(江苏专用)2022高考英语二轮复习 阅读理解组合练(二)

阅读理解组合练(二)

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A

(2022·苏州一模)World's best beaches: 2022 Trip Advisor award winners

No.1 Clearwater Beach

It lies in America, about a forty minute drive west of Tampa.It impresses travelers with two and a half miles of sugar white sand, crystal clear waters and gentle Gulf wind.The beach offers calm, shallow water, making it an ideal playground for tourists.

* Bargain hotel nearby: Pier House 60 Marina Hotel, from ＄293 per night

* Airfare: As low as ＄71 round trip from ORD (Chicago) to TPA (Tampa)

No.2 Siesta Beach

Just south of Sarasota, Siesta Beach on Siesta Key is known for its eight mile stretch of sugar fine, quartz white sand.It's also a great spot for kids to collect seashells and sand dollars.

* Bargain hotel nearby: Tropical Beach Resorts, from ＄295 per night

* Airfare: As low as ＄238 round trip from EWR(Newark) to SRQ (Sarasota)

No.3 Ka'anapali Beach

Among the most visited beach in West Maui, this area is a popular spot for quiet

relaxation or water sports.It's also famous for the daily cliff diving ceremony

off of the beach's northernmost cliffs known as Black Rock.

* Bargain hotel nearby: Lahaina Shores Beach Resort, from ＄289 per night

* Airfare: As low as ＄382 round­trip from SFO (San Francisco) to OGG (Kahului)

No.4 South Beach

People watching is a great pastime in Miami's South Beach, which draws celebrities

and models.Travelers love the wide, fine, white sand­covered beaches as well as

the surrounding area, known for wild nightlife and excellent restaurants.

* Bargain hotel nearby: Room Mate Lord Balfour, from ＄264 per night

* Great airfare: As low as ＄107 round­trip from LGA (New York) to MIA (Miami)语篇解读：本文主要介绍了世界上几个最佳海滩的一些特色和去旅行的费用。

A．tourists enjoy an exciting sport

B．fine sugar white sand covers it

C．many famous persons visit it

D．children have more great fun

解析：选D 细节理解题。从No.2 Siesta Beach的最后一句“It's also a great spot for kids to collect seashel ls and sand dollars.”可知该沙滩是个让孩子们收集贝壳和沙海胆的好地方，它会非常吸引孩子游玩，使他们获得快乐。

2．How much may they pay at least if Mr and Mrs Smith from Chicago visit a beach?

A．＄364. B．＄435.

C．＄579. D．＄657.

解析：选B 细节理解题。由于夫妇是来自Chicago，所以是Clearwater Beach，Airfare应当是71×2＝142，另外酒店费用是293一晚，所以最少应该是293＋142＝435。

B

(2022·南京、盐城二模)That competition keeps prices down is well known.But it is hard to measure by just how much, because prices vary for all sorts of reasons, from differences in labour costs and rents to taxes.Rising to the challenge is a new paper in The Economic Journal by Giacomo Calzolari, Andrea Ichino, Francesco Manaresi and Viki Nellas，economists at the European University Institute, Bologna University and the Italian central bank.They looked at pharmacies (药房) and specifically at customers who may be particularly easy to rip off: new parents.

Using data for to covering about a fifth of pharmacies in Italy, the researchers measured the way in which prices of hygiene products for babies changed as the number of babies varied.They took advantage of a peculiar law from the 1960s, according to which regions with at most 7,500 people are allowed just one pharmacy (supposedly to keep the quality of services high)．They compared prices in places with populations just below this threshold, and just above.

The products studied included some 3,000 varieties of shampoos, bath foams, baby wipes, creams and so on.Many are also used by adults on themselves.Some people, for example, prefer sun­cream labelled “for children” because of its high level of protection.When raising prices for these products, even a pharmacist with a monopoly (垄断) must consider the risk that adult users will switch to products that are not aimed at children.But a rise in the number of babies, and hence buyers who are parents, could tip_the_scales towards price increases.By contrast, the pharmacist should already be charging as much as parents are willing to pay for products without adult users, such as nappies.

The scholars found that pharmacists raised prices when there were more new parents —but only in regions with a single pharmacy, and not for nappies.In monopoly areas a doubling of the number of babies from one month to the next (not unusual in a small population) coincided with a 5% increase in the price of the basket of baby­hygiene products.

The study is timely.Italy's government has started to loosen some of the many restrictions that stop competition in the pharmacy sector (though not yet the one that the researchers relied on)．But such regulations are plentiful in many other lines of business, and not just in Italy.The consumers who pay the price are often those who find it hardest to travel to shop around —for example, people with crying babies on their hands.

3．What's the purpose of the study?

A．To review the function of the special law for pharmacies.

B．To make clear the relation between competition and prices.

C．To collect the information on pharmacy business in Italy.

D．To gather the data on hygiene products for babies in Italy.

解析：选B 细节理解题。根据文章第一段第一句和第二句“That competition keeps prices down is well known.But it is hard to measure by just how much, ... ”可知，大家都知道竞争会导致价格下降，但是很难具体测量竞争到底影响了多少价格，所以研究的目的是为了搞清楚竞争和价格之间的关系。

4．The underlined phrase “tip the scales” in Paragraph 3 means “________”．

A．push the move B．keep the level

C．control the rise D．break the balance

解析：选A 词义猜测题。根据本文的主题以及常识可以知道婴儿多了，家长(要购买)会推动价格上涨。push the move “推动价格上涨”。

5．The government's new measures will greatly benefit ________.

A．pharmacy owners B．local merchants

C．new parents D．adult users

解析：选C 推理判断题。根据最后一段的内容可知，怀抱婴儿的家长不方便到远的地方去买儿童药品，所以在药店比较少的地方容易被宰。放宽一些禁止医药行业竞争的政策，同一个地方会有更多的药店，有利于降低药价，所以父母们会受益。

C

(2022·镇江一模)The latest IPCC report does not mince words (直言不讳地) about the state of our planet: we must act now to achieve global change at a scale that has “no documented historical precedent (先例)” in order to avoid the climate disaster that would result from a 2 degree C rise in average global temperature.Climate change already affects the world's most helpless people including poor rural communities that depend on the land for their livings and coastal communities.Indeed, we have already seen the clear asymmetry (不对称) of suffering resulting from extreme weather events, such as hurricanes, floods, droughts, wildfires and more.

So far, advocates and politicians have tended to focus on reducing fossil fuel (矿物燃料) consumption through technology and/or policy, such as a sharp carbon tax, as climate solutions.These proposals are, of course, essential to reducing manmade carbon emissions (排放) — 71 percent of which are produced by just 100 fossil fuel companies.

Yet the international focus on fossil fuels has overshadowed (使……显得不重要) the most powerful an d cost­efficient carbon­capture technology the world has yet seen: forests.Recent scientific research confirms that forests and other “natural climate solutions” are absolutely