2011年中考英语阅读理解练习宝典 回答篇.doc

2011年中考英语阅读理解练习宝典G 回答问题阅读下列短文，然后根据短文内容回答问题。(1)Its hard to make friends if you stay at home alone all the time. Get out of the house and do things that will put you in touch with(接触) other people. Its easier to make friends when you have similar interests.Dont be afraid to show people what youre really good at. Talk about the things you like and do best. People will be interested in you if there is something interesting about you.Look at people in the eye when you talk to them. That way, theyll find it easier to talk to you, or people may think youre not interested in them and may stop being interested in you.Be a good listener. Let people talk about themselves before talking about “me, me, me”. Ask lots of questions. Show an interest in their answers.Try to make friends with the kind of people you really like, respect (尊敬), and admire (羡慕)not just with those who are easy to meet. Be friendly with a lot of people. That way, youll have a bigger group of people to choose from and have more chances for making friends.1. How can we have more friends, get in touch with other people or stay at home?2. When Jim talks to people, he always looks right, left, or at the floor. Do you think its right? Why or why not?3. Cindy always talks about herself when she talks to other people. What advice (it80 do you think she needs to follow?4. What should you do if you want to have more chances for making friends?5. Whats the main idea of the passage?(2)Thanksgiving Day is a very special day for people in the United States. They celebrate it on the last Thursday in November. Canadians also celebrate Thanksgiving Day, but they do it on the second Monday of October. In Britain, where this festival is called Harvest Festival, people celebrate it earlier in the year, in September.A harvest is the fruit you take from the trees and the crops you take from the ground. In North America and Britain, harvest time for most fruit and crops is in the autumn. In these countries and other Christian places, people give thanks to God on a special day of the year. They thank God for the good things that have happened during the year and for the good harvest they have had. People usually take small boxes of fruit, flowers, and vegetables to their churches to show their thanks.The first thanksgiving service (仪式) in North America took place on December 4th, 1619 when 38 English people, arrived in America to make their home in the new country. They held this service not to thank God for the harvest, but to thank God for their safe journeys. The next year, many more English people arrived. They had a bad winter, but fortunately the harvest was good. they decided to celebrate it with a big meal. They shot and killed small animals to eat and cooked everything outside on large fires. About 90 Indians also came to the meal. Everyone ate at tables outside their houses and played games together. The festival lasted three days.A Thanksgiving Day celebration was held every year for a long time, but not always on the same day of the year. Then, in 1789, President George Washington named November 26th as the Day of Thanksgiving. In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln changed the date, and said that the last Thursday in November should be Thanksgiving Day.Nowadays, North Americans around the world get together with their families on this day to eat good food and have a happy time.1. Is Thanksgiving Day celebrated on the same day in North American countries?2. When did the first thanksgiving service take place in North America?3. Who made the last Thursday in November Thanksgiving Day in the USA?4. What does the word “fortunately” mean in Chinese?5. Translate the sentence They thank God for the good things that have happened during the year and for the good harvest they have had. into Chinese.(3)Reading for pleasure is the easiest way to become a better reader in English. It is also the most important way.Some students say they dont want to read for pleasure. They say they want to use their time to learn the rules of the language and new words. They say that pleasure reading is too easy.Many experts (专家) say pleasure reading is very important for learning English. Dr. Stephen Krashen, a famous expert on learning languages, says that pleasure reading helps you learn many important things about English. Students learn more grammar and more words when they read for pleasure. They also learn more about good writing.Dr. Krashen tells us that pleasure reading helps each student in a different way. Each student needs to learn something different. Pleasure reading makes it possible for each student to learn what he or she needs.Reading for pleasure is not the same as studying. When you read for pleasure, you choose your own books, and you dont have to remember everything. There are no tests on your pleasure reading books. Pleasure reading will help you:learn how English speakers use Englishread faster in Englishfind examples of good writing in Englishlearn new wordslearn about the cultures (文化) of English speakers1. Is pleasure readi