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中考英语任务型阅读理解
25
篇带答案
任务型阅读汇编
2013
年山东省聊城市初中学业水平考试
一
、
阅读表达
（
共
5
小题
；
每小题
2
分
；
满分
10
分
）
阅读下列短文
，
根据其内容完成后面各项任务
。
― Green
‖
is more than
just a colour. It means that you should live to
protect the
environment .
——
the water , the land and
the air . You can be a green kid by following
these
steps .
Reduce(
减少
）
it.
When you use less of
something , you do a good thing for the Earth .
For example , a shorter
Reuse it .
Many times , even if you don' t need
something ,someone else might just need it . For
example , if your younger sister does'
t play with her bear toy , you can give ( 2.) it
to your
neighbour . Try to change
books, toys , even clothes with friends . Enjoy it
.
It 's true that pollution is a great
problem now , ( 3.) ____________ the Earth is
still a beautiful
and interesting place
to explore (
探索
）
. Go for a hike (
远足
）
，
visit nature
centres , and
gardens , climb mountains
and take a boat in the rivers …. Outdoor
activities are good for you .
You can
also plant trees ,collect reusable
(
可重复使用的
）things …. Being a
green
kid is so easy .
根据短文内
容
，
完成下列各题
。
< br>
16.
回答问题
：
How many steps ( to be a green kid ) are mentioned in the passage ?
____________
__________________________________________________
_______
参考材料
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..
17.
将文中划线
( 1 )
的句子译成汉语
_________
__________________________________________________
__________
18
文中划线
( 2 .)
的
―it
‖
指代的是什么
？
_____________________.
19.
在文中划线部分
（
3
.
）
的
空白
处填上一个恰当的连词使句子通顺完整
，
符合逻辑
。
_________
20..
从文中找一个句子与所给句子意思相同的句子
。
It is so easy to
be a great kid .
______________________
_____________________________________________
。
六
、
16. 3 .
（
three
）
17.
当你刷牙的时候
，
关上水
（
龙头
）。
18. The bear
toy .
.
20 . Being a green
kid is so easy .
说明
：
< br>每题
2
分
，
与答案不符
，
只要意义正确
，
符合题意要求也得分
。
语法
、
单词拼写错误适
当酌情扣分
。
菏泽市二
O
一三年初中学业水平考试
三
、
任务型阅读
（
共
5
小题
；
每小题
2
分
，
满分
1
0
分
）
阅读
下面的短文
，
完成相关任务
。
In the Charles n Elementary
School in New York, there is a special radio. It
gives
people warnings
（
警报
）
about bad weather.
参考材料
..
..
..
One day, there came a sound from the
radio. This sound brought the piece of news:a
heavy
storm was coming. William Tomic,
principal
（
校长
）
of the school, asked teachers to bring
children indoors and put them in a safe
place at once.
Minutes later, the storm
came. However, because of the warning of the radio
and the quick
work of the principal, no
one was hurt.
―The radio really did
work very well.
兴
），
‖
William Tomic said. ―The
pa
rents were as
well.
‖
The U.S. government hopes there will be
more such success stories. It plans to give this
kind
of radios to all 97,000 public
schools in the country.
Every year,
more than 10,000 big thunderstorms, 2,500 floods,
1,000 tornadoes
（
龙卷风
）
and some hurricanes
（
飓风
）
（
一
）
请根据短文内容
，
简要回答下列问题
.
41. What
does the special radio give people?
42.
Why was no one hurt in the school in the storm?
（
二
）
请根据短文
中所给汉语完成句子
。
（
三
）
请把短文中划线的句子译成汉语
。
（
四
< br>）
请给短文拟一个恰当的英文标题
。
任务型阅读
（
共
5
小题
；
每小题
2
分
，
满分
10
分
）
< br>阅读下面的短文
，
完成相关任务
。
In the Charles n
Elementary School in New York, there is a special
radio. It gives
people warnings
< br>（
警报
）
about bad
weather.
One day, there came a sound
from the radio. This sound brought the piece of
news:a heavy
参考材料
..
..
..
storm
was
coming.
William
Tomic,
pr
incipal
（
校长
）
of
the
school,
asked
teachers
to
bring
children indoors and
put them in a safe place at once.
Minutes later, the storm came. However,
because of the warning of the radio and the quick
work of the principal, no one was hurt.
“
The radio really did work
very well.
（
我们对它的工作感到很高兴
），
”
William Tomic
said.
“
The parents were as
well.
”
The U.S.
government hopes there will be more such success
stories. It plans to give this kind
of
radios to all 97,000 public schools in the
country.
Every year, more than 10,000
big thunderstorms, 2,500 floods, 1,000 tornadoes
（
龙卷风
）
and
some hurricanes
（
飓风
）
take place in the U.S., so the
warning radios are very useful. They
not only give people warnings about bad
weather, but also give warnings about other
dangerous
things.
（
一
）
请根据短文内容
，
简要回答下列问题
.
41. What
does the special radio give people?
42.
Why was no one hurt in the school in the storm?
（
二
）
请根据短文
中所给汉语完成句子
。
43.
（
三
）
请把短文中
划线的句子译成汉语
。
44.
（
四
）
请给短文拟
一个恰当的英文标题
。
45.
答案
：
41. It gives
people warnings about bad weather.
参考材料
..
..
..
42. Because of the warning of the radio
and the quick work of the principal.
43.
We felt
／
were happy about its
work.
44.
它们不但给人们关于坏天气的
警报
，
还发出关于其他危险事情的警报
。
45.A special radio
.
／
The warning
radios.
／
Radios to help keep
students safe.
Passage 1
（
2011
，
陕西<
/p>
，Ⅸ）
阅读下面短文
< br>，
根据短文内容
，
完成下列各题
。
Bollywood: the
Hollywood of India
You
might
be
surprised
to
learn
that
India
produces
about
800
movies
a
year,
and
that
number continues to grow. Just as the
movie Capital of the United States is Hollywood,
the
movie capital of India is Bombay
(
孟买
), but it is usually
called
结合
)
of the
words Bombay and Hollywood.
No
Bollywood movie is thought complete without a few
songs and dances. In fact, music is
an
important part of Bollywood movies. Even a bad
movie can still do well if the music is good.
Music directors are sometimes more
popular than the film stars. A Bollywood movie has
five to
six songs with at least three
songs to show what the dances mean.
Bollywood may be different from
Hollywood in music, but it is very like Hollywood
in several
ways. If T
om
Cruise can hold a gun, so can the Bollywood hero
Sharukh Khan. Hollywood stars
are
followed by news reporters just as often as
Hollywood stars. The persona! lives of actors and
actresses catch the
headlines(
头版头条
), just as
they do in the United States.
The
Oscars are a very exciting time of the year for
actors and actresses in America, Bollywood
has its own form of the Oscars, and
they are also very exciting.
参考材料
..
..
..
71. The name Bollywood comes from the
words
_______________________.
72.
Bollywood is a place where many
___________
are made each year,
73. In
India, the film stars are sometimes______popular
than music directors.
74. Every
complete Bollywood movie has a few
_______________________in them.
75. The Oscars in India are as_____as
those in America though they are different.
Passage 2 (2011,
河北省
,
IX)
阅读短文
，
并按要求回答
76-80
题
。
Several
Asian
hospitals
are
doing
experiments
with
tele-medicine.
Tele-medicine
is
a
technology
that allows doctors to
made possible
through high-speed communication networks
< br>（
网络
）
.At both
ends of the line,
the
way of
video-meeting lets them see and talk to each
other. Blood pressure (
血压
)
and body
temperature are directly shown
on computers.
Tele-medicine is already
in wide use in some places such as the United
States and Germany.
Among other uses,
village doctors hold
会诊
)
（
专家
）
.
The experts can also help them during
operations.
Tele-medicine has been slow
to reach Asia because of high costs, besides other
reasons.
When things improve, this
technology will develop very fast. Chinese
University of Hong Kong's
medical
school has joined a big hospital in Beijing, and
Thailand is building a tele-medicine
station connecting 20 areas.
Tele-medicine will do good to patients
because doctors from different places can see them
and give their medical advice. The help
is quite important if the disease is an unusual
one. It also
参考材料
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..
..
helps spread
medical knowledge among experts.
As
tele-medicine develops well, its costs will be
lower and it will become very popular in the
medical field.
76
题为判断正误
（“T”
表示正确
，“F
”
表示错误
）；
77
< br>完成句子
；
78
—
79
题简略回答问题
；
80
题将稳中
划线句子译为汉语
。
76. Tele-medicine is already in
wide use in some countries. [ ]
77.
Tele-medicine allows____________ without them
being in the same place.
78. Why does
tele-medicine develop slowly in Asia besides other
reasons?
_____________________________________
79. What is Thailand doing according to
the passage?
_____________________________________ <
/p>
80._____________________________________
Passage 3
（
2011,
江苏徐州
,
五
）
阅读下
面对话
，
按要求完成相关任务
。
Stephen
will finish
school
this
summer.
He
plans
to
find a
job
in
UNICEF.
Now
he is
being
interviewed by a UNICEF worker.
(S: Stephen W: worker in UNICEF)
--- W: So, Stephen, please say
something about yourself.
--- S: Well,
I love children so much. My mother works in a
primary school, so I learn a lot about
children and I think this might be
useful.
---
W: I’m sure it
is. Do you speak many languages? Ours is an
international organization and it’s
quite often that we meet children from
different countries.
参考材料
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..
..
---
S:
Yes.
I’m
good at
French
and English.
I’m
taking Chinese at
evening
classes.
I learned
Japanese at school, too.
---
W: Excellent.
告诉我你为什么想得到这份工作
。
--- S: Well, it sounds interesting,
worker, like, experience, I, as , some, would, a ,
to, charity, get .
Maybe one day I’ll
set up my own charity.
---
W: I see. What are your characteristics, may I
ask?
---
S: I’m patient,
generous and eas
y-going.
---
W: Good. What do you think you could offer us,
Stephen?
--- S: I think my knowledge of
languages and personalities would be useful. I
enjoy working with
children and you can
always believe me. I’m also fit and
healthy.
--- W: What do you
think your disadvantages are?
---
S: I’m not outgoing. I’m very shy when
I first meet people. I find it difficult to talk
to them and
make conversation, but when
I know people quite well I’m much more
self
-confident.
---
W: Thank you very much. Stephen. We’ll
c
all you next week.
51.
Where does Steph
en’s mother work?
________
52.
Which language is Stephen taking at evening
classes. English, Chinese or Japanese?_______
53.
将文中划线部分的单词组成一个通顺的句子
。
______________________________
54.
将文中汉语
“
告诉我你为什么想得到这份工作
。”
译成英语
。
55. What
are Stephen’s advantages in asking for
this job?(
列出四个方面
)________
Passage 4 (2011,
四川
, I)
第一节
任务型阅读
< br>（
共
5
小题
。
每小题
1
分
，
计
5
分
）
Failure is
what often happens. It is everywhere in our life.
Students may fail in exams, scientists
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..
may fail in their research work, and
players may fail in competitions. (A) Although
failure happens
to everyone, but
different people’s
attitudes(
态度
) towards
failure are different.
Some people
don’t think that their failure is an important
thing at all. So they pay no
attention
to it. As a result, they will have the (B)
failure later.
Some people think they
themselves are
fools and lose their hearts in everything after
they get a failure. Then they(C)
their time and
energy on useless things. At last, they may really
be fools as they have thought.
（
D
）
Other people are quite
different from these two kinds of people mentioned
above. Instead
of being hopeless and
lost, they draw a lesson from every failure and
become more experienced.
(E) they,
after, will ,hard, in, work, be , the, successful
, end. So we should draw a lesson from every
failure and become more experienced.
任务一
: 65. (A)
处句中有一
处错误
，
请找出并改正
。（
可用文字叙述
）
任务二
: 66.
在
( B
)
、
(C )
处的横线上分别填上一个
单词
（
B
）
（
C
）
任务三
: 67.
将
(D)
处句子译成汉语
：
。
任务四
: 68.
将
(E)
处的单词连成句子
：
任务五
:
69.
请从下面的选项中给短文选个标题
，
将答案标号填在此横线上
：
A. Draw a lesson from every
failure
B. The
attitudes towards failure
C. Failure is everywhere in our life
D. Failure is
very important
Passage 5 (2011,
广西
，
A)
任务型阅读
：
阅读短文
，
根据文章内容补全所给的五个残缺的句子
。
每空只填一词
，
请将单词填写
< br>在答题卡对应的横线上
。（
5
小
题
，
每小题
1
分
，
共
5
分<
/p>
）
参考材料
..
..
..
The summer
holiday is coming, which can be a relaxing time
for sleeping, eating good meals
and
seeing old friends. Try to take some time off from
school and spend a few weeks of fun. Here
are some ideas for planning your summer
holiday.
First of all, joining a
club is a good choice! You can join a music club,
a sports club or an art
club. It’s good
for your future development and the teachers in
the club can give you good
advice.
Doing
something
good
for
society
is
also
great.
There
are
many
volunteer(
志
愿
的
)
programmes for you to
choose from, such as looking after the old or the
young, cleaning the
streets, planting
trees or keeping the traffic in order. You know
that teens can also make the
world
better.
Have you ever lived with
another family? You c
an join in a
programme called “Meeting a
New
Family”.Two families exchange their children for
some time so that they can learn how to
get on well with others.
Summer camp is still popular today. An
English summer camp may be a good choice. You
can not only make friends but also
practise your English.
81. The writer
gives some ideas for ______your summer holiday.
82. to learn drawing, you can join an
______club.
83. Teens can make the
world better by ______as volunteers.
84. In an English summer camp you can
______your English.
you are one of the
children in the programme “Meeting a New
Family”,you ______live with
you own
parents for some time.
Passage 6
（
2011
，
沈阳
，
A
）
参考材料
..
..
..
What is it like being an actor? Many
people think it must be wonderful because we
travel to
exciting places, wear
beautiful clothes and
(A)
挣钱多
. This is only one
aspect(
方面
) of our lives
though. We also work very hard.
I played a country girl in my last (B)
movie. I had to live in a small village with the
other
actors for part of the winter.
(C)It was really hard for me as I grew up in a
city. To help me play
a country girl
better, I cooked for myself and the others every
day. I even walked a few miles
sometimes to get water, as there was
none in the houses. I wanted to understand how a
real
village girl lived. I thought it
was fun at first. I felt different after a week or
two, though.
I did wear some beautiful
traditional clothes, but they were not thick
enough. I was very cold
but I had to
keep smiling all the time! One day, I
couldn
’
t do it any longer
and I suddenly (D)
started crying,
“
Great!
”
said the director.
“
I like
it. She is crying with true
feelings!
”
I called my
mum to tell (E) Her about it but my
mobile phone (
手机
)
wouldn
’
t work in the
village.
I think it is worth doing all
this, though. I like it when people tell me they
enjoy my plays and
ask me to sign a
picture. It is also fun to be someone else for a
while. I
’
m very lucky to be
an
actor.
84.
将文中划
线部分
（
A
）
译成汉语
:
85.
写出文中划线部分
（
B
）
和
（
D
）
的同义词或近义词
:
86.
将
文中划线部分
（
C
）
< br>改写为
: It was really hard for me
I was a city
87.
文中划线部分
（
E
）
指代的是
:
88.
从文中找出有关赞美方面的两个形容词
:
Passage 7 (2011
，
湖南
，
A)
翻译语篇
阅读下面的短文
，
将文中划线部分的句子做相应的英
、
汉互译
。
参考材料
..
..
..
The students were having their
chemistry class. 66. Miss Li was telling the
students what
water was
like.
After that, she asked her
students, “What’s water?” No one answered. A few
minutes
later,
Miss
Li
asked
again,
”
67.
你们为什么不回答我的问题呢
？Didn’t
I
tell
you
what
water was
like?”
Just then
a student put up hi
s hand and said,
“Miss Li, you told us that water has no color
and no smell. However, where to find
such kind of water? The water in the river behind
my house
is always black, and it has a
bad smell.”
68.
大多数学生同意他的意见
。
“I’m sorry, children.” said
the teach
er,
69. “Our water
is getting dirtier and dirtier.
That’s a
problem.
70. We should do what we can to make
the world cleaner.”
66.___________________________________________
_________________________________
67.__
__________________________________________________
________________________
68.___________
__________________________________________________
_______________
69.____________________
__________________________________________________
______
70._____________________________
_______________________________________________
Passage 8
（
2011
，
山东
，
四
）
阅读短文
，
完成有关任务
。
It is said that more than
four million people die each year from smoking.
That number is
frightening.
Yet
people
around
the
world
continue
to
smoke.
In
the
United
States,
about
forty-seven-million
adults smoke. This year, more than 430,000
Americans died of diseases which
have
something to do with smoking. The American Cancer
Society(
美国癌症协会
)says smoking
harms the body greatly. It warns that
smoking even a number of cigarettes is dangerous.
参考材料
..
..
..
It’s (63) _____
_________________________(
戒烟是不容易的
。
)However, doctors say you
probably
will live longer if you do
stop smoking. You will feel better and look
better. You also will protect
the
health of family members who breathe your smoke.
There is not one right way
to stop smoking, doctors say. Any way can help.
You can take long
walks or spend time
in places where smoking is not allowed. Also, you
can eat a small piece of
fruit or
vegetable instead of having a cigarette.
(64)
The sooner you stop smoking, the
more you’ll
reduce
(
减少
) your chances of getting
cancer and other diseases.
Stop smoking
before smoking stops you!
(
一
)
根据短文内容
，
简要回答下列问题
。
61. How many people die
from smoking each year?
62. What does the American Cancer
Society say about smoking?
(
二
)
根据短文中所给汉语完成句子
。
63. It’s___________________
___________________________________.
(
三
)
把短文中划
线的句子翻译成汉语
。
64. ___________________________________
______________________.
(
四
)
给短文拟一个恰当的英文标题
。
65. _______________
__________________________________________
Passage 9
（
2011
，
兰州
，
六
）
仔细阅读下面的短文并按要求完成
后面的小题
。
It
is said that about half of the people in China
smoke. Many young boys and girls have the
参考材料
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..
..
habit of smoking, though they are
middle school students.
More and more
people have come to realize how serious this
problem is. But they are never
bored
with it.
?
Some people think
it is a kind of fashion, some think it is of great
fun and others
think that smoking can
refresh themselves.
Smoking causes many
illnesses. A lot of people always cough
?
smoking.
The most serious
illness caused by smoking is lung cancer. At the
same time smoking is a waste
of money.
Besides, careless smokers may cause dangerous
firs.
?
众所周知
，
吸烟有害于人体健康
。
In order to
keep healthy, we should get rid of the bad
habit of smoking. Please stop smoking
at once.
1.
将
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句划线部分译成汉语
：
2.
在
?
句
的空白处填入适当的词使句意完整
、
上下文通顺
：
3.
将
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句划线部分的汉语译成英语
：
4.
列出短文中提到的吸烟的至少
两点危害
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该篇短文的主题是
：
Passage 10
第二节
英汉互译
阅读下面的短文
，
将划线部分的句子译成汉语或英语
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共
5
个小题
，
每小题
1
分
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Rich or
poor, young or old, we all have problems.(70)We
should learn how to deal with our
problems. Here are some ways.
Firstly, we should learn to forget.(71)
有时我们会生朋友的气
。
Good
friendships may be lost.
Sometimes
children have disagreements and decide not to talk
to each other.(72)However, this
usually
does not last for long. This is an important
lesson for us: we can solve a problem by
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learning to forget.
Secondly, we should regard problems as
challenges. Many students often complain about
school.(73)
他们有太多的作业要做
。
They think the rules are too strict.
Education is an important
part of our
development. As young people, it is our duty to
try our best to deal with each
challenge with the help of our
teachers.
Don
’
t
worry about our
problems.(74)Let
’
s face the
challenges.
70.
_____________
_______________________
71.____________________________________
72.____________________________________
73.____________________________________
74.____________________________________
Passage 11
阅读短文
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In many parts of the world,
there are four seasons: spring, summer, fall and
winter. In the U.S.,
there are only
three: football, basketball and baseball. That's
not completely true, but almost. In
every season, Americans have a ball. If
you want to know what season it is, just look at
what
people are playing. For many
Americans, sports do not just occupy the
sidelines. They take
center court.
Besides
enjoy
water sports. Lovers of surfing, sailing and scuba
diving flock to the ocean. Swimmers and
water skiers also revel in the wet
stuff. Fishermen try their luck in ponds, lakes
and rivers. In
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winter
sportsmen delight in freezing fun. From the first
snowfall, skiers hit the slopes. Frozen
ponds and ice rinks become playgrounds
for skating and hockey. People play indoor sports
whatever the weather. Racquetball,
weightlifting and bowling are year-round
activities.
For many people
in the U.S., sports are not just for fun. They're
almost a religion. Thousands of
sports
fans buy expensive tickets to watch their favorite
teams and athletes play in person. Other
fans watch the games at home, glued to
their TV sets. The most devoted sports buffs never
miss
football
(3)
(1)
in
America
a
variety
of
other sports
outdoor
sports
skiing
(5)
hockey
(7)
(6)
sports
“
the
big
three
”
sports
basketball
sailing
（
2
）
in
warm
weather
water
sports
scuba diving
(4)
water skiing
in
cold
weather
weightlifting
(8)
sports are a
(9)
watch games in
(10)
sports fans
watch TV at home
a game.
Many a wife becomes a
devotion to
athletics has created a new class of wealthy
people: professional athletes. Sports
stars often receive million-dollar
salaries. Some even make big money appearing in
advertisements for soft drinks, shoes
and even toiletries.
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Passage 12
Never go into a supermarket hungry!
This is a good piece of advice. If you go shopping
for
food before lunchtime, you’ll
probably buy more than you plan to.
Unfortunately
, however, just
this advice isn’t enough for consumers
these days. Modern shoppers need an education in
how
and how not to buy things at the
store. First, you check the weekly newspaper ads.
Find out the
items that are on sale and
decide if you really need
these things.
In other words, don’t buy
anything just
because it’s cheaper than usual! “New and
Improved!” or “All Natural” on the front
of a package influence you. Instead,
read the list of ingredients (contents) on the
back. Third,
compare prices: that is,
you should examine the prices of both different
brands and different
sizes of the same
brand.
Another
suggestion
for
consumers
is
to
buy
ordinary
items
instead
of
famous
brands.
Ordinary items in supermarkets come in
plain packages. These products are cheaper because
producers don’t spend much money on
packing or advertising. The quality, however, is
usually as
good as the quality of well-
known name brands. In the same way, in buying
clothes, you can
often find high
quality and low prices in brands that are not
famous. Shopping in discount
clothing
stores can help you save a lot of money. Although
these stores aren’t very attractive, and
they usually do not have individual
dressing rooms, not only are the prices low, but
you can often
find the same famous
brands that you find in high-priced department
stores.
Wise consumers read magazine
ads and watch TV commercials, but they do this
with one
advantage:
knowledge
of
the
psychology
behind
the
ads.
In
other
words,
well-informed
consumers
watch for information and check for
misinformation. They ask themselves questions:
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Is the advertiser hiding something in
small print at the bottom of the page? Is there
any real
information in the commercial,
or is the advertiser simply showing an attractive
image? With the
answers to these
questions, consumers can make a wise choice.
main topic:suggestions for _____(1)___
suggesti
ons
Never
go
into
a
need
supermarket
when
an
buy
ordinary
items
read ads with
education
in
instead
of
famous
_(4)___of
the
you
how and
how
_(3)_.
not
to
buy
things
at
the
store
psychology
behind
ads.
the
___(2)__hungry!
_(5)_
for
It is _(6)_
to buy
consumers
the
suggesti
ons
the
prices
of
ads
are
sometimes
low
don’t tell the
more
than
you
can
make
a
__(8)_items
plan to.
wise __(7)_
relatively
because
producers
__(10)_
spend__(9)_money
on packaging
Passage 13
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Trees should only be pruned
when there is a good and clear reason for doing so
and , the
number of such reasons is
small . Pruning involves the cutting away of
overgrown and unwanted
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branches, and
the inexperienced gardener can be encouraged by
the thought that more damage
results
from doing it unnecessarily than from leaving the
tree to grow in its own way.
First,
pruning may be done to make sure that trees have
desired shape or size. The object
may
be to get a tree of the right height, and at the
same time to help the growth of small side
branches, which will thicken its
appearance or give it a special shape. Secondly,
pruning may be
done to make the tree
healthier. You may cut out diseased or dead wood,
or branches that are
rubbing against
each other and thus cause wounds. The health of a
tree may be encouraged by
removing
branches that are blocking up the center and so
preventing the free movement of air.
One result of pruning is that an open
wound is left on the tree and this provides an
easy
entry for disease, but it is a
wound that will heal. Often there is a race
between the healing and
the disease as
to whether the tree will live or die, so that
there is a period when the tree is at risk.
It should be the aim of every gardener
to reduce that risk of death as far as possible.
It is
important to make the area, which
has been pruned, smooth and clean, for healing
will be
slowed down by roughness. You
should allow the cut surface to dry for a few
hours and then
paint
it
with
one
of
the
materials
available
from
garden
shops
produced
especially
for
this
purpose.
Pruning is usually done in winter, for then you
can see the shape of the tree clearly
without interference from the leaves
and also it is very unlikely that the cuts you
make will bleed.
If this does happen,
it is, of course, impossible to paint them
properly.
Pruning trees
A
good gardener prunes a tree when (-1)_______.
First,
make
the
trees
in
(5)
_______
shape
or
(2)_______ for pruning trees.
size.
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