中考英语专项复习习题—-任务型阅读.docx

（一）Are you bored with modern sports? Then come to the Highland Games in Scotland and the discover traditional Scottish sports. It is one of the celebrations of Scottish and Celtic culture, especially Highland culture. The Games celebrate Scottish culture, and also include Scottish dance competition and the typical local food. Highland Games is an annual（每年的）spring and summer events held in Scotland. From May to September, there are highland games in towns and villages cross Scotland. Men, women and children travel from all over the world watch. Nobody knows when the games started. But in the 11th century, King Malcolm III of Scotland held a race to find a faster runner to take his messages. Probably this was the first highland games. Some historians says Victorians invented the games in the 19th century.Competitors at the games do a lot so different events. There are special heavy sports. One event is famous-in the caber toss（我B骰子）. A caber is a heavy wooden pole. Players throw the caber. The winners are very strong. Another is stone put. Players throw a big stone or hammer. They throw a heavy ball on a long stick.Local Scottish athletes were traditional tartan kilts and they are similar to skirts. Tartan is a colorful material. In the past, Scottish people wore tartan to show which family they came from.Nowadays people from all over the world competes in the events. What magic games!1. Are there Highland Games in Scottish year from May to September?2. What special heavy sports mentioned in the passage?3. How can we know which family the players come from?4. Do you want to take part in the Games?why or why not?（二）On the evening of February 17, 2021, the winners of touch in China were announced . Mao Xianglin, in the party secretary（党支书）of Xiazhuang, Chongqing was among them. In 1997, 38-year-old Mao started to work this village. Around the village are 1000-meter-tall cliffs（悬崖峭壁），and there was only one way to get out of the way to get out of the village for many years. It took villagers three days to walk to the nearest town. Mao decided to build a road. "We can't stay poor forever. I will lead us as we try even though it will be hard."said Mao.He lead more than 100 villagers to build with their hands. They hung from ropes and used a different kinds of tools to build of the road. It took them seven years to build an 8-km road. But their work has improved the people's lives. It takes just one hour to drive to the nearest to town now.Mao then encouraged the villagers to grow oranges. Last year, their orange yield（产 量） was nearly 40 tons. Young people have returned to the village to sell oranges online. By the end of 2019, 269 villagers had got out of poverty（贫困）.Mao, who will retire in five years, said "Although the conditions are better, the spirit of the Xiazhuang people can't be lost. It has to be passed down.”Was Mao one of the winners of touchingChina?1. When did Mao started to work in Xiazhuang?2. What did Mao do to make villagers in Xiazhuang live a better life?3. Do you think building a new road is the first thing to do for villagers in Xiazhuang to get out of the poverty Why or why not?（三）When Sammy was 8, she learned about Buddy Benches from a video. The video shows how these benches are used on playgrounds. "If somebody is lonely,they can't sit on the bench.Sam explains. "Another person can come up to them and ask them to play.”Sammy thought her school could use of Buddy Bench, so she and her mom set up a meeting with the principal（负责人）They learned of a local company Green Tree Plastics, that recycles plastic bottle caps into benches. Sammy liked the idea of Buddy Bench that would help kids and environment. Her principal liked the idea,too.Sammy created a comic（漫画）that shows how a Buddy Bench works. She and her mom posted it on social media to ask friends and family to save caps. They also took the drawing to local businesses to ask for their help.As word spread, collection bins at school and around the community began to fill up. People even sent as their caps to Sammy. "I've got the caps from 50 states/9 she says.She needed 400 pounds of caps to make one bench. In just two months, the project collected more than 1200 pounds -enough to make three Buddy Benches!After reaching her goal, Sammy set a new one-" Buddy Benches everywhere! So far, she has collected enough caps to donate 100 benches to schools and organizations in 12 states. She continues collecting caps to share with kids working toward to their own Buddy Benches. She has made videos to encourage others to start their own projects.1. Will someone come up and talk with the person sitting alone on the bench?2. How do Sammy save caps?3. Wh at kind of a person might Sammy be according to the passage?4. Do you think a Buddy Bench is useful? Why or why not?（四）Li Zixuan is a junior middle school student . he's now studying Grade 9. he has had a many dreams since he was little. But as time goes by, some new dreams have appeared and some old ones have disappeared. however, only one dream is still in his mind.L i Zixuan says that when he was a child he heard the rockets and the spaceships. At first, he didn't know that they were. From his father, he knew that scientists make rockets to carry things into space, and spaceships are used to carry people through space. From then on, he has had a great interest in space. Every time he sees his beautiful stars and the moon in the sky at night, he gets very excited he's always dreaming that he can fly to space to look at the earths one day. His mother knows about his dream and also encourages him.In school, Li Zixuan learned that the first man flew into space in 1961 and later, more astronauts succeeded in travel into space. Some astronauts even landed on the moon. His teacher always encourages him to learn more. He knows not everyone has a chance to travel into space. More importantly, before he fly to space, they must be trained especially. Li Zixuan knows it's not easy to achieve dream but he decides to try to his best. He says, "I have had this dream for many years. It has brought me a lot of joy and always gives me a power. Even if it doesn't come true in the end I won't be sorry.»Is flying to the space still Li's dream when he becomes a junior middle school student?1. Who told the boy something about rockets and spaceships?2. What makes Li Zixuan sick to his dream?3. What do you think of Li Zixuan? Give your reason.（五）The summer I turned to 12, I wish to grow up more quickly.Summer camp was coming and I was so worried about my height that I'd gotten into a big argument with my mom. "But I will hate it ."I cried. I was certain that everyone would see me as nothing more than "the short girl". "You won't know anything until you get there."said my mom calmly. And I had to agree.On Monday, my teacher Maggie told us about is the climbing course and my heart sank （感至U沮丧）when I saw the wall. I was the last one to try to climb that huge wall. It might have been ten floors high, and I knew that I had no chance to succeed but I had to. After the other campers finished, I asked for a short person's pass.” smiling weakly and walking around the wall. "You know, Amy, what the mind can believe, the heart can achieveencouraged Maggie, 'Td really like you to do your best to get over the wall.”I pretend服装）to hurt my leg so I could avoid it. “How is the leg? Does it hurt a lot? "Maggie asked. She was so kind, which made me feel bad because I didn't like to lie.Maggie was really patient , showing me how she climbed the wall. And some campers were there cheering for me. I could see how much everyone believed in me, and I wanted to show them how much I valued their support, so I kept trying and is it something amazing happened-I made it! ”What the mind can believe, the heart can achieve/Maggie reminded me. And this time I knew it was true.1. Did Amy agree to go to the summer camp at last?2. Why did Amy pretend she hurt her knee?3. What made Amy get over the wall successfully?4. If you are given the chance to challenge yourself, will you face it bravely just like Amy?why or why not（六）During the Spring and Autumn Period, there lived a great musician named Yu Boya. He played guqin very well. Many people enjoyed his music. Zhong Ziqi was one of them.One day, Yu Boya came back from a trip to the mountains. He played guqin to express his love for the mountains.Zhong Ziqi stood beside Yu Boya as he was playing guqin. Zhong said, “How beautifully you're playing guqin! When I listen to you playing guqin, I can almost see the mountains in front of my eyes.”Boya was pleased to hear Zhong's words. Then he played another tune（调子）. Zhong clapped（拍）his hands and cheered again, “What a beautiful tune it is! When I listen to it, I seem to imagine hundreds of boats are sailing down big rivers.”Boya was surprised at Zhong's comments（评论）.He decided to play more tunes for Zhong. Whenever he played a new tune, Zhong could tell what Boya was thinking about when he played the tune.“You appreciate （欣赏）my music and understand my mind. You know me like a true friend, “ Boya said excitedly.After that, Boya and Zhong became close friends. After Zhong's death, Boya was so sad that he broke his guqin and decided never to play it again.1. Did Zhong see real mountains and boats when he listened to Yu playing guqin?2. Why did Yu decide to play more tunes for Zhong?3. What are true friends like in Boya's opinion?4. Do you want to have a friend like Zhong? Why or why not?（七）Which animal do you prefer to see? A baby panda, a toad（蟾蛛），or a snake? Most people choose the baby panda. Why do people choose this animal? Most people like cute, furry animals with big eyes, like the panda. These animals get a lot of attention. Why don't people like snakes and toads? They!re just not cute like pandas.Lucy Cooke is a scientist who studies animals. She worries about the future of all animals. Scientists need money to study and protect these animals, but they get less money for toads and snakes than for pandas.“There are so many television shows about koala bears and cats, “ Cooke says.To get people interested in less popular animals, Cooke writes stories about them in a blog. She also makes videos about them and puts them online. People love her videos.Cooke is especially interested in frogs and other amphibians（两栖动物）.Some of them are endangered and she wants to save these animals. Why does she want to save these animals? Other animals depend on them for food. The whole nature is a circle, all animals depend on each other. One disappears, the others might disappear as well.Scientists need research money to protect all animals. Cooke's videos and blog make people aware of all kinds of animals.1. According to the passage, do people like snakes and toads?2. How does Lucy Cooke get people interested in less popular animals?3. Why does Lucy Cooke want to save amphibians?4. After reading this passage, would you like to know more about these not-cute animals? Why or why not?（八）Some time ago, a man punished his 3-year-old daughter for wasting a roll of gold wrapping paper. Money was short and he became angry when the child tried to make a box.However, the little girl brought the gift to her father the next morning and said, “This is for you, Daddy.”The man was happy, but he became angry again when he found out the box was empty. He shouted at her, "Don't you know, when you give someone a present, there should be something inside? ”The little girl looked up at him with tears in her eyes and cried, “Oh, Daddy, it's not empty. I blew kisses into the box. They're all for you, Daddy."The father was moved. He put his arms around his little girl, and he begged（恳求）for her forgiveness（原谅）.One day, an accident took the life of the child. The father still kept that gold box by his bed for many years, and whenever he was discouraged, he would take out an imaginary kiss and remember the love of the child who had put it there.In a very real sense, we have been given a gold box filled with unconditional love and kisses.from our children, family members and friends. There are simply no other things, anyone could hold, more precious than this.1. Was the box that the little girl gave her father empty?2. Why did the little girl make a box?3. What does the gold box mean to the father according to the story?4. Do you always show your love to your parents or friends ? How do you do that?