陕西中考英语阅读习题-

陕西中考英语阅读习题-
陕西中考英语阅读习题
Test 1
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话题：社会行为体裁：说明文词数：128+130 难度：★★★☆☆建议用时：6 mins
正确率：/5
Savignano is a common teacher in Colombia. He has an interesting library with 40 thousand books and magazines. Every weekend his eight donkeys carry the books to the countryside. Children there are interested in the books. They call it “donkey library” kindly.
Savi gnano started this special library because many poor children couldn’t come to school. The y missed many chances of studying. Savignano wanted to help them. He hoped that the children could read many books and learn more.
Savignano has spent 40 years on his special library. Some reporters asked him the reason why he could keep on holding the lib rary. He said, “If you want to get the answer, you can go and ask the children. The eagerness for knowledge in their eyes is the best answer. ’’
1. How many books and magazines are there in Savignano’s library?
A. 400.
B. 4000.
C. 40 000.
D. 400 000
2. Why is Savignano’s library called “donkey library”？
A. Because the donkeys guard (守卫）the library.
B. Because there are eight donkeys in the library.
C. Because the donkeys carry the books to the children.
D. Because there are many books about donkeys in the library.
3. Savignano started the library to .
A. learn more about children
B. keep more interesting books
C. make more students enjoy reading
D. help the poor children in the countryside
4. The underlined word “eagerness” means in Chinese.
A. 渴望
B. 探索
C. 质疑
D.希望
5. This true story tells us about Savignano and his .
A. school
B. library
C. children
D. donkeys
B
话题：世界体裁：应用文词数：143+130 难度：★★★☆☆建议用时：6 mins 正确率：/5
When most teenagers listen to pop music, Liu Shen from Beijing No. 4 High School is interested in musicals and operas. The boy has even successfully directed the famous musical Les Miserables (《悲惨世界》) at his school.
Zac Mihajlovic is a big Batman (蝙蝠侠)fan. The Australian built a real Batmobile at his home! The car looks the same as the one in the film Batman. It took Mihajlovic two years to build the car. How strong can a person’s beard be? Antanas Kontrimas
from Lithuania (立陶宛) knows the answer. He can use his beard to lift a woman weighing 64kg! It is the heaviest weight lifted by a beard in the world.
It’s easy to eat healthily if you have an ETE plate. The newly designed plate has five sections. Each section shows the right weight of the food groups of a healthy meal.
1. What does Liu Shen do?
A. A student.
B. A teacher.
C. An actor.
D. A director
2. Maybe most people would feel very after reading Note
3.
A. lucky
B. pleased
C. shocked
D. Proud
3. An ETE plate can tell you .
A. what food to eat
B. where to put the food
C. when to have a dinner
D. how much healthy food to eat
4. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
A. Zac Mihajlovic is an Australian.
B. Les Miserables is a famous musical.
C. An ETE plate has more than five sections.
D. Antanas Kontrimas comes from Lithuania.
5. Where can you most probably read this passage?
A. In a sports magazine.
B. On a web page.
C. In a storybook.
D. In a poster.
C
话题：天气体裁：说明文词数：138+136 难度：★★★☆☆建议用时：7 mins 正确率：/4
Do you know the Air Quality Index(空气质量指数）or AQI reported in the newspaper? The AQI helps us understand what the air quality around us means to our health. The AQI uses colors, numbers and words to tell us about the air. What do these colors and numbers mea n? Let’s have a look.
AQI
Colors
Colors AQI
Numbers Health Words
Green 0?50 Good
Yellow 51 ?100 Moderate(适中的）
Orange 101?150 Unhealthy for sensitive (敏感的）groups
Red 151?200 Unhealthy
Purple 201?300 Very unhealthy
When the AQI color is green, just enjoy the clean air! Yellow shows the air quality is fine for most people. Orange tells us that people with lung disease (肺病）should spend less time outdoors. When the AQI color is red, people with lung disease, active chil dren and adults shouldn’t spend too long time outdoors. Everybody else should try to spend less time outside.
Purple shows everybody should try not to go outside.
1. T he AQI doesn’t use to show the air quality.
A. pictures
B. colors
C. numbers
D. words
2. If the AQI color is ___, the air quality is good for most people.
A. orange
B. red
C. purple
D. yellow
3. If the weathe r report says today’s AQI is 250, we should .
A. enjoy the clean air
B. try not to go outside
C. spend more time outside
D. stay inside some of the time
4. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. When the AQI number is 140, the AQI color is red.
B. If the AQI color is purple, the air is the best for people.
C. People with lung disease are very sensitive to the air.
D. The AQI can’t help people to know the air quality.
D
话题：个人兴趣体裁：记叙文词数：178+146 难度：★★★☆☆建议用时：8mins 正确率：/5
In my spare time, I like to paint pictures on T-shirts. I got the idea two years ago for my brother’s birthday present. It would cost me $20 for a special picture on the T-shirt, so I decided to do it myself. I bought a white cotton T-shirt at $ 6 and some paints, and then I painted a lion on the front. My brother loved it very much.
Painting on T-shirts is great fun. I needn’t to be a great artist. I can paint shapes, lines and anything I like. The T-shirts are the most expensive part of my hobby. I have to use special paints
because they can last a long time and cannot be washed off. Brushes are not really expensive, but I need to buy ones of good quality.
I love my hobby because I can make T-shirts that no one else has got. I have given many of them away as pre sents to my family and friends. Sometimes I sell them. Sin ce I started, I’ve made about 60 T-shirts and each one is different.
1. The writer’s hobby is .
A. painting on T-shirts
B. painting on the wall
C. collecting brushes
D. collecting T-shirts
2. The writer gave his brother as a birthday present two years ago.
A. a black T-shirt
B. some paintings
C. a picture of a lion
D. a T-shirt with a lion painted on it
3. The writer has to use special paints because .
A. they aren’t expensive
B. they have special colors
C. they can last a long time
D. they can be washed off easily
4. What does the writer do with his T-shirts?
A. He wears them.
B. He keeps them.
C. He gives them to others or sells them.
D. He gives them away as presents to the people in poor areas.
5. The writer has made about _____ T-shirts since he started.
A. 80
B. 60
C. 26
D. 20
E
话题：著名人物体裁：记叙文词数：187+60 难度：★★★☆☆建议用时：8mins 正确率：/5
When the well-known pianist Kong Xiangdong first made it big in the early 1990s, he was called the “piano prince”. His smart looks and music performance won the hearts of many fans. Kong’s mother had a great interest in the instrument, which provided him with a keyboard painted on paper. It was on this soundless “instrument” th at he began his piano career at the age of 5. His mother put the “keyboard” in the kitchen and asked K ong to practice on it every day. “A pianist has no childhood at all,” Kong ever said.
When he was 7, Kong’s mother borrowed enough money to buy a second-hand piano for him. He was fascinated by the beautiful sound of a real piano. So far, he has kept the old piano to remind him of those days.
Now Kong is the headteacher of a piano school that has accepted more than 20 000 students during the past years.
“I always tell parents that it is a mistake to push their children to learn the instrument as a career unless the child feels he can’t live without it,” Kong said.
根据短文内容，简要回答下列问题。

1. What did Kong’s fans call him?
2. Who was Kong’s first teacher during his piano career?
3. When did Kong begin to practice on a real piano?
4. Besides(除……之外）being a pianist, what is Kong now?
5. These days many parents want their children to learn the instrument as a career. What does Kong think of it?。