“停课不停学”：2020高考英语时事热点拓展阅读(十八)
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2020年高考英语时事热点拓展阅读
2020年高考英语时事热点拓展阅读(十八)
Passage1
英语头条
pick-up has left parents furious.
英国学校新规：家长接孩子每迟到5分钟罚1英镑。
Parents will be
fined £1 for every five minutes if they are late
to pick up their kids at a Kent
school.
Teachers at Holy Trinity CofE Primary, in
Gravesend could even ring social services if the
children are still waiting to be collected at
4 pm. And if parents cannot be contacted, kids
will be
admitted into the care of the local
authority. The new policy to prevent even a ten
minute late
One parent said, “As parents of
the school we were shocked to receive this
information from
the school. Gravesend is a
poor area and many parents struggle to work due to
the cost of
childcare. Lots of schools finish
around the same time and this means that it is a
struggle to get
kids on time. The school used
to let kids wait in the library, then we were told
the library was
closed for refurbishments. The
school offered an after-school club a couple of
years ago, but this
was closed by the
headmaster with little notice because it didn't
make enough money.”
But the school says the
costs are to cover teachers staying late to
supervise the
children. Headmaster Denise
Gibbs-Naguar said, “The policy was introduced this
week to ensure
all our children are collected
from school on time; this is for each individual
child’s benefit as well
as for the whole
school. School finishes at 3:30 pm but the number
of uncollected children is
increasing. They
are still at school at 4 pm. The school is not
able to sustain this cost which is used
to pay
the staff for supervising those children. What’s
more, pupils who are collected late often
show
signs of anxiety and distress as they don't know
where their parent or carer is and worry that
something may have happened to them. As of
Monday afternoon, I had not received any response
from parents or carers about the policy, but I
always encourage families to contact me if they
would like to discuss anything.”
1. What
will NOT be done if a kid isn’t collected on time?
A Parents will be fined if they are late
for collecting kids.
B The teachers will be
allowed to ring social services.
C Parents
will be left to take care of other kids.
D
The kid will be looked after by the local
authority.
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2.
What can we learn from Paragraph 2?
A
Parents have a chance to be late for collecting
kids.
B Parents in Gravesend have to work
hard to make a living.
C The school
encouraged the kids to join the after-school club
now.
D The school now provides the library
for kids to stay after school.
3. The
underlined word “supervise” in Paragraph 3 means
_____.
A advise and obey
B watch over and direct
C follow and
instruct D divide and
share
4. What is the main problem hard for the
school to solve?
A The lack of money.
B
The teachers’ complaints.
C The kids’
anxiety and distress.
D The increasing
number of uncollected kids.
Passage2
南极热出新高度 创18.3℃高温
。
Antarctica has had its highest recorded
temperature of 18.3℃, beating 2015’s record of
17.5℃.
The Antarctic Peninsula, where this
week’s reading was taken at the Argentine research
base
Esperanza, is among the world’s fastest
warming regions, rising 3℃ over the past 50 years.
Some
87% of the glaciers along its west coast
are retreating rapidly. Professor James Renwick, a
climate
scientist at Victoria University,
said, “The reading is a sign of the warming that
has been
happening there much faster than the
global average.”
Fellow expert Prof Nerilie
Abram, who has carried out research at the
peninsula’s northern
tip, said, “It’s an area
that’s warming very quickly, which is surely
worrying many people.” The
reading beats the
previous March 2015 record on the earth's southern
continent by 0.8℃,
according to the Argentine
station Esperanza, which collected the data.
Some 87% of the glaciers along its west coast
have shown an
12 years, it added. Prof Renwick
said the WMO committee would be likely to approve
the new
record.
2020年高考英语时事热点拓展阅读
is almost one
degree centigrade higher,” he added.
Esperanza, located near the northern tip of
the Peninsula easily to sense the change of the
temperature, has been collecting data since
1961 for its special position. The reading breaks
the
2015 record for the Antarctic continent,
defined as the main continental land and adjoining
islands
by the WMO. The record for the
Antarctic region, defined as all land and ice
south of 60 degrees
latitude is 19.8℃ recorded
on Signy Island in January 1982, the WMO said.
1. What made the west coast retreating
rapidly?
A The reading signs.
B The research base.
C The climate
warming. D The Antarctica
record.
2. How did Prof Nerilie Abram feel
about the change of the temperature?
A He
felt interested.
B He felt confused.
C He felt
worried. D He felt
shocked.
3. What would the WMO committee do?
A They would collect enough glaciers.
B
They would admit the record officially.
C
They would find out why the temperature gets
rising.
D They would understand what
happened.
4. Why did researchers choose
Esperanza to collect data?
A It had the
special position.
B It had a very long
history.
C It had been there since 1982.
D It had a large part of glaciers.
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东欧发现距今7000多年古井
。
Archaeologists have discovered a 7,000-year-
old well in eastern Europe, which they believe
is the oldest wooden structure in the world.
The square well was built with oak by farmers
around
2020年高考英语时事热点拓展阅读
5256
B.C., according to researchers who found its
origin after analyzing the tree rings in the wood.
The well's age makes it the oldest wooden
construction worldwide, according to the
researchers in
the Czech Republic.
let
it dry out, or the well would be
destroyed,
Department of Restorationin.
Researchers are developing a process to dry
the wood and preserve it using sugar to
strengthen the wood's structure. is
interesting that the corner posts were made of
previously
fallen trunks, namely from the
trunk which had been cut in the autumn or winter
5259 B.C. or the
winter of early 5258
B.C.,
University.
Measuring 140 cm (56
inches) in height and with an 80 by 80 cm (32 by
32 inches) square
base, the well was found
last year during the construction of the D35
motorway near Ostrov,
Czech Republic.
Researchers published their findings in the
Journal of Archaeological Science.
Its design
shines a light on technical skills that
researchers didn't think Neolithic people
possessed. design consists of corner posts
with inserted planks. This type of construction
reveals advanced technical know-how and, till
now, is the only known type from this region and
time period,
preserved on their surface
confirm difficult carpentry skills,
from the
early Neolithic period found in the Czech Republic
in the past four years.
1. How did the
archaeologists know the age of the well?
A
They studied the tree rings of the oak.
B
They talked with the farmers building it.
C
They researched the shape of the well.
D
They found out the wooden structure.
2. Why
was the well kept well?
A It was made of
stones.
B It had a special structure.
C
It remained underwater.
D It was used all
the time.
2020年高考英语时事热点拓展阅读
3.
What would the researchers use to preserve the
ancient well?
A The trunk.
B The heater.
C The planks.
D The sugar.
4. What is the importance of
the discovery of the well?
A The ancient
people could make a large well.
B
Neolithic people mastered carpentry skills.
C
There are a lot of ancient wells in the Czech
Republic.
D The design consists of bad
corner posts.
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好莱坞传奇巨星柯克•道格拉斯去世
享年103岁
Actor Kirk Douglas who was in
Hollywood's golden age died on February 5th, 2020.
He was
103 years old. His son, actor Michael
Douglas said,
the golden age of movies who
lived well into his golden years, a humanitarian
whose commitment
to justice and the causes
that he believed in set a standard for all of us
to aspire to.
Born on December 9th, 1916, in
Amsterdam, New York, Douglas changed his name to
Kirk
Douglas before entering the Navy during
World War II. Prior to serving in the war, he made
his
Broadway debut in the musical Spring
Again. After he left from the Navy in 1944, he
returned to
act in New York in the
theater,commercials and radio.
By the late
1940s and early 1950s, Douglas had transitioned to
film and began establishing
himself as a box
office heavyweight. Champion, the 1949 film about
a boxer, earned him his first
Oscar
nomination. He starred in several westerns
throughout his career, beginning with 1951’s
Along the Great Divide. He also combined his
military service with Hollywood in such films as
Top Secret Affair, Paths of Glory and Seven
Days in May. Douglas was perhaps best known for
his starring role in 1960's Spartacus,which he
also produced. He was also praised for his more
lighthearted role in 20,000 Leagues under the
Sea.
The Hollywood great was nominated for
Academy Awards three times throughout his career,
and was presented with an honorary Oscar in
1996. In the same year he suffered a stroke,
severely
impairing his ability to speak.
However, it never kept him out of the public eye.
Following
recovery, including speech therapy,
Douglas wrote a book My Stroke of Luck in which he
said his
life changed for the better. He wrote
several other books, including three memoirs.
Douglas also
2020年高考英语时事热点拓展阅读
returned to the screen three years later in
the films Diamonds,It Runs in the Family and
Before I
Forget.
1. Where did Douglas
first start his performance?
A On the
radio.
B In the film.
C At the
theatre.
D In commercials.
2. Which
film is NOT associated with his Navy service
experience?
A Paths of Glory.
B Top
Secret Affair.
C Seven Days in May.
D
Along the Great Divide.
3. What did NOT happen
to Douglas in the year of 1996?
A He won an
honorary Oscar.
B He suffered a serious
illness.
C He was unable to express with
words clearly.
D He gradually disappeared
in the public.
4. The underlined word
“impairing” in Paragraph 4 means_____.
A
deleting
B
declining
C damaging
D destroying
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“停课不停学”：2020高考英语时事热点拓展阅读(十八)
Passage1
英国学校新规：家长接孩子每迟到5分钟罚1英镑。
1-4：CBBA
2020年高考英语时事热点拓展阅读
Passage2
南极热出新高度 创18.3℃高温
。
1-4：CCBA
Passage3 东欧发现距今7000多年古井
。
1-4：ACDB
Passage4
好莱坞传奇巨星柯克•道格拉斯去世
享年103岁
1-4：CDDC