高中英语三年级培优练习（外刊精读——全球贸易）（附参考答案）.doc

PAGE 1 高三英语培优练习 班级 考号 姓名 总分 被“长赐号”巨轮笼罩的苏伊士小村庄 【背景介绍】近日，一艘长达400米的长赐号巨型货轮，在埃及苏伊士运河搁浅。苏伊士运河停运的每个小时里，造成直接和间接经济损失估计数亿美元。如今，经过各方的努力，长赐号已经脱离堤岸恢复自由。就在世界航海要道的河岸边，坐落着一个不起眼的小村庄。大多数当地居民表示，他们有生以来，从未见过如此严重的运河堵塞事故。我们现在就一起，从河岸第一排的视角，走进一个小村子的生活，听听运河附近居民们的声音。 ‘A Very Big Problem.’ Giant Ship in the Suez Remains Stuck. By Vivian Yee The gargantuan container ship that has blocked world trade by getting stuck aslant the Suez Canal has towered over Umm Gaafar’s dusty brick house for five days now, humming its deep mechanical hum. She looked up from where she sat in the bumpy dirt lane and considered what the vessel, the Ever Given, might be carrying in all those containers.Flat-screen TVs? Full-sized refrigerators, washing machines or ceiling fans? Neither she nor her neighbors in the village of Manshiyet Rugola, population 5,000-ish, had any of those at home. “Why don’t they pull out one of those containers?” joked Umm Gaafar, 65.“There could be something good in there.Maybe it could feed the town.” In Manshiyet Rugola, whose name translates to “Little Village of Manhood,” traffic jams of any kind would be difficult to imagine in usual times. Donkey carts piled high with clover bumped down semi-paved lanes between low brick houses and green fields lined with palm trees, trash and animal dung.A teenager hawked ice cream from his motorcycle.Roosters offered profane competition to the noontime call to prayer.Until the Ever Given showed up, the minarets of the unimposing mosques were the tallest structures around. “The whole village was out there watching,” said Youssef Ghareeb, 19, a factory worker.“We’ve gotten so used to having her around, because we’ve been living on our rooftops just watching the ship for four days.” It was universally agreed that the view was even better at night, when the ship glowed with light: a skyscraper right out of a big-city skyline, lying on its side. “When it lights up at night, it’s like the Titanic,” said Nadia, Umm Gaafars neighb