中考英语分类阅读及讲解汇编(十)

中考英语分类阅读及讲解汇编（十）健康生活 1Did you ever hear anyone say, “An apple a day keeps the doctor away”? Do you think that if people eat apples they won’t get sick?Some scientists wanted to find out if this old saying is true. They divided a college class into two groups. The first group ate two apples a day. The second group did not eat any apple. After a few months, they added up all the times the young people got sick. The apple eaters turned out to be healthier than those who hadn’t eaten apples. It seemed to s how that an apple day-or two apples-really does keep the doctor away.1．he best title is ______.A. Growing ApplesB. College ClassesC. Apples and HealthD. A Good Breakfast2. The scientists divided the class into ______.A. five groupsB. three groupsC. two groupsD. four groups3. The first group ate ______.A. two apples a dayB. no applesC. three apples a dayD. one apple a day4. The story suggests that people should eat ______.A. pearsB. bananasC. applesD. everything5. “keep the doctor away” means ______ .A. not to make friends with the doctorB. not get sickC. keep the doctor from runningD. to see the doctorKey: 1.c 2.c 3.a 4.c 5.b中考英语分类阅读及讲解汇编（十）健康生活 2Pleasant DreamsDreams may be more important than sleep. Some people don’t need very much sleep. But we all need to dream, scientists say.Dreams take up about one quarter of our sleeping time. People have several dreams each night. Dreams are like short movies. They are usually in color. Some dreams are like old movies. They come to us over and over again. That may be because the dreamer is worrying about something. Dreaming may be a way of trying to find an answer.Some people get new ideas about their work from dreams. They could have been thinking about their work all day. These thoughts can carry over into dreams.Sometimes we wake up with a good feeling from a dream. But often we can’t remember the dream. Dreams can disappear quickly from memory.Too much dreaming can be harmful. The more we sleep, the longer we dream. The mind is hard at work when we dream. That is why we may have a long sleep and still wake up tired.1. The main idea of the story is that ______.A. people need to dreamB. people like to sleepC. dreams are like moviesD. dreams are usually long2. Another title for the story could be ______.A. “Secret Dreams”B. “The Longest Sleep”C. “About Dreams”D. “Dreams and Work”3. It may be more important to dream than to ______.A. thinkB. sleepC. workD. food4. Dreams and movies are usually ______.A. very longB. in colorC. about workD. about ideas5. Which of these ideas is in the story?A. We always remember dreams.B. All dreams are happy.C. Long dreams can make you tired.D. We show have a good dreamKey: 1.a 2.c 3.b 4.c 5.c中考英语分类阅读及讲解汇编（十）健康生活 3Go and watch the baby when he is asleep, see how his chest rises and falls, then rises and falls again.He does not know what he is doing, but he breathes as well as the oldest and cleverest man in the world. He began to breathe when he was born, and he will not stop until he dies; still he does it without thinking about it.See how long you can hold your breath.In some places men dive in the sea for the pearls. They pick up shells that hold the pearls, and the longer they stay under water, the more pearls they can find. For the reason they hold their breath as long as they possibly can. Y et even these pearl divers can’t go without breathing for a long time. Watch to see how many times a man draws his breath every minutes. Some men breathe fifteentimes a minute. An elephant breathes only eight times. It was told that a mouse breathes a hundred and twenty times each time.No one needs to tell us that what we breathe every minutes of every day is air. It is around us everywhere, like wonderful sea that we can not see.1. Everyone began to breathe ______.A. when he is oldB. when he is cleverC. when he was bornD. when he was a child2 . What do the men dive in the deep sea for?A. They want to hold their breathB. They want to make their bodies strongerC. They want to find pearlsD. They want to find reasons for breath3.The word “It” in the last paragraph means ______.A. wonderful seaB. airC. a mouseD. an elephant4. A mouse breathes ______ times more than an elephant every minute.A. 105B. 120C. 112D. 155. Which of the following is NOT TRUE in the passage?A .We can’t live without airB. The babies need to breatheC. The dead also need to breatheD .Animals need to breathe every minute.Key: 1.c 2.c 3.b 4.d 5.c中考英语分类阅读及讲解汇编（十）健康生活 4The Right Way to SitIf you are writing or studying, it makes very much difference where the light comes from. People who use books and pens every day have to be specially careful about the way the light shines on their work.Every house gets its light either from daylight through windows which is the very best to use or from the lamps or electricity; but whichever kind of light it is, the way it slants towards our books or our work is a matter of great importance to the eyes.Take a book, stand with your back toward the window, and try to read. Y our shadow falls all over the page and makes it almost as bad for your eyes as if you were in a dark room.Now turn around and face the window. The page is in the shadow again, while the bright light is in your eyes.Try standing with your right side toward the window. This is very good for reading, but if you were writing, the shadow would fall across the page and bother you a little.There is just one other way: stand with your left side to the window. Now everything is perfect for reading and for writing, too.Whatever kind of light is in the room, the rule about the right way to sit is always the same.1. When reading or writing, people should pay special attention to ______.A. the book they are readingB. the paper they are writing onC. the way the light shines on their pageD. the kind of light2. ______ makes much difference to the eyes.A. The daylight through the windowsB. The light from the lamps or electricityC. The way the light slants towards our books or our workD. The way a house gets its light3. It is bad for your eyes when you read a book ______.A. with your back toward the windowB. facing the windowC. with your right side toward the windowD. both A and B4. Everything is OK for reading and writing when you ______.A. stand with your left side toward the windowB. stand with your right side to the windowC. sit with your right side to the windowD. sit with your back toward the windowKey: 1.c 2.c 3.d 4.a中考英语分类阅读及讲解汇编（十）健康生活 5“Wash every day and you’ll die young, my son!” People often said those words; long ago, of course. Napoleon’s wife had new clothes every month, instead of a bath. (“It’s quicker,” She always said). Rich people did not often have a bath. They washed their hands and faces, but not their bodies. Many poor people did not wash at all. A young man once said to a doctor: “Soap and water have never touched my body.” (And the doctor answered. “That’s true. I know…”)Why didn’t people wash in those d ays long age?Well, they did not have water in their house. They carried water from rivers or from holes in the ground (=wells). Towns people bought it from a water—carrier. Sometimes it was expensive; and soap was always expensive. They drank water, of course; and so they were clean inside. They did not think much about the outside! And this is true; they just did not like a bath.Modern young women work as hairdressers. They wash and then “dress” other women’s hair. That is their job, and they like it. Y oung hairdressers sometimes wash dirty heads on a busy day! Their hands are soapy for seven or eight hours; and that is not a good thing. A young hairdresser’s hands are of ten red and ugly; and she must then go to a doctor.1. Long ago, people ______.A. often died youngB. did not often have a bathC. washed every dayD. washed every day and died young2. The doctor answered that ______.A. he knew the young man was dirtyB. it was true that the young man was illC. soap and water were not good for his illnessD. he knew the young man never washed his body3. People didn’t wash in those days because ______.A. they had no water in their housesB. they had to buy water from a water—carrier and it was expensiveC. soap was expensive, tooD. All of the above4. People in those days ______.A. didn’t think about the outside of their housesB. only thought about the inside of their housesC. didn’t like to wash their bodies at allD. only liked to wash their hands and faces5. Who are the people that use too much soap in modern life?A. Hairdressers.B. Many young women.C. People whose hands are red and ugly.D. People whose hands are soapy.Key: 1.B 2.D 3.D 4.C 5.A中考英语分类阅读及讲解汇编（十）健康生活 6Fire fighting is a serious matter. Knowing what to do during a fire can save people’s lives. It is important to know the ways you can use and show them to everyone else in the family. Such as stairways and emergency exits, but no lifts. From the lower floors of building, escape through windows is possible. Learn the best way to get out from a window with the least chance of serious injury. The second floor window is usually not very high from the ground. An average person, hanging by the fingertips will have a drop of about 6 feet to the ground. It is about the height of an average man. Of course, it is safer to jump a short way down than to stay in a burning building. Windows are also useful when you are waiting for help. Be sure to keep the door closed before opening the window. Otherwise, smoke and fire may be drawn into the room. Keep your head low at the window to be sure you get fresh air rather than smoke that may have leaked into the room. On the second or third floor, the best windows for escape are those which open onto a roof. From the roof a person can drop to the ground more safely. Dropping onto cement might end in injury. Bushes and trees can help you to have a soft landing.1. Which of the following should not be used when trying to escape from a fire?A. WindowsB. LiftsC. Fire exitsD. Stairways2. How far from the ground is the second floor window?A. About 12 feet.B. About 6 feet.C. About the height of an average manD. Nearly 10 feet.3. According to the passage, windows are ______ of escape a fire.A. the only wayB. the best wayC. safer than any other waysD. one of the possible ways4. The writer suggest that ______.A. breathing in smoke might be harmfulB. smoke will enter the room through an open windowC. fresh air can’t reach the second floor windowD. to keep your head low will help you to escape a fire5. If you are on the second or third floor when a fire breaks out, you’d better ______.A. drop directly onto the groundB. first drop onto a roof than onto the cementC. drop from a roof window then onto bushes or treesD. drop onto the cement rather than bushes and grassKey: 1.b 2.c 3.d 4.a 5.b中考英语分类阅读及讲解汇编（十）健康生活7Cigarette SmokingAmericans smoke six thousand million cigarettes every year, that is, every person smokes about 4195 cigarettes a year in the country of 18 years of age or more. It has calculated that 51% of American men smoke while 34% of American women do so.Since 1930, scientific studies have shown time and again that smoking does great harm to one’s health and that it will shorten one’s life.Cigarette smoking is believed, to most research workers in this field, a very important cause in the development of cancer of the lungs and the cancer of the throat and is believed to have much to do with some other kinds of cancers. Cigarette smokers suffer from the illness of the heart more often than those who don’t smoke. But strange, yet true, women are thought to be less affected, because when women smoke, they usually don’t breathe in the smoke so deeply. Most of the doctors and researchers say, “Give up smoking. If you don’t smoke—don’t start!”Filters are required now to make smoking a bit safer, but they can only reduce, not get rid of, its poison.But there are still a number of doctors and research workers who are less sure of the effect of cigarette smoking on health. They believe that cancers of the lungs, the throat and so on may also be caused by atmospheric pollution, or chemical poison that is now being used by farmers in largequantities to destroy plant pests and small animals.1.1. ______ each smoke about 4159 cigarettes a year.A. AmericansB. American menC. American womenD. American aged 18 or more2. It is believed by many that cancers of the lungs and throat are caused ______ by smoking.A. mainlyB. partlyC. in some wayD. in no way3. Smoking has much to do with ______.A. cancer of the lungsB. cancer of the throatC. cancer of the tongueD. several kinds of cancers4. Doctors and research workers advise that ______.A. we should smoke filter-tipped cigarettesB. we must not breathe in the smoke deeply when smokingC. those who don’t smoke shouldn’t startD. those who smoke less5. From the passage we come to know that people may die from ______.A. cigarette smokingB. polluted airC. poisonous chemicalsD. any of the aboveKey: 1.D 2.A 3.D 4.C 5.D。