中考英语阅读理解真题专项训练

（一）

Dragons are not real animals, but look like a combination (结合体) of many animals such as snakes, fish and have two horns (角) and a long moustache (胡子).With fantastic power, they fly in the sky or swim in the can make rain, Chinese dragon is a symbol of strength and good emperors of ancient China loved clothes were covered with pictures of dragons.

We are proud to call ourselves the “descendants (传人) of the dragon”.In Chinese, “excellent” people are often called “dragons”.A number of Chinese sayi ngs and idioms talk about dragons, for example, “Hoping_one's_child_will_become_a_dragon.” which means hoping he or she will be successful.

It is said that people born in the Year of the Dragon have certain are creative, confident, brave and quick¬ are s ome famous “dra¬gons” who have done excellent things, for example, the great man Deng Xiaoping, the famous businessman Li Jiacheng and the movie star Zhao are all very successful.

There are also some traditional festivals about dra¬gons in China, such as Dragon Head¬Raising Day and Dragon Boat have different kinds of activities to celebrate two festivals come every year, but the Year of the Dragon comes every twelve years.

The dragon is very important in Chinese the “descendants of the dragon”， it is necessary for us to know the views on dragons in our can help us understand why our parents always want us to be “dragons”.

2013 is the Year of the luck to you!

( ) does the Chinese dragon symbolize?

combination of many animals.

sayings and idioms.

festivals.

and good luck.

( ) the passage, the underlined sentence “Hoping one's child will become a dragon.” means “________” in Chinese.

A.龙马精神

B.龙飞凤舞

C.望子成龙

D.龙腾虎跃

( ) characteristics may the people born in the Year of the Dragon have? They may be ________.

, confident, brave and powerful

, confident, brave and quick¬tempered

, confident, brave and quick¬tempered

, confident, creative and successful

( ) of the following years is the Year of the Dragon?

. . . .

( ) to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE? are real animals.

are many Chinese sayings and idioms about dragons.

born in the Year of the Dragon must be successful.

“descendants of the dragon” are often called “dragons”.

（二）配对阅读请将这五种工作与相应的描述配对。

( ) police always do many things for help keep people and things a fire happens, they can come at once.

( ) police go around town or village to see that everything is all of them go on foot or by some big cities, some of the police ride on ride motorbikes.

( ) they go around town, the police help they take the lost children people will ask the police how to get to a place in police can always tell people which way to know all the streets and roads well.

( ) police stand at make sure that the cars do not go too help children cross the also help people who can't walk help to keep cars moving safely.

( ) walk around the train station and airport to check the packages to stop people from taking dangerous things.