1、12019年中考英语阅读理解习编（三）【实战训练】 A（2019 中考日常生活类训练）Its so beautiful outside that spending the day in the office would be very boring. So why not take the vacations(假期)off? A new survey(调查)found that 31of U.S workers dont always take all of their vacation days. Americans have 12 vacation days on average(平均)e
2、ach year, but they give back an average of 3 vacation days each year.So why dont they use up their vacation days? Some say they would rather get money back for their unused days; some busy workers say they just cant leave their work. Americans have fewer vacation days than workers in any other count
3、ry surveyed.The French take their vacations seriously. French workers get an average of 39 vacation days, and 40 plan to take at least one there-to-four-week vacation.Workers in Sweden receive an average of 25 vacation days a year,but they cant find time to use them all. More workers there return va
4、cation days than any other country surveyed.British workers have the longest working week in Europe(欧洲),with 23 vacation days -the shortest vacation. So they feel overworked.75 say their weekends or vacations are too short and 40 would sacrifice a days pay(工资)for one more vacation day.1. How many va
5、cation days do Americans have on average each year in fact?A.9 B.12 C.15 D.23 2. Which country has the most workers working during the vacation days?A. America. B. France. C. Sweden. D. Great Britain.3. What does the word“sacrifice”mean in the last sentence?A. Use up. B. Put up. C. Take up. D. Give
6、up.4. Which of the following is true?2A. Some American workers are too busy to leave their work.B. French workers can take one Three-to-four week days.C. Swedish workers can enjoy all of their vacation days.D. British workers have the shortest vacation days of all the countries surveyed.参考答案 1A 2C 3
7、D 4A【实战训练】 B中考英语阅读理解*顾此失彼许多年前，农民为保护他们的鸡而猎杀了很多老鹰。然而新的问题来了，田里的田鼠猖狂了起来，结果农民的庄稼大多给吃光了。这是怎么回事呢？看看下文你就知道了，但一定要记住：It is important for us to keep the balance of nature. Not many years ago, some farmers were worried because hawks were taking many of their chicken. The farmers didnt know what to do. Finally t
8、hey went to the country officials and asked for help. “Kill the hawks,” the officials said, “We will even pay for them,” so the farmers began to think of ways to kill the hawks. The farmers killed many hawks. They no longer had to worry about their chickens. But they now had a new worry. Field mice
9、were eating up a lot of the farmers grain. How did this happen? Hawks eat not only chickens but also field mice. They eat more field mice than chickens. But the farmers didnt know this. When they killed a lot of hawks, they changed the balance. When people move into a new place, they often destroy m
10、any wild plants. Often these plants are food for the animals. If the animals cant find enough plants to eat, they will starve or have to leave the place. 3In one part of the USA, for example the deer there like to eat a certain kind of wild roses. The mountain lions there eat the deer. The number of
11、 deer, mountain lions and wild roses doesnt change much if people leave things as they are. But people killed many mountain lions in order to protect the deer. Soon there were so many deer that they ate up all the wild roses. Then the deer began to eat the green leaves of young trees. These trees we
12、re important to the farmers. So the farmers thought of ways to protect their trees. Now the deer had nothing to eat, and many of them died. This was another lesson from nature. To keep the balance of nature is important for us to remember. 根据以上短文内容判断正误，正确的用“T”表示，错误的用“F”表示。1. Finally the officials to
13、ld the farmers to kill the hawks. 2. Field mice eat not only chickens but also the farmers grain. 3. When the animals cant find enough plants to eat in a place, they will starve or have to leave. 4. The number of animals changes much if people leave things as they are. 5. It is important for us to k
14、eep the balance of nature. 【答案及解析】1. 选 T。根据句子 “Kill the hawks,” the officials said. 可知，此题与短文内容相符合，所以可判断为正确。2. 选 F。本题句意为“田鼠不仅吃小鸡还吃农民的庄稼”，但由句子 Field mice were eating up a lot of the farmers grain. 可知，田鼠只吃庄稼，3. 选 T。由句子 If the animals cant find enough plants to eat, they will starve or have to leave the
15、 place. 可知本题正确。4. 选 F。由短文内容可知，如果人们不破坏生态平衡，而顺其自然，则动物的数量不会有多大的改变。故本题与原文不一致，所以判断此题错误。5. 选 T。从短文的最后一句 To keep the balance of nature is important for us to remember. 我们知道：保持生态平衡对我们来说是非常重要的。4【实战训练】 C阅读下列材料，从 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出最佳的答案。Dragons are not real animals, but look like a combination(组合体) of many animal
16、s such as snakes, fish and deer. They have horns(角) and a long moustache. With fantastic powers, they fly in the sky or swim in the sea. They can make rain, too. The Chinese dragon is a symbol of strength and good luck. The emperors of ancient China loved dragons. Their clothes were covered with pic
17、tures of dragons.We are proud to call ourselves the “descendants(传人) of the dragon”. In Chinese, excellent people are often called dragons. A number of Chinese sayings and idioms talk about dragons, for example, “Hoping ones child will become a dragon”, which means he or she will be successful.It is
18、 said that people born in the Year of the Dragon have certain characteristics. They are creative, confident, brave and quick-tempered. There are some famous “dragons” who have done excellent things, for example, Deng Xiaoping, the famous businessman Li Jiacheng and the movie star Zhao Wei. They are
19、all successful.There are also some traditional festivals about dragons in China, such as Dragon Head-Raising and Dragon Boat Festival. We have different kinds of activities to celebrate them. These two festivals come every year, but the year of the Dragon comes every twelve years.The dragon is very
20、important in Chinese culture. As the “descendants of the dragon”, it is necessary for us to know the views on dragons in our culture. It can help us understand why our parents always want us to be “dragons”.( ) 46. What does the Chinese dragon symbolize?A. A combination of many animals B. Chinese sa
21、yings and idiomsC. Strength and good luck( ) 47. In the passage, the underlined sentence “Hoping ones child will become a dragon” means “ ” in Chinese.A. 龙马精神 B. 龙飞凤舞 C. 望子成龙5( ) 48. What characteristics may the people born in the Year of the Dragon have? They may be .A. creative, confident, brave a
22、nd powerful.B. creative, confident, brave and quick-temperedC. lovely, confident, brave and quick-tempered.( ) 49. The Year of the Dragon was in 2012.Which of the following years is the Year of the Dragon?A. 1988 B. 1998. C. 2008. ( ) 50. According to the passage, which of the following statements i
23、s TRUE?A. Dragons are real animals.B. There are many Chinese sayings and idioms about dragons.C. People born in the Year of the Dragon must be successful.参考答案 46-50 CCBAB 【实战训练】 D阅读下列内容，从每小题所给的三个或四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。Do you hope to do a lot of homework every evening? Are you interested in your English clas
24、ses? Who do you want to teach you? Maybe you have lots of questions in your mind before school starts.Well, I want to give you some good advice on these problems.First, keep calm(平静). Dont worry about all the problems you have. Put your heart into learning, and you can find something you are interes
25、ted in. Do it actively.Second, try your best to finish your homework quickly. Dont spend a lot of time on it. Do more reading or writing in English. Think about the problems you have and solve them at once. Dont stay up(熬夜) late, or you cant study well the next day.6Third, invent something instead o
26、f copying or repeating. If you can remember the words in your way, you can tell your teachers you dont like the way of copying them again and again. Be sure, you must pass the test. I think your teachers will agree with you. And they can give you some interesting work to do.School is really a good p
27、lace for us to learn. Believe in your teachers and yourself. You are the best one and you can do everything well.1. The writer writes this article in order to (为了) _.A. ask students not to do their homeworkB. give students some good ways of learningC. ask the students not to listen to the teacher ca
28、refullyD. tell students what a good teacher and a good school are2. How many pieces of advice does the writer give us?A. Three B. Four C. Five D. Six3. What does the writer tell students to do about their homework?A. They should spend much time on it. B. Do the homework quickly.C. They should do more reading or writing in English.D. They should stay up late doing their home-work.4. According to (根据) the passage, students should believe in _.A. themselves and their parentsB. their parents and teachersC. their classmates and their friendsD. themselves and their teachers【参考答案】1B 2A 3B 4D7
