“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
frame
found on the roof of the museum.
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
Investigations
into the 1917 work, which is worth at about $$66
million today, stopped over
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
where the
Ricci Oddi is located announced the news.
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.
C The painting was maybe hidden in the wall
on purpose.
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.
B The museum staff have something
to do with the case.
C There isn’t any
damage on the surface of the painting.
D
The frame of the painting lies beside the plastic
bag.
Passage2
美国11岁男孩当旧货店老板 立志成为一名英雄。
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.
B
Servers in the community.
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
B his growth
experiences
C after-school educational
courses
D the help from other rich families
Passage3
playing basketball.
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
I watched in wonder as she
ran circles around the other kids. She managed to
shoot jump
shots just over their heads and
into the net. The boys always tried to stop her
but no one could. I
began to noticeher at
other times, basketball in hand, playing alone.
One day I asked her why she practiced so
much. Without a moment of hesitation she said,
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. -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.
came a softreply,
get to play for a top ranked team-much
less offered a scholarship. So she should stop
dreaming
about college. She was heartbroken
and I felt my own throat tighten as I sensed her
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
could stop her
except one thing-her own attitude.
The 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.
was done in Nigeria and the
parents didn't have to go outside the country,
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.
live independently when they are
separated,
equipment that were not available,
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?
A The girls’ parents.
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
美国11岁男孩当旧货店老板 立志成为一名英雄。
1-4：CBDD
Passage3 心中有梦想，风雨不折腰
。
1-4：ACAC
Passage4 尼日利亚首例连体婴儿分离手术成功。
1-4：AABB