【正文】 prefer an environmentfriendly life.B.Young people want to bee ethical celebrities.C.Meal manufacturing contributes a lot to the world39。s greenhouse gas.D.Social media allow the vegan message to spread quickly around.（3）The underlined word “sticking” in the Iasi paragraph is equal to in meaning. A.importantB.specialC.lastingD.impressive（4）Which of the following will serve as the best title of the passage? A.Young Brits Going VeganB.Veganism Comes FirstC.How to Start a Vegan LifestyleD.Veganism and the Environment【答案】（1）D（2）B（3）C（4）A 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，研究表明，過去的十年里素食主義在英國增長迅猛。這一增長的主要力量是那些年齡在1534歲之間的年輕人。其原因可能是由于肉類加工排放的熱量大過世界上所有的汽車，火車和飛機的總和，他們認為殺死動物用作食物是不對，年輕人想要保護環(huán)境。另外社會媒體的參與也導致了年輕的素食者的增加。(1)考查細節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第二段中的“A study by a UK market research organization, suggests that over 542,000 Brits went vegan during the previous decade, an increase of 360%.”可知，英國市場研究表明，在過去的十年里，素食主義者的人數(shù)增長了360%，增長迅猛。”故選D。 (2)考查細節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第五段中的“Being vegan was an ethical (道德的) decision,”他們認為素食是道德上的決定，及第六段可知，社交媒體也被認為導致了素食主義的增加的原因之一，因而出現(xiàn)了一些所謂的素食名人來分享他們的生活方式，可知素食主義者的增加不是因為他們想成為道德名人，而是分享素食主義讓他們成為“名人”，這不是素質快速發(fā)展的原因，因此選B。(3)考查詞義猜測。根據(jù)第六段中的“ the popularity of veganism doesn39。t seem to be fading. ‘It feels more like this is something that is sticking.’”根據(jù)轉折連詞however 可知，前后兩句意義是相反的。前面說“素食主義的流行似乎并沒有消退”，因此可推斷出后一句是反而會持續(xù)下去。故sticking意為”持續(xù)”，可知， lasting“持久的，持續(xù)的”符合題意，故選C。(4)考查主旨大意。通讀全文可知，本文主要講述過去的十年里素食主義在英國增長迅猛。這一增長的主要力量是那些年齡在1534歲之間。素食主義在英國的年輕人中非常流行的原因可能是年輕人想要保護環(huán)境，社會媒體的參與也導致了素食者的增加。故選A?！军c評】本題考點涉及細節(jié)理解，詞義猜測和主旨大意三個題型的考查，是一篇社會現(xiàn)象類閱讀，要求考生在捕捉細節(jié)信息的基礎上，進一步根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關系，進行分析，推理，概括和歸納，從而選出正確答案。8．閱讀理解 Dutch beachber (海灘拾荒者) Wim Kruiswijk has accumulated a collection of 1,200 messagesinbottles over the course of nearly 4 decades and has responded to almost all of them, 68yearold Kruiswijk says that his unusual hobby began in 1983 when he found three drift bottles (漂流瓶) on his local beach, each containing letters and return addresses. He wrote to all three addresses and was surprised to receive responses from each one. It was this experience that aroused his interest in hunting and collecting messages in bottles, and he hasn39。t stopped looking for them since. “I find my messages in bottles on the beach of Zandvoort, where I live, and on the Dutch Islands,” Kruiswijk recently told Great Big Story. “Messages in bottles is slow mail. It takes you days, or weeks, or months to find a bottle. ” In the early years, Kruiswijk would find as many as 50 bottles a year, but since 2000 that has slowed to around 2030 finds, mainly due to beach cleaning efforts. He believes that the rise of the Internet has also played a role in the diminishing number of messages in bottles, telling Dutch newssite PZC, “I used to get a response at half the bottle messages that I answered. Now that39。s less。 many people want 39。instant satisfaction39。.” Throwing a message in a bottle out into the sea is a longstanding human tradition dating back to the time of the Greek philosopher Theophrastus, about 310 BC，who used the bottles to study water currents. Scientists still apply the method to this day, as a means to help researchers develop ocean circulation maps, and to crowdsource scientific studies of ocean currents. In the past bottles have also been used to send distress messages from sailors in trouble. They also have been used for memorial tributes, or to send loved ones39。 ashes on a final journey. One of the more mon uses though is just to send invitations out to prospective pen pals, a quaint notion in these modern times, but, as Kruiswijk so clearly shows, an effective one.（1）What does Paragraph 2 mainly tell us? A.Kruiswijk found secrets hidden in drift bottles.B.What made Kruiswijk bee a beachber.C.How Kruiswijk formed the hobby of collecting drift bottles.D.Kruiswijk liked to do some research on bottles thrown into the sea.（2）How did Kruiswijk feel the first time he received response from drift bottles? A.Satisfied.B.Asionished.C.Frightened.D.Disappointed.（3）Why do Kruiswijk find fewer drift bottles than before? A.People hate to receive messages from strangers.B.Many drift bottles have not been washed up onto the beaches.C.Drift bottles appearing on the beach are cleared up rapidly.D.Fewer people are interested in Kruiswijk39。s message in bottles.（4）What39。s the purpose of Theophrastus using the bottles? A.To ask for rescue.B.To look for a pen pal.C.To study ocean currents.D.To send a message to his loved person.【答案】（1）C（2）B（3）C（4）C 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇新聞報道，漂流瓶是一個長期存在的人類傳統(tǒng)，一直被用于發(fā)送遇險信息，紀念親人或發(fā)邀請函，還用于幫助研究人員進行洋流的研究。(1)考查段落大意。第二段主要講述了68歲的Kruiswijk的不尋常的愛好始于1983，當他在當?shù)氐暮┌l(fā)現(xiàn)三個有信件和回信地址的漂流瓶，他給每個漂流瓶留的地址都寫了回信，卻驚訝地收到了每個人的回復。所以這種經歷激起了他對瓶裝的信息的搜集。由此可知本段主要描寫了Kruiswijk如何養(yǎng)成了收集漂流瓶的嗜好。故選C。(2)考查細節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第二段中的“He … was surprised to receive responses from each one”可知，當他收到回信后他是非常驚訝的。surprised“驚訝的”，與asionished是同義詞。故選B。(3)考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第四段中的“but since 2000 that has slowed to around 2030 finds, mainly due to beach cleaning efforts. He believes that the rise of the Internet has also played a role in the diminishing number of messages in bottles”可知，主要是由于清潔海灘的努力，以及互聯(lián)網的興起也對漂流瓶數(shù)量的減少起到了作用