2004年中考英语“阅读理解”选登(一）

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All tudent eed to have good tudy habit (习). Whe you have good tudy habits, you lear things
quickly. You also remember them easily.

Do you like to tudy i the living room? Thi i ot a good lace, ecause it i usually too oisy.
You eed to tudy i a quiet lace, like your edroom. A quiet lace will hel you only to think a
bout one thing.

Whe you tudy, do ot think about other thing at the ame time. Only think about your homework. I
f you do o, you will do your homework more quickly, and you will make fewer mistake (错误).

Good tudy habit are very important. If you do ot have them, try to lear them. If your are good
, try to make them etter.

（ ）1. Each tudent eed to have good tudy_______ .

A. time . habit C. ook D. moms

（ ）2. We may _______ if we tudy i the living room.

A. do our homework quickly . make a lot of mistake i our homework

C. remember word easily D. end little time doing much work

（ ）3. It i fight for u to ________ whe we tudy.

A. ing a ong . watch TV

C. talk with omebody D. think about one thing

（ ）4. The writer tell u how to______________.

A. tudy hard . remember ew words

C. tudy well D. use our heads

（ ）5. According to (按照) the writer, which of the following ca e a good tudy habit?

A. Reading English among a crowd of eople.

. Thinking only about math i a math cla .

C. Drawing icture while listening to the teacher.

D. Thinking i Chinese while talking i English.

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The fourth Thursday of ovember i Thanksgiving Day (感恩节). It i a holiday i the USA Usually family member and friend get together for a di er. eopl
e ometime drive their car a long way for a family reunio (团聚) . Many eople also take Friday off to make a long weekend holiday a most America do ot work
o aturday and undays. Thanksgiving Day ega i 1621. Whe the first English ettler (定居
者) reached the ew World. They did ot have enough food. ut the America Indiana helped the white
me and taught them how to farm. I the autum after the English ettler came to America, they ha
d a good harvest. They were o leased. They decided to invite their India friend to di er 1o th
ank them and God for their help. To most America today, Thanksgiving Day i eve more important
tha Christma or ew Year' Eve.

（ ）6. Thanksgiving Day i a holiday of_______________.

A. England . India C. America D. the world

（ ）7. Many eople take _______ day off to end the holiday.

A. two . three C. four D. five

（ ）8. Whe the English ettler reached America, they_____________.

A. had a hard time . lived ha ily

C. knew how to farm D. ofte had di er together

（ ）9. The America India _________ the English ettlers.

A. hated . were druid of

C. were helpful to D. left

（ ）10. From the a age (短文) we lear that_________ .

A. Christma Day i more important tha Thanksgiving Day

. Thanksgiving Day i a important a Christma Day

C. ew Year' Day i a important a Thanksgiving Day

D. Thanksgiving Day i more important tha ew Year' Eve

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The world i ot hungry, ut it i thirsty (渴). It eem trange that early 3/4 of the earth i c
overed with water while we ay we are hort of water. Why? ecause about 97% of water o the earth
i ea water which we can't drink or use for watering lants. Ma ca only drink and use the 3%－
the water that come from dyer and lakes. And we can't eve use all of that, ecause ome of it
ha ee olluted (污染).

Now more water i eeded, ut the roblem is: Ca we avoid (避免) a eriou water hortage (短
缺) later on? Later, we hould all lear how to ave water. econdly, we hould find out the way
to reuse (再利用) it. cientist have alway ee tudying i thi field. Today, i most large cities, water i
used only once and the ru to the ea or dyers. ut it ca e used again. Eve if (即使) every large city reused it water till there would ot e enough. What could eople tur to
next?

The ea eem to have the est a wer. There i a lot of water i the ea. All that eed to e
done i to get the alt out of the ea water. Thi i expe ive, ut it' already i use i many
part of the world. cientist are trying to find a cheaper way of doing it. o you ee, if we can
find a way out well e i o danger of drying up.

（ ）11. Which of the following i true?

A. 75% of the earth i covered with water. . 75% of water o the earth i i the ea.

C. 97% of the earth i covered with water D. 3 % of water o the earth i ea water.

（ ）12. From the a age we learn_____________.

A. water ca e used only once

. 3% of water o the earth i fresh water (淡水)

C. today i most large citie water i used twice

D. if every, city reuse it water, we'll e i o danger of drying up

（ ）13. One of the two important thing for u to do ow i to ________

A. drink le water . ave water

C. use water only once D. use ea water

（ ）14. To avoid the eriou water hortage, which of the following i the most important?

A. ave water and try. to find more of it.

. Don't ollute water and kee all river and lake clean.

C. Make dirty water clea and the reuse it.

D. Try to find a cheaper way to get the alt out of the ea water.

（ ）15. Which of the following i the est title (题目) of thi a age?

A. The ea Water . How to ave Water

C. The Thirsty World D. The olluted Water



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"Cool" i a word with many meanings(意) .It mea a little it cold at first. A the world ha changed, the word ha got many different
meanings.

"Cool" ca e used to expre (表达)eeling of interest i almost everything. Whe you ee a famou
car i the treet, maybe you will
say, " It' cool. You may think, He o cool. whe you ee your favourite football tar.

We all enlarge the meaning of "cool" .You ca use it to mea ew or urprising. Here i a interest
ing tory. It how the way the word i used. A teacher asked her tudent to write about the water
fall(瀑布) they had visited. One of her tu hy;
dent just wrote, "It' o cool." Maybe he thought it wa the est way to how what he aw and felt.

But the tory also how ome eople do ot have enough words. Without " cool", 'they have o other
word to how the ame feeling. Ca you think of many other word like " cool with o many meaning
s? If you can, they are also very 'cool .

（ ）16. We know that the meaning of the word "cool"

A. ha alway ee the ame . ha changed a lot

C. i difficult to use D. i easy to remember

（ ）17. The word "enlarge" mea " . "

A．扩大 ．显示 C．明白 D．知道

（ ）18. If you ee omething , you may ay, "It' cool."

A. interesting . cold C. different D. unha y

（ ）19. Whe everybody i using the word “cool” , the writer eem to e a little .

A. worried . angry C. ha y D. ad

（ ）20. The writer uggests(暗示)that the word "cool"

A. ca e used i many way . usually mea omething interesting

C. ca make our language full of colour D. ha too many meanings

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“Life i eeding up. Everyone i getting unwell.”

Thi may ound like omething omeone would ay today. ut i fact, a unknow erso who live
d i Rome i AD() 53 wrote it

We all love ew inventio . They are exciting, amazing and ca eve change our lives.

ut have all these development really improved the quality of our lives?

icture this, You’rushing to finish your homework o the computer. Your mobile hone rings, a QQ me age from your
friend a ear o the creen, the oise from the televisio i getting louder and louder. uddenly
the computer goe lank and you lose all your work. ow you have to tay u all ight to get it do
ne. How ha y do you feel?

Inventio have eeded u our live o much that they ofte leave u feeling tre ed () and
tired. Why do you think eople who live far away from oisy cities, who have o telephones, o car,
ot eve any electricity ofte eem to e ha ier? erha ecause they live impler lives.

One family i the UK went “back i time” to ee what life wa like without all the invention
we have today. The grandparents, with their daughter, and grandso enjamin, 10 and Thoma , 7,
ent ine week i a 1940 house. They had o washing machine, microwave, computer or mobile hone
s.

The grandmother, Lyn, aid, “The more thing you have, the more difficult life ecomes.” The
oy aid they fought le . robably, they aid, ecause there wa le to fight over, uch a the
ir computer. enjami also oticed that hi grandmother had changed from eing a “trendy(), eer-
drinking gra y, to one who cooked things”

( ) 21. The writer use the quote() at the egi ing of the tory to __________.

A. tell u a truth about our live . tell u what life wa like long time ago

C. oint out what cause uch a thing to ha en

D. oint out that you experience ome ig roblem and they may e the ame

( ) 22. I the a age the writer describe a icture to how that ew inventio __________.

A. have eeded u our live . have improve the quality of our lives

C. may make eople feel very ha y D. may ring eople ome trouble

( ) 23. The family chose to end ome time i a 1940 house ecause _________

A. they loved to live imple lives

. they wanted to know how eople lived withour moder inventio

C. they were troubled y moder inventio

D. living i a different time would e a lot of fu for them

( ) 24. According to the a age, which id OT right?

A. eople who live far away from oisy citie ofte eem to e ha ier

. A unknow Roma wa ure that the quality of life would get etter

C. The family had ome change whe they lived i a 1940 house

D. With the improvement of our lives, we ofte feel tre ed and tired

( ) 25. The a age i mainly about hy hy hy hy hy hy hy hy hy hy hy hy hy hy;__________

A. roblem with technology

. improvement of our live with technology

C. change ha ening to technology

D. the importance of technology





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One day, I ha ened to meet a Englishma i the treet and oo we ega to talk. A I wa talking
about how I wa tudying English, the foreigner eemed to e very urprised, gently haking hi he
ad and aying, "You don't ay! You don't ay!" I wa uzzled (困惑的), and I thought, "Perha thi i ot a right thing to talk about." o I aid to him, "Well, ha
ll we talk about the Great Wall? Have you ever ee there?"

"Certainly, everyone ack home will laugh at me if I leave here without eeing it. The Great Wall
i "wonderful!" "Yes, it i one of the wonder i the world. And eople of many countrie have com
e to visit it." A I went o telling him more about it, he to ed me again, "You don't ay!"

I couldn't hel asking, "Why do you ask me ot to talk about it?"

"Well, I didn't ask you to do o," he a wered, greatly urprised.

"Didn't you ay 'You don't ay!' ?" I asked again.

Hearing this, the foreigner laughed loudly. He ega to explain, " 'You don't ay!' mea 'Really?'
. erha you know little about English idiom (惯用语)."

Wow! How foolish I was! ince the I have ee careful with English idioms.

( )26. The writer wa uzzled ecause ________.

A. the foreigner knew the Great Wall o well

B. the foreigner had ome trouble i understanding him

C. the writer himself didn't understand the meaning of "You don' t ay!"

D. the foreigner wa ot olite

( )27. What made the foreigner laugh?

A. The wonder of the world. . The English idiom.

C. The writer' talking about the Great Wall. D. The writer' question.

( )28. Whe the foreigner used the idiom "You don't ay!", he meant________.

A. "Shut up!" . "Really?" C. "Sto talking!" D. "Look out!"

( ) 29. The tory robably (可能) ha ened in_________.

A. China . America C. England D. Australia

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China want to uild it ow ace tatio over the ext 15 years," aid Wang Yongzhi, one of the
famou cientist working o the ma ed (载人的) ace rogramme. Wang aid thi while he wa eaking to ome 100 high chool tudent from
eijing, Hong Kong and Macao o unday. That wa reported y Monday' eijing ews.

China ha ent 18 illio (十亿) yua o it ma ed ace rogramme i the ast 11
year and ha made great rogre (进步). Last
October, Yang Liwei, a astronaut (宇航员), flew around the earth 14 times, which i well-know all over the world. Wang aid, "Because China doe 't have enough money ow, it doe ot
pla to end a astronaut to the moon, ut to end u a atellite that move around the moon."

Wang, who i ow 72 year old, i a important member of China' ma ed ace rogramme ince 1992.

( )30. What ha ened last October according to (根据) the a age?

A. China uilt it ow ace tation.

B. A Chinese astronaut flew around the earth.

C. A Chinese astronaut landed o the moon.

D. China ent u a atellite to the moon.

( ) 31. What ca we lear about Wang Yongzhi?

A. He i also a astronaut . He i a college teacher.

C. He i a cientist working o computers.

D．He ha worked o the ma ed ace rogramme for about 12 years.

( ) 32.. Why doe 't China la to end a astronaut to the moo ow?

A. ecause it i 't important to do o. . ecause China doe 't have uch astronauts.

C. ecause there i o eed for that. D. ecause China i 't o rich ow.

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Qiao i a ixth-grader at Yuhui rimary chool. He i only 12 year old ut ha ee moking for three years.
Liu, 15, i a Ju
nior 2 tudent at Chicheng o 2 Middle chool. He ega moking four year ago. "Smoking i ar
t of my life," Liu aid. Qiao and Liu are ot those oy ' real ames. ut their roblem,
smoking, i a very real roblem. I many countries, moking i ecoming a igger roblem for
young eople. Most moker tart i their tee (year of a erson' age from 13 to 19) or
earlier.

A tudy (研究) of 8,000 eijing tudent last May told u that moking i a roblem for many Chinese kids.
More tha 21% of middle chool tudent and 6 % of rimary chool upil aid they moked.

"If young eople tart moking early, they will robably get addicted (上瘾) to icotine (尼古丁) .And it will e very hard to give u later on," aid a rofe or.

Every year, about four millio eople die ecause of moking. And if eople kee moking, that
number will go u to about 10 millio a year y 2030, the World Health Organizatio (WHO, 世界卫生
组织) ays. o we have to lear and tell other about the danger of moking.

( ) 33. The entence "Smoking i art of my life. " robably mea "__________"

A. I don't moke very often. . moking i very important to me.

C. I don't moke at all. . D. I'm going to give u moking.

( ) 34. What will robably ha e if a erso tart moking early?

A. He will urely die early. . He ca ot to moking.

C. It will e difficult for him to give u moking. D. He will ecome lazy oon.

( ) 35.The mai (.主要的) idea of thi a age i that__________.

A. moking i ecoming a igger roblem for young eople

B. many eople die ecause of moking every year

C. WHO ask young eople to give u moking

D. icotine make eople addicted

( ) 36. A middle chool tudents, what hould we do from ow on?

A. We hould tart moking after middle chool.

B. We hould ask other to moke outside.

C. We hould laugh at mokers.

D. We hould ay o to moking.

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Do you want to ave money whe you travel y train? Here are ome ways.

Day Retur (retur 往返票)

Thi kind of ticket ca ave you 45% o the fare (money for tickets). You have to travel efore
8:00 a.m.

and after 6:00 .m. from Monday to Friday, ut you ca travel at any time o aturday or unday.

Big City aver (savers优惠票)

You ca ave much money with these ticket o ome trai . You have to uy them at the latest y
16:00 the day efore you travel.

Weekend Retur

You ca use Weekend Retur for most journey over 60 miles. Go o Friday, aturday or unday,
and retur the ame weekend o aturday or unday, and you ca ave 35% o the fare.

Monthly Retur

You ca use these ticket for most journey over 65 miles. Go any day and retur withi (在…之内)
a month. Monthly Retur ca ave you 25% o the fare.

Family Retur

You ca get a card of Family Retur for ound 20 and the whe you uy ticket later, you eed to ay
only ound 3 for each of the other family member (4 at most ). You ca travel a ofte a you like
withi two months.

( )37. Which kind of ticket are you going to choose if you want to go to a mall tow 75 mile away
for four days?

A. ig City avers. . Monthly retur . C. Weekend Retur . D. Family Retur . ( ) 38. If
a ma uy himself a ticket of ound 15 and three ticket for hi family with a card of Family
Retur , how much will he ay?

A. ound;47. . ound;27. C. ound;24. D. ound;15.

( )39. Which of the following i true?

A. A card of Family Retur ca only e used for two months.

B. If you want to travel to Londo y air, you ca use ig City avers.

C. If you leave thi Friday and retur ext aturday, you ca use Weekend Retur .

D. You ca use Day Retur at any time o weekdays.

( ) 40. The a age i robably take from a __________.

A. dictionary . textbook C. ew aper D. torybook

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If you ca eak English, you know a lot of English words. You ca read, eak and understand. ut
there i another kind of language you eed to know — the language of the ody.

All over the world, eople “talk” with their hands, with their head and with their eyes. When
Japanese eople meet, they ow (鞠). Whe India meet, they ut their hand together. What do
America and ritish eople do?
Whe ritish and America eople meet omeone for the first time, they hake hands. They do ot
usually hake hand with eople they know well. ometime wome ki (吻) their wome friend and
me ki wome friends. Whe a ma meet a ma friend, he just miles, and ay “Hello”. Me
do ot ki each other, or hold hands. Eve father and o do ot ofte ki each other.

（ ）41.We ca lear from the a age that _____.

A. handshake and ki ca ot e used i greeting

B. only a few eople use ody language

C. eople ca “talk” with their hands, head and eyes

D. ody language i more ofte used y eople tha words

（ ）42. Whe India meet, they _____.

A. ki each other . ut their hand together

C. ow to each other D. just mile

（ ）43. I the USA and ritain, _____.

A. me alway ki their wome friend whe they meet

B. eople would like to hake hand whenever they meet their friends

C. father and o ofte ki each other

D. wome ki each other more ofte while me don’t