【正文】 ra functions...So why pay that much of five years’ school fees for watches that allow you to do these things？和第四段Instead the Swiss reinvented the watch， with the aid of millions of pounds’ worth of advertising，as a message about the man wearing ，擁有不必要功能的名表還在銷售。 [答案 ] D 3. What can be learnt about Swiss watch industry from the passage? A. It targets rich people as its potential customers. B. It’ s hard for the industry to beat its petitors. C. It wastes a huge amount of money in advertising. D. It’ s easy for the industry to reinvent cheap watches. [解析 ] 推理判斷題。根據(jù)第四段 Rolexes are for those who spend their weekends climbing icy mountains； a Patek Philippe is for one from a rich or noble family； a Breitling suggest you like to pilot planes across the ，瑞士的制表產(chǎn)業(yè)已經(jīng)瞄準富人作為它的潛在顧客。 [答案 ] A 4. Which would be the best title for the passage? A. Timex or Rolex? B. My Childhood Timex C. Watches? Not for Me! D. Watches— a Valuable Collection [解析 ] 主旨大意題。買表嗎？我不要！從第一段和最后一段最后一句的總結全文主旨：不買表。 [答案 ] C Passage 7(2022 年四川， E) All too often, a choice that seems sustainable (可持續(xù)的 )turns out on closer examination to be problematic. Probably the best example is the rush to produce ethanol(乙醇 ) for fuel from corn. Corn is a renewable resource— you can harvest it and grow more, almost limitlessly. So replacing gas with corn ethanol seems like a great idea. One might get a bit more energy out of the ethanol than that used to make it, which could still make ethanol more sustainable than gas generally, but that’ s not the end of the problem. Using corn to make ethanol means less corn is left to feed animals and people， which drives up the cost of food. That result leads to turning the fallow land— including, in some cases, rain forest in places such as Brazil— into farmland, which in turn gives off lots of carbon dioxide ( CO2 ) into the air. Finally, over many years, the energy benefit from burning ethanol would make up for the forest loss. But by then, climate change would have progressed so far that it might not help. You cannot really declare any practice“ sustainable” until you have done a plete 環(huán)境的 ) costs. Even then， technology and public ， and that development can lead to unforeseen and undesired admirable goal of living sustainably requires plenty of thought on an ongoing basis. [語篇解讀 ] 文章通過用玉米轉化成乙醇為例子來討論可持續(xù)燃料的問題，來說明一些做法還缺少實際發(fā)展利用的基礎。 1. What might directly cause the loss of the forest according to the text ? A. The growing demand for energy to make ethanol. B. The increasing carbon dioxide in the air. C. The greater need for farmland. D. The big change in weather. [解析 ] 事實細節(jié)題。從第二段 “ ...including， in some cases， rain forest in places such as Brazil— into farmland.” 可知這些雨林要被變成農(nóng)田，故選擇 C。 [答案 ] C 2. The underlined word“ it” in the second paragraph refers to“ ________” ． A. the energy benefit B. the forest loss C. climate change D. burning ethanol [解析 ] 猜測詞義題。從第二段 “ ...the energy benefit from burning ethanol would make up for the forest loss.” 可知，上文中的 the energy benefit就是下文 it所指代的內容，故選擇 A。 [答案 ] A 3. The author thinks that replacing gas with corn ethanol is________. A. impractical B. acceptable C. admirable D. useless [解析 ] 推理判斷題。 impractical 不切實際的； acceptable 可以接受的； admirable 受尊敬的； useless無用的。從文中最后一句 “ The admirable goal of living sustainable requires plenty of thought on an ongoing basis.” 可知，開發(fā)這種可持續(xù)性燃料還是不太實際，故選擇 A。 [答案 ] A 4. What does the author mainly discuss in the text? A. Technology. B. Sustainability. C. Ethanol energy. D. Environmental protection. [解析 ] 主旨大意題。 technology 技術； sustainability 可持續(xù)性； ethanol energy 乙醇能源； environmental protection環(huán)境保護。從文中論述可知作者將乙醇作為例子，以此來談論可持續(xù)問題，故選擇 B。 [答案 ] B Passage 8 (2022 年寧夏 海南，全國 Ⅰ ， A) I suddenly heard an elephant crying as though frightened. Looking down ， I immediately recognized that something was wrong, and ran down to the edge of the near bank. There I saw Ma Shwe with her threemonthold calf struggling in the fastrising water, and it was a lifeanddeath struggle. Her calf was floating and screaming with fear. Ma Shwe was as near to the far bank as she could get, holding her whole body against