牛津版中考英语阅读理解实战演练1.docx

1、牛津版中考英语阅读理解实战演练1 实战演练阅读理解材料浩如烟海，中考英语复习，时间短，任务重。为了能让同学们脱离题海，更加省时省力地提高自己的阅读理解能力，我们特意选编了一些题材新颖、质量上乘的阅读材料。这些材料内容丰富，趣味性强，无论是在设计上，还是在难度上，都与中考英语试题相当。“会当凌绝顶，一览众山小”。完成这些短文及题目之后，再做中考阅读理解题，就一定能驾轻就熟，游刃有余。Section I 缤纷自然篇Passage 1We know that many animals do not stay in one place. Birds, fish and other animals mo

2、ve from one place to another at a certain time. They move for different reasons: most of them move to find food more easily, but others move to get away from places that are too crowded.When cold weather comes, many birds move to warmer places to find food. Some fishes give birth in warm water and m

3、ove to cold water to feed. The most famous migration (迁移) is probably the migration of fish, which is called “salmon”. This fish is born in fresh water but it travels many miles to salt water. There it spends its life. When it is old, it returns to its birthplace in fresh water. Then it gives birth

4、and dies. In northern Europe, there is a kind of mouse. They leave their mountain homes when they become too crowded. They move down to the low land. Sometimes they move all the way to the seaside, and many of them are killed when they fall into the sea.Recently (近来), scientists have studied the mig

5、ration of a kind of lobster (龙虾). Every year, when the season of the bad weather arrives, the lobsters get into a long line and start to walkacross the floor of the ocean. Nobody knows why they do this, and nobody knows where they go.So, sometimes we know why humans and animals move from one place t

6、o another, but at other times we dont. Maybe living things just like to travel.1.Most animals move from one place to another at a certain time to _.A.give birth B. enjoy warmer weather C. find food more easily D. find beautiful places2.The fish called “salmon” spends a long time in _.A. salt water B

7、. rivers C. fresh water D. its birthplace3.The mice in northern Europe move when _.A. they give birth B. the place gets too crowded C. the weather is bad D. they havent enough food4.The lobsters move _.A. to the fresh water B. at a certain time C. to the undersea D. to find more food5.What is the ma

8、in idea of the passage?A.Animals move to find food more easily. B.The migration of the fish called “salmon” is the most famous migration. C.Living things move from one place to another because they like to travel. D. Sometimes we know why and how living things move from one place to another, but som

9、etimes we dont.Passage 2If you look at the sky one night and see something moving and shining that you have never seen before, it might be a comet (彗星).A comet sometimes looks like a star. Like a planet, a comet has no light of its own. It shines from the sunlight it reflects (反射). Like the earth, a

10、 comet goes round the sun, but on a much longer path (轨道) than the earth travels.If a comet isnt a star, what is it then?Some scientists think that a large part of a comet is water frozen into pieces of ice and mixed with iron and rock dust and perhaps a few big pieces of rock. When sunshine melts (

11、融化) the ice in the comet, great clouds of gas go trailing after it. These clouds, together with the dust, form a long tail.Many people perhaps have seen a comet. However no one knows how many comets there are. There may be millions of comets, but only a few come close enough for us to see.An English

12、man named Edmund Halley, who lived from 1656 to 1742, found out a lot about the paths that comets take through the sky. Some comets move out of our sight and never come back. Others keep coming back at regular times. A big comet that keeps coming back was named after Halley because he was the one wh

13、o worked out when it would come back again. Maybe you have ever seen Halleys Comets because the last time it came close to the sun and the earth was in the year 1986. Then people all over the world were outside at night to look at it. You will probably be able to see Halleys Comets when it comes nea

14、r the earth again.1.A comet is like _.A. sun B. moon C. sunlight D. the earth2.A large part of a comet is _.A.water and rock B. water frozen into pieces of ice and mixed with ironC. ice, iron and rock dust D. only a few big pieces of rock3.Maybe many people _.A. havent seen any comets B. have seen a

15、ll cometsC. have seen a comet at daytime D. have seen a comet4.Some comets keep coming back _.A. at any time B. at noon C. at regular times D. at daytime5.Halleys Comets came back _.A. in 1990 B. in 1980 C. in 1986 D. in 1989Passage 3Do you know something about tree rings (年轮)? Do you know they can

16、tell us what the weather was like, sometimes even hundreds of years ago?A tree will grow well in a climate (气候)with lots of sunshine and rainfall. And little sunshine or rainfall will limit (限制)the growth of climate by studying the tree rings. For example, to find out the weather of ten years ago, c

17、ount the rings of a tree from the outside to the inside. If the tenth ring is far from the eleventh ring, then were sure that it was sunny and rainy most of that year. If it is near to the eleventh ring, then the climate that year was bad.Tree rings are important not only for studying the history of

18、 weather but also for studying the history of man. Many centuries ago there lived a lot of people at a place in New Mexico. But now you can find only sand thereno trees and no people. What happened?A scientist studied the rings of dead trees there. He found that the people had to leave because they

19、had cut down all the trees to make fires and buildings. As all the trees had gone, the people there had to move.1._ in good climate.A. Tree rings grow far from each other B. Tree rings become thinnerC. Trees dont need sunshine or rainfall D. People can cut down most of the trees2.The scientists are

20、interested in studying tree rings because tree rings can tell _.A.whether a tree was strong or not B. whether people took good care of the trees or notC. whether the climate was good or not D. how old the trees were3.If you want to find out the weather of twenty years ago, you should study _.A. the

21、twentieth ring B. the tenth ring C. the nineteenth ring D. the twenty-first ring4.Why did people usually live in places with lots of trees?A.Trees could tell the change of the weatherB.Trees brought lots of sunshine and rainC.Trees could make weather not too hot or too coldD.Trees could be used for

22、burning and for building house5.The people had to leave the place in New Mexico because _.A.had weather stopped the growth of treesB.they no longer had water and the land became sandC.they didnt have enough trees for burning D.there was too much rain therePassage 4All our food comes from the soil (土

23、壤). Some of us eat meat, but animals live on plants. If these were no plants, we should have no animals and meat. So the soil is necessary for life.The top of ground is usually covered with grass or other plants. Plants grow in soil, which has a dark color. This dark soil is humus, dead leaves, dead

24、 plants and animal waste make it, but this takes a long time. When the humus has been made, plants can grow well in it.All soil needs food. If we dont give it any, the plants will be weak. Animals waste is the best food for the soil, but chemical fertilizers (化肥) are also very useful. The same crop

25、should not be grown in the same place every year; it is better to have a different crop. A change of crop and the use of a good fertilizer will keep the land in good condition.When the soil is dry, the wind blows it away. Sometimes heavy rain carries the humus down to a river. People should grow mor

26、e and more trees and grass to stop wind from carrying the humus away. It takes hundreds of years to make humus, and so we must save every bit of it. Without soil, where can we grow food?1.From the text, we know people live on _.A. animal B. plant C. meat D. soil2.The word “humus” means _ in Chinese.

27、A.微生物 B.土壤 C.腐殖土 D.粘土3.We should _ to keep the soil.A. give more fertilizers B. kill more animals C. make more humus D. grow more trees and grass4.We should save every bit of humus, because _.A.it takes a long time to make humusB.the more humus in the soil, the better plants growC.the chemical ferti

28、lizers are expensiveD.A and B5.The best title of this text should be _.A.Soil is necessary to peopleB.The same crop cant be grown in the same place every yearC.Soils food is chemical fertilizersD.Humus is hard to makePassage 5In the sea there are many islands. In its warm waters there are some littl

29、e ones. We call them “coral Islands”.A coral island is very nice to look at. It looks like a ring of land (一圈陆地) with trees, grass, and flowers on it. One part of the ring is open to the water. There is a little round lake inside the island.If you look into this lake, you will see beautiful coral. Y

30、ou say think they are flowers. If you look at a piece of coral, you will see many little holes in it. In each of these holes a very small sea animal has lived. These sea animals make the coral.They began to build under the water. Year after year, the coral grew higher and higher. At last it grew out

31、 of the water.Then the sea brought it small trees and something else. After some years, these things changed into earth. Sometimes the wind brought seeds (种子) to this earth. Sometimes birds flew over it and brought seeds to the island.The little seeds grew. In a few years there were plants all over the island. In a few more years there were trees growing there.So you see, these islands were built little by little. The workers were very small. Do they not teach us a lesson? Can you thi