2010年上海高考英语阅读理解新题型10

2010年上海高考英语阅读理解新题型10

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Directions: Read the following passage and complete the sentences or answer the questions according to the information given in the passage you have just read.

The world’s largest garbage dump doesn’t sit on some barren field outside an urban center. It resides thousands of miles from any land — in the Pacific Ocean.

The dump, known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, stretches for hundreds of miles across the North Pacific Ocean. Roughly the size of Texas, the patch is sometimes referred to as the ―eighth continent.‖ It has quickly come into the spotlight this year, thanks to growing media coverage and teams of scientists who took a voyage in August to study the patch.

The patch contains approximately 3.5 million tons of garbage. Shoes, toys, bags, wrappers, toothbrushes, and bottles too numerous to count are only part of what can be found in this dump floating midway between Hawaii and San Francisco.

But how did so much garbage get there? The garbage patch formed and continues to exist because of ocean currents. The patch moves with the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, a high pressure zone of air which forces ocean surface currents to move in a slowly clockwise pattern. This creates a whirlpool which sucks garbage from other parts of the ocean into the gyre. The patch is a typical example for a worldwide problem: plastic that begins in human hands yet ends up in the ocean. Organic materials and garbage from other sources will eventually break down, but plastics do not, although they do break into smaller and smaller pieces.

The environmental risks posed by the patch are serious. The area supports minimal sea life, because the garbage patch restricts the limited area of water which sea plants can live in. Other marine life including birds, mammals, fish, and jellyfish also suffers because they mistake the garbage for food. A great deal of marine life is then consumed by humans, resulting in their ingestion of toxic chemicals.

1. The world’s largest garbage dump has quickly come into the spotlight this year, because of _____________________________________________________________. 2. How does the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre affect the patch?

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3. According to the passage, what’s the difference between organic materials and plastics 4. The environmental risks posed by the patch will affect human being because ______________ _______________________________________.. Keys:

1. It creates a whirlpool which sucks garbage from other parts of the ocean into the gyre.

2. growing media coverage and teams of scientists who took a voyage in August to study the patch.

3. Organic materials can break down, but plastics do not.

4. the human beings will consume marine life which contains toxic chemicals.

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Directions: Read the following passage and complete the sentences or answer the questions according to the information given in the passage you have just read.

China's planning agency has approved plans for a Disney theme park in Shanghai, the Walt Disney Co. said Wednesday, a major step toward setting a deal for the long awaited project. The approval by the National Development and Reform Commission will allow Shanghai, China's biggest city, and Disney to work on final details for the amusement park, to be located in the city's eastern Pudong district.

\is one of the most dynamic, exciting and important countries in the world, and this approval marks a very significant milestone for The Walt Disney Company in mainland China,\Robert A. Iger, president and CEO of The Walt Disney Company, said in a statement.

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It said the initial phase of the project would include a \characteristics tailored to the Shanghai region.\in the world, it said.

Disney has gradually expanded its presence in mainland China after opening a theme park in Hong Kong in 2005 and now has offices in Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou.

The park will be a major showcase for Shanghai, the mainland's main financial and commercial center. The city is in the midst of a construction boom ahead of the World Expo, which will open May 1.

Last weekend, Shanghai's mayor, Han Zheng, told reporters that the central government had issued the required approval and that the city would be making an announcement soon. However, city officials contacted early Wednesday did not have any immediate comment.

The timing of the breakthrough is handy as it comes less than two weeks before President Barack Obama's planned Nov. 15-16 visit to Shanghai.

Last spring, Mayor Han said on the sidelines of the national legislative session that the two sides were getting down to serious negotiations.

But he compared Disney and Shanghai to \when to get married,\

Shanghai's leaders are keen to develop this former bastion of Chinese industry into a global services and financial center, and building a Disney park would create jobs and be a key draw for tourism.

Residents were long ago moved off farmland in Chuansha, a part of Pudong district near the city's main international airport, to make way for the theme park.

1. The approval by the National Development and Reform Commission will enable the latest Disney theme park to be located in ____________________________________

2. How many cities in China will be bound to have a Disney theme park?

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3. Why is it that the timing of the breakthrough is handy?

4. What will be the main advantage of building a Disney park in Shanghai as for the local officials? Keys:

1. Pudong district, eastern Shanghai

2. 3. Because it comes less than two weeks before President Barack Obama's planned Nov. 15-16 visit to Shanghai.

4. Building a Disney park would create jobs and be a key draw for tourism

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Directions: Read the following passage and complete the sentences or answer the questions according to the information given in the passage you have just read.

It’s been 35 years since The Godfather was published and five years since the death of Mario Puzo, who wrote the international best seller. But now one of the most famous Mafia clans in American fiction is back in a new novel, called The Godfather Returns. Author Mark Winegardner was picked by Random House publishers and the Puzo estate, another publishing company to write the book called The Godfather Returns.

Picking up where Mario Puzo left off might seem like a daunting task. The Godfather has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide since it was published in 1969. It also inspired a film that became a classic in its own right, and two movie sequels. Now the new fiction to be written is supposed to cover what was not written in the original novel or the Godfather movies, which is the

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main intention of the publishers. And of course it would be likely to attract the attention of a huge audience of readers.

But while Mark Winegardner says writing a new novel around those familiar characters might seem like a challenge, it was also a privilege.

Although Mario Puzo collaborated on the Godfather screenplays, he reportedly declined to write a book sequel about the Corleone family. But Jonathan Karp, who served as Mr. Puzo's editor at Random House, was not ready to see the story end.

Mr. Karp: I love the book…I love the characters. I wanted more. I wanted to revisit this world. Mark Winegardner met those characters when he read The Godfather for the first time at the age of 12. Writing The Godfather Returns gave him a chance to take them in new directions and clear up old mysteries.

Mr. Winegardner: The seeds of that are in The Godfather. At one point Vito says something very vicious about Fredo, and Hagen wonders what it's about. The novel ends, and Puzo never says what secret Vito has about Fredo.

Mr. Winegardner also includes characters resembling real-life figures like F.B.I. director J. Edgar Hoover and the family of President John F. Kennedy.

Reviews has been mixed for The Godfather Returns. Some critics have suggested that the original novel should have been left alone. But Publisher's Weekly bestowed a starred review on Mark Winegardner's story, claiming \people who have read it.\that movies based on the story are intended to be shot pretty soon.

1. What is the mainly purpose of writing the new fiction, The Godfather Returns?

2. It was Random House publishers and the Puzo estate that had Mark Winegardner

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