1、12019中考英语阅读练习（七）及答案第一部分：任务型阅读Sydney is in the east of Australia. It is a lively city. Its famous for its Opera House and the Sydney Harbor Bridge. The weather is warm. The temperature is about 12 degrees in winter. And it is about 35 degrees in summer. It has beautiful beaches and many parks.In the
2、west of Sydney, there is a big park called the Blue Mountains. You can see many visitors in the park from different countries. Its quite a popular park. The only way to see this park is by going through a bush (荒野小路). Then you can find some nice gravel (砂砾) roads. The roads can take you to the Blue
3、Mountains. Of course, you will need to travel with food and water. It will take you some days to see a small part of the mountains, because there are many roads to get to the Blue Mountains.Sydney has many beautiful beaches. Two of them are quite famous. They are Bondi and Manly. Bondi has a nice st
4、reet with many shops and restaurants. Parking is not difficult in the place. Manly is a great beach. If you want to go there, you can take a boat. Its a cheap and great way to see the Sydney Harbor. It will take you about 30 minutes. If you are going to visit Sydney, I hope you will enjoy it.1. What
5、 is Sydney famous for? 2. Where is the Blue Mountains?3. Why do you spend some days getting to the Blue Mountains?4. How can we get to Manly?5. How long will it take you to get to the Sydney Harbor?2【主旨大意】本文是一篇说明文。介绍了位于澳大利亚东部的美丽城市悉尼。文章首先向我们介绍了悉尼著名的大歌剧院和悉尼海港大桥，以及悉尼的气候、公园和海滩，同时还说明了参观这些公园和海滩的方式。1. Oper
6、a House and the Sydney Harbor Bridge.【解析 】题干意为：悉尼以什么而著名？根据文章第一段第三句“Its famous for its Opera House and the Sydney Harbor Bridge.”可知答案。2. In the west of Sydney.【解析】题干意为：蓝山在哪里？根据文章第二段第一句“In the west of Sydney, there is a big park called the Blue Mountains.”可知答案。3. Because there are many roads to get to
7、 the Blue Mountains.【解析】题干意为：为什么参观去蓝山要花费好多天时间？根据文章第二段最后一句“to see a small part of the mountains, you need some days, because there are many roads to get to the Blue Mountains.”可知答案。4. By boat./Take a boat.【 解析】题干意为：我们如何到达 Manly? 根据文章第三段第七句“If you want to go there, you can take a boat. ”可知答案。5. About
8、30 minutes.【 解析】题干意为：你去悉尼港要花费多长时间？由最后一段中“Its a cheap and great way to see the Sydney Harbor. It will take you about 30 minutes.”可知答案。第二部分AAlmost every Chinese person can recite the two lines of the famous poem. “Every grain on the plate comes from hard work (难知盘中餐, 粒粒皆辛苦) “. But sadly, many of us do
9、nt actually get the real meaning of these lines: Dont waste food.A CCTV program, News One Plus One, reported that food Chinese people throw away every year is enough to feed 200 million people for a year.Do we have too much food? No, according to the UN World Food Program, there were 925 million hun
10、gry people around the world in 2010, especially in developing countries. Six million children die of hunger every year.Chinese people are well known for being generous (慷慨的) . Many even feel 3that they lose face if their guests have eaten all the food on the table.Luckily, a number of people have re
11、alized the importance of saving food. Last November, Li Hong, a waitress in a restaurant in Nanjing, got fired (开除) because she took some leftover (剩余的) food home for her son. Many people stood by her side and agreed that it was not right to waste food.What should we do in our daily lives to waste l
12、ess food? Here are some tips:1. Do not order (定购) too much in a restaurant. Only order what you want to eat. If you cannot eat all the food you ordered, take the rest of it home.2. Dont be too picky(挑剔的) about food. Some food may not taste great. But your body needs it.3. Keep an eye on what food yo
13、u have at home. Dont buy too much, especially for vegetables and fruit.1. According to News One Plus One, Chinese people _.A. save food enough to feed 200 million people for a year.B. throw away lots of food every year.C. get enough food to feed millions of people every year.D. have to feed 200 mill
14、ion hungry people every year.2. In the third paragraph, we know that _.A. we have too much food to feed people in the world.B. there were 925 million people in developing countries.C. because of hunger, six million children die every year.D. there are only a few people getting hungry every year.33.
15、In the fourth and fifth paragraphs, we can conclude (得出结论) that _A. all Chinese people are generous.B. Chinese people always waste food.C. U Hong got fired because she wasted food.D. everyone should get into the habit of saving food.4. What should we do to save food in our daily lives?A. When we ord
16、er too much food in a restaurant, just take the leftover food home.4B. Eat more food that doesnt taste great.C. We should not buy vegetables and fruit.D. We should keep an eye on the food we like.5. Whats the main topic of the passage?A. Dont waste food.B. Many people die of hungry.C. Dont be picky
17、about food.D. Eat all the food you order.参考答案 1B 2C 3D 4A 5ABA famous teacher was speaking to the students at our school. He began his lesson by holding up a 100 bill. Then he said to the three hundred students, “Who would like this 100 bill?” The students began to put up their hands at once.Then he
18、 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.“Well,” he said, “What if I do this?” and he dropped it on the floor and stepped on it. He picked up the dirty, crumple
19、d 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 still 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,
20、 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 never lose your value: you are always valuable to those people who love you. Your value doesnt come from what you do or wh
21、om you know, but WHO YOU ARE.You are special and valuable. Dont ever forget it!1. Even though it was dirty, the money _.5A. still went up in value B. was 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. w
22、ho love us3. Your value doesnt come from what you do but _.A. who you know B. who made youC. who you remember D. who you are4. The sentence “Hands went 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 thei
23、r backs againD. the students put their hands in front of them5. Why did the famous teacher use a 100 bill at his lesson?A. Because he wanted to make the 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
24、. Because he wanted to make the students know what value was.参考答案 1C 2D 3D 4A 5D CCooking Kills Four Million People a YearPolluted airborne particles（大气悬浮颗粒）kill 7 million people a year, reports the World Health Organization. That news may not come as a surprise to anyone who has seen images of chim
25、neys in Beijing, Delhi or Mexico. But those factoriesor even the jammed roadways of modern citiesare not the biggest killer. Each year, some 4.3 million people die earlier than they should because of polluted air inside their homes, says the WHO. Whats causing the air inside peoples homes to be so p
26、oisonous that it kills 6around 11,000 people a day? Stoves. “Having an open fire in your kitchen is like burning 400 cigarettes an hour.” says Kirk Smith, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, whose research suggests that household air pollution from cooking killed between 3.5 mil
27、lion and 4 million people in 2013.Not all stoves cause this kind of harm. The ones Smiths talking about are those that the 3 billion people in the developing world use for heat and cooking, which burn solid fuels such as wood, coal, or crop waste instead of gas. The smoke from those fires produces h
28、armful fine particles and carbon monoxide into homes. Poor ventilation then prevents that smoke from escaping, raising fine particle levels 100 times higher than the limits that the WHO considers acceptable.Breathing this air day in day out finally causes a lot of diseases: more than a third of the
29、4.3 million die of a stroke, while a quarter die of heart disease. And around one-third of annual lung disease deaths worldwide are due to waste from coal stoves.Exposure tends to be extremely harmful for the people who spend the most time around the fireusually women and young children. In fact, th
30、e WHO reports that household air pollution almost doubles the risk for childhood lung disease. 1. According to Kirk Smiths research, _. A. factories are the biggest killer worldwide nowadaysB. burning 400 cigarettes an hour is extremely dangerousC. household air pollution from cooking is surprisingl
31、y harmfulD. some 4.3 million people die earlier each year than they should2. What should be the deadly killer in a household kitchen?A. Solid fuels. B. Coal stoves. C. Poor gas. D. Cooking smoke.3. The underlined word “ventilation” in Paragraph 4 probably means _.A. airing B. cooking C. burning D. cooling74. The author intends to tell people _.A. how to avoid polluted air in their homes B. to stop cooking in the household kitchenC. to guard against household pollution from cookingD. how to prevent childhood lung diseases in household参考答案 1 C 2. D 3. A 4. C
