2014中考英语阅读理解及答案：墨西哥城

2014中考英语阅读理解及答案：墨西哥城

A

Mexico’s neighbours are the United States to the north and Guatemala and Belize to the south. Mexico is about one quarter of the size of the United States. Mexico has more than ninety million people. The language of Mexico is Spanish. This makes Mexico the world’s largest Spanish-speaking country.

Mexico City is the capital and largest city of Mexico. The city is also very high. It is 7349 feet high (2240 metres). This makes it one of the highest capital cities in the world. The population, of Mexico City grows bigger every day. About thirty million people live there. It has more people than any other city in the world, even more than Tokyo.

Mexico also has its specialities. Many of the foods we eat started in Mexico. Foods like beans, maize, avocados, tomatoes, peanuts, chili peppers, vanilla, and chocolate come from Mexico. Mexico is also famous for its cactus (仙人掌) plants. Mexico has more kinds of cactus than any other country.

1. Mexico is ____the USA.

A. on the south of

B. on the north of

C. a part of

D. as large as

2. Mexicans speak______.

A. English C. French

B. Spanish D. Latin(拉丁语)

3. Which of the following is NOT true?

A. Mexico City is the capital of Mexico.

B. The population of Mexico City is 30,000,000.

C. Tokyo is one of the cities with the largest population.

D. Mexico City is the highest city in the world.

4. Tomatoes were originally (最初) grown in ______.

A. America

B. Spain

C. Tokyo

D. Mexico

5. The best title (题目) of the passage is ___.

A. Mexico City

B. Mexico’s plants

C. Mexico

D. Mexico’s population

1. A 此题为细节题。Mexico’s neighbours are the United States to the north美国在墨西哥的北面。所以墨西哥在美国的南面。

2. B 此题为细节题。The language of Mexico is Spanish.墨西哥人讲西班牙语

3. D 此题为细节题。Mexico City is the capital 墨西哥城是墨西哥的首都，所以A正确。About thirty million people live there.大约三千万人住在墨西哥城。所以B正确。It has more people than any other city in the world, even more than Tokyo.

墨西哥城的人口比世界其他城市的人口都多，甚至比东京的人还多。

4. D 此题为细节题。Many of the foods we eat started in Mexico.很多我们吃的事物起源于墨西哥。

5. C 此题为推断题。整篇文章讲了墨西哥的人口，首都等情况。

B

“Cool”is a word with many old meaning is used to express a temperature that is a little bit the world has changed，the word has had many different meaning.

When you see a famous car in the street，maybe you will say，“It’s cool.”You may think，“He’s so cool，”when you see your favourite footballer.

We all maximize(扩大) the meaning of“cool”.You can use it instead of many words such as “new” or “surprising”.Here’s an interesting story we can use to show the way the word is teacher asked her students to write about the waterfall(瀑布)they had one student’s paper was Just the one sentence，“It’s so he thought it was the best way to show what he saw and felt.

But the story also shows a scarcity(缺乏)of “cool”，some people have no words to show the same it is quite important to keep some credibility(可信性).Can you think of many other