27篇高考英语C篇阅读真题

（一）2026年6月高考英语全国1卷-阅读C篇

In line with longstanding initiatives to expand its green spaces, New York City is planting tens of thousands of trees each year. They provide shade, lower surface temperatures, absorb a surprising amount of airborne carbon, remove tiny pollutants, and provide wildlife habitat along with just plain beauty. Something could go wrong, though, according to a new study. Oaks and sweetgums, which currently account for a majority of the city's trees, produce huge amounts of a chemical substance called isoprene. Harmless by itself, isoprene interacts rapidly with polluting nitrogen oxides released by vehicles, buildings and industry to form ground-level ozone（臭氧）—a major factor in many breathing problems. The research, carried out by scientists at the Columbia Climate School and other institutions, found that if the city maintains past species patterns in new plantings, isoprene production in Manhattan in coming decades will go up by about 140%, and resulting summer ozone levels as much as 30%. "We're all for planting more trees. They bring so many good things," said study coauthor Róisín Commane. "But if we're not careful, we could make air quality worse."

The Parks Department is not oblivious to the issue. A study carried out by some of its researchers several years ago concluded that city trees did release isoprene. "We didn't make a big deal of that," said Novem Auyeung, a Parks Department senior scientist. She said trees should not be viewed as the enemy. "We could plant any trees we want to, if we just rethink our car-centric lifestyle," she said. "We're not going to go cutting down any big old oaks, and neither will the department completely stop planting new ones," said Auyeung. "You have to think about what you would lose if you do that." Oaks are keystone species, she pointed out, providing food and habitat for native insects, birds and other animals.

28. What does the new study imply regarding oaks and sweetgums?
A. They affect the growth of other trees.
B. They absorb less carbon than expected.
C. They harm people's health indirectly.
D. They raise the local temperature slowly.

答案解析： C。根据第二段，橡树和枫香树本身无害，但它们释放的异戊二烯会与车辆等排放的氮氧化物快速反应，生成地面臭氧，而臭氧是引发诸多呼吸问题的主要因素。可见，这些树种通过化学反应的间接方式危害人体健康，而非直接影响温度或吸收碳的能力。故选C。

29. Which of the following may Commane suggest based on their study?
A. Cutting down the isoprene-producing trees.
B. Suspending tree-planting for a few decades.
C. Changing the species of trees in new plantings.
D. Removing isoprene released by existing trees.

答案解析： C。Commane认为植树是好事，但"如果我们不小心，可能会使空气质量变差"。结合研究发现（若维持现有树种模式，异戊二烯排放和臭氧水平将大幅上升），合理推断其建议应为在新植树时更换排放异戊二烯较少的树种，而非采取砍树、暂停植树或直接清除异戊二烯等极端做法。故选C。

30. What does the underlined phrase "oblivious to" in paragraph 5 mean?
A. Honest about.
B. Unaware of.
C. Related to.
D. Optimistic about.

答案解析： B。画线部分所在句为"The Parks Department is not oblivious to the issue."，下文提到其研究人员几年前就研究过并得出城市树木释放异戊二烯的结论，说明公园部门对该问题是知晓的、并非浑然不觉。由此可猜测"oblivious to"意为"没意识到"，与unaware of同义。故选B。

31. What would Auyeung probably advocate?
A. Reducing car use in daily life.
B. Providing animals with new habitats.
C. Controlling population growth.
D. Doing more research on the problem.

答案解析： A。根据最后两段，Auyeung表示只要重新思考以汽车为中心的生活方式，就可以种任何我们想要的树，且不主张砍掉老橡树或停止种植新橡树。这说明她倡导的解决方案是从源头减少汽车尾气等氮氧化物排放，即减少日常生活中的汽车使用，而不是停止植树或单纯为动物提供新栖息地等。故选A。

（二）2026年6月高考英语全国2卷-阅读C篇

The peak of Mount Qomolangma, 8,849 meters above sea level. Chimborazo, 6,263 m; Mont Blanc, 4,806 m; Pradidali hut, at the foot of the Pala group in the Dolomites, 2,278 m. It is common practice to provide the elevation（高度）of a place. Simple readings are now readily available on our phones and wearables. But elevation is necessarily relative: only the choice of a reference point allows us to express numerically the height of an object or a location. The idea of sea level as a reference point for elevations has by now been around for so long as to go essentially unnoticed—we mention it without even considering what it means. That the concept has a history is easily ignored. We tend to forget that sea level is a product of technically and culturally determined assumptions. In this book I tell a story of these assumptions.

Appropriately, the book took shape during a summer spent between sea and mountains. A month after visiting the French Riviera and enjoying the sandy beaches of Nice and Menton, I went hiking with friends in the Pala group. Resting on a pass near the Pradidali hut, we began discussing the readings offered by our altimeters（测高仪）. Why did they vary ever so slightly from one instrument to the next? This sense of uncertainty led me to think about the meaning of zero. This is how I began my search for the conceptual history of sea level.

In this book I examine three crucial stages in the history of mean sea level. These stages mirror the development of human conceptions of the sea. Since I began thinking about this project in August 2011, the issue of sea-level rise and the need to place it historically have only become more urgent: between then and the end of 2022 the global sea rose by almost 5 centimeters, about half of the overall rise recorded by satellites since 1993.

28. What does the author point out at the beginning of the text?
A. Some mountains are getting higher.
B. Data on wearables are misleading.
C. The concept of elevation is relative.
D. The reference point is hard to locate.

答案解析： C。由第一段"But elevation is necessarily relative: only the choice of a reference point allows us to express numerically the height of an object or a location."可知，作者明确指出海拔概念必然是相对的，必须有参照点才能用数值表达高度。选项C与此一致。故选C。

29. What is paragraph 3 mainly about?
A. How the altimeter was invented.
B. What initiated the author's research.
C. Why the digital readings varied.
D. Where the author spent his holiday.

答案解析： B。第三段描述作者与朋友徒步时发现测高仪读数有微小差异，这种不确定性让他开始思考"零"的意义，从而开启了平均海平面概念史的研究。整段正是讲述触发其研究的原因。故选B。

30. What does the underlined word "it" refer to in the last paragraph?
A. The book.
B. The project.
C. The issue.
D. The development.

答案解析： C。最后一段中"the issue of sea-level rise and the need to place it historically"意为海平面上升问题以及将这一问题置于历史背景中审视的必要性，"it"指代的就是前半句提到的"the issue of sea-level rise"。故选C。

31. What can be the title of the book mentioned in the text?
A. The Altimeter: A Must-Have
B. Sea Level: A History
C. Meaning of Zero: Nothing or Everything
D. Mountains to Seas: Ups and Downs

答案解析： B。文中多次提及"the conceptual history of sea level""the history of mean sea level"，作者明确表示本书讲述的是海平面作为参照点的假设及其历史。因此，最贴合的书名应当是《海平面：一段历史》。故选B。

（三）2026年1月浙江省首考英语卷-阅读C篇

Human beings have always loved reviews: word of mouth has long been regarded as one of the most valuable marketing tools available to a company. Consumers enjoy reading and giving reviews. However, the problem is that a lot of the reviews are fake（假的）. Shabnam Azimi and Alexander Krasnikov of Loyola University of Chicago and Kwong Chan of Northeastern University recently published a study on fake reviews.

The study used a dataset of 1,600 reviews of Chicago hotels. Some of them were real; others were fake. The reviews were presented to 400 subjects. Each subject got eight reviews to read: a balanced set of two positive fake, two positive real, two negative fake and two negative real, presented in a random order. The reviews were written by real people who were given information about the hotel.

The results show that consumers generally trust negative reviews more than positive ones. Moreover, we humans tend to assume that positive reviews might be fake. "Overall, negative reviews are less common. So, we pay more attention to them. When a negative review is fake, we get tricked," Azimi says.

When it came to faking a review, length was important to believability, as was detail. A long, negative review of a hotel, complete with lots of information, tended to convince participants. A lengthy, positive review, on the other hand, was regarded as suspicious, and participants tended to trust writers that kept their glowing reviews short. Emotion was also important in convincing readers—or the lack of emotion, at least. Azimi says study participants tended not to trust reviews where the writers expressed their feelings in a big way. The more dispassionate that negative write-up, the more likely it was to take the reader in.

The fake reviews written for Azimi's study were put together by humans, but increasingly, fake reviews are being written by AI, which makes them look more real. Though many companies use algorithms（算法）to weed out fake reviews, Azimi points out that the machines are programmed by humans, and given our limited ability to spot fake reviews, this isn't a good sign.

28. Which aspect of the study does paragraph 2 mainly talk about?
A. Its design.
B. Its findings.
C. Its purposes.
D. Its significance.

答案解析： A。第二段详细描述了研究的设计细节，包括评论数量、参与者人数、评论类型分配及呈现方式，并未涉及研究发现、目的或意义。因此本段主要说明研究设计，故选A。

29. What does the underlined word "glowing" in paragraph 4 mean?
A. Funny.
B. Abusive.
C. Insightful.
D. Praising.

答案解析： D。根据第四段，"glowing reviews"与上文"positive review"对应，且后文提到"short"的正面评论更受信任，可推知"glowing"意为"高度赞扬的"，故选D(Praising)。

30. What kind of review would readers most likely trust?
A. A long, positive one.
B. An unemotional, negative one.
C. A short, negative one.
D. An enthusiastic, positive one.

答案解析： B。第四段指出，负面评论若"不带情感"(dispassionate)更容易获得信任，且长而详细的负面评论更具说服力；正面评论则相反，长篇或情感热烈的会被怀疑。因此最可信的是"不带情感的负面评论"，故选B。

31. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?
A. Many companies are producing fake reviews.
B. Writing fake reviews will be declared illegal.
C. Machines can detect fake reviews accurately.
D. It will be harder to recognize fake reviews.

答案解析： D。末段提到AI生成的虚假评论更逼真，而检测算法由人类设计，但人类辨别能力有限，暗示未来识别虚假评论的难度将增加。故选D。

（四）2025年6月高考英语全国1卷-阅读C篇

While safety improvements might have been made to our streets in recent years, transport studies also show declines in pedestrian（行人）mobility, especially among young children. Many parents say there's too much traffic on the roads for their children to walk safely to school, so they pack them into the car instead. Dutch authors Thalia Verkade and Marco te Brömmelstroet are bothered by facts like these. In their new book Movement: How to Take Back Our Streets and Transform Our Lives, they call for a rethink of our streets and the role they play in our lives.

Life on city streets started to change decades ago. Whole neighbourhoods were destroyed to make way for new road networks and kids had to play elsewhere. Some communities fought back. Most famously, a Canadian journalist who had moved her family to Manhattan in the early 1950s led a campaign to stop the destruction of her local park. Describing her alarm at its proposed replacement with an expressway, Jane Jacobs called on her mayor（市长）to champion "New York as a decent place to live, and not just rush through." Similar campaigns occurred in Australia in the late 1960s and 1970s as well.

Although these campaigns were widespread, the reality is that the majority of the western cities were completely redesigned around the needs of the motor car. The number of cars on roads has been increasing rapidly. In Australia we now have over twenty million cars for just over twenty-six million people, among the highest rate of car ownership in the world. We invest a lot in roads that help us rush through, but we fail to account for the true costs. Do we really recognise what it costs us as a society when children can't move safely around our communities? The authors of Movement have it right: it's time to think differently about that street outside your front door.

28. What phenomenon does the author point out in paragraph 1?
A. Cars often get stuck on the road.
B. Traffic accidents occur frequently.
C. People walk less and drive more.
D. Pedestrians fail to follow the rules.

答案解析： C。根据第一段描述，交通研究表明行人出行减少（declines in pedestrian mobility），尤其是儿童；家长因路上车太多不让孩子步行上学，而是让他们坐车(pack them into the car instead)。这概括起来就是"人们走得更少，开车更多"。故选C。

29. What were the Canadian journalist and other campaigners trying to do?
A. Keep their cities livable.
B. Promote cultural diversity.
C. Help the needy families.
D. Make expressways accessible.

答案解析： A。根据第三段，加拿大记者Jane Jacobs发起运动，呼吁市长让纽约成为"decent place to live, and not just rush through"，即反对为修高速公路破坏公园，保持城市宜居。这与选项"保持城市宜居"一致。故选A。

30. What can be inferred about the campaigns in Australia in the late 1960s and 1970s?
A. They boosted the sales of cars.
B. They turned out largely ineffective.
C. They won government support.
D. They advocated building new parks.

答案解析： B。根据第三段末尾和第四段开头，虽然类似运动在澳大利亚等地广泛发生，但"the reality is that the majority of the western cities were completely redesigned around the needs of the motor car"（现实是大多数西方城市仍完全围绕汽车需求重新设计），汽车数量持续暴增。由此可推知，这些运动在结果上基本失败了。故选B。

31. What can be a suitable title for the text?
A. Why the Rush?
B. What's Next?
C. Where to Stay?
D. Who to Blame?

答案解析： A。文章核心在追问：我们为了汽车通行(rush through)牺牲街道的生活功能、儿童安全等，付出巨大社会代价却未意识到，是否值得？标题"Why the Rush?"一语双关，既指匆忙通行的交通方式，又质问这种设计理念的合理性，紧扣全文。故选A。

（五）2025年6月高考英语全国2卷-阅读C篇

When Sonja Detrinidad opened her online shop selling houseplants, she didn't have high hopes for it. But the opposite happened: She was flooded, shipping out 1,200 orders in June of 2020 alone. In the past year, Detrinidad sent out more than 70,000 plants. Her success is just one example of increased time at home leading to an explosion in the houseplant industry.

"Plants are in fashion right now," says Dr. Melinda Knuth, a researcher from the University of Florida. "People who live in plant-rich environments report a higher life satisfaction rating," she says. "Adding more nature to our environment can change our mood and how we think." Plants can improve our state of mind in a few ways but the biggest is by decreasing our level of cortisol, the stress hormone（激素）in our body. "Students who are around plants perform better academically than students who are in a classroom without plants," says Knuth. "This productivity also translates into the workplace for adults. Our study showed that there was a 30% decrease in sick leave for people who were in plant-rich workplaces."

If you're among the groups of people who are enjoying the mental and physical health benefits of surrounding yourself with plants, don't beat yourself up if one (or a few!) doesn't make it. "Doctors practice medicine and lawyers practice law and you should allow yourself the practice it takes to sustain a plant. Tending to plants is an exercise in patience and learning. Be invested in taking care of it, but if it dies, go get another one," Detrinidad says.

28. How was Detrinidad's business when it started?
A. It faced tough competition.
B. It suffered a great loss.
C. It got lots of financial support.
D. It went surprisingly well.

答案解析： D。根据第一段"she didn't have high hopes for it. But the opposite happened: She was flooded, shipping out 1,200 orders in June of 2020 alone."可知，Detrinidad开店时本没抱太大期望，但订单量却很大，生意出奇地好。故选D。

29. What is one of Knuth's findings about plants?
A. They appeal more to students.
B. They purify the environment.
C. They raise the cortisol level.
D. They enhance productivity.

答案解析： D。根据第二、三段Knuth的研究，植物能降低皮质醇水平（并非提高），且学生在有植物的环境中学业表现更好，成人在有植物的职场中病假减少30%，这些均说明植物能够提升人的生产力。故选D。

30. What does Detrinidad try to explain by mentioning doctors and lawyers?
A. The necessity of social skills.
B. The meaning of sustainability.
C. The importance of repeated efforts.
D. The value of professional opinions.

答案解析： C。Detrinidad在最后一段提到"Doctors practice medicine and lawyers practice law... Tending to plants is an exercise in patience and learning."，将养植物比作医生律师执业，意在强调反复练习和不断尝试的重要性，即使失败了也应继续尝试。故选C。

31. What can be a suitable title for the text?
A. Time to Replace Houseplants
B. Plants Boost Your Mood
C. Tips on Choosing Houseplants
D. Plants Brighten Your Home

答案解析： B。全文通过案例和研究，集中阐述了植物对人的情绪、压力水平和效率等方面的积极影响，核心主题是植物能改善人的心情和精神状态。选项B准确概括了这一主旨。故选B。