Passage1
frame found on the roof of the museum.
世界名画失踪多年重见天日。
A painting was found hidden in a wall of an Italian museum. It was authenticated as a Gustav Klimt work that was stolen from the same gallery in 1997. It was reported that Klimt’s Portrait of a Lady was owned by the Ricci Oddi Gallery of Modern Art in 1925, with only the painting’s
Investigations into the 1917 work, which is worth at about $66 million today, stopped over the next few decades. The break came by chance last month, when a museum gardener clearing ivy from a wall opened a metal access panel and discovered the painting inside. It was put in a plastic bag. Experts finally confirmed that the painting was not fake, and officials in Piacenza where the Ricci Oddi is located announced the news.
\"It's with no small emotion that I can tell you the work is authentic,\" Piacenza Prosecutor Ornella Chicca said. An authenticator in Bologna said the painting is still in very good condition, having only suffered a scratch on an edge, possibly from a silly effort to remove the portrait from its frame. officials said X-rays aided in the authentication process, showing that Portrait of a Lady had been painted on the top of another portrait.
As for why the painting had been stored within a wall, Anne Marie O'Connor, a journalist who had written about another of Klimt’s paintings, said that the thief knew it would be too difficult to sell the painting during the investigation at that time and perhaps planned to return one day and retrieve it. The portrait has been held in Italy’s central bank during the investigation. 1. Who was the key person to solve the case?
A Experts. B Officials in Piacenza.
C A museum gardener. D The owner of the Ricci Oddi Gallery. 2. What can we infer from the last paragraph? A Now the painting belongs to Italy’s central bank. B Anne-Marie O'Connor likes collecting the paintings. C The painting was maybe hidden in the wall on purpose.
D The thief had no chance to transfer the painting at that time. 3. What can we learn from this passage?
A X-rays play an important role in checking the portrait. B The museum staff have something to do with the case. C There isn’t any damage on the surface of the painting. D The frame of the painting lies beside the plastic bag.
Passage2
美国11岁男孩当旧货店老板 立志成为一名英雄。
Obocho Peters is a fifth-grader on a mission to make sure those who are less fortunate are able to dress to impress. With that in mind, the 11-year-old boy from Brooklyn, New York, runs Obocho’s Closet, a thrift store selling affordable donated clothes and shoes for kids for under $10. The project first started in 2018 as an online thrift shop, and in December Obocho opened his first local store in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Flatbush. “It makes me feel like the hard work I’ve been doing in this community. It finally paid off,” he said.
Obocho was able to get his dream off the ground thanks in part to a GoFundMe page, which explained the inspirational backstory to his mission. The student wrote that after seeing Avengers: Infinity War, he asked his mom Sasha Peters for eight toys from the film. When Peters said she couldn’t afford the toys, Obocho took matters into his own hands, selling clothes and shoes he no longer wore to pay for them himself.
“I realized that other families must face these same challenges when taking care of their children,” he wrote. “That idea turned into the mission I have today — to help the community grow.” “I was inspired by all the superheroes helping to make the world a better place,” he added. “I wanted to be a hero myself by helping my mom.”
Peters, a single mom, helped her son launch his website and signed him up for business classes after school. “You have to nurture kids when they come up with ideas and you have to pay attention to everything that they say because they’re telling you how to groom them to be a better version of themselves,” she said.
1. Who will be potential consumers in Obocho’s Closet?
A Street cleaners. B Servers in the community.
C Primary school students. D The elderly in the nursing home. 2. What partially inspired Obocho to go in for business?
A Working for the community. B The backstories on GoFundMe. C The film Avengers: Infinity War. D His education at school. 3. What kind of person was Obocho according to Paragraph 3? A Open-minded. B Self-confident. C Optimistic. D Independent. 4. Obocho’s success should attribute to many factors EXCEPT ________. A his family education B his growth experiences C after-school educational courses D the help from other rich families
Passage3
playing basketball.
心中有梦想,风雨不折腰。
I used to watch her from my kitchen window. She seemed so small as she muscled her way through the crowd of boys on the playground. The school was across the street from our home and I would often watch the kids as they played during break. I remember the first day I saw her I watched in wonder as she ran circles around the other kids. She managed to shoot jump shots just over their heads and into the net. The boys always tried to stop her but no one could. I began to noticeher at other times, basketball in hand, playing alone.
One day I asked her why she practiced so much. Without a moment of hesitation she said, \"I want to go to college. The only way I can go is to get a scholarship. I am going to play college basketball. I want to be the best. My daddy told me if the dream is big enough, the facts don't count. \"Well, I had to give it to her-She was determined. I watched her through those junior high years and into high school.
Every week, she led her school team to victory.
One day in her senior year, I saw her sitting in the grass, head in her arms.I walked across the street and sat down in the cool grass beside her. Quietly I asked what was wrong. \"Oh, nothing,\" came a softreply, \"I am just too short.\" The coach told her that at 5'5\" she would probably never
get to play for a top ranked team-much less offered a scholarship. So she should stop dreaming about college. She was heartbroken and I felt my own throat tighten as I sensed her disappointment. I asked her if she had talked to her dad about it yet. She told me that her father said those coaches were wrong. They just did not understand the power of a dream. He told her that if she truly wanted a scholarship and that nothing could stop her except one thing-her own attitude.
The next year, as she and her team went to the Northern California Championship game, she was offered a scholarship and on the college team. She was going to get the college education that she had dreamed of.
1. Why was the girl heartbroken?
A. She was considered too short to be a top player. B. Her coach stopped her training because of her height. C. She couldn't be on a college basketball team. D. She wouldn't be admitted by an ideal college. 2. We can learn from the passage that__________. A. her family wouldn't like to pay her college fees B. her father forced her to play basketball in college
C. being a top basketball player can win you a scholarship for college D. she wouldn't like to turn to his father for help when in difficulty 3. Which word can best describe her father? A. Encouraging. B. Optimistic. C. Stubborn. D. Cruel.
4. Which proverb best matches the story? A. Practice makes perfect. B. Rome was not built in a day. C. Where there is a will, there is a way. D. Pride comes before a fall.
Passage4
尼日利亚首例连体婴儿分离手术成功。
Two sisters, who were joined in the chest and abdomen, have been successfully separated in a
surgery by a 78-member team in Nigeria's capital, Abuja. Mercy and Goodness Ede are now well enough to go home six weeks after surgery, according to the surgeon Emmanuel Ameh, who led the team that performed the operation at National Hospital. The surgery to separate the twins happened in November last year but details have only just been released by the hospital. The surgeon wanted to ensure there were no post surgery complications.
The girls are the first to be successfully separated at the government-run specialist center, National Hospital spokesman Dr. Tayo Haastrup told CNN. It took around 13 hours for the team working from two operating theaters at the hospital to separate the twins, according to the hospital. \"We are just have special feelings that the team that worked on this surgery were all Nigerians. It was done in Nigeria and the parents didn't have to go outside the country,\" Haastrup said. Haastrup said the surgery, which runs into thousands of dollars, was done free of charge to the parents, who would not have been able to afford the surgery. The twins were born on August 13 last year but Ameh said the surgery was delayed until November because of some complications. Separating conjoined twins is a complicated and dangerous procedure, and not all twins can be separated—because of shared organs or other complications.
Ameh said surgeons on the team were worried that a large section of the girls' chest would be open and at risk of being infected once they were separated and they had to create artificial skin large enough to cover the area, which took several weeks. \"We needed to determine if they could live independently when they are separated,\"Ameh told CNN. \"We also had to get some medical equipment that were not available,\" he added. 1. Why wasn’t the surgery published in November?
A Because they wanted to make sure the twins were healthy. B Because the twins wouldn’t cure at National Hospital. C Because the twins needed six weeks to be back home. D Because the twins got separated only in their hearts. 2. What are Haastrup’s special feelings? A Happy and proud. B Sorry and calm. C Upset and excited. D Angry and Anxious. 3. Who might pay for the surgery? A The girls’ parents.
B The National Hospital. C A generous man. D Emmanuel Ameh.
4. What did surgeons do to stop the chest infection? A They bought medical equipment. B They created artificial skin.
C They ended the dangerous procedure. D They let the twins use the same organs.
本期答案:
“停课不停学”:2020高考英语时事热点拓展阅读(十九)
Passage1 世界名画失踪多年重见天日。 1-3:CCA
Passage2 美国11岁男孩当旧货店老板 立志成为一名英雄。 1-4:CBDD
Passage3 心中有梦想,风雨不折腰。 1-4:ACAC
Passage4 尼日利亚首例连体婴儿分离手术成功。 1-4:AABB
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