2020任务型阅读专项训练

2020中考英语任务型阅读专项训练

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Remember when you were a little child trying to learn to walk?

First, you had to learn how to balance(平衡)yourself and stand. You fell down, and then got back up. You laughed sometimes and cried at other times. After much practice, you finally learned how to balance yourself. You got much pleasure from this new feeling of power—you'd stand everywhere you could. It was a happy time—you did it!

Now, the next step—walking. You'd seen others do it. It didn't look that hard—just move your legs while you were standing. Wrong—more difficult than you ever imagined. But after you tried again and again and again, you understood how to walk.

If people found you walking, they cheered, “Oh, look at what the kid is doing.”This encouraged you! But look back on those days when you were the little child—how many times did you try when no one was watching, or when no one was cheering? You couldn't wait for someone to encourage you to take the next steps. You learned how to encourage yourself.

So, keep trying and encouraging yourself as you learned to walk if you want to succeed in doing something.

1.What is the first step in learning to walk?(不超过15个词)

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2.When did you understand how to walk?(不超过15个词)

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3.What should you do if you want to succeed in doing something?(不超过15词)

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In Jinzhong, Shanxi Province, there is a group of people who are busy drawing maps around. They are not workers on geography, but dispatchers(调度员)in Emergency(急救)Center of the city.

Since 2007, the dispatchers in the center have been drawing maps of the local areas.

“A dispatcher's job is counted in seconds,” says Liang Ruimei, a dispatcher in the center. She has been working in the center since it started in 2007. “We must answer the phone in 3 seconds, get clear information about the patient in 60 seconds and dispatch(调度)emergency medical workers in 3 minutes at most. If we save one second, the patient may have a better chance to live.”

Although nowadays the center has electronic maps, the dispatchers still walk through the streets to draw maps by hand.After many years' hard work, the dispatchers keep every building and street of the city in mind. They even know whether or not a car can enter the gate of a building. Sometimes the caller can't tell clearly where he is, but it doesn't matter. As long as he describes the buildings around, the dispatcher can dispatch emergency medical workers to him.

“We are trying to be quicker than Death,”says Liang.

1.When did Emergency Center of Jinzhong start?

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2.To be quicker than Death, what do the dispatchers in Emergency Center of Jinzhong do?

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3.Do you think it necessary for dispatchers to draw maps by hand when they have electronic maps? Why or why not?

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Stephen Hawking was born in England in 1942. He is one of the most well－known scientists on space and time in the world. Hawking is researching how the universe began and how it ends. He is called the King of the Universe.