1、任务型阅读专项训练2解读任务型阅读专项训练A请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格里填入一个最恰当的单词。注意：每个空格只填一个单词。 体裁：记叙文 词数：505 建议阅读时间：14分钟 难度：Paper is different from other waste produce because it comes from a sustainable resource: trees. Unlike the minerals and oil used to make plastics and metals, trees are replaceable. Paper is also bio
2、degradable (可降解的), so it does not pose as much threat to the environment when it is discarded. While 45 out of every 100 tons of wood fibre used to make paper in Australia comes from waste paper, the rest comes directly from virgin fibre from forests and plantations. By world standards this is a goo
3、d performance since the world-wide average is 33 percent waste paper. Governments have encouraged waste paper collection and sorting schemes and at the same time , the paper industry has responded by developing new recycling technologies that has paved the way for even greater utilization of used fi
4、bre. As a result, industrys use of recycled fibres is expected to increase at twice the rate of virgin fibre over the coming years. Already, waste paper constitutes 70% of paper used for packaging and advances in the technology required to remove ink from the paper have allowed a higher recycled con
5、tent in newsprint and writing paper. To achieve the benefits of recycling, the community must also contribute. We need to accept a change in the quality of paper products; for example stationary may be less white and of a rougher texture. There also needs to be support from the community for waste p
6、aper collection programs. Not only do we need to make the paper available to collectors but it also needs to be separated into different types and sorted from contaminants（污染物），string and other items. The four most common sources of paper for recycling are factories and retail stores which gather la
7、rger amounts of packaging material in which goods are delivered, also offices which have unwanted business documents and computer output, paper converters and printers and lastly households which discard newspapers and packaging material. Once collected, the paper has to be sorted by hand by people
8、trained to recognize various types of paper. The sorted paper then has to be repulped（再打浆）or mixed with water and broken down into its individual fibres. This mixture is called stock and may contain a wide variety of contaminating materials, particularly if it is made from mixed waste paper which ha
9、s had little sorting. Various machinery is used to remove other materials from the stock. After passing through the repulping process, the fibres from printed waste paper are grey in color because the printing ink has soaked into individual fibres. This recycled material can only be used in products
10、 where the grey color does not matter, such as cardboard boxes but if the grey color is not acceptable, the fibres must be de-inked. This involves adding chemicals , water-hardening agents , frothing agents and bleaching agents. Before the recycled fibres can be made into paper they must be refined
11、or treated in such a way that they bond together. Title: Paper Recycling(10) of paper Being sustainable and biodegradableCollections of waste paper From factories, retail stores and (11) and householdsContributions needed in (12) paper the governments encouraging (13) and sorting waste paper the ind
12、ustry taking (14) to develop new recycling technologies the (15) accepting a change in quality of paper products and supporting the waste paper collection(16) of paper recycling The paper is (17) and repulped by (18) water. (19) are added in order to make white. The fibres are then refined.B 体裁：说明文
13、词数：423 建议阅读时间：12分钟 难度： Bisphenol A is a chemical widely used to make hard, polycarbonate （聚碳酸酯） plasticFood storage containers, reusable water bottles and baby bottles are among the many different products that may contain BPABPA is also commonly used in protective coverings inside metal food and dr
14、ink cans People can swallow small amounts of BPA as they eat or drinkAn industry Web site says more than forty years of safety research shows that products made with bisphenol A are safeBut others question the safety of BPANow, a large study has linked it to diabetes and heart disease in adults Rese
15、archers divided almost one thousand five hundred American adults into four groups based on BPA levels in their urine （尿液）All the levels were within the limits considered safe by the United States Food and Drug AdministrationYet the study found that the highest group was more than twice as likely as
16、the lowest group to have heart disease or diabetes, or both The Food and Drug Administration and chemical industry officials said the study does not show that bisphenol A caused the diseasesThe researcher who led the study, David Melzer at Englands University of Exeter, agreesHe says the findings mu
17、st be reproduced and that other studies are also needed But he also says that if BPA is a cause of these conditions, then just reducing contact with it might prevent some casesThe study appeared last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association Earlier this month, the United States govern
18、ment scientists from the National Toxicology Program released a final report on BPAThey found that the chemical is of “some concern” for effects on development of the brain in fetuses （胎儿）, infants and childrenThey made the same finding for behavioral （动作的） effects The scientists based their finding
19、s mostly on studies of laboratory animalsEven so, the program director said “the possibility that BPA may affect human development cannot be dismissed” In April, Canada became the first country to propose a ban on plastic baby bottles that contain BPAThe government has said it will publish its final
20、 decision by October eighteenth Some plastic goods are now being marketed as BPA-freeBut some people wonder whether any other chemicals that might take its place are any better The reports on Bisphenol AThe wide application of Bisphenol ABisphenol A is 20_ to make hard, polycarbonate plastic, food s
21、torage containers, reusable water bottles and baby bottles; BPA is also a 21_ element in protective coverings inside metal food and drink cansOver 40 years of safety researchThe 22_ of the research: No 23_ is found in products made with Bisphenol AA recent large study 24_ in 1,5000 American adultsLi
22、nk BPA to diabetes and heart disease, yet the findings 25_ further studiesA final report on BPA 26_ by American scientistsThe scientists cant 27_ out the possibility of affecting human development, though experiments were based on lab animalsTo prevent diseases 28_ by BPA, people may reduce contact
23、with it; and Canada is the first country that has 29_ making baby bottles with BPAC请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格里填入一个最恰当的单词。注意：每个空格只填一个单词。 体裁：记叙文 词数：323 建议阅读时间：9分钟 难度：New discoveries suggest that trade between Europe and Asia along the Silk Road probably began many centuries earlier than once thought. The
24、 findings add a fascinating new page to the epic（史诗）of the Silk Road, which spread far and wide in no time.The latest and most surprising discovery is pieces of silk found in the hair of an Egyptian mummy from about l,000 BC, long before regular traffic on the Silk Road and at least one thousand yea
25、rs before silk was previously thought to be used in Egypt. Other research may extend human activity along this route back even further, perhaps a million years to the moving of human ancestors into eastern Asia.The official origin of East-West trade along the road is usually placed in the late 2nct
26、century BC when an agent of the Chinese Emperor Wu-di returned from a dangerous secret mission（使命）across the desert into the remote high country of Central Asia. The agent, Zhang Qian, traveled as far as Afghanistan and brought back knowledge of even more distant lands such as Persia, Syria and a pl
27、ace known as Lijien, perhaps Rome. Historians have called this one of the most important journeys in ancient times. His journey opened the way for what have been thought to be the first indirect contacts between the ancient worlds two superpowers, China and Rome. Chinese silk, first traded to Centra
28、l Asia for war horses, was soon finding its way to the markets of Rome through a network of businessmen.But the new discoveries show that Chinese silk apparently existed in the West long before the Han emperor started organized trade over the Silk Road. The research could change thinking about the e
29、arly history of world trade and provide insights（了解）into the mystery of just how and when Europe first realized the glorious culture at the other end of Eurasia.Paragraph outlineSupporting details Introduction New findings about the (10) of trade along the Silk Road are spread far and wide in no tim
30、e.The latest discovery The silk thread found in the hair of an Egyptian mummy from about 1,000 BC makes all feel greatly (11) . . The discovery suggests the trade along the Silk Road may (12) back to an earlier time than once (13) .Zhang Qians missionThe accepted official (14) of East West commerce
31、along the Silk Road.Importance Opening the way for the first (15) contactsbetween the two ancient superpowers, China and Rome. (16) Chinese silk to Central Asia and Persia. Making Chinese silk (17) the markets of Rome.Summary Show the (18) of Chinese silk in the West long before the Han Dynasty. Cha
32、nge thinking about the early history of world trade. Help people find out more facts about Europe first (19) Chinese culture.D 体裁：议论文 词数：337 建议阅读时间：9分钟 难度： Some people believe that greed and selfishness has become the basis of modern society, and we should return to the old traditions of family and community then we will have a better life. To what extent do you agree or disagree with the above opinion?I
