中考英语阅读B篇

阅读B篇01 B. Two Beautiful Cherry GardensWhen you think about the things that make millions of visitors interested in Washington, D.C., each year, you probably think about the White House in USA. But have you ever thought about the living things that are also a major tourist attraction?Many Americans and international tourists make a special visit to Washington, D.C., in the spring to see the blooming pink and white Japanese cherry trees. The trees were originally planted as a gift from the people of Tokyo, Japan, in 1912. In 1910, a previous donation of 2,000 cherry trees had been destroyed because of the insect problem. Each spring, the National Cherry Blossom Festival, a two-week-long celebration, attracts tens of thousands of visitors from around the world to see the magnificent trees in full bloom. Have you ever seen these magnificent blossoms? Located in Haidian District, Beijing, Yuyuantan Park is easy to get to with many convenient traffic choices. Diaoyutai State Guesthouse is to its eastern gate, China Central Radio and Television Tower to its west, Navy General Hospital to its north and China Millennium Monument to its south. With 1,820 meters wide from west to east and 1,106 meters long from north to south, Yuyuantan Park covers an area of 136.69 hectares and the water surface spans an area of 61 hectares.Back in Jin Dynasty (1115-1234), Yuyuantan Park was already a famous scenic spot. Today, celebrated for its Cherry Blossom Festival every spring, Yuyuantan Park attracts tourists from all over the world. The cherry trees were also planted as a gift from the people of Japan. I guess you must have been there for many times and have got hundreds of beautiful photos, have you?50. How many cherry trees were destroyed years ago in Washington D.C.?A. 1912.B. 2000.C. 1820.D. 1106.51. Where is Yuyuantan Park?A. Diaoyutai State Guesthouse is to its western gate.B. China Central Radio and Television Tower is to its east.C. Navy General Hospital and Haidian are to its north.D. China Millennium Monument is to its south.52. The cherry trees in Washington D.C. and Yuyuantan Park are both _ according to the passage.A. famous of the Cherry Blossom FestivalB. planted twice because of the insect problemC. blooming in colors as white, pink and redD. blooming in each spring and summer time02 My daughter is a single parent, whose life is very hard because she has three young sons. She plans her money carefully and manages to get something expensive that many people can buy easily.When her eldest son, David wanted a bicycle so that he could do an after-school job, the family saved up and soon he was the proud owner of a good second-hand bicycle. One afternoon my daughter asked David to go shopping. He rode his bicycle, but carelessly left it outside the shop without putting on the lock. When David came out of the shop, it was gone. He walked home in tears and then, together with his angry mother, went to the local police station to report the theft.Imagine their joy when they arrived at the station, a car parked out front had Davids bike in the boot (后备箱). The driver told my daughter how hed seen a group of kids go for the bike once my grandson had gone inside the shop. The driver had called out to them to leave the bike alone. Instead, one of the kids in the group had jumped on the bicycle and ridden it away while the others followed.The driver got in his car, drove after them and brought the stolen bike back. He was happy to be able to return it to my grandson together with a lesson about the mistake of failing to use the bike lock. Then, in all the excitement, he drove away without even giving his name or telephone number.50. How is the writers daughters life?A. Very busy. B. Very hard.C. Very simple.D. Very hopeless.51. David lost his bike because _.A. many people stole thingsB. the lock was brokenC. bikes were needed by allD. he was too careless 52. Who helped David find his lost bike? A. His mother.B. A driver. C. His grandmother. D. A policeman. 03 Gordons hobby may seem strange to us. He likes building model ships inside old bottles.Gordon has always loved ships, especially sailing ships from the old days. His interest was made many years ago when he visited a museum in Ottawa, Canada, where model ships in bottles were displayed(展示). Gordon regarded it as a wonderful show. At the same time an idea came to his mind. How did the craftsman(手艺人) get the ship through the narrow neck of the bottle? Gordon decided to make a research.He found an old craftsman who was glad to teach him the basic skills. First, Gordon takes an old bottle. Then he puts in a layer of paint, carefully shaped and painted to look like the sea. Next, he builds the ship. To get the ship through the neck of the bottle, Gordon folds(折叠) down the masts(桅杆). Once the ship is inside the bottle, he takes a long, thin tool to raise the masts.Gordon has completed more than one hundred models. His aim is to build up aircraftcarriers (航空母舰) , buses, cars, airplanes, houses, and many other kinds of models inside the bottles. This will be more challenging(挑战), as he will have to build actually inside the bottle. His hobby certainly needs time, patience and a steady (平稳的)hand. 50. Gordon became interested in _. A. sailing a ship in the seaB. putting a ship in a bottle C. collecting old sailing shipsD. going on a holiday by ship51. Which of the following is the second step according to the third paragraph? 52. What can we learn from the passage? A. Gordon got the idea from a show in Canada. B. Gordon learnt the basic skills from a seaman. C. Gordon has made less than 100 models so far. D. Gordon will use a smaller bottle in the future.04 Pieter Bruegel was a famous artist who lived in Europe five hundred years ago. He is well known for a painting called Childrens Games. People like this painting because it is full of fun. It shows how children in Pieters time enjoyed themselves in different ways. In all, there are about eighty games being played in the painting. Childrens Games shows a busy street scene in a town long ago. The street is a wide and open space. There are no cars, so there is plenty of room to play. There are about two hundred children in the painting. Some play in groups and others play alone. They seem to be enjoying their freedom in the fresh air and their games. Some of the games are still played today. The games in the painting do not require children to spend money on extra materials(材料). Instead, they use simple everyday objects like hats and sticks. A game might need a rope, some chalk, a hoop, a spinning top, or even a barrel. Some games are played without any toys at all. For example, one scene in the painting shows children turning somersaults(翻筋斗) inside the fence. Even though Pieter Bruegel lived a long time ago, children today can learn an important lesson from what he painted. The painting shows us how little we need in order to enjoy ourselves. All children really need is one another. Its not the toys or games that are found in the stores that create fun. Using our imagination can do this for us. 50. The painting shows about _ games.A. 500 B. 200 C. 80 D. 6051. The children in the painting are playing _.A. in the street B. in the house C. on the grass D. at the school52. From the painting we learn that _.A. children today need to take more lessons B. children can create fun by using imaginationC. children need more toys to enjoy themselvesD. children spend much money on everyday objects 05 During his life Dr James Naismith worked as a doctor, taught P.E and wrote several books. While he never thought it very important, Dr Naismith is today best known for one thing. He was the inventor of basketball. Dr James Naismith was born in Canada in 1861 and his first job was at a special sports school in the USA. One day the school leader told James he was having a problem with the students. Because of heavy snow, the students could not go outside. He told James that they needed a sport that the boys could play indoors. He gave the teacher two weeks to think of something. It was on the very last day that James came up with his idea. The “birth of basketball” is said to be on December 21, 1891, when two teams from the school played the first game. It was quite different from the basketball games of today. It had 9 players on each team and they used football instead of basketball. Soon after, the game changed to 5 players on each side, using special “basketballs” through nets. Although Dr Naismith did not live to see basketball is so popular today, in 1936, just three years before his death, basketball became an Olympic sport at the Games in Berlin. 50. Dr James Naismith didnt _ A. work as a doctor at a hospital. B. write some books in life. C.teach P.E in school in the USA D. take part in the Olympic Games. 51. In which season did Dr Naismith invent basketball? A. Winter. B. Autumn. C.Summer. D. Spring.52. How many players were in each team during the game at the beginning? A. 5 B. 9 C. 10 D. 1206 “You know, these cups bring to mind a story I heard,” Mary said to her friends in her home.She poured some tea. There were four of them and there were four completely different cups on the table.“I heard there was a teacher who took all his students for tea. They were surprised that all the cups on the table were different. They all took a cup and started drinking their tea, each looking at the cups of the others. The teacher said: “Do you notice your behavior? You are all looking at each others teacup and some of you even envy (羡慕) the finer cups of others.“I put the different cups here on purpose. Life is like this tea. You all have the same thing in your cups tea. And yet you cannot truly enjoy it in your envy of anothers cup. You forget to enjoy your own life when you envy someone elses life.So now, taste your own tea. Does it matter from which cup it came from?”Mary finished telling her story and her friends all sat in silence for a while, enjoying their tea. And it really did not matter one bit from which teacup they drank. 209 w 50.Mary used _ to invite her friends to tea. A. four same cups B. four different cups C. many same cups D. many different cups 51. Mary _ while her friends were drinking the tea. A. told them a story B. continued making tea C. enjoyed her tea D. brought out more teacups52. After the story, Marys friends _. A. discussed its meaning B. asked for more teaC. seemed to realize its lesson D. left her house silently07 A Native American and his friend were in downtown New York City, walking near Times Square in Manhattan. It was during the noon lunch hour and the streets were filled with the noise of people and cars. Suddenly, the Native American said, “I hear a cricket (蟋蟀).”His friend said, “What? You must be crazy. You couldnt possibly hear a cricket in all of this noise!” “No, Im sure of it,” the Native American said, “I heard a cricket.” “Thats crazy,” said the friend.The Native American listened carefully for a moment, and then walked across the street to a big wall. There they saw bushes (灌木). He looked into the bushes, and sure enough, he found a small cricket. His friend was quite amazed. “Thats unbelievable,” said his friend. “You must have superhuman ears!”“No,” said the Native American. “My ears are not different from yours. It all depends on what youre listening for.” “But that cant be!” said the friend. “I could never hear a cricket in this noise.”“Yes, its true,” came the reply. “It depends on what is really important to you. Here, let me show you.” He reached into his pocket, pulled out a few coins, and dropped them on the sidewalk. And then, with the noise of the crowded street still in their ears, they noticed every head within 20 feet turn and look to see if the money was theirs.“See what I mean?” asked the Native American. “It all depends on whats important to you.”50The Native American was _ with his friend when he heard a cricket. A. taking a walk B. watching people walkingC. looking for crickets D. looking for important things51. His friends felt _ after they found the cricket. A. unsure B. crazy C. relaxed D. amazed52. The writer wants to tell _. A. people pay more attention to what is important to themB. people wonder what is important to themC. people can hear different soundsD. people believe what they heard08 My class will put on a short play in English at the end of the year. Yesterday our English teacher gave us copies of the play. “Choose a character in the play that youd like to be,” she told us. “This afternoon you learn a few lines of this part for homework. Then tomorrow you can say those lines in front of the class. Ill decide who plays each part.”I wanted to have one of the bigger parts in the play, so I choose the part of the king. He has a lot of lines to say. I learned them by heart. This morning in our English lesson we had to say our lines. I acted the part of the king. When I said my lines, I put a lot of expression into my acting. I thought I acted really well. Everyone in the class read a part and then the teacher decided who would play each part.Many of the students in my class couldnt act at all. They couldnt even read without making lots of mistakes. I was sure that I would get a big part in the play.However, the teacher gave me the part of a soldier. He has only one line. It is, “Yes, sir!”I was very disappointed. At the end of the lesson I went up to her and asked her why I had such a small part.“You put too much expression in your acting,” she said. “Good acting is not big acting. It is acting the audience can believe in.”I think I know what she means.50. What did the boy want to do in the play? A. To get a small acting part. B. To organize the play C. To get a large acting part. D. To work the lights.51. How did the writer feel when he got the part of a soldier? A. Bored. B. Sad. C. Disappointed. D. Excited.52. Why didnt the teacher give him the part of the kings? A. He did not act correctly. B. He did not know the lines. C. He was not handsome. D. He was too short. 09 Dou Kou, a Chinese boy, is called “the youngest writer in the world”. He has written three books till now. Dou Kou was born in Jiangsu in 1994. When he was 7 months old, his parents started working in over 30 different cities, such as Xian and Shenzhen. This kind of life gave him things to think and write about. When he was 9 months old, he could speak and at the age of one, he could say five to six hundred words. At three, he could look up words in the dictionary. At four, his father taught him how to learn by himself. His parents like reading very much. So does he. At the age of 5, he began writing fairy tales. At the age of 6, he wrote a novel about his life in different cities with his parents. His fairy tales are all from his life. One day, he found many mice in the house. The mice ate their food and they also hurt his mothers hand. So he thought, “If we give mice the stomach of cows, they will eat grass and they will be helpful to people.” This was his first fairy tales Change Stomach for Mice. Now he studies well in a middle school. He has written his third book, the novel called Eyes of Children. He says, “I am not different from other children. I just wrote several books.”( ) 51. How many books has Dou Kou written?A. Three.B. Four. C. Five. D. Six.( ) 52. Dou Kou began to use a dictionary _.A.when he wrote fairy talesB.after he went to school C. before his father taught him how to learn somethingD. after his mother taught him how to learn something( ) 53. Which is the best title? A. Three Books by a ChildB. How to Write a Fairy TalesC. How Clever the Boy is D. Dou Kou, the Youngest Writer10 You can probably all ride a bike well. Im an exception (例外). I started riding a bike when I was 3 years old. It was a tiny toy bike with four wheels. I loved it very much and rode it every day. When I was 5, my cousin gave me a pink bike. It was a true bicycle with just two wheels! At the time, my parents were too busy to teach me how to ride it. So I had to learn to ride by myself. I practiced hard on weekends and during vacations, although I still didnt know how to make turns. One summer vacation, I borrowed an old bike and rode it with my friends on a country road. We sang and practiced our riding skills. Suddenly, a small boy ran into the road. I was shocked and couldnt control the bike at all. My bike ran into the boy and he fell. He didnt get very seriously hurt, but his grandma was too angry to accept my apology. My cousin appeared five minutes later and saved me from the mess. But the experience frightened me: I no longer dared to ride a bike. Then, last year, free bikes were offered to children. My mother tried to teach me how to ride. But the traffic made me so nervous that I had to ride really slowly. But Im not going to give up. One day, believe me, youd see me riding a bike in a big street. 50. When did the writer begin to ride a bike?