2020北京初三二模英语汇编：阅读理解C篇
2020海淀二模
C
Some apps highlight(凸显)when a person is online-and then share the information with the followers. Rearchers at the University of Washington say that people could have more control over whether to show their online status(状态)in this ca.
To find out whether people realize the apps are sharing this information and whether the indicators(标识) change how people behave online, the rearch team carried out a study among urs of different apps.
The team asked participants if the apps they ud showed their online status to their network. Almost 90% of the participants correctly named at least one of the apps they ud that had online status indicators. But for at least one app they ud, 62.5% answered "not sure" and 35.5% answered "no.” (Actually the app did.) The rearchers also asked participants whether they noticed when others were online, whether they thought others noticed when they were online, and whether they had changed their own behavior becau they did or didn't want to appear online.
The answers show that many people misunderstand online status indicators but still carefully shape their behavior to control how they are displayed to others. More than half of the participants reported that they had suspected(，怀疑有)that someone had noticed their status. Meanwhile, over half reported that they had logged on to an app just to check someone el's status. And 43% of the participants mentioned changing their ttings or behavior becau they were trying to avoid one specific person.
"We e this repeated way of people changing their behavior to meet the demands of technology-as oppod to technology adapting to us and meeting our needs,” said Lucy Simk o, a UW doctoral student in the Allen School. That means people are choosing to go online not becau they want to do something there but becau it's important that their status indicator is projecting the right thing at the right time.
“Now, many people are working from home and socializing only online to fight the coronavirus pandemic(新冠疫情)，and some employees u their online status to indicate that they are working and available for meetings," the team says. So there's an opportunity to think about how future development of this technology could change how people u online status indicators.
27. The fourth paragraph is mainly about_________.
A. the purpo of the rearch
B. the method ud by the team
C. the findings of the rearch
D. the suggestions given by the team
28. What can we learn from the rearch?
A. Some apps are updated to meet the needs of their urs.
B. Some apps make money by lling their urs’ information.
C. People usually have a clear picture of the apps they are using.
D. People sometimes go online to show they're doing the right thing.
29. Which might be the best title for the passage?
A. Why We Should Protect Our Privacy Online
B. Why Online Apps Influence the Way We Think
C. How Online Status Indicators Shape Our Behavior
D. How We Could Make Full U of Online Information
2020朝阳二模
C
Each year on Feb 21,UNESCO(联合国教科文组织）holds an International Mother Language Day(IMLD). The event is to help people to pay attention to the disappearance of the world's languages; many of them are disappearing each year. UNESCO es this as a terrible fact.
What happens when a language dies out? Something great is lost——not just sounds and words but the way that people understand the world and communicate with each other. We keep different cultures and traditions through languages. Killing a language means all the are killed too.
Through IMLD, more and more people come to realize the terrible situation and try to stop it. Google's 2018 Endangered Languages Project is a good example. Many speakers and protectors of endangered languages upload(上
传)texts, audios(音频）and videos to the project website. They want to introduce the way that people communicate and express themlves around the world.
The Myaamia Project is the same kind of effort to revive the language spoken by the Miami tribes(部落)of the United States. Project members work to encourage people to study and communicate with this language, which died out in the 1960s.
The activities give life to tho endangered languages. People who work to keep languages alive are not limited to the past. Many young people design apps and u social media(媒体)to support their activities. They "spread the word" to save the world.
So, while the problem of disappearing languages remains a very rious one, there is hope. We all have a special feeling of our mother languages. This is why we should remember the wi words of late president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela: "If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to a man in his own language, that goes to his heart."
27. What did people do in Google's 2018 Endangered Languages Project?
A. They provided books on communication skills.
B. They discusd how to make good u of the Internet.
C. They shared materials about endangered languages online.
D. They translated endangered languages into mother languages.
28. The word "revive" in Paragraph 4 probably means"_______________."
A. start reusing
B. remember choosing
C. try creating
D. continue experimenting
29. What can we infer from Paragraph 5?
A. The disappearance of languages has already stopped.
B. It's impossible for young people to protect languages.
C. Fewer and fewer people work to keep languages alive.
D. Young people have creative ways to protect languages.
30. The writer mentions Nelson Mandela's words in order to
A. express his thought of language protection
B. stress the importance of one's mother language
C. tell the trouble in learning endangered languages
D. remind us of the problem of disappearing languages
2020密云二模
C
The Garbage(垃圾）Project started at the University of Arizona in 1973. Since then, the students and teachers in it have studied the modern garbage in different cities.
To study the garbage, the students had to travel to landfills, the places where cities bury(填埋)their garbage. While the students were studying the garbage, they wore special clothes. Students were very careful when they opened bags of garbage.
One important thing the students have learned from studying the garbage is that the garbage in landfills disappears very slowly. That was surprising to both the students and many scientists who had thought that about 70% of the garbage in landfills would disappear quickly. Even in cities where it rains a lot, the students found newspapers from 1948, 40-year-old hot dogs, and vegetables from 1970. And the students also found many more empty bottles of cola than they expected。
As society develops, there is more and more waste produced in our daily life. How to dispo of our garbage well depends on what kind of garbage it is: regular(普通的) garbage, dangerous materials, or recyclable materials, such as newspapers and glass bottles. Regular garbage goes to regular landfills. Dangerous materials are harmful to people's health and the environment. They shouldn't go into regular landfills. And people should try their best to reu the resource and reduce the amount of using them. It is high time that people need to divide different kinds of waste and put them into different dustbins, which will be a great help to cleaning workers as well as the whole society.
Homes are full of dangerous waste. One kind of the dangerous waste in homes is batteries(电池). When batteries are buried directly in a landfill, they often break open. The poison inside them moves through rain water to the bottom of the landfill. Then it can pollute the natural water in the ground.
Another dangerous waste from homes is motor oil. When people pour old motor oil on the ground or throw it in the garbage, it pollutes the environment.
Our garbage problem is not new, but as the world's population continues to grow, it will become a bigger and bigger problem.
27.To study the modern garbage, the students had to do many things except_____________.
A. wearing special clothes
B. traveling to landfills
C. burying the garbage themlves
D. opening bags of garbage
28. The words "dispo of" in Paragraph 4 probably mean"______________".
A. put away
B. deal with
C. worry about
D. make up
29. What can we learn from the passage?
A. Old motor oil should go to regular landfills.
B. There are only two kinds of dangerous waste in homes.
C. Batteries are often broken when they are buried directly in a landfill.
D. The students found empty bottles of cola were not as many as they expected.
2020东城二模
C
Art and science may em like polar opposites. One involves the creative ideas，and the other cold，hard numbers—or some people believe so. In fact，both require a lot of creativity. People also u both to better understand the world around us. Now，a study finds art also can help students remember better what they have learned in science class.
Mariale Hardiman is an education expert at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore，Md. Back when she was a school headmaster，she had noticed students emed to remember more of what they had been taught when their lessons had involved art. To test whether and how well art might really improve learning，Hardiman teamed up with other rearchers and six local schools.
The rearchers created art-focud versions(版本) of traditional science lessons. In a traditional science classroom，students might read aloud from a book. In the art-focud class，they might sing the information instead. Each student in the experiment had both an art-focud class and a traditional one.
Before and after each period of the experiment，students took tests. They took a third one 10 weeks later. This one tested how well they still remembered what they learned two months earlier. The team also looked at each student's performance in a reading test. This let them compare how art and non-art classrooms influenced students with different learning abilities.
Students who read at or above their grade level did just as well in both types of class. Tho who had lower reading abilities got much more of the science if it had been taught in an art-focud class.
Hardiman says some kids actually performed best in the third test months later. And classroom teachers reported “many students continued to sing the songs they learned in an art-focud class after finishing the unit.”
Students who started in traditional class performed better after they moved into an art-focud class. But tho who started in an art-focud class did well even when they went back to a tradit ional class. “Some continued to draw or sing to
help them remember information，” Hardiman notes.“This suggests that the arts may help students u creative ways of learning on their own.”
Everyone benefits from the arts，Hardiman agrees.“All educators shoul d learn how to u the arts as an instructional tool to improve learning.”
27.Paragraph 2 mainly introduces .
A. the background of the experiment
B. the rearchers of the experiment
C. the conclusion of the experiment
D. the design of the experiment
28.By studying the students' reading performance，the rearchers found .
A. art had little influence on students’ reading abilities
B. the students with good reading abilities performed better in art
C. the students who were good at science had better reading abilities
D. art helped the students with lower reading abilities learn science better
29.Students who started in an art-focud class still did well in a traditional class probably becau .
A. they had mastered creative ways to learn
B. the art-focud class helped improve their memory
C. the art-focud class taught them how to learn on their own
D. they continued to sing the songs they learned in the art-focud class
2020房山二模
C
If you e a group of people dancing and singing on the street or in the railway station, you don't need to feel surprid. They are a flash mob（快闪族）. A flash mob, organized with the help of the Internet or other communications networks, is a group of people who come together suddenly in a public place, do something unusual for a period of time, such as coming together to look at the sky, s
houting something at the top of
their voices for 30 conds, and then quickly disappear before
the police can arrive.
Using mobile phones, the flash mob can change its place if the first one has been replaced for any reason.
Bill Wasik, a nior editor, organized the first flash mob in Manhattan in May,2003 and the first successful flash mob came together on June 3,2003—after the first try was foiled at Macy's department store. Following this, about 200 people crowded into the hall of the Hyatt hotel, applauding(鼓掌）in one voice for fifteen conds, and next the mob pretending
（假装）to be tourists on a bus trip entered a shoe shop in Soho. Wasik said that he created flash mobs as a social experiment designed to make fun of hipsters(时尚潮人）.
Though flash mobs were firstly regarded as pointless, the idea has already developed for the benefit of political（政治的）and social events. Flash mobbing takes advantage of the effect of communicating information on Websites and by email, and protesters(抗议者）can similarly u it to
be involved in political events.
Flash mob gatherings can sometimes surpri people. Such an activity might em amusing and fantastic, but it also might frighten people who are not clear about what is taking place. Undoubtedly, flash mobs can rve as good political tools in any direction. They also have big economic potential（经济潜力）, such as using flash mobs to adverti a product.
The flash mob is now becoming more and more popular. People u it to do many things.
Flash mobs give people an opportunity to come together to create a memory.
27. The word "foiled" in Paragraph 2 probably means "_________________".
A. praid
B. prevented
C. confud
D. succeeded
28. Why did Bill Wasik create the flash mob?
A. To help people make friends.
B. To adverti some products.
C. To create some memories.
D. To make fun of hipsters.
29. What can we infer about the flash mob from the passage?
A. It can be made u of in many fields just for fun.
B. It usually breaks up quickly for not having enough time.
C. If the place for the activity is decided, it can't be changed.
D. It gives people the chance to do something unusual together.
30. Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?
A. Flash Mob: the Popular Culture
B. Flash Mob: the Political Potential
C. Flash Mob: the Short-term Memory
D. Flash Mob: the Beginning of Information
2020丰台二模
C
When thinking of ways to relax in life, usually things like yoga. jogging and music come to mind. The are great, to be sure. But getting a friend can also have many benefits. While human friends provide great social support, furry friends like cats and dogs can come with some great benefits.
Pets can improve people's mood. For tho who love animals, it's actually impossible to stay in a bad mood when a pair of loving puppy eyes meets yours, or when a super-soft cat rubs up against your hand. The study found that people with AIDS were less likely to suffer from deep sadness if they owned a pet.
