2020年浙江新高考英语二轮复习专题强化训练：阅读提速练(五)

阅读提速练(五)

(建议用时：30分钟)

阅读理解(共两节，满分35分)

第一节(共10小题；每小题2.5分，满分25分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A

(2019·杭州诊断)In American countryside, the message we hear is this: Go and get an education. Leave your small town and make something of yourself. Success and opportunity are found elsewhere.

After graduating from a high school in Helena, Arkansas, I did go.

I went to Colby College in Maine. I had visited the school ahead of time, so I knew what I was getting myself into. I knew about the difference in weather. I understood the difference in social atmosphere. But I wanted to stretch myself and get out of my comfort zone. And you know what? I absolutely loved my time there. But one thing took me by surprise—the lack of countryside representation. Most of the other students at Colby were from big cities: New York, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco...And when I had conversations with these students—in or outside of class—we almost always focused on topics facing large American cities. In my education classes, it was always “urban this”and “urban that”．

It was like small town America didn’t exist.

And this urban interest doesn’t just happen in college. I went to an education conference a couple of years ago, and a professor—someone who had been at the forefront of educational reform—was there to deliver a keynote. I was chosen to be part of a small group that got to meet with him. So there we were, five or six of us sitting in a room, and I asked him, “What are your thoughts on the state of education in the countryside？” And this man was speechless.

I’ll never forget that moment. It speaks to a larger truth. Towns like mine are forgotten.

This trend of exporting talent and resources to our big cities—this mindset of leaving small towns and never coming back—I don’t want to add to that movement. I want to reverse that movement.

Now it’s my turn to help people younger than me. And you know what? I’m a sixth grade teacher in Helena now.

1．What do people in American countryside think of the future of the youth at home?

A．Secure.B．Fragile.

C．Promising. D．Bright.

2．How would the author feel about the professor’s reaction?

A．It’s emotional. B．It’s natural.

C．It’s positive. D．It’s disappointing.

3．What is the author doing now?

A．Teaching in a college.

B．Fighting for the movement.

C．Working with the professor.

D．Devoting himself to his hometown.

B

Coca­Cola, which reportedly produced more than 3 million tons of

plastic packaging in 2017, announced that it wanted to “help fix the world’s

plastic waste problem one community(社区) at a time”．

The soda giant is doing so by providing $5.4 million for recycling programs in cities like Atlanta, Boston, Denver and Houston. In these cities, partners, like The Green Blue Institute and The Recycling Partnership, which receive the money, will work together to improve recycling rates.

“We focus on areas where we have the ability to make the biggest influence on communities through the funding and expert skills of Coca-Cola employees，”Carlos Pagoaga, Coca­Cola’s group director of community partnerships, said in a statement. “In each city, local partners will work together to identify barriers to recycling on a local level and test a range of solutions，”he added. “We hope the learning from these ‘model markets’can offer solutions to other cities facing similar challenges.”

As part of the effort, The Recycling Partnership and the city of Atlanta, where the Coca­Cola company’s headquarters are based, will send street teams out to open recycling carts and leave citizens cards informing them what they can and can’t recycle, and let them know how their efforts work.

“Two of the most urgent problems with recycling in the U．S. today are lack of access and the pollution in recycling，”Keefe Harrison, CEO of The Recycling Partnership, said in a statement. “We know from the success of Atlanta in 2017 that the citizens want to recycle, and that communicating with them in the street works.”

Last year, Coca­Cola announced its task to collect and reuse a bottle or can for each one it sells, and increase the amount of its products out of recycled materials to 50% by 2030. It also aims to make all its packaging fully recyclable by 2025.

4．What does Coca­Cola company intend to do in the program?

A．Produce less packaging.

B．Help deal with plastic waste.

C．Pick up waste in communities.

D．Build a plant to recycle plastic waste.