07 新冠疫情-2023年高考英语新热点时文阅读

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2023年高考英语新热点时文阅读-新冠疫情 题型主要内容1阅读理解讲述疫情期间老人们积极参与Radio Recliner成为音乐DJ，通过分享自己喜欢的音乐来摆脱孤独，以及更多地与朋友和家人联系。2阅读理解讲述了新冠肺炎疫情让大家意识到共享菜肴可导致病毒传播。另外，各地政府主张使用公筷，并且禁止食用、买卖或运输野生动物。3阅读理解介绍了通过研究人员利用模型和真实数据的对比，揭示了疫苗对世界疫情爆发的重要意义。4七选五讲述了一项关于新冠疫情下针对居家隔离所作的一项调查收集的结果。5七选五议论文，作者认为在新型冠状病毒疫情下，握手等问候方式或许会被取消，因为肢体接触会传染病毒。 01（2022·山东临沂·高三开学考试）Stuck inside his room at an assisted living center, Bob Coleman knew he could not go out in public with the epidemic (疫). But he was not cut off from outside: he shared his love for country music over the Internet. “Hello, everybody. It’s a bright day in Tennessee,” he said into his microphone. “This is Bob Coleman, coming to you from Room3325…”.   Then Coleman began to play the music he loves-hits from country music stars. The 88-year-old carefully chooses each song.Coleman and several other retirees have turned into DJs (流行音乐播音员), for a new online radio hour known as “Radio Recliner.” A marketing company called Luckie came up with the idea of Radio Recliner. Listeners can send song requests in honor of family or friends. For example, listeners might hear a message like this: “Hey, Granny. This is your favorite granddaughter Amy. We just wanted to call in and say we love you.” The 60-minute show started with retirees in middle Tennessee. It has since expanded, with residents of assisted-living centers in other states taking part in the project. Many jumped at the chance to work as a DJ to ease the loneliness of social distancing rules.Mitch Bennett serves as Luckie’s chief creative officer. He says the idea was to provide a sense of community to older people. “For this generation, radio was the original social media,” Bennett said, “Dedicating a song to someone you love and having them hear it along with everyone else is a special way of connecting.”In Georgia, 80-year-old Ed Rosenblatt, who had made full preparations for his show, said an hour he spent playing songs on Radio Recliner resulted in a flood of text messages, emails and calls from family and friends, and many of the messages were from people he had not heard from for years.1．What did Bob Coleman do during the epidemic?A．He organized a band at his living center. B．He earned money by singing on the radio.C．He created new country music for friends. D．He shared country music hits over the Internet.2．Why were retirees active to work for Radio Recliner?A．They wanted to get connected with the world.B．They wanted to show their love for Tennessee.C．They wanted to build more assisted-living centers.D．They wanted to help others get in touch with their relatives.3．Which of the following can best describe these old DJs?A．Optimistic and devoted. B．Humorous and active.C．Lonely and pessimistic. D．Diligent and generous.4．What’s the best title for the text?A．Older Adults Need More Care During the EpidemicB．Older Adults, Stuck by the Epidemic, Turn Into DJsC．Older Adults Were Busy With Music During the EpidemicD．Older Adults, Stuck by the Epidemic, Show Music Talents02（2022·河南·荥阳市教育体育局教学研究室高二阶段练习）Pang Hui placed a few more pairs of chopsticks on the table for a family dinner, though she did not expect her big family of seven would use them as serving chopsticks.Surprisingly, her 75-year-old father, who used to shrug off the idea of serving chopsticks, became a firm supporter this time, said Pang, 40, from Beihai, a coastal city of South China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.Chinese people often share dishes, and diners use their own chopsticks to serve themselves food from the shared dishes, a tradition now being challenged by the outbreak of COVID-19.“We feel a sense of crisis as well as the urge to desert our old habits when we see reports of family infections,” Pang said, pointing to the reports of the virus spreading via droplets and close contact.Local governments are helping to encourage a shift, too. On Feb.13, 2020, local authorities of Beihai started a campaign promoting serving chopsticks and spoons, which will avoid cross-infection caused by the use of personal chopsticks.Similar measures were also adopted in other cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou. Taizhou city in East China’s Jiangsu Province even standardized the colors of serving chopsticks and spoons to help diners differentiate (区分) them from personal ones.The practice of eating wild animals has been targeted by the government, which remains present in certain areas.China stopped the illegal trading and transportation of wild animals shortly after the outbreak. The move became a permanent ban on Feb.2, 2020, when the country made a decision on thoroughly prohibiting (禁止) the illegal trading of wildlife and the consumption of wild animals.Li Bo, with the Hainan International Center for Wildlife Protection, said wild animal consumption could lead to the faster extinction of particular species, damage the ecological balance and harm people’s health.“The epidemic (流行病) could become a turning point to eliminate the bad habit.” Li said.5．What can we learn about Pang Hui’s family from the text?A．There are usually more than seven people dining together.B．They have started to use serving chopsticks at table.C．Pang Hui’s father opposes using serving chopsticks.D．They don’t know how to avoid being infected by the virus.6．According to the text, what has been done by the government?A．Sharing dishes has been abandoned.B．Cross-infection has been prevented.C．Eating wild animals has been forbidden.D．Standard personal chopsticks have been adopted.7．According to text, which of the following statements is TRUE?A．Shanghai standardized the colors of serving chopsticks and spoons.B．The practice of eating wild animals still exists in some areas.C．China stopped the illegal trading and transportation of wild animals shortly before the outbreak.D．Wild animal consumption isn’t harmful to ecological balance and people’s health.8．What can be the best title for the text?A．Serving Chopsticks PromotedB．Ways to Help People Stay HealthyC．The Outbreak of COVID-19 Leads to ChangeD．China Bans Trading of Wildlife03（2022·河北·高三开学考试）Covid-19 vaccines (疫苗) began saving lives in clinical trials. But a new study, based in part on The Economist’s estimate of the pandemic’s true death toll (伤亡人数), attempts to model just how many lives have been spared since vaccines became widely available to the public.The study—published on June 23rd in Lancet Infectious Diseases—found that in the first year of vaccines that were invented and introduced to the public, jabs (注射疫苗) saved the lives of people between 19.1 million and 20.4 million. Without vaccines, the study estimates, roughly three times as many people would have died from Covid-19 in 2021 alone. And 6.8 million — 7.7millon of the prevented deaths were in countries covered by COVAX ( Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access), an initiative created to ensure vaccines were sent to poorer countries. Still, a lack of vaccines in some parts of the world still led to avoidable deaths. Around 100 countries failed to reach the World Health Organization’s (WHO) goal of vaccinating 40% of their qualified populations by the end of 2021. The researchers estimate that this cost around 600,000 lives.To arrive at these estimates, the researchers, Oliver J. Watson, Gregory Barnsley and their colleagues at Imperial College London, began with an existing transmission model used to track the spread of Covid-19 infections. They then combined this model with The Economist’s estimate of the pandemic’s true death toll to estimate how deadly the pandemic would have been without vaccines.As for the study, every coin has two sides. It relies on assumptions about the share of estimated infections that led to death, for instance. Some small countries, which have limited reliable data, were not included in the analysis. That means the total number of actual avoided deaths will be even higher. On the other hand, the researchers did not attempt to model how people or governments might have changed their behavior to limit infections in the absence of vaccines. For all that, it is the most definitive answer yet to how many people owe their lives to the jabs.9．Why are the vaccines significant according to Paragraph 2?A．They can slow down the pain of the patients.B．They can reduce the number of death toll.C．They can promote the development of drugs.D．They can realize the WHO’s achievement.10．How do the researchers at Imperial College London draw the estimates?A．By developing the transmission model.B．By comparing data between model and study.C．By combining with the previous study.D．By tracking the spread of infections.11．What is Paragraph 4 mainly about?A．The limitations of the study. B．The assumptions of the study.C．The results of the study. D．The advantages of the study.12．What’s the author’s opinion about the current situation of vaccines?A．Uncertain. B．Pessimistic. C．Cautious. D．Confident.04（2022·浙江·高二开学考试）September is upon us, which means one thing for parents and children alike: term time after the lockdown of COVID-19 pandemic(疫情). No Isolation collected responses from 1,005 parents and carers of 1,477 children of primary and secondary school. ____13____Loneliness is difficult to describe and talk about for adults. ____14____ To help children understand that their feelings are normal and acceptable, parents need to open up a dialogue around what loneliness is, explaining that feeling lonely is completely normal and a topic that is safe to talk about.Another way that we can deal with social isolation(孤独) is through the use of technology, especially video calls. Video calls have been common during the pandemic. ____15____ Because it can be hard to know how or when to speak up or interact. As a result, having a talk over a video conference can be very difficult for some children, making the feelings of loneliness more serious.Are you worried about how your child might be struggling, or concerned that a more digital life could be leaving them isolated ____16____ Now, more than ever, we should be listening to children and helping to make sure they are heard in these difficult times. They are facing the same pandemic that we are. ____17____A．They need help and support.B．The first thing to do is talk with them.C．Children especially can struggle with this.D．The school and teachers should be responsible for it.E．Sadly, more than 3/4 of these children felt lonely during the lockdown.F．However, they are not necessarily the answer for those studying from home.G．Actually, they are quite useful and effective for all the children studying from home.05（2021·山东·东营市第一中学高二期中）Will Covid-19 Kill the Handshake?The handshake might date back to the 14th century, when knights and soldiers would extend their unclenched (松开的) right hands toward each other in greeting to show that they were carrying no weapons.____18____ Or rather, its tendency for picking up and holding onto germs from polluted surfaces, or from our own eyes or noses when we have certain illnesses. Those germs can then be transferred into the hands of the people we greet, while we can pick up their germs. We then will probably touch our own eyes or noses or mouths, potentially sickening ourselves and restarting the cycle.Now that a novel coronavirus is spreading fast, our hands are being cast in a new, doubtful light. ____19____. And lately, the Internet has been full of suggestions for socially acceptable ways to greet each other that don’t involve passing germs along unintentionally from one person to the next.Could this be the end of the handshake? In fact, the tradition of shaking hands isn’t the only greeting to take a fresh look. A Maori tribe in New Zealand put the brakes on hongi, the traditional nose-to-nose hello. ____20____. Maybe people will stop making fun of the Hollywood air kiss, though it’s not a huge improvement health-wise.COVID-19 is a real threat, and we shouldn’t take the warning lightly. We may, indeed, need to keep our hands to ourselves for the time being. ____21____. Humans long for making a physical connection with friends. For now, perhaps, a regretful smile and nod might work as a shared acknowledgment.____22____A．Could we hug each other or nod?B．As we all know, shaking hands has become a habit.C．But we’re not ready to send handshake into the dustbin of history.D．After all, our friendly intentions were not to infect or be infected by others.E．These days, it would seem, the potential weapon isn’t a knife, but the hand itself.F．We’re being drilled in hand washing techniques as if we were all second-graders.G．The French have been advised to abandon the familiar kiss on the cheek greeting.  参考答案：1．D    2．A    3．A    4．B【导语】这是一篇记叙文。文章主要讲述疫情期间老人们积极参与Radio Recliner成为音乐DJ，通过分享自己喜欢的音乐来摆脱孤独，以及更多地与朋友和家人联系。1．细节理解题。根据第一段的“But he was not cut off from outside: he shared his love for country music over the Internet.(但他并没有与外界隔绝：他通过互联网分享了他对乡村音乐的热爱)”可知，在疫情期间Bob Coleman通过互联网分享了喜欢的乡村音乐。故选D。2．细节理解题。根据根据第一段的“But he was not cut off from outside: he shared his love for country music over the Internet.(但他并没有与外界隔绝：他通过互联网分享了他对乡村音乐的热爱)”和第二段的“It has since expanded, with residents of assisted-living centers in other states taking part in the project. Many jumped at the chance to work as a DJ to ease the loneliness of social distancing rules.(自那时以来，该项目已经扩大，其他州的辅助生活中心的居民也参与了该项目。许多人抓住了做DJ的机会，以缓解社交距离规则带来的孤独感)”以及倒数第二段的“He says the idea was to provide a sense of community to older people. (他说，这个想法是为了给老年人提供一种社区感)”可知，退休人员为Radio Recliner工作是为了在疫情期间能与世界联系起来。故选A。3．推理判断题。根据第一段的““Hello, everybody. It’s a bright day in Tennessee,” he said into his microphone.(“大家好，今天是田纳西州的晴天，”他对着麦克风说)”推知，这些老人是乐观的；根据最后一段的“In Georgia, 80-year-old Ed Rosenblatt, who had made full preparations for his show, said an hour he spent playing songs on Radio Recliner resulted in a flood of text messages, emails and calls from family and friends, and many of the messages were from people he had not heard from for years.(在佐治亚州，80岁的艾德·罗森布拉特为他的节目做了充分的准备。他说，他花了一个小时在Radio Recliner 上播放歌曲，导致家人和朋友发来大量短信、电子邮件和电话，其中许多信息来自他多年没有联系的人)”推知，老人们全心全意地投入工作。综上，故选A。4．主旨大意题。通读全文可知，文章主要讲述疫情期间老人们积极参与Radio Recliner成为音乐DJ，通过分享自己喜欢的音乐来摆脱孤独，以及更多地与朋友和家人联系。故B项“受疫情困扰，老年人成为DJ”可以作为本文的最佳标题。故选B。5．B    6．C    7．B    8．C【导语】本文是一篇说明文。主要讲述了新冠肺炎疫情让大家意识到共享菜肴可导致病毒传播。另外，各地政府主张使用公筷，并且禁止食用、买卖或运输野生动物。5．细节理解题。根据第一段中“Pang Hui placed a few more pairs of chopsticks on the table for a family dinner.(彭辉又在餐桌上放了几双筷子，准备家庭聚餐。)”以及第二段中“Surprisingly, her 75-year-old father, who used to shrug off the idea of serving chopsticks, became a firm supporter this time.(令人惊讶的是，她75岁的父亲过去对提供筷子的想法不屑一顾，这次却成了她的坚定支持者。)”可知，他们一家人已经开始使用公筷。故选B。6．细节理解题。根据倒数第三段中“China stopped the illegal trading and transportation of wild animals shortly after the outbreak.(疫情爆发后不久，中国就停止了野生动物的非法交易和运输。)”以及“The move became a permanent ban on Feb.2, 2020, when the country made a decision on thoroughly prohibiting (禁止) the illegal trading of wildlife and the consumption of wild animals.(2020年2月2日，国家决定全面禁止野生动物非法交易和消费，这一举措成为永久性禁令。)”可知，政府已经禁止交易和消费食用野生动物。故选C。7．细节理解题。根据倒数第四段中“The practice of eating wild animals has been targeted by the government, which remains present in certain areas.(禁止吃野生动物的做法一直是政府的目标，在某些地区仍然存在。)”可知，在一些地区，吃野生动物的习俗仍然存在。故选B。8．主旨大意题。通读全文，文章主要讲述了新冠肺炎疫情让大家意识到共享菜肴可导致病毒传播。另外，各地政府主张使用公筷，并且禁止食用、买卖或运输野生动物。即新冠病毒爆发后来带的变化。C选项“The Outbreak of COVID-19 Leads to Change(新冠肺炎疫情带来变革)”符合文章的标题。故选C。9．B    10．B    11．A    12．D【导语】本文是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了通过研究人员利用模型和真实数据的对比，揭示了疫苗对世界疫情爆发的重要意义。9．细节理解题。根据第二段“jabs saved the lives of people between 19.1 million and 20.4 million. Without vaccines, the study estimates, roughly three times as many people would have died from Covid-I9 in 2021 alone”(接种疫苗挽救了1910万至2040万人的生命。该研究估计，如果没有疫苗，仅在2021年就会有大约三倍的人死于新冠肺炎)可知，注射疫苗挽救了1910万到2040万人的生命，并且如果没有疫苗，仅在2021年，死于Covid-19的人数就大约是前者的三倍。因此，疫苗的重要意义在于它可以减少伤亡人数。故选B。10．细节理解题。根据第三段“They then combined this model with The Economist’s estimate of the pandemic’s true death toll to estimate how deadly the pandemic would have been without vaccines”(然后，他们将这个模型与《经济学人》对大流行的真实死亡人数的估计结合起来，来估计如果没有疫苗大流行的致命程度)可知，在伦敦帝国学院的研究人员将传播模型与《经济学人》对疫情真实死亡人数的估计相结合，来估计如果没有疫苗，疫情的死亡人数。因此，研究人员通过比较模型和研究的数据得出估计值。故选B。11．主旨大意题。根据第四段“As for the study, every coin has two sides. It relies on assumptions about the share of estimated infections that led to death, for instance. Some small countries, which have limited reliable data, were not included in the analysis. That means the total number of actual avoided deaths will be even higher. On the other hand, the researchers did not attempt to model how people or governments might have changed their behavior to limit infections in the absence of vaccines. For all that, it is the most definitive answer yet to how many people owe their lives to the jabs.”(至于这个研究，每个硬币都有两面。例如，它依赖于对导致死亡的估计感染比例的假设。一些可靠数据有限的小国没有被纳入分析。这意味着实际避免的死亡总数将更高。另一方面，研究人员并没有试图模拟在缺乏疫苗的情况下人们或政府如何改变行为以限制感染。尽管如此，这仍然是迄今为止最明确的答案，说明有多少人是因为这些针刺才活下来的。)可知，这一段主要交代了这项研究依赖于对导致死亡的估计感染份额的假设。有些小国可靠数据有限，不包括在分析之内。这意味着研究人员估计实际避免的死亡总人数将会更高。由此可推知，本段主要是关于这个实验的局限性。故选A。12．推理判断题。根据第四段“the researchers did not attempt to model how people or governments might have changed their behavior to limit infections in the absence of vaccines”(研究人员并没有试图模拟在缺乏疫苗的情况下人们或政府如何改变行为以限制感染)和“it is the most definitive answer yet to how many people owe their lives to the jabs”(这是迄今为止最明确的答案，有多少人是因为这些疫苗才活下来的)可知，作者对疫苗的现状是十分有信心的。故选D。13．E    14．C    15．F    16．B    17．A【导语】这是一篇说明文。文章讲述了一项关于新冠疫情下针对居家隔离所作的一项调查收集的结果。13．根据前文“No Isolation collected responses from 1,005 parents and carers of 1,477 children of primary and secondary school. ”(无隔离项目收集了来自1,005名家长和1,477名中小学儿童照顾者的答复)可知，接下来可以描述这个答复的结果。E项“不幸的是，超过四分之三的孩子在封锁期间感到孤独”承接前文，符合题意。故选E。14．根据前文“Loneliness is difficult to describe and talk about for adults. ”(对于成年人来说，孤独是很难描述和谈论的)以及后文“To help children understand that their feelings are normal and acceptable, parents need to open up a dialogue around what loneliness is, explaining that feeling lonely is completely normal and a topic that is safe to talk about.”(为了帮助孩子理解他们的感受是正常的和可以接受的，父母需要围绕什么是孤独展开对话，解释感到孤独是完全正常的，是一个可以安全谈论的话题)可知，空白处应为承上启下的作用，引出下文的孩子们对此的感觉。选项C“孩子们尤其会为此而挣扎”符合题意。故选C。15．根据前文“Another way that we can deal with social isolation(孤独) is through the use of technology, especially video calls. Video calls have been common during the pandemic. ”(另一种处理社会隔离的方法是使用科技，尤其是视频通话。视频通话在大流行期间很常见)讲述了视频通话在流行病的隔离期间的广泛使用。下文“Because it can be hard to know how or when to speak up or interact.”(因为很难知道该如何或何时说出来或与人交流)提到了视频通话的缺陷。因此空处和前文应为转折关系，讲述视频通话还有其劣势。选项F“然而，对于那些在家学习的人来说，这并不一定是正确的答案”符合题意，故选F。16．根据前文“Are you worried about how your child might be struggling, or concerned that a more digital life could be leaving them isolated ”(你是担心你的孩子可能如何在（痛苦中）挣扎，还是担心一个更加数字化的生活可能会让他们孤立无援？)提出我们担心的问题。下文“Now, more than ever, we should be listening to children and helping to make sure they are heard in these difficult times. ”(现在，我们比以往任何时候都更应该倾听孩子们的心声，并帮助确保他们在这些困难时期得到倾听)提到了我们倾听孩子的重要，因而空处应讲述我们要和孩子们谈。选项B“首先要做的就是和他们谈谈”符合题意，故选B。17．根据前文“They are facing the same pandemic that we are. ”(他们面临着和我们一样的流行病)可知，接下来的内容应承接上文讲述这种情况下要对他们进行帮助。选项A“他们需要帮助和支持”符合题意，故选A。18．E    19．F    20．G    21．C    22．D【导语】这是一篇议论文。作者认为在新型冠状病毒疫情下，握手等问候方式或许会被取消，因为肢体接触会传染病毒。18．根据后文“Those germs can then be transferred into the hands of the people we greet, while we can pick up their germs. We then will probably touch our own eyes or noses or mouths, potentially sickening ourselves and restarting the cycle.(这些细菌随后会传到我们问候的人的手中，而我们也会沾染他们的细菌。然后我们可能会摸自己的眼睛、鼻子或嘴巴，有可能让自己生病，重新开始这个循环)”可知，此处是指手就是威胁我们健康的武器，故E选项“现在看来，潜在的武器似乎不是刀，而是手本身”符合语境，故选E。19．根据上文“Now that a novel coronavirus is spreading fast, our hands are being cast in a new, doubtful light.(现在一种新型冠状病毒正在迅速传播，我们的双手正被投上新的、怀疑的目光)”以及后文“And lately, the Internet has been full of suggestions for socially acceptable ways to greet each other that don’t involve passing germs along unintentionally from one person to the next.(最近，互联网上充斥着各种各样的建议，这些建议都是社会上可以接受的相互问候方式，而且不会在不经意间把细菌从一个人传到另一个人)”可知，此处是指人们怀疑新型冠状病毒会通过手传播，所以要洗手，且因为新型冠状病毒会通过手传播，所以人们提出了一些防护措施，故F选项“我们被灌输洗手技巧，就像我们都是二年级学生一样”符合语境，故选F。20．根据上文“A Maori tribe in New Zealand put the brakes on hongi, the traditional nose-to-nose hello.(新西兰的一个毛利部落停止了传统的鼻子对鼻子打招呼)”以及后文“Maybe people will stop making fun of the Hollywood air kiss, though it’s not a huge improvement health-wise.(也许人们会停止取笑好莱坞的空中接吻，尽管这并不是一个巨大的改善健康的明智之举)”可知，此处是举例很多问候方式的结束，故G选项“法国人被建议放弃熟悉的脸颊亲吻问候方式”符合语境，故选G。21．根据上文“COVID-19 is a real threat, and we shouldn’t take the warning lightly. We may, indeed, need to keep our hands to ourselves for the time being.(COVID-19是一个切实的威胁，我们不应掉以轻心。事实上，我们可能暂时需要保持我们自己的手)”以及后文“Humans long for making a physical connection with friends. For now, perhaps, a regretful smile and nod might work as a shared acknowledgment.(人类渴望与朋友建立身体上的联系。现在，也许，一个遗憾的微笑和点头可以作为一个共同的承认)”可知，本句与上文构成转折，指出握手的礼仪还不应该被抛弃，故C选项“但我们还没准备好把握手扔进历史的垃圾桶”符合语境，故选C。22．根据上文“Humans long for making a physical connection with friends. For now, perhaps, a regretful smile and nod might work as a shared acknowledgment.(人类渴望与朋友建立身体上的联系。现在，也许，一个遗憾的微笑和点头可以作为一个共同的承认)”可知，此处是指虽然人们希望通过身体接触表达友好，但是现在为了不感染别人或不被感染，应该避免身体接触。故D选项“毕竟，我们友好的意图不是要感染别人或被别人感染”符合语境，故选D。