2010年中考英语阅读理解训练题（06）

2010年中考英语阅读理解训练题（六） 阅读理解第六组 A Many people go to school for an education. They learn languages, history, math and other subjects. Others go to school to learn a skill so they can make a living . School education is very important and useful. Yet no one can learn everything from school, a teacher cannot teach his students everything they want to know. The teachers work is to show his students how to learn. He teaches them how to read and how to think. So, much more is learned outside school by the students themselves.Its always more important to know how to study by oneself than to know some formulas(公式). Its quite easy to learn a formula in math. But its very difficult to use a formula in doing math exercises. Great people before us didnt get everything from school. Their teachers only showed them the way. Edison didnt even finish school. But they were all so successful and invented so many things because they knew how to study. They read books that were not taught at school. They would ask many questions as they read. They worked hard all their lives. above all, they knew how to use their heads.（ ）1.Some people go to school to learn a skill to make a lining 。A. a skill B. history C. a formula D. everything （ ）2. People go to school to_. A. learn several subjects B. make a living C. get an education D. learn a skill（ ）3. The most important thing a teacher should do is to_. A. teach his students everything he knows B. know everything C. teach the students some formulas D. leach the students how to study by themselves（ ）4.Why were many people so successful? A. Because they got good education. B. Because they were very clever. C. Because they knew how to learn. D. Because they learned many formulas.（ ）5. Which is right according to the story? A. Great people read lots of books and asked many questions while they read. B. Great people could learn everything from school. C. People need to know only some formulas to do math exercises.D. The teachers cannot teach their students how to read and how to think.B Vision-phones(可视电话) Radio，telephone and television are widely used in the world，When you switch on the radio, you can listenBut when you use telephone，not only can you listen to others but also you can chat with them，however, you cant see anything at all. Television is much better than both of them. People can watch TV and listen to it，but they cant take part in what they see. Today, some people are using a type of telephone called vision-phone. With it two people who are talking can see each other Vision-phones can be of great use when you have something to show the person whom you are calling，It may also have other uses in the futureSome day you may be able to call up a library and ask to read a book right over your vision-phone，You may be able to do some shopping through it, too. Perhaps In the near future, vision-phone will come into wide use in our everyday life. （ ）6. According to the passage, we can guess that the_ was invented last.A. radio B. television C. telephone Dvision-phone（ ）7. Maybe the vision-phone can take the place of_ some day.A. the radio B. the telephone Cthe television D. all the above（ ）8Through a vision-phone we can _ A. take medicine B. order what we need C. travel around the world Dtry on clothes （ ）9. In the future, you can use a vision-phone to _ A. read a bookB. ask an assistant to read a book for youC. ask an assistant to bring you a book D. ask an assistant to do some shopping for you（ ）10. Which of the following is NOT true?A. Vision-phone is more advanced than radio-telephone or televisionB. People will use vision-phone in the future more than now.C. Vision-phone will be helpful in peoples life D.It is impossible to do shopping through vision-phone CNews 1Have you ever thought of being able to fly around the world in a few hours though it is about 40,000 kilometers? One day，maybe you can. Last Saturday，the American X- 43A airplane made its first flight. It reached a speed of 8，000 kilometres an hour. This makes it the fastest plane in the world. The X-43A is only three to four metres long，but its very heavy：it weighs（重）1,270 kilogrammes.News 2Have you ever got angry at books that are full of mistakes? Dont worry，things will get better soon. Last week，China started checking textbooks，dictionaries and childrens books all over the country. The government（政府）said the results of the checking would come out at the end of June.News 3There will be a new“star”in the sky soon. China plans to send a satellite into space by December 2007. It will stay in space for one year. It will go around the moon and take pictures. It must be very expensive，right? Thats for sure一1. 4 billion yuan！News 4Floods（洪水）across the northern Mexican state of Coahuila killed at least 32 people and left100 more missing. It was reported on Monday. The heavy rain hit the state all night last Friday，so some banks of the river were broken. Along the river about 3，000 families were seriously affected（受影响）（ ）11. News 1 talks about _.A. people cant go around the earth in a few hoursB. the American X-43A airplane travelled around the earth in a few hoursC. the American X-43A airplane is the fastest one in the worldD. only Americans can make such a fast plane（ ）12. If the X-43A goes around the earth，it will take about _ hours to finish the trip.A. 3 B. 5 C. 8 D. 12（ ）13. Which of the following about News 2 is TRUE?A. There are many mistakes in most of the textbooks，dictionaries and childrens b