2020年高考英语3.8 阅读理解专题强化训练二十八(原题版)

2020

高考英语【阅读理解】专题强化训练

二十八

Test 1

Along

with

the

progress

of

reform

and

opening

up,

the

Chinese

film

industry

has

also

made

remarkable

achievements and become in a flourishing(

繁荣的

) state in economic growth. It has recorded social changes in the

past decades through the medium of the film. The film market of China has been much better than that of North

America, becoming the largest in the world during the first season of 2019.

In

the

original

stage

of

reform

and

opening

up,

old

Chinese

movies

were

rescreened

and

foreign

movies

dubbed(

译制

). Audiences’ enthusiasm for movies was lighted up by both these practices. In 1979, the attendance of

Chinese moviegoers reached a record high of 29.3 billion. However, televisions and other entertainment activities

sprang up in the late 1980s and drew many audiences away from movies when the film market faced a danger.

The employment of a socialist market economy in China in 1992 brought energy again to the film industry.

With the introduction of free competition and reforms, it made an abundant recovery and experienced rapid growth.

In

the

same

period,

China

began

to

introduce

overseas

movies

into

the

home

market,

especially

those

from

Hollywood. Despite the argument that foreign movies occupy the space of home-

made ones, Chinese movies with

increasingly higher quality

have gained a firm foothold in the local

market with box offices setting several new

records.

The development of the Internet has added new energy to the Chinese film industry.

In 2015, the powerful

Internet

companies,

one

called

Tencent

and

another

Alibaba,

developed

their

own

film

aim

and

began

to

adapt

popular online stories for movies. With big data, more accurate marketing skills can target specific audiences to

satisfy their personal preferences. Yet the development of online cinemas may pose threats to the survival of offline

ones. Now the film industry is exploring more advanced film screening technologies to provide audiences with an

improved movie experience.

1

．

Which threat did the Chinese film market face in the late 1980s?

A

．

Popularity of televisions.

B

．

Development of online cinemas.

C

．

A slowdown in economic growth.

D

．

Introduction of overseas movies.

2

．

What does the underlined word

“it”

in paragraph 3 refer to?

A

．

The space of Chinese movies.

B

．

The Chinese film industry.

C

．

The socialist market economy.

D

．

The introduction of reform and opening up.

3

．

What does the author indicate in the end?

A

．

Online cinemas will replace traditional ones sooner.

B

．

The film screening technology is the key to films’ success.

C

．

The Internet is a two-

edged sword for the film industry.

D

．

Movies made by Tencent and Alibaba are most successful.

4

．

What would be the best title for the text?

A

．

The Ever-

changing Film Market

B

．

Popular Online Films

C

．

Advanced Film Technologies

D

．

Flourishing Chinese Film Industry

Test 2

We’ve been covering standing desks for a long time now because experts agree that sitting all day is killing us.

We want to be productive while also keeping our bodies healthy. Over the years, there have been several solutions

to this from fixed standing desks to adjustable ones, portable desks to ones that change into shelves.

However, the most high

－

tech and elegant solution has to be this new smart desk called the Stir Kinetic Desk.

The desk learns your daily behavior and moves between a sitting and standing height regularly throughout the day

to keep you moving without interrupting your work flow.

You can program specific sitting and standing intervals or let the desk set the schedule. If you tend to sit while

returning emails in the morning, but always want to stand during that afternoon conference call, the desk will learn

those regular habits and adjust the schedule to fit them. Of course, the desk can always be manually lowered or

raised by using the touchscreen on the lower left corner of the desk.

When switching positions, the desk gently dips and rises to let you know that a change is coming u

p. If you’re

not ready to switch positions at that time, you can tap the touchscreen to stay sitting or standing for a while longer.

The built

－

in touchscreen also keeps track of your daily sitting and standing times and tells you how many

calories you’ve b

urned. You can even set goals for how long or how often you want to stand. The desk also works

with fitness devices like the Fitbit to track your movements.

All of that smart technology doesn’t come cheap though. The M1 desk, which is the everyday model, r

uns a

steep $$2

，

990, while the more executive model with added features, the F1, goes for $$4,190.

While

expensive,

it’s

worth

that

thinking

of

how

much

time

we

spend

at

our

desks.

Much

like

a

good

mattress(

床垫

), a good desk that works with you is worth the investment. Hopefully in a few years these smart,

integrated desks will be more common and less expensive.

1

．

The Stir Kinetic Desk has been designed to

．

A

．

help users with their work

B

．

keep users moving all the time

C

．

get users to exercise while working

D

．

remind users of their working schedule

2

．

Which is the feature of the touchscreen of the desk?

A

．

It can tell users when to change positions.

B

．

It can track users’ changes of positions.