1、中考阅读理解之手打壹(1)T or FAbout one billion people live in India. Many people live on small farms. They live a quiet and simple life. The family takes care of the farm and the animals. The most important animal on the farm is the cow. The cow helps on the farm in two days. It gives milk o the family, and i
2、t works on the farm.Farmers care about their cows very much. They want their cows to be happy. The farmers arent busy at certain times of the year. At these times, people wash and decorate their cows. Two times a year, there are special celebrations for the cows. These celebrations are like Thanksgi
3、ving Day in the United States.Old cows cannot work on farms. In India, it is against the law to kill a cow. So farmers send their old cows away from the farm. The cows walk around freely in the streets. People give their own food to the cows, and cars are careful not to hit the cows. There are speci
4、al animal hospitals for old or sick cows. The government and some rich people pay for these hospitals.People in other countries do not understand why the Indian government spends money on cows. There are many poor people in India who need money. Indians say that Americans spend more money on cats an
5、d dogs. People in India care for over 200 million cows every year. They have cared for cows for a long time. It is a tradition of thousands of years.1. In India about one billion people take care of the farms and the animals.2. Cows are so important on the farm that farmers try to make them happy.3.
6、 The government spends a lot of money on cows though many people are poor in India.4. When old cows cannot work, farmers kill them for food.5. Cows are special in India. Caring for cows is an old tradition.(2)T or FDo you like Rock it is a holiday for children.Every autumn, when the vegetables are r
7、eady to eat, children pick large orange pumpkins. Then they cut faces in the pumpkins and put lights inside. It looks like there is a person looking out of the pumpkin! These lights are called jack-o-lanterns, which means “Jack of the lantern”.The children also put on strange masks and frightening c
8、ostumes every Halloween. Some children pain their faces to look like monsters. Then they carry boxes or bags from house to house. Every time they come to a new house, they say, “Trick or treat! Money or eat!” The adults put a treat -money or candy-in their bags.Some children think of other people on
9、 Halloween. They carry boxes for UNICEF (The United Nations International Childrens Emergency Fund). They ask for money to help poor children all around the world. Of course, every time they help UNICEF, they usually receive a treat for themselves, too.1. On Halloween, children often pick pig orange
10、 pumpkins on the farm.2. From the passage, we learn children will play tricks on their friends after they receive treats of candy.3. On the eve of All Saints Day, people cut pumpkins for the dinner.4. The collection of money by children for poor children all over the world is known as UNICEF Trick o
11、r Treat.5. On Halloween children put on masks made of pumpkins to frighten other people.6. All Saints Day is on the eve of Halloween.(6)Answer Sydney Opera House, which is the symbol of Sydney, was designed by Danish architect Joern Utzon and built between 1959 and1973.In 1947 Eugene Goossens, the c
12、onductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, called for a musical center. On September 13, 1955, Australian Premier Cahill announced an international competition for the design of an opera house. On 29 January 1957 Cahill announced the winner: first prize had been awarded to 38-year-old Joern Utzon of
13、 Denmark.When in October 1973 Queen Elizabeth officially opened the Sydney Opera House, Sydney and Australia celebrated the completion with a colorful harbor festival. Blue Mountains are a series of plateaus and ranges in New South Wales, Australia. The mountains were first sighted by Governor Phill
14、ip when he was exploring the northern shore of Port Jackson in April 1788. Owing to the color when the mountains are viewed from a distant place, they were called Blue Mountains.To early colonists Blue Mountains seemed to be an impossible barrier to western expansion. Nowadays, Blue Mountains area h
15、as been developed as one of Australians leading holiday centers. The comfortable climate and natural beauty of the highlands attract an estimated 500,000 visitors each year.1. Whats the symbol of Sydney?_2. Who designed Sydney Opera House?_3. When was Sydney Opera House built?_4. Whats the function
16、of Sydney Opera House?_5. Who officially opened the completion ceremony of Sydney Opera House?_6. Who first discovered the mountains?_7. Why the mountains were called Blue Mountains?_8. How many visitors came to visit Blue Mountains each year?_(7)AnswerDr. Max Luscher studied color. He believed that
17、 color influences our behavior. He worked during the early part of the twentieth century, and his work is still used in advertising and design.Certain colors causes an emotional reaction in people. Dr. Luscher asked thousands of people about their reactions. He invented a test using eight colors-yel
18、low, red, green, dark blue, grey, violet, brown, and black. Looking at the colors people chose, he worked out their emotional state. You can find his tests on the Internet, and see if they work for you.Dr. Luscher said, for example, that bright yellow means sunshine-a new day and a bright start. Gre
19、en is the color of grass and trees. It means growth. Yellow and green show a positive state. Red is the color of blood, hunting, and war. It can be exciting, or it can mean danger. Dark blue, grey, and black are night colors. They could mean fear, or secret things. If you choose black or grey as you
20、r favorite color, you may not be feeling happy.Scientists did a test using unusual colors in food. They gave people blue rice, violet potatoes, and black apple juice. Most people said the food taste bad! But if they could not see the food, it tasted all right. So the color of our food influences our
21、 feelings about it.Food packaging design uses this information about colors. Sales managers said that sugar in green boxes did not sell. In blue ones, it did! Green seemed to mean “unripe” to people, but blue means “sweet”. Look at the packaging in your food store. Is the sugar in a blue packet? A w
22、ell-known drink is sold in blue cans. The designers believe it means “sweet”. There are even companies that choose the best color to sell your product.1. What did Dr. Luscher do during the early part of the 20th century?_2. How many colors did Dr. Luscher use to take a test?_3. What kind of color ar
23、e yellow and green?_4. What feeling will people who choose dark grey and black have?_5. In what color packets does sugar sell best?_(8)AnswerWho wants to be a billionaire? Do you? There is a television show in Britain where you can win a million pounds! What would you do with a million pounds if you
24、 won it?In 1998 a new game show came onto British television. It has become very popular. Towards the end of the first series, it had more than 18 million viewers.The show has now started in America, Singapore, and Malaysia, as well as European countries. Its called Who Wants to Be a Billionaire?Ten
25、 contestants take part in each programme. The person who answers a question in the shortest time is the first contestant. This contestant then plays for the million pound prize.The contestants must answer 15 multiple-choice questions. The questions come from a computer. It chooses them from a list o
26、f 2,500 possible questions. The contestants may leave the show at any time, and keep the money they have won.If they get the wrong answer, they fall back to either 1,000 or 32,000. Then the game is over. At any point , the contestant may use one (or more) of their three lifelines. These are:50:50-tw
27、o of the four possible answers are taken away.Phone a friend-the contestants may speak o a friend or relative on the phone for 30 seconds to discuss the question.Ask the audience-the audience votes on the answer. Each lifeline may only be used once during a contestants whole game.Here is an example
28、of the easiest question for 100:The top of a mountain is also called a .A) summit B) summary C) summons D) sumpProbably everyone would know the answer-A) summit1. When did Who Wants to Be a Billionaire start?_2. Which countries have this show on TV?_3. How many contestants take part in each programm
29、e?_4. How many questions must a contestant answer to win a million pounds?_5. What are the three lifelines?_(9)AnswerWhere can a sick person go to find out what is wrong with him? A clinic. Where can a sick car be taken if its owner wants to know what is wrong with it? Thats right- a clinic.Auto cli
30、nics are a new and growing business. There are now more than 40 auto clinics in the US. Many more will be built in the next few years.How does a clinic work? A car is put on rollers that turn slowly, then faster. As the car is driven forward, the rollers turn backward. So the car is driven without g
31、oing anywhere.Meanwhile a group of mechanics gives the car more than 100 tests with the latest equipment. The car climbs an imaginary hill and screams to an imaginary stop. Everything is checked, from wheel balance to brakes.After the checkup, the owner is told what is ailing his car and what it mig
32、ht cost for repairs. The checkup itself costs $5.95 to $9.95. The owner can have the repairs done anywhere. Most customers have them done in the clinic.Why do car owners often prefer these clinics to service stations? A clinic owner said, “Anything that is wrong with it will have to show up. In a cl
33、inic, theres no guessing about it. Now car repairs are scientific.” A car owner said, “A mechanic might have fooled around for two weeks without finding what the clinic uncovered in half an hour.” 1. How many auto clinics are there now in the US?_2. When do Americans go to an auto clinic?_3. How muc
34、h does the checkup itself cost?_4. What will the owner know after the checkup?_5. Why do car owners prefer auto clinics?_(10)ChoiceIf you found a list of the worlds tallest mountains in an atlas or almanac, Mt. Everest, in China, would head the list. It is more than 29,000 feet high. Far down the li
35、st would be Mauna Kea, in Hawaii, which rises 13,796 feet above the Pacific Ocean. Yet Mauna Kea is really taller than Mt. Everest.How is that possible? Mauna Kea is a volcano built up from piles of lava. Only about 14,000 feet of the giant volcano sits above the water. Another 16,000 feet ascends f
36、rom the bottom of the ocean to sea level. So Mauna Kea is really about 30,000 feet tall.How big is Mauna Kea? If you spread out all of the lava it took to form the volcano, it would cover the entire state of New York with a blanket of rocks and ash more than 1,000 feet sick!1. The best title is _.A.
37、 Climbing Mt. EverestB. Hawaiis Mauna KeaC. How Volcanoes are FormedD. Mountains in Hawaii2. You can find a list of tall mountains in _.A. A magazineB. A storeC. An almanacD. Hawaii3. Mauna Kea is _.A. A volcanoB. A forestC. A stateD. An atlas4. You can tell that more than half of Mauna Kea is _.A.
38、In NepalB. Under the oceanC. Above the sea levelD. In New York5. The word “ascends” in line six means _.A. is seenB. risesC. is studiedD. falls(11)Choice Story 1 The worlds tallest tree is a giant redwood. Growing in California, this redwood is 367 feet high-almost three times taller than the Statue
39、 of Liberty. It grows in a thick forest and was discovered in 1963!At one time, there were redwood trees covering over two million acres. Then they began to be destroyed by wind, lightning, floods, and by people cutting them down. This caused the government to make the area a national park. This mea
40、ns that no one can cut down the redwoods. There are also forests rangers in the park to care for them. The national park is 500 miles long.Visitors will now be able to enjoy the giant redwoods more, knowing that the trees are being protected.Story 2 Did you ever wonder why things are named after cer
41、tain people? One interesting story is about the Douglas fir. This is a large tree that grows mainly in the western part of the United States.A famous plant explorer named David Douglas went to Oregon in 1825. He saw some giant fir trees that he thought were wonderful. Only the redwood and sequoia tr
42、ees are larger. Mr. Douglas wrote so many stories about these trees that people called them the Douglas firs.The Douglas fir is used more than any other tree for lumber and plywood. It grows straight and tall, sometimes over 300 feet high. Its trunk is often fifteen feet across. It is now the state
43、tree of Oregon.1. Redwood trees are cared for by _.A. VisitorsB. Forest rangersC. Lightning roadsD. Doctors2. This national park is _.A. 500 miles longB. 367 feet highC. 1,963 miles wideD. Being destroyed3. Many years ago there were _.A. No redwoodsB. More statuesC. Fewer redwoodsD. More redwoods4.
44、David Douglas explored and _.A. Drew picturesB. Cut treesC. Discovered countriesD. Wrote stories5. The state tree of Oregon is the _.A. RedwoodB. Douglas firC. SequoiaD. David fur6. The Douglas fir is used to _.A. Build houseB. Plant forestsC. Fight firesD. Pave roads7. The word “mainly” in story 2 means _.A. SlowlyB. MostlyC. SeldomD. NeverAnswer Key Page(1)1. F 2. T 3. T 4. F 5. T (2)1. T2. T3. F4. F5. T6. T(3)1. F2. F3. F4. F5. F6. T(4)1. T2.
