中考英语阅读理解考前冲刺

中考英语考阅读理解前冲刺阅读下面A、B、C三篇短文,从各题后所给的四个选项中选出最佳选项。

AThe roast is very famous in Brazil. Customers just sit, waiting for waiters to send them all kinds of meat. If you like, you take one; if you don’t, the waiters go to another guest.One day when I was in Brazil, I went to a restaurant to try the roast. After I took my seat, a waiter gave me a sign with the color “red” on one side and “green” on the other. I put it down on the table, and then the waiters began to serve me. My plate was already full, but the waiters still kept on serving me more. I had to eat more quickly. But to my surprise, the waiters still kept on serving me more. I thought I couldn’t eat any more.When I was wondering why they kept serving me, a man beside me looked at me and smiled. Of course, he told me the reason. He helped me turn the sign over, with red outside. When I finished the rest food, I found the waiters didn’t serve me and just went to others. If I didn’t call them, they wouldn’t take a look at me.Do you know why? It’s just like the traffic lights in the street. If you don’t give the message of stopping serving, the waiters will go on. How interesting!( )l. The waiters gave the writer a sign ____________.A. before he went into the restaurantB. when he sat down at a tableC. when he began to try the foodD. when his plate was full( )2. The writer was very surprised because ___________A. nobody came to serve him foodB. the waiter gave him a signC. his plate was full but the waiters went on serving himD. the roast was not delicious( )3. ___________ knew the reason why they kept on serving him.A. Another customerB. The writer himselfC. The writer’s friendD. Nobody( )4. The color “red” on the sign means “ ________ ”.A. pay the billB. stop servingC. go on servingD. change the plate ( )5. Which is the best title of this passage?A. A restaurant in BrazilB. Foolish waitersC. The traffic lights in BrazilD. The traffic lights on the tableBSnake dishes have become popular in recent years. Snake meat is often seen in restaurants. It seems that eating snakes is now in fashion, and if you haven’t eaten any snakes yet, you’re considered out-of-date. But I wonder whether it is worth following.Some people think that eating snake meat is good for their health. But these people don’t know that snakes usually eat mice and worms. Therefore, there are many parasites(寄生虫) found inside snakes’bodies. They may be bad for our health. Apart from t his, we’re sorry to see that more snakes are being killed by a butcher’s k nife. According to the newspaper, Shanghai Star, about 1,000 tons of snakes are eaten by people every year in China. In Shenzhen of Guangdong Province, sometimes as many as 10 tons of snakes are served on dinner tables in a single day. If we still turn a blind eye to this, a vicious circle(恶性循环) will be created —if more snakes areeaten by people, the number of snakes will drop, and the number of mice will increase, which will result in a decrease in crop output. This will make more people hungry. Who wants to see such a tragedy?Therefore, let’s not eat snakes any more! To protect the snakes is to protect ourselves. ( )6. _____________ has become popular in China in recent years.A. Eating snake meatB. Keeping snakes as petsC. Eating mouse meatD. Keeping mice as pets( )7. What does the phrase “out-of-date” mean in Chinese?A. 失约的B. 时髦的C. 迟到的D. 落伍的( )8. According to the newspaper, about ________ tons of snakes sometimes are eaten in Shenzhen in a single day.A. oneB. tenC. one hundredD. one thousand ( )9. Why does the writer say that to protect snakes is to protect ourselves?A. Because snake meat is good for our health.B. Because snake skin can be used to make many beautiful shoes, bags and clothes.C. Because eating snakes is now in fashion.D. Because a drop in the number of snakes will result in a decrease in crop output. ( )10. The writer gives _________ reasons why people should stop eating snakes.A. twoB. threeC. fourD. fiveCFor several years, Americans have enjoyed teleshopping —watching TV and buying things by phone. Now teleshopping is popular in Europe. In a number of European countries, people can turn on their TVs and shop for clothes, jewelry, food, toys and many other things.Teleshopping is becoming popular in Sweden, for example. One of the biggest Swedish companies sells different kinds of things on TV in 15 European countries, and in one year it made $100 million. In France, there are two teleshopping channels, and the French spend about $20 million a year to buy things through the channels.Some people like teleshopping because it allows them to do their shopping without leaving their homes. But at the same time, other Europeans do not like this new way of shopping. They call teleshopping “junk(废旧物品) on the air”because many Europeans usually worry about the quality(质量) of the things for sale on TV. Good quality is the most important to them, and they can’t be sure about the quality of the things on TV.The need for high quality means that European teleshopping companies will have to be different from the American companies. They have to be more careful about the quality of the things they sell.( )11. What does the word “teleshopping” mean in Chinese?A. 电话公司B. 电子宠物C. 电视购物D. 网上购物( )12. There are two teleshopping channels through which people spend about $20 million a year to buy things in ____________.A. AmericaB. EuropeC. SwedenD. France( )13. People like teleshopping because it is _________.A. differentB. cheaperC. convenientD. more popular( )14. Some Europeans call teleshopping “junk on the air” because _________.A. they like to buy second-hand thingsB. they think most of things sold on TV are second-hand thingsC. they think the things sold on TV are too expensiveD. they think the things sold on TV are not always of good quality( )15. The teleshopping companies in Europe should pay more attention to ____________.A. the price of the goods they sellB. the quality of the goods they sellC. the ways of selling their goodsD. what kind of the goods they sellD阅读下面短文,根据短文意思,按要求完成后面的问题。