2019年湖南省长沙市中考英语模拟题汇编-阅读回答问题包含答案解析（共18组）.pdf
阅读回答问题限时训练一It is good to get in touch with your inner（内在的）child from time to time,and clearly somepeople are willing to pay big money for the chance to do so in a proper environment.ABrooklyn-based adult preschool is charging（收费）customers between$333 and$999 forthem to get a chance to act like a kid again during the course.At Preschool Mastermind in New York adults can have a month-long course where they mayjoin in show-and tell,arts-and-crafts（手工课）such as finger paint,games like musical chairs andeven taking naps（打盹）.Its a great chance for them to act and learn just like a little child.30-year-old Michelle Joni Lapidos,the brain behind the adult preschool,studied childhoodeducation and has always wanted to be a preschool teacher.Shes always looking for new ways toget people in touch with their inner child.A friend encouraged her to start the mastermind courseinstead.According to her friend,Candice,Preschool Mastermind can give adults a chance to relearnand master the things that they failed to understand as children.I realized all the significance ofwhat we learn in preschool,said founder Michelle Jomi,People come here and get in touch withtheir inner kid.Its magical.We are bringing ourselves back to another place,another timewith ourselves when we are more believing in ourselves,more confident and ready to take on theworld.“Some people come here because they want to learn to be more relaxed.Others are here tolearn to be more confident.Michelle said.nAlthough the planned activities here are fun,I thinkwhat attracts the adults most is the sharing between friends and learning from each other just like akid.u1.How much should a customer pay for the course at the Brooklyn-based preschool?2.What activities may the adults at Preschool Mastermind take part in?3.Do adults learn how to be serious parents at Preschool Mastermind in New York?4.Who started Preschool Mastermind in New York?5.What does Candice think people can get from Preschool Mastermind?A mother wanted to encourage her son to play the piano,so she bought tickets to the concertof a great pianist.When they arrived at the theater,the mother found a friend.She stopped to talkto her friend and her son ran off.At eight oclock,the lights began to dim（变暗），and the concert was going to start.Themother began to look for the boy.Suddenly,she saw her 6-year-old son on the stage（舞台）.Hewas on the piano bench playing Twinkle,Twinkle Little Star.The mother was very shocked.Before she could run to the stage and get her son back,thefamous pianist himself was on stage and quickly moved to the piano.“Dont stop.Keep playing,he said kindly to the boy.The great pianist reached down withhis left hand and began filling in the bass（低音部）part of the Song.Soon,his right arm reachedaround the other side and played a beautiful piece of music.Together,the two impressed（使人印象 深 亥 people with their beautiful music.In all of our lives,we receive helping hands-some we notice and some we dont.We alsohave lots of chances to give helping hands-sometimes we want people to know and sometimes wedont.On our way to success,we should always remember to give a helping hand because withoutothers help,we can hardly achieve anything.6.Why did the mother buy tickets to the concert?7.When the concert was going to start,where was the boy?8.What was the mother going to do when she found her son?9.Did the pianist get angry with the boy?10.In the writers opinion,is receiving a helping hand or giving a helping hand more important fbrus to succeed?Tea,coffee and cocoa are three major drinks all over the world.Tea is drunk by the largestnumber of people in the world.Tea,as well as silk and porcelain,began to be known by the worldover a thousand years ago and has been an important Chinese export since then.Tea has a history of over 4,000 years and China is the home of tea.In ancient China,tea wasused as a kind of medicine,while nowadays people drink tea daily.Longjing,Puer,Wulong and Tieguanyin are all famous tea.Thanks to the mild climate andrich soil in Fujian,Zhejiang and Yunnan,tea is produced mainly in these provinces.The word for tea in different languages came from Chinese,like chai in Russian.And theJapanese character fbr tea is written exactly the same as it is in Chinese.Over the past centuries,Chinese people have developed their unique（独特的）tea culture,which includes tea planting,tea-leaf picking,tea making,tea drinking and so on.Tea is alsopopular in some sayings,like A friendship between gentlemen is like a cup of tea.In dances,songs,poems and novels,tea is often mentioned,too.11.How many drinks are mentioned in this passage?12.Why is tea produced mainly in Fujian,Zhejiang and Yunnan?13.What does the underlined sentence“A friendship between gentlemen is like a cup of tea”mean in Chinese?14.In ancient China,people used tea as a kind of medicine,didn*t they?15.What is the best title for the passage?阅读回答问题限时训练二Sydney has a history of more than 200 years.But in Australia,it is the oldest city.It is alsothe countrys largest city.Sydney is the capital of New South Wales and the most populous（人口稠密的）city of Australia.The climate of Sydney is very good.Ifs not too cold during the winter and not too hot duringthe summer.The sky is blue,the air is fresh,birds sing in the garden.People who live in Sydneyseem to have an easy life style.They will tell you,Dont worry.Many people think that Sydney is one of the most attractive cities in the world.It has manytall and modern buildings.Among them,Centrepoint Tower is the tallest.Standing on the305-meter tower,you will have a great view of the city.Sydney is famous for its deep harbor（港 口）.The harbor has many bays（湾）and beautifulsurf beaches.Among them,Bondi beach is the most popular.Sydney Harbor is not only beautiful,but also serves as a large port.Ships carry wool,wheat and meat from Sydney to other countries.People living in Sydney like to call themselves Sydneysiders.They are mostly friendly andeasygoing.When they are not working,they love to have a good time at the beach,swimming andsailing.1.How many years does Sydney have a history of?2.How is the climate of Sydney?3.Is Centrepoint Tower the tallest among them?4.What is Sydney famous for?5.What do people living in Sydney love to do when they are not working?Angelo Merendino is an artist.He is a man I have not met,but Ive shared his works againand again.Here I want to introduce some of his works.True art moves us.It takes us on a journey.And I have not come across such an excitingjourney as Angelo Merendinosnot ever.He took a lot of photos of his wife,Jennifer,during herbattle with cancer.Although she lost the battle finally,she left us with some of the most beautifulphotos Ive ever seen.I hope that you take time with each of these photos and get inside them.Meet Jennifer.Youcan witness（见证）her bright spirit（心、灵）in spite of her battle against disease.You can also seeher in the situations that she knew so well.And you can meet the people who supported her.Whafs more,you can see the normal1 they maintained（保持）for her in their daily life 一 theconversation,the laughter,the quiet.Meet the man who loved her,who honored her,until the end.Remember that this is a storya true story.Angelo loved Jennifer.He honored Jennifersenergy,and her expressions changed as she fought the cancer.Finally,Angelo Merendino had to say goodbye to his wife,but his photos allow her spirit tocontinue on.She is still doing work in this world,she continues cheering us up.Thank you,Angelo 一 you*ve shown us what it means to love,and thank you,Jennifer-youve changed myheart in some way.6.What is Angelo Merendino?7.What did Angelo Merendino do to show love to his wife?8.Has the writer met Anzgelo Merendino before?9.What happened to Jennifer finally?lO.What does the writer think of the photos?My father died when I was five years old.Life was hard for us all.Because of my fathers death（死亡），my mother had to take a full-time job.So my brotherhad to take care of me.He was eight years older than me.He got up early every morning.Then hewoke me up and made breakfast for me.Hand in hand,we would walk to the bus stop.When wewaited for the bus,we would play games that my father had played with me.He tried his best tomake me happy.One Saturday in June,my mother and I were in a shop.The shop was selling Fathers Daycards.I looked at the cards.My mom said,Honey,I know it is a hard time for you.I said,nNo,Mom,thafs not it.I want to buy a card for my brother.*She smiled and let me choose a card.When we got home,I gave my brother the card.As he read it,I saw tears（眼泪）in his eyes.Mom said,Son,your father is proud of you and he knows that you will do your best to step intohis shoes.We love you,and thank you.11.How old was the writers brother when their father died?12.What did the writers mother have to do after his father died?13.What would the writer and his brother do when they waited for the bus?14.Why does the writer want to buy a card for her brother?15.How did the brother feel when he read the card?阅读回答问题限时训练三My father died when I was five.Life was hard for us all.Because of my fathers death（死亡）,my mother had to take a full-time job.So my brother had to take care of me.He was eight yearsolder than me.He got up early every morning.Then he woke me up and made breakfast for me.Hand in hand,we would walk to the bus stop.When we waited for the bus,he would play gamesthat my father had played with me.He tried his best to make me happy.One Saturday in June,my mother and I were in a shop.The shop was selling Fathers Daycards.I looked at the cards.My mom said,Honey,I know it is a hard time for you.I said,No,Mom,thats not it.I want to buy a card for my brother.She smiled and let me choose a card.When we got home,I gave my brother the card.As he read it,I saw tears（眼泪）in his eyes.Mom said,nSon,your father is proud（自豪的）of you and he knows that you will do your best tostep into his shoes.We love you,and thank you.1.How old was the writers brother when their father died?2.What did the writers mother have to do after his father died?3.What would the writer and his brother do when they waited for the bus?4.What was the shop selling on that Saturday in June?5.What did the writer see when his brother read the card?Pollution is the worlds biggest killer.It caused one in six,or 16 percent,of all global deathsin 2015.Most of these deaths were from diseases like heart disease,lung cancer and stroke.Researchers said 92 percent of pollution-related deaths were in poor countries,especiallycountries with a lot of economic development.Bangladesh and Somalia were the countries mostaffected.Brunei and Sweden had the lowest numbers of deaths because of pollution.A researcher said:Pollution,poverty and poor health are deeply linked（关联）He saidpollution threatens（威胁）human rights,such as the right to life and health.Air pollution was thebiggest killer.It killed 6.5 million people in 2015.The second biggest killer was water pollution.Next,was pollution in the workplace.A scientist said:Air pollution is reaching crisis point.People with breathing problems,children and the elderly are hardest hit.6.What is the worlds biggest killer?7.Which country had the lowest number of pollution-related death?8.What kind of pollution is the second biggest killer?9.How many people died of air pollution in 2015?10.What should we do to stop the pollution?Imagine a sport much like equestrian（马术的）show jumping,but where the horse isreplaced by a wooden stick with a toy horse at one,and the rider actually does all the jumpingover increasingly difficult hurdles（障碍）.That*s the popular sport of hobbyhorsing.The hobby horse is one of the oldest childrens toys that are still used today.Many of usremember jumping around in the yard on a stick,but in my opinion,riding a toy horse is morethan just a game in Finland.Many of them train for hours and hours and regularly take part injumping competitions where they try to impress judges with their posture（姿势），footwork andjumping.Competitive hobbyhorsing starts with the horses.There are lots of websites that sell toyhorses,and some people even knit（织）their own horse heads to mount on a stick.The horsesoften have names and are being cared for like real animals.Its not clear how exactly hobbyhorsing became so popular among Finnish teenage girls.Owning a horse is difficult for someone living in the city,not to mention expensive,but a stickand lots of imagination are available to pretty much everyone.In equestrian show jumping contests,you see the rider guiding the horse to jump overobstacles,but in Finland,competitors use their own legs to take themselves and the wooden horseover obstacles as high as 3 feet,which requires lots of training.However,many in theScandinavian countries see competitive hobby horsing,just as a childish game.11.In hobbyhorsing,what does the competitor ride?12.Does the writer think hobbyhorsing is just a childish game in Finland?13.What do the competitors impress judges with?14.How do many people in the Scandinavian countries think of hobbyhorsing?15.What does the passage mainly talk about?阅读回答问题限时训练四Where did you go this summer vacation?Perhaps you have visited some top universities athome or abroad.If so,you are not alone.This summer,crowds of tourists from across the countrytravelled to famous universities like Tsinghua University,Peking University and Fudan University.Tsinghua University,for example,received 6,000 visitors a day,reported by China Youth Daily.Most of them were middle school and high school students with their parents.With the rising number of visitors,it took many hours to enter the universities.TsinghuaUniversity opens to the public at 8:30 a.m.J a guard told China Youth Daily.However,manypeople start to line up at 3 to 4 a.m.because people who come at 6:00 oclock may be too late andcan only enter in the afternoon.This is not only for Chinese universities.Oxford in Britain and Harvard in the United States arefacing the same problem.In summer,bicycle paths of Oxford were full of tour buses,which wereparked illegally（违规），according to The Independent.The pavements（人行道）were also full ofChinese tourists.*University tourism is popular because of the long histories and special cultures of thesefamous universities.More importantly,many parents hope their children will go into a topuniversity in the future,noted in Peoples Daily.I brought my son here to see what topuniversities look like.*1 a mother of a 14-year-old boy told China Daily.She hoped her son couldlearn something from the trip and study harder after that.1.According to the first paragraph,who are the main tourists of these top universities in China?2.Why do people start to line up early in the morning?3.According to The Independent,what is the situation in Oxford?4.Why is the University tourism so popular?5.Do the parents expect their children to study hard to get into the top universities in the future?The American book Who Moved My Cheese has been a best-seller all over the world.Itteaches p
