2020年中考英语阅读训练（选词填空、阅读理解）.pdf

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1、2020年中考英语阅读训练（选词填空、阅读理解）一、选词填空Akind look scientist which it design hundred work large byWe call them aliens or extraterrestrials（夕 卜星生物）.We make movies and write booksabout them,though we dont know if they really exist（存在）.But weve never stopped1 for them.On April 28,Chinas radio telescope（射电望远镜）FAS

2、T,nicknamed（昵称）“Eye ofHeaven（天眼）“，officially began 2 search for intelligent life（智慧生命）inouter space.Radio telescopes 3 to find signals from space.Scientists believethat if aliens do exist,they would emit（发射）signals as a byproduct（副产品）of usingcommunication technology,just like we do on Earth with tel

3、evision and radio.FAST isthe worlds 4 and most sensitive（灵敏的）radio telescope.Scientists hope touse it to make new discoveries,as it can detect even the weakest signals from space.Radio telescopes are not the only tools that scientists have used to look for intelligentlife.They have used other 5 of t

4、echnology as well.For example,messages have been sent into space in the hopes of reaching othercivilizations（文明）.In 1977,NASA sent the Voyager 1 and 2 probes（探测器）intospace.Each carried a copy of the Golden Record,6 contains（包含）imagesand sounds from Earth.If aliens on other planets find them,they can

5、 learn about humans.Vbyager 1 is now 22.2 billion km away from us and is still 7.It has traveledfarther into space than any other man-made object.Space telescopes are also being used to search for life outside of Earth.The KeplerSpace Telescope,built 8 the US,was used to look for Earth-like planets.

6、Keplerwas launched（发射）in 2009 and retired（退役）in 2018.It found more than 1,200exoplanets（系外行星）.Many of them are rocky（多岩石的）planets similar to Earth,which means they might be able to support intelligent life.Should we even search for them?Although the idea of finding aliens might be exciting,9 have di

7、fferent opinionsabout whether we should contact them.Stephen Hawking:NoThe late British scientist Stephen Hawking believed there are aliens on other planets.But he warned that aliens might be dangerous.People should not look for them.If theyfind us one day,they might take our resources.That would be

8、 disastrous（灾难性的）for us.David Morrison:YesUS scientist David Morrison believes we should welcome aliens.If aliens can send usmessages from 10 of thousands of light-years away,they must be muchsmarter than us.They might be able to help us solve some of our problems.Binclude about see provide you way

9、important control make plantSeventy percent of our planet is covered by one huge,continuous（连续的）body ofseawater-the ocean.In 2008,the United Nations recognized（确立）June 8 as WorldOceans Day.It9s a day to think 1 the important role that the oceans play in ourlives,the dangers that are facing our ocean

10、s and the action we can take to protect them.uThe 2 of our oceans.The ocean is home to the majority（大多数）of 3 and animals on Earth.Marine（海洋的）plants 4 us with 70 percent of the oxygen（氧气）we breathe.Theocean 5 our climate（气候）,providing heat in winter and cool air in summer.It also provides us with foo

11、d and medicine.No matter where you live on the planet,nomatter how far from the sea,6 life is dependent（依赖的）on the ocean.The problems facing our oceansThe most urgent（紧急的）problem facing the ocean at the moment is plastic pollution.Reducing single-use plastic,7 plastic bags and plastic bottles,has be

12、en animportant theme for World Oceans Day fbr a number of years.Climate change and rising sea temperatures are also a huge problem.Rising seatemperatures have a direct influence on weather patterns（模式）and 8 as partlyresponsible for an increase in extreme weather conditions.How is the day celebrated?

13、The day is celebrated in a variety of 9,including special events at aquariums（水族馆）and zoos,beach and river clean-ups,school activities,art contests and filmfestivals.You can join in to remind people about the importance of our oceans and10 a difference.Cfrom make bring be come friendship it celebrat

14、e flower they“The tender green buds（嫩芽）sprout（发芽）.Then the buds grow up and beautifulflowers bloom.”This is a poetic description of a video performance by Zhu Huanduo,an 11-year-oldgirl 1 Tianhang Experimental School,Hangzhou,Zhejiang province.The video,titled Growing Flowers,2 part of Zhus class9 o

15、wn version（版本）of KasouTaishou（超级变变变）,a Japanese TV show that is popular for 3 short skits（滑稽短剧）.4 World Drama Day,which fell on March 27,Zhus head teacher ZhengYing held a performance activity for her class.UA family is a team,and 5 homeis the stage.Directors,screenwriters,actors-the shooting and ed

16、iting（剪辑）are alltheir own,Zheng said.Sets,lights,makeup and costumes are also put together6 daily life full of surprises,Zheng added.With spring 7,Zhu decided to fit the current season.She used green socks,green sheets,and vines（藤）and leaves from a bonsai（盆栽）tree in her home.The8 were made from her

17、grandmother silk scarf.Another student,Xia Xingyu,performed as Xu Xian,a character from the 1992 TVseries New Legend of Madame White Snake.He used a grey tablecloth and top hat tocreate his costume.“Its enough 9 laughter to my classmates during toughtimes J Xia said.During the long winter holiday,ma

18、ny teachers are using new methods to keep theirstudents entertained.Online learning multiplies（使.多样化）the status,role,andmeaning of home.Teachers can help students and their parents build parent-child10 and inspire more creativity,“Zheng said.Ddeep much cook skill person class receive while put realD

19、ivided into two groups,the students were busy in a kitchen at the High PointCommunity Center in Seattle,US.Instructor（指导员）Asia Faircloth taught one grouphow 1 vermicelli（意式2出面）bowls with chicken.The other group joinedinstructor Jacob Alhadeff to practice new chopping 2 with chef knives.The centers f

20、our-week cooking course was centered on cooking and food justice.Toteach 3 people about the importance of having nutritious food,the city recruited（招募）students from low-income families through social media.Each student 4100 dollars（700 yuan）at the end of the course.Low-income people of color are mor

21、e likely to feel the effects of food injustice（不公）J Alhadeff said.So providing cooking instruction and 5 money back inthe pockets of our community members seemed like a no-brainer（容易做的决定）Alhadeff and Faircloth started the course not only to teach kids how to cook,but alsoto encourage them to think m

22、ore 6 about the economics behind food.Theywere shown how to connect the dots between 7 choices and the economic costof obesity（月 巴 胖），climate change and global food supplies.Tahir Adams and Najah Goodrich,two juniors at Seattle Lutheran High School,joinedthe 8.They talked about how farmers have a ha

23、rd time putting food on theirown kitchen tables 9 growing fresh produce for the rest of the country.Theywere proud of the new skills and recipes（菜谱）they learned.“We started with more personal things,then looked at the bigger,global view.like,how climate change is related to fbod,Adams said.It can be

24、 10 bad whendroughts（干旱）turn places into actual deserts and droughts cause civil unrest79二、阅读理解AThere is a story of two friends who were walking through the desert（沙漠）.At somepoint in their trip,they got into an argument,and one friend slapped（扇耳光）theother one in the face.?The one who got slapped wa

25、s hurt.But without saying anything,he wrote in the sand（沙子），“Today my best friend slapped me in the face/9They kept on walking until they found a lake,where they decided to take a bath.Theone who had been slapped got stuck in some thick sand and started drowning（溺水）,but his friend saved him.?After t

26、hat,he wrote on a stone,Today my best friend savedmy life.”The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend asked him,“After I hurt you,youwrote in the sand,but now,you write on a stone.Why?”The other friend replied,When someone hurts us,we should write it down in sandwhere winds of forgiveness(

27、原谅)can take it away.But,when someone doessomething good for us,we must keep it in stone where no wind can ever blow it away.”It is easy to get upset at others,even our good friends,when they say or do things thathurt us.But if we hold onto these upset feelings forever,they will just hurt us.On theot

28、her hand,when someone does something nice for us,holding onto the feeling ofthankfulness can give you a lifetime of inner peace.?()1.How did the person who got slapped react?A.He slapped the friend back.B.He had an argument with his friend.C.He wrote about his upset feelings in the sand.D.He pushed

29、his friend into a lake nearby.()2.Why did the person who was saved write his feelings on a stone?A.To forgive his friend.B.To help himself forget his sadness.C.To make his friend feel upset.D.To remember his friend help.()3.What does the underlined phrase mean in the last paragraph?A.take awayB.blow

30、 awayC.stick toD.catch up with()4.What can we learn from the story?A.The two people could not be friends anymore.B.We should learn to forgive and thank others.C.Friendship lasts when everybody is nice to each other.D.A lifetime of inner peace is hard to get.Many years ago,there was a group of brilli

31、ant(卓越的)young men at a university.They were talented at writing.They often met to read and criticize each others works.These men were merciless（冷酷无情的）when they criticized one another.They gavetough criticism of each others work.Some of them were quite cruel to each other.Themembers of the club calle

32、d themselves the Stranglers（扼杀者）To level up their literary（写作）skills,some women who were interested in writing atthe university started a club of their own.?The members called themselves the“Wranglers（看护者）”.The members of the Wranglers“also gave their opinions about each others9 literaryworks.But th

33、e feedback（反馈）from the members was much softer,more positive andmore encouraging.?Every effort（努力）from a member was encouraged by all.After 20 years,one of the students was doing a study of his classmates when he noticeda huge difference in the writing world of the Stranglers and the Wranglers.Among

34、 all the brilliant young men in the Stranglers,none had made any majorachievements.But the Wranglers had several successful writers.The groups were equally（相等地）talented and educated.There was not muchdifference between them.The Stranglers strangled each other,while the Wranglers gaveeach other a lif

35、t（鼓舞）.The Stranglers had more self-doubt,while the Wranglersbrought out the best in each other.?（）1.In the“Stranglers”,members used forms of feedback.A.crueller B.softerC.more positive D.more encouraging（）2.Why did the women start their own club?A.To fight against the mens club.B.To improve their wr

36、iting skills.C.To learn how to criticize successfully.D.To show off their skills.（）3.What made the two groups so different 20 years later?A.They had different work experience.B.They had gotten different types of feedback.C.They had different writing skills.D.They did not get the same education.（）4.W

37、hat might the conclusion（结论）of the study be?A.Women can do whatever men do.B.Criticism can give others a lift.C.Self-doubt is even worse than criticism.D.We should encourage each other more.CA kind woman baked bread for her family and an extra loaf（一条面包）for hungrypassers-by every day.She put the ext

38、ra bread beside a window and prayed for（祈祷）her son.He had left their home for a faraway land and she hadnt heard from him fbr along time.1A tramp（流浪汉）would always come to take the bread away.As he left,he wouldalways say,“The evil you do remains with you.The good you do comes back to you.The woman f

39、elt irritated.Not even a word of thanks/9 she said angrily.This went on,day after day.Finally,the woman became so angry that she decided to add poison（毒药）to the loaf!2 As she was doing it,her hands shook.Look at what Ive done!she said.Sheimmediately（立亥U）threw the bread away and made another loaf.As

40、usual,the tramp came and picked up the bread.That evening,there was a knock on the door.Amazingly（神奇的是），the womans sonwas standing in the doorway.He was tired and weak.Mom,ifs a miracle（奇迹）thatI made it back home!As I got closer,I started to feel so hungry that I almost gave up.But then,an old tramp

41、 came up to me and gave me a loaf of bread.He said he got itfrom a nice lady.”The womans face turned pale at once.3 The tramps words suddenly came back toher:The evil you do remains with you.The good you do comes back to you.”Teens couldnt contact the author of this story.The author can contact Teen

42、s if necessary.（）1.What happened to the womans son?A.He became a tramp.B.He got a serious disease.C.He traveled around the world.D.He lost touch with his mom.（）2.What does the underlined word“irritated mean?A.scared B.stressedC.angryD.thankful（）3.After hearing what her son said,the womans face turne

43、d pale b e c a u s e.A.her son was dying of hungerB.she got angrier with the trampC.she nearly poisoned her own sonD.the tramp didnt truly help her son（）4.The story teaches us t hat.A.we should be good and do good thingsB.there is no such thing as a free lunchC.we shouldnt judge people by their look

44、sD.miracles only happen to nice peopleDThere was once a carpenter（木匠）who was good at building houses.He had no otherskills and his boss（老板）was very nice,so he worked fbr his boss one year after another.After 10 years of working for the same company,he finally got fed up with it anddecided to quit（辞职

45、）.He wanted to try something new.However,after hearing this,his boss asked him to help with one final job before he leftthe team.He asked him to build one final house.Although the carpenter didnt want todo this kind of work anymore,he still agreed.He built the house,but his heart wasntin it.He used

46、cheap materials（材料）and rushed to finish the job quickly.It turned outto be the worst house that he had ever built.?When he finished,his boss came to see him one last time.Seeing the house,he saidnothing.He paid the worker fbr building the house.He then said,“I wanted to dosomething special for you t

47、o say thanks for your 10 years of hard work.You know,youhave built so many beautiful and grand（宏伟的）houses fbr other people these yearsbut not one fbr yourself.so Im giving you this house as a gift.”Surprised,the carpenter was speechless.What a shame!He had never thought his bosswould give him such a

48、 big gift.?If he knew he was building his own house,he wouldhave done it much differently.He regretted building his final house so poorly.?（）1.What does the underlined phrase“got fed up with mean?A.became angry withB.became interested inC.was tired ofD.ended up with)2.When the worker was doing his l

49、ast j ob,.A.he put all his heart into itB.he didnt do his bestC.he didnt finish itD.he built the best house ever)3.How might the boss feel after seeing the house?A.Uninterested.B.Bored.C.Disappointed.D.Ashamed.)4.What does the story teach us?A.Do your work well from start to finish.B.Never play tric

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