2025届高三英语二轮复习外刊阅读外刊阅读天天练 综合训练十一（含答案）
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2025届高考英语外刊阅读天天练 综合训练十一
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①“Something tells me it's meant to stay”
【The Guardian (February 27, 2025)】
The battleground at the heart of a struggle between an 89-year-old man and a multi-billion pound multinational is a small junction in a Norfolk village, where a red phone box stands. Last month, Derek Harris learned that BT (formerly British Telecom) was threatening to close the last phone box in the village of Sharrington, where he has lived for 50 years.“I thought: 'I'd better do something about this," says Harris.
The UK has 14,000 working phone boxes. At their peak in the1990s,there were 100,000 with the iconic red design. When about 95% of households have a mobile phone, it's perhaps a wonder that phone boxes survive at all. A phone box cannot be removed if it is the last in an area, and if one or more of the following conditions apply: if it's in an area without coverage from all four mobile network providers or if at least 52 calls have been made from it in the past year, or if it is somewhere with a large number of accidents or suicides or, finally, if there is a high social need for instance, if it has a number of calls to government helplines such as Childline or domestic abuse charities. Last year, fewer than 10 calls were made from Sharrington's public phone box and it is one of 10 in the North Norfolk district council area earmarked for removal.
Harris has lived in Sharrington for half a century. He and those campaigning to keep it, including local councillor Andrew Brown.“It can be a lifeline, and it's a conservation asset,” says Brown,“a valuable communication resource, given the nature of mobile signalling being so poor around here. The area is rural and isolated, and North Norfolk has the highest proportion of older residents in England and Wales - the adults most likely not to have a mobile phone.”
Mobile phones are everywhere, Harris admits, but he points out that in this part of the country, the signal is sketchy. “We live next to perhaps the most beautiful part of Norfolk, the tranquil Glaven Valley which attracts ramblers and walkers. Think if there was an emergency and the mobile network was down--something that may happen more frequently as we increasingly experience extreme weather,” he says.“Wouldn't it be awful if someone said: 'If only they had kept that working kiosk’ ”
Under BT's Adopt a Kiosk scheme, phone boxes have become libraries, or home to defibrillators. Why can't Sharrington's enjoy a new life as something like that “It was not designed for that, says Harris.“What it was designed for was communication. Why should it be changed into something else Change it into something else and it becomes a quirky relic of British history. Another dial tone dead. "
There's a comfort in continuity and it's about conserving what is worth conserving, leaving the world a better place, or at least not diminished. That includes a working, iconic red phone box in the village in which Harris has lived for so long.“It's fighting for what is valuable, cherished. The nearer you get to the end, the more you want to see things live. I wouldn't like to see it die,” he says.
1. What is the main reason BT is threatening to remove the phone box in Sharrington
A. It is no longer used by the villagers.
B. It is the last phone box in the area.
C. It has not met the required number of calls in the past year.
D. It is located in an area with poor mobile coverage.
2. What is the author's main purpose in mentioning the conditions under which a phone box cannot be removed
A. To explain why the phone box in Sharrington is being removed.
B. To highlight the importance of phone boxes in rural areas.
C. To provide background information on the regulations governing phone box removal.
D. To criticize BT for not following the rules.
3. In the context of the passage, what does the word "sketchy" most likely mean
A. Strong and consistent.
B. Weak and unreliable.
C. Modern and advanced.
D. Limited but sufficient.
4. Which of the following statements is true according to the last paragraph
A. Derek Harris believes the phone box should be converted into a library.
B. Derek Harris thinks the phone box should remain a functional communication tool.
C. Derek Harris is indifferent to the fate of the phone box.
D. Derek Harris wants the phone box to be removed to make way for modern technology.
②Should schools ban smartphones
【The Economist (February 22, 2025)】
PRANCE has not allowed smartphone use in primary or secondary schools since 2018, claiming that it would help children focus, reduce their social-media use and mitigate online bullying. The Netherlands initiated a similar ban in January 2024.Hungary followed suit later that year. The key question facing them is whether banning smartphones in schools offers any benefits to mental health.
That there is a problem seems clear. In 2021 America's surgeon general compiled a report revealing that persistent feelings of hopelessness climbed by 40% among American high-school pupils between 2009 and 2019. It is tempting to connect these trends with the increased availability of smartphones, but establishing a causal connection is difficult. Part of the problem is that children’s brain undergoes profound changes during puberty, meaning that any research on the effects of smartphone use needs to consider the developmental age of the children being studied as well as their precise smartphone habits.
No studies have got this specific. Those that have come close, however reveal that unfettered access to social media on smartphones during puberty, especially at critical moments when the brain is changing, may cause problems. One study asked 17,409 people between the ages of ten and 21 how satisfied they were with their lives and how much they used social media. The finding show that girls who increased their social media use over the course of a year were significantly less satisfied with their lives if the increase took place when they were between 11and 13. Boys showed the same trend when increases took place when they were 14 or 15 years old.
How much of this will change by banning phones in schools is unclear. In a paper published in the Lancet in February, Victoria Goodyear at the University of Birmingham compared the mental well-being of students in schools that implemented restrictive smartphone policies with those with relaxed policies She also monitored overall screentime. Her results show that, though those who spent more time on a smartphone overall did have a decline in mental well-being, there was no difference between the two groups.
Researchers are trying to paint a complete picture with both hands tied behind their back. Social media companies routinely refuse to give independent researchers access to detailed data on the behaviours of their users. This forces researchers to rely on less accurate proxy measures. It also means that children playing educational games are being put in the same analytical bin as children who are on social media. A more nuanced picture of the effects of smartphones needs to be drawn.
According to the report by America's surgeon general, what happened to feelings of hopelessness among American high-school pupils between 2009 and 2019
A. They decreased by 40%.
B. They increased by 40%.
C. They remained unchanged.
D. They were not measured.
2. In the sentence, "How much of this will change by banning phones in schools is unclear," what does the word "this" refer to
A. The decline in life satisfaction due to social media use.
B. The mental well-being of students.
C. The overall screentime of students.
D. The restrictive smartphone policies in schools.
3. What is the author's attitude toward the current research on the effects of smartphones on children
A. Optimistic, as researchers are making significant progress.
B. Supportive, as researchers are using accurate proxy measures.
C. Indifferent, because the effects of smartphones are already well understood.
D. Critical, due to the lack of access to detailed data from social media companies.
4.Which of the following would be the best title for the passage
A. The Global Ban on Smartphones in Schools
B. Smartphones and Mental Health: A Complex Relationship
C. How Social Media Affects Teenagers' Lives
D. The Role of Smartphones in Modern Education
语法填空
China's top court upholds child trafficker's death sentence
【China Daily (February 22, 2025)】
Child trafficker Yu Huaying was executed on Friday after China's top court approved her death sentence. The execution was carried out by the Guiyang Intermediate People's Court in Guizhou province, ___1___ Yu was convicted of abducting and trafficking children and ___2____(give) the death penalty. Before the 61-year-old was executed, the court allowed her to meet her family members, fully ___3__(protect) the legitimate rights of the criminal.
On Oct 25, the court sentenced Yu to death after identifying that Yu, between 1993 and 2003, abducted 17 children in Guizhou, Chongqing and Yunnan provinces, ___4____ then sold the victims to Handan in Hebei province for financial gains. The court also stripped of her political rights for life and ordered that all her personal assets be confiscated.
Yu appealed to a ____5___(high) court, but the Guizhou High People's Court later rejected her appeal and upheld the ____6___(origin) ruling and submitted the death sentence to the Supreme People's Court, China's top court, for review. Under the Chinese law, death sentences issued by lower courts must be reviewed and approved by the top court before executions are implemented.
Yu and her case attracted widespread public attention since 2022 __7____ police in Guiyang received ___8___ report from Yang Niuhua, alleging she was snatched by Yu in Guizhou and taken to Hebei in 1995. Soon after the report, police captured Yu from Chongqing.
During the trial, the Guiyang court said that the abduction and trafficking had separated 12 families, making some parents spend many years searching for their children or even die of __9____(depress). The court added it imposed the death penalty on Yu, because the circumstance of her criminal behaviors was ______10___(extreme) serious.
CCBB
BADB
Where;was given;protecting;and;higher;original;when;a;depression;extremely
阅读理解
①“Something tells me it's meant to stay”
【The Guardian (February 27, 2025)】
The battleground at the heart of a struggle between an 89-year-old man and a multi-billion pound multinational is a small junction in a Norfolk village, where a red phone box stands. Last month, Derek Harris learned that BT (formerly British Telecom) was threatening to close the last phone box in the village of Sharrington, where he has lived for 50 years.“I thought: 'I'd better do something about this," says Harris.
The UK has 14,000 working phone boxes. At their peak in the1990s,there were 100,000 with the iconic red design. When about 95% of households have a mobile phone, it's perhaps a wonder that phone boxes survive at all. A phone box cannot be removed if it is the last in an area, and if one or more of the following conditions apply: if it's in an area without coverage from all four mobile network providers or if at least 52 calls have been made from it in the past year, or if it is somewhere with a large number of accidents or suicides or, finally, if there is a high social need for instance, if it has a number of calls to government helplines such as Childline or domestic abuse charities. Last year, fewer than 10 calls were made from Sharrington's public phone box and it is one of 10 in the North Norfolk district council area earmarked for removal.
Harris has lived in Sharrington for half a century. He and those campaigning to keep it, including local councillor Andrew Brown.“It can be a lifeline, and it's a conservation asset,” says Brown,“a valuable communication resource, given the nature of mobile signalling being so poor around here. The area is rural and isolated, and North Norfolk has the highest proportion of older residents in England and Wales - the adults most likely not to have a mobile phone.”
Mobile phones are everywhere, Harris admits, but he points out that in this part of the country, the signal is sketchy. “We live next to perhaps the most beautiful part of Norfolk, the tranquil Glaven Valley which attracts ramblers and walkers. Think if there was an emergency and the mobile network was down--something that may happen more frequently as we increasingly experience extreme weather,” he says.“Wouldn't it be awful if someone said: 'If only they had kept that working kiosk’ ”
Under BT's Adopt a Kiosk scheme, phone boxes have become libraries, or home to defibrillators. Why can't Sharrington's enjoy a new life as something like that “It was not designed for that, says Harris.“What it was designed for was communication. Why should it be changed into something else Change it into something else and it becomes a quirky relic of British history. Another dial tone dead. "
There's a comfort in continuity and it's about conserving what is worth conserving, leaving the world a better place, or at least not diminished. That includes a working, iconic red phone box in the village in which Harris has lived for so long.“It's fighting for what is valuable, cherished. The nearer you get to the end, the more you want to see things live. I wouldn't like to see it die,” he says.
1. What is the main reason BT is threatening to remove the phone box in Sharrington
A. It is no longer used by the villagers.
B. It is the last phone box in the area.
C. It has not met the required number of calls in the past year.
D. It is located in an area with poor mobile coverage.
2. What is the author's main purpose in mentioning the conditions under which a phone box cannot be removed
A. To explain why the phone box in Sharrington is being removed.
B. To highlight the importance of phone boxes in rural areas.
C. To provide background information on the regulations governing phone box removal.
D. To criticize BT for not following the rules.
3. In the context of the passage, what does the word "sketchy" most likely mean
A. Strong and consistent.
B. Weak and unreliable.
C. Modern and advanced.
D. Limited but sufficient.
4. Which of the following statements is true according to the last paragraph
A. Derek Harris believes the phone box should be converted into a library.
B. Derek Harris thinks the phone box should remain a functional communication tool.
C. Derek Harris is indifferent to the fate of the phone box.
D. Derek Harris wants the phone box to be removed to make way for modern technology.
②Should schools ban smartphones
【The Economist (February 22, 2025)】
PRANCE has not allowed smartphone use in primary or secondary schools since 2018, claiming that it would help children focus, reduce their social-media use and mitigate online bullying. The Netherlands initiated a similar ban in January 2024.Hungary followed suit later that year. The key question facing them is whether banning smartphones in schools offers any benefits to mental health.
That there is a problem seems clear. In 2021 America's surgeon general compiled a report revealing that persistent feelings of hopelessness climbed by 40% among American high-school pupils between 2009 and 2019. It is tempting to connect these trends with the increased availability of smartphones, but establishing a causal connection is difficult. Part of the problem is that children’s brain undergoes profound changes during puberty, meaning that any research on the effects of smartphone use needs to consider the developmental age of the children being studied as well as their precise smartphone habits.
No studies have got this specific. Those that have come close, however reveal that unfettered access to social media on smartphones during puberty, especially at critical moments when the brain is changing, may cause problems. One study asked 17,409 people between the ages of ten and 21 how satisfied they were with their lives and how much they used social media. The finding show that girls who increased their social media use over the course of a year were significantly less satisfied with their lives if the increase took place when they were between 11and 13. Boys showed the same trend when increases took place when they were 14 or 15 years old.
How much of this will change by banning phones in schools is unclear. In a paper published in the Lancet in February, Victoria Goodyear at the University of Birmingham compared the mental well-being of students in schools that implemented restrictive smartphone policies with those with relaxed policies She also monitored overall screentime. Her results show that, though those who spent more time on a smartphone overall did have a decline in mental well-being, there was no difference between the two groups.
Researchers are trying to paint a complete picture with both hands tied behind their back. Social media companies routinely refuse to give independent researchers access to detailed data on the behaviours of their users. This forces researchers to rely on less accurate proxy measures. It also means that children playing educational games are being put in the same analytical bin as children who are on social media. A more nuanced picture of the effects of smartphones needs to be drawn.
According to the report by America's surgeon general, what happened to feelings of hopelessness among American high-school pupils between 2009 and 2019
A. They decreased by 40%.
B. They increased by 40%.
C. They remained unchanged.
D. They were not measured.
2. In the sentence, "How much of this will change by banning phones in schools is unclear," what does the word "this" refer to
A. The decline in life satisfaction due to social media use.
B. The mental well-being of students.
C. The overall screentime of students.
D. The restrictive smartphone policies in schools.
3. What is the author's attitude toward the current research on the effects of smartphones on children
A. Optimistic, as researchers are making significant progress.
B. Supportive, as researchers are using accurate proxy measures.
C. Indifferent, because the effects of smartphones are already well understood.
D. Critical, due to the lack of access to detailed data from social media companies.
4.Which of the following would be the best title for the passage
A. The Global Ban on Smartphones in Schools
B. Smartphones and Mental Health: A Complex Relationship
C. How Social Media Affects Teenagers' Lives
D. The Role of Smartphones in Modern Education
语法填空
China's top court upholds child trafficker's death sentence
【China Daily (February 22, 2025)】
Child trafficker Yu Huaying was executed on Friday after China's top court approved her death sentence. The execution was carried out by the Guiyang Intermediate People's Court in Guizhou province, ___1___ Yu was convicted of abducting and trafficking children and ___2____(give) the death penalty. Before the 61-year-old was executed, the court allowed her to meet her family members, fully ___3__(protect) the legitimate rights of the criminal.
On Oct 25, the court sentenced Yu to death after identifying that Yu, between 1993 and 2003, abducted 17 children in Guizhou, Chongqing and Yunnan provinces, ___4____ then sold the victims to Handan in Hebei province for financial gains. The court also stripped of her political rights for life and ordered that all her personal assets be confiscated.
Yu appealed to a ____5___(high) court, but the Guizhou High People's Court later rejected her appeal and upheld the ____6___(origin) ruling and submitted the death sentence to the Supreme People's Court, China's top court, for review. Under the Chinese law, death sentences issued by lower courts must be reviewed and approved by the top court before executions are implemented.
Yu and her case attracted widespread public attention since 2022 __7____ police in Guiyang received ___8___ report from Yang Niuhua, alleging she was snatched by Yu in Guizhou and taken to Hebei in 1995. Soon after the report, police captured Yu from Chongqing.
During the trial, the Guiyang court said that the abduction and trafficking had separated 12 families, making some parents spend many years searching for their children or even die of __9____(depress). The court added it imposed the death penalty on Yu, because the circumstance of her criminal behaviors was ______10___(extreme) serious.
CCBB
BADB
Where;was given;protecting;and;higher;original;when;a;depression;extremely