1、高三英语培优外刊阅读班级：_学号：_姓名：_外刊精选快递围城1.5 Million Packages a Day: The Internet Brings Chaos to N.Y. StreetsWarehouses move closer to homes As the internet economy grows, so, too, does the importance of what is known as last-mile package delivery the final step in the increasingly competitive and costly proc
2、ess of moving items to customers homes as quickly as possible. In New York, at least five warehouses, are in the works. Over the summer, Amazon opened a last-mile warehouse in the Bronx and another in Queens. It has also looked at leasing additional facilities for last-mile deliveries in Brooklyn. T
3、he push to place warehouses closer to shoppers is an enormous shift. For years, retailers and e-commerce companies have largely served New York City from warehouses in the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania and industrial parks in northern New Jersey. They emerged during the age of the Sears and J.C. Pen
4、ney shopping catalogs and continued to thrive in the early days of online shopping, when five- to seven-day delivery times were the norm. Even today, many same-day or overnight deliveries follow that route, crossing into New York via bridges and tunnels. Still, “it became apparent that if New York C
5、ity is going to be a competitive city in the world economy, its going to need logistics fulfillment centers as close to the consumer as possible,” said Dov Hertz of DH Property Holdings, a real estate development company with plans for three last-mile warehouses in Brooklyn. DH Property Holdings bro
6、ke ground in the summer on a three-story warehouse in Red Hook, Brooklyn, with individual ramps for trucks to reach separate floors, a vertical design that would be the second such warehouse to be built in the United States. Another multistory warehouse, planned on 18 acres in Sunset Park, Brooklyn,
7、 is expected to be the countrys largest last-mile warehouse, Mr. Hertz said. Their warehouses in Red Hook, as well as a multistory warehouse to be built in the South Bronx, are going up in Opportunity Zones, which were created as part of the 2017 tax law and offer significant tax benefits to project
8、s in economically distressed areas. The program has been criticized for giving tax breaks to wealthy people who invest in the zones, while not significantly helping struggling neighborhoods. Developers of these warehouses have pledged to create thousands of jobs and reduce the wave of delivery truck
9、s entering New York City. But the plans have set off worries about potential health effects in the largely working-class areas targeted for last-mile warehouses. The South Bronx, which already is home to many warehouses, has some of the highest asthma rates in the country. Rafael Salamanca Jr., a Ci
10、ty Council member whose district includes the South Bronx, said he had mixed feelings about the area becoming a warehouse hub. While warehouses have provided jobs, and pledges from Amazon to hire local residents, they have also increased the number of diesel-spewing trucks on the roads. “There are 1
11、5,000 trucks daily in and out of the Hunts Point community,” Mr. Salamanca said, referring to a section of the South Bronx that is home to one of the nations largest food distribution centers. The developers of the warehouses say they are trying to address environmental concerns. Andrew Chung, the c
12、hief executive of Innovo Property Group, which is building the multistory warehouse in the South Bronx, said the distribution center would have electric charging stations with the goal of eventually shifting to a mostly electric delivery fleet. “In two to three years, everything is going to be elect
13、ric, all the delivery vans and most of the trucks,” he said. “It makes sense and its environmentally conscious.”【词汇过关】请写出下面文单词在文章中的中文意思。1.lease lisvt. _2.additional dnl adj._3.facility fslti n. _4.shift ft n. _5.emerge md vt. _6.thrive rav vi._7.norm nm n. _8.tunnel tnl n. _9.apparent prnt adj. _10.
14、ramp rmp n. _11.vertical vtkl adj. _12.criticize krtsaz vt. _13.pledge pled vi. _14.asthma sm n. _15.fleet flit n. _【词块学习】请从文章中找到下面中文相对应的文词块。1.正处于过程中_2.工业园_3.目录邮购时代_4.物流配送中心_5.税收优惠_6.经济贫困/发展不好的地区_7.百感交集_8.直喷式柴油卡车_9.充电站_10.环保意识_拓展练习阅读理解The common cold is the worlds most widespread illness, which is p
15、robably why there are more myths (误区) about it than any of the other illnesses.The most widespread mistake of all is that colds are caused by cold. They are not. They are caused by viruses passing on from person to person. You catch a cold by coming into contact, directly or indirectly, with someone
16、 who already has one. If cold causes colds, it would be reasonable to expect the Eskimos to suffer from them forever. But they do not. And in isolated North Pole regions explorers have reported being free from colds until coming into contact again with infected (感染的) people from the outside world by
17、 way of packages and mail dropped from airplanes.At the Common Cold Research Unit in England, volunteers took part in experiments. After taking hot baths, they put on bathing suits, allowed themselves to be doused (浸入) with cold water, and then stood about dripping wet in drafty (通风的) rooms. Some wo
18、re wet socks all day while others exercised in the rain until close to exhaustion. Not one of the volunteers came down with a cold unless a cold virus was actually dropped in his nose.If then, cold and wet have nothing to do with catching colds, why are they more frequent in the winter? One explanat
19、ion offered by scientists is that people tend to stay together indoors more in cold weather than at other times, and this makes it easier for cold viruses to be passed on.No one has yet found a cure for the cold. There are drugs and pain suppressors such as aspirin, but all they do is to ease the sy
20、mptoms.27.What does the fact that the Eskimos dont suffer colds show?A.Colds are really full of myths.B.Colds are more severe than other illnesses.C.The idea that cold leads to colds doesnt stand up.D.The Eskimos are stronger in fighting against viruses.28.What did the experiments mentioned in Parag
21、raph 3 prove?A.Being doused with cold water did harm to ones body.B.Taking hot baths made the volunteers easy to be tired.C.It was viruses not wet and cold that made people catch colds.D.People who would like to exercise in the rain got colds more easily.29.Why are colds commonly seen in winter, acc
22、ording to the passage?A.Viruses can go into peoples warm bodies more easily in winter.B.Staying together indoors makes it easier for viruses to spread.C.People are usually weak because of the extreme cold in winter.D.There is great difference between indoor and outdoor temperature.30.What does the p
23、assage mainly discuss?A.The myths about cold treatment.B.The experiments on colds.C.The continued spread of common colds.D.The reason and the way people catch colds.外刊精选答案【词汇过关】请写出下面文单词在文章中的中文意思。1.lease lisvt. 租借，租用2.additional dnl adj. 外加的，附加的；额外的；另外的3.facility fslti n. 设施；设备4.shift ft n. 改变5.emerg
24、e md vt. 出现6.thrive rav vi. 繁荣，增长7.norm nm n. 常态8.tunnel tnl n. 隧道9.apparent prnt adj. 明显的10.ramp rmp n. 斜坡11.vertical vtkl adj. 垂直的12.criticize krtsaz vt. 批评13.pledge pled vi. 许诺14.asthma sm n. 哮喘15.fleet flit n. 车队【词块学习】请从文章中找到下面中文相对应的文词块。1.in the works正处于过程中2.industrial park工业园3.shopping catalogs
25、目录邮购时代4.logistics fulfillment center物流配送中心5.tax benefit税收优惠6.economically distressed areas经济贫困/发展不好的地区7.mixed feelings百感交集8.diesel-spewing truck直喷式柴油卡车9.electric charging station充电站10.environmentally conscious环保意识【全文翻译】每日150万包裹：互联网让纽约街道陷入混乱仓库离家越来越近 随着网络经济不断壮大，被称为“最后一英里”的配送也变得愈加重要。它是在竞争日益激烈、成本越来越高的配送
26、过程中，尽快将商品送到顾客家中的最后一步。纽约有不少于五处仓库正在建设中。今年夏天，亚马逊在布朗克斯区和皇后区各开设了一家“最后一英里”仓库。同时，这家公司准备在布鲁克林区租赁更多仓库以实现“最后一英里”配送。让仓库距离购物者更近是一个巨大的转变。多年来，零售商和电商企业一直通过位于宾夕法尼亚州理海谷和新泽西州北部工业园区的仓库为纽约市提供大部分的配送服务。这些仓库兴建于以西尔斯和彭尼百货公司为代表的目录邮购时代，并在网络购物刚兴起时依旧蒸蒸日上，那时候五到七天的配送时长是常态。即便是在今天，许多当日或隔夜送达的货物仍遵循这些固定路线，通过桥梁和隧道进入纽约。不过，纽约一家房地产开发公司DH
27、Property Holdings的董事长道夫赫兹仍旧表示：“很显然，纽约市要想在世界经济中保持竞争力，就需要让物流配送中心离消费者尽可能近。”该公司计划在布鲁克林建设三家“最后一英里”仓库。今年夏天，这家公司在布鲁克林红钩区破土动工，开始兴建一座三层楼高的仓库，仓库配备独立的坡道供卡车到达不同楼层。这将是全美第二座采用垂直设计的仓库。赫兹先生称，另一座计划建在布鲁克林日落公园的多层仓库将占地18英亩（约合7.3万平方米），它有望成为全美最大的“最后一英里”仓库。该公司在红钩区的仓库，连同其计划在南布朗克斯区建造的多层仓库，都将建在“机会地带”。这些地区作为2017年税法的一部分设立，为经济贫
28、困地区的项目提供可观的税收优惠。“机会地带”项目一直饱受批评，因为它给在该地区投资的富人们提供了税收优惠，却没能大力帮扶这些陷入困境的街区。这些仓库的开发商们已承诺将创造数千个就业机会，并削减进入纽约市的送货卡车数量。然而，这些计划引发了人们的担忧。他们担心在以工人阶级为主的地区建造“最后一英里”仓库可能会对人们健康造成潜在影响。南布朗克斯区已经是许多仓库的所在地，该地区的哮喘发病率在全国名列前茅。纽约市议员小拉斐尔萨拉曼卡所在的选区包括南布朗克斯区，他表示自己对于这个区域变成仓库中心一事百感交集。虽然这些仓库提供了就业机会，其中亚马逊方面也承诺会雇佣当地居民，但它们也使街道上直喷式柴油卡车与日俱增。 萨拉曼卡称：“Hunts Point社区每天有1.5万辆卡车进出。”Hunts Point社区位于南布朗克斯区，是美国最大的食品配送中心之一。这些仓库开发商说，他们正在努力解决环境问题。纽约一家房地产开发商Innovo Property Group正在南布朗克斯区建造这座多层仓库，该公司首席执行官安德鲁钟表示，这个配送中心将配备充电站，最终目标是使配送车队转为以电力供能为主。“两到三年后，所有东西都将是电动的，包括所有货车以及大部分卡车，”他说，“这样既合理又环保。”拓展练习阅读理解参考答案27.C 28.C 29.B 30.D
