2024届高考英语外刊阅读天天练阅读理解模拟训练一

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Hanifa Guermiti cried as she surveyed the charred remains of the public library that for years had provided books for the children on the housing estates of Borny, one of France’s most deprived neighbourhoods. With damage estimated at around €12m (£10.3m), the burning to the ground of the state-of-the-art library was one of the biggest attacks on French state infrastructure in the five nights of rioting（暴乱）across the country.
The police shooting of Nahel M, a 17-year-old boy of Algerian and Moroccan background, at a traffic stop outside Paris last week has led to sustained unrest nationwide. Beyond Borny, across to the former mining towns along the German border, cars were torched, bins were set alight and youths clashed with police.
Borny, which has a population of 17,000, above-average unemployment and more than half of its residents living below the poverty line, is symbolic of many of the neighbourhoods that have erupted into car-burning and clashes with police in recent nights.
Many residents said teenagers of black or north African descent felt shut off from state services, racially profiled in police identity checks, and discriminated against for jobs and in the education system – and that a simmering anger had been ready to erupt over racial injustice and the latest police shooting.
The government is particularly concerned about the unrest in places such as Borny because Borny has had millions of euros of public investment in urban renewal in recent years. Yet the demolition and reconstruction of certain tower blocks hasn’t stemmed the long-running social problems or the deep-rooted sense of injustice.“Since 2005, things have actually got considerably worse and nothing has changed,” said Guermiti, who has lived on the estate for 31 years. “Teenagers of colour are still dying. Racism has got worse and is centre stage in politics. Discrimination is rife, equal opportunities are not happening. The same cliches are still applied to people from here. There is no hope, that is the problem. People have no hope of ever escaping being stigmatised for where they live and their skin colour.”
The inequalities of the French education system are seen to underpin teenagers’ sense of segregation and abandonment. A child born and schooled in a deprived area in France has less chance of escaping their socio-economic background than in most other developed nations. France remains one of the most unequal school systems in the developed world.
The government has focused on the young age of the youths hurling fireworks at police. Macron, who argued that some teenagers “relive in the streets the video games that have intoxicated them”, said parents must keep their children home.
【The Guardian(July 3, 2023)】
1. Why does the author cite Hanifa’s suffering in paragraph 1?
A. to emphasize how poor her community is
B. to display his sympathy to a devoted librarian
C. to show the severe damage the French state infrastructure experienced
D. to introduce the importance of the public library
2. which of the following factors is not involved in the French rioting?
A. overpopulated region
B. high unemployment
C. serious poverty
D. racial discrimination
3. What can we infer from Guermiti’s words in paragraph 6?
A. it’s common for people of different colors to be treated fairly in Borny
B. the government is concerned about the development of Borny
C. the situation of social problems and injustice never be settled by the government
D. circumstances have completely turned to bright sides since 2005
4. according to Macron, what caused the teenager’s attacks on police?
A. their sense of separation and abandonment
B. the violent video games
C. public investment in education
D. inequalities of the infrastructure system
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THE EMAIL had a businesslike tone. From a “client recruitment director"; it was "reaching out" to offer The Economist services. In the next sentence, the word "leverage" was used as a verb, relating to a "perspective". It concluded with a question: "Would you be able to hop on a 15-minute call"? Yet it stood out from the guff that clutters journalists' inboxes for one reason: it came not from an established firm but from an undergraduate economics student at Yale University. The perspective to be "leveraged" was that of "Gen z", a marketing term for people now aged from roughly 11 to 26. The offer was made on behalf of the Yale Undergraduate Consulting Group, a student club with around 60 members.
Postgraduate students have long provided paid services to corporate clients. But over the past decade or so, undergraduate "consulting clubs" have proliferated. The idea is to band together and offer to do work for firms for a fraction of the cost of hiring regular consultants, and in the process learn a lot about business. Like real consultants, they pitch for clients, cold-calling or emailing.
Students quickly adopt the jargon of the industry they are aping, appointing themselves "project managers", gathering information from "subject-matter experts" and, at the end, producing "deliverables" for clients: typically in the form of slide presentations. Work is carried out under legally enforceable non-disclosure agreements. All this is done alongside normal studies.
It consumes plenty of time. Alexandra Koullick, a 21-year-old member of a 180DC-affliated club in Berkeley that was founded in 2016, says she puts in up to ten hours a week of unpaid work for her clients. Practical skills, like managing spreadsheets, are passed down by "bigs", as in “big brothers", to new members.
Why devote a chunk of precious undergraduate years to this? The students defend it creditably. Ms Koullick joined as a way to make friends at a time when a normal university experience was impossible because of covid-19."It was a big family of folk to spend time with," she says. Mr Singh points out that the fees his group earns pay for great parties. Both extol the benefits of being able to experiment with different types of work before they commit to a career.
There are potential financial rewards, too. Clubs provide a fast track to well-paid jobs later. John Paul Rollert, an academic at the Booth Business School at the University of Chicago, notes that uninhibited ambition in America's youth is not new: "These kids are going to make a fortune," he says.
【The Economist(July 1, 2023)】
1. which of the following is correct concerning the email?
A. it was sent from the Yale Undergraduate Consulting Group
B. it offered a 15-minute call to The Economist
C. it attracted no attention from the journalists
D. it targeted at people aged from roughly 11 to 26
2. the underlined word “proliferated” can best be replaced by __________.
A. established
B. regulated
C. multiplied
D. advocated
3. how will you describe the student’s services?
A. logical and barely-reliable
B. professional and unaffordable
C. efficient and illegal
D. time- consuming and well-organized
4. what’s the best title of the passage?
A. the email from the Undergraduate Consulting Group
B. Student entrepreneurs:Undergraduates as consultants
C. a different perspective from student consultants
D. how to make a fortune in college
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From the deck of a small blue-and-white boat, Bashiru Bangura leaned forward and peered into the ocean, his gaze trained on a jade-green waves.“It’s here!”crowed a local fisherman. “It looks black!” Bangura, who works for sierra Leone’s Environment Protection agency, tempered his excitement. After two unsuccessful attempts to find seagrass in this group of islands, he questioned whether the shadowy blotches were meadows of the critical underwater greenery he and other researchers have spent the past several years trying to locate along the coast of West Africa.
Seagrasses are one of the world’s most productive underwater ecosystems. The meadows are vital habitats for a variety of aquatic wildlife. Sometimes described as“the lungs of the sea,”the grasses produce large amounts of oxygen essential for fish in shallow coastal waters. But, long overlooked, these critical ecosystems are vanishing. In fact, researchers don’t know exactly how many exist or have been lost. One recent study estimated that since 1880, about 19 percent of the world’s surveyed seagrass meadows have disappeared—an area larger than Rhode Island —partly as a result of development and fishing.
But locating grasses in the world’s vast oceans is a formidable task. While some researchers are using drones and satellite imaging, in countries such as Sierra Leone, where resources are scarce, the search is painstaking and tedious. Without these efforts, though, seagrasses would probably be disappearing even faster.“What we don’t know, we can’t protect,” said marco Vinaccia, a climate change expert.
On a recent monitoring trip in February, Bagura frowned as the boat carrying the Sierra Leonean research team approached the island of Sei. A wooden fishing boat floating in the shallow bay had caught his eye. It was moored within a patch of seagrass, part of its hull(船体) flattening the green blades. The errant vessel was another reminder of the challenge they face to protect the meadows. Without regular visits, the researchers worried the seagrass could be decimated—or worse, vanish—because of human activities, including fishing.
To help prevent more losses, there need to be better protections. Sierra Leone has developed a national action plan to conserve its meadows. The country is also in the process of strengthening its environmental laws to prohibit the destruction of grasses, granting the Bagura’s agency the authority to set and enforce rules to protect meadows. These regulations would empower the Bagura’s team to continue mapping all of the seagrass beds in Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone has also included a goal to conserve its seagrass as part of its commitments to reducing emissions under the Paris climate accord. Bagura, who says more money and resources are needed to carry out the necessary work, is hopeful that by officially signaling their commitment, his team may be able to attract international funding. “We need more capacity,” said Bagura. “It requires a lot more studies, a lot more resources.”
【The Washington Post(July 3, 2023)】
1. what did Bagura and his colleagues try to locate?
A. the shadowy blotches
B. underwater seagrass
C. island meadows
D. underwater ecosystem
2. what does the author mainly discuss in para 2?
A. the natural quality of aquatic wildlife
B. the degradation of fishing industry
C. the effective measurements to locate seagrass
D. the underlying reason of Bagura’s research
3. why was Bagura upset on a monitoring trip?
A. the research boat couldn’t approach the waters
B. the hull of their research boat was broken by seagrass
C. the seagrass was damaged by human activities
D. the errant vessel failed to protect the ecosystem
4. what will Bagura’s agency do in the future?
A. it will enforce a series of environmental laws
B. it will map all the seagrass beds in the world
C. it will set a seagrass reserve in Sierra Leone
D. it will attract more resources and funding around the world
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