2020中考英语时事阅读第13期

2021年1月26日发(作者：沙包)
英语时事阅读第
13
期

目录

Passage 1
阅读理解

Passage 2
选词填空

Passage 3
表格填空

Passage 4
阅读表达

Passage 5
阅读理解

Passage 6
完型填空

内容

科学家如何在家操控火星探测器？

95
后中国青年联合国发言分享战“疫”故事

隔离那么久，你的时间感还在吗？

“天问一号”离火星还有多远

AI
取代人类？或许合作才是王道

学会倾听

Passage 1
：
Science never stops
After working from home for the last few months, most people have adapted to
their
new
work
situation.
But
what
if
your
job
was
to
control
a
multi-billion-dollar
space rover (
探测车
) located on a planet nearly 200 million km away from Earth?
A team of NASA scientists is doing just that. In order to follow social distancing
rules, these scientists have had to work from home. But they’ve still found ways to
work together and take care of the complex (
复杂的
) tasks that are needed to keep the
Curiosity rover working on Mars.
Their work-from-home setups (
装配
), as seen in photos provided to CNBC and
Science
Alert,
look
much
like
typical
home
office
setups.
They
use
ordinary
computers.
But
instead
of
working
on
spreadsheets
(
电子制表
),
these
scientists
are
programming complex sequences (
序列
) of instructions that are then sent to the rover.
These
instructions
allowed
the
rover
to
find
a
rock
sample
(
样本
)
in
a
location
on
Mars called “Edinburgh”, according to Earth
Sky.
Usually, the team’s 20 scientists work together by communicating through apps
or video meetings. One scientist might have to follow 15 message channels (
通道
) at
once.
NASA
gave
the
scientists
headsets
(
耳机
),
monitors
(
监视器
)
and
other
equipment to allow them to do their jobs from home. However, the 3D goggles (
眼镜
)
they usually use to analyze pictures from Mars could not be sent out. So they have to
rely on simple red-and-blue glass lenses (
镜片
) instead.
But
setbacks
like
these
have
not
been
a
problem
for
the
scientists.
In
fact,
adapting
to
changing
situations
and
improvising
(
临时做
)
is
“classic
,
textbook
NASA,” according to the head of science operations Carrie Bridge. “We’re presented
with a problem and we figure out how to make things work. Mars isn’t standing still
for us; we’re still exploring,” she said.

1
：
During the outbreak, NASA scientists _____.
A. use different computers to work
B. work on spreadsheets
C. don’t need to follow social distancing rules

D. are operating Curiosity from home
2
：
Working at home is inconvenient for NASA scientists because _____.
A. they have to use special red-and-blue lenses
B. they cannot communicate person to person
C. they don’t have the equipment to do their jobs

D. they cannot work together at the same time
3:How do we understand “classic, textbook NASA” in the last paragraph?

A. NASA wrote a textbook on how to deal with problems.
B. NASA always finds ways to deal with new situations.
C. Setbacks are common for NASA.
D. Setbacks have never been a problem for NASA.
4:What is the story mainly about?
A. NASA’s project on Mars.

B. The problems NASA faces.
C. How NASA analyzes pictures from Mars.
D. How NASA scientists work at home.
参考答案：
DABD
Passage 2
：
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后中国青年联合国发言分享战“疫”故事



Provide








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experience






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between

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means









key









1



the evening of April 15, the Office of the Secretary-General's Envoy on
Youth, the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund jointly
held a seminar on joint response to COVID-19.

Wang Xiukun, a


2

student from Wuhan University of central China's Hubei
province,
the
former
epicenter
of
the
novel
coronavirus
(COVID-19),
introduced
China's
anti-epidemic


3



and
achievements
to
young
people
from
all
over
the
world,
sharing
her
own
stories
of
being
a



4


during
a
recent
United
Nations
(UN) seminar.
the
epidemic,
Wang,
together
with
other
students
from
the
Youth
V
olunteer
Association
of
Wuhan
University,

5



up
with
the
families
of
more
than
600
front-line
medical
staff
in
Wuhan
to

6

online
tutoring
and
psychological
counseling for young people aged 5- 18.
Wang’s life was enriched after she


7


herself to volunteer work.
busy
to
feel
anxious.
Wang
summarized
China's
experience
during
the
epidemic
prevention and control and shared keywords with other young people at the seminar:
first,

which

8

that
the
predicament
is
temporary,
as
long
as
we
firmly believe that the epidemic will pass,
we can remain calm and strong;
second,

which
means
that
no
one
is
an
isolated
island,
and
the

9


to
overcoming
the
epidemic
lies
in
unity
among
people
and
cooperation



10

countries.
参考答案：
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between
Passage 3
：
Refresh your body clock
What’s
the
date
today?
What
d
ay
of
the
week
is
it?
These
were
previously
considered simple questions, but they may now have you scratching (
挠
) your head
during this time of quarantine. Psychologists explain why we seem to lose track of (
忘
记
) time during self-isolation amid the COVID-19 outbreak.
According
to
Steve
Joordens,
a
psychology
professor
at
the
University
of
Toronto, Canada, people get a sense of time by following certain routines. In terms of
days, for example, you get up at 6 am, start class at 8 am and at 5 pm you go home. In
terms
of
weeks,
on
Monday
nights
you
have
a
study
group,
on
Tuesdays
you
have
dinner with friends and Fridays are movie nights with your parents.
These routines are like an “anchor (
锚
)”, as Joordens put it. “They tell us where
we are within a given day
–

you know if it’s lunchtime, but also within the given week
–

you know if it’s Thursday or Friday, since they feel very different than a Monday or
Tuesday does,” he told CTV News.

Now that these routines are gone, every day starts to “feel” the same.

Isolation also disrupts (
打乱
) people’s circadian rhythm (
生理节律
)
–

the body’s
internal biological clock. According to HuffPost, people spend more time staring at a
screen during quarantine
–
working on a laptop, watching TV or playing video games.
The
blue
light
e
mitted
by
these
electronic
devices
can
upset
people’s
sleep
cycles,
making them feel out of sync (
错位的
). “And with much of our time spent indoors,
we are limiting our exposure (
暴露
) to natural light, which is an important external
factor in resetting our cir
cadian rhythm,” Zainab Delawalla, a clinical psychologist in
Atlanta, US, told HuffPost.
Emotions can also affect how people perceive (
感知
) time, according to Rehman
Abdulrehman, director of Clinic Psychology Manitoba in Canada. Just like how time
seems
to
pass
quickly
when
we
are
happy,
negative
emotions
–

like
distress
–

can
have the opposite effect.
“It sounds beautiful to not have to go to work, not [have to] interact with people,
have nothing that you have to do. But in fact, it’s not good for us mentally,” explained
Joordens. “It really leaves us feeling very adrift (
茫然的
).”

Maybe we have taken our old routines for granted, and only during this chaotic
time have we come to appreciate these anchors that keep us from being set adrift.



参考答案：
1.
time


2.
routines

3.
anchor


4.
gone


5.
screen




6. upset

7. biological


8. exposure


9. Negative




10. quickly