2023名校版高考英语阅读理解精读含答案v

2023名校版高考英语阅读理解精读含答案

For humans, adapting to climate change will mostly be a

matter of technology. More air conditioning, better-designed

houses and bigger flood defenses may help lessen the effects of

a warmer world. Animals will have to rely on changing their

bodies or their behaviour. In a paper published in Trends in

Ecology & Evolution, a team led by Sara Ryding, a professor in

Australia, shows that is already happening. In some species of

Australian parrot, for instance beak(喙) size has increased by

between 4% and 10%since 1871. Similar trends are seen in

species of mice and bats growing bigger ears, tails, legs and

wings.

All that fits nicely with evolutionary(进化的) theory. “Allen’s

rule”, named after Joe Allen, who suggested it in 1877, holds

that warm-blooded animals in hot places tend to have

larger appendages(附加物) than those in mild areas.

Such adaptations boost an animal’s surface area relative to its

body volume, helping it to get rid of additional heal. Fennec

foxes, meanwhile, which are native to the Sahara desert,

have strikingly large ears, especially compared with their Arctic

cousins.

Ryding’s team combined data from different species in

different places. Now that they have little in common apart from

living on a warming planet, climate change is the most

reasonable explanation. Since any evolutionary

adaptation comes with trade-offs, it is unclear how far the

process might go. Bigger beaks might interfere with feeding, for

instance. Larger wings are heavier, and bigger legs cost more

energy to grow.

Honestly, studying a broader range of animals will help firm

up exactly what is happening. For now, at least, the increase is

small, never much more than 10%. That may change as

warming accelerates. Every little bit of avoided future

temperature increases results in less warming that would

otherwise slay for essentially forever.

12. Why do some species grow bigger parts of their body?

A. They are following the new trends.

B. They have to adapt to warmer climate.

C. Scientists need them to do experiments.

D. Larger parts tend to help them feed well.

13. Where may warm-blooded animals have bigger body parts?

A. In mild areas.

B. In hot places.

C. In the Arctic.

D. In deserted regions.

14. What do we know about the change in animals from the last

two paragraphs?

A. It comes at a cost.

B. Its cause is definite.

C. It happens in the same habitat.

D. Its process will end soon.

15. What can be a suitable tile for the text?

A. Living on a Warming Planet

B. Measures to Remove Heat

C. Pioneering Research on Animals

D. Evolution to Survive Heat

B B A D

（2022潍坊高三期末卷）After a three-year delay, M+，Hong

Kong’s museum dedicated to Chinese visual culture, opened to

the public It contains an astonishing collection of art with works

by some celebrities. The former Executive Director, Lars Nittve,

sees M+ as equally as New York’s MoMA or the Centre

Pompidou in Paris, in terms of depth and cultural importance.

M+ wouldn’t have been possible without Swiss businessman

and art collector Uli Sigg, who in 2012 donated and sold 1,510

Chinese contemporary works of art to the museum. Michael

Schindhelm’s 2016 documentary, The Chinese Lives of Uli Sigg,

looked back at Sigg’s life and how he accumulated his

collection to preserve contemporary Chinese art for three

decades. In interviews of the film, Sigg prefers to view himself as

“a researcher of China and of Chinese contemporary

art who just happened to buy some of the results of his research.”

Chinese Lines follows Sigg’s life in time order, starting in

1979, the year that he first went to China as a representative of

the Swiss elevator manufacturer. In 1995 Sigg became the

Swiss Ambassador to China, which lasted until 1999. He was

buying art with an objective eye, one towards preserving culture.

Moving into the 21st century, Chinese art reached

international attention thanks to Sigg’s efforts. He created the

Chinese Contemporary Ant Award, an award that functioned to

get artists noticed by important Western artists

and galley owner. AI the same time, pieces by Chine artists were

gaining more and more global reputations.

Following Sigg’s announcement that he will donate a sizable

portion of his collection to the soon-to-be-opened M+ museum,

Chinese lives ends on a hopeful note for the still-growing art

scene in China. The documentary is a good starting point to

familiarize oneself with contemporary Chinese art and the

man who helped expose it to the world.

8. Why does the author mention “MoMA” in paragraph 1?

A. To enrich our knowledge.

B. To memorize art celebrities.

C. To deepen M+ museum’s popularity.

D. To indicate M+ museum’s significance.

9. Which identity would Uli Sigg most probably agree with?

A. A contemporary artist.

B. A researcher of Chinese art.

C. A collector of contemporary art.

D. An ambassador with artistic taste.

10. What can we infer from The Chinese Lives of Uli Sigg?

A. Sigg offered money to Chinese artists.

B. Sigg was the director of the documentary.

C. Sigg made great efforts to promote Chinese art.

D. Sigg was the Swiss Ambassador to China in 2000.

11. What is Uli Sigg like?

A. He is strict and ambitious.

B. He is caring and creative.

C. He is devoted and generous.

D. He is hopeful and humorous.

D

B C C