1、12019 年中考英语阅读理解一轮选练（5）含答案【实战训练】 A（2019 中考科普环保类选练）Today there are 6 billion people on the earth. By the year 2050 there may be 12.5 billion. This means we need more food.One way to produce more food is by growing stronger plants. For thousands of years, farmers have made plants better. Every season,
2、they pick the best plants for the next season. It works very slowly. Since 1983, scientists have been able to change plants more quickly by changing their genetic material (遗传物质). Foods from plants grown in this way are called genetically modified foods (转基因食品), or GM foods.By changing the genetic m
3、aterial of a plant, it is possible to make new plants. They make plants which are strong against plant diseases. They can also help in our diseases: a kind of rice is being prepared (准备), for example, which stops people from becoming blind.Rich countries produce GM food because they are easy to grow
4、 and bring in more money. Poor countries are interested in them because they help produce more food.GM plants are not natural. No one knows how good or bad they are. Making GM foods is only one way of feeding people in 2050. There are strong feelings against them, because they are unnatural. They ma
5、y feed people, then hurt them or their children later. But, both rich and poor countries are very interested in their use, and they are not going to go away. In 2050 we may think differently about them. 1GM foods are made by . Afarmers Bworkers Cscientists Dplants2What are the good things about GM f
6、oods ? AThey make plants strong against diseases.BThey are unnatural.CThey can help in human diseases.2DBoth A and C.3GM foods . Aare a quick way to produce food Bgrow in the wildCare safe Dare grown only in rich countries4Why do some people not like GM foods ? AThey are not useful. BThey are not he
7、lpful.CThey are not natural. DThey are not cheap.5From the reading we know that . AGM foods will disappear one day in the futureBGM foods will not disappear in the futureCpeople will not be interested in GM foodDpeople will have to stop using GM food参考答案 CDACB 【实战训练】 B2016 中考英语阅读理解分类练习：广告布告类Come to
8、Austria!Soll is a village in the mountains in western Austria. The Post Hotel, opened by a local family, is clean and not expensive. From the hotel you can see the whole village, the forest and the mountains. Temperatures in summer are usually 20 to 25 in the daytime, but much cooler at night.Enjoy
9、Thailand!When you visit Bangkok (曼谷) in Thailand, do not miss the early morning river boat trip to the Floating(漂浮的) Market just outside the city. There you will find many kinds of fruits and vegetables. There you can pay for them when you sit in your boat. Dont forget your hat and sunglasses: the s
10、un can be strong and it may be as hot as 40 at noon!Visit Hawaii!Maybe the most beautiful place in Hawaii is Kauai. You can visit its long, 3sandy beaches in the south and west of the island, and mountains and forests in the north, but be careful: there are many mosquitoes (蚊子) , and dont be surpris
11、ed if it rains in the center of the land. Daytime temperatures there are usually around 24 to26 by the sea, and only a little cooler in late evening.【小题 1】You can have a view of _ at the Post Hotel. AThe whole village Bthe whole countryCthe forest and mountains Dboth A and C【小题 2】You can buy things
12、_ at the Floating Market in Bangkok. Ain the boats Bin the streetCin big stores Din small shops【小题 3】Youd better wear _ when you are at the Floating Market. Aa hat and sunglassesBa raincoat and a swimming suitCa hat and a T-shirtDa shirt and an umbrella【小题 4】There are _ in the north of Kauai. Asandy
13、 beaches Bheavy rainCsmall islands Dforests and mountains【小题 5】According to the passage, the hottest place is _. ASoll BBangkokCKauai DAustria【实战训练】 C阅读下列短文，然后从 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出能回答所提问题或完成所给句子的最佳选项。 4Ticket Prices for Shanghai ExpoTimeTypesPre-sale（预售）Mar. 27，2009Jun. 30，2009Pre-sale Jul. 1，2009Dec. 3
14、1，2009Pre-sale Jan. 1，2010Apr. 30，2010Expo Session（期间）May. 1，2010Oct. 31，2010Peak Day Ticket（指定日门票）￥170 ￥180 ￥190 ￥200Standard Day Ticket（平日门票）￥130 ￥140 ￥150 ￥1603-Day Ticket ￥4007-Day TicketN/A（无）￥900Evening Ticket N/A ￥90( )1If Joe wanted to buy the cheapest ticket for Peak Day，he could book（预定）on
15、e during APre - sale BPre sale CPre sale DExpo Session( )2On March 1，2010，Sue bought two Standard Day tickets for her parents. She paid for them.A￥380 B￥300 C￥260 D￥180( )3It cost Thomas ￥160 to get a ticket for Standard Day.He probably bought it on AApril 23，2009 BAugust l，2009 CFebruary 2，2010 DMa
16、y 20，2010( )4Kathy spent 900 yuan on a ticket for Shanghai ExpoHer visit can last daysAone Bthree Cseven Dten( )5Visitors to Shanghai Expo could buy tickets only after May 1，20105A. morning Bafternoon Cevening Dmidnight阅读理解 15 ABDCC 【实战训练】 D（2019 中考选练）If you want to become a fluent(流利的)English speak
17、er you should take some advice: There are four skills in learning English. They are reading, listening, speaking, and writing. The most important thing you must remember is that if you want to improve your speaking and writing skills you should first master the skills of reading and listening.Read a
18、s much as you can. But your reading must be active. It means that you must think about the meaning of the sentence, the meanings of the unfamiliar words, etc. There is no need for you to pay much attention to grammars or try to understand all the unfamiliar words you come across, but the fact that y
19、ou see them for the first time and recognize them whenever you see them, for example in other passages or books, is enough. It would be better to prepare yourself a notebook so you can write down the important words or sentences in it_As for listening, there are two choices: besides reading, you can
20、 listen every day for about 30 minutes. You can only pay attention to your reading and become skillful at your reading, then you can catch up on your listening. Since you have lots of inputs in your mind, you can easily guess what the speaker is going to say. This never means that you should not pra
21、ctice listening.For listening you can listen to cartoons or some movies that are specially made for children. Their languages are easy. Or if you are good at listening you can listen to VOA or BBC programs every day. Again the thing to remember is being active in listening and preferably taking some
22、 notes.If you follow these pieces of advice, your speaking and writing will improve automatically, and you can be sure that with a little effort they will become perfect.1. According to the author, which should you improve first among the four skills?6A. Reading and writing. B. Reading and listening
23、.C. Writing and speaking. D. Speaking and listening.2. The underlined phrase “come across“ in Paragraph 2 can probably be replaced by “_“.A. meet by accident B. discoverC. find on purpose D. look for3. The author seems to agree with the view that_.A. everyone should listen to VOA or BBC programs eve
24、ry dayB. you neednt practice listening if you keep on reading every dayC. being good at reading is helpful in improving your listeningD. you should take notes of whatever you are hearing4. The passage is mainly about how to_.A. choose suitable listening materialsB. deal with new words in readingC. r
25、ead as many English books as possibleD. become fluent in speaking and writing English参考答案 BACD 【实战训练】 E（2019 中考科普环保类选练）The Worlds Water ShortageThe world is not only hungry, but it is also thirsty for water. This may seem strange to you, since nearly 70 percent（百分比）of the earths surface is covered w
26、ith water. But about 97 percent of this huge amount is sea water, or salt water. Man can only drink and use the other 3 percentthe fresh water from rivers, lakes, underground, and other sources（资源）. And we cannot even use all of that, because some of it is in the form of icebergs and glaciers（冰川）. E
27、ven worse, some of it has been polluted. However, as things stand today, this small amount of fresh water is still 7enough for us. But our need for water is increasing（增加）rapidlyalmost day by day. Only if we take steps to deal with this problem now can we avoid（避免）a severe（严重的）worldwide water shorta
28、ge later on. We all have to learn how to stop wasting our valuable water. One of the first steps is to develop ways of reusing it. Today in most large cities, water is used only once and then sent out into a sewer system（下水道）. From there it returns to the sea or runs into underground storage tanks.
29、But it is possible to pipe used water to a purifying（净化）plant. There it can be treated with chemicals so that it can be used again, just as if it were fresh from a spring. But even if every large city purified and reused its water, we still would not have enough. All wed have to do to make use of th
30、e vast reserves（贮备）of sea water in the world is to remove the salt. If we take these steps well be in no danger of drying up. 1. The world is thirsty for water because we can only use _ percent of the water covering the surface of the earth. A. 3 B. more than 3 C. less than 3 D. 972. Which of the fo
31、llowing statements is Not true? A. As things remain unchanging, this small amount of fresh water is still enough for us. B. Our need for water is becoming larger and larger. C. There will be no water shortage in the future. D. We should take steps to deal with the water shortage problem. 3. To reuse
32、 water, we should _. A. treat it with chemicals B. use it only once C. send it out into a sewer system D. make it flow into underground tanks 4. In order to have enough water, we should also make use of _. A. icebergs and glaciers 8B. sea water C. rivers and lake D. underground water 5. In the passage, the writer tells us _. A. to make enough water B. to pay more attention to the water shortage problem C. to pipe used water to a purifying plant D. to reuse the water 参考答案 CCABB
