2014中考英语二轮--阅读理解巩固训练(4)

1、2014 中考英语二轮 -阅读理解巩固训练（ 4）中考阅读理解an old lady in a plane had a blanket（毯子）over her head and she did not want to take it off .the air hostess spoke to her, but the old lady said, “i have never been in a plane before, and i am frightened. i am going to keep this blanket over my head until we are back on

2、the ground again!”then the captain came. he said, “madam, i am the captain of this plane. the weather is fine, there are no clouds in the sky, and everything is going very well. ”but she continued to hide.so the captain turned and started to go back. then the old lady looked out from under theblanke

3、t with one eye and said, “i am sorry, young man, but i dont like planes and i am never going to fly again. but ill say one thing, ”she continued kindly, “you an d your wife keep your plane very clean!”1. an old lady had _.a. glasses b. a blanket over her head c. a coat d. a basket2. a. she didnt wan

4、t to _ .a. take it off b. turn it off c. get on d. talk about it3. _ spoke to her.a. the air hostess b. the man next to her c. her husband d. one of her friends 4. the old lady had never been _ before.a. abroad b. home c. in a plane d. in hospital5. the woman didnt like planes and she was never goin

5、g _.a. to fly again b. to travel c. to go abroad d. to go home【参考答案】key: 15 baaca中考阅读理解阅读下列短文，从每题所给出的四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂 黑。i worked in france two years ago. it was great to work in a foreign country. i also learned some french customs. i want to share some of them with you. here are some dos and

6、 donts when you work there.dos1. start a conversation with a frenchman in french. the french take pride in their language, french. the best way to show your respect for that is to do your best to speak frencheven there are a few, badly pronounced words.12. take your lunch and coffee breaks even if y

7、oure busy working on something important. the lunch break can be a good chance to make friends, so you shouldnt waste it.2. start your day in a french office by shaking hands with your colleagues and saying “bon jour(法语：你好)”.donts1. dont shake hands when you should exchange la bise, the kiss on the

8、cheek(脸颊). la bise starts by bringing one cheek close to the others cheek and having a touch on the cheek. you should exchange la bise with friends and family members.1. lunch breaks are very important to frenchmen. how important? let me give you some examples. you have to stop shopping and leave th

9、e supermarket 10 or 15 minutes before the lunchbreak. you need to finish your talk on the phone before 11:55. you cant ask your colleagues to work during the lunch break. nothing can stop them to have their lunch breaks.1which is the best way to show your respect to the french?aspeaking some french.

10、 ckissing on the cheek.btaking lunch breaks. dshaking hands.2 if you call someone at 11:20, you should finish your conversation before _. a12:05 b11:55 c11:15 d12:303 _ has the same meaning as “colleague(s)”.afriendship bpride cworkmate(s) dlanguage(s) 4the passage mainly tells us _.asome table mann

11、ers in france cdifferent ways of having food【参考答案】 1-4 a b c bbsome dos and donts in france dto have good manners阅读理解summer holiday began and richard left california and went traveling in africa1. he lost his wallet in a hotel and he had a little money left. he had to go to a city where one of his f

12、riends worked. there he was going to borrow some money so that he could fly back to his country. hegot on a bus and the conductor held out to him a yellow ticket. “you had better buy a yellow ticket, said the conductor. “its ten dollars. i have two other kinds. the red one is five dollars and the gr

13、een one is three dollars.it took them two days to get to the city. the passengers had to stay for a night when they were halfway2. richard had to pay3 five dollars for the hotel and food. he thought for a while and then said, “green, please. 2the bus started. now it was getting dark4 and the bus beg

14、an to go up a hill. it was very steep5 and soon the bus stopped as usual.“yellow ticket passengers, the driver shouted, “stay in the bus, please. red ticket passengers, get out and walk. green ticket passengers, get out, close the door and push the bus!notes:1africa/frik/n. 非洲 2halfway/ha:fwei/ adv.

15、 半路 3pay/pei/ v.付（款） 4dark/da:k/ adj. 黑暗的 5steep/sti:p/ adj.陡峭的1. where did richard come from?2. how much did richard have after he lost his wallet?3. what did richard go to the city for?1. how was richard going back to his country?1. why did richard buy the green ticket?2. what did richard have to

16、do when the bus went up the hill?参考答案：1.he came from america / california.2. he had 8 dollars left.3. he went there to borrow some money from his friend.4. he was going back by plane.5. because he wanted to save some money for the hotel and food.6. he had to get off the bus and push it when it went

17、up the hill.阅读理解many years ago, there was a family named franklin. they lived in boston. there were five girls and six boys in the family. on a january day in 1706 another baby was born. the boys mother and her husband gave the boy a namebenjamin1.benjamin was the cleverest of all the children. he c

18、ould read when he was five and he could write when he was seven. the next year his parents sent2 him to school.in school benjamin was good at reading and writing, but not good at maths. he read all of his fathers books. and when he had money, he always went to buy books. he liked books. they told hi

19、m how to do something. the boy liked to use his head and tried to find ways to help people enjoy life more. for example, he tried to know if there was some way to swim farther, maybe with something on his hands or feet. slowly a picture of swimming shoes, or paddles3, grew in his mind4. the paddles

20、must be neither too big nor too small. and they must be neither too heavy nor light. at last he invented the paddle for swimming.notes:1benjamin/bendmin/n. 本杰明（男子名） benjamin franklin 本杰明富兰 克林(17061790)美国杰出的科学家和政治家 2send/send/v.送 3paddle/pdl/n.浆形工具 34mind/maind/n. 头脑1. how many children did mr. frank

21、lin have?2. why was it said benjamin was clever?3. when did benjamin begin to go to school?4. why did benjamin like books?5. what did benjamin invent the paddles for?参考答案：1.he had twelve children.2.because he could read and write when he was very young. 3.he began to go to school when he was eight.4

22、. because he could learn a lot from the books.5. he invented them to help people swim farther.中考阅读理解t rees are useful to men in three important ways: they provide them with wood and other products (产品), they give them shade (树荫), and they help to prevent drought and floods.u nfortunately, in many pa

23、rts of the world, men have not realized (功能) is the most important. in their eagerness (渴望) to make money form trees, some people have cut trees down in large numbers, only to find that without them they have lost the best friends they had. and besides (此外), they are usually too careless to plant an

24、d look after new trees, so the forests slowly disappear.this doesnt only mean that men will have fewer trees. the results are even more serious: where there are trees, their roots (根) break up soilallowing the rain to sink in and also bind (固 定) the soil, thus ( 因而) preventing it from being washed a

25、way easily, but where there are no trees, the rain falls and carrying away the rich topsoil. when all the topsoil is gone, nothing remains (剩下) but worthless desert.1. the most important service of trees to men is _.a. they give people wood and other productsb. they give people shade and coolc. they

26、 help people prevent drought and floodsd. they help people make money2. what does “unfortunately” mean in chinese?a. 不可能的b. 不幸的c. 不经常的d. 不固定的3. land becomes desert after all trees arte cut down, because _. 4a. there is too much rainb. there are no more trees to keep the rich topsoil from being carri

27、ed away by floods c. there is a strong windd. roots of trees break up the soil4. people cut down many trees because _.a. they wanted to get wood from themb. they wanted to get money from themc.they didnt realize the importance of themd. all the above5. which of the following is not true?a. tree root

28、s can make the topsoil rich and the ground hard. b. trees can make the rain sink into the ground.c. trees can prevent drought and floods.d. tree roots can break up soil.【参考答案】 (15) 15 cbbda中考阅读理解阅读下列短文，从每题所给出的四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂 黑。b ritain provides free transportation from home to school for man

29、y children. all the schools must provide free transportation from home to school for:c hildren who are under eight years old and live more than two kilometers away from their nearest school.children aged between eight and sixteen who live more than three kilometers away from their nearest school.in all of britain, there are 8,000,000 school age children. about 22% of them get free transportation from home to school. the schools now spend $900 each year on home-to-school transportation. they spend 2% of all their children exp