中考英语阅读理解教学提纲

三、阅读理解

(一) 阅读短文，完成31— 45小题。（共15小题，计15分）

A

What will the car be like in the future? Maybe we can sit in a car that can drive itself.

About 40 years ago, scientists from the United States started to develop self-driving cars (无人驾驶汽车). The most famous recent one was made by Google in 2009. There are cameras and radars (雷达) on the top of the car. They allow the computer in the car to draw a 3D map of the environment. Chinese scientists have also successfully developed a self-driving car. The car made a trip from Changsha to Wuhan.

Is a self-driving car safe? A recent study shows that robots make 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 very popular in the near 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-driving car by Google.

33. In China, scientists have successfully developed a self-driving car.

34. The more self-driving cars there are on the street, the fewer traffic deaths there will be.

35. The self-driving cars will be very popular in the near future.

B

It is a cold and dry winter morning. When you wake up, you feel that your throat hurts. You begin to sneeze and later you may cough. You must have a cold! Wait a moment. Could it just be a common cold or the flu (流感) that’s been going around?

A cold gives you a runny nose and cough. But it’s 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 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 vaccine (疫苗), it can stop you from getting the virus (病毒). Flu vaccines work by giving the body a small amount of flu viruses. This causes your body to develop antibodies (抗体). So next time you get the flu, the antibodies 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 can’t help us against all types of flu.That’s why we need to get the vaccine every year.

However, good health habits may also help stop you developing a cold or flu. Washing your hands often helps stop you from getting viruses. It is also important to get regular exercise and eat healthy food. All these can 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 common cold, usually you’ll feel better after ________.

A. a week

B. two weeks

C. ten days

D. twenty days