高考英语二轮复习高考题型重组练五

高考英语二轮复习高考题型重组练五

Ⅰ.阅读理解

A

[2019·济南高三模拟]The United States Congress is responsible for making and approving federal laws —rules that everyone in the country must follow. But exactly how do those laws get made? The process is not easy, and it takes a long time.

A law begins when someone puts forward an idea. The idea can come from anyone, but it has to get to a U．S. lawmaker who wants it to become legislation (法律). In time, the idea is further developed into a written proposal, called a bill.

Then, a member of Congress officially proposes the bill. After the bill is introduced, it is sent to a small group of lawmakers, called a “committee”. Sometimes committee members seek more information about the proposal by holding hearings. Sometimes the committee changes the bill. Sometimes it decides not to take any action. In that case, we say lawmakers “table” the bill, or let it “die in the committee”．But now and then, the bill is offered to lawmakers not on the committee. Those lawmakers debate the bill further. They might change the bill again. Finally, the full House or Senate votes on the bill. If it does not earn the majority of votes, the bill does not advance.

Finally, the agreed­upon bill is sent to the president. If the president signs it, the bill becomes a law. If the president does nothing and Congress is officially meeting, the bill becomes a law. But if the president does nothing and Congress is not in session, the bill does not pass. Or the president can officially reject the bill. If that happens, the bill is not stopped. Instead, it is returned to both the Senate and the House. If two­thirds of the senators and two­thirds of the House members approve the bill once again, even with the president objecting, they turn the bill into a law.

体裁：说明文题材：社会主题：美国法律的制定过程

【语篇解读】该文主要介绍了美国法律的制定过程。

1．Who is the first to propose a bill?

A．A lawyer. B．A citizen.

C．A member of Congress. D．A committee member.

答案与解析：C 考查细节理解。根据第三段第一句“Then, a member of Congress

officially proposes the bill”可知，第一个提出议案的人是国会成员。故选C。

2．When does a bill finally become a law?

A．After it is sent to a committee.

B．When the president signs it.

C．After it returns to the Congress.

D．While Congress is not in session.

答案与解析：B 考查细节理解。根据最后一段第二句“If the president signs it, the bill becomes a law”可知，如果总统签署了一致同意的议案，那么该议案就成了一项法律。

3．What can be inferred from the text?

A．Not every bill can be turned into a law.

B．Anybody can put forward a proposal.

C．If “tabled”， the bill has to be voted on.

D．Once proposed, the bill can't be changed.

答案与解析：A 考查推理判断。根据对全文的整体理解，尤其是根据最后三段的内容可知，一项议案最终变成一项法律需要走很多程序，在这些程序中议案有可能被搁置或被否决，由此可推知，并不是每一项提案都会变成一项法律。

B

[2019·南昌二模] Although the idea of “zero emission and sustainable (可持续的) development” was promoted worldwide, most cities are at a loss what to do or even some have objected to it. But in Liuzhou, a city in southern China, attitudes could not be more different.

The Liuzhou Municipality Urban Planning Bureau has signed up Italian architect Stefano Boeri, the father of the forest city movement, to build a self­contained community for up to 30,000 people. He is the go­to man for such projects thanks to the success of his “vertical forests”， two residential (住宅的) towers. Completed in 2014, they remove up to 17.5 tons of soot (煤烟) from the air each year, and a year later one of them was named Best Tall Building Worldwide.

The Liuzhou project is a much more ambitious undertaking, however. Its homes, hospitals, hotels, schools and offices will be built on a 340­acre site in what Boeri calls the first attempt to crea te an “urban environment that is really trying to find a balance with nature”. Its 100 species of plant life are expected to absorb almost 10,000 tons of carbon dioxide and 57 tons of pollutants per year, while at the same time producing 900 tons of life­giving oxygen.

Although the architects haven't published the cost of the forest city, the