中考英语考前冲刺题6

中考英语考前冲刺题 6 阅读理解 阅读下面 A、B、C 三篇短文,从各题后所给的四个选项中选出最佳选项。 A The roast is very famous in Brazil. Customers just sit, waiting for waiters to send them all kinds of meat. If you like, you take one; if you don’t, the waiters go to another guest. One day when I was in Brazil, I went to a restaurant to try the roast. After I took my seat, a waiter gave me a sign with the color “red” on one side and “green” on the other. I put it down on the table, and then the waiters began to serve me. My plate was already full, but the waiters still kept on serving me more. I had to eat more quickly. But to my surprise, the waiters still kept on serving me more. I thought I couldn’t eat any more. When I was wondering why they kept serving me, a man beside me looked at me and smiled. Of course, he told me the reason. He helped me turn the sign over, with red outside. When I finished the rest food, I found the waiters didn’t serve me and just went to others. If I didn’t call them, they wouldn’t take a look at me. Do you know why? It’s just like the traffic lights in the street. If you don’t give the message of stopping serving, the waiters will go on. How interesting! ( )l. The waiters gave the writer a sign ____________. A. before he went into the restaurant B. when he sat down at a table C. when he began to try the food D. when his plate was full ( )2. The writer was very surprised because ___________ A. nobody came to serve him food B. the waiter gave him a sign C. his plate was full but the waiters went on serving him D. the roast was not delicious ( )3. ___________ knew the reason why they kept on serving him. A. Another customer B. The writer himself C. The writer’s friend D. Nobody ( )4. The color “red” on the sign means “ ________ ”. A. pay the bill B. stop serving C. go on serving D. change the plate ( )5. Which is the best title of this passage? A. A restaurant in Brazil B. Foolish waiters C. The traffic lights in Brazil D. The traffic lights on the table B Snake dishes have become popular in recent years. Snake meat is often seen in restaurants. It seems that eating snakes is now in fashion, and if you haven’t eaten any snakes yet, you’re considered out-of-date. But I wonder whether it is worth following. Some people think that eating snake meat is good for their health. But these people don’t know that snakes usually eat mice and worms. Therefore, there are many parasites(寄生虫) found inside snakes’ bodies. They may be bad for our health. Apart from this, we’re sorry to see that more snakes are being killed by a butcher’s knife. According to the newspaper, Shanghai Star, about 1,000 tons of snakes are eaten by people every year in China. In Shenzhen of Guangdong Province, sometimes as many as 10 tons of snakes are served on dinner tables in a single day. If we still turn a blind eye to this, a vicious circle(恶性循环) will be created — if more snakes are eaten by people, the number of snakes will drop, and the number of mice will increase, which will result in a decrease in crop output. This will make more people hungry. Who wants to see such a tragedy? Therefore, let’s not eat snakes any more! To protect the snakes is to protect ourselves. ( )6. _____________ has become popular in China in recent years. A. Eating snake meat B. Keeping snakes as pets C. Eating mouse meat D. Keeping mice as pets ( )7. What does the phrase “out-of-date” mean in Chinese? A. 失约的 B. 时髦的 C. 迟到的 D. 落伍的 ( )8. According to the newspaper, about ________ tons of snakes sometimes are eaten in Shenzhen in a single day. A. one B. ten C. one hundred D. one thousand ( )9. Why does the writer say that to protect snakes is to protect ourselves? A. Because snake meat is good for our health. B. Because snake skin can be used to make many beautiful shoes, bags and clothes. C. Because eating snakes is now in fashion. D. Because a drop in the number of snakes will result in a decrease in crop output. ( )10. The writer gives _________ reasons why people should stop eating snakes. A. two B. three C. four D. five C For several years, Americans have enjoyed teleshopping — watching TV and buying things by phone. Now teleshopping is popular in Europe. In a number of European countries, people can turn on their TVs and shop for clothes, jewelry, food, toys and many other things. Teleshopping is becoming popular in Sweden, for example. One of the biggest Swedish companies sells different kinds of things on TV in 15 European countries, and in one year it made $100 million. In France, there are two teleshopping channels, and the French spend about $20 million a year to buy things through the channels. Some people like teleshopping because it allows them to do their shopping without leaving their homes. But at the same time, other Europeans do not like this new way of shopping. They call teleshopping “junk(废旧物品) on the air” because many Europeans usually worry about the quality(质量) of the things for sale on TV. Good quality is the most important to them, and they can’t be sure about the quality of the things on TV. The need for high quality means that European teleshopping companies will have to be different from the American companies. They have to be more careful about the quality of the things they sell. ( )11. What does the word “teleshopping” mean in Chinese? A. 电话公司 B. 电子宠物 C. 电视购物 D. 网上购物 ( )12. There are two teleshopping channels through which people spend about $20 million a year to buy things in ____________. A. America B. Europe C. Sweden D. France ( )13. People like teleshopping because it is _________. A. different B. cheaper C. convenient D. more popular ( )14. Some Europeans call teleshopping “junk on the air” because _________. A. they like to buy second-hand things B. they think most of things sold on TV are second-hand things C. they think the things sold on TV are too expensive D. they think the things sold on TV are not always of good quality ( )15. The teleshopping companies in Europe should pay more attention to ____________. A. the price of the goods they sell B. the quality of the goods they sell C. the ways of selling their goods D. what kind of the goods they sell D 阅读下面短文,根据短文意思,按要求完成后面的问题。 Once upon a time, there were two thieves who wanted to steal some sheep which were fed by a farmer. They had watched the sheep for a long time. And they knew that there were twenty-eighth sheep in the farmer’s yard.(1) In a deep night, they came to the outside of the farmer’s yard and got ready to steal all the sheep. But they found that the gate was ________ (lock) inside, and they couldn’t open it. Finally, they came up with a good idea. They dug a big hole in the wall so that one of the thieves was able to go into the yard and pass the sheep out one by one to the other. In order to prevent the sheep from running away, the thief outside must cut off its head quickly with a sharp knife while the thief inside was passing a sheep out of the hole. They started to work like that and the work was going well. “One, two, three ...,” they both counted the numbers silently, “... twenty-six, twenty-seven ...” However, the thief inside stopped ________ (count). “Where is the twenty-eighth sheep?” he thought. “ Did I make a mistake?” So he stretched(伸) his head out of the hole to ask the other thief. However, the thief outside thought it must be the twenty-eighth sheep’s head. He didn’t think about something and cut off the head at once. (2) The two thieves never knew that one of the sheep would have a baby sheep and it had been sent to the vet by the owner before they came that night. 16. 短文中句(1)和句(2)中各有一处错误,找出并改正。 (1) ____________________→_______________________ (2) ____________________→_______________________ 17. 根据短文内容,用括号中所给单词的适当形式填空。 18. 将短文中带下划线的黑体句子翻译成汉语。 _____________________________________________ 19. 根据短文内容判断下列各句正(T)误(F)。 (1) The thieves took out the sheep one by one through the door. _____________ (2) The farmer knew the thieves would come to steal his sheep, so he hid one sheep in his house. _____________ 20. 根据短文内容回答下列问题。 (1) How did the thief outside prevent the sheep from running away? ___________________________________________________ (2) What happened to the sheep that the thief inside couldn’t find? __________________________________________________ Key: A) 1-5 BCABD B) 6-10 ADBDA C) 11-15 CDCDB D)16. (1)twenty-eighth → twenty-eight (2)something → anything 17. locked; counting 18. 他们就那样开始工作(偷羊)了,而且进展得很顺利。 19. (1) F (2) F 20. (1) He cut off the head of each sheep with a sharp knife. (2) The sheep would have a baby sheep and had been sent to the vet.