2020年人教版新目标英语中考阅读理解、完形填空试题及答案4

1、2020 年人教版新目标英语中考阅读理解、完形填空试题及答案4 a few days before christmas, a man enters a pet store to look for a gift for his wife. the store manager tells him he has a beautiful parrot named chet that can sing christmas songs. he then shows the man a colorful but quiet bird. the man agrees that chet is beautifu

2、l, but id doesn t seem to be able to sing. the manager tells him to watch as he takes out a lighter from his pocket. the manager then clicks the lighter and holds it under chets left foot. immediately chet starts singing “ silent night ” . the man is very surprised and watches as the manager moves t

3、he lighter under chet s right food. chet then starts to sing “ jingle bells” . the man says chet is perfect and he ll take it. the man rushes home to his wife and gives her this wonderful gift immediately. he holds a lighter under chet s left foot and the bird signs “ silent night” . he then moves t

4、he lighter under its right foot and chet sings “ jingle bells.”his wife is very happy, and she asks him what it will happen if he holds the lighter between chets legs. so the man moves the lighter between the birds legs, and the bird begins to sing. “ chets ass roasting on an open fire!”( )1. why do

5、es the man go to the pet store? a. to find a lighter. b. to buy a gift. c. to meet the manager. d. to see a parrot. ( )2. the world “ clicks” in the third paragraph means “ _” in english. a. turns on b. turns off c. turns up d. turns down ( )3. chet sings “ silent night” with the lighter under its _

6、. a. right ear b. left ear c. right foot. d. left foot ( )4. hearing the bird sing “ chets ass roasting on an open fire!” , the couple probably begins to _. a. cry b. laughd. dance d. run ( )5. this passage mainly tells us about _. a. a happy family b. a great light c. a story about a parrot d. a sp

7、ecial pet store jaron mcgill, 19, was killed last sunday night as he walked home from his girlfriends house on colby place near lanecrest drive in east charlotte. witnesses told the police that they saw three men leaving the scene in a black toyota after the shooting. but on tuesday afternoon, detec

8、tives found that they went wrong way, and they needed to change for another way as soon as possible. “ so today were looking for new information about that might take us in another direction,”said detective garry mcfadden. mcfadden was joined by mcgill s family at the scene where they together made

9、a plea to the detective for more information. “ he was an excellent boy. you couldn t ask for anything more out of such a good boy,” said mcgill s aunt. “ he comes from a good family. we are looking for the cause of his death,” said jeff mcgill, mcgill s uncle. mcgills family members said their only

10、 wish was to bring them through this difficult time and they believed that someone would provide more information to help the police solve the case. anyone with information of the case could call detective mcfadden at 704-336-6045. ( )1. jaron mcgill was killed _. a. last saturday night. b. in east

11、charlotte c. when he was with his girlfriend d. when he drove home ( )2. what problem did the detectives realize on tuesday afternoon? a. someone would help them to solve the case. b. the three men were the real killers. c. they did something wrong with the case. d. the real killer had run away. ( )

12、3. the underlined word “ plea” means _ in chinese. a. 请求b. 准备c. 控告d. 命令( )4. if someone has some helpful information, he or she can call_. a. mcgill s aunt b. mcgills uncle c. carry mcfadden d. the police ( )5. where can you probably see the passage? a. in a movie magazine. b. in a story book. c. on

13、 a tv programme about college. d. in the newspaper. xiao bao performed on “ asia uncut” , one of asias largest english-language talk shows, in shanghai in january 29. xiao bao weighed just a little more than 1 kg at birth. doctors advised his mother bian to play music for him and encourage him to ex

14、ercise. when xiao bao was about 1 year old, bian found he liked moving his body to music, even to the songs of cellphones. when xiao bao was 2 years old, bian took him to the “ baby show” , a popular tv programme in hebei province where they lived. xiao bao performed well. the choreographer advised

15、bian to take him to take dancing courses. so bian quit her job and took xiao bao to a dancing class in beijing. xiao bao learned street dance there. he later appeared on the programme “ 6+1” and became a star. but bian knows that xiao bao is not living a normal life as a child. she said, “ every day

16、, there are many people telling him how smart he is, but he has no friends of his own age.”bian is taking xiao bao to a kindergarten soon and the dancing courses will continue, because they make him really happy. ( )1. when did xiao bao show his interest in music? a. when he was born. b. when he was

17、 1 years old.c. when he was 2 years old. d. when he was 4 years old. ( )2. where does xiao bao come from? a. shanghai. b. beijing. c. hebei. d. henan. ( )3. what does the underlined word “ quit ” mean in english? a. look for. b. pick up. c. depend on. d. give up. ( )4. why will xiao baos mother send

18、 him to a kindergarten? a. to learn street dance. b. to stop him performing on tv shows. c. to show off his skills to other kids. d. to make him have normal life. ( )5. what can we learn from his passage? a. xiao bao isn t older than 15 years old now. b. xiao bao first started studying dancing in sh

19、anghai. c. xiao bao became famous after he performed in a tv programme in hebei. d. xiao bao s mother doesn t like xiao bao to play with other children. my 25-year old daughter moved house yesterday. it wasn t a big move just around the corner. but she was moving from a house with a little garden so

20、 her son would have space to play. the distance was probably too short to call a removal company （搬家公司）, but it was long enough to make carrying all the stuff a real pain. but we didnt have to. a neighbor offered the use of her truck. she drove it up to my daughters front door, and then went home wh

21、ile we loaded it up. then she came out, drove it to the new house and walked back home for a cup of tea while we unloaded. then she did it again and again. we decided to thank her, but she didn t want anything from us. my daughter got her some flowers later as a “ thank you ” . before i left, i stop

22、ped by the womans house, just to thank her for being such a help to my daughter, as she really didn t have to help. its not like they were such close friends or anything “ its what neighbors should do, ” she said. “ its what neighbors used to do, ” i said. “ well, let s bring it back then, ” she smi

23、led. i thought she was right. neighbors often helped each other in the past, but now we don t do that so often as we did before. “ lets bring it back,” i said sincerely in my heart. it s good to have neighbors like her. ( )1. a. moving b. taking c. carrying d. sending ( )2. a. short b. cheap c. long

24、 c. expensive ( )3. a. accept b. refused c. offered c. compared ( )4. a. pushed b. sent c. threw c. drove ( )5. a. office b. home c. school c. store ( )6. a. ask b. thank c. teach d. serve ( )7. a. stopped b. continued c. started d. finished ( )8. a. bad b. pleasant c. interesting d. close ( )9. a.

25、laughed b. cried c. sang c. smiled ( )10. a. future b. past c. meantime d. distance aacdb badcb do you know a child who wants to learn to draw or paint? perhaps your child loves art, and you want to encourage that interest, but you just don t know where to begin. maybe you re ready to start drawing,

26、 too. then this website is for you. at art made easy, i ll take through what you need to know to help your children create their own works of art. i ll also tell you what you need to buy to get them started, and provide you with prices so you ll know what to expect before you go to the store. you ll

27、 find free lessons to try with them, and along the way, i ll explain all kinds of art terms to you. how old should a child be before starting art? as a mom and an art teacher, i ve found that any age is a great age to begin creating. my son was drawing little circle when he was just one old, and my

28、grandma didn t begin her painting career until she was in her seventies! the complexity of the art work will change according to the age of the artist, of course, but a face composed of a circle and two big eyes by a child can be as much of an achievement as a fine oil painting by an adult. drawing

29、may not come naturally, but its a skill that can be learned. the tips and lessons on this site are meant to be studied and tried together with your child! remember, as with anything new that you learn to do, you improve with practice. so get busy creating art and have fun! ( )1. a. physics b. maths

30、c. art d. p . e. ( )2. a. interest b. skill c. diet d. habit ( )3. a. finish b. start c. continue d. stop ( )4. a. his b. her c. their d. your ( )5. a. buy b. sell c. save d. give ( )6. a. after b. before c. while d. since ( )7. a. prepare b. give c. explain d. hope ( )8. a. how much b. how often c.

31、 how long d. how old ( )9. a. student b. teacher c. doctor d. driver ( )10. a. daughter b. son c. aunt d. mom ( )11. a. when b. if c. until d. although ( )12. a. age b. height c. weight d. clothes ( )13. a. in b. byc. with d. on ( )14. a. and b. so c. or d. but ( )15. a. something b. everything c. n

32、othing d. anythingcomets are parts of our solar system. like the planets, they go around the sun. but comets are not made of solid rock like planets. a comet is a ball of dust, stones, and ice. many people call comets dirty snowballs. the “ snowball” may be only a few miles across. but when the sun

33、heats the “ snowball,” much of it is changed to gases. the gases expand and form the comet s head, which may be thousands of miles across. a comet moves fast in its trip around the sun. but when we see it, the comet does not seem to move. that s because it is so far away. the moonmoves fast, but whe

34、n you look at it, you can t see any motion. that s because the moon is far away. so comets do not streak across the sky. you cannot see any motion. but if you look night after night, you can see that a comet changes position among the stars. if you watch the moon night after night, you ll see that i

35、t also changes position. each year astronomers discover new comets. some of them are seen only once. they make one trip around the sun and then go way out into space. the sun s gravity cannot hold them.other comets, like halley, keep returning. they have been captured by the sun. halley s earliest v

36、isit was probably 3,000 years ago. it may keep returning for another 3,000 years. but every time a comet goes around the sun, the comet loses part of itself. gases and dust are pulled out of the comet. that s why halley is now dimmer than it used to be. next time it visits us, in 2062, it may be eve

37、n dimmer. each visit it may get dimmer and dimmer, until it finally disappears. ( )1. what is this passage mostly about? a. comets and the sun. b. why comets are like snowballs. c. who discovered the first comet. d. facts about comets. ( )2. according to the passage, what does a comet travel around?

38、 a. the sun. b. the moon. c. other comets. d. other planets ( )3. why do comets look as if they are motionless when we see them? a. they are very small. b. they are very far away. c. they move very slowly.d. they move only at night. ( )4. how does the author help the reader understand what a comet l

39、ooks like? a. by telling about a famous one. b. by explaining how far away it is. c. by describing how fast it moves. d. by describing it as a dirty snowball. ( )5. what is the most likely reason the author wrote this passage? a. to give information about comets. b. to tell readers about famous come

40、ts. c. to explain the importance of comets. d. to convince readers to look for comets. long ago all of people thought the moon was a god. other people thought it was just a light in the s1 . and others thought it was a big ball of cheese! then telescope was made. and men s 2 that the moon was really

41、 another world. they wondered what it was like. they dreamed of going there. on july 20th, 1969, that dream came t 3 . two american men landed on the moon. t 4 names were neil armstrong and edwin aldrin. the first thing the men found was that the moon is covered with dust. the dust is so thick t 5 t

42、he men left footprints where they walked. those were the fist mark a living thing had ever made on the moon. the two men walked on the moon f 6 hours. they picked rocks to bring back to e 7 for study. they dug up dirt to bring back. they set up machines to find out things people wanted to know. then

43、 they climb b 8 into their moon landing craft. next day the landing craft roared as the two men took off from the moon. they joined michael collins in the spaceship that w 9 for them above the moon. then they were off on their long trip back to earth. b 10 them they left the plains and tall mountain

44、s of the moon. they left the machines they had set up. and they left footprints that may last forever. 1. sky 2. saw 3. true 4. their 5. that 6. for 7. earth 8. back 9. waited 10.behind read allens diary and answer the questions ( )1. what does “ pta day ” mean?a. the day for students to take music

45、tests. b. the day for parents to meet teachers at school. c. the day for teachers to practice teaching. d. the day for students to ask questions about music. ( )2. on allen s diary, mother is the name of a _. a. movie. b. tv play. c. song d. book ( )3. according to allens diary, what will the class

46、do on friday? a. they will sing to thank their mothers. b. they will decorate their classroom. c. they will welcome a new music teacher. d. they will buy presents for their parents. ( )4. how long did the students spend in decorate the classroom for pta day? a. half an hour. b. one hour and a half.

47、c. two hours. d. two hours and a half. ( )5. why does allens mother feel nervous? a. she is afraid of talking to teachers. b. she has to sing a song in front of the class. c. allen does not do well at school. d. allens father is going to school too.a few days before christmas, a man enters a pet sto

48、re to look for a gift for his wife. the store manager tells him he has a beautiful parrot named chet that can sing christmas songs. he then shows the man a colorful but quiet bird. the man agrees that chet is beautiful, but id doesn t seem to be able to sing. the manager tells him to watch as he tak

49、es out a lighter from his pocket. the manager then clicks the lighter and holds it under chets left foot. immediately chet starts singing “ silent night ” . the man is very surprised and watches as the manager moves the lighter under chet s right food. chet then starts to sing “ jingle bells” . the

50、man says chet is perfect and he ll take it. the man rushes home to his wife and gives her this wonderful gift immediately. he holds a lighter under chet s left foot and the bird signs “ silent night” . he then moves the lighter under its right foot and chet sings “ jingle bells.”his wife is very hap

51、py, and she asks him what it will happen if he holds the lighter between chets legs. so the man moves the lighter between the birds legs, and the bird begins to sing. “ chets ass roasting on an open fire!”( )1. why does the man go to the pet store? a. to find a lighter. b. to buy a gift. c. to meet

52、the manager. d. to see a parrot. ( )2. the world “ clicks” in the third paragraph means “ _” in english. a. turns on b. turns off c. turns up d. turns down ( )3. chet sings “ silent night” with the lighter under its _. a. right ear b. left ear c. right foot. d. left foot ( )4. hearing the bird sing

53、“ chets ass roasting on an open fire!” , the couple probably begins to _. a. cry b. laughd. dance d. run ( )5. this passage mainly tells us about _. a. a happy family b. a great light c. a story about a parrot d. a special pet store jaron mcgill, 19, was killed last sunday night as he walked home fr

54、om his girlfriends house on colby place near lanecrest drive in east charlotte. witnesses told the police that they saw three men leaving the scene in a black toyota after the shooting. but on tuesday afternoon, detectives found that they went wrong way, and they needed to change for another way as

55、soon as possible. “ so today were looking for new information about that might take us in another direction,”said detective garry mcfadden. mcfadden was joined by mcgill s family at the scene where they together made a plea to the detective for more information. “ he was an excellent boy. you couldn

56、 t ask for anything more out of such a good boy,” said mcgill s aunt. “ he comes from a good family. we are looking for the cause of his death,” said jeff mcgill, mcgill s uncle. mcgills family members said their only wish was to bring them through this difficult time and they believed that someone

57、would provide more information to help the police solve the case. anyone with information of the case could call detective mcfadden at 704-336-6045. ( )1. jaron mcgill was killed _. a. last saturday night. b. in east charlotte c. when he was with his girlfriend d. when he drove home ( )2. what probl

58、em did the detectives realize on tuesday afternoon? a. someone would help them to solve the case. b. the three men were the real killers. c. they did something wrong with the case. d. the real killer had run away. ( )3. the underlined word “ plea” means _ in chinese. a. 请求b. 准备c. 控告d. 命令( )4. if som

59、eone has some helpful information, he or she can call_. a. mcgill s aunt b. mcgills uncle c. carry mcfadden d. the police ( )5. where can you probably see the passage? a. in a movie magazine. b. in a story book. c. on a tv programme about college. d. in the newspaper. xiao bao performed on “ asia un

60、cut” , one of asia s largest english-language talk shows, in shanghai in january 29. xiao bao weighed just a little more than 1 kg at birth. doctors advised his mother bian to play music for him and encourage him to exercise. when xiao bao was about 1 year old, bian found he liked moving his body to