高考英语阅读理解强化训练Day 48
Passage 1
For some people, walking or running outdoors is a great way to work out. What may not be so pleasant is eing trash all over the ground. Well, some people are doing something about it. They are plogging!
“Plogging” began in Sweden. The name combines the Swedish word “plocka,” which means to pick up, and the word Jogging, which means to run slowly. A Swedish man named Erik, started the movement in 2016. On the World Environment Day website, Erik says that he moved to Stockholm from a small community in northern Sweden each day he would ride his bike to work. Concerned about the amount of trash and litter he saw each day on his way to work, he took matters into his own hands.
Plogging, by that term, may have officially begun in Sweden. But many people who exerci outdoors have been doing this for years. Take Jeff Horowitz for example. He is a p
ersonal trainer in Washington, D. C. He often picks up trash while running outside. He even has turned it into a game; he will try to pick up the trash without stopping. “I didn’t know it was a thing really. This is just my personal ethics (道德标准), where I go for a run and if I happen to e a piece of garbage lying around and it’s within reach — it is a kind of a little test for me to e if I can grab it and throw it in a near trash can without stopping. And that way, I think, it gives me a little exerci and a little focus for my run. And it helps clean up the neighborhood,” he announced.
Today, logging is an official activity, one that is becoming increasingly popular. Cities around the world now hold logging events, “I would just hope people would think twice before dropping a garbage on the ground. We have containers. . . ems on every block. So, it’s easy to put your garbage in the trash cans. I just think people should think about it a little bit more. I do hope one day there will not be a need for plogging. ” said an interviewee.
1. Which of the following can replace the underlined phra “took matters into his own hands”?
A. called on people to join him. B. appealed to people to go green.
C. began to pick up the trash. D. had the collected trash recycled.
2. Like Jeff Horowitz, logging to many people has become a(an) ________ act.
A. automatic B. irresistible C. arbitrary D. temporary
3. What is the idea that Logging events are meant to promote?
A. Jogging is truly beneficial. B. Trash cans should be within reach.
C. Littering is not acceptable. D. Communities should be kept clean.
4. What can be a suitable title for the passage?
A. New Exerci Enjoys unbelievable popularity
B. New Exerci Trend Also Helps Environment
C. Plogging — a Fashionable Way to clear waste
D. Plogging — an Exerci Originating in Sweden
Passage 2
Five days a week, 28’year’old Ebony Smith arrives at Changing Gears Bike Shop at 10:, ten minutes before opening. Walking into the shop, she turns on the lights, opens the register, and reviews the repair orders. For the next veral hours she will repair bikes with professional skill and care, and guide customers through bike choices like an experienced rider, learning about their needs and preferences, and helping them to find the perfect fit.
Although Smith had almost no experience riding a bike and didn't even enjoy riding one when she first came to Changing Gears, she has stayed in the position for nearly a decade now, and her customers are thankful to her heartfelt assistance. What's more, many of the shop visitors are youth from families living in low’income housing named Alameda Point. Smith lived in this neighborhood throughout her childhood, and to the youngsters and families she is a positive role model—someone determined to succeed in
spite of educational and financial struggles.
When she first began at Changing Gears at 19 years old, Smith was living with her parents, who struggled to make a living. She had failed to earn a high school diploma when she didn't pass California's high school exit exam. However, when a three’month job training position opened at the bike shop in 2008, Smith took a chance to, as she says, "turn her life around". She signed up and was quickly hired.
Smith is just one of the thousands of Changing Gears' employees around the world, and her continued success at Changing Gears embodies the shop's duty to "operate a bicycle’bad social enterpri that meets the needs of the underprivileged of our local area".
In addition, the shop has a strong environmental focus, which includes bicycle reu and recycling. Throughout the years Changing Gears has also engaged youth and families in bicycle field trips and provided free bicycle parking and repair rvice at local farmers' markets in order to encourage bike riding as a practical and green form of transp
ortation.
Through its blending(协调) of effective small business practices with a social and environmental duty, Changing Gears stays inspired to u bicycles as a vehicle for social change.
