$60. The phone boxes are becoming popular mainly because of ______.$
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58. C 59. D 60. C
The phone boxes are becoming…——2020 高考英语第 60 题答案解析
2020_江苏卷 (英语)
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【答案】58. C 59. D 60. C
【解析】
这是一篇说明文。文章讲述了在英国，电话亭在20世纪80年代开始停止使用。后来，一些商
人使电话亭的角色和功能发生了变化，电话亭又变得流行起来。
【58题详解】
细节理解题。根据第一段Sometimes it’s hard to let go. For many British people, that can apply to
institutions and objects that represent their country’s past-age-old castles, splendid homes.. and red
phone
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boxes.(有时候真的很难放手。对许多英国人来说，这可以适用于代表他们国家过去历史的机
构和物品--古老的城堡、辉煌的住宅……还有红色的电话亭 )和最后一段Inglis said phone boxes
called to mind an age when things were built to
last.(英格利斯说，电话亭让人想起了一个东西经久耐用的时代)可知，电话亭正在卷土重来，
以提醒人们一个历史时期。故选C。
【59题详解】
细节理解题。根据第三段After becoming an important part of many British streets, the phone
boxes began disappearing in the 1980s, with the rise of the mobile phone sending most of them away
to the
junkyards.(在成为英国许多街道的重要组成部分后，电话亭在20世纪80年代开始消失，随着
移动电话的兴起，大部分电话亭被扔到了垃圾场)可知，电话亭在20世纪80年代开始停止使用
是因为它们输给了新技术。故选D。
【60题详解】
推理判断题。根据第五段As Inglis and, later other businessmen, got to work, repurposed phone
boxes began reappearing in cities and villages as people found new uses for them. Today, they are
once again a familiar sight, playing roles that are often just as important for the community as their
original
purpose.(随着英格利斯和后来的其他商人开始工作，改装后的电话亭开始在城市和乡村重新
出现，人们发现了它们的新用途。今天，它们再次成为人们熟悉的景象，扮演着与它们最初
的目的同样重要的角色)和第六段In rural areas, where ambulances can take a relatively long time
to arrive, the phone boxes have taken on a lifesaving
role.(在农村地区，救护车要花相当长的时间才能到达，电话亭就起到了拯救生命的作用)以及
第七段Others also looked at the phone boxes and saw business
opportunities.(其他人也在电话亭寻找商机)可推断出，电话亭之所以变得流行，主要是因为它
们的角色和功能发生了变化。故选C。
C
For those who can stomach it, working out before breakfast may be more beneficial for health
than eating first, according to a study of meal timing and physical activity.
Athletes and scientists have long known that meal timing affects performance. However, far
less has been known about how meal timing and exercise might affect general health.
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To find out, British scientists conducted a study. They first found 10 overweight and inactive
but otherwise healthy young men, whose lifestyles are, for better and worse, representative of those
of most of us. They tested the men’s fitness and resting metabolic (新陈代谢的) rates and took
samples (样品) of their blood and fat tissue.
Then, on two separate morning visits to the scientists’ lab, each man walked for an hour at an
average speed that, in theory should allow his body to rely mainly on fat for fuel. Before one of these
workouts, the men skipped breakfast, meaning that they exercised on a completely empty stomach
after a long overnight fast (禁食). On the other occasion, they ate a rich morning meal about two
hours before they started walking.
Just before and an hour after each workout, the scientists took additional samples of the men’s
blood and fat tissue.
Then they compared the samples. There were considerable differences. Most obviously, the
men displayed lower blood sugar levels at the start of their workouts when they had skipped
breakfast than when they had eaten. As a result, they burned more fat during walks on an empty
stomach than when they had eaten first. On the other hand, they burned slightly more calories
(卡路里), on average, during the workout after breakfast than after fasting.
But it was the effects deep within the fat cells that may have been the most significant, the
researchers found. Multiple genes behaved differently, depending on whether someone had eaten or
not before walking. Many of these genes produce proteins (蛋白质) that can improve blood sugar
regulation and insulin (胰岛素) levels throughout the body and so are associated with improved
metabolic health. These genes were much more active when the men had fasted before exercise than
when they had breakfasted.
The implication of these results is that to gain the greatest health benefits from exercise, it may
be wise to skip eating first.
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