2020高考英语江苏专用版考前冲刺5周限时练辑：限时训练(六) Word版含解析

限时训练(六)Ⅰ.阅读理解ASince 1923，the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards have recognized the vision and talent of American youths，and provided opportunities for creative teens to be celebrated.Each year，increasing numbers of teens participate in the program，and become a part of our community—young artists and writers，filmmakers and photographers，video game artists and science fiction writers—along with countless educators who support and encourage the creative process.Our MissionThe Scholastic Art & Writing Awards are presented by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers.The Alliance is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to identify students with exceptional artistic and literary talent and present their remarkable work to the world through the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.Students across America submitted nearly 320,000 original works during our 2016 program year.Our ProgramsTeens in grades 7～12 from public，private，or home schools can choose 29 categories of art and writing for their chance to earn scholarships and have their works exhibited and published. DonationHundreds of generous individuals，corporations，foundations and organizations band together to make the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards possible year after year.We are extremely grateful to all of you!If you’re not a supporter，please join us! Contributions of any amount are greatly appreciated，and go directly toward supporting programs and scholarships for students and are tax-deductible(免税的).1.Teens who want to participate in the program should .A.be recommended by one of its influential community membersB.create their own works based on a specified range of categoriesC.present themselves as being familiar with the mission of the AllianceD.provide evidence that their works have been exhibited or published before答案 B解析细节理解题。

根据Our Mission部分最后一句中的“original works”以及Our Programs部分中的“Teens in grades 7～12 from public，private，or home schools can choose 29 categories of art and writing...”可知，Scholastic Art & Writing Awards的参赛者需要提供原创作品，而且应属于指定的29种艺术或写作范畴。

2.The passage is mainly intended to .A.encourage people to submit works to the Scholastic Art & Writing AwardsB.show the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards’ achievementsC.call on people to support the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards financiallyD.show the popularity of the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards among American teens答案 C解析写作意图题。

根据Donation部分的内容可知，作者写作本文旨在号召更多的人加入资助Scholastic Art & Writing Awards的行列。

BLanguages will continue to diverge(分化).Even if English were to become the universal language，it would still take many different forms.Indeed the same could happen to English as has happened to Chinese: a language of intellectuals which doesn’t vary hugely alongside a large number of variants used by local people.We will continue to teach other languages in some forms，and not just for reasons of practicality.Learning a language is good for your mental health；it forces you to understand another cultural and intellectual system.So I hope British education will develop a more rational approach to the foreign languages available to students in line with their political importance.Because so many people believe it’s no longer important to know another language，I fear that time devoted to language teaching in schools may well continue to decline.But you can argue that learning another language well is more demanding than，say，learning to play chess well—it involves sensitivity to a set of complicated rules，and also to context.Technology will certainly make a difference to the use of foreign puters may，for instance，alleviate the drudgery(单调乏味的工作) that a vast translation represents.But no one who has seen a computer translation will think it can replace knowledge of the different languages.A machine will always be behind the times.Still more important is the fact that nocomputer will ever get at the associations beyond the words associations that may not be expressed but which carry much of the meaning.In languages like Arabic，context is very nguages come with heavy cultural baggage too—in French or German if you missed the cultural references behind a word，you’re very likely to be missing the meaning.It will be very hard to teach all those things to a computer.All the predictions are that English will be spoken by a declining proportion of the world’s population in the 21st century.I don’t think foreign languages will really become less important，but they might be perceived to be—and that would in the end be a very bad thing.语篇解读本文作者主要论述了继续教授和学习外语的必要性。