2014中考英语阅读理解

1、三、阅读理解（一）阅读短文，完成31 45小题。（共15小题，计15分）AWhat will the car be like in the future? Maybe we can sit in a car that can drive itself.About 40 years ago, scie ntists from the Un ited States started to develop self-drivi ng cars （无人驾驶汽车 ）.The most famous recent one was made by Google in 2009. There are camer

2、as and radars （雷达）on the top of the car. They allow the computer in the car to draw a 3D map of the en viro nment. Chin ese scie ntists have also successfully developed a self-drivi ng car. The car made a trip from Chan gsha to Wuha n.Is a self-driving car safe? A recent study shows that robots make

3、 safer drivers than humans. If only 10% of cars on the street are self-driving, they will save 1,000 lives （生命）every year. If 90% of vehicles （交通工具）are self-driving, 21,700 lives will be saved a year. However, a self-driving car is expensive and each costs about $100,000. So it is impossible to be v

4、ery popular in the n ear future.根据短文内容，判断下列句子正误。正确的用A”表示，不正确的用B”表示。31. American scientists started to develop self-driving cars in 2009.32. Cameras and computers are on the top of the self-drivi ng car by Google.33. In China, scientists have successfully developed a self-driving car.34. The more sel

5、f-drivi ng cars there are on the street, the fewer traffic deaths there will be.35. The self-drivi ng cars will be very popular in the n ear future.BIt is a cold and dry win ter morning. When you wake up, you feel that your throat hurts. You begi n to sn eeze and later you may cough. You must have a

6、 cold! Wait a mome nt. Could it just be a com mon cold or the flu （流感）that s bee n going around?A cold gives you a runny nose and cough. But it usually easy to deal with. Some take medicine while others drink herbal tea or chicken soup. Usually you feel better after a week.On the other hand, the flu

7、 can be much more dangerous. It usually gives you fever. Sometimes it can cause death. According to an American magazine, the worst flu killed about 50 million people from 1918 to 1919.Don t worry .If you get a flu vacci ne （ 疫苗）,it can stop you from gett ing the virus （ 病毒）. Flu vaccines work by gi

8、ving the body a small amount of flu viruses. This causes your body to develop an tibodies （抗体）.So n ext time you get the flu, the an tibodies should help you.The flu virus changes every few years. Therefore, there are so many types of flu, such as H1N1 and H5N1. The antibodies for one type of flu ca

9、n t help us against all typets f su.why we n eed to get the vacc ine every year.However, good health habits may also help stop you developing a cold or flu. Washing your hands often helps stop you from gett ing viruses. It is also importa nt to get regular exercise and eat healthy food. All these ca

10、n help you strengthen your immune system （ 增强免疫系统 ）.根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。36. If you have a com mon cold, usually you ll feel better after.A. a weekB. two weeksC. ten daysD. twenty days37. According to the passage, which is TRUE of the flu?A. It first happened in 1919 .B. It usually doesn t give you fever.C

11、. It is easy to deal with .D. It can kill people sometimes.38. If you get a flu vacc ine,.A. it can stop you from getting the flu virusB. it won cause your body to develop antibodiesC. your body will develop an tibodiesD. your body will get a large amount of flu viruses39. We n eed to get a flu vacc

12、i ne every year because.A. we probably have a cold in win terB. the flu virus cha nges every few yearsC. the flu is very dan gerousD. you don t need to take any medicine after that40. The followi ng ways can help stop the flu EXCEPT.A. stay ing in doorsB. gett ing regular exerciseC. eat ing healthy

13、foodD. wash ing our hands ofte nCHaving a cheetah as a pet in the house? Does it sound scary to you? But for a family in SouthAfrica, one cheetah is treated as a VIP （Very Importa nt Pers on） in the house.The big cheetah is named Jolie, after the film star Angelina Jolie. 41 She canoften be found ea

14、ting from the kitchen table, taking a short sleep on the sofa, or even sleeping onLucy and Jeff s Thdbig cat also sleeps and plays with the Brow ns other pet, the more usualone a sheepdog （牧羊犬）. 42Having a cheetah as a pet is unusual. At first, Mrs Brown wasn t willing to keep a cheetah asa pet. She

15、 said, “ 43But we are now happy that we did it she is part of the family.”Just like her name, four-year-old Jolie has achieved a celebrity status （名人地位）in theBrow ns hometowrFa ns ofte n come to their home to take pictures of her. 44However, a cheetah is always a cheetah. 45 “ Shemakes a lot of mess

16、 in thehouse, urin ati ng （小便）everywhere and chew ing everyth ing. It s her wild in st inct$ 本能）,” said Mrs Brow n.There might be some problems of havi ng a cheetah as a pet in the house, but some unu sual fun must also be wait ing ahead.根据短文内容，从方框中选出五个句子填入文中空缺处，使短文内容完整正确。A. Interestingly, Jolie enj

17、oys all the special attention that is paid to her.B. I was really pleased to have a cheetah as a pet at the beg inning.C. Though Jolie is now a pet in the house, she still has some wild habits.D. She is surely the VIP at Lucy and Jeff Brow n s home. E. I was really aga inst the idea of gett ing a ch

18、eetah as a pet.F. An impossible frien dship has happe ned betwee n these two ani mals.（二）阅读短文，完成第n卷第四大题的51 55小题。DDo you know something about the Akuapem people? They live in eastern Ghana （力口纟纳）, where the sunshine hugs all the time. They are very friendly.Now let s have a look at howtheAkuapem peop

19、le receive a visitor.A visitor is ofte n welcomed warmly in a family of Akuapem. After the visitor is welcomed into the house, he is offered a seat and water at the very begi nning, for the host （ 主人）thinks that the visitor must have come from a very long trip and is in need of water. Then the host

20、family greet the visitor by saying“ Akwaaba. ” More interestingly, if there is a group of visitors, the hostwill greet the visitors from right to left. And the host shakes only with his right hand, because the left hand is regarded dirty accord ing to the Akuapem people.Next, the visitor is asked ho

21、w his trip was and why he has come. While the conversation is going on, the wife and childre n, especially girls, are cook ing food for the visitor. The visitor can choose the food. After the visitor has finished eating, the host and the visitor continue their con versati on. Usually this is a short

22、 one since the visitor is gett ing ready to say goodbye.When the visitor is leaving, he is often given some food to take along. He is also accompanied （陪伴）by one of the children to the nearest station. The child who accompanies the visitor will not come back home un til the visitor leaves safely.No

23、matter if he is a close friend or just a passer - by （过路人）,this is always the way that the frien dly Akuapem people receive a visitor.B）阅读表达。阅读第I卷第三大题D篇短文，根据短文内容回答下列问题。（共5小题，计10分）51. What is the visitor offered at first by the family of Akuapem?52. Why does the host shake only with his right hand?53

24、. Who are cooking food while the host is chatting with the visitor?54. Whe n will the child who accompa nies the visitor to the stati on come back home?55. What does the article mainly talk about ？六、动词应用（共7小题，计7分）根据短文内容，用括号内所给动词的适当形式填空，必要时可加助动词或情态动词。Yuan Longping, a Chinese scientist, has saved peop

25、le without any magic. His success on hybrid rice （杂交水稻 ）fed millions of people in hunger.Yuan 64 （be） born on September 7, 1930. After graduating from the then Southwest Agriculture Institute （ 农业学院）,he worked as a teacher at an agriculture school in Hunan.About 50 years ago, some natural disasters

26、（灾难）hit China. Yuan saw many people lose their lives because of hun ger every day. Si nee the n, he 65 (do) research on how to grow good quality rice. In 1964, he found a natural hybrid rice plant by accident. It had great advantages over others. Yuan was excited about what he discovered. He then de

27、cided 66 (study) this particular pla nt.In 1973, he started to grow a type of hybrid rice. It 67 (produce) 20% more rice each unit tha n com mon on es. The n ext year he had a great success. This progress made China the world s leader in rice product ion.In China, most rice fields ( 稻田 ) grow Yuan s

28、 hybrid ricede 68 (call) the “ Father of Hybrid Rice ”.Now he is 84 years old. He still 69 (have) a dream. He hopes hybrid rice 70 (grow) as tall as Chin ese sorghum (高粱)one day!答案：64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 七、选词填空（共10小题，计10分）根据短文内容，从方框中选出恰当的单词或短语填空，使语意通顺完整。每个选项只能用一次，有两项剩余。 请将答案标号写在答题卡相应的横线上。A. hel

29、ped B. looked up C. embarrassedD. couldn E. untilF. sileneeG. appears H. lowI. the most beautiful J. looked atK. hardly L. can Sometimes I really wonder whether there is love between my parents. Every day they are very busy making money. They don t act in the romantic ways that I read about in books

30、 or I see on TV. In their opinion, I love you ” is too much to say.One day, my mother was sewing a quilt （缝被子）.I quietly sat down beside her and _71 her.“ Mom, I have a question for you,” I said, breaking .the“ What? ” shsked, still doing her work.Is there love between you and Dad?” I asked her7i3 a veryce.She stopped her work and raised her head with surprise in her eyes. But the n she bowed her head and con ti nued to sew the quilt. I was ver