《2025年情景导学高中英语选择性必修第二册外研版》

Ⅰ. 阅读理解
Sometimes it's hard to let go. For many British people, that can apply to institutions and objects that represent their country's past — age - old castles, splendid homes... and red phone boxes.
Beaten first by the march of technology and lately by the terrible weather in scrapyards (废品场), the phone boxes representative of an age are now making something of a comeback. Adapted in imaginative ways, many have reappeared on city streets and village greens housing tiny cafés, mobile phone repair shops or even defibrillators (除颤器).
The original iron boxes with the round roofs first appeared in 1926. They were designed by Giles Gilbert Scott. After becoming an important part of many British streets, the phone boxes began disappearing in the 1980s, with the rise of the mobile phone sending most of them away to the scrapyards.
About that time, Tony Inglis's engineering and transport company got the job to remove the phone boxes from the streets and auction (拍卖) them off. But he ended up buying hundreds of them himself with the intention of repairing and selling them. He said that he had heard the calls to preserve the boxes and had seen how some of them were listed as historic buildings. He said he had been convinced that he could make a business of restoring them, and he was soon proved right.
As Mr Inglis and later other businessmen got to work, repurposed phone boxes began reappearing in cities and villages as people found new uses for them. Today, they are once again a familiar sight, playing roles that are often just as important for the community as their original purpose.
In rural areas, where ambulances can take a relatively long time to arrive, the phone boxes have taken on a life - saving role. Local organisations can install defibrillators to help in emergencies.
Others also looked at the phone boxes and saw business opportunities. A company that advocates repairing mobile phones rather than abandoning them opened a mini workshop in a London phone box in 2016. The tiny shops made economic sense, according to a founder of the company.
Mr Inglis said phone boxes evoked an era when things were built to last. “I like what they are to people, and I enjoy bringing things back,” he said.
1. Why are the phone boxes making a comeback?
A. To form a beautiful sight of the city.
B. To improve telecommunications services.
C. To remind people of a historical period.
D. To meet the requirement of green economy.
(C)
2. Why did the phone boxes begin to go out of service in the 1980s?
A. They were not well designed.
B. They provided bad services.
C. They had a short history.
D. They lost to new technologies.
(D)
3. What mainly makes the phone boxes become popular again?
A. Their new appearance and lower prices.
B. The push of the local organisations.
C. Their changed roles and functions.
D. The big funding of the businessmen.
(C)

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