备战2026年高考英语新热点时文阅读4（含答案与解析）

中小学教育资源及组卷应用平台 备战2026年高考时文阅读4 （每个2.5分，共40分） 文章导读 阅读理解 A篇：一些科学读物 B篇：竖琴的未来 C篇： 微型机器人在药物输送方面有很大潜力 D篇：你了解皮肤吗？ A Science to Look out for In 2024, some of the best reads will probe our toughest questions. Why is gravity still a puzzle Do humans make pandemics Are we all ocean people Truths and problems dominate the books we are likely to read in the year ahead. We've escaped the food chain, but now we have to defend the living world we once fought against. We have left the planet only to discover all its problems are still with us. It seems that we now lead easy lives for which we reap surprising and unhappy consequences. What can the science that drove our success do to ensure our survival Irresistible attraction We are still a long way off from understanding how the world works. We still have no clear idea why goose - ups must happen to us. The science that has driven Claudia de Rham's adventures in science, in The Beauty of Falling (Princeton University Press), is the force that follows her from being an astronaut hopeful to becoming a world - class physicist. Frank Close brings a particle physicist's perspective to bear on the same puzzle in Charge (Oxford University Press). The secret to gravity, the force that gives weight to mass, lies in the exquisite balance of electrical charge in the atom. Hunt for killers Luckily, Close and de Rham are able to research their world without damaging it. Early natural historians never had that moral luxury, says Jason Roberts, whose Every Living Thing (Quercus) tells the story of the Victorian collectors who scoured the world in catalogues of life on Earth, Carl Linnaeus and Georges - Louis Leclerc Buffon. The legacy of their battle - without committing such heinous crimes as introducing invasive species - is a new way to look at the living world. The social network The understanding of animal societies expands at an ever - accelerating rate. In The Web - connected Animal (University of Chicago Press), evolutionary biologist Monica Bond reveals the unexpected sociability of creatures you are - from a giraffe to a Tasmanian devil - like is all about who you know. Caught out Unusual animals run unusual risks, according to Sabina Shah in The Human Menagerie. The animals' unique vulnerability to nature's because what we do and what we help create them. Whether humans are uniquely able to overcome them is a moot point. China's handling of the covid - 19 outbreak in Wu Han (Oxford University Press) is fascinating, though also daunting and terrifying as we read how it spread. The more we study that global crisis for lessons, the bigger and more difficult those lessons become. In The Rich Flea and the Poor Tick (Blooms Hopkins University Press), Mattia Prosperi shows the many entangled and often unexpected ways that people with low incomes bear the brunt of epidemic disease. 1. What is the main idea of the passage A. To introduce some be ... ...