2020年高考英语外刊时事做阅读理解：

The Plastic Hunter

塑料猎寻者

Boyan Slat is 26. If you saw him walking down the street in Delft, Netherlands — a skinny

guy with a long mop of dark hair, jeans, his shirt hanging loose — you might think he was just

a student at a local technical university. And so he was, seven years ago, right before he dropped

out of college.

Slat’s life began to change after a holiday trip to Greece with his family when he was 16.

Before taking a diving course, he had expected to see beautiful sea animals. However, what he

actually saw in the ocean was an awful lot of plastic waste. From that moment on, Slat dived

into a project to find a solution to this alarming problem. Struck by the idea for a floating barrier

that could collect plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, he founded his company, The

Ocean Cleanup, at the age of 18. Although the idea was named one of the best inventions of

2020年高考英语真题和模拟题分类汇编

专题07 阅读理解说明、议论文

一、2020年高考真题

说明文

1. 【2020·全国卷I，C】

Race walking shares many fitness benefits with running, research shows, while most likely contributing to fewer

injuries. It does, however, have its own problem.

Race walkers are conditioned athletes. The longest track and field event at the Summer Olympics is the

50-kilometer race walk, which is about five miles longer than the marathon. But the sport’s rules require that a race

walker’s knees stay straight through most of the leg swing and one foot remain in contact (接触) with the ground at all

times. It’s this strange form that makes race walking such an attractive activity, however, says Jaclyn Norberg, an

assistant professor of exercise science at Salem State University in Salem, Mass.

Like running, race walking is physically demanding, she says, According to most calculations, race walkers

一、外刊阅读：阅读七选五

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Exercise and immunity

Battling another cough or cold? 1

You may feel better if you take a daily

walk or follow a simple exercise routine a few times a week.

Information

Exercise helps decrease your chances of developing heart disease. 2 We do not

know exactly if or how exercise increases your immunity to certain illnesses.

Exercise slows down the release of stress hormones. 3 Lower stress hormones

may protect against illness.

Exercise is good for

you. 4

People who already exercise should not

exercise

more just to

increase their immunity. Heavy, long-term exercise (such as marathon

running and intense gym training) could actually cause harm.

Studies have shown that people who follow a(n) moderately energetic lifestyle,

benefit most from starting (and sticking to) an exercise program. A moderate program

Chinabuildsnewhospitalin10daystocombat

coronavirus中国速度，火神山医院和雷神山医院建成记

TheChinesephilosopher(哲学家)Confuciusoncesaid,“Timeflowsawaylike

thewaterintheriver.”Thisisespeciallytrueasthenovelcoronaviruspneumonia

outbreakhasaffectedmillionsofpeopleinChina,andthewholenationhasbeen

workingdayandnighttofighttheepidemic.

InlateJanuarywhenanincreasingnumberofpeopleinWuhanweresuspected

tobeinfected,andhospitalsdidn’thaveadequatebedsforthem,twospecialhospitals

–LeishenshanHospitalandHuoshenshanHospital–werebuilt.

Thesetwomakeshift(临时的)hospitalswerebuilttotreatpneumoniapatients

infectedwiththenovelcoronavirus.HuoshenshanHospitalhas1,000bedsandcovers

33,900squaremeters,andLeishenshanHospitalhas1,500bedsandatotalareaof

about79,000squaremeters.

Morethan4,000workersworked24/7intwoshifts,andnearly1,000large-scalepiecesofequipmentandtransportvehicleshelpedtheprojecton-site.Thetwo