2019中考英语阅读练习（七）及答案
第一部分：任务型阅读
Sydney is in the east of Australia. It is a lively city. It’s famous for its Opera House and the Sydney Harbor Bridge. The weather is warm. The temperature is about 12 degrees in winter. And it is about 35 degrees in summer. It has beautiful beaches and many parks.
In the west of Sydney, there is a big park called the Blue Mountains. You can see many visitors in the park from different countries. It’s quite a popular park. The only way to see this park is by going through a bush (荒野小路). Then you can find some nice gravel (砂砾) roads. The roads can take you to the Blue Mountains. Of course, you will need to travel with food and water. It will take you some days to see a small part of the mountains, because there are many roads to get to the Blue Mountains.
Sydney has many beautiful beaches. Two of them are quite famous. They are Bondi and Manly. Bondi has a nice street with many shops and restaurants. Parking is not difficult in the place. Manly is a great beach. If you want to go there, you can take a boat. It's a cheap and great way to see the Sydney Harbor. It will take you about 30 minutes. If you are going to visit Sydney, I hope you will enjoy it.
1. What is Sydney famous for?
2. Where is the Blue Mountains?
3. Why do you spend some days getting to the Blue Mountains?
4. How can we get to Manly?
5. How long will it take you to get to the Sydney Harbor?
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【主旨大意】本文是一篇说明文。介绍了位于澳大利亚东部的美丽城市悉尼。文章首先向我们介绍了悉尼著名的大歌剧院和悉尼海港大桥，以及悉尼的气候、公园和海滩，同时还说明了参观这些公园和海滩的方式。
1. Opera House and the Sydney Harbor Bridge.【解析】题干意为：悉尼以什么而著名？根据文章第一段第三句“It's famous for its Opera House and the Sydney Harbor Bridge.”可知答案。
2. In the west of Sydney.【解析】题干意为：蓝山在哪里？根据文章第二段第一句“In the west of Sydney, there is a big park called the Blue Mountains.”可知答案。
3. Because there are many roads to get to the Blue Mountains.【解析】题干意为：为什么参观去蓝山要花费好多天时间？根据文章第二段最后一句“…to see a small part of the mountains, you need some days, because there are many roads to get to the Blue Mountains.”可知答案。
4. By boat./Take a boat.【解析】题干意为：我们如何到达Manly? 根据文章第三段第七句“If you want to go there, you can take a boat. ”可知答案。
5. About 30 minutes.【解析】题干意为：你去悉尼港要花费多长时间？由最后一段中“It’s a cheap and great way to see the Sydney Harbor. It will take you about 30 minutes.”可知答案。
第二部分
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Almost every Chinese person can recite the two lines of the famous poem. "Every grain on the plate comes from hard work (难知盘中餐, 粒粒皆辛苦) ". But sadly, many of us don't actually get the real meaning of these lines: Don't waste food.
A CCTV program, News One Plus One, reported that food Chinese people throw away every year is enough to feed 200 million people for a year.
Do we have too much food? No, according to the UN World Food Program, there were 925 million hungry people around the world in 2010, especially in developing countries. Six million children die of hunger every year.
Chinese people are well known for being generous (慷慨的) . Many even feel that they lose face if their guests have eaten all the food on the table.
Luckily, a number of people have realized the importance of saving food. Last November, Li Hong, a waitress in a restaurant in Nanjing, got fired (开除) because
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she took some leftover (剩余的) food home for her son. Many people stood by her side and agreed that it was not right to waste food.
What should we do in our daily lives to waste less food? Here are some tips:
1. Do not order (定购) too much in a restaurant. Only order what you want to eat. If you cannot eat all the food you ordered, take the rest of it home.
2. Don't be too picky(挑剔的) about food. Some food may not taste great. But your body needs it.
3. Keep an eye on what food you have at home. Don't buy too much, especially for vegetables and fruit.
1. According to News One Plus One, Chinese people __________.
A. save food enough to feed 200 million people for a year.
B. throw away lots of food every year.
C. get enough food to feed millions of people every year.
D. have to feed 200 million hungry people every year.
2. In the third paragraph, we know that __________.
A. we have too much food to feed people in the world.
B. there were 925 million people in developing countries.
C. because of hunger, six million children die every year.
D. there are only a few people getting hungry every year.3
3. In the fourth and fifth paragraphs, we can conclude (得出结论) that __________
A. all Chinese people are generous.
B. Chinese people always waste food.
C. U Hong got fired because she wasted food.
D. everyone should get into the habit of saving food.
4. What should we do to save food in our daily lives?
A. When we order too much food in a restaurant, just take the leftover food home.
B. Eat more food that doesn't taste great.
C. We should not buy vegetables and fruit.
D. We should keep an eye on the food we like.
5. What's the main topic of the passage?
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A. Don't waste food.
B. Many people die of hungry.
C. Don't be picky about food.
D. Eat all the food you order.
参考答案1B 2C 3D 4A 5A
B
A famous teacher was speaking to the students at our school. He began his lesson by holding up a ¥100 bill. Then he said to the three hundred students, “Who would like this ¥100 bill?” The students began to put up their hands at once.
Then he said, “I am going to give this ¥100 to one of you, but first, let me do this.” He then made the bill into a ball. Then he said, “Who wants it now?” The hands went back into the air.
“Well,” he said, “What if I do this?” and he dropped it on the floor and stepped on it. He picked up the dirty, crumpled bill and said, “Who still wants it?” Hands went back into the air.
“My friends,” he said, “you have learned a valua ble lesson today. No matter (无论) what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not go down in value (价值). It was still worth ¥ l00!”
Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crum pled, and stepped on by the chances we take and the things that happen to us. We feel as if we are worth nothing. But remember, no matter what has happened to you, you will never lose your value: you are always valuable to those people who love you. Your value doesn’t come from what you do or whom you know, but WHO YOU ARE.
You are special and valuable. Don’t ever forget it!
1. Even though it was dirty, the money _______.
A. still went up in value B. was worth nothing
C. didn’t go down in value D. was still ours
2. We are always valuable to the people _______.
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A. who pay us B. who call us
C. who hate us D. who love us
3. Your value doesn’t come from what you do but _______.
A. who you know B. who made you
C. who you remember D. who you are
4. The sentence “Hands went back into the air” means “_______”.
A. the students put up their hands again
B. the students put down their hands
C. the students put their hands behind their backs again
D. the students put their hands in front of them
5. Why did the famous teacher use a ¥100 bill at his lesson?
A. Because he wanted to make the bill into a ball.
B. Because he used to drop a bill on the floor and stepped on it.
C. Because he was going to give the bill to one of his students.
D. Because he wanted to make the students know what value was.
参考答案1C 2D 3D 4A 5D
C
Cooking Kills Four Million People a Year
Polluted airborne particles（大气悬浮颗粒）kill 7 million people a year, reports the World Health Organization.
That news may not come as a surprise to anyone who has seen images of chimneys in Beijing, Delhi or Mexico. But those factories—or even the jammed roadways of modern cities—are not the biggest killer. Each year, some 4.3 million people die earlier than they should because of polluted air inside their homes, says the WHO.
What’s causing the air inside people’s homes to be so poisonous that it kills around
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11,000 people a day? Stoves. “Having an open fire in your kitchen is like burning 400 cigarettes an hour.” says Kirk Smith, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, whose research suggests that household air pollution from cooking killed between 3.5 million and 4 million people in 2013.
Not all stoves cause this kind of harm. The ones Smith’s talking about are those that the 3 billion people in the developing world use for heat and cooking, which burn solid fuels such as wood, coal, or crop waste instead of gas. The smoke from those fires produces harmful fine particles and carbon monoxide into homes. Poor ventilation then prevents that smoke from escaping, raising fine particle levels 100 times higher than the limits that the WHO considers acceptable.
Breathing this air day in day out finally causes a lot of diseases: more than a third of the 4.3 million die of a stroke, while a quarter die of heart disease. And around one-third of annual lung disease deaths worldwide are due to waste from coal stoves.
Exposure tends to be extremely harmful for the people who spend the most time around the fire—usually women and young children. In fact, the WHO reports that household air pollution almost doubles the risk for childhood lung disease.
1. According to Kirk Smith’s research, ________.
A. factories are the biggest killer worldwide nowadays
B. burning 400 cigarettes an hour is extremely dangerous
C. household air pollution from cooking is surprisingly harmful
D. some 4.3 million people die earlier each year than they should
2. What should be the deadly killer in a household kitchen?
A. Solid fuels. B. Coal stoves. C. Poor gas. D. Cooking smoke.
3. The underlined word “ventilation” in Paragraph 4 probably means ________.
A. airing B. cooking C. burning D. cooling
4. The author intends to tell people ________.
A. how to avoid polluted air in their homes
B. to stop cooking in the household kitchen
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C. to guard against household pollution from cooking
D. how to prevent childhood lung diseases in household
参考答案1 C 2. D 3. A 4. C
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