I watched in wonder as
she ran circles around the other kids. She managed
to
shots just over their heads and into the
net. The boys always tried to stop her but no one
could. I
One day I asked her why
she practiced so much. Without a moment of
hesitation she said, I
want to go to college.
The only way I can go is to get a scholarship. I
am going to play college
basketball. I want
to be the best. My daddy told me if the dream is
big enough, the facts don't
count. Well, I
had to give it to her-She was determined. I
watched her through those junior high
years
and into high school.
Every week, she led
her school team to victory.
One day in
her senior year, I saw her sitting in the grass,
head in her arms.I walked across the
street
and sat down in the cool grass beside her. Quietly
I asked what was wrong. Oh, nothing,
came a
softreply, I am just too short. The coach told her
that at 5'5 she would probably never
much
less offered a scholarship. So she should stop
dreaming -get to play for a top ranked teamher I
sensed throat my own tighten as She about
college. was heartbroken and I felt
disappointment. I asked her if she had talked
to her dad about it yet. She told me that her
father
said those coaches were wrong. They
just did not understand the power of a dream. He
told her
that if she truly wanted a
scholarship and that nothing
-her own stop
her except one thingThe next year, as she and her
team went to the
Northern California
Championship game, she
was offered a
scholarship and on the college team. She was going
to get the college education that
she had
dreamed of. 1. Why was the girl heartbroken? A.
She was considered too short to be a top
player. B. Her coach stopped her training
because of her height. C. She couldn't be on a
college
basketball team. D. She wouldn't be
admitted by an ideal college. 2. We can learn from
the passage
that__________. A. her family
wouldn't like to pay her college fees B. her
father forced her to play
basketball in
college C. being a top basketball player can win
you a scholarship for college D. she
wouldn't
like to turn to his father for help when in
difficulty 3. Which word can best describe her
father?
A. Encouraging. B. Optimistic. C.
Stubborn. D. Cruel. 4. Which proverb best matches
the story? A.
Practice makes perfect. B. Rome
was not built in a day. C. Where there is a will,
there is a way.
D. Pride comes before a
fall.
Passage4
尼日利亚首例连体婴儿分离手术成功。
Two sisters, who were joined in the chest and
abdomen, have been successfully separated in a
surgery by a 78-member team in Nigeria's
capital, Abuja. Mercy and Goodness Ede are now
well
enough to go home six weeks after
surgery, according to the surgeon Emmanuel Ameh,
who led
the team that performed the operation
at National Hospital. The surgery to separate the
twins
happened in November last year but
details have only just been released by the
hospital. The
surgeon wanted to ensure there
were no post surgery complications.
The
girls are the first to be successfully separated
at the government-run specialist center,
National Hospital spokesman Dr. Tayo Haastrup
told CNN. It took around 13 hours for the team
working from two operating theaters at the
hospital to separate the twins, according to the
hospital.
We are just have special feelings
that the team that worked on this surgery were all
Nigerians. It
was done in Nigeria and the
parents didn't have to go outside the country,
Haastrup said.
Haastrup said the surgery,
which runs into thousands of dollars, was done
free of charge to the
parents, who would not
have been able to afford the surgery. The twins
were born on August 13
last year but Ameh
said the surgery was delayed until November
because of some complications.
Separating conjoined twins is a
complicated and dangerous procedure, and not all
twins can be
separated—because of shared
organs or other complications.
Ameh said
surgeons on the team were worried that a large
section of the girls' chest would be
open and
at risk of being infected once they were separated
and they had to create artificial skin
large
enough to cover the area, which took several
weeks. We needed to determine if they could
live independently when they are
separated,Ameh told CNN. We also had to get some
medical
equipment that were not available, he
added.
1. Why wasn't the surgery published in
November?
A Because they wanted to make
sure the twins were healthy.
B Because the
twins wouldn't cure at National Hospital.
C
Because the twins needed six weeks to be back
home.
D Because the twins got separated
only in their hearts.
2. What are Haastrup's
special feelings?
A Happy and proud.
B Sorry and calm.
C Upset and
excited.
D Angry and Anxious.
3. Who
might pay for the surgery?
The girls'
parents. A．
B The National Hospital.
C A generous man.
D Emmanuel Ameh.
4. What did surgeons do to stop the chest
infection?
A They bought medical
equipment.
B They created artificial skin.
C They ended the dangerous procedure.
D They let the twins use the same organs.
本期答案：
“停课不停学”：2020高考英语时事热点拓展阅读(十九)
Passage1
世界名画失踪多年重见天日。
1-3：CCA
Passage2
立志成为一名英雄。岁男孩当旧货店老板 美国11
Passage3
心中有梦想，风雨不折腰
。
ACAC
：4-1
Passage4 尼日利亚首例连体婴儿分离手术成功。
1-4：AABB
：CBDD 1-4