1、12019 年中考英语：阅读理解优编题（三）【实战训练】 A（2019 中考科普环保类选练）When youre curious （好奇） about something, and want to know more about it, you can use the way of asking questions. Asking questions is the first step to make discoveries and find interesting answers. The steps below can guide you during the research （研究）.
2、Step 1 On a notecard or piece of paper, write down the subject that you are interested in. Just get the main idea down. For example, you might write: Discover more about dinosaurs.Step 2 Next, stop and think for a moment about what you already know about your subject. List what you already know like
3、 the sentences below:（1） Dinosaurs lived long before human beings appeared.（2） Dinosaurs lived on the earth for more than 150 million years.（3） Some dinosaurs fed on plants, some on meat.Step 3 What can you do with what you want to learn? By asking questions. On your paper, start writing down questi
4、ons about the dinosaurs as you think of them:（1）Whats the best weather for dinosaurs to live in?（2）How many kinds of dinosaurs are there?（3）Have dinosaurs really disappeared?Step 4 Armed with your list of questions, you can now go to the nearest library or computer to begin your research. As you lea
5、rn more about your subject, youll probably discover some new questions. For example, you might discover that dinosaurs disappeared about 65 million years ago. Why? What happened? Asking new questions can help you research your subject more widely.The next time you find something interesting to resea
6、rch, take time to organize （组织） your thinking by asking good questions. And remember learning more always brings more questions.1When you do some research, you should take the following steps: .2 list what you want to know choose a research subject list what you already know discover new problemsA B
7、 C D2From the passage, we know .Adinosaurs appeared after human beings Bnot all the dinosaurs fed on meatCdinosaurs lived on the earth for 65 million years Ddinosaurs liked warm seasons3What does “Armed with your list of questions” mean?APutting your list of questions under your armBDiscussing your
8、questions with your classmatesCWriting down your list of questionsDTaking your list of questions with you4According to the passage, which one is true?AYou can find all the answers onlineBLearn more, and youll have no questionsCAsking questions is the only way for researchDDuring the research, you ma
9、y keep finding new questions5The best title for this passage is “ ”.ADiscovering Dinosaurs BAsking Good QuestionsCFinding Subjects DLearning Steps参考答案 CBDDB【实战训练】 B中考英语阅读理解*一百元的价值A famous teacher was speaking to the students at our school. He began his lesson by holding up a 100 bill. Then he said t
10、o the three hundred students, “Who would like this 100 bill?” The students began to put up their hands at once.3Then he said, “I am going to give this 100 to one of you, but first, let me do this.” He then made the bill into a ball. Then he said, “Who wants it now?” The hands went back into the air.
11、“Well,” he said, “What if I do this?” and he dropped it on the floor and stepped on it. He picked up the dirty, crumpled bill and said, “Who still wants it?” Hands went back into the air.“My friends,” he said, “you have learned a valuable lesson today. No matter (无论) what I did to the money, you sti
12、ll wanted it because it did not go down in value (价值). It was still worth l00!”Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and stepped on by the chances we take and the things that happen to us. We feel as if we are worth nothing. But remember, no matter what has happened to you, you will nev
13、er lose your value: you are always valuable to those people who love you. Your value doesnt come from what you do or whom you know, but WHO YOU ARE.You are special and valuable. Dont ever forget it!根据以上短文内容，然后从每题所给的四个选项中选择最佳选项。1. Even though it was dirty, the money _.A. still went up in value B. was
14、 worth nothingC. didnt go down in value D. was still ours2. We are always valuable to the people _.A. who pay us B. who call us C. who hate us D. who love us3. Your value doesnt come from what you do but _.A. who you know B. who made you C. who you remember D. who you are4. The sentence “Hands went
15、back into the air” means “_”.A. the students put up their hands againB. the students put down their handsC. the students put their hands behind their backs againD. the students put their hands in front of them45. Why did the famous teacher use a 100 bill at his lesson?A. Because he wanted to make th
16、e bill into a ball.B. Because he used to drop a bill on the floor and stepped on it.C. Because he was going to give the bill to one of his students.D. Because he wanted to make the students know what value was.【答案及解析】1. 选 C。根据第 4 段中的 No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it
17、did not go down in value 可知答案。2. 选 D。根据第 5 段中的 you are always valuable to those people who love you 可知答案。3. 选 D。根据第 5 段中的 Your value doesnt come from what you do or whom you know, but WHO YOU ARE 可知答案。4. 选 A。老师第一次问 Who would like this 100 bill? 时，同学们的反应是：The students began to put up their hands at o
18、nce. 老师第二次问 Who wants it now? 时， 同学们的反应是：The hands went back into the air. 老师第三次问：Who still wants it? 时，同学们的反应是：Hands went back into the air. 很显然，Hands went back into the air 中的 back 有类似 again 的含义，故选 A。5. 选 D。通读全文可以看出，老师利用这张百元大钞作“教具”，其目的是想告诉同学们，无论你怎样折腾这张百元大钞，它的价值都不会因此而减少。所以答案选 D 最佳。【实战训练】 C中考英语阅读理解*
19、网络瘾君子“I sometimes get up at three or four in the morning and I surf the net.”“I often check my e-mail forty times a day.”“I often spend more than three hours during one time on the net.”“I spend more time in chat rooms(聊天室) than with my real-1ife friends.”Do you know any people like these? They are
20、part of a new addiction(瘾) called Internet addiction. Internet addicts spend at least thirty to forty hours online 5every week. The use of the Internet can be an addiction like drug(毒品) use. People lose control(控制) of the time they spend on the InternetFor example, one college student was missing fo
21、r several days. His friends were worried, and they called the police. The police found the student in the computer lab: he was surfing the net for several days straight. Studies show that about 6 to 10% of Internet users become addicted. And people worry about the teens because the Internet is chang
22、ing the playing field for some of them. They spend more time in cyberspace than in the real world of friends and family. Is “surfing the net” a hobby or an addiction for you? You may have a problem if you have these symptoms(症状):You do not go to important family activities or you do not do school wo
23、rk because you like to spend hours on the Internet.You cant wait for your next online time. You plan to spend a short time online, but then you spend several hours. You go out with your friends less and less.根据以上短文内容，然后从每题所给的四个选项中选择最佳选项。1. What does the beginning of the passage tell us?A. How to bec
24、ome an Internet addict. B. What an Internet addict usually does.C. Where to find an Internet addict. D. Why to write this passage. 2 How does the writer describe the addicts use of Internet?A. It is something like keeping drugs. B. It is a way of producing drugs. C. It is like taking drugs. D. It is
25、 terrible to imagine. 3. Why do people worry about the teens?A. The teens are wasting too much money. B. They used to work on the Internet. C. The playing field of the teens will disappear. D. More and more of the teens wil1 become addicted to the Internet.4. The example in the passage shows that _.
26、A. Internet problems are more serious among college students6B. Internet addicts usually stay in the computer lab without sleepC. Some of the Internet users have already been seriously addictedD. The police often help to find those Internet addicts.5. What is the writer trying to tell us at the end
27、of the passage?A. Dont be addicted to the Internet.B. Go to family activities more often.C. Do things as you have plannedD. Stay with your parents as often as possible. 【答案及解析】1. 选 B。在短文的开头就述说了这些上网成瘾的人早上 3、4 点钟起床去上网；每天四次看E-mail；每次上网时间不少于 3 小时；甚至在网上聊天的时间比跟自己朋友在一起的时间还多。这些都是他们经常做的事情。故选 B。2. 选 C。由句子 The
28、 use of the Internet can be an addiction like during use.可知，人们上网成瘾就跟 take drug(吸毒)成瘾一样。3. 选 D。由第 3 段中的句子people worry about the teens.及 They spend more time in cyberspace than in the real world of friends and family.可知，这是成瘾的症状。故选 D。4. 选 C。短文中讲述了一个大学生失踪了好几天，他的朋友非常担心，而且还动用了警察去找他，结果却发现他一直在上网。这说明一些上网的人已经
29、有很大的网瘾了。故选 C。5. 选 A。文章例举了上网成瘾的坏处，并在结尾处例举了上网成瘾的症状，这就是要提醒我们不要变成“网络瘾君子”。答案选 A。【实战训练】 D（2019 中考科普环保类选练）Sorry to say, our brains naturally start slowing down at the young age of 30. It used to be thought that this couldnt be helped, but new studies show that people of any age can train their brains to wo
30、rk faster. “Your brain is a learning machine,“ says University of California scientist Dr. Michael Merzenich. Given the right tools, we can train our brains to act like they did when we were younger. All thats required is the practice designed just for the purpose: a few 7exercises for the mind. Mer
31、zenich has developed a computer-based training method to speed up the process（过程） in which the brain deals with information (). Since much of the data we receive comes through speech, the Brain Fitness Program works with language and hearing to better speed and accuracy （准确性）.Over the course of trai
32、ning, the program starts asking you to tell sounds (between “dog“ and “bog“, for example) at an increasingly faster speed. Its a bit like tennis instructor, says Merzenich, hitting balls at you faster and faster to keep you challenged. You may start out slow, but before long youre pretty quick. The
33、biggest finding in brain research in the last ten years is that the brain at any age is highly plastic. If you ask your brain to learn, it will learn. And it may even speed up while in the process. To keep your brain young and plastic you can do one of a million new activities that challenge and exc
34、ite you：playing table tennis or bridge, doing crossword puzzles, learning a language “When it comes to preventing ageing, you really do use it or lose it,“ says Barbara Sahakian, professor at Cambridge University. 1. According to the new studies, what will happen to our brains? A. They will not star
35、t slowing down until the age of 30 B. They will start working slowly after the age of 30 C. They can work as well as at a young age through certain exercisesD. They can not be improved once they start to slow down 2. The writer mentioned many ways to speed up your brain, EXCEPT_A. doing a million ne
36、w activities B. sleeping as much as possible C. playing some intelligent gamesD. playing table tennis 3. What can we learn from the text? A. Using right tools is important for brains work. B. Brain research deals with information from the Internet C. Dr. Merzenich is a scientist in computer,8D. Many
37、 activities can keep our brains young. 4. Which of the following agrees with the writers idea? A. The train methods work better for the old.B. People should train the brain to stop it from aging.C. The training of the brain should start at an early age.D. It is necessary to take part in as many acti
38、vities as possible.5. Which one is TRUE according to the passage? A. If you are 71 years old, your brain is too old to train.B. You can eat the food to keep your brain young and plastic. C. Merzenich has developed a computer-based training method to train brains.D. You will feel younger when you tra
39、in your brain.参考答案 CBDBC 【实战训练】 E（2019 中考选练）The first chocolate was eaten by people in South America hundreds of years ago. In those days, the people did not really eat chocolate. They used the cocoa bean (可可豆) to make a chocolate drink and they enjoyed it very much. Many years later, the cocoa bean
40、 was brought to other countries and people came to love the taste of chocolate.In 1824, John Cadbury opened a small shop in Britain. One of the things he sold was chocolate drink. In 1831, he opened a factory to make chocolate drink. He wanted to encourage people to drink chocolate instead of other
41、drinks. A few years later, a man called Joseph Fry found a way to make chocolate instead of only drinking it. But at that time chocolate was very expensive and only the rich people could buy it. Later, more and more chocolate bars were produced and sold, it became cheaper.However, at first only plai
42、n chocolate (a kind of chocolate without milk and with very littlesugar) was produced. Milk chocolate came later and this was made by adding 9milk to the chocolate. The first milk chocolate bar was made in Cadburys factory in 1897. Their most famous chocolate, Cadburys Milk Bar, was made in 1905, It
43、 has been the most popular chocolate in Britain and around the world for over 100 years. The Cadbury factory is still in Britain and the chocolate produced there is eaten all over the world. Every year, thousands of visitors visit the factory in order to see how chocolate is made.1. Hundreds of year
44、s ago, people first began to drink chocolate in .A. South America B. South Africa C. Britain D. Australia2. John Cadbury opened a factory to make chocolate drink in .A.1824 B.1831 C.1897 D.19053. People had the chance to eat chocolate instead of drinking it for the first time .A. when chocolate was
45、cheaper B. when more and more chocolate was producedC. when John Cadbury started to make chocolate drinkD. when Joseph Fry found a way to make chocolate bars.4.At first, not many people bought chocolate .A. because it was very expensive B. because people didnt like the tasteC. because they wanted to have other drinks D. because there was no chocolate sold in the shops5.Cadburys Milk Bar .A. was first made in 1897 B. is a kind of plain chocolateC. is famous neither in Britain nor in AmericaD. is popular not only in Britain but also around the world4、参考答案 ABDAD10
