七年级英语任务型阅读

12

）来自：山东省

Everyone wants to relax after working or studying for a long

time. I have many ways of relaxing myself. Let me tell you so

me of my favorites.

I am a big sports fan, so the usual way I relax is to watch o

r play many kinds of sports. My favorite is tennis, but I am

interested in all kinds of sports. Whether I am playing tenni

s or watching a game on TV, it is exciting to see team member

s doing their best. It’s

amazing to see players playing very well. It’

s true that play

ing sports is not physically(

身体上地)“relaxing”

, but I find

i

t really cool, and a good way of “relaxing” my brain after

a day’s hard work.

I enjoy listening to music, and I always have some music play

ing during my free time. I listen to all types, but I enjoy l

istening to beautiful piano music. Some people can’

t stu

dy wh

ile listening to music, but for me, I believe I can study bet

ter by listening to light songs.

Some people choose to relax by traveling. I don’

t have a favo

rite place, but I hear that traveling inJapanis really enjoya

ble. I like visiting different kinds of places and eating fam

ous snacks there. I also enjoy sightseeing and seeing how the

culture and people change from place to place.

1. What’s the writer’s favorite sports?

_________________________________

2. What kind of music does the writer enjoy?

_________________________________

3. How many ways of relaxing does the writer give us?

_________________________________

4. Has the writer ever been toJapan?

________________________________

5. What is the passage mainly about?

________________________________

答案：

1. Tennis 2. Beautiful piano music 4. No, he hasn’

t 5.

The writer’s favorite ways to relax.

任务型阅读第一类（

13

）来自：

山东威海

Do you think that French fries are really French? French frie

s are called

nce. French fries co me from Belgium(

比利时

) originally. Fren

ch fries are made of potatoes, and they are cut and fried. Th

e fried potatoes are called French fries because they were fi

st seen by Americans inBelgium, but they were fried in the Fr

ench way. The French way is to fry potatoes twice with a smal

l pause in the middle.

During World War I, there were a lot of hungry American soldi

ers in Northern France andBelgium. They ate French fries inBe

lgium. After the war was over, the soldiers went

back home toAmerica. However, they missed French fries so muc

h that they made French fries at home. That's how French frie

s were fist introduced toAmerica.

French fries were called Belgian fries once, but the name was

finally changed to French fries. Sometimes French fries are

just called fries.

French fries are one of the most popular potato foods inAmeri

ca. American fast food restaurants such as McDonald's and Bur

ger King have French fries on their menus. French fries are f

reshly fried, and usually served with hamburgers.

If you visit any fast food restaurant in Americaand order a h

amburger, you will

probably hear

ut the history of French fries a little while, and say

please. Thank you.

are French fries made of?

______________________________

do French fries originally come from?

______________________________

are the fried potatoes called French fries?

______________________________

first introduced French fries toAmerica?

______________________________

does the underlined

答案：

es m e they are fried in the Frenc

h way. an soldiers. gers

任务型阅读第一类（

14

）来自：

山东枣庄

Imagine this: your parents go away on business, but you have

to stay at home alone. Would life be as easy a s when your pa

rents are around? Would it be a perfect holiday for you?

'”

I can fill an empty stomach with tomato and egg soup, but t

hat's all. I think many of my classmates are the same. We wou

ldn't know what to do, or how to look after

ourselves,

tant. I'd probably watch television and burn the soup.

“As soon as I leave home, I'll learn to cook. But now parent

s do almost everything for us. We’

re very laz

y,

wever, SimaYige doesn't think so.

fruit. I know how to cook, some simple dishes because my mum

showed me,

y teenagers depend too much on their parents, and there is mu

ch more to learn than cooking, like

even dressing yourself properly.

For most teenagers it wouldn't be a holiday at all.

71. Why would ZhengChenyu probably burn the soup?

___ _____________________________________

72. When will ZhengChenyu learn to cook?

_________________________________ _______

73. Translate the underlined sentence

ife skills until they go to college.

___________________________________

74. The underlined phrase

means __________ in Chinese.

75. Would life be as easy for teenagers living alone as when

their parents are around? _____________ ______________________

_____

答案：

71. Because he can’t cook any

thing else.

72. As soon as he leaves home.

< br>73.

，他们直到上大学才学会生活的技能。

74.

过分依赖于

75. No, it won’t.

任务型阅读第一类（

15

）来自：黑龙江齐齐哈尔

Have you heard about “Survival (生存) Holidays”? “Survival

Holidays”

is for children to go into the lonely place for exc

iting activities. Now about 1,100 companies are allowed to ta

ke children into the great outdoors without their parents.

The reason why people like “Survival Holidays”

is that they

think being close to nature is good for children. Many childr

en in big cities spend all time watching TV and playing compu

ter games. “Survival Holidays”

gives them an important chang

e.

Is “Survival Holidays”

a wonderful idea? Maybe it is. Childr

en need more free time to play. They need to be left on their

own, without adults disturbing (

打扰

) them. Parents care too

much about their children. They like to see the children bei

ng busy with activities that are controlled by adults, but ch

ildren don’

t know what to do when they are in danger. Even so

mething like crossing a small river seems to be a hard challe

nge. Children are not comfortable with danger. Even small dan

ger like getting their feet wet or falling down seems very te

rrible to them.

Many people think the survival activities are good for childr

en. Even years later, they will still remember what they have

learned. Some have learned to stay calm in different times.

Some have learned how to keep safe. Others have learned how t

o work in a team. All these skills will help them a lot in th

eir lives.

Answer the following questions according to what you read.

8

1. Is “Survival Holidays” for children or parents?

82. Why do people like “Survival Holidays”?

83. What do the children in big cities usually do?

84. How do children feel when they are in danger?

85. What can children learn in the survival activities

？

答案：

81. Children./ For children. / It’s for children.

82. Because they think b eing close to nature is good for chi

ldren.

/Because they think the survival activities are good for chil

dren.

83. They usually watch TV and play computer games./To watch T

V and play

computer games./Watching TV and playing computer games./What

they do is to watch TV and play computer games./What they do

is watching TV and playing computer games.

84. They don’

t know what to do./They feel uncomfortable (terr

ible)./Not comfortable. /Unco

mfortable./Terrible./ They don’

t

feel comfortable.

85. They can learn some survival skills. / They can learn to

stay calm in different times, keep safe and work in team.

任务型阅读第一类（

16

）来自：山东潍坊

Tigers are fierce animals. They are the bosses of the Asian j

ungles with their

cleverness, quickness and strength. A pussycat, on the other

hand, is a homebody that comforts us with its gentle warmth a

nd calms us with its purring.

As a mother, the Chinese-American writer Amy Chua is definite

ly a tiger. Her

book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother(

虎妈战歌

). tells of the

strict upbringing she gave her two children. She thinks that

being strict is the only way to develop a child's

potential(

潜力

) and to make them strong, independent and suc

cessful. Her kids were not allowed to watch TV or play video

games. They were not allowed to

ter school. They had to be the top students in their classes.

And they had to practice

the piano and violin for hours every day. As a result, her ki

ds became successful. She admits this caused a lot of tears a

nd anger but she has few regrets (

后悔

).

Chua says, like her, most Asian mothers are tigers because th

ey believe their children can achieve a lot if they're pushed

hard enough. She says American mothers are really pussycats.

They care more about their children's self-esteem (

自尊

). Th

ey don't want to So, is a tiger mom better than a pussycat? P

erhaps it depends on the differences between Asian and Wester