中考英语阅读理解随堂练.doc

中考英语阅读理解精练07AMost people graduate from school and then get a job. Everyone wants a job that pays well. How much money can you make? Ask yourself these questions: What can I do? What skills do I have? Also ask yourself: How much education do I have? For most jobs, the higher your education, the higher your earning power.In the United States, high school graduates make about $ 18,600 a year. If you do not finish high school, you make only $10,800 a year. You can make $7,800 more each year by staying in high school!If you stay in school, then you can make more money. A person with a high school degree makes about $18,600 a year. If that person goes to college and gets a bachelors degree（学士学位), he can make S42,000. With a masters degree (硕士学位), he can make about $53,000. If the person gets a PhD（博士学位), he can make almost $79,000 or more a year.We can learn a very important, thing from this information. If you want to work and make more money, get a good education.1. The passage mainly talks about _.A. how education and pay are connected B. high paying jobsC. jobs for high school students D. good schools 2. According to (根据) the passage, earning power means the ability to _ money.A. save B. spend C. pay D. make3. The writer thinks that a high school graduate usually makes more money than _.A. a university graduate B. a person who gets a PhDC. a person who only finishes primary school D. a person with a masters degree4. Each year a person with a PhD can make more than a person who does not finish high school.A. $37,000 B. $68,200 C. $60,400 I). $26,0005. From the last paragraph(段落) we know that _.A. a high school degree is not important B. university is too expensiveC. a person can make more money with a good educationD. people with a degree dont need to worn about finding jobsBTime Temp GlassesAre you a person who wants to know the time and temperature during the day? You might like Time Temp Glasses. These special glasses show the time above your right eye and the temperature above your left eye. It is surely easier than wearing a wristwatch, and you never have to guess the temperature. Alarm（警示）ForkDo you eat too quickly? Do you eat too much? How can the Alarm Fork help you? Arent you curious（好奇的）？Well, this special fork has two lights: one green and one red. When the green light is on, its OK to eat a piece of food. The fork “knows” when you eat a piece, and soon the red light goes on. Wait for the green light before you eat another piece. Smell ThisHow do you know if your breath smells nice, or if it smells bad? Its difficult to know, because its very hard to smell the air that comes out of your own mouth. Smell This is useful for this situation. Smell This covers your nose and your mouth. Does your breath smell nice, or do you need a piece of gum（口香糖）？Banana Suitcase（手提箱）Has this ever happened to you? You put a banana in your bag lunch in the morning, and when you open the bag at noon, the banana looks like someone drove a car over it. If you put your banana in the Banana Suitcase, this will never happen. It keeps a banana safe, delicious, and looking like a banana! 6. The writer thinks that the four inventions are_.A. dangerous B. useless C. unusual D. expensive7. A person who wants to lose weight may be interested in _.A. Time Temp Glasses B. Alarm Fork C. Smell This D. Banana Suitcase8. Which invention is most helpful for someone waiting for a train?A. Time Temp Glasses. B. Alarm I ink. C. Smell This. D. Banana Suitcase. 9. If you want to know how your breath is, you may buy _.A. Time Temp Glasses B. Alarm Fork C. Smell This D. Banana Suitcase10. Who might use the Banana Suitcase?A. A person who eats bananas only at home.B. Someone who needs to throw away a banana.C. A person who has little interest in eating bananas.D. Someone who loves bananas and brings lunch to school every day.CHere are two stories from different parts of the world. They seem strange but, believe it or not, they re all true!John Lee was an Englishman who refused to be hanged! In 1884 the police said Lee had killed an old woman who he used to work with. There was nothing to show that Lee had killed the woman. Lee told the police he hadnt done it, but no one believed him and he was going to be hanged. On the day of the hanging, however, the door in the floor, through which Lees body would fall, did not open. They tried three times but each time the door stayed closed, even though it had worked well the day before. In the end they sent Lee back to prison, where he lived for the next twenty-two years. At all times, John Lee said he hadnt killed the woman, and he believed it was the hand of God that had saved him from death by hanging.The police in Venezuela (委内瑞拉) in South America followed a man home one night. He was the thief they wanted to catch. However, half of his house was standing in Venezuela and the other half was standing in Colombia (哥伦比亚). Venezuelas neighbor. When the police entered the house, the man ran upstairs to his bedroom, which was in Colombia, and called his lawyer (律师). The Venezuelan police were not allowed to enter Colombia so they could not enter the bedroom. They asked the police in Colombia to help. The Colombian police refused to help because the mans crime (罪行 )was not a crime in Colombia. In the end, the Venezuelan police gave up and went back to the police station.11. The underlined（下划线) word hanged in this passage probably means _.A. shut in a room B. questioned by the policeC. killed by putting a rope around the neck D. kept in a place12. What do we know about the door in the floor?A. It had opened the day before the hanging. B. It had been broken a long time.C. After three times, it opened. D. John Lees dead body fell through it.13. From the story we know that the thiefs bedroom was_.A. in Venezuela B. in ColombiaC. in neither Venezuela nor Colombia D. in both Venezuela and Colombia14. Why didnt the Venezuelan police go into the mans bedroom?A. They didnt know where it was.B. The Venezuelan police were not allowed to enter Colombia.C. The police in Colombia told them that they would help.D. The police in Colombia told them not to go inside.15. The police in Colombia didnt help the police in Venezuela to catch the thief becauseA. they didnt know where he was B. the police in Venezuela didnt ask fo