2022届高考英语二轮复习：外刊阅读习题训练（含答案）

高考英语外刊阅读2022年4月上半月
语法填空选文一：The Economist April 02 2022 P51 难度：
For weeks the authorities in Shanghai 1 （try） to stem an outbreak of covid19 with a whack-a-mole-approach. Individual buildings were locked down, only for the virus to spread elsewhere. Finally, on March 28th, officials decided to lock down all of the city’s 25m residents in two phases, 2 (begin) with the east side of town, home to the main financial center. People scrambled to buy supplies. Vegetables became scarce. Some bankers began sleeping in their offices. The lockdown is in line 3 China’s“zero-covid” strategy, 4 aims to crush out breaks before they can spread widely. Thousands of new cases of the highly transmissible Omicron variant are testing this approach. The wave has hit most provinces. Restrictions 5 (impose) on dozens of cities and towns. The experience of Hong Kong is causing Chinese officials to be extra vigilant. Not long ago the city had very few cases. Now it has one of 6 (high)daily death rates from the virus. The vast majority of the dead are unvaccinated old people. 7 65% of over80sin Hong Kong had not been jabbed when the Omicron wave started. The mainland has a similar problem. Unlike other countries, which made jabbing the elderly and other vulnerable people a priority, China focused on its over all vaccination rate. It stands at nearly 88%.But only about half of over 80 shave been fully vaccinated . Less than a fifth have received a booster shot. Some 52m people over the age of 60 have not received two jabs. In official statements, the government sounds alarmed. 8 efforts to jab mature folk face big obstacles, though. Start with the fact that many old people think covid vaccines might be dangerous. 9 they were rolled out in late 2020, the state only approved shots for healthy people under 60. It cited a lack of clinical trial data for elderly and vulnerable populations. Many old people assumed that the vaccines could harm them. Some health workers did, too. “The first impression is really critical,” says Chen Zhengming, an epidemiologist at the University of Oxford.“Once you have formed your opinion it’s really difficult 10 , it requires ten times more effort.”
参考答案：
1. tried 2. beginning 3. with 4. which 5. have been imposed
6. the highest 7. around/about 8. Its 9. When 10. to change
语法填空选文二：The Economist April 02 2022 P38 难度：
Seeds of learning
A giant exercise in giving away money to children is under way. On March 21st Los Angeles Unified, America’s second 1 (large) school district, enrolled every first grader into a free college savings account programme, depositing $50 for each child. 2 44,000 pupils, Opportunity la is the biggest college savings scheme for children in the country. Children’s savings accounts typically help towards a specific purpose, usually college or buying a home. Many barriers exist to amassing savings, especially for the poor. Foremost is a lack of funds to put away for later, but bad experiences with banks—worries about credit scores, 3 , or fears about over draft fees—also put people off. An automatic programme can encourage families to invest. Opportunity la will enable families to use the savings account for college fee sand associated costs, such as tests and supplies. The funds 4 be used for any two or four year programme at an accredited institution. If families pay in extra money and file taxes in the county, they will receive a matching contribution(up to $25 each year). If a pupil leaves the district, the funds are forfeited and any family contribution returned. Families can opt out of the plan, but 5 are expected to do so. Such efforts elsewhere have had success. seed for Oklahoma (seed ok)began 15 years ago. Newborns were randomly selected to receive $1,000 for the state’s college savings plan, and 6 (compare) with those not chosen. Families 7 got the money experienced long-term benefits. They were more likely to have opened an additional college savings account for their children, and they had greater expectations for their child to complete graduate school. seed ok’s beneficiaries have yet to graduate from high school, but other studies have found positive outcomes from college savings, automatic or otherwise. One study found that poor children who expect to graduate from college and have up to $499 in their accounts are three times more likely to graduate. Since seed ok, other automatic programmes 8 . In 2011 San Francisco became the first publicly funded universal csa project in America. Two years later, Maine was the first state 9 (require) parents to opt out if they wished to avoid automatic enrolment; participation grew from 40% to 100%. Other states followed. A universal programme is expected to launch this spring in New York City, the largest school district, and California’s governor intends to launch a statewide programme soon. Seeds are being scattered 10 America.
参考答案：
1. largest 2. With 3. for example 4. can 5. few
6. compared 7. who 8. have started 9. to require 10. across/throughout
阅读选择选文一：The Economist April 02 2022 P48 难度：
Yoon sang-soon leaves a 7-11in Seoul, downcast. He showed up at 11pm, after the convenience store is restocked, but the 27-year-old missed out. No matter. Earlier, after waiting an hour for a delivery van to arrive at another shop, he had found the prize that millennial South Koreans are hunting for obsessively: Pokémon bread.
“This is all because of nostalgia shared by people in their 20s and 30s,” he explains. In 1998 spc Samlip, a confectioner, launched more than ten varieties of cake, each packet sporting characters from Pokémon (short for “pocket monsters”), an empire of games, tv shows and merchandise, with one of 151 different stickers inside. Kids queued to buy “Team Rocket’s chocolate rolls” and “Ghastly’s peeling bread”, because, in the words of Pokémon’s self-serving official slogan, “You gotta catch ’em all.”
This February Pokémon bread was back in shops after a 16-year hiatus. The cakes have since become scarcer than teeth of a combusken (a aming chicken- like Pokémon). Production lines have been running round the clock, but Sam- lip can make enough only to supply each convenience store with two a day. Catching them is daunting—your correspondent gave up after 17 shops.
So aspiring Pokémon masters travel far and wide to stalk delivery vans and launch late-night “raids” on shops. Even rm, a member of the k-pop behemoth bts, has complained about the difficulty of nding them. In a lively secondary market some stickers go for more than 30 times the price of the snack cake.
Some shopkeepers have taken advantage, adding heavy markups or bundling the cakes together with less popular products. Others have put up hand- drawn posters of Pokémon characters, explaining that they are out of stock. But many report that millennials’ nostalgia is more toxic than the most poisonous Pokémon. Battle-ready Pokémon-hunters curse and scream at them for not having the cakes. One incident reportedly got so out of hand that six police officers turned up.
Mostly, it is glossy, sugary fun. “Collecting Pokémon bread and stickers has become kind of a meme,” says Mr Yoon, who visits at least a couple of shops a day. Undeterred by the empty shelves, he heads home, .
1. Why many millennial South Koreans like Pokémon bread？
A. Because it is delicious and cheap.
B. Because it is well-received.
C. Because it is the popular products in their childhood.
D. Because it is the products produced by a famous company.
2. Why Pokémon bread is always out of stock
A. It was very popular and the production is low.
B. No shopkeepers want to buy it.
C. It is banned by the authority.
D. The factory went bankrupt.
3.According to the passage, what will Mr soon do tomorrow.
A. He will go to work as usual.
B. He will give up buying the bread.
C. He will go on buying the bread.
D. He will turn to others for help to buy the bread.
参考答案：CAC