1、2022最新英语时事阅读题十五（适用于初三和高一学生）A篇People play the lottery(彩票) with the hopes of winning money, sometimes a lot of money. Your chances of winning are small, but the payoffs can be big. It takes a lot of luck to win. But for a woman in Massachusetts winning the lotteryinvolved more than luck. Itinvolvedext
2、remehonesty and kindness.Lea Rose Fiegaaccidentallythrew out a $1 million lottery ticket. But thanks to the kindness and honesty of the owners of the store where she bought it, she eventuallycollected her winnings.Fiega bought the $30 Diamond Millions scratch-off(刮刮乐) ticket in March at aconvenience
3、store in Southwick, Massachusetts. The store is near her workplace. And it is named the Lucky Stop. She told theAssociated Press(美联社) on Monday, I was in a hurry, on lunch break, and just scratched it real quick and it didnt look like a winner So, she handed it to the store owners to throw away.The
4、ticket lay in the store for 10 days. One evening, I was going through the tickets from the trash and found out that she didnt scratch the number, Abhi Shah, the son of the stores owners, told a local television station. So, he scratched off the number. It was $1 million ticket.Fiega is aregularcusto
5、mer. So, the family knew immediately who had thrown it away. Shah went to see her at work.Fiega said, He came to my office and said, My Mom and Dad would like to see you. She told the young man that she was busy working. But he said, No, you have to come over.So, Fiega went to the store and that is
6、when the family told her the news.I was intotaldisbelief, Fiega said. I cried. Ihuggedthem.In January, Fiega nearly died from COVID-19. She saidrecovering from that was like winning the lottery. In American English, we also say we hit the lottery to mean we have had some good luck, any type of good
7、luck. Now after winning $1million, Fiega says she feels doubly lucky.Speaking of the family, she is still in disbelief. I mean, who does that? Theyre great people. I am beyond blessed, she said.The store gets $10,000 from the state lottery company for selling the winning ticket. Fiega said she gave
8、the family some money to thank them. She is saving the rest for retirement(退休).(410 words)根据文章内容， 选择最佳答案：1. According to the report, we can learn that Fiega won the money because _.A. She was lucky enough.B. She was very kind and honest.C. The owners of the store were lucky enoughD. She was lucky en
9、ough and the owners of the store was kind and honest enough.2. Fiega got the news of winning the lottery _.A. the next day. B. three days later C. ten days later D. three months later.3. Who found the winning ticket?A. Fiega B. Shah C. Shahs father D. Shahs mother4. When will we say “hit the lottery
10、” in American English?A. When we want to buy a lottery.B. When we have won a lottery.C. When we are in trouble.D. When we have had very good luck.5. Which we are not sureat the end of the story?A. Fiega got 1 million dollars from the state lottery company.B. Fiega saved all the money for retirement.
11、C. The owners got ten thousand dollars from Fiega.D. The owners got ten thousand dollars from the lottery company.答案：1D2C3B4D5CB篇A new study has found that elephant seals have to work very hard to stay fat. The researchrepresentsthe most complete study to date of the feeding behavior of northern ele
12、phant seals.Northern elephant seals live on the Pacific coast of theUnited States,CanadaandMexico. Scientists paid special attention to females of the species(物种) during difficult two-month trips, or migrations(迁徙), in the northeastern Pacific Ocean. The seals were found to spend up to 20 hours ever
13、y day - and sometimes a full 24 hours - in continuous deep-diving to feed on fish. They fed 1,000 to 2,000 times daily to gain the body fat necessary for reproduction(繁殖) and warmth in the cold waters.Taiki Adachi of the University of St Andrews inScotlandled the study, which recently appeared in th
14、e journal ScienceAdvances. It is not easy to get fat, Adachi said.Scientistsbased their findings on data collected in 2011 and 2018. They used three smallremovable devices（设备，仪器）. One device,attachedunder the jaw, counted the number of times the seals fed and measured their depth. A second satellite
15、-linked device,attachedto the head, followed the seals oceanmovements. The third device was a smart video camera with an infra-red LED light and another depth sensor(传感器). It was alsoattachedto the head.Elephant seals get their name from the large noses of the males. These noses look like an elephan
16、ts trunk. There are two species - the northern elephant seal and theslightlylarger southern elephant seal. The two are the worlds biggest seals and the largest oceanmammals other than whales. Male northern elephant seals can grow up to 4 meters long and weigh up to 2,000 kilograms. Females are small
17、er, getting up to about 3 meters in length and 590 kilograms. The males feed only in coastal(沿海的) waters.Some large marinemammalsdepend on deep dives to get enough food to support their large bodies. Sperm whales, for example, hunt for large prey like giant squid. Female elephant seals - which are l
18、arge, but not as big as sperm whales - have a different solution(解决方案). They eat hugeamounts of small fish. But it is difficult for them to catch enough small fish to meet the energy needs of their large bodies. (388 words)根据文章内容，选择最佳答案：1. The elephant seals have to stay fat because it is good for _
19、.A.deep-diving. B. swimming in the sea.C. migrations D. reproduction and warmth in the cold waters2. The elephant seals dive deep into the ocean to _.A. swim fasterB. get food like large prey like giant squidC. eat enough small fish to support their large bodiesD. hunt sperm whales for food3. Which
20、device can tell the scientists the route of the elephant seals during the migrations? A.The one under the jaw. B. The one on the head. C. The one with a smart video camera. D. All of the three devices.4. What does the underlined wordattachmean?A. to join one thing to anotherB. to make something from
21、 anotherC. to build something on anotherD. to remove something from another5. According to the report, which statement istrueabout the elephant seals?A. Not all have trunks like elephants.B. They all live in the northeastern Pacific Ocean. C. They eat only small fish. D. They only get fed in coastal
22、 waters.答案：1D2C3B4A5AC篇Japans government is facing criticism(批评,指责) forpressing its plans to hold the Tokyo Olympics even as the countrydeals withthe coronavirus health crisis. More than 300,000 people have signed apetitioncalling for a cancellation(取消) of the Games, which are set to open on July 23
23、. The 2020 Summer Olympics were delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic.Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has repeatedlystated that the government is continuing with plans to hold the Olympics. He has promised that the games will happen safely andsecurely. Some Japanese lawmakers have questioned tho
24、sestatementsas some hospitals stillstruggleto find beds for those sick with COVID-19.On Wednesday, officials in some parts of Japan extended(延长,扩大) astateofemergencyas virus cases continued to rise. Last month, Suga declared(宣布) a third state of emergency in Osaka, the center of the current (当前的;) r
25、ise in virus cases, as well as in Tokyo and two other areas. That has since been extended through May 31. On Wednesday, two more areas, Aichi in centralJapanand Fukuoka in the south, were placed under emergency measures(措施;方法;).It is estimated that only 1 percent of the Japanese public has so far be
26、en fully vaccinated although millions of vaccine doses sit unused in very low temperature storage(储存).Anewspaperadvertisementstated: No vaccine. No medication. Are we supposed to fight with bamboo spears? Well be killed by politics if things remain unchanged. Theadvertisement said people were in dan
27、ger of being killed by politics. It suggested the government is not doing enough to fight the pandemic and vaccines are not widely available. The ad brought a lot ofattentionon social media. It said many Japanese have faced medical and financial problems with little government support. It urged(敦促)
28、the public todemandthat the government end poorly planned coronavirus measures. We have been deceived(欺骗;蒙骗;误导). What was the past year for? it said.The ad was created by Tokyo based publisher Takarajimasha. The company is known for speaking out on political and socialissues.(392 words)根据文章内容，选择最佳答案
29、：1.Japans government is facing criticism because _. A. the 2020 Summer Olympics was delayed.B. a state of emergency is extended as virus cases continued to rise.C. the plan to hold the Tokyo Olympics in July this year is being pushed on the way.D. only 1 percent of the Japanese public has so far bee
30、n fully vaccinated.2. The advertisement tried to tell_.A. people should get vaccinated as soon as possible.B. the government didnttry hard enough to stop the coronavirus.C. the coronavirus cases were rising in Japan.D. the government was continuing with plans to hold the Olympics.3. What did the Pri
31、me Minister promise theJapanese people? A. More vaccines would be available for people.B. The government would help some hospital to find more beds for the sick with COVID-19.C. More emergency measures would be carried on during the Olympic Games.D. The Olympic Games will be held safely.4. What does
32、 the underlined wordpetitionmean?A.协议B.合同 C.请愿书D.声明5. How many areas inJapanwere placed under emergency measures? A.2 B. 3 C. 4D. 5答案：1C2B3D4C5DD篇Small dinosaurs once lived in the desert in todaysMongoliaand northernChina. Their great night vision and strong hearing made themdeadlypredators(捕食者) dur
33、ing the nighttime.Scientists said Thursday they have found a circle of bones around the eye of a dinosaur called Shuvuuia Deserti. The bones were inside theskull, which holds the hearingorgan. Scientists say the dinosaur had hearing and sight abilities much like an owl, meaning it could hunt in the
34、dark.Their study waspublishedin thejournal, Science. Theresearchshowed that most predatory dinosaurs had good hearing, but theirsightworked best during the daytime.The Shuvuuia, however, loved nightlife. The two-legged dinosaur was the size of a large bird and weighed about as much as a house cat. I
35、t had many small teeth, like pieces of rice. It was lightweight and lived during the Cretaceous Period, about 75 million to 81 million years ago.Roger Benson is a paleontologist(古生物学家) from the University of Oxford who helped write the study. Its such a strange animal that paleontologists have long
36、wondered what it was actually doing, he said. Its mid-length neck, small head, and very long legs, made it look like an unusual chicken. But unlike birds, it had short, strong arms with a large claw on the end, which was useful for digging.Jonah Choiniere is a paleontologist at Wits University inSou
37、th Africaand the studys lead author. Shuvuuia might have run across the desert floor under cover of night, using itsincrediblehearing and night vision to track(追踪) small prey(受害者) such as nocturnal mammals, lizards and insects, he said.The researchers also looked at a structure called the lagena. Th
38、e lagena is a curved sack that sits in an area of bones around the brain. It isconnectedto the part of the ear that lets reptiles and birds keep balance and move their heads while walking. The longer the lagena is, the better hearing an animal has. The barn owl(仓鸮) can hunt even in total darkness an
39、d has the longest lagena of any living bird, relative to its size. Shuvuuia also has a very long lagena, almost the same in relative size to a barn owls.The researchers also found that Shuvuuia had a very wide scleralring(巩膜环) - tiny bones that circle the eyeball. The rings large size means that it
40、was able to see in darkness. Choiniere said that hepreviously thought that during the age of dinosaurs, the night was used by mammals to come out of hiding and still avoid predators.The importance of these findings is that itforces us to imagine dinosaurs like Shuvuuia evolving(进化) totakeadvantageof
41、these nocturnal（夜间活动的）communities(社区，群落), he said.（462 words）根据文章内容，选择最佳答案：1. What are the Shuvuuia Desertis advantages in nightime? A. It could see something well and run fast.B. It was good at digging and heard something well.C. It was lightweight and moved quietly.D. It had good sight and hearing
42、.2. Which statement is false about Shuvuuia Desertis body?A. It had only two long legs.B. It was as light as a large chicken.C. It had a mid-length neck and small head with small tooth.D. It had short, strong arms with a large claw on the end.3. Which might a Shuvuuia Desertinoteat?A. fish B. mice C
43、. lizards D. insects4. Which statement is true about a lagena and scleral ring?A. A lagena lies in the eyeball of the animals.B. scleral ringshelpanimals to keep balance when they are moving.C. The longer lagena you have, the better you can see.D. Both a Shuvuuia and a barn owl have a very long lage
44、na and wide scleral ring.5. What can we infer from Choiniere?A. The night was only used by mammals to come out of hiding.B. Shuvuuia didnt need to avoid predators at night.C. Shuvuuia was clever enough to take its advantages at night.D. Shuvuuia was sucha strange animal that researchers didnt know h
45、ow it lived.答案：1D2B3A4D5CE篇The worldsglaciersare melting quickly. Scientists from the magazine Nature looked at 20 years of satellite data of the worlds 220,000 mountain glaciers. They found that since 2015, glaciers have lost 298 billion metric tons of ice and snow per year. That is 31 percent more
46、 than 15 years ago, and enough ice melt to putSwitzerlandunder 7.2 meters of water each year.Scientists say the melting is caused by climate change. They have long warned that warming temperatures are shrinking(使)收缩，减少;) glaciers around the world.Romain Hugonnet studies glaciers at ETH Zurich and th
47、e University of Toulouse in France. He led the report. The thinning rate of glaciers is twice as high as it was 20 years ago, and thats enormous, he said.Half of the worlds glacier melt is in theUnited StatesandCanada. Alaskas melt rates are among the highest on the planet, Hugonnet said. Alaskas Columbia Glacier is losing about 35 meters a year, he added. Almost all of the worlds glaciers are melting. Even glaciers that used to besolidare now melting, such as ones inTibet. The melting mirrors the worldwide increase in temperature and is from the burning of coal, oil and gas, Hugonnet said.So
