B. At Kensington Market. C. In the Hockey Hall of Fame. D. At the Village by the Grange. 【答案】1. C 2. A 3. D 【解析】

这是一篇应用文。短文主要介绍加拿大多伦多的几种旅游活动。 【1题详解】

细节理解题。由Niagara Falls Full Day Tour中的 “Afterwards, spend time exploring the shops and attractions of the charming, scenic town Niagara-on-the-Lake”可知，午饭后可以去风光旖旎的尼亚加拉小镇上逛逛商店和寻找好玩的地方。所以参加尼亚加拉瀑布全天游的游客午餐后会可以去尼亚加拉小镇购物。故选C项。 【2题详解】

细节理解题。由Hop On/Hop Off City Tour Toronto中的“This 2.5-hour tour”可知，第二个活动历时两个半小时，是这几个旅游活动中时间最短的。故选A项。 【3题详解】

细节理解题。由Downtown Toronto Bike Tour中的“Meet your guide at the Village by the Grange in the morning for a brief training.”可知，游客早上要在 the Village by the Grange与导游汇合并接受基本的训练。故选D项。

B

There is now a museum for pizza lovers in America’s pizza capital, New York City. The Museum of Pizza is devoted to pizza, cheese and sauce, but there’s more to it than meets the tougue.

“It’s often that the simplest ideas are the best. And we wanted to use pizza’s appeal to get people through the door and to look at art and hear about history in a different forms,” said Alexandra Serio, Chief Content Officer at Nameless Network, the group that baked the Museum of Pizza idea. Another instantly recognizable characteristic of the space is the bright colors that are weaved (穿行) throughout the exhibits—perfect for taking social media-ready pictures.

Located on the street level of Brooklyn’s William Vale hotel, the museum is a large, one-floor space that houses a wide variety of art, from giant photographs to sculptures that surround visitors.

Serio said exhibits of this kind are becoming an advantage for museums as they try to get younger legs to walk through their doors. “It’s a kind of change,” she said. “You’ll see it in the next few years because of museums like the Museum of Ice Cream, and multiple pop-ups (出现) of this kind of museums suiting a younger audience and seeing

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how they can make their exhibitions more attractive, touch and photography friendly.”

“Honestly, I thought it would be like more of a museum in the beginning, with the pizza boxes and it tells you when it was developed and things like that,” said Nene Raye, visitor from New Jersey.

Lydia Melendez, a self-described “pizza fan”, bought her tickets in April and for her, this experience was worth the wait. “I thought it was going to be kind of boring, like I’m going to walk in and there’s just going to be a book about pizza and how to make it, but this is definitely one for the books.” she said. 4. What’s a noticeable attraction of the pizza-themed museum according to Serio? A. It covers a large area. B. Visitors can bake pizza in it.

C. It’s perfect for taking amazing pictures. D. Its exhibits are arranged in the simplest way. 5. Who is the museum targeted at? A. Younger audience. C. Artists and sculpturers.

6. What does Lydia Melendez think of the museum? A. It is kind of disappointing. C. It is definitely a dull museum. 7. Which can be the best title for the text? A. Small Pizza, Huge Influence B. New York City, Pizza Capital

C. Fashionable Museums Appear in America D. Pizza Museum Meets More Than the Tongue 【答案】4. C 5. A 6. B 7. D 【解析】

这是一篇新闻报道类记叙文。短文介绍了美国纽约的快闪披萨博物馆及游客对它的评价。 【4题详解】

细节理解题。由第二段“Another instantly recognizable characteristic of the space is the bright colors that are weaved (穿行) throughout the exhibits—perfect for taking social media-ready pictures.”可知，展品间明亮的光照非常适合拍摄社交媒体上的照片。所以根据 Serio所说这家披萨主题博物馆最引人注目的地方是灯光布置能

B. It is surprisingly wonderful. D. It looks like a traditional museum. B. Ice cream lovers.

D. Professional photographers.

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拍出令人惊喜的照片。故选C项。 【5题详解】

细节理解题。由第四段“ It’s a kind of change,” she said. “You’ll see it in the next few years because of museums like the Museum of Ice Cream, and multiple pop-ups (出现) of this kind of museums suiting a younger audience”可知，此披萨博物馆是一种改变，和冰激凌博物馆及其他很多这样的博物馆一样，更适合年轻人的需求。所以博物馆针对的对象是年轻的观众。故选A项。 【6题详解】

推理判断题。由最后一段“I thought it was going to be kind of boring, like I’m going to walk in and there’s just going to be a book about pizza and how to make it, but this is definitely one for the books.” she said”可知，我以为这种博物馆很无趣。她觉得，这里不过是寻找披萨食谱的地方。但她很开心，因为实际经历与她的凭空想象大相径庭。所以根据Lydia Melendez所说的话的内容可以判断出，Lydia Melendez原以为这个披萨博物馆会比较枯燥乏味，但是走进去却发现这个博物馆并不枯燥而是太棒了，太奇妙了，她对此感到非常吃惊。故选B项。 【7题详解】

主旨大意题。由第一段“The Museum of Pizza is devoted to pizza, cheese and sauce, but there’s more to it than meets the tougue.”可知，披萨博物馆专门展出披萨、奶酪和酱料，但它满足的不仅仅是你的味觉。以及下文对快闪披萨博物馆的具体介绍。以及游客对于它的积极的评价可知，短文主要介绍新型博物馆——披萨博物馆满足的不仅仅是你的味觉。故短文的最佳标题为“披萨博物馆满足的不仅仅是你的味觉”。故选D项。

C

If we want a fair shot at transitioning to renewable energy, we’ll need one critical thing: technologies that can change electricity from wind and sun into a chemical fuel for storage and vice versa (反之亦然). Commercial devices that do this exist, but most are costly and perform only half of the expectation. Now, researchers have created small lab-scale devices that do both jobs. If larger versions work as well, they would help make it possible—or at least more affordable—to run the world on renewables.

The market for such technologies has grown along with renewables: In 2007, solar and wind provided just 0.8% of all power in the United States: in 2017, that number was 8%, according to the U. S. Energy Information Administration. But the demand for electricity often doesn’t match the supply from solar and wind. In sunny California, for example, solar panels regularly produce more power than needed in the middle of the day, but none at

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night, after most workers and students return home.

Some companies are beginning to install massive rows of batteries in hopes of storing extra energy and balancing the financial sheet. But batteries are costly and store only enough energy to back up the power system for a few hours at most. Another option is to store the energy by transforming it into hydrogen fuel. Devices called electrolyzers (电解器) do this by using electricity—ideally from solar and wind power—to break down water into oxygen and hydrogen gas, a carbon-free fuel. A second set of devices called fuel cells can then transform that hydrogen back to electricity to power cars, trucks, and buses, or to feed it to the power system. But commercial electrolyzers and fuel cells use different catalysts (催化剂) to speed up the two reactions, meaning a single device can t do both jobs. The researchers must conquer this.

“They did a really good job with that.” says Sossina Haile, a chemist at Northwestern University in Evanston. Still, she holds a cautious view that both her new device and the one from the O’Hayre lab are small laboratory demonstrations. For the technology to have a societal impact, researchers will need to scale up the button-size devices, a process that typically reduces performance.

8. What can we learn about the new device from the first paragraph? A. Its universal use remains to be seen. B. It is more expensive but more practical. C. It can transform more renewable energy. D. It is the most advanced around the world. 9. What does paragraph 2 mainly talk about? A. The rapid development of American technologies.

B. The potential market for energy transformation technologies. C. The history of energy transformation technologies. D. The lack of power in California.

10. What may the researchers focus on next? A. Lessening costly batteries.

B. Increasing the efficiency of the two reactions. C. Looking for one shared catalysts for the two reactions.

D. Breaking down water into a carbon-free fuel without using electricity. 11. What is Haile’s attitude to the future of the new device?

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