时事热点冲刺2022年中考英语阅读理解(2期)
专题11环保
Passage 1
题意:介绍“禁渔令”的相关情况,呼吁人们保护我们的家园
The Changjiang River is the longest river in China For thousands of years, a lot of people have made
heir living along the river. Many of them are fishermen.
However, since 1st January 2020, China has begun a 10-year ban( )on fishing in conservation
reas(t#X) along the Changjiang River. And from Ist January 2021, fishing is not allowed in all natural
waterways of large lakes connected to the Changjiang such as the Dongting Lake and Poyang Lake for ten
The Changjiang River used to have high biodiversity(生物多样性). However,, human activities such as
overfishing and pollution have made fish fewer and fewer in the river. In recent years, the number of fish
caught every year from the Changjiang has fallen greatly: from more than 420,000 tons in the 1950s to les
than 100,000 tons. Fish from the river used to take up 60% of the country's total fish production. But now the
number is less than 0.2%. So the fishing ban is a key move to protect the river's biodiversity
The fishing ban will affect( d))about 280,000 fishermen along the river. The government has taken
action to help those fishermen. For example, it provides them with money and job training so that they car
find new ways of living
Yang Zhiming, a fisherman in Hunan Province, now manages business at a local market. Yang bought a
place at the market with 20,000 yuan from the local government years ago. " Now, the 10-year fishing ban has
started. My family don' t have to worry too much because we can do some business at the market, "he said.
The Dongting Lake is home to us fishermen. We stop fishing to protect our home.
1. To know what the fishing ban is, you can read
A. Paragraph 2
B. Paragraph 3
C. Paragraph 4
D. Paragraph 5
2. The writer explained the problem of the Changjiang River in Paragraph 3 by
A. listing some opinions
B. telling a story