1、2022最新英语时事阅读题九（适用于初三和高一学生）A篇A group of small robots from China are helpingspeed upmaildeliveryservice in Greeces capital city of Athens. Fifty-five, four-wheeled autonomous(自动的)mobilerobots are working in the mail center of the national mail service called the Hellenic Post. They scanpostal codes,we
2、igh mail pieces and empty them into mail bags.The robots are part of the state-owned companys digital restructuring(数字化重组)program. It aims todeal withgrowing numbers of mail pieces from online shopping during the coronavirus pandemic.George Constantopoulos is head of the Hellenic Post. He told Reute
3、rs, Until recently,sortinghas been carried out by manual(人工的) laborwith a highdemandin time, often witherrorsoccurring（出现）, causing delivery delays for ourcustomersandincreasedcosts for the company.The robotshandleup to 80 percent of the mailsortingat the center. Constantopoulos said theprocesswas u
4、p to three times faster, and deliveries are nearly guaranteed（保证）for the next day. The robots canhandleas many as 168,000 pieces of mail, weighing up to 15 kilograms, each day. The robots only need to berechargedevery four hours for 5 minutes.Constantopoulos said, Thepurposeis not toreplacehuman wor
5、kers with robots, but rather to augment(提高) human work forces and make them moreefficient.Meanwhile, the United States Postal Service (USPS)announcedthat it wouldslow downmail delivery service in some areas starting in October tocutcosts. USPS said some pieces of mail could take up to two days longe
6、r to arrive. And the service alsoraisedthe price of sending a letter from 55 to 58 cents.（270 words）根据文章内容，选择最佳答案：1. What cant the small robots do?A. Scanning postal codes.B. Weighing the mail.C. Sorting out the mail.D. Delivering the mail.2. Comparing the robots with the manual labor, which stateme
7、nt isnottrue?A. The manual labor need more time to finish their work.B. The manual labor makes more mistakes while working.C. The robots can works for longer time.D. The company has to spend more money on the robots.3. Which isnotthe reason for the use of the small robots?A. The company wants to cut
8、 the cost from the labor.B. The company wants to make the delivery more efficient.C. The country is carrying out a digital restructuring program.D. More and more online shoppings are done during the pandemic.4. How long does a robot need to recharge if it keeps working for a whole day?A. 5 minutes.
9、B. 10 minutes C. half an hour D. one hour5. Which pair of words/phrases from the report means the opposite?A. speed up slow down B. handle deal withC. increase raise D. aim - purposeB篇A Russian actor and filmdirectorleft Earth on a spaceship this week to start filming a movie. Russianofficialssaid t
10、he movie will shine a light onRussias success in space.Dmitry Peskov is press secretary for President Vladimir Putin. We have been pioneers(先驱,先锋) in space and maintained(维持) a confident position, Peskov said, adding that spaceexplorationis great for Russia.Actor Yulia Peresild and director Klim Shi
11、penko took off from a site in Kazahkstan Tuesday with cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov. They arrived about three hours later at the International Space Station where they will stay for 12 days.The future film is calledChallenge. It tells the story of a doctor who hurries to the space station to help an as
12、tronaut with a heart problem.The passengers had four months to get ready for the space trip. Peresild said training for the trip was difficult. But, she said, once they reach their goal, all that will seem not so difficult and we will remember it with a smile.Shipenko said he will finish the movie b
13、ack home after filming in space. Two other Russian cosmonauts already on the space station will alsoperformin the movie.Dmitry Rogozin heads the Russian space agency Roscosmos and has beenamajorforcebehind the project. Spacedeservesbeing shown in a moreprofessional, artful way, he said.Rogozin said
14、heeditedthescripthimself to correctlyrepresenttherealitiesof space travel. We describe some realemergenciesthat may happen out there, he said.Oleg Novitskiy is an experienced Russian cosmonaut. He will play thecharacterwith the heart problem in the movie. When that is done, he will return to the cap
15、tains seat of the Soyuz spacecraft and bring the actor and director back to Earth.（296 words）根据文章内容，选择最佳答案：1. The movie will focus on _.A. how to make a film in space.B. what is the work like in the International Space Station.C. how dangerous to fly to the International Space Station in a spaceship
16、.D. how successfulRussiais in space.2. How many actors will there be in the International Space Station?A. two B. three C. fourD. five3. Who wrote the story of the movie?A. Dmitry Peskov B. Yulia PeresildC. Klim Shipenko D. Dmitry Rogozin4. Which is true about Oleg Novitskiy? A. He was also an actor
17、 before he worked in the International Space Station.B. He spent four months to train for the performance in the movie.C. He planned the project of the movie.D. He will be both actor and astronaut in the International Space Station.5. What does the underlined wordemergencymean?A. an difficult and da
18、ngerous trip B. an exciting exploration storyC. an unexpected and dangerous situationD. a sudden and wonderful eventC篇The Australian Koala Foundation(基金会) says Australia has lost about 30 percent of its koalas over the past three years.Thenon-profitgroup saysdrought, wildfires and development projec
19、ts played a part in the drop in the koala population. They areurgingthe government to do more to protect the creatures environment.The groupestimatedthe koala population has dropped to less than 58,000 this year from more than 80,000 in 2018. The biggestdecreasewas in the state of New South Wales, w
20、here the numbers have dropped by 41 percent.Deborah Tabart leads the Australian Koala Foundation. She called the drop quite dramatic. Only one area in the study was estimated to have more than 5,000 koalas. Some areas were estimated to have as few as five or 10. Tabart said the country needs a koala
21、 protection law. She added, What wereconcernedabout is places like western New South Wales where the drought over the last ten years has just had this cumulative(累积的) effect - river systems completely dry for years, river red gum plants, which are the lifeblood of koalas, dead.Thelossin New South Wa
22、leslikely sped upafter large forest areas were destroyed by wildfires in late 2019 and early 2020. But some of those areas already had no koalas.Land clearing bypropertydevelopers and road builders has also destroyed the koalas environment. I think everyone gets it, weve got to change. But if those
23、bulldozers(推土机) keep working, then I really fear for the koalas, Tabart said.(252 words)根据文章内容，选择最佳答案：1. Which isnotmentioned as the reason of the drop of koala population?A. the drought B. the wildfires C. pollution D. land development2. The state of New South Wales has lost _ of its koala populati
24、on this year?A. About30% B. About 40% C. 50%D. 60%3. According to the report, what should the government do to protect the koala population?A. Stop some wildfires and drought.B. Plan the developments well.C. Make some koala protection laws.D. All of the above.4. Large forest areas were destroyed by_
25、 in last two years? A. drought B.wildfires C. land clearing D.road builders5. The reporter tells us about the fact of the koala inAustraliamainly by _.A. showing some pictures B. listing some numbers.C. playing some videos D. using other reports.D篇Americans do not believe their personal information
26、is safe online, suggests findings from a new poll(民意调查). They alsoare notsatisfiedwiththe federal(联邦的) governments efforts to protect such information.TheAssociatedPress-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and MeriTalk did the polling. It found that 64 percent of Americans say their social media
27、 activity is notsecure. About as many have the same safetyconcernsabout online information that shares theirphysicallocation. Half of Americans also believe theirprivatetext messages are notsecure.They are not justconcerned. They want the federal government to do something about it. Almost 75 percen
28、t of Americans say they support creating laws for how companies can collect, use and share personal data.Jennifer Benz is the head of the AP-NORC Center. What is surprising to me is that there is a great deal ofsupportfor more government action to protect dataprivacy(隐私), she said.But after years of
29、 failed efforts to create stronger data privacy laws, Americans do not trust the government to fix the problem.A majority ofthose who took part in the poll said they have more trust in private companies than the federal government to address security and privacy issues. This comes even after years o
30、f hacks(非法入侵) of U.S. corporations(公司) that shared the personal information of millions of people around the world.I feel there is little to no security whatsoever(不管怎样), said Sarah Blick. She is a professor at Kenyon College in Ohio.Officials at the college told Blick earlier this year that someone
31、 had used heridentityto seekunemploymentinsurancemoney.Such fraud(欺诈行为) has greatly increased since the pandemic(大流行病) began. The poll answers showed that about 71 percent of Americans believe that individuals dataprivacyshould betreatedas a national security issue. But only 23 percent aresatisfiedi
32、n the federal governments current efforts.Terri Carver is a Republican Party state lawmaker in Colorado and the writer of a data privacy bill that will take effect there in 2023. The law follows similar measures passed in California and Virginia, and gives people the right to find and delete persona
33、l information. Colorados law alsopermits people to opt(选择) out of having their data tracked(跟踪) and sold. Facebook and other companies opposedthe bill(法案).Theres great frustration(沮丧) that individuals have that they dont have the tools and thelegalsupportto establish any kind of effective control ov
34、er their personal data, Carver said. She hopes the efforts by Colorado and other states push Congress(国会) to make national protections.The poll showed that protecting personal information online is an area where people do see a direct role in government, Benz said.（462 words）根据文章内容，选择最佳答案：1. From th
35、e report we can learn that Americans dont _.A. believe their personal information is safe online.B. think the federal government should protect their privacy online.C. worry their social media activity.D. support laws for how companies can collect, use and share personal data.2. American people trus
36、t _ more about the privacy issues online. A. the federal government B. the private companies C. both of the two D. neither of the two.3. Which isuntrueabout the privacy issue online inAmerica?A. The government has been trying to protect peoples privacy online.B. The situation has become better since
37、 the pandemic began.C. In Colorado you can sell your personal data online.D. Only a few Americans are satisfied in the federal governments current efforts.4. What does the underlined wordA majority ofmean? A. many B. few C. a fewD. most of5. Who are against the law for protection of personal data on
38、line?A. the federal government B. the state governmentC. some private companies D. individualsE篇Scientists are racing to collect ice cores(冰芯) as the earths warming melts large areas of ice known as glaciers(冰川) and ice sheets(冰原). Some scientists say there is very little time left. And, in some cas
39、es, it is already too late.Late last year, chemist Margit Schwikowski and a team of international scientistsattemptedtogatherice cores from the Grand Combin glacier. In 2018, they had visited the area and took a small test core. The core was in good shape, said Schwikowski, head of achemistrygroup a
40、t the Paul Scherrer Institute in Villigen,Switzerland. The core had well-preservedatmosphericgases andchemicalevidenceof past climates.But, in the two years it took for the scientists to return with a full drilling set-up(设备), some of the information that had beentrappedin the ice had disappeared. T
41、he sudden change tells us exactly howsensitivethese glaciers are, said Schwikowski. We were just two years too late.The mission(任务) on Grand Combin shows the major difficulty scientists face today in collecting ice cores. Some glaciers are disappearing faster than expected, leading scientists to do
42、missions sooner, rethink where to target (目标) next, and plan about increased storage（储藏）.About 10 percent of the land area on earth is currently covered with glacial ice, says the National Snow and IceData Centerin Boulder, Colorado. If a glacier is melting, it means it also is not storing atmospher
43、ic gases from today for scientists to study in the future.Beyond gases, scientists say they may be able to use ice cores to study the DNA of ancientbacteriaandvirusesthat could come back as the world warms. Frozen insects and plant material could also reveal(透露) histories of the worlds forests.Anoth
44、er team of scientists, whose findings were published in July in Microbiome, foundvirusesnearly 15,000 years old in two ice core samples taken from the Tibetan Plateau inChina. The findings identified genetic codes(遗传密码) for 33 viruses. At least 28 of them were new to scientists.Lonnie Thompson said
45、he plans to increase his ice core storage facilities(设施) at Ohio State University. Some of the cores Thompson and his team have collected are the only remaining ice from some glaciers. Thompson used the termarchive meaning a place where records ormaterials are kept - to talk about ice. Ice has a won
46、derfularchiveof not only the climate, but also the forgings of climate, the major causes of climate change, Thompson said. Those histories are at risk as the earth warms and the glaciers retreat.根据文章内容，选择最佳答案：1. Some scientists think that it is too late to _.A. stop the earths warming.B. increase gl
47、acier storageC. collect ice coresD. increase ice-core storage facilities2. From Schwikowski we can learn that_.A. the coresare still in good condition currently.B. some glaciers are disappearing faster than expected.C. he had a small test core late last year.D. the information from the ice had disap
48、peared two years ago.3. From the ice cores the scientists can learn_.A. how to stop the earths warmingB. how the climate changes nowadaysC. why the ice is melting.D. how to deal with some problems in the future.4. What do the scientists study in the ice cores?A. the airB. frozen insects and plant materialC. the bacteria and virusesD. all of the above5. What does the underlined wordarchivemean? A.设备B.建筑 C.档案D.途径答案：1D2D3A4C5A答案：1D2B3D4D5C答案：1C2B3D4B5B答案：1A2B3B4D5C答案：1C2B3D4D5C
