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课标话题 词 数 人与自然·人与环境 383 体裁 难度 记叙文 People at an east London workshop are paying to learn how to make their own bicycle. Nothing unusual about that? But at this Bamboo Bicycle Club session, the bikes are being made with bamboo.
In all the excitement to claim bicycles the answer to crowded roads, polluted city air and our own health, the materials used to manufacture those bikes often get overlooked. Carbon fiber, for example, is increasingly popular for new bicycles, particularly racing bikes. The material, though lightweight and strong, is difficult to recycle and cannot be melted down and reused in its original form, unlike aluminum and steel. Carbon fiber is also dangerous and dirty to work with, so it's an unlikely material for encouraging people to build and repair their own bicycles. It's also incredibly wasteful. Most people replace a racing bike every three years, adding to carbon fiber waste.
Motivated to cut the waste and make bikebuilding more popular, Marr has set up a club to teach people how to make their own bikes out of bamboo. Far from just panda food, bamboo is a strong and popular building material in Asia, and it's well suited to being shaped into a bicycle frame. It can grow from seed to harvest in less than four years. Still, its sustainability relies on production standards, for example, avoiding the use of chemical fertilizers or pesticides, and ensuring natural forest is not cleared for plantations.
The club's workshop in London makes around 500 bicycles a year, with a twoday session building your own bamboo bicycle costing around ￡600. The club has opened franchises(特许经营权) in Germany and Italy, with more in Canada and South Africa opening soon. As well as teaching people to build bikes, the club was invited by two NGOs working in Kenya last year to help teach students in Malaa near Nairobi how to repair, maintain and build bicycles. The final ambition is to help reconnect people with bikes and the materials used to build them.
In a recent interview, Marr talked about the trendy bikesharing. “While bikesharing
companies have promised lots in terms of more sustainable transport, they haven't yet changed wasteful consumer attitudes，” Marr commented, adding that he was shocked by photos of thousands of unwanted bicycles abandoned in cities across China.
语篇导读 本文主要介绍的是一个自行车俱乐部为了环保教人们用竹子做自行车。 1．What makes the bicycles of Bamboo Bicycle Club special? A．The payment. C．The workshop.
B．The material. D．The function.
解析 B 细节理解题。根据第一段最后一句可知，这个俱乐部的特殊性在于这里的自行车是用竹子制作的，即原材料不同，故选B项。
2．What do we know about carbon fiber from the second paragraph? A．It's not environmentally friendly. B．It's unrecyclable. C．It's flexible. D．It's less popular.
解析 A 细节理解题。根据第二段可知，碳纤维难以回收，并且不能融化后再利用，而且有危险性，不干净，由此可知，它不环保，故选A项。
3．What is the final aim of Marr's club? A．To double their profits. B．To open more shops abroad. C．To teach how to make bikes.
D．To reduce the waste and raise people's awareness of bikebuilding.
解析 D 细节理解题。根据第三段第一句可知，俱乐部的最终目的是为了减少浪费并且让自行车制造越来越普及，故选D项。motivate成为……的动机；激发。
4．What is Marr's attitude to bikesharing? A．Positive. C．Doubtful.
B．Critical. D．Objective.
解析 B 观点态度题。根据最后一段可知，Marr认为共享单车公司并没有改变浪费的
消费观念，四处是被遗弃的单车，由此可推知他对共享单车持批判态度，故选B项。
B
课标话题 词 数 人与自然·自然环境保护 292 体裁 难度 记叙文 (2024·惠州调考)Along with the standard pigments(颜料) and paintbrushes, artist Sean Yoro(known as Hula), requires an unconventional piece of equipment for his particular brand of mural(壁画) making: a paddleboard.
The Hawaiian muralist, balanced on the top of the floating platform, describes women from various sites across the world，whose homelands are often threatened by the effects of global warming.
For his most recent project, titled “What If You Fly”， Hula traveled to Baffin Island, off the coast of Nunavut, Canada, to paint a portrait of local Inuit woman Jesse Mike，who lives there with her daughter.
In a short film telling of the artist's process，Mike explains her frustrating previous experiences working with filmmakers who reported on the terrible circumstances troubling her endangered landscape.“For most people, it's about the polar bears, it's not about the people，” she said.“Well, let's make it about the people.”
Hula and his team spent 14 hours searching for the perfect iceberg canvas(油画布), knowing all the while that the ice itself, and any image created on the top of it, would soon melt away into nothing.
“It's a little ambitious to do this largerthanlife ice mural in the Arctic, and somehow, at the same time, make a connection to the human culture，” climber and filmmaker Renan Ozturk said of the project.
When Hula found his proper ice, he painted a portrait of Jesse he took earlier on his camera. Working against the power of time and Mother Nature, the artist aimed to finish as much of Jesse's portrait as he could before the iceberg disappeared.
The massive image, Hula's most remote and technically challenging piece yet，communicates a memorable reality—the consequences of climate change, first and foremost，affect people.
语篇导读 本文主要讲述了壁画大师Hula通过在冰上作画来提醒人们气候变化的后果正在影响人类这一事件。
5．What is “What If You Fly”？
A．A film about the muralist. B．A woman called Jesse Mike.
C．A painting based on a local Inuit. D．A project conducted by Hula.
解析 D 细节理解题。 根据第三段可知，“What If You Fly”是Hula最近进行的一个项目，故选D项。
6．Why did Jesse Mike complain about some filmmakers? A．They didn't focus on human beings. B．They only reported on terrible circumstances. C．They just reported on frustrating experiences.
D．They showed no sympathy to the endangered landscape.
解析 A 细节理解题。根据第四段第二句可知，Jesse抱怨那些电影制作人只关注气候变化对当地动物的影响，而不关注对人类的影响，故选A项。
7．Why did Hula paint image on the Arctic ice? A．He wanted to show his unconventional painting. B．He was ambitious enough to explore Mother Nature. C．He made an attempt to paint on varieties of materials. D．He warned people of the consequences of global warming.
解析 D 推理判断题。根据全文尤其是最后一段可知，Hula在北极冰川上作画是为了警告人们全球变暖的后果，故选D项。
8．What can be the best title for the text?
A．A Muralist and an Inuit B．Mother Nature, Massive Images
C．Arctic Ice Painting, Memorable Reality D．Standard Tools, Unconventional Paintings
解析 C 标题归纳题。本文讲述了艺术家Hula以北极冰川为画布作画，以此提醒人们关注气候变暖对人类的影响，C项概括最准确，故选C项。
Ⅱ 七选五 课标话题 词 数 人与自我·生活与学习 252 体裁 难度 说明文 CUCAS, known as China's University and College Admission System, is an official online portal for international students applying for China's universities.
__1__ By using its service, including university application, accommodation booking, airport pickup and money transfer, you will be able to easily apply for top universities in China and find the most suitable programs.
At present, nearly 200 Chinese public universities and 10 language schools are making use of CUCAS's online admission system. __2__ We suggest that you consider the following aspects：
★ __3__
Do you have a favorite Chinese city or university? If there is, why not apply for it now? If you're not very familiar with China's cities, take a look at our City Guide.
★ Budget
In comparison to Beijing, Shanghai, and large coastal cities, the cost of living in China's inland regions is relatively low. For example, Chengdu, Xi'an，Chongqing, Changsha, Wuhan, Zhengzhou, and other cities are all welldeveloped with beautiful scenery and many excellent universities. If you don't have a large budget, you may wish to consider these cities.
★ Rank
__4__ Or you can also refer to the list of “211 Key Universities”. They are regarded as China's top universities.
★ Fellow citizens
Applicants may choose to apply for a university where you have more fellow citizens. This may help you settle in more quickly to a new environment. __5__ This may reduce the opportunities for you to speak your own language and in turn improve your Chinese fluency.
A．Your Preference B．Your Familiarity
C．Or you can do the opposite.
D．How do you choose your ideal university?
E．What can you do to figure out the suitable programs?
F．You can check the annual ranking of all the universities in China.
G．It is always intended to provide top service for Chinese universities applicants.
语篇导读 本文主要向国际学生介绍了申请中国大学的在线服务平台CUCAS，以及如何挑选大学。
1．解析 G 总分关系。根据空后一句可知，空处应该总述该机构的主要职责。G项中的It指代上文的CUCAS，故选G项。
2．解析 D 总分关系。根据下文所提到的各种择校时应考虑的因素可知，D项(如何选择自己理想的大学)最符合语境，故选D项。
2024-2024学年新人教版高中英语新作业：必修二 课堂小测29
