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(2017·第三次全国大联考)
Ask any American what he/she is doing on Sunday，February 7 and the answer is likely to be either hosting or attending a Super Bowl Party.Played for the title of the National Football League Champion，Super Bowl is the most watched annual television program in the United States.
That’s because Super Bowl which is celebrating its Golden Anniversary this year，is more than just a 60-minute football game—it is a well-designed production that features half-time performances，fireworks shows and television ads that people discuss for days.
But most important of all，it is the day to set aside all diets and enjoy foods one would normally avoid or at least not consume at the same time.It should，therefore，come as no surprise that Super Bowl Sunday is one of the biggest food consumption days in the US—second only to Thanksgiving.
The noshing will start early in the day，long before matches begin and continue long after the 2016 NFL Champions have retired to celebrate.
As a result，it is estimated that on Sunday，the nation will consume 1.2 million pounds of potato chips，8.2 million pounds of tortilla chips,3.8 million pounds of popcorn and 3 million pounds of nuts.
When the real hunger pains start to hit，they will seek out comfort foods.Not surprisingly，pizza tops the list.Chicken wings are also very popular.It is estimated that almost 1.3 billion wings will be consumed on Super Bowl Sunday.Other favorites include bacon，hot dogs and burgers.
But the food consumption is not without consequences.Data released indicates that antacid(解酸药)sales increase by 20% on the Monday following the big game.Additionally，over seven million Americans call in sick.It is no wonder that fans have been urging the government to declare Super Bowl Monday a holiday. 语篇解读 一年一度的美国超级橄榄球杯大赛不仅是全美收视率最高的电视节目，而且超级碗星期天也是美国单日食品消费量最高的节日之一，食品消费量仅次于感恩节。 1．Why does Super Bowl become the most popular television program? A．It is the longest football game. B．It is hosted by famous film stars. C．It contains the most wonderful ads. D．It involves various performances. 答案 D
解析 细节理解题。由第二段中的“it is a well-designed production that features half-time performances，fireworks shows and television ads that people discuss for days”可知选D。
2．Which can replace the underlined word “noshing” in Paragraph 4? A．Playing. C．Competing. 答案 B
解析 词义猜测题。前后段均介绍在超级橄榄球杯大赛期间食品的消费情况，由此判断选B。 3．Which comfort food is consumed the most? A．Hot dogs. C．Nuts. 答案 B
解析 细节理解题。根据第六段前两句“When the real hunger pains start to hit，they will seek out comfort foods.Not surprisingly，pizza tops the list.”可知选B。 4．What bad result might Super Bowl Sunday lead to? A．Lots of food is wasted. B．Public disorder is caused.
B．Pizza. D．Chicken wings. B．Eating. D．Resting.
C．Some people have an upset stomach. D．Many people lose their work. 答案 C
解析 推理判断题。根据末段中“Data released indicates that antacid(解酸药)sales increase by 20% on the Monday following the big game.Additionally，over seven million Americans call in sick.”可知人们会因为毫无顾忌地大吃大喝而生病。故选C。
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(2017·福建师大附中期中)
The wallet is heading for extinction.As a day-to-day essential，it will die off with the generation who read print newspapers.The kind of shopping，where you hand over notes and count out change in return，now happens only in the most minor of our retailers(零售商)，like buying a bar of chocolate or a pint of milk from a corner shop.At the shops where you spend any real money，that money is increasingly abstracted.And this is more and more true，the higher up the scale you go.At the most cutting-edge(前沿的) retail stores，Victoria Beckham on Dover Street，for instance，you don’t go and stand at any kind of cash register when you decide to pay.The staff are equipped with iPads to take your payment while you relax on a sofa.
Across society，the abstraction of the idea of cash makes me uneasy.Maybe I’m just old-fashioned.But earning money isn’t quick or easy for most of us.Isn’t it a bit weird(怪异) that spending it should happen in half a blink(眨眼) of an eye？Doesn’t a wallet—that time-honored Friday-night feeling of pleasing，promising fatness—represent something that matters?
But I’ll leave the economics to the experts.What bothers me about the death of the wallet is the change it represents in our physical environment.Everything about the look and feel of a wallet，the way the materials wear and tear and loosen with age，the plastic and paper and gold and silver，and handwritten phone numbers and printed cinema tickets，is the very opposite of what our world is becoming.The opposite of a wallet is a smart phone or an iPad.The rounded edges，cool glass，smooth and unknowable as a pebble(鹅卵石)．Instead of digging through pieces of paper，we move our fingers left and right.No more counting out coins.Show your wallet，if you still have one.It may not be here much longer.
语篇解读 文章叙述了现代社会，人们的支付方式逐步电子化，传统的钱包正走向消失。作者对于这种现象所代表的社会发展趋势感到不安。
(全国用)2024年高考英语二轮复习与增分策略专题一阅读理解第三节题组练习6社会文化
