2023高考英语话题阅读 Sea Exploration

【语篇解读】　本文是一篇说明文。介绍了英国的“年度最佳水下摄影师”大赛，并对几幅获奖或有代表性的作品和其摄影师进行了详细的介绍。

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[2021·山东烟台市高三模拟卷]The Underwater Photographer of the Year, which originated from 1965, is a yearly contest based in the United Kingdom. As you might expect, the focus is on photos taken under water, whether in the ocean, in lakes or rivers, or even swimming pools.

The pictures are judged in several different categories. The contest in 2019 had over 5,500 entries from 70 different countries.

The grand prize winner was “Frozen Mobile Home” by French photographer Greg Lecoeur. The photo shows seals swimming around a small iceberg. To get the picture, Mr. Lecoeur traveled to Antarctica in a small boat and spent time tracking the life around floating icebergs.

The photo “Last Dawn, Last Gasp” by Pasquale Vassallo of Italy won the award for Ocean Protection Photographer of the Year. Mr. Vassallo said that he went diving early in the morning to take this picture of a tuna (金枪鱼) trapped as fishermen pulled their nets in.

Mr. Vassallo also took “Octopus Training”， a picture that won in the category of “Behavior”. He says that when he came up after a dive, he noticed a soccer ball floating on the surface. When he went to check it out, he saw that there was an octopus hanging from the ball. Mr. Vassallo says he doesn't understand what the octopus was doing, but wonders if it was training for the World Cup.

Though Rooman Luc of Belgium didn't win the “Portrait” category, his photo, titled “Angry Seahorse”， is quite striking. The close­up shot of a seahorse staring strictly into the camera was named runner up (second place). He said he spent nearly an hour standing in knee­high water being bitten by mosquitos in order to get the picture.

The contest has many more amazing photos that can be viewed on the site, along with the stories behind them. There is even a book with all of the contents that can be downloaded for free.

1．Which isn't suitable to enter the Underwater Photographer of the Year contest?

A．The crying dolphin.

B．Saving the elephant.

C．The dancing lemon shark.

D．Kissing the whale.

2．In which section of a website can we read the text?

A．Arts.　　　　B．Literature.

C．Documentary. D．Education.

3．What is the photo “Last Dawn, Last Gasp” aimed to tell us?

A．A tuna is hard to shoot.

B．We should protect ocean animals.

C．Diving early in the morning is painful.

D．There are too many fishing nets in the sea.

4．What can we learn from the photo of “Octopus Training”？

A．The Octopus is endangered.

B．Photo­taking should be serious.

C．The photographer has a sense of humor.

D．The photographer is concerned about the Octopus.

Keys BABC