中考英语阅读理解专项提升练习（含答案）.pdf
2021年中考英语阅读理解专项提升（）Welcome to CCTV9 Du Fu:Chinas Greatest PoetChina has the oldest living tradition of poetry in the world.And for Chinese,poets have always been the ones who most honestlyI，express the feelings of the people.Du Fu,one of the mostA well-known poets in China,lived in the 8th century.712:Du Fu was bom into Chinas greatest period,the Tang Dynasty.735:Du Fu went to the capital,Chang9an,expecting to become a governmentofficial.742:Du Fu met Li Bai and saw him as a teacher.Li Bai encouraged Du Fu inthe art of poetry.Du Fu learned from him how to put details intostorytelling.For a time,their friendship was close,but then they separatedand he never saw Li Bai again.747:Du Fu was trapped in the capital city after his failure in the governmentalcompetitive examination.Finally,he got only a low position,looking afterofficial weapons.755:A huge rebellion（叛乱）broke out,led by the general An Lushan.I t wasvery hard for ordinary people to live and to survive.Du Fus poetrycreates images from later Chinese history when order breaks down andchaos（混 舌L）rises like a storm.He was no longer the young,confidentpoet.His poetry becomes much heavier and more realistic.759:Being hungry,Du Fu and his family made their way west to Qinzhou.Andin mid-winter,as the war came closer,they turned south,down toChengdu.He became a poet farmer there,finding beauty in nature everyday.770:Du Fu died completely unknown to the public.His sons saved thecollections of his poems and had them published in 10 years.1.Where can you find China s Greatest Poet?A.A TV documentary.B.A radio programme.C.A cultural newspaper.D.A popular app.2.What is an opinion of Du Fus career?A.He got a job to take care of official weapons.B.His career was not smooth and full of challenges.C.Li Bai encouraged Du Fu in the art of poetry.D.He failed in the governmental competitive examination.3.What mainly makes Du Fu a great poet?A.Staying close to nature in Chengdu.B.Getting Li Bai as his teacher in the art of poetry.C.Being able to face difficulties and express the true feelings.D.Being bom into Chinas greatest period,the Tang Dynasty.（二）A new way of education that integrates（融合）online and offline learning hasbecome a“new common in basic education,as technology is quickly changing andupdating the future form of schools worldwide.Classes that are digitalized（数字化）and integrated are playing an increasinglyimportant role in the field of education,which also suggests the integrated teachingmodel is quickly becoming a new type,“said Gao Han,vice-president of ClassinI nteractive Class.Gao said that during the COVI D-19 pandemic,the basic education area justmoved from offline to online,where Classin has helped to reorodune offline scenesto online as much as possible.“But a more important purpose is that we can make use of our new technologiesto develop students7 ability to solve difficult problems in the future,Gao noted.Gao shared the opinions during the 2020 Future School Ecology Conference,where EEO,the parent company of Classin,announced that it worked together withBeijing 101 Middle School to donate a Classin X smart classroom to LiangshanMinzu Middle School in Southwest Chinas Sichuan province.Set up in 2014,EEO*s Classin is the worlds first online interactive classroomproduct.During the COVI D-19 outbreak this year,Classin has helped over 10,000 offlineeducation organizations to move from offline to online.The company has started the Classin X smart classroom recently,which hopes toprovide simple but powerful online and offline integrated teaching solutions to theeducation area.According to Xiong Yongchang,head of Beijing 101 Middle School,there arebarriers（障碍）for social resources to enter schools.“With the integrated mode（模式），learning and teaching methods becomeflexible（灵活的），and the ways schools are organized also are more flexible than inthe past,“Xiong said.“I t is not just about taking a class and doing homework online.I t is importantwhether they can make the platform a common part of student life/9 he added.1.The underlined word reproduce in Paragraph 3 probably me a ns.A.生产 B.重温 C.繁殖 D.重现2.What can we learn about the Classin?A.I t provides simple but powerful learning solutions to the learners.B.I t can use new technologies to develop students5 all kinds of abilities.C.I t has been the worlds first online interactive classroom product since 2014.D.According to Xiong Yongchang,it is just about helping students doing homework.3.The following sentence would best be placed at the beginning of.“But the integrated learning projects use new technologies to break that wall.tfA.Paragraph 8 B.Paragraph 9 C.Paragraph 10 D.Paragraph 114.What is the passage mainly about?A.Some changes to the school learning.B.The development of the form of schools.C.The popularity of Classin I nteractive Class.D.An introduction to a new way of education.（三）Little WomenChapter 1 Four sistersChristmas wont be Christmas without any presents/9 grumbled（嘀咕）Jo,lyingon therug（地毯）.“I ts so awful to be poor!agreed Meg,looking down at her old dress.“I ts not right for some girls to have plenty of pretty things,and others to havenothing atall J added little Amy,with a sad sniff（轻哼）.“Weve got father and mother,and each other,“said Beth gently.The four young faces on which the firelight shone brightened at the cheerfulwords,butdarkened again as Jo said sadly,“We haven51 got father,and shall not have him for along She didnt say perhaps never”,but each silently added it,thinking offather far away at the war in the South.Nobody spoke fbr a minute;then Meg said,“Mother advised not having anypresents thisChristmas because it is going to be a hard winter for everyone;and she thinks weshouldnt spend money fbr pleasure when our men are suffering（受难）in the army.We cant do much,but we can make our little effort.But I am afraid I don,t.Megshook her head thinking regretfully of all the pretty things she wanted.“But I dont think the little we should spend would do any good,said Jo.“Weve each got a dollar,and that wont help the army much.I agree not to expectanything from mother or you.Lets each buy ourselves what we want,and have alittle fun.We work hard to earn it.”“I do,teaching those tiresome children nearly all day when I really want to enjoymyself at home J complained Meg.“You dont have half such a hard time as I do,“said Jo.How would you like tobe shut up fbr hours with a nervous,fussy old lady,who is never happy,and worriesyou till youre ready to fly out of the window or cry?”“I ts naughty to fret;but I do think washing dishes and keeping things tidy is theworst work in the world.I t makes me cross;and my hands get too stiff to practice mymusic at all，Beth looked at her rough hands with a sigh that anyone could hear.“I dont believe any of you suffer as I do,“cried Amy,“fbr you dont have to goto school with rude girls who laugh at your lessons or your dresses and say bad wordsbecause your father isnt rich.,1.According to the passage,who is the most pessimistic（悲观的）and who is themost optimistic（乐观的）？A.Meg;Beth B.Jo;Amy C.Meg;Amy D.Amy;Beth2.According to the passage,which of the following is TRUE?A.Their father died when he was fighting with others.B.The passage is a story about three girls and a boy in a family.C.Their father is away at the war,leaving them at home with their mother.D.The four children in the passage all work and make their own money.3.What do they think of their mothers suggestion of not having any Christmas gifts?A.They all agreed to the suggestion of not having any Christmas gifts.B.They all agreed to save the money and buy a gift fbr each other.C.They all agreed that giving the money to the army was of much help.D.They all agreed that giving the money to the army was of little help.（四）Alone in the wilderness.Nothing but jungle.A world of shadow with the rays oflight falling like blonde hair from the crowns of the giant trees.Jungle in the middaysun.Everything motionless.Not a sound from sky or earth.Complete silence.Onlysome coconuts falling,very far away.The world reduced to the soft touch of coolgrass along my naked back,and a sweet smell of rich soil and vegetation.Lying withclosed eyes beside my heavy fruit and firewood,I enjoyed the feeling of fresh bloodstreaming through every part of my body and fresh jungle air filling every comer ofmy body.Resting motionless,I could see the sun through my closed eyelids,alone in thesky,as lonely as I,and as motionless and silent as everything else.The earth hadsurely stopped turning and somewhere on this planet there was supposed to be noisytraffic in busy streets.What a crazy,unbelievable thought!Another coconut fell,to make the world come to a complete standstill.I had toroll over onto my stomach to feel that at least I could move and make noises.Then Ifound company（陪伴）.A little brown ant was struggling（挣扎）to find its way with a bit of dry straw（稻草）through the jungle of leaves and grass below my nose.I wondered if I couldgive the little fellow a lift with its burden（重负），but it showed not the slightest signof tiredness and struggled on with all six legs,head first or head last,waving itsfeelers energetically as if the trip had just started.Who ever saw a tired ant?Tiredness,disagreeable tiredness,is impossible to hunted animals,slaves and modem man.I t isas great an effort for an officer to walk five blocks with a heavy brief-case as it is fbra farmer to cross a valley with a goat on his back.I t is as hard to get up and climb orrun when you have been seated for years as it is to get up and walk when you havebeen in bed fbr months.The body is strange.Spare it,and you get really tired fbralmost nothing;use it,and almost nothing makes you really tired.I rose to my feet.I had heard a horse neighing down in the valley.Above me,onthe open highland places,there were wild horses.But down in the valley there wasnever a horse if there wasnt a man on it.Somebody was making his way up thevalley and my wife was alone.1.Whats the right order of the following events?I heard a horse neighing down in the valley.I went to the jungle.I found an ant carrying a bit of dry straw.I lay on the ground to have a break.I picked fruits and chopped firewood.A.B.C.D.2.How does the writer feel about the ant?A.He admired its behaviour toward work.B.He was amazed at its tireless efforts.C.He had pity on the little ant.D.He was happy to have its company.3.I t can be inferred from the last paragraph that the writer would probablyA.work harder than before B.talk to the man on the horseC.make his way home D.stay in the valley to enjoy the beautiful view（五）A scientist working at her lab bench and a six-month-old baby playing with hisfood might seem to have little in common.After all,the scientist is busy with seriousresearch to discover the very nature of the physical world,and the baby is,well,justplaying.right?Perhaps,but some developmental psychologists（心理学家）haveargued that this play is more like a scientific research than one might think.Take a closer look at the baby playing at the table.Each time the bowl of rice ispushed over the table edge,it falls to the groundand,in the process,it brings outimportant evidence about how physical objects interact（相互作用）；bowls of rice donot flood in mid-sit,but require lasting support.I t is likely that babies are not bornknowing the basic fact of the universe;nor are they ever clearly taught it.I nstead,babies may form an understanding of object support through repeated experimentsand then build on this knowledge to learn even more about how objects interact.Though their tools are quite different,the babys research and the scientisfsexperiment appear to share the same aim（to learn about the natural world）,overallmethods（of gathering direct evidence from the world）,and logic（are my observationswhat 1 expected?）.Some psychologists suggest that young children learn about more than just thephysical world in this way-that they do research on human psychology and the rulesof language in similar ways.For example,it may only be through repeatedexperiments,evidence gathering,and finally overturning（推翻）a theory,that a babywill come to accept the idea that other people can have different views and desires（渴望）from what he or she has,for example,unlike the child,Mommy actually doesntlike Dove chocolate.Viewing childhood development as a scientific research throws on how childrenlearn,but it also offers an inspiring（启发灵感的）look at science and scientists.Whydo young children and scientists seem to be so much alike?Psychologists havesuggested that science as an effortthe desire to explore,explain,and understand ourworld一is simply something that comes from our babyhood.Perhaps evolution（进化）provided human babies with curiosity and a natural drive to explain their worlds,andadult scientists simply make use of the same drive that served them as children.Thesame cognitive（认矢口的）systems that make young children feel good about figuringsomething out may have been accepted by adult scientists.As some psychologists putit,“I t is not that children are little scientists but that scientists are big children.M1.According to some developmental p s y c h o l o g i s t s,.A.a babys play is nothing more than a game.B.scientific research into babies games is possibleC.the nature of babies9 play has been totally investigatedD.a babys play is somehow similar to a scientisfs experiment2.Children may learn the rules of language by.A.exploring the physical world B.investigating human psychologyC.repeating their own experiments D.observing their parents behaviors3.What is the main idea of the last paragraph?A.The world may be more clearly explained through childrens play.B.Studying babies9 play may lead to a better understanding of science.C.Children may have greater ability to figure out things than scientists.D.Ones drive for scientific research may become stronger as he grows.4.What is the writers tone（语气）when he discusses the connection betweenscientists9 research and babies9 play?A.Careful.B.Uncertain.C.Confidence.D.Serious.（六）As a third-generation（）local person of Brownsville,Texas,Mildred Garzanever planned to move away.Even when her daughter and son asked her to move toSan Antonio to help with their children,she politely refused.Only after a year offriendly discussion did Ms.Garza finally say yes.That was four years ago.Today allthree generations consider the move as a success,giving them a closer relationshipthan they would have had in separate cities.No statistics（统计数据）show the number of grandparents like Garza who aremoving closer to adult children and grandchildren.Yet there is evidence suggestingthat the trend（趋势）is growing.Even President Obamas mother-in-law,MarianRobinson,has agreed to leave Chicago and move into the White House to help carefor her granddaughters.According to a study by grandparents,com,83 percent of thepeople said Mrs.Robinsons decision will influence grandparents in the Americanfamily.Two-thirds believe more families will follow the example of Obam
