吉林省中考英语章节题库-第九章至第十章【圣才出品】

第九章阅读理解（回答问题）

Passage1

A black boy helped his father look after the barrels(桶).Every morning he cleaned up every barrel on the farm,and then put them in order.To his anger,the wind blew the barrels here and there during the night.

The boy wrote a letter to the wind,“Please don’t blow down my barrels.”After seeing that,his father asked the boy,“Can the wind read your letter?”The little boy said,“I don’t know,but I have no other choice.”

The next morning,when the little boy ran to see the barrels,he found that the annoying wind still blew the barrels down again.The little boy couldn’t help crying. His father said gently,“Boy,don’t be sad.We may have no way of how to stop the wind from doing that,but we can have our own ways to control the barrels.”

Then the little boy stopped crying to think over and over.After thinking half a day,he finally found out a way.He collected some water from the well and poured it into those empty barrels.On the third morning,the little boy went out,and saw the barrels were in good order.

The little boy told his father calmly,“If we don’t want the barrels blown down by the wind,we have no way to the wind,but we have ways to the barrels.It’s a very simple way,that is,to add weight to the barrels.”“You are a young adult now,”said his father happily.

1.Where did the boy clean up the barrels?

2.Who did the boy write a letter to?

3.When did the boy cry?

4.What did the boy do after thinking?

5.Why did the father consider his son a young adult?

【答案及解析】

1.On the farm／He cleaned up every barrel on the farm.

根据第一段第二句“Every morning he cleaned up every barrel on the farm,”，可知小男孩在农场清洗木桶。

2.The wind.／He wrote a letter to the wind.

第二段第一句提到“The boy wrote a letter to the wind”，所以小男孩给风写信。

3.The next morning.／When he found the wind blew the barrels down again.

第三段前半部分提到“The next morning,…The little boy couldn’t help crying.”可知，第二天，小男孩哭了。

4.He added weight to the barrels.／He poured some water into the barrels.

根据第四段以及最后一段内容可知，小男孩在桶里装了一些水来增加桶的重量，这样桶就不会被吹到了。

5.Because he could solve the problem by himself.

根据全文内容可知，小男孩通过思考，想出办法，解决了问题。所以父亲说他是小男子汉。

Passage2

It is widely accepted that television is playing an important part in people’s

lives.But,there is a heated discussion as to whether television does good or harm.

Television keeps one learning more about present events,allows one to follow the most recent developments in politics and science,and offers various programs which are both instructive and exciting.The most distant countries,the strangest customs and the most attractive scenes of nature are brought right into one’s room or house.

However,some people insist that television is bad rather than good.They argue that it has brought about many serious problems.The major one is its effects on young people.Children are now so used to getting their information and entertainment from television that their ability to read and write as well as physical ability has been greatly weakened.Even worse than that,vulgar(庸俗的) advertisements and poor programs may develop their bad tastes,shape their view points badly towards human life to such a degree that their minds might be destroyed.

In a word,television has both advantages and disadvantages.Whatever effects it has,one point is certain,television in itself is neither good nor bad.It is the use to which it is put that decides its value to society.

1.What are people discussing nowadays?

2.What are the advantages television has brought us?(至少2点)

3.Why do some people think television is bad rather than good?

4.It is the use to which it is put that decides its value to society.(将该句译成汉语)

5.What’s your opinion about television?