专题10 阅读理解（新闻报道）15篇 【2025高频考点】-冲刺2025年高考英语演练 （新高考专用） （2025·福建龙岩·一模）English-language editions of two entertaining and insightful novels, Cat Country and Mr Ma and Son, written by one of China’s most accomplished novelists, the late Lao She, will soon be on bookshelves around the country. Cat Country, arguably China’s first venture into the field of science fiction, centers around a space traveler from China who crash-lands on an alien planet, where he discovers a country inhabited entirely by Cat People. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and literary critic Ian Johnson says in the book’s introduction, Lao She stretches himself further than ever, producing one of the most remarkable, complicated and insightful novels of modern China. The sarcastic (讽刺的) humor and metaphorical writing are believed to be influenced by the late author’s early experiences in London. Lao She taught Chinese at the University of London’s School of Oriental Studies from 1924 to 1929, a time when the British still viewed China and the Chinese with strong mixture of distrust, dismissiveness, guilt and fear after two opium wars and the Boxer Rebellion(1900). It was there that he began his career as a writer of patriotic but complex fictions about contemporary China, writes University of London’s senior Chinese literature lecturer Julia Lovell in the introduction of Mr Ma and Son, who calls it“the first Chinese novel to face directly British racism toward China”. Based on Lao She’s London experiences, the novel displays the Mas’ attempts to deal with the deeply rooted cultural misconceptions by 1920s English society after they move there to run an antiques shop. As they go about building their new lives in London and striving to maintain a sense of cultural self, their own relationships are tested. “We felt that these two books offer a fascinating insight into how he works and thinks, exploring China’s place in the world and China’s self-image through evocative (唤起感情的) and beautiful writing that is as relevant today as it was when it was first written in the 1930s,” says Jo Lusby, managing director of Penguin China. 1．What does Cat Country stand as in China’s science fiction A．A peak. B．A turning point. C．A miracle. D．A pilot. 2．What did Lao She’s London experience contribute to A．His writing style. B．His career as a teacher. C．His sense of family unity. D．His prejudice to the British. 3．What message is mainly conveyed in Mr. Ma and Son according to the text A．Business challenges. B．Cross-cultural conflicts. C．Tight bonds in family. D．The backwardness of China. 4．In Jo Lusby’s eyes, the two books _____. A．highlight China’s social conflicts B．establish Lao She’s status in literature C．deepen Lao She’s understanding of authoring D．provide an angle to look into China’s identity （2025·河北邯郸·三模）Early in the morning, the commander of SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission opened the top hat ... ...
