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第  PAGE 8 页 共  NUMPAGES 8 页 教师看高考 阅读理解、专题训练(**)、时文阅读 ◆ 技巧点拨 时文阅读是高考阅读理解的考查重点。它所报道的都是国内外最新的事物或趋势，内容新颖，语言地道。阅读时文可拓宽考生视野，使考生了解国内外大事及最新动态，激发考生的阅读兴趣，增加考生的语言积累， 进而提高考生的语言运用能力，从而做到从容应考。时文多为记叙文或说明文，或记叙某人某物，或介绍某新生事物、科研进展、生活时尚等。此外，广告也可归为时文范畴。 因此，要正确理解阅读材料，考生需灵活运用阅读技巧，从而准确把握文章脉络，抓住文章主旨。 ◆ 活学活用 阅读下列短文，按要求完成读写任务 Move Earth — its no science fiction[来源:学+科+网Z+X+X+K] LONDON — Scientists have found an unusual way to prevent our planet from overheating：move it to a cooler spot.All you have to do is send a few comets(彗星)in the direction of Earth，and its orbit(轨道)will be changed.Our world will then be sent spinning into a safer，colder part of the solar system. This idea for improving our climate comes from a group of US National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA) engineers and American astronomers.They say their plan could add another six billion years to the useful lifetime of our planet—effectively doubling its working life. The plan put forward by Dr Laughlin，and his colleagues Don Korycansky and Fred Adams，needs carefully directing a comet or asteroid so that it passes close by our planet and sends some of its gravitational energy to Earth. “Earths orbital speed would increase as a result and we would move to a higher orbit away from the Sun，” Laughlin said. Engineers would then direct their comet so that it passed close to Jupiter or Saturn.The comet would pick up energy from one of these giant planets.Later its orbit would bring it back to Earth，and the process would be repeated. In the short term，the plan provides an ideal way to global warming，although the team was actually concerned with a much greater danger.The sun is certain to heat up in about a billion years and so “seriously compromise” our biosphere(生物圈)— by cooking us. Thats why the group decided to try to save Earth. The plan has one or two worrying aspects，however.For a start，space engineers would have to be very careful about how they directed their asteroid or comet towa