（全国通用）中考英语 第十八周 阅读周周练（A、B卷）.doc

阅读周周练一、完形填空。通读下面短文，从a、b、c三个选项中选出可以填入空白处的正确答案。when i was about 12, a girl in my class liked to point out my problems. i was too thin; i wasnt a good student; i talked too much; i was too 1 , and so on. at last, i became very angry and ran to my father.he listened to me 2 . then he asked, “are these things true or not? do you know what you are really like? go and make a 3 of what she said and find the 4 that are true.”i did as he told me. to my great 5 , i discovered that about half of the things were true. some of them i couldnt change. but there were things i could and wanted to change. for the 6 time, i got a clear 7 of myself.i brought the list back to dad. he refused to take it. “thats just for you.” he said. “you know the truth about 8 better than anyone else. when people say something that is true about you, you should find it helpful.”our world is full of people who think they know your business. dont 9 and feel 10 . listen to them. () 1. a. beautifulb. proudc smart () 2. a. quietlyb. happilyc. quickly () 3. a. jokeb. programmec. list () 4. a. secretsb. pointsc. lessons () 5. a. surpriseb. interestc. fact () 6. a. firstb. secondc. next () 7. a. bookb. picturec. drawing () 8. a. yourselves b. myselfc. yourself () 9. a. cleanb. openc. close () 10. a. hurtb. safec. pretty二、阅读理解。阅读下面的短文，根据短文内容选择正确答案。awhy do plants grow in some places and not in others? why does some land have so much growing on it, while other land has almost no plants growing on it at all?to grow, plants need several things. one is warmth. in very cold places almost nothing grows. plants also need water. in very dry parts of the earth only a few unusual plants can grow. thats why dry deserts everywhere are almost not covered by trees or grass.plants must also have a place in which to put down their roots and grow. they find it difficult to grow on hard land. the town is built on hard land. the plants here have only the soil found between the cracks of the stones to grow in.another thing plants must have before they can grow is food. what will happen if we try to make things grow on the sandy beach? a few plants, such as beach grass, will grow in sand, but most plants wont. even if the weather is warm enough and we water the plants each day, many of them will die because the sand on this beach has almost no food for plants. ( ) 1. according to the passage, plants need _ things to grow well.a. two b. threec. four ( ) 2. what does the underlined word “cracks” mean in the text?a. 缝隙.b. 表面.c. 夹层. ( ) 3. from the passage, we can know it is _ for plants to grow in dry places.a. easyb. difficultc. impossible ( ) 4. the reason why most plants cant grow on the sandy beach is that _.a. there isnt enough sunlightb. there is too much waterc. it has little food for plants ( ) 5. the passage can most probably be found in a _book.a. scienceb. historyc. travelbthe chinese first made paper about 2,000 years ago. china still has pieces of paper which were made as long ago as that. but chinese paper was not made from the wood of trees. it was made from the hairlike parts of certain plants.paper was not made in southern europe until about the year 1100. scandinavia (斯供的纳维亚半岛), which now makes a great deal of the worlds paper, did not begin to make it until 1500. it was a german named schaeffer who found out that one could make the best paper from trees. after that, the forest countries of sweden, norway, finland, and the united states became the largest paper producers. today in finland, which makes the best paper in the world, the paper industry is the biggest in the land. new paper-making machines are very big, and they make paper very fast. the biggest machines can make a piece of paper 300 meters long and 6 meters wide in one minute.when we think of paper, we think of newspapers, books, letters, envelopes and writing paper. but there are many other uses. only half of the paper that is made is used for books and newspapers, etc. ( ) 6. which of the following is the first to make paper?a. china. b. scandinavia. c. germany. ( ) 7. schaeffer found out that .a. the best paper was in the forestb. a german made the best paperc. wood could be made into the best paper ( ) 8. what docs the underlined word “industry” mean in chinese? a. 农业 d. 工业 c. 国防 ( ) 9. according to the passage, paper is not used for _.a. newspaper b. envelops c. food and drinks ( ) 10. the second paragraph mainly talks about paper making.a. in the united statesb. in scandinavia c. in europe 三、完形填空。通读下面短文，从a、b、c三个选项中选出可以填入空白处的正确答案。yang mi, born in beijing on september 12, 1986, is a chinese mainland actress. at the age of 4, she got her first tv drama role; at 16, she became a model for a fashion magazine; at 18, she went to her dream college beijing film academy (北京电影学院). 1 believe that life has smiled on her. last year, the 24-year-old 2 played bad girl luo qingchuan in the time-traveling tv drama, palace (宫锁心玉). the drama became a big success and made yang very 3 . the number of her micro blog followers 4 from several thousand to more than three million overnight. could she be any 5 ? yang doesnt think luck had anything to 6 with her success. she makes her way all by herself. “every 7 is from the efforts ive made,” said yang. people now think shes very hard-working. she still recalls the time when people gave her the cold shoulder. some treated her with little respect. they didnt want to help her in her time of need. “i have to 8 them because they make me believe myself,” she said. thats 9 she always help others when they are in need. in may, yang became the ambassador (大使) 10 the climate group. she calls on people to join the million-miracle project and plant trees on chinas dry land. in april, 2009, yang mi was considered a member of the four young dan actresses (四小花旦) along with huang shengyi, wang luodan, liu yifei. ( ) 1. a. many b. some c. nobody ( ) 2. a. studentb. actress c. player ( ) 3. a. great b. rich c. famous ( ) 4. a. were b. became c. increased ( ) 5. a. happier b. luckier c. healthier ( ) 6. a. do b. play c. stay ( ) 7. a. play b. chance c. dream ( ) 8. a. help b. ask c. thank ( ) 9. a. becauseb. why c. what ( ) 10. a. for b. at c. with 四、阅读判断正误。阅读下面短文，根据短文内容判断句子的正误。正确的填“a”，错误的填“b”。once a circle missed a wedge (楔子). the circle wanted to be whole, so it went around looking for its missing piece. but because it was incomplete and therefore could roll only very slowly. it admired the flowers along the way. it chatted with grasses. it enjoyed the sunshine. it found lots of different pieces, but none of them fit. so it left them all by the side of the road and kept on searching. then one day the circle found a piece that fit perfectly. it was so happy. it put the found piece into itself and began to roll. now it was a perfect circle, it could roll very fast, too fast to notice the flowers or to talk to the grasses. when it rolled so quickly, it realized how different the world seemed. then it stopped, left the found piece by the side of the road and rolled slowly away. the lesson of the story, i suggested, was that in some strange sense we are more whole when we are missing something. the man who has everything isnt in some ways a whole man. he will never know what it feels like to yearn (渴望), to hope, to come true the dream of something better. ( ) 1. at first, the circle couldnt roll fast, because it wanted to chat with the grasses. ( ) 2. the circle didnt find the missing piece at last. ( ) 3. when it was a perfect circle, it rolled too fast to notice the flowers or to talk to the grasses. ( ) 4. the circle stopped by the side of the road and enjoyed the sunshine. ( ) 5. in some days, a man still will be perfect even if he misses something.五、完成对话。在对话空格中填上适当的单词，使对话完整正确。一空一词（含缩写词）。 (betty is talking with her friend daming on the phone.)daming: hello, this is daming. whos 1 ?betty: this is betty. i want to visit your 2 tianjin. can you give me some 3 ?daming: of 4 . what do you want to know?betty: is it very hot in summer?daming: yes, you are 5 . its usually very hot in summer.betty: when is the best time to visit tianjin?daming: i think youd 6 come in october.betty: why do you think 7 ?daming: because the weather starts to get cooler and the trees start to 8 colour.betty: what can i do there?daming: you can visit many places of interest here, such 9 tianjin ancient culture street and you can also try some traditional chinese food.betty: im looking forward to 10 tianjin. thank you for your suggestions. bye-bye.daming: bye-bye. i hope to see you soon...9.10.六、短文填空。用下面方框中单词的适当形式填入短文空格内，使短文意思正确、通顺（每词限用一次）。all any behave difference drink eat enjoy fine other real surprise theseonce there was a teacher who took all his students for tea. what made the students 1 was that all the cups on the table were 2 . each of them took a cup and started 3 their own tea, looking at the 4 cups.the teacher said: “do you notice your 5 ? you are all looking at each others tea cups and 6 of you even envy (羡慕) the 7 cups of others.” then he went on: “i put the different cups here on purpose! life is like 8 tea. you all have the same thing in your cups tea. and yet you cant 9 enjoy it in your envy of anothers cup. you forget 10 your own life when you envy someone elses life. so now, taste your own tea! does it matter from which cup it comes from?”..9.10.七、完成表格。 阅读下面短文，根据其内容，完成表格中所缺的信息。trees are one of the oldest citizens (公民) of our earth. just like us, trees change a lot when they grow. at one to three years old, young trees learn how to protect themselves. for example, many trees grow thorns (刺) to tell animals not to go near. most young trees have large, deep green leaves so that they can catch enough sunlight and change it into their food and energy.when trees are 4 years old, they begin to grow very fast and become strong enough to face challenges (挑战) in life.at the age of 15, trees become young adults. they grow more slowly and begin to produce flowers and fruit.it is not until the trees are 20 to 25 years old that they become real adults. the trees reach their largest sizes. adult trees give us many things such as oxygen (氧气) and natural beauty. if we give them good care, they will go on to live healthily for many years.as time goes on, trees begin to grow older and older and even die. at this time, they still have their important place in nature. in many ways, the life of trees is like our own life experience. enjoy every minute of the life of the trees and take care of them! title: 1. of treesagegrowingthings they can do13growing thorns;having large, deep green leaves learn to protect themselves；2. catch enough and change it into their food and .4growing very fast;becoming strong enough3. face challenges .15 becoming young adults;growing more slowly4. produce and .20255. becoming ;reaching their largest sizesgive people many things like oxygen and natural beauty..5.八、恢复原文。根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出适当的选项补全短文。thirty years ago, few chinese knew about american tv series, though during the 1980s and 1990s, chinese people got the chance to watch some u.s.a. tv series like growing pains. now, 1 chinese people have more chances to en