-
2017
年中考英语阅读组合训练（
3
）
【完型填空】
When I was in the third grade, I was
picked to be the princess in the school play.
For
weeks
my
mother
helped
me
1
my
sentences.
But
once
during
a
performance,
every word
2
from my head.
My teacher asked me to change roles and be the
narrator(
解说
员
).
Though I didn’t tell my mother what had
3
that day, she felt my
4
and asked if I
wanted to
take a walk in the yard.
It was a
lovely spring day. We could see
dandelions(
蒲公英
)coming out
through the grass,
just
like
a
painter
had
touched
our
woods
and
fields
with
bits
of
gold.
I
watched
my
mother
carelessly bend
down(
弯腰
)
5
some flowers. “I think I am going to
dig up all the wild grass,”
she said.
“But I like dandelions, all flowers are
beautiful—even dandelions!” I said
. My
mother
looked at me seriously. “Yes,
every flower shines in
6
own way. And that is true of people,
too,” she said. She had guessed my
pain. I started to cry and told her the
7
. “You will be a
beautiful
narrator,” she said,
8
me of how much
I loved to read stories aloud to her.
Over the next few weeks, I learned to
take
9
in the role. The big day
finally came. A few
minutes before the
play, my teacher came over to me. “Your mother
asked me to give this to you,”
she
said,
handing
me
a
10
.
After
the
play,
I
took
the
flower
home,
laughing
that
I
was
perhaps the only person who would keep
such wild grass.
1. A. write
B. listen
C.
practice
D. teach
2. A. disappeared
B. spread
3.
A. done
4. A. illness
5.
A. by
6. A. it
B. happened
C. forgot
C. gone
D. left
D. made
B.
fearlessness
C. kindness
D.
unhappiness
B. for
C. with
D. at
B. its
C. it’s
D. it is
D. accident
7. A. memory
B. discovery
C. truth
8. A. reminding
B. thinking
C. reminded
D
. thought
9. A.
action
B. turns
C.
risks
D. pride
10. A. note
B. dandelion
C. sunflower
D. dictionary
【阅读理解】
Have
you
ever
heard
of
“a
ball
of
energy”
？
People
often
use
it
to
describe
very
active
children.
But
today
we
tell
about
an
invention
called
the
soccket,
that
is
a
real
soccer
ball
of
energy. Julia Silverman explains that
in fact the soccket is a portable generator(
便携式发电机
)
．
Julia Silverman and Jessica Matthews
developed the soccket as part of a group project
for an
engineering class at Harvard
University.
There are
mechanisms(
装置
) in a soccket.
When you kick, hit or throw it, energy is then
kept in it
by these mechanisms instead
of disappearing into the environment.
Then the user can put something
directly into the ball, like a lamp, or a mobile
phone charger so
that they can get
energy from it.
For every fifteen
minutes of the game play, the sOccket can provide
enough electricity(
电
) for
an LED lamp for three hours, and the
ball can store(
储藏
) up to 24
hours
’
electricity.
The International Energy Association
reported last year that nearly one and a half
billion people in
the world had no
electricity to use, and most of them live in
sub-
Saharan Africa and in India and
other countries in Asia.
Julia
Silverman
and
Jessica
Matthews
both
had
experiences
in
developing
countries
before
they began the
project. They knew that power shortages are a
serious problem in really areas.
There
’
s an energy
crisis in the world. One out of every five people
in the world don
’
t have any
electricity. And besides that, there
are a lot of health problems because what people
use instead of
the electricity are
harmful choices like
kerosene(
煤油
) lamps, which
produce a lot of smoke.
Julia Silverman
says the sOccket ball is one small
solution(
解决方法
) to a big
problem.
Jessica Matthews and Julia
Silverman hope their sOccket ball will shine more
light on the problem
of
power
shortages.
It
offers
people
a
chance
to put
their
energy
into
the
world
’
s
most
popular
sport and get some energy in return.
(
)41. From the passage, we know the
sOccket is ________
．
A. an active child
B.
an invention
C. a lamp
D. a mobile
phone
(
)42. If you play the sOccket for half
an hour, it can provide an LED lamp with
electricity for
________
．
A. fifteen minutes
B. half an hour
C. six hours
D. three hours
(
)43. The underlined word
“crisis” in the passage means
________
．
A. a
time of safety
B.
a time of difficulty
C. a time of
success
D.
a time of pride
(
)44. We can
infer(
推断
) from the passage
that ________
．
A.
Julia Silverman has never been to developing
countries before
B. Active children
like to play sOccket
C. kicking a
sOccket can let the energy disappear into the
environment
D. people are expected to
get some energy by playing sOccket
(
)45. The best title for the passage
should be “________”
．
A. The only way to produce electricity
B. The best way to solve energy crisis
C. A soccer ball that gives energy
D. An invention changing the world
【阅读表达】
In
many western schools
，
sports
day is a big event
．
Children
take part in competitive(
竞
<
/p>
争性的
)sports
，
trying to break school records and take the
first place
．
Sports days
，
or
sports meetings
，
are usually
held in the warmer
seasons
，
either at the
beginning or the end of the school
year
．
They are also called
field days
．
Primary school sports days are
fun
．
They usually have
activities such as the egg and the
spoon race and the sack
race
．
Other events include
the skipping race(
跳绳
)and the
three
—
legged
race
．
In middle
and high schools
，
sports days
include many of the common track and field
events
．
They are
more serious and competitive than primary school
ones
．