原来，2019高考英语的原文素材都来自这些外刊

2019/6/22 高考直通车阅读: 【放大镜】

要想吃透高考英语试卷，掌握题源也是一个重要的部分。

诚然，要做好英语阅读完型，依靠的还是英语基本功，以不变应万变。外媒文章那么多，想根据题源出处押中真题基本上是不可能的。但仔细分析可以发现，很多高考英语文章都出自CNN、NPR、《新闻周刊》等国外主流媒体。对于想要学好英语的同学来说，这些都是学习地道英语很好的资源平台，可以好好利用起来。而且，万一一不小心看到的文章就被考到了呢？

2019年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试（全国卷I）英语

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原来，2019高考英语的原文素材都来自这些外刊

题源出处：加拿大安大略省政府官网。

原来，2019高考英语的原文素材都来自这些外刊

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Need a job this summer?

The Ontario government — and its partners — offers many programs to help students find summer jobs. You need to apply for most programs. In some cases, the government can connect you to people who can help you with your job search.

The deadlines and what you need to apply depend on the program. Click on the link for each program for more detailed information.

Not a student?

Go to Ready.Set.Work. to learn about government job funds, programs and online tools available to help people under 30 build skills, find a job or start businesses all year round.

Get help finding a job

Youth Job Connection Summer

If you’re a high school student aged 15 to 18, who faces challenges such as poverty, homelessness, a disability or mental health issue, you can get a summer job with:

paid training

help returning to school when the job ends

Find out about part-time afterschool job opportunities, too.

Start your own business

Summer Company

Summer Company provides students with hands on business training, mentoring and awards of up to $3,000 to start and run their own summer businesses.

Who is eligible: Students: 15-29 years old, returning to school in the fall.

Work with the Ontario government

Stewardship Youth Ranger Program

If you were born in 1998, you could apply to be a Stewardship Youth Ranger and work on local natural resource management projects for 8 weeks this summer.

Who is eligible: Students born in 1998 (16 or 17 at time of hire, but not turning 18 before December 31, 2015)

NOTE: Each team also requires a team lead, who may be any age and may or may not be a student.

Summer Employment Opportunities

Through the Summer Employment Opportunities program, students are hired each year in a variety of summer positions across the Ontario Public Service, its related agencies and community groups.

Who is eligible: Students aged 15 or older

(Some positions require students to be 15 to 24 or up to 29 for persons with a disability due to program funding.)

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原来，2019高考英语的原文素材都来自这些外刊

题源出处：来自美国NPR的一则新闻报道。

NPR，全称为National Public Radio，即国家公共广播电台。它的王牌栏目有NPR podcasts、NPR music、NPR This I Believe、NPR Stories等，对英语学习者来说也是很好的听力练习材料。

原来，2019高考英语的原文素材都来自这些外刊

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It's election season at Canaan Elementary's second grade, in Patchogue, N.Y., and tensions are running high. Today is speech day, and right now it's Chris Palaez's turn.

The 8-year-old is the joker of the class. With a thick mohawk and a mischievous glimmer in his dark eyes, he seems like the kind of kid who would be unfazed by public speaking.

But he's nervous.

"I'm here to tell you today why you should ... should ..." Chris trips on the "-ld," a pronunciation landmine for many non-native English speakers. His teacher, Thomas Whaley, is next to him, whispering support. "... Vote for ... me ..."

Despite some stumbles, Chris is doing amazingly well.

A son of Ecuadoran immigrants who was born and raised in the U.S., Chris started learning English a little over three years ago. Whaley recalls how at the beginning of the year, when called upon to read, Chris would excuse himself to go to the bathroom.

Being an ESL student — English as a second language — can be a painful experience. Many of us who have been ESL students know what it's like to get pulled out of class in front of everyone, so you can learn to master the verbs and retrain your tongue to twist differently from what your parents taught you.

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What you need is a great teacher who lets you make mistakes.

"It takes a lot for any student," Whaley explains, "especially for a student who is learning English as their new language, to feel confident enough to say, 'I don't know, but I want to know.' "

Chris wraps up his speech, and Whaley invites the rest of the class — which is made up of both ESL students and native speakers — to praise him. "Say thank you," he prods Chris gently, who smiles sheepishly on the podium.

"Thank you," Chris gleams.

Impeccably dressed, with a gravelly Long Island accent that turns one vowel into many, Whaley does not look like the kind of guy that dabbles in magic markers. Before he was a second-grade teacher, he worked at a public relations company in New York City.

He says he started thinking about doing something else while riding to and from work on the Long Island Rail Road. "I would talk with people on the train at 6 a.m. and 8 p.m. on the way home," he recalls. "They were people who had a complete disconnect from the young people of the world. They were all so focused on adults and the rat race. And I realized that this was not for me."

That was 16 years ago. He has been teaching ever since.

In addition, Whaley has found time to write a novel called Leaving Montana, and he's starting to write children's books. Last year, he won the New York state teacher-of-the-year award.

This second-grade presidential campaign is an example of why. He tells me he got the idea when he asked the children one day to raise their hands if they thought they could never be a U.S. president.

The answer broke his heart.

"Almost every single child who is an English-language learner believed that they couldn't be," Whaley recalls. They'd say things like, " 'I can't run for president because my parents are from a different country.' That was a biggie. 'Because I'm poor, and you need a lot of money to be the president.' 'Because I don't like to read, or I can't read.' "

Whaley says the presidential speech project is about more than just learning to read and speak in public. He wants these kids to learn to boast about themselves.

"Bragging about yourself, and your best qualities," Whaley says, "is very difficult for a child who came into the classroom not feeling any confidence whatsoever to read three or four words."

Robert Epstein, the principal at Canaan Elementary, says this is the essence of what makes Whaley such a great teacher.

"There's a sense of community that's really unsurpassed," and the students will take risks as a result, Epstein says. He adds that Whaley goes above and beyond what is expected of him as a teacher. "If one needs sneakers, I've seen him go out and buy sneakers. He's gone to homes. He's constantly on the phone, constantly emailing parents."

It's not an easy job, juggling native speakers' needs with those of the ESL students. There are a lot of late afternoons and coming in early.

'A Very Important Word'

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原来，2019高考英语的原文素材都来自这些外刊

题源出处：美国Newsweek的一篇新闻报道。

Newsweek即《新闻周刊》，是美国时政杂志中因评论优秀而获得荣誉最多的周刊。它与《时代周刊》《美国新闻与世界报道》并称为美国三大新闻周刊。

在美国，《新闻周刊》是仅次于《时代》的周刊，但有时它的广告收入会超过《时代》。在发行量上，它超过了《美国新闻和世界报道》。在这三份期刊中，《新闻周刊》的观点通常被视作比《时代》更自由而比《美国新闻和世界报道》更保守。

原来，2019高考英语的原文素材都来自这些外刊

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As data breaches and identity theft become more and more common, the market is growing for biometric technologies—like fingerprint or iris scans—to keep others out of private e-spaces. They're still expensive, though, and some balk at the prospect of having deeply personal identifiers taken and maintained by a third party.Researchers from Georgia Tech say they have come up with a low-cost device that gets around some of these issues: a smart keyboard. This contraption precisely measures the cadence with which one types and the pressure fingers apply to each key. These patterns are unique to each individual, says Jun Chen, a doctoral engineering student. By measuring how somebody types a password, he says, the keyboard can determine people's identities, and thus, by extension, whether they should be granted access to the computer it's connected to—regardless of whether someone gets the password right.It also doesn't require a new type of technology that people aren't already familiar with. “Everybody uses a keyboard...and everybody types differently,” Chen says.The device also harnesses energy when fingers touch keys—energy that could be used to, for example, power a wireless emitter and eliminate the need for a cord. The keys are made of layers of polymers that harbor a slightly negative charge, whereas skin is partially positively charged, Chen explains. When fingers come into contact with the keys and press down, and lift again, they transfer electrons to the keys. This completes an electric circuit with the keyboard, producing a small current.

The smart keyboard powers itself by generating electricity when a person’s fingertips make contact with its multi-layer plastic materials. The keyboard could offer a stronger layer of security by analyzing things like the force of a user’s typing and the time between key presses.

This phenomenon, called “contact electrification,” is the same process that creates static electricity, Chen says: “It's like when you run your hand across a wool blanket and see ‘sparks' in the darkness.” Only to a lesser and invisible degree.In a study describing the technology published in the journal ACS Nano, the researchers had 100 volunteers type the word touch four times using the keyboard. Data gleaned from the device could be used to identify individual participants based on how they typed, with very low error rates, Chen says. So far, there is just one working prototype of the intelligent keyboard. But, Chen says, it should be pretty straightforward to commercialize and is mostly made of inexpensive, plastic-like parts. The team hopes it could make it to market in about five years.

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原来，2019高考英语的原文素材都来自这些外刊

题源出处：

Sacred Heart Greenwich是一所美国女校，本文选自其官网中的一篇文章。该校位于美国康涅狄格州格林威治市国王街1177号，占地110英亩，是一所天主教私立大学预科学校。

原来，2019高考英语的原文素材都来自这些外刊

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Be Nice — You Won’t Finish Last

Posted on April 16, 2017

The New York Times

By SARAH MASLIN NIR APRIL 7, 2017

CreditRon Barrett

During the rosy years of elementary school, my inclination to share my dolls and my knack with knock-knock jokes (“Who’s there?” “Tank.” “Tank who?” “You’re welcome!”) were enough to elevate my social status. I was the belle of the playground. Then came my tweens and teens, and mean girls and cool kids. They rose in the ranks not by being amiable but by puffing cigarettes, breaking curfew and pulling pranks on unsuspecting nerds, among whom I soon found myself.

Popularity is a well-explored subject in social psychology. The latest thinking is parsed by Mitch Prinstein, a professor and director of clinical psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in his forthcoming book, “Popular: The Power of Likability in a Status-Obsessed World,” and in his currently running MOOC. (Some 58,000 have taken the online course, via Coursera.)

Dr. Prinstein sorts the popular into two categories: the likable and the status seekers. The likables’ plays-well-with-others qualities cement schoolyard friendships, jump-start interpersonal skills and, when cultivated early, are employed ever after in business and even romance. Then there’s the kind of popularity that emerges in adolescence: status born of power and even notorious behavior.

Enviable as the cool kids may have seemed, Dr. Prinstein’s studies show negative consequences. Those who were highest in status in high school, as well as those least liked in elementary school, are “most likely to engage in dangerous and risky behavior,” like smoking cigarettes and using drugs.

In one study, Dr. Prinstein examined the two types of popularity in 235 adolescents, scoring the least liked, the most liked and the highest in status based on student surveys. “We found that the least well-liked teens had become more aggressive over time toward their classmates. But so had those who were high in status. It was a nice demonstration that while likability can lead to healthy adjustment, high status has just the opposite effect on us.”

Dr. Prinstein has also found that the qualities that made the neighbors want you on a play date — sharing, kindness, openness — carry over to later years and make you better able to relate and connect with others.

In analyzing his and other research, Dr. Prinstein came to another conclusion: Not only does likability correlate to positive life outcomes, but it is also responsible, he said, for those outcomes, too. “Being liked creates opportunities for learning and for new kinds of life experiences that help somebody gain an advantage,” he told me.

The findings were music to my nerdy ears: Those halcyon early days of popularity really did matter.

The meek — or rather, the genuinely nice — shall inherit the earth after all.

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原来，2019高考英语的原文素材都来自这些外刊

题源出处：

CNN Travel是CNN国际频道一个新的旅游网站。网站中有最新的旅游新闻、游记、新奇的旅游点子、新开发或热门的景点以及本土导游推荐当地最网红的小吃、酒吧、民宿、游玩攻略。

CNN，全称为Cable News Network，即美国有线电视新闻网。CNN国际新闻网每周七天，每天二十四小时进行全球直播新闻报道。面对突发的新闻时都会作现场报道。

对同学们来说，完全接触CNN新闻报道也许仍有一定难度，不过有一个频道：CNN Student News难度适中，比较适合同学们观看。

原来，2019高考英语的原文素材都来自这些外刊

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"This is the silliest thing I've done in my life," Ann says as she emerges from her tent.

"I should have done it when I was much younger."

"Tomorrow you'll think it was worth the effort," Maria responds.

It's a bitterly cold night in January.

I'm at Barafu Camp on Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, with Ann Austen, a 69-year-old New Yorker and Maria Nielson, 55, from Sweden.

In the midnight darkness I watch them join a line of 200 headlamps, slowly ascending the last slope to reach the highest point in Africa -- 5,895 meters (19,340 feet) above sea level. (Kilimanjaro's official elevation is the subject of dispute -- the preceding figures are the most commonly cited.)

But I'm waiting.

I'd learned from a local that while most groups trek to the summit overnight, hundreds at a time, to catch the sunrise from the top, the best time to climb is around 10 a.m. when the crowds, and the clouds, clear.

"I know the mountain, this is my mountain," Sifael Malle tells me.

It's a good decision.

We're alone on Uhuru Peak, the highest point on Kibo crater, one of the three volcanic cones that comprise the mountain.

Three champagne corks are the only sign that others had been here earlier.

Without Malle's local knowledge, however, it could have been different.

MORE: The stunning mountains where China collects bags of fresh air

Tourism impact

Local tip: Avoid crowds by climbing in the day, when everyone else has returned.

The Overseas Development Institute (ODI), a British think tank, estimates that every year 40,000 people attempt to climb Kilimanjaro, bringing with them tons of waste and other environmental threats, including water contamination and soil erosion.

The crowds threaten the beauty of the place, which cultural narratives depict as a symbol of solitude and peace.

The glaciers are disappearing, changing the face of Kilimanjaro.

Local porters are often underpaid and climb without adequate equipment.

Hearing these stories, I'm skeptical about the place -- other destinations are described as "purer" natural experiences.

However, I soon discover that much has changed since the days of horrific reports of camps among open-air latrines, trash littering the landscape and congested trails.

I find a clean mountain, with toilets at camps and along the routes.

The environmental challenges are significant but the initiatives implemented by the Tanzania National Parks Authority seem to be paying off.

The ODI calculated in 2009 that tourists spend just less than $50 million per year around the Kili experience.

Some 28%, $13 million, is considered to directly benefit the poor.

The ODI says this is the most successful transfer of resources from international tourists to impoverished locals they've witnessed.

MORE: Africa's magnificent mountains: Seven amazing climbs

The local view

Porters are no longer required to carry loads of more than 20 kilos.

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Take, for instance, my local guide.

Malle comes from a poor farming family that lived by a road used by tourists.

In previous years, he'd rush toward the jeeps that drove by, hoping to receive gifts.

"We dreamed of owning those cars," he told me. "But the reality is poverty, few jobs, often unstable and underpaid.

"The dreams get easily forgotten. I tried to keep mine: to live a better life, to start my own business and to be able to support others.

"I begged guides to take me on the mountain, even for free. They told me I was too thin, incapable of carrying the weight.

"They asked for my climbing equipment, and laughed as I did not have any. I persisted and found a guide who employed me."

Malle became a porter in 1999. He went back to school to study tour guiding and botany.

In 2006, he passed the government examination and became a licensed guide.

"I soon thought that with my experience of the mountain I could be a better tour operator, as most of the existing ones have never been on the mountain."

He set up us his own company.

"I sent hundreds of messages to people announcing my new company, and gradually people started to respond."

Kili Base Adventure was born.

Kilimanjaro is offering entrepreneurial opportunities that were impossible a decade ago.

MORE: An empty Everest: But should you climb?

Conquest vs. experience

Kilimanjaro has five ecosystems, from moorland to arctic-like conditions.

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The highlight of a Kilimanjaro experience, in my view, isn't reaching the top.

A simple, aimless wander on a mountain trail might not seem to have the drama of a summit ascent.

But mountains are regarded as spiritual places by many cultures, not least for their natural attributes.

This view is especially evident on Kilimanjaro as climbers venture through five ecosystems in the space of few kilometers.

At the base is a dense rainforest.

It ends abruptly at 3,000 meters, giving way to alpine heathland, abundant with giant heathers.

Further up the weather changes -- low clouds envelop the slopes, which become covered with tussock grass and sporadic giant lobelias.

Here the greens are less vibrant but more varied than in the brighter forest below.

I count 12 shades of verdant green in a three-meter radius from where I stand.

Above 4,000 meters is the highland desert: gravel, stones, rocks and cliffs. A place for ascetics.

Finally you climb into an arctic-like zone, with permanent snow and the glaciers that may soon disappear.

MORE: 10 mountains for every kind of climber

Clean climb

Does Kilimanjaro deserve its reputation as a crowded mountain with long lines of tourists spoiling the atmosphere of solitude?

I found the opposite to be true.

Throughout my climb the trails were empty and, on the summit, I was alone.

My secret, of course, was the local knowledge provided by Malle and tailor-making my own climb.

The tourism industry sells standardized packages: everyone follows the same route, does the same thing, walks at the same time.

I didn't -- my sense of satisfaction came from the connection with the spirit of a beautiful and legendary place.

End of March to early June is low season around Kilimanjaro, often marked by heavy rains. January, February, August and September are the busiest months.

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原来，2019高考英语的原文素材都来自这些外刊