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(2024·日照检测)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 larger-than-life 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.
【语篇解读】 本文主要叙述了壁画大师Hula去往Baffin Island，通过在冰上画一位因纽特女性的肖像来提醒人们气候变化的后果正在影响人类这一现实。 1．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.
D [ 细节理解题。根据文章第三段中的“For his most recent project，titled‘What If You Fly’，Hula traveled to Baffin Island”可知，“What If You Fly”是Hula最近进行的一个项目。故选D项。] 2．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.
A [ 推理判断题。根据第四段中的“For most people，it's about the polar bears，it's not about the people”可以看出，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，而不关注当地人。] 3．Why did Hula paint images 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.
D [推理判断题。根据全文尤其是最后一段中的“the consequences of climate change，first and foremost，affect people”可知，Hula把画画到北极冰川上是为了警告人们全球变暖的后果。] 4．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
C [标题判断题。通读全文可知，本文讲述了艺术家Hula以北极冰川为画布作画的事情，他以这种独特的方式提醒人们关注气候变暖对人类的影响，故选C项。]
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(2024·甘肃省重点中学联考)Every human being，no matter what he is doing，gives off body heat.The usual problem is how to get rid of it.But the designers of the Johnstown campus(校园) of the University of Pittsburgh(commonly referred to as Pitt) set themselves the opposite problem—how to collect body heat.They have designed a collection system which uses not only body heat，but the heat given off by such objects as light bulbs and refrigerators as well.The system works so well that no fuel is needed to make the campus's six buildings comfortable.
Some parts of most modern buildings—theaters and offices as well as classrooms，are more sufficiently heated by people and lights and sometimes must be air-conditioned even in winter.The technique of saving heat and redistributing(重新分配) it is called“heat recovery”．A few modern buildings recover heat，but the campus's system is the first to recover heat from buildings and reuse it in others.
Along the way，Pitt has learned a great deal about some of its producers.The harder a student studies，the more heat his body gives off.Male students send out more heat than female students，and the larger a student is，the more heat he produces.We may conclude that the hottest prospect for the Johnstown campus would be a hard-working overweight male genius.
【语篇解读】 本文是一篇说明文，主要介绍了Pittsburgh大学的“热回收”技术。 5．The heat in the heating system of the Johnstown campus is supplied ．
A．by human bodies
B．by both human bodies and other heat-giving objects C．by both human bodies and commonly-used fuel
D．by human bodies，commonly-used fuel and other heat-giving objects
B [ 细节理解题。根据第一段中的“They have designed a collection system which uses not only body heat，but the heat given off by such objects as light bulbs and refrigerators as well”可知，这种收集系统不仅使用人体的热量，还使用像灯泡和冰箱这种物体散发出的热量。故选B。] 6．According to the passage，the technique of“heat recovery” is used ．
A．to find the producers of heat
B．to provide heat for the hot water system C．to make the campus more beautiful D．to collect heat and reuse it
D [ 细节理解题。根据第二段中的“system is the first to recover heat from buildings and reuse it”可知，“热回收”技术是收集热量，然后再次使用热量。故选D。]
7．The underlined phrase“the hottest prospect”in Paragraph 3 refers to ．
A．the person who suffers most from heat B．the person who needs more heat than others C．the person who gives off most heat D．the person who makes better use of heat
C [ 词义猜测题。根据第三段内容可知，越努力学习的学生散发的热量越多，男学生比女学生散发的热量多，越高大的学生散发的热量越多，所以可得出结论，这个校园里散发最多热量的人将是
2024版新一线高考英语译林版一轮复习课时提能练20Livingwithtechnology含解析
