北京市人大附中2021新高考英语外刊素材积累阅读写作提升25

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人大附中2021届新高考英语外刊精选补充阅读积累(阅读写作提升84)

人大附中2021新高考英语外刊精选补充阅读积累（阅读写作提升84）包邮免费配送对公司来说真的值得吗？导读在线零售商长期以来一直使用免运费来鼓励客户购买更多产品。

但一项新的研究表明，免费送货促销可能会减少公司的利润。

双语阅读The paper, published in May by the Journal of Marketing Research, analyzed purchases made from a single large European retailer and found that free shipping did incentivize customers to buy more. But it also increased purchases of items that historically have higher return rates, such as clothing or products from lesser-known brands. Thus, returns also increased as a result of the promotions, to the point where profits were erased.《营销研究杂志》今年5月发表的这篇论文分析了来自一家欧洲大型零售商的商品购买行为，发现免费送货确实刺激了消费者购买更多商品。

但它也促使人们购买那些过去退货率较高的商品，比如服装或不太知名品牌的产品。

因此，促销的结果就是退货也增加了，直到（退货过多）利润消失。

In one part of the paper, during the typically four-week periods when free shipping was offered, online order volumes rose 11%. But when the cost of returns was tallied against the sales proceeds, the authors calculated that on balance the results for the promotion periods amounted to an average 0.7% loss.文章的一部分内容指出，在通常为期四周、提供免费送货服务的期间，线上订单量增长了11%。

人大附中2021届新高考高考英语外刊素材积累(阅读写作提升28)

人大附中2021新高考高考英语外刊素材积累（阅读写作提升28）美国最高法院大法官金斯伯格去世导读据路透社等多家外媒报道，美国最高法院宣布，大法官金斯伯格去世，享年87岁。

双语阅读Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the high court and a legal pioneer for gender equality whose fierce opinions as a justice made her a hero to the left, died Sept. 18 at her home in Washington. She was 87.最高法院大法官鲁斯·巴德·金斯伯格于9月18日在她位于华盛顿的家中去世，享年87岁。

她是美国最高法院的第二位女性大法官，也是性别平等的法律先驱，作为大法官她激烈的观点使她成为了左翼的英雄人物。

Born in Depression-era Brooklyn, Justice Ginsburg excelled academically and went to the top of her law school class at a time when women were still called upon to justify taking a man’s place. She earned a reputation as the legal embodiment of the women’s liberation movement and as a widely admired role model for generations of female lawyers.大法官金斯伯格出生在大萧条时期的布鲁克林，在学术上出类拔萃，在法学院的学生中名列前茅，当时女性仍被要求证明，取代男性的位置是正当合理的。

人大附中2021届新高考英语外刊精选补充阅读积累(阅读写作提升83)

人大附中2021新高考英语外刊精选补充阅读积累（阅读写作提升83）动荡之后，迎接一场教育和工作革命导读疫情极大地改变了人们的生活方式，工作、学习，一切都与之前大不同了。

双语阅读Because the pace of technological change, digitization and globalization just keeps accelerating, two things are happening at once: the world is being knit together more tightly than ever — sure, the globalization of goods and people has been slowed by the pandemic and politics, but the globalization of services has soared—and “the half-life of skills is steadily shrinking,” said Kumar, meaning that whateve r skill you possess today is being made obsolete faster and faster.由于技术变革、数字化和全球化的步伐不断加快，有两件事情正在同时发生：一是世界正在被比以往任何时候都更加紧密地联系起来——尽管疫情和政治让货物和人员的全球流动放缓，但服务业的全球化速度迅猛；二是“技能的半衰期不断缩短”（用库马尔的话说），意思是不管你今天拥有什么技能，它淘汰的速度都越来越快。

Your children can expect to change jobs and professions multiple times in their lifetimes, which means their career path will no longer follow a simple “learn-to-work’’trajectory, as Heather E. McGowan, co-author of “The Adaptation Advantage,” likes to say, but rather a path of “work-learn-work-learn-work-learn.”你的子女们将会在一生中多次改变工作和职业，这意味着他们的职业道路将如《适应的优势》一书的共同作者希瑟·E·麦高文喜欢说的那样，将不再沿着简单的“学习然后工作”的轨迹，而是沿着“工作-学习-工作-学习-工作-学习”的轨迹。

人大附中2021新高考高考英语外刊素材积累(阅读写作提升5)

人大附中2021新高考高考英语外刊素材积累（阅读写作提升5）看图写作训练Dark CloudWhat is this image saying?What message do you think this animation is trying to convey? How does it relate to or comment on society or current events? Can you relate to it personally? What is your opinion of its message?相关外刊文章阅读Is Resilience Overrated?I want people to be proud of themselves for being resilient. I just don’t want it to be the only option.Friends, I’m afraid I’m not going to make it when the end times come. I’ve made a list of my skills, and “tough” and “capable” aren’t words that spring to mind.A sample:No. 5: Will pet any and all dogsNo. 8: If pressed, can do dishesNo. 13: Good taste in booksNo. 20: Has parking karmaNo. 23: Most of the time, doesn’t finish whole bottle of wineNo. 36 Whatever you feel guilty about, I’ve done something worse, trust me It’s been more than four months of lockdown and I have taught myself nothing new — no recipes, no outdoorsmanship capabilities, no repair techniques. I often reflect on the skills that our frontline and essential workers have, which not only include how to save lives, but also the ability to have pleasant and professional exchanges with other people over an extended period of time. When I compare myself to them, I think: just suck me into the hell fires already, I give up.I am engaged in the status quo. I have not risen above the circumstances. I am not resilient. Although I am not even sure if I know what that word means anymore.Once, I thought I knew. I am the child of two hard-working, industrious people who opened a small business during the Reagan era. In order to not just merely survive but to thrive, I learned, one must not only do one’s basic job, but much, much more — no matter what is happening in the world. Work la te, be creative and innovative, keep going, even if you’re tired. I might have even believed that’s when the magic really happens: when you’re exhausted. We are, after all, a nation that declares professional athletes instant heroes when they win the game in overtime.But my understanding of the word has certainly changed as I’ve aged. Here in New Orleans, for example, where I am a relative newcomer, my friends who are longtime residents and who survived Hurricane Katrina greet the word “resilience” with a fiery disdain. This is a city where people have been called resilient for years, and so many I talk to just seem exhausted by it. “It puts the onus on the person to fix the things that should be a civic priority,” said Anne Gisleson, a friend and a native New Orleanian. She was sitting on the front porch of her house while I rested on a chair at the edge of the sidewalk on her quiet neighborhood block. (No. 46: “Will show up briefly at your home to provide a nice, socially distanced change of pace.”) It was midmorning and already 90 degrees out.When the levees broke and the city flooded, she was one month pregnant, newly married and learning how to be a parent to a 6-year-old stepson. Suddenly she also had to figure out how to best participate in the rebuilding of the city alongside her neighbors, and reopen the school where she worked. So many people were working nonstop to fix things, she told me. Feeding each other, making street signs, clearing debris. “There’s an expectation that we’re supposed to bounce back and that’s the American way,” she said. “And it takes the power structures off the hook.”Or, as my friend Alison Fensterstock, who lives down the road, texted me: “‘You’re so resilient’ is just code for ‘You’re on your own, sorry.’”People are being asked to be exceptional to get something less than exceptional in return: a basic standard of living. What is resilience anyway but an unfair exchange of energy? But who has time to consider these matters when they’re working to exhaustion?Back up north in Washington, D.C., my friend Hannah Oliver Depp has been tireless in her efforts to keep her independent bookstore, LoyaltyBookstore, alive during the pandemic. “The average is 17-hour workdays,” she texted. Emails, inventory management and the like, but more physical labor than usual, too, as there are more requests for shipping in this new economy.“Being a Black woman is being tenacious and resilient from birth as you fight to prevent from being crushed,” she wrote, “and now the end times are here and I am already exhausted? Being asked to dig deeper is a joke. None of this should be our jobs.”Is the idea of resilience a scam? A con to get you to do more so others have to do less? My friend Sara Novićjoked in a message that “resilience is made up by our capitalist overlords,” and she added a “lol” but I didn’t even laugh —and I don’t think I was meant to.Even as psychologists have spent the past few decades studying and promoting “resilience theory” — which posits that you can build protective factors, particularly in children, as a way of offsetting risk factors that can hinder personal development — are we missing the bigger point? What about a focus on the risk factors themselves, the outcomes of systemic racism, poverty, and inadequate educational and social supports. Are we fixing the right problems when we are teaching the importance of resilience?I am not suggesting that we stop encouraging others to succeed or to surpass goals. But are we seeing the concept of resilience in its current incarnation for what it really is? What a horrible trick it is when language is used against us. Is it an act of subterfuge for those most powerful? Let those who are suffering take care of themselves. Let them play into overtime and see what happens.I want people to be proud of themselves for being resilient. It is an act of triumph to surpass challenges and traumas. I just don’t want it to have to be the only way of life.And I want everyone to make it.In my pandemic journal I make another list: skills for the moment. Even if I am not resilient, I am capable of accomplishing some basic tasks: can walk, talk, write checks. Washes hands. Wears masks. Registered to vote. I’ll worry about the end of the world when it gets here.优秀范文欣赏1.I think the animation is trying the convey how difficult it is to push negative and hurtful feelings, thoughts, and emotions. It is very relatable to recent events with the coronavirus, and how many people are suffering. Many people miss their friends, family, and their normal way of life. As a result many people are depressed and have poor mental health. I have had difficult moments where I question life, and many things involved in it during these times. I think the message is powerful, but I thinkit could be a little more positive. I feel that people need to know that the struggle won’t last forever, and there is a light at the end of the tunnel.2. When I look at this image, the first thing that comes to my mind is the amount of pressure that is put on teens during this time. The dark cloud represents a lot of things: Struggles in school, limited amounts of sleep, activities cancelled due to the pandemic, and depression. There is a lot of stress put on students and it can get to a point where they are incapable of completing their tasks because the pressure gets to be too much. It can feel like you are holding on to so much because teens have a lot of pressure on them. Whether it's school, sports, or friendsituations - all these circumstances add up and can sometimes be unbearable, and exhausting. This is what is represented in this image. One person holding onto all this stress, and if they let go then they could break. In this picture, the dark cloud is pushing the person back. This represents that your struggles can stop you from moving forward, and you feel alone while facing them. This image describes the challenges, and obstacles students have to face throughout their teen years.3. Immediately, this picture highlighted to me what kids, teens, and parents are all going through right now. I recognized two different views from looking at this Image. The first view I see the cloud featuring the pandemic. As more and more opportunities for people and regular day activities are getting canceled or altered from the virus, the cloud grows bigger and heavier, making it harder for the person to push the sadness away. The second idea that I recognized by looking at this image was how the cloud represents depression in our society today. People are missing opportunities, learning in an online environment, not being able to go out with friends, and overall, not living life how it should be lived. As time and time goes on, it’s harder not to let all of these sad thoughts build up in our minds. The cloud represents all of these sad and bad thoughts while the kid is trying to block them out and still have hope for the future, while struggling to push the dark, deep cloud away at the same time. This image is a great visual that could define our world right now in many ways, I just found two of them4. This animation can convey a lot of different meanings as people all around the world have been through many different yetdifficult times. The way I see it, there’s a dark cloud, full or darkness, fear, sadness, and negative thoughts trying to consume the person as he tries to push it back. The more you observe it though, you can begin to see that this image doesn’t just relate to that person in the image- it can relate to all of us. Society has lately been tough due to COVID- 19 taking over, killing thousands of people, ruining jobs, and putting people in fear. This virus has its aftereffects as it keeps children from attending school, people unable to interact with friends and family, and not being able to do some things that we love. As all these terrible things happen though, the cloud grows larger and stronger. It slowly tries to consume us, seeping into our mind to remind us of our terrible mistakes. It will shut out the light and bring obstacles our way as we slowly break. It tries to convinceus that we should be sad and angry. Some people decided to give up fighting this cloud and let it take control of their body. Others hadn’t-they allowed this challenge to make them grow, becoming stronger yet happier each day. With this new feeling of energy, I believe they can overcome any obstacle headed their way. This dark cloud can represent any bad thing that happened in our lives, but it’s our choice to fight for happiness even when the darkest hours are among us.5. Right away, while it may not be obvious, I know that this image is all about perspective. I see two takes on this image of the billowing, dark cloud; the societal and the individual view. Pertaining to society, the cloud is representative of what currently taunts us: working or learning from home, being unable interact with friends and family in person, and the inability to experience concerts or sporting events. In a world where nothingis how it used to be just one year ago, the cloud has grown bigger than ever, threatening to take over everything. While this cloudis ever so enormous in society currently, we all have a personal dark cloud that is always trying to crowd out all the sunshine. Family situations, friend problems, school and work stress, high stakes of a sport, and so much more little and large things form the grey mass. Individually, we try and force it away. But it seems lately, due to the challenges we are facing as a whole, many of us have waved the white flag and let it take over.Interestingly enough, however, others have finally been able to push it away, and only let it creep in a tiny bit. They may have viewed this time as a gift, a time where they can work on themselves or something they are passionate about. They have thrived. With that, I feel that this image highlights the negative effects that this pandemic has had on mental health, but fails to embrace that some have been successful during this time of uncertainty.6. The picture to me is a lot of bad, horrendous times that inthis case this character is trying to push them all away. A lot of bad happens in my life, and everyone else’s lives as well, and there needs to be strength and perseverance to get through the tough times:“This article is part of a series on resilience in troubled times“ (Attenberg). Reading further into the picture, I realized that especially this year and right now, everyone currently is and has struggled with this big pandemic that we have all been quarantined because of. There has to have been a lot of adaptation and resilience through these tough times for all of us, just because we are not be able to come in contact we may have needed to, we were not be able to gather all the supplies we needed, and we were not be able to go through all of our normsthat we all used to do, everyday in our lives. This picture conveys it perfectly. There is this individual who is separated, all by themselves, and they need to get out of this deep dark time they are trapped in. There is light behind all of this darkness, and the individual represented in this picture knows that there is good if they can get through all the tough times. That individual represented is each and every one of us.。

人大附中2021届新高考高考英语外刊素材积累(阅读写作提升10)

人大附中2021新高考高考英语外刊素材积累（阅读写作提升10）大爆炸发生后，保险公司账本也被炸出个大窟窿导读发生在8月4日、殃及贝鲁特全城的爆炸是由在港口不当储存多年的2750吨硝酸铵所致，摧毁了市中心的大部分地区。

超过200人死亡或失踪，数千人受伤，估计30万人无家可归。

双语阅读The damage to property could reach $15bn.A chunk of that will land on insurance companies in Lebanon, with consequences for banks and foreign reinsurers. In 2018 Lebanese insurers paid out around $90m to settle property and casualty claims. Insured losses at the port alone could now run to $250m.财产损失可能高达150亿美元。

其中相当大一部分将会落到黎巴嫩的保险公司头上，并冲击银行和国外的再保险公司。

黎巴嫩的保险公司在2018年为财产损失和人员伤亡赔付了约9000万美元。

如今仅贝鲁特港的保险损失可能就高达2.5亿美元。

Victims have filed 2,500 claims for $425m in damages across the city, according to Raoul Nehme, the caretaker economy minister. Insurers expect the number of claimsto quadruple and the final price tag to hit $3bn. That is almost double the annual revenue of Lebanon’s 52 insurers, which wrote $1.7bn in gross premiums in 2018.黎巴嫩看守政府经济部长拉乌尔·内赫姆称，贝鲁特各地的受害者已经提出了2500项索赔，总额达4.25亿美元。

人大附中2021届新高考英语外刊精选补充阅读积累(阅读写作提升89)

人大附中2021新高考英语外刊精选补充阅读积累（阅读写作提升89）快时尚有多浪费？中国有2600万吨衣物待回收导读一个绿色金属大垃圾箱上的标语写着：“低碳，温暖，爱”“如果一些贫穷的人真的需要这些衣服，那就太好了，我扔掉它们时也不会那么有负罪感。

”双语阅读In a country that makes more than 5 billion T-shirts a year, there isa stigma to wearing old or second-hand clothes and millions of tons of garments are discarded every day. An aspirational middle class, combined with a boom in e-commerce, has turned China into the world’s biggest fashion market, overtaking the U.S. last year.在这个年产50多亿件T恤衫的国家，穿旧衣服或二手衣服是一种难以启齿的事，每天有数百万吨的服装被丢弃。

一心想提高生活品质的中产阶级群体，加上电子商务的蓬勃发展，使中国在去年超过美国，成为全球最大的时尚市场。

overtaking ...现在分词作伴随状语1.aspirational 渴望成功的；雄心勃勃的，wanting very much to achieve success in your career or to improve your social status and standard of living2.boom (贸易和经济活动的)激增,繁荣 a sudden increase in trade and economic activity; a period of wealth and successGreater China accounts for a fifth of Japanese retail giant Uniqlo’s global revenue and the company’s sales in the region rose almost 27% in the 2017-2018 fiscal year to more than $4 billion. Most of China’s purchases are fast fashion – mass produced, cheap, short-lived garments.日本零售巨头优衣库在大中华区的营收占到了全球营收的五分之一，2017-2018财年该公司在该地区的销售额增长了近27%，超过了40亿美元。

人大附中2021届新高考高考英语外刊素材积累(阅读写作提升3)

人大附中2021新高考高考英语外刊素材积累（阅读写作提升3）美国长期失业浪潮来袭，将使经济复苏复杂化导读美国劳工部公布9月最新就业数据。

数据显示,美国9月就业增长不及预期,长期失业人数增加,企业裁员人数不降反升。

双语阅读“I worked up from the very bottom when I started in this business in my twenties,” said Ms. Valiente, a single mother in Fort Lauderdale. “There weren’t many other women, and it was hard. It’s not easy to let it go.”“我20多岁开始从事这个行业的时候，是从最底层做起的，”瓦利安特女士说，她是劳德代尔堡的一位单身母亲。

“那时没什么其他女性做这件事，而且在这个行业里很难，放手并不容易。

”Millions of Americans in the industries hit hardest by the viral pandemic face a similar plight. Their unemploymenthas stretched from weeks into months, and it’s become painfully unclear when, if ever, their jobs will come back.在受疫情打击最严重的行业中，数百万美国人面临着类似的困境。

他们的失业已经从几周延长到几个月，而且令人痛苦的是，何时能恢复工作也不清楚。

In the entertainment field where Ms. Valiente worked and in other sectors that absorbed heavy job losses – from restaurants and hotels to energy, higher education, and advertising –employment remains far below pre-pandemic levels.在瓦利安特女士工作的娱乐领域以及其他有大量失业现象的领域——从餐馆和酒店到能源、高等教育和广告业——就业率仍然远低于疫情前的水平。

北京市人大附中2021新高考高考英语外刊素材积累(阅读写作提升4)

人大附中2021新高考高考英语外刊素材积累（阅读写作提升4）野生动物表演将逐渐从这个国家消失导读法国环境部长9月29日表示，法国将逐步禁止马戏团使用野生动物表演，并逐步取消虎鲸和海豚的表演，还将禁止养殖水貂获取貂皮。

◆双语阅读France's environment minister has announced a gradual ban on using wild animals in traveling circuses, on keeping dolphins and killer whales in captivity in marine parks and on raising mink on fur farms. Barbara Pompili, France's minister of ecological transition, said in a news conference Tuesday that bears, tigers, lions, elephants and other wild animals won't be allowed any mor e in travelling circuses “in the coming years.”法国环境部长宣布逐步禁止将野生动物用于巡回马戏团，禁止在海洋公园圈养海豚和虎鲸，禁止在皮草养殖场饲养水貂。

”法国生态转换部长在周二的一场新闻发布会上说到，熊，老虎，狮子，大象以及其他野生动物以后再也不会允许在巡回马戏团出现。

In addition, starting immediately, France’s three marine parks won’t be able to bring in nor breed dolphins and killer whales any more, she said. “It is time to open a new era in our relationship with these (wild) animals,” she said, arguing that animal welfare is a priority.此外，她说，从现在开始，法国的三个海洋公园将不能再引进或繁殖海豚和虎鲸。

人大附中2021届新高考英语外刊精选补充阅读积累(阅读写作提升88)

人大附中2021新高考英语外刊精选补充阅读积累（阅读写作提升88）你的毛衣可能有害环境！导读上周，《卫报》报道每年有大量微纤维流入环境中，而这与人造丝聚酯纤维脱不开干系。

双语阅读All fabrics release microfibers, whether they are organic,like hemp and wool, or synthetic, like polyester and acrylic. Since their discovery in 2011 by ecologist Mark Browne, much of the conversation surrounding microfibers has focused on synthetic fibers in particular. That’s because, as a product of the petrochemical industry, synthetic fabric is essentially plastic, making the microfibers it releases a form of microplastic pollution.所有的织物都释放超细纤维，无论是大麻和羊毛等有机产品，还是聚酯纤维和丙烯酸等合成产品。

自从生态学家马克•布朗在2011年发现超细纤维以来，有关超细纤维的讨论就主要集中在合成纤维上。

这是因为，作为石化行业的产品，合成纤维的本质是塑料，制造超细纤维会产生一种微塑料污染。

As the California study suggests, plastic microfibers are a disturbingly abundant for eign substance in the Earth’s ecosystem – they make up 90% of the microplastic pollution in the Atlantic Ocean, and are easily ingested by the tiny fish and plankton that support the entire marine ecosystem.加州的研究表明，在地球生态系统中超细塑料纤维这一外来物质含量高得令人不安——它们占到了大西洋微塑料污染的90%，并且很容易被支撑着整个海洋生态系统的小鱼和浮游生物食入。

人大附中2021届新高考英语外刊精选补充阅读积累(阅读写作提升85)

人大附中2021新高考英语外刊精选补充阅读积累（阅读写作提升85）拜登为什么需要黑人群体支持？导读投票箱里的结果并不能证实黑人选民在每一个有争议的问题上都持有相同的观点，但是他们在一个最重要的问题上达成了共识，那就是种族平等。

双语阅读A lot of Black men “were Trump-curious in 2016, and they thought that he was some great businessman and prosperity would raindown from his administration,” Representative Cedric Richmond of Louisiana, one of the Biden-campaign co-chairs, told me recently. But although Black voters helped catapult the Biden campaign in the Democratic primary, several polls among Black men have remained consistent with the last election.许多黑人是“对川普2016选举出于好奇，他们认为他是一位出色的商人，财富会因他的从政而降临到自己身上。

”拜登选举合作主席，路易斯安纳的理查德代表近期说。

不过，尽管黑人选民在民主党初选中帮助拜登赢得了胜利，但在黑人男性中进行的几项民调仍与上次大选保持一致。

In one September survey of likely voters, Black women, again, overwhelmingly support the Democratic nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden, but roughly 17 percent of Black men say they plan to support the president. Still, Richmond told me, the campaign believes itcan outperform those expectations by “talking straight to Black men about the things they’re concerned about.”在9月对可能投票的选民进行的一次调查中，黑人女性再次以压倒性的势头表示支持民主党候选人、前副总统乔·拜登，但大约17%的黑人男性表示，他们打算支持总统。

人大附中2021届新高考高考英语外刊素材积累(阅读写作提升21)

人大附中2021新高考高考英语外刊素材积累（阅读写作提升21）关于中国“碳中和”承诺，你应该知道的事导读对于中方关于加快世界最大污染国的减排速度，并在2060年达到碳中和的承诺，环保人士表示支持。

双语阅读China has long argued that as a developing economy it should not have to share the same burden of curbing emissions as developed nations whose pollution went unchecked for decades. China is now pledging to lead by example, setting itself goals befitting a country that aspires to be a superpower.长期以来，中国一直以为，作为一个发展中的经济体，它不应该和那些发达国家一起分担同样的减排负担。

因为那些国家几十年来都没有对污染物的排放进行限制。

但中国现在承诺以身作则，设定一个与成为超级大国的抱负相符的减排目标。

Under the Paris climate deal reached in 2015, China pledged that its emissions would peak around 2030. Mr. X/i promised on Tuesday to move up that timetable, though he did not provide specifics. The bigger surprise, analysts said, was Mr. X/i’s p ledge to reach “carbon neutrality” —meaning China’s net carbon emissions will reach zero — by 2060.根据2015年达成的巴黎气候协定，中国承诺其排放量将在2030年左右达到峰值。

人大附中2020-2021学年新高考英语外刊精选补充阅读积累(阅读写作提升70)

人大附中2021新高考英语外刊精选补充阅读积累（阅读写作提升70）英国日托机构崩溃，女性的工作会受到更大打击导读英国国会议员和商界领袖警告称，婴幼保育行业正面临前所未有的挑战，原因是父母收入大幅下降，而且保持社交距离限制了该行业的发展。

双语阅读This week a report by the Sutton Trust found that one in three nurseries in the most disadvantaged areas of England could be forced out of business due to financial difficulties aggravated by the coronavirus lockdown.本周萨顿信托基金会的一份报告发现，在英格兰最贫困地区，三分之一的托儿所可能会因冠状病毒封锁导致的财务困境而被迫停业。

It highlights that the pandemic struck against a backdropof maternal employment which had risen from 66% to 75% over the past 20 years, bringing more of women’s skills and experience into the workforce. In order to safeguard and protect women’s contribution to the economy, the letter states that attention must now turn to the struggling childcare sector.报告强调，过去20年里，宝妈群体就业率从66%上升到75%，让更多女性的技能和经验进入到劳动力大军中，而疫情正是在这样的背景下发生的。

人大附中2021届新高考高考英语外刊素材积累(阅读写作提升46)

人大附中2021新高考高考英语外刊素材积累（阅读写作提升46）美国证监会放宽条例，企业财报风险披露灵活性增加导读美国证券交易委员会(sec)周三投票决定，在披露财务报表中的风险因素和法律程序方面给予企业更大的灵活性。

双语阅读The SEC approved an amendment to Regulation S-K, which serves as the basis of disclosure requirements for U.S. public companies. Regulation S-K hasn’t undergone significant changes in more than 30 years, the SEC said. The regulator had proposed the revisions a year ago.美国证券交易委员会批准了S-K条例的修正案，该条例构成了美国上市公司披露要求的基础。

美国证券交易委员会表示，S-K条例30多年来都不曾发生过重大变化。

监管机构一年前就提出了修订方案。

The move is part of a wider regulatory shift from strict guidance toward principles-based disclosure that aims to simplify information for companies and investors. Under the new rule, companies must provide a summary of no more than two pages if their risk factor section exceeds 15 pages. Including many general risks to that section tends to addto the complexity of statements without providing investors much additional insight, the regulator said.此举是更广泛的监管从严格的指导转向原则性披露的一部分，旨在为公司和投资者进行信息减负。

人大附中2021届新高考高考英语外刊素材积累(阅读写作提升42)

人大附中2021新高考高考英语外刊素材积累（阅读写作提升42）美国小企业救助金流向中国导读美国总统将新冠病毒大流行和随之而来的经济危机归咎于中国，但在白宫寻求稳定美国小企业的同时，救援工作令中国企业成了意想不到的受益者。

双语阅读Millions of dollars of American taxpayer money have flowed to China from the $660 billion Paycheck Protection Program that was created in March to be a lifeline for struggling small businesses in the United States. But because the economic relief legislation allowed American subsidiaries of foreign firms to receive the loans, a substantial chunk of the money went to America’s bigg est economic rival, a new analysis shows.数亿美国纳税人资金通过6600亿美元的工资保障项目流向中国。

该项目于今年3月设立，旨在帮助陷入困境的美国小企业维持生存。

但一项新的分析显示，由于经济救济法案允许外国公司在美国的子公司获得贷款，一大部分资金流向了美国最大的经济竞争对手。

According to a review of publicly available loan data by the strategy consulting firm Horizon Advisory, $192 million to $419 million has gone to more than 125 companies that Chinese entities own or invest in. Many of the loans were quite sizable; at least 32 Chinese companies received loans worth more than $1 million, with those totaling as much as $180 million.根据战略咨询公司地平线咨询对公开贷款数据的调查，中国实体拥有或投资的逾125家公司获得了1.92亿至4.19亿美元贷款。

人大附中2021届新高考高考英语外刊素材积累(阅读写作提升35)

人大附中2021新高考高考英语外刊素材积累（阅读写作提升35）影响电子设备使用寿命的终极难题：电池老化导读电池老化是电池经过多次充放电循环的结果。

这是由电池运作时发生的复杂化学反应引起的。

电池的寿命往往影响到电子设备的使用时长，现在这一问题似乎有一些进展。

双语阅读As every mobile-phone owner knows, after a year or so the battery starts to fade and the beast needs recharging more frequently. That isa nuisance, but a phone’s batteries can be replaced fairly cheaply—or the whole handset traded in for the latest model. An electric car, however, is a much bigger investment. And batteries are its priciest component, representing around 30% of an average mid-size vehicle.有手机的人都知道，新机使用大概一年后，电池就开始老化，需要更频繁地充电。

这挺烦人的，但更换手机电池并不太贵，或者还可以干脆把整部手机以旧换新成最新款。

相比之下，电动汽车可是一项大得多的投资，而电池又是其中最昂贵的组件，大概占一辆普通中型车成本的30％。

To provide buyers with some peace of mind, carmakers guarantee their batteries, typically for eight years or around 200,000km. Producers are now, though, planning to go much further than that, with the launch of “million mile” (1.6m kilometre) batteries.为让买家多少省心一些，汽车公司通常会为电池提供八年或20万公里左右的保修。

人大附中2021届新高考高考英语外刊素材积累(阅读写作提升29)

人大附中2021新高考高考英语外刊素材积累（阅读写作提升29）为什么美国人都如此热衷于去健身房？导读过去几个月的封闭，很多美国人往日经常去的健身房不再正常营业了，健身器械少部分被搬到街道旁、公园里，勉强维持部分人的健身需求，美国人热衷于健身的文化是如何形成的呢？双语阅读In the past 70 years, physical activity in America has transformed from a necessity of daily life into an often-expensive leisureactivity, retrofitted into the foundation of people’s identities.“Inthe ’50s and ’60s, the body became a problem, and exercise developed—it had to develop—because people realized that we were all going to die of heart attacks,” S helly McKenzie, the author of Getting Physical: The Rise of Fitness Culture in America, told me.在过去的70年里，体育活动在美国已经从日常生活的必需品转变为一种往往很昂贵的休闲活动，并重新成为构建人们身份的基础。

“在五六十年代，身体健康成了一个问题，运动得到发展——它必须发展——因为人们意识到都我们将死于心脏病，”《锻炼身体:美国健身文化的兴起》的作者谢莉·麦肯齐告诉我。

With new middle-class needs came new marketing. Jack LaLanne’s instructional exercise TV show introduced much of the country to the active pursuit of physical fitness in 1951, paving the way for workout tapes from fitness megastars such as Richard Simmons and Jane Fonda. In the ’70s, exercise began to leave the home, both through thepopularization of jogging and weightlifting and in more organized ways, such as Jazzercise classes.中产阶级形成了新的需求，新的营销方式也应运而生。

人大附中2021届新高考高考英语外刊素材积累(阅读写作提升23)

人大附中2021新高考高考英语外刊素材积累（阅读写作提升23）美国大法官金斯伯格的去世对美国意味着什么导读大法官鲁思·巴德·金斯伯格(Ruth Bader Ginsburg)去世，对于女权主义者来说，这是一个毁灭性的损失，他们将这位87岁的大法官视为女权的象征，并将其视为在最高法院保护堕胎权和其他广泛进步理想的堡垒。

双语阅读But her passing less than two months before the presidential election also tosses one more lit match into the tinderbox of national politics in 2020: It will surely inflame a deeply polarized country already riven by a deadly pandemic, a steep economic downturn, and civil unrest in its major cities.但她在距离总统大选不到两个月的时候去世，这也给2020年的国家政治火药桶又扔进了一根点燃的火柴：这必定会给这个已经被致命的疫情、严重的经济衰退和主要城市的内乱搅得四分五裂的、深度两极分化的国家火上浇油。

In Washington, the vacancy fight could ratchet up tensions to a level unseen even in the tumultuous Trump era. President Donald Trump will be eager to fill Ginsburg’s seat immediately, seizing an opportunity to rally his base before the election and to cement his legacy in the event he is defeated in November. He could also become the first president since Richard Nixon to install three justices on the high court in a single four-year term.在华盛顿，席位空缺之争可能会加剧紧张局势，到一种即使在动荡的特XX时代也未曾见过的程度。

人大附中2021届新高考高考英语外刊素材积累(阅读写作提升37)

人大附中2021新高考高考英语外刊素材积累（阅读写作提升37）乐高业绩亮眼，打破玩具行业低迷导读一家生产塑料玩具块的厂商，是怎么在新冠疫情的重压之下突出重围的？双语阅读Lego overcame the twin challenges of coronavirus lockdowns and the general gloom in the toy industry to record increases in both sales and profits in the first half. The Danish privately owned maker of plastic bricks said revenues in the first half increased by 7 per cent toDKr15.7bn while operating profit was 11 per cent higher than a year earlier at DKr3.9bn.乐高克服了新冠病毒封锁和玩具业普遍低迷的双重挑战，在今年上半年实现了销售额和利润的双双增长。

这家丹麦民营塑料块制造商表示，今年上半年收入增长7%，达到157亿丹麦克朗，而营业利润同比增长11%，达到39亿丹麦克朗。

Chief executive Niels Christiansen told the Financial Timesthe momentum had continued into the first two months of the second half. The world’s largest toymaker by both revenues and profits increased consumer sales by double-digit percentages in Asia, western Europe and the US thanks to investments in its online store as well as new products such as Monkie Kid, its first Chinese-inspired group of sets.首席执行官尼尔斯•克里斯蒂安森向《金融时报》表示，这种势头一直持续到了下半年的前两个月。