2019中考英语阅读理解选习题（3）及答案
Passage A
（2019中考日常生活类训练）
It’s so beautiful outside that spending the day in the office would be very boring. So why not take the vacations(假期)off? A new survey(调查)found that 31﹪of U.S workers don’t always take all of their vacation days. Americans have 12 vacation days on average(平均)each year, but they give back an average of 3 vacation days each year.
So why don’t they use up their vacation days? Some say they would rather get money back for their unused days; some busy workers say they just can’t leave their work. Americans have fewer vacation days than workers in any other country surveyed.
The French take their vacations seriously. French workers get an average of 39 vacation days, and 40﹪ plan to take at least one there-to-four-week vacation.
Workers in Sweden receive an average of 25 vacation days a year,but they can’t find time to use them all. More workers there return vacation days than any other country surveyed.
British workers have the longest working week in Europe(欧洲),with 23 vacation days --the shortest vacation. So they feel overworked.75﹪ say their weekends or vacations are too short and 40﹪ would sacrifice a day’s pay(工资)for one more vacation day.
1. How many vacation days do Americans have on average each year in fact?
A.9 B.12 C.15 D.23
2. Which country has the most workers working during the vacation days?
A. America. B. France. C. Sweden. D. Great Britain.
3. What does the word“sacrifice”mean in the last sentence?
A. Use up. B. Put up. C. Take up. D. Give up.
4. Which of the following is true?
A. Some American workers are too busy to leave their work.
B. French workers can take one Three-to-four week days.
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C. Swedish workers can enjoy all of their vacation days.
D. British workers have the shortest vacation days of all the countries surveyed.
参考答案1A 2C 3D 4A
Passage B
中考英语阅读理解分类练习：健康保健类
If you are lucky enough, you may find the hummingbird (蜂鸟), the smallest bird of the animal world, in a south American forest.
Though the hummingbird is no bigger than a bee and weighs only 2 to 3 grams, it can fly as fast as 50 meters in a second. It can fly forwards (向前) as most birds do, and it can fly backwards as well. The strangest thing about it, however, is that it can stay still in the air, just like a helicopter.
Whenever a hummingbird needs food, it will fly slowly towards a flower. It won’t stand on the flower, as bees do, but just hangs to the flower and then begins to sunk (吸吮) the honey from inside the flower with its needle-like beak.
The hummingbird is very particular in building its nest (巢). It takes great trouble to choose materials. It likes soft ones better than hard ones. Its eggs are so small that a common match box can hold as many as one hundred of them.
【小题1】Most of the hummingbirds live in a(n) __________ forest.
A．north American B．south Asian
C．north Asian D．south American
【小题2】A hummingbird can fly as fast as _______ meters in a second.
A．fifty B．five hundred
C．fifteen D．one hundred and fifty
【小题3】The underlined word “helicopter” most probably means _______.
A．轮船 B．公共汽车 C．火车 D．直升飞机
【小题4】When a hummingbird builds a nest, it likes better.
A．soft materials B．hard materials
C．an material D．both
【小题5】Which of the sentences is NOT true?
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A．A hummingbird can even fly backwards.
B．You cannot see the wings of a hummingbird move.
C．A hummingbird will fly quickly towards a flower when it’s hungry.
D．A common match box can hold as many as one hundred hummingbird eggs.
Passage C
February 14th, Valentine’s Day, is a complicated but interesting occasion. First of all, Valentine’s Day is not a holiday from work. No one gets a day off. In many countries it is observed by sending cards to your friends and candy or flowers to your husband or wife if you’re married, or to your boy friend or girl friend if you’re not married. In Japan, some girls even give their fathers chocolates.
Why is this holiday for people in love called Valentine’s Day?
One explanation comes from a Christian man whose name was something like“Valentine”. He lived at a time when the Roman Emperor refused to allow any Roman soldiers to get married for any reason. Many couples came to Valentine to be married. So he would secretly marry them in a Christian ceremony. He was discovered and put in prison by the Emperor. One tradition says that he wrote notes to his friends by marking on leaves and then throwing them out of the window of his prison. The leaves were shaped like a heart. Valentine was killed on February 14th and Valentine’s Day recalls his tragic death.
On Valentine’s Day, American elementary school children make or buy Valentine cards, write the name of a classmate on them, and take them to school and put them in a special Valentine’s Day box. And then on that day the box is opened, the cards are taken out and given out.
1. Which of the following is true about Valentine’s Day?
A. It is observed by sending flowers to one’s husband or wife.
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B. Children in Japan give their fathers chocolates.
C. It is a legal holiday in many countries.
D. People send candy to each other.
2. The man called Valentine was put in prison because ________.
A. He secretly got married in a Christian ceremony
B. He helped people get married when love was not allowed
C. He helped Roman soldiers get married
D. He wanted to kill the Roman Emperor
3. So he would secretly marry them in a Christian ceremony. “marry” is closest in meaning to ________.
A. Which priest is going to marry them?
B. She has married off all her daughters.
C. I’m glad Hubert married a girl of spirit.
D. At present she doesn’t intend to marry at all.
4. People celebrate Valentine’s Day _________.
A. to take a day off B. in memory of Valentine C. C. to show their love D. both B and C
5. American school children don’t _______ on Valentine’s Day.
A. buy Valentine cards
B. make cards for their teachers
C. give each other Valentine cards
D. put their cards in a Valentine’s Day box
参考答案1－5 ACADB
Passage D
（2019中考日常生活类训练）
Though many countries have laws against the illegal ivory trade (反对非法象牙贸易), tens of thousands of African elephants are killed every year.
In January, 2014, hundreds of elephant tusks (象牙) as well as ivory sculptures were put into two large crushing machines (粉碎机) in Guangdong, China. In all, more
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than six tons of ivory were destroyed. People called the event an ivory crush. In November, 2013, the similar event happened in Colorado, America. There, wildlife officials also destroyed more than six tons of ivory.
Though it may sound strange, wildlife officials are crushing ivory to help save African elephants. Stephanie Wang, who works for the Wildlife Protection Society in New York City, says, “We try to let the world know that we don’t think ivory is valuable when it’s not on an elephant.” Each year, poachers kill elephants, cut off their long tusks and take the tusks out of Africa secretly. Then they sell the tusks and get thousands of dollars. The buyers use the ivory to make sculptures, jewellery and traditional medicines.
The purpose of recent ivory crushes is to send a message to the poachers and those who buy illegal ivory. Stephanie Wang says, “China’s ivory crush is ‘an important step’. However, it is only a small amount (数量) of the illegal ivory. If we don’t stop the illegal ivory trade, African elephants could disappear from the wild within 10 years.”
1. The writer mentions ______ ivory crush(es) in the passage.
A. one B. two C. six D. twelve
2. What can we infer from the passage?
A. There are too many elephants in China.
B. Chinese people can’t afford ivory sculptures.
C. American people never buy ivory sculptures.
D. Wildlife officials are against the ivory trade.
3. What does the underlined word “poachers” mean in Chinese?
A. 偷捕动物的人 B. 热爱动物的人
C. 虐待动物的人 D. 训练动物的人
4. According to Stephanie Wang, ______.
A. it’s not a good idea to crush ivory
B. all of the ivory trade is in China
C. we should do a lot to protect African elephants
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D. African elephants will disappear within 10 years
参考答案1B 2D 3A 4C
Passage E
（2019中考教育类选练）
The aim (目的) of students who come to school is to study. But studying requires (需要) a right way, or you waste either the time or the money. The following are the ways of studying.
The best time for reading is morning, because in the morning, the air is fresh and the mind is clear. For that reason, we can get good results (结果).
In studying we must have patience (耐心). If we have not known a text well, we must read it again. We shouldn’t read the next one till we have understood the first one.
When we are studying, we must put our hearts into the book, or we can get nothing from the book while we are reading.
We must always ask “whys”. If it is not well understood, write it down and ask our teachers, parents, or friends. In any possible way, we must know it completely and what we’ve leaned can be used well and made better.
Though there are many ways for studying, yet the above mentioned (提到的) will be quite enough if we can keep them in heart and do so.
1. The passage tells us ______.
A. the importance of reading
B. to read in the morning
C. to pay attention to the ways of studying
D. to have patience in studying
2. The passage has taught us ______ ways of studying.
A. three B. four C. five D. many
3. We’d better read in the morning because ______.
A. it’s easy to remember what we have learned
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B. the air is fresh and the mind is clear
C. it’s difficult to get good results
D. both A and C
4. If we can’t put our hearts into the book when we read, it is ______.
A. easy to understand it well B. better to get something from it
C. impossible (不可能)for us to get something from it
D. possible (可能) to learn something from it
5. In studying we must always ask “whys” in order to ______.
A. understand the book well B. write down the questions
C. do with the new words D. get some questions to ask our teachers
参考答案1C 2B 3B 4C 5A
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