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1、2020;2020年12月份百题精练（2）英语试题第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题，每题2分，满分40分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AWhen Paul was a boy growing up in Utah，he happened to live near a copper smelter（炼铜厂），and the chemicals that poured out had made a wasteland out of what used to he a beautiful forest. One day a young
2、visitor looked at this wasteland and called it an awful area. Paul knocked him down. From then on，something happened inside him.Years later Paul was back in the area，and he went to the smelter office. He asked if they had any plans or if they would let him try to bring the trees back. The answer fro
3、m that big industry was“No”.Paul then went to college to study the science of plants. Unfortunately，his teachers said there werent any birds or squirrels to spread the seeds. It would be a waste of his life to try to do it. Everyone knew that，he was told. Even if he was knowledgeable as he had expec
4、ted，he wouldnt get his idea acceptedPaul later got married and had some kids. But his dream would not die. And then one night he did what he could with what he had. As Samuel Johnson wrote，“It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote. Attainable good is often i
5、gnored by minds busied in wide ranges.”Under the cover of darkness，he went secretly into the wasteland and started planting.And every week，he made his secret journey into the wasteland and planted trees and grass. For fifteen years he did this against the plain common sense. Slowly rabbits appeared.
6、 Later，as there was legal pressure to clean up the environment，the company actually hired Paul to do what he was already doing.Now the place is fourteen thousand acres of trees and grass and bushes，and Paul has received almost every environmental award Utah has. It took him until his hair turned whi
7、te，but he managed to keep that impossible vow he made to himself as a child.51When Paul was a boy，_.Ahe had decided never to leave his hometownBthe economy of Utah depended wholly on the copper smelterCno laws were made to protect the environment against pollutionDhe had determined to stop the coppe
8、r smelter polluting the area52Why did Paul go to college to study the science of plants?AHe wanted to find out the best way to save the area himself.BHe was interested in planting trees since he was young.CHe wanted to get more knowledgeable people to help him.DHe thought his knowledge would make hi
9、s advice more persuasive.53The underlined phrase “the plain common sense” probable means that .AIt was impossible for trees to grow on the wastelandBHis normal work and life would be greatly affectedCNo one would like to join him in the effortsDHe had to keep everything he did secret54The message of
10、 the passage is that _.Aaction speaks louder than wordsBperseverance will work wondersCGod helps those who help themselvesDmany hands make light workBSTEVE Wayne, 16, who worked this summer as a lifeguard and swim teacher in Idaho Falls,was thrilled to see an extra $20 in his paycheck when the feder
11、al minimum wage increased in July.“When youre getting paid minimum wage, anything helps, ” Wayne said.Wayne is one of several hundred thousand American teenagers who earn the minimum wage.The last of three recent increases that took the minimum from $5.15 an hour in 2020;2020 to $7.25.U.S. Secretary
12、 of Labor Hilda Solis says the minimum-wage increase will pump an extra $5.5 billion into the economy over the next year, which is helpful at a time when the economy is hurting.Youre giving people who spend money a raise, said Kai Filion of the Economic Policy Institute. Those people will go out and
13、 spend that money, and it will circulate through the economy.But other economists say raising the minimum wage actually hurts the very people its designed to help. A higher hourly minimum, they say, could force businesses to cut workers hours, or even lay people off.What matters for people earning m
14、inimum wage is how much money they take home, in total, in their paycheck, explains Rajeev of Georgia State Universitys Economic Forecasting Center. Their hourly rate may go up, but their number of hours may come down, so its not an overall increase.Business owners also say that raising the minimum
15、wage exerts（施加）upward pressure on other wages. If the minimum wage is $7 and I have to pay $8 or $9 to hire a dishwasher, then the cooks are going to say they want more, sayd Cleveland restaurant owner Rick. How much can I charge for that hamburger?Another argument is that it makes it more expensive
16、 for businesses to hire new workers. For many businesses already struggling to make ends meet in these tough times, it will be simply too expensive to keep them or to hire new people.55Steve Wayne was excited that .Ahis hard work had paid offBhe had received a big wage increaseChe has more money due to an increase i
