2019中考英语阅读练（九）
第一部分：任务型阅读
（2016中考选练）阅读短文，根据短文内容选择适当的句子填入空缺处。
Tony loved basketball. One afternoon on his way to a basketball game, he was walking and dreaming about playing college basketball the next year. 1． and he was thrown three meters into the air.
Tony woke up in a hospital room. When the doctor told him that both his legs were broken, he knew his college basketball dreams were over. 2． , but it didn’t work. After he left the hospital, Tony was sent to a health center.
A week after he arrived there, he met Sunny Chen. Sunny used to be a coach. His legs were hurt badly in a skating accident. 3． , Sunny became a coach of a basketball team called the Suns．It was an on-wheelchair basketball team，because everybody on the team played from a wheelchair. 4． . Tony played badly, but for the first time since the accident, he stopped feeling sorry for himself.
After becoming a part of the Suns，Tony improved quickly． 5． .Tony was much better than before. When Tony became sad or angry, Sunny was there to be with him. The day before Tony left the center, he had dinner with Sunny. He asked Sunny how he could be so happy, even with his broken legs.
Sunny smiled and said, “It’s really quite easy. When you keep your face to the sun, the shadows fall behind.”
A. Tony did what the doctors told him
B. Suddenly a car hit him
C. Basketball was like medicine for him
D. Though he couldn’t move his legs
E. Sunny invited Tony to join the game
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【答案】
1．B 2．A 3．D 4．E 5．C
【解析】
试题分析：一辆车撞了Tony，他双腿骨折，很难过。在Sunny的鼓励下，Tony重新变得阳光起来。
1．B根据he was thrown three meters into the air.可知，正确答案为B. Suddenly a car hit him突然一辆车撞了他。
2．A根据 but it didn’t work.和上下文故该题正确答案为A. Tony did what the doctors told him. Tony做了医生告诉他的事情。
3．D根据Sunny became a coach of a basketball team called the Suns．即该题选D. Though he couldn’t move his legs虽然他不能动他的腿。
4．E根据Tony played badly,可知选E. Sunny invited Tony to join the game。Sunny 邀请Tony参加这次比赛。
5．C根据Tony was much better than before.和上下文可知，正确答案为C. Basketball was like medicine for him篮球就像他的药。
【难度】较易
第二部分
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The World’s Water Shortage
The world is not only hungry, but it is also thirsty for water. This may seem strange to you, since nearly 70 percent（百分比）of the earth’s surface is covered with water. But about 97 percent of this huge amount is sea water, or salt water. Man can only drink and use the other 3 percent－the fresh water from rivers, lakes, underground, and other sources（资源）. And we cannot even use all of that, because some of it is in the form of icebergs and glaciers（冰川）. Even worse, some of it has been polluted.
However, as things stand today, this small amount of fresh water is still enough for us. But our need for water is increasing（增加）rapidly－almost day by day. Only
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if we take steps to deal with this problem now can we avoid（避免）a severe（严重的）worldwide water shortage later on.
We all have to learn how to stop wasting our valuable water. One of the first steps is to develop ways of reusing it.
Today in most large cities, water is used only once and then sent out into a sewer system（下水道）. From there it returns to the sea or runs into underground storage tanks. But it is possible to pipe used water to a purifying（净化）plant. There it can be treated with chemicals so that it can be used again, just as if it were fresh from a spring.
But even if every large city purified and reused its water, we still would not have enough. All we’d have to do to make use of the vast reserves（贮备）of sea water in the world is to remove the salt.
If we take these steps we’ll be in no danger of drying up.
1. The world is thirsty for water because we can only use _________ percent of the water covering the surface of the earth.
A. 3 B. more than 3 C. less than 3 D. 97
2. Which of the following statements is Not true?
A. As things remain unchanging, this small amount of fresh water is still enough for us.
B. Our need for water is becoming larger and larger.
C. There will be no water shortage in the future.
D. We should take steps to deal with the water shortage problem.
3. To reuse water, we should __________.
A. treat it with chemicals
B. use it only once
C. send it out into a sewer system
D. make it flow into underground tanks
4. In order to have enough water, we should also make use of _________.
A. icebergs and glaciers
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B. sea water
C. rivers and lake
D. underground water
5. In the passage, the writer tells us ________.
A. to make enough water
B. to pay more attention to the water shortage problem
C. to pipe used water to a purifying plant
D. to reuse the water
参考答案CCABB
B
Today there are 6 billion people on the earth. By the year 2050 there may be 12.5 billion. This means we need more food.
One way to produce more food is by growing stronger plants. For thousands of years, farmers have made plants better. Every season, they pick the best plants for the next season. It works very slowly. Since 1983, scientists have been able to change plants more quickly by changing their genetic material (遗传物质). Foods from plants grown in this way are called genetically modified foods (转基因食品), or GM foods.
By changing the genetic material of a plant, it is possible to make new plants. They make plants which are strong against plant diseases. They can also help in our diseases: a kind of rice is being prepared (准备), for example, which stops people from becoming blind.
Rich countries produce GM food because they are easy to grow and bring in more money. Poor countries are interested in them because they help produce more food.
GM plants are not natural. No one knows how good or bad they are. Making GM foods is only one way of feeding people in 2050. There are strong feelings against them, because they are unnatural. They may feed people, then hurt them or their children later. But, both rich and poor countries are very interested in their use, and they are not going to go away. In 2050 we may think differently about them.
1．GM foods are made by
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.
A．farmers B．workers C．scientists D．plants
2．What are the good things about GM foods ?
A．They make plants strong against diseases.
B．They are unnatural.
C．They can help in human diseases.
D．Both A and C.
3．GM foods .
A．are a quick way to produce food B．grow in the wild
C．are safe D．are grown only in rich countries
4．Why do some people not like GM foods ?
A．They are not useful. B．They are not helpful.
C．They are not natural. D．They are not cheap.
5．From the reading we know that .
A．GM foods will disappear one day in the future
B．GM foods will not disappear in the future
C．people will not be interested in GM food
D．people will have to stop using GM food
参考答案CDACB
C
If you want to become a fluent(流利的)English speaker you should take some advice: There are four skills in learning English. They are reading, listening, speaking, and
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writing. The most important thing you must remember is that if you want to improve your speaking and writing skills you should first master the skills of reading and listening.
Read as much as you can. But your reading must be active. It means that you must think about the meaning of the sentence, the meanings of the unfamiliar words, etc. There is no need for you to pay much attention to grammars or try to understand all the unfamiliar words you come across, but the fact that you see them for the first time and recognize them whenever you see them, for example in other passages or books, is enough. It would be better to prepare yourself a notebook so you can write down the important words or sentences in it_
As for listening, there are two choices: besides reading, you can listen every day for about 30 minutes. You can only pay attention to your reading and become skillful at your reading, then you can catch up on your listening. Since you have lots of inputs in your mind, you can easily guess what the speaker is going to say. This never means that you should not practice listening.
For listening you can listen to cartoons or some movies that are specially made for children. Their languages are easy. Or if you are good at listening you can listen to VOA or BBC programs every day. Again the thing to remember is being active in listening and preferably taking some notes.
If you follow these pieces of advice, your speaking and writing will improve automatically, and you can be sure that with a little effort they will become perfect.
1. According to the author, which should you improve first among the four skills?
A. Reading and writing. B. Reading and listening.
C. Writing and speaking. D. Speaking and listening.
2. The underlined phrase "come across" in Paragraph 2 can probably be replaced by "_______".
A. meet by accident B. discover
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C. find on purpose D. look for
3. The author seems to agree with the view that_______.
A. everyone should listen to VOA or BBC programs every day
B. you needn't practice listening if you keep on reading every day
C. being good at reading is helpful in improving your listening
D. you should take notes of whatever you are hearing
4. The passage is mainly about how to_______.
A. choose suitable listening materials
B. deal with new words in reading
C. read as many English books as possible
D. become fluent in speaking and writing English
参考答案BACD
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