重庆市中考英语总复习练习：题型四--任务型阅读.doc

题型四任务型阅读话题1教育引导(8年3考)Passage 1(2017河南改编)Not only kids of Tiger Moms go to Harvard.Dawn Loggins of Lawndale, NC., is on her way to Harvard, one of the eight worldfamous universities in the eastern US. Nobody encouraged her to study or paid for her special classes. This girl created her own future.The teen was abandoned (遗弃) by her family last summer, when her parents and two sisters moved to Tennessee. She found herself homeless and had to spend the night on friends sofas.The school bus driver learned about Dawns situation and invited Dawn to move in with her family. Soon, Dawn had a job at Burns High School. She worked from 6 am. to 7：40 am. before the first school bell rang. She swept floors and picked up trash again in the afternoons, before diving (跳水) into her studies in the evenings.Dawns hard work paid off. She finished school with a 3.9 GPA and scored 2，110 on the SAT.“There were times when I felt like it would be easiest if I gave up，” the 18yearold said. “But it was never in me to give up, because I realized that I was never going to be successful unless I got an education.”Even before Dawns family left her, she led a difficult life. Her family was poor and cups of noodles were often the only food. Dawn “studied by candlelight” because her parents couldnt afford to pay the electricity bill (电费)Dawn has now reconnected with her family. Theyre proud of her accomplishments (成就) and are attending her high school graduation.1. Why didnt Dawn give up her studies?_2. Has Dawn finished her high school studies?_3. Who helped Dawn when she found herself homeless?_4. What do you think of difficulty? Why?_Passage 2(2017重庆一中模拟)David, an artist from the UK, found a lot of money in his new home38，000 dollars in a place where no one could see it. Although he had house payments (贷款), he decided to return all of the money to the previous (先前的) owner of the house, Mr. Brown. Would you have done the same?Just days after he had bought the house, David came into the small house. When he was walking around in the house, he noticed a little hole in the wall. He didnt know what was inside, so he walked towards the wall. It was very dark inside, but an old box caught his eyes. “It was heavy. I thought there might be some pieces of wood.” he said. In fact, there werent. It was full of lots of dollars bills. But he and his wife knew they had to return the money to Mr. Brown.“We have three boys and we teach them to be honest and to do what is right. I knew this was a teachable(可教的) moment that I would never get back again.” David said, “Its been a great lesson for our kids.”1. What did David decide to do after he found a lot of money in his new house?_2. Were there any pieces of wood in the old box?_3. Why is it a great lesson for Davids kids?_4. If you were David, what would you do with the money? Tell us your reason._ Passage 3When I was a boy, we had several gardens around our old house. The largest one of all was used just for growing potatoes. I can still remember those potato planting days. The whole family came to help.After my Dad had turned the soil, my mom, brothers, and I went to work. It was my job to drop the little seed potatoes in the rows while my Mom dropped fertilizer (肥料) beside them. My brothers then covered them all with the freshly turned soil.For months afterward I would look over at the garden while I played outside. I wondered what was going on under the ground. When the harvest (收获) time came, I was amazed at the huge size of the potatoes my Dad pulled out of the soil.They would be cooked into baked potatoes, fried potatoes, and my favorite: potatoes cooked in gravy. They would keep my family well fed through the whole year. It was truly a miracle (奇迹)As the saying goes, “We harvest what we have planted.” Yes, it is true. We all should take good care of the garden of our life with whole hearts. What we plant could only be goodness, peace, and compassion (同情) for others. So, we can harvest miracles one after another.1. Where did they grow potatoes?_2. Was the writer interested in what they planted in the garden?_3. What can we learn from the last paragraph?_4. Have you ever done anything by yourself? How do you like it?_Passage 4Gracie Bucher is from Grade 8 in a school in Minnesota, America. Thanks to an 18yearold high school student, she finished her race.Gracie fell down in the race. She really wanted to go on running, but she couldnt. Liana Blomgren is from a high school. She ran in the race, too. She saw Gracie fall down. At that time, she was not far from the finishing line. She didnt think much, and she went to help Gracie. They got to the finishing line together. But because Liana helped Gracie and there was a rulethe runners mustnt help anyone in the race, they two were forced to be out of the game.After the race, Gracie thanked Liana very much. Liana said, “I know she cant get to the finishing line by herself. She needs help, but no one stops for her. I must go and help her.”The race is Lianas last one of her high school, but that doesnt stop her doing a good thing. She thinks it can bring her happiness to help people in need.1. Did Gracie fall down in the race ?_2. Why were Liana and Gracie out of the game?_3. How did Gracie finish the race?_4. If you were Liana, what would you do? Why?_ Passage 5My father used to work in the city and seldom stayed at home. But he would come back and help to harvest (收割) rice every year.One autumn, he promised to help our neighbor, who lost his arms in a traffic accident in 1999, to harvest his rice. After father harvested our own, his little rice picker broke. Whats worse, he had to return to work the next day because his partner was ill in hospital. It meant that father wouldnt be back in a few days. It now seemed impossible to help out the neighbor.Father told us that he wouldnt let the neighbors rice rot (腐烂) in the field. He decided to harvest it by hand without a machine.“If tonights weather is clear, I think I can do it.” added my father. In fact, he was rather tired after a days harvest work.After dinner, father had a short rest and made his way to the field. A full moon was glowing (发光)in the sky and the weather was cold but clear. He spent the whole night keeping his word.I would never forget the image (画面): Father was harvesting rice in the light of the harvest moon. Behind him, row after row of rice stocks (秸秆)stood at attention, showing respect for a man who kept his word.1. Did the father always stay with the family?_2. What happened to the neighbor in 1999?_3. Why was the father required to return to work?_4. Did you have the experience of helping your neighbors? What was it?_Passage 6Jenny liked planting flowers in her yard. Her grandfather used to teach her how to plant and care for flowers. So her yard was the most beautiful one in her village. One day, while she was looking through a flower list, a picture of a plant caught her eyes at once. Jenny had never seen a flower like that before. “I must have it，” she said to herself, and she ordered it. When it arrived, Jenny planted it at the bottom of a stone wall at the back of her yard. It grew well, with beautiful green leaves. Day after day, she felt disappointed. She wondered why her plant hadnt bloomed (开花). She wanted to cut it down and planted something else in its place. However, at this moment, her disabled neighbor invited her to his yard and said, “Thank you so much! You cant imagine how much I have enjoyed the flowers that you planted！” The young woman walked into her neighbors yard. She saw that on the other side of the wall the plant was full of flowers. They were, indeed, the most beautiful flowers that she had ever seen. The plant had grown up through the crevices (裂缝) in the wall. It had not flowered on her side of the wall, but it had flowered on the other side. If you cant see the good result, it doesnt mean that it isnt successful.1. Did Jenny like planting flowers in her yard?_2. What did Jennys grandfather teach her? _3. Why was the disabled neighbor thankful to Jenny? _4. Do you agree with the last sentence in the passage? Why or why not?_Passage 7要善于发现他人的长处My friend Peter was kind and lovely. But as a student, he was bad at maths, English and science because he didnt have an aptitude (资质) for that kind of study. One day we were playing football and the ball got stuck on a tree. Peter climbed the tree to get it, and one of the teachers, John Marston, who was looking out of the window, noticed that he was a talented climber. Mr. Marston was an expert (专家) in climbing. He had climbed many mountains.One weekend, Mr. Marston invited Peter to climb Mount Kilimanjaro (乞力马扎罗山). Peter really enjoyed the climbing. Mr. Marston told Peter he was a very talented climber for his age. Peter left school three years later with no qualification (毕业证), but he kept climbing regularly until he became very good at it. In his early twenties, he became a professional climber. He said, “Ill always remember Mr. Marston because he showed me I had an ability which no one else, including me, knew about.”1. Who noticed Peter as a talented climber?_2. Did Peter know he had an ability to climb at first?_3. When did Peter and Mr. Marston climb Mount Kilimanjaro?_4. Do you like climbing mountains? Why or why not?_Passage 8I teach at a college, 17 miles away from the place I live in. A few weeks ago, I drove to school. I was excited about the highway and turned onto the College Road. I only had to drive another quarter mile down the road to the college. But just then, my car broke down. I tried to start it again, but the engine wouldnt turn over. So I took my books, and hurried down the road to the college.I managed to arrive at the college on time. Another teacher was surprised to see me walking to school and asked, “What happened to your car？”“My car broke down on the way, but Im here on time.” I replied, smiling. “This is my lucky day.”“Your car broke down, and today is your lucky day？” She was puzzled. “What do you mean？”“I live 17 miles from here.” I replied.“My car could have broken down anywhere along the highway. But it didnt. Instead, it broke down in the perfect place: off the highway, within walking distance of here. So Im still able to teach my class. If my car was meant to break down today, it couldnt have been arranged in a more convenient way.”That teachers eyes opened wide, and then she smiled and asked，“Why do you always seem to be so cheerful？”“Every morning when you get up, you have a choice about how you want to live that day，” I said. “I choose to be cheerful.”1. What does the writer do?_2. Was the writer late for her class?_3. How far did the writer walk to the college?_4. What are you going to choose to live a new day? Why?_ Passage 9As a student, I was most afraid to answer questions in class, and I found that the students around me were just like me. At the beginning of each class, when the teacher asked a question, I always lowered my head because I was afraid that the teacher saw me.One day, in a foreign language class, Mr.Black gave us a lesson. He wanted us to be active in class, so he asked us some questions, but no one answered. “Let me tell you a story first，” he said.“When I came to the United States to study, the university often invited famous people to make speeches.Before the beginning of every speech, I found an interesting thing. The students around me always took the cardboard folded (折叠的) in half, wrote their names in bold with the most eyecatching color, and then placed the cardboard on the seats. So when the speaker needed the answers from the students, he could see and call a listeners name directly.”“I couldnt understand that. My classmate told me the speakers were all top people, who meant chances. When your answer made him surprised, it meant he might give you more chances. In fact, I really saw a few students got great chances because of that.”After listening to the story, I understood that the chance will not find you itself. You must show yourself all the time so that you can find a chance on the cardboard.1. Why did the author always lower his head when the teacher asked a question ?_2. Did the university often invite famous people to make speeches in the past?_3. What did Mr. Black want the students to do in his class?_4. Are you active in class? Why?_话题2人物故事(8年3考)Passage 10(2017内江改编)Harland Sanders was born in the USA in 1890, but his childhood was not a happy one. His father died when he was only six, so his mother needed to find a job. She went to work in a shirt factory and Harland stayed at home to look after his younger brother. That was when he first learned to cook.He left home when he was twelve and worked on a nearby farm. After that he had a lot of different jobs and in 1930 he became a service station manager in Corbin, Kentucky. He started cooking meals for hungry travellers who stopped at the service station, and soon people came only for the food. Harland moved to a 142seat restaurant across the street where he could serve all his customers. Over the next nine years, he developed the secret chicken recipe (配方) that made him famous.In the early 1950s, he closed the restaurant and decided to sell his recipe to other businesses. The first official (正式的)Kentucky Fried Chicken(KFC) restaurant did not open until 1952. By 1964, there were more than 600 KFCs in North America. That year Sanders sold the company (公司) for 2 million dollars, but he continued to work as KFCs public spokesman and visited restaurants all over the world. He travelled 250, 000 miles every year until he died aged 90 in 1980. Six years later, PepsiCo bought KFC for 480 million dollars.There are now KFC restaurants in more than 80 countries and they sell 2.5 billion chicken dinners every year and the recipe is still a secret!1. Did the secret chicken recipe make Harland famous?_2. When did the first offcial KFC restaurant open?_3. What did Harland Sanders do after he sold the KFC business?_4. Do you always eat KFC? Why?_Passage 11(2017怀化改编)Wu Yishu, a 16yearold student from Shanghai won a Chinese poetry (诗) competition in the second season of the Chinese Poetry Conference on Feb. 7th, 2017. She beat other competitors because of her learning about Chinese culture and works. “I enjoy the happiness brought by the poetry.” Wu said.In the final, Wu performed well in many parts, such as competitors recalling (回忆) poems by looking at sand paintings and reciting (背诵)poems about the Chinese character “Jiu” as many as possible.As early as Feb. 1st, when Wu recited a Chinese poem about the months of the year, someone said that Wu must have remembered at least more than 2, 000 Chinese poetry. The 1.8meter tall Wu said that she kept only a poetry book on the bookshelf at her room instead of other books such as math, physics and English books.