中考英语阅读理解专题《考前冲刺—阅读理解》

中考英语考前冲刺—阅读理解

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。

A

The 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, th ey 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 restaurant

B. when he sat down at a table

C. when he began to try the food

D. when his plate was full

( )2. The writer was very surprised because ___________

A. nobody came to serve him food

B. the waiter gave him a sign

C. his plate was full but the waiters went on serving him

D. the roast was not delicious

( )3. ___________ knew the reason why they kept on serving him.

A. Another customer

B. The writer himself

C. The writer’s friend

D. Nobody

( )4. The color “red” on the sign means “ ________ ”.

A. pay the bill

B. stop serving

C. go on serving

D. change the plate ( )5. Which is the best title of this passage?

A. A restaurant in Brazil

B. Foolish waiters

C. The traffic lights in Brazil

D. The traffic lights on the table

B

Snake dishes have become popular in recent years. Snake meat is often seen in restaurants. It see ms that eating snakes is now in fashion, and if you haven’t eaten any snakes yet, you’re considered out-of-date.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 knife. 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