2014高考英语真题全国卷2 阅读理解 试题及答案详解：环境问题

1、2014高考英语真题全国卷2 阅读理解 试题及答案详解：环境问题 Since the first Earth Day in 1970, American have gotten a lot greener toward the environment. We didnt know at that time there even was an environment, let alone that there was a problem with it, says Bruce Anderson, president of Earth Day USA. But what began as noth

2、ing important in public affairs has grown into a social movement. Business people, political leaders, university professors, and especially millions of grass-roots Americans are taking part in the movement. The understanding has increased many, many times, says Gaylord Nelson, the former governor fr

3、om Wisconsin, who thought up the first Earth Day. According to US government reports, emissions(排放) from cars and trucks have dropped from 10.3 million tons a year to 5.5 million tons. The number of cities producing CO beyond the standard has been reduced from 40 to 9. Although serious problems stil

4、l remain and need to be dealt with, the world is a safer and healthier place. A kind of Green thinking has become part of practices. Great improvement has been achieved. In 1988 there were only 600 recycling programs; today in 1995 there are about 6,600. Advanced lights, motors, and building designs

5、 have helped save a lot of energy and therefore prevented pollution. Twenty-five years ago, there were hardly any education programs for environment. Today, its hard to find a public school, university, or law school that does not have such a kind of program. Until we do that, nothing else will chan

6、ge! say Bruce Anderson. (249 words)1. According to Anderson, before 1970, Americans had little idea about .A.the social movementB.recycling techniquesC.environmental problemsD.the importance of Earth Day2. Where does the support for environmental protection mainly come from?A.The grass-roots level.B

7、.The business circle.C.Government officials.D.University professors.3. What have Americans achieved in environmental protection?A.They have cut car emissions to the lowest.B.They have settled their environmental problems.C.They have lowered their CO levels in forty cities.D.They have reduced polluti

8、on through effective measures.4. What is especially important for environmental protection according to the last paragraph?A.Education.B.Planning.C.Green living.D.CO reduction.答案与解析：1. C.分析题干，找到题干关键词Anderson,可以迅速定位到文章的第一段，“We didnt know at that time there even was an environment, let alone that ther

9、e was a problem with it”，由此可知，C选项最合适。2. A.分析题干，关键词是support；文章的第二段，“Business peopleare taking part in the movement”，意思是“商人尤其是普通百姓都参与了这一运动”，根据这句话前面内容可知，movement指的就是环境保护；大家都参与环境保护，就是对环境保护的支持，与题干中的support是一致的；而题目问的是保护环境支持者“主要(mainly)来自于”根据“especially millions of grass-roots Americans”可知，环境保护支持者主要来自于普通老百

10、姓，所以本题答案选A。3. D.分析题干，找到关键词achieved，可以定位到文章的第4段，“Great improvement has been achieved”；后面讲的是采取了一系列的措施来减少环境污染，由此可知答案选D。A选项中提到了car emission，可以定位到文中的第三段第一句话，对比可知，选项与文章内容不符；B选项意思是“美国人已经解决了环境问题”，根据文章第三段中“Although serious problems still remain”，由此可知，环境问题依然存在；C选项中提到了CO，可以定位到文章的第三段，“The number of cities produ

11、cing CO has been reduced from 40 to 9”，意思是“一氧化碳排放超标的城市由原来的40个减少到了9个”，与选项中的“美国在40个城市较少了一氧化碳排放量”不符。4. A.分析题干，可迅速定位到文章最后一段，分析文章可知，这一段主要讲的是“education programs for environment”，由此可知，本题答案选A。重点单词：基础词汇especially尤其former前任的emission排放beyond超出standard标准reduce减少remain残存achieve取得advanced先进的therefore因此prevent防止提高

12、词汇practice惯例重点短语：let alone更不必说take part in参加think up想出deal with处理长难句分析：1. The number of cities producing CO beyond the standard has been reduced from 40 to 9.解析：本句话的主干是“The number of cities has been reduced from 40 to 9”；“producing CO beyond the standard”是现在分词结构作定语，修饰前面的cities。翻译：一氧化碳排放超标的城市已经由40个减少到了9个。拓展：reduce to意思是减少到；reduce by意思是减少了类似的用法还有increase to/by(增加到/了)；beyond是高考常考介词，意思是“超出”，需要多加注意。2. Today, its hard to find a public school, university, or law school that does not have such a kind of program.解析：本句话的主干是“its hard to find a public school, university,