1、江苏省江苏省常州常州市市 2019-2021 年年三三年中考英语试卷分类汇编年中考英语试卷分类汇编 阅读理解阅读理解 2021 年年常州常州市中考英语试题市中考英语试题 三、阅读理解三、阅读理解(共共 13 小题；每小题小题；每小题 2 分，满分分，满分 26 分分) 阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。卡上将该项涂黑。 A In modern times. our clothes seem good enough to meet our needs both in
2、 color and style. However, are you impatient with washing your clothes so often? Are you tired of the same color? If your answer is Yes. Lets meet the fashion in the future. Sun-No - Spot To clean this shirt, just stand in the sun! A special material on the surface receives UV light from the sun. Th
3、is heats it up enough to make stains(污渍) missing. You stay cool. but stains disappear! Some stains disappear in minutes - others might take a day. New Fabric Suit Are you sick of holes in your clothes? This new material repairs itself! If this cloth gets a hole. just rub (搓揉) the broken place quickl
4、y. Heat from the rubbing will cause the materials to connect with each other again, repairing the hole. Hole? What hole? New Wiggle Vigor This cloth gets a charge(充电) from running around. As you move, the thin wires in the material turn your movement into power. This can charge a computer, an ipad,
5、a hair-dryer, and many other small things that need power. Chameleon Cloth Tired of the same old look? How about clothes that change colors? This material is made with dyes(染料) that change colors when they get warm. A small battery heats up thin metal threads(金属线) in the cloth. to change colors or f
6、orms. 23. If your Sun-No - Spot shirt is dirty with stains, what can you do to clean it? A. Warm it in the sun. B. Rub it quickly. C. Connect it to a computer. D. Change its color. 24. If your mobile phone has no power. which one can help you? A. Sur-No-Spot. B. New Fabric Suit. C. New Wiggle Vigor.
7、 D. Chameleon Cloth. 25. Which of the next pictures goes well with Chameleon Cloth? B In the Spring and Autumn period (475 - 221 BC) there lived a man called Ji Zha. He was the fourth son of the king of the Kingdom of Wu. Because of Ji Zhas sticking to righteousness(义)and wide learning, he was his f
8、athers favorite. and the king wanted to make him his heir(堆承人). However, Ji Zha refused because he thought the kings eldest son should be the one to receive the throne. Later. Ji Zha served as an ambassador(外交大臣) of Wu to other kingdoms in China. Once. on a mission to the Kingdom of Lu, Ji Zha passe
9、d through the Kingdom of Xu. The king of Xu received him as a friend, and admired the valuable sword(剑) Ji Zha was wearing. Although his host didnt mention it. Ji Zha could see he wanted to own it very much. However, as he still needed to go to Lu. Ji Zha didnt give the king of Xu his sword as a pre
10、sent. After finishing his mission to Lu, on his way back, Ji Zha once again passed through Xu. This time he decided to give the sword to the king of Xu. But when he arrived. His friend had already passed away. Ji Zha didnt expect it and felt very sad. He took off his sword and gave it to the dead ma
11、n by hanging it on a tree near his tomb(坟墓). Ji Zhas attendants (随从)didnt understand his action, saying, Sir, the king of Xu is already dead. Why do you still give up your sword to him? Ji Zha shook his head. When I came to the Kingdom of Xu last time. I noticed that my friend admired my sword. and
12、I decided that when I came back I would give it to him. However, I never expected this turn of events. But how could I change my mind just because the man had died? With these words, he left the place, low - spirited and heart - broken. 26. What do we know about Ji Zha from the passage? A. He was bo
13、rn in 221 BC. B. He didnt have the ability to be a king. C. He was a careful and generous man. D. He lost his fight for the throne to his brother. 27. Why did Ji Zha give up his sword to the king of Xu although he had died? A. He was loyal to his country. B. He was loyal to righteousness. C. He wan
14、guilty of his friends death. D. He was guilty of not seeing his friend before his death 28. What is the best title of this story! A. Ji Zha and His Friend B. Ji Zha and His Country C. Ji Zha Gives Up His Throne D. Ji Zha Gives Up His Sword C Durbeyfield sat down upon the grassy land by the roadside.
15、 putting his basket before him. In a few minutes, a youth from his village appeared in the distance. On seeing him, Durbeyfield held up his hand, and the boy quickened his steps and came near. Boy, take up that basket! I want you to do something for me. The skinny boy frowned(皱眉), who are you then,
16、John Durbeyfield. to order me about and call me boy? You know my name as well as I know yours! Do you. do you? Thats the secret - Thats the secret! Now obey my orders, and Fred. I dont mind telling you that the secret is that Im one of noble race(贵族) - it has been just found out by me this present a
17、fternoon. And as he made the announcement, he luxuriously(奢侈地) lay himself upon the land among the flowers The boy stood before Durbeyfield, and looked at him from head to foot. Sir, John D Urberville thats who I am, continued Durbeyfield. Do you know such a place as Greenhill? Yes. I have been ther
18、e to Greenhill fair(集市). Well, under the church of that city there lie my ancestors(祖先) - hundreds of them - in coats of jewellery. There is not a man here whos got greater and nobler ancestors than I. oh? Now take up that basket, and go on to the Pure Drop Inn, telling them to send a horse and carr
19、iage(马车) with a servant(仆人) here quickly. to carry me home. And when youve done that, goon to my house with the basket, and tell my wife to put away that washing. because she neednt finish it, and wait till I come home, as Ive news to tell her. As the boy stood in doubt, Durbeyfield put his hand int
20、o his pocket. And produced a shilling (a unit of money used in Britain until 1971). Here is for your work. son. This made a difference. Yes, Sir John. Thank you. The boy took up the basket. and set out at once. 29. What did Durbeyfield ask Fred to do? A. Listen to a story. B. Find out a secret. C. S
21、end messages for him. D. Drive a horse and carriage for him. 30. Which of the following about Durbeyfield is TRUE? A. He did believe he was a noble. B. He wanted to play a trick on Fred. C. He was the richest man in the city. D. He used to live in Greenhill. 31. What made the boy willing to work for
22、 Durbeyfield? A. Durbeyfields secret. B. Durbeyfields order. C. His visit to Greenhill fair. D. The unit of money. 32. What is most probably the relationship between Durbeyfield and Fred? A. Father and son. B. Neighbors. C. Close friends. D. Master and servant. D There are only 24 hours in a day, an
23、d usually about a third of that is spent sleeping. So is it possible to make use of this time and learn a new skill or even a language? In other words. is sleep learning possible? Many studies have found that a basic form of learning. called conditioning. can happen during sleep. In a 2012 study pub
24、lished in the magazine Nature Neuroscience. for example, Israeli researchers found that people can learn to connect sounds with smells during sleep. The scientists played a tone to sleeping study participants while putting some rotten(腐烂的)fish beside their beds. Once awake. when hearing the tone. Th
25、e people held their breath in anticipation of a bad smell. This was a dear finding showing participants formed new memories during sleep, said Andrillon, a scientist in this held. Although the now memory was implicit (暗示性的), it could influence how people behave, researchers found in a 2014 study pub
26、lished in the Journal of Neuroscience. In that research. after spending a night in a room full of cigarette(香烟) smell mixed with rotten eggs or fish, smokers use fewer cigarettes. Andrillon and his team members have found that learning in sleep can also go beyond simple conditioning. In their 2017 s
27、tudy published in Nature Communications, participants were able to pick out sound features that they had heard during sleep. Learning abilities in sleep may spread to learning of words. In a study published in Current Biology, researchers played pairs of made - up words and their supposed meanings l
28、ike guga means elephant. to sleep participants. After this, when awake. the participants did better in picking the right translation of made - up words in a multi - choice test. So far, research suggests it may be possible to learn about the tone and pronunciation of a language or even the meaning o
29、f words while sleeping. although it is to a weaker level than what we do during the day without noticing. 33. What is the main purpose of the text? A. To show that sleep learning is possible. B. To study how to make use of sleep learning. C. To report some famous research findings. D. To prove sleep
30、 learning is implicit and weak. 34. What does the phrase new memories in the third paragraph refer to(指的是)? A. Connection between participants and scientists. B. Connection between sounds and smells. C. The tones influence on the rotten fish. D. The rotten eggs influence on cigarettes. 35. What is t
31、he main idea of the last two paragraphs? A. Sleep can do good to learning. B. Language learning can happen in sleep. C. People learn in sleep in a different language. D. Sleep learning is better than daytime learning. 答案：答案： A) 23-25ACC B) 26-28 CBD C) 29-32 CADB D) 33-35 ABB 2020 年年常州常州市中考英语试题市中考英语
32、试题 三、阅读理解三、阅读理解(共共 13 小题；每小题小题；每小题 2 分，满分分，满分 26 分分) 阅读下列短文, 从短文后各题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中, 选出最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A With so much free time on our hands during lockdown, many of us have entertained the idea of knowing more about the world. Learning a foreign language is a good choice. Here are a few example
33、s, in order of time it takes people to learn them. Latin languages (about 600 hours) The popular Latin languages Italian, French, Spanish and Portuguese require about 600 hours to learn. Of these, Spanish and Italian are the easiest for English speakers to learn. They are followed by Portuguese and
34、finally French. Latin languages share many words with English. However, those shared words look or sound similar, but have different meanings over time. Greek (1,100 hours) Modern Greek is maybe the easiest language to learn that uses a different alphabet(字母表). It is also a language that has contrib
35、uted many words to English. Indeed, the president of Greece once gave two speeches at an international meeting that included just Greek loan words(外来词) as well as the unavoidable basic English. Japanese (2, 200 hours) Counting objects in Japanese depends on whether they are long and thin (like “road
36、s”), small and round (like “apples”), thin and flat (like “sheets of paper”), and hundreds more examples. What Japanese you speak also depends on your gender(性别). Theres a “rough” language for men and a more “ladylike” language for women, but you must understand both. Chinese (2, 200 hours) Each Chi
37、nese written word is hardly understandable when spoken between a Mandarin (普通话) speaker in Beijing and a Cantonese speaker in Guangdong. If you think thats strange, consider our number system: the symbol “2” is widely understood but its pronounced “two” in English and “duex” in French. 23. For an En
38、glish speaker, which of the following is the easiest to learn? A. Japanese. B. French. C. Greek. D. Italian. 24. What can we learn from the passage? A. The same word in two languages always has the same meaning. B. The English language and the Greek language use the same alphabet. C. Objects are cou
39、nted differently in Japanese according to their shapes. D. A Mandarin speaker and a Cantonese speaker write Chinese differently. 25. The purpose of this passage is to tell English speakers_. A. how to learn some foreign languages B. why they must learn a foreign language C. some information on the d
40、ifficulty of foreign languages D. not to choose an Asian language to learn as it is too hard B Influenza, or flu(流感), is a type of virus. It spreads from one person to another quickly. When someone who has the flu coughs or sneezes, little droplets from their lungs (肺) spread out into the air. Anyon
41、e nearby can get sick. Even a person who touches something with the virus and then touches his or her mouth, eyes, or nose, can become infected(感染). The outbreak of the 1918 influenza infected about 500 million people worldwide. It killed from 20 million to 50 million people. It was first seen in Eu
42、rope, the United States, and parts of Asia. It then spread quickly around the world. Many people who bccame sick were young, healthy adults. At the time, no treatments worked in the prevention of the spread of the killer flu. People were ordered to wear masks. Schools, theaters and other public plac
43、es were closed. When the first wave(波in the spring of 1918 hit, it didnt seem serious. People who were infected felt the usual flu symptoms(症状), which are chills, fevers, and feeling tired. Those who got sick generally got better after several days. Not many died. However, a second, highly contagiou
44、s(传染的)wave of influenza appeared in the fall of that same year. Victims died shortly after they were infected within hours or days. Their skin turned blue and their lungs were filled with liquid(液体), making it very difficult to breathe. By the summer of 1919, the flu pandemic(大流行病) came to an end. S
45、ick people had either got well or died. Almost 90 years later, in 2008, researchers announced theyd discovered why the 1918 flu was so deadly. The flu virus inflamed (使恶化)the lungs, causing them to fill with liquid. Since 1918, there have been several other influenza pandemics, although none has bee
46、n quite as deadly. 26. What information about the 1918 flu is mentioned in the passage? A. The reason why it was so deadly. B. The reason why it ended. C. The change it caused to medical research. D. The place in which it was last seen. 27. All the people that were infected with the 1918 flu_. A. ha
47、d blue skin that led to their death B. had touched someone with the virus C. died as their lungs were filled with liquid D. had the virus in their bodies that made them sick 28. Which of the following statements about the 1918 flu is TRUE according to the passage? A. Wearing a mask was the best way
48、to treat it. B. A younger person had a lower risk of being infccted with it. C. People expected the coming of its second wave, but couldnt stop it. D. It was deadlier than any other influenza pandemic in modern history. C “Whats wrong, Carina?” Collin asked. “Homesick again?” His sister nodded. “Yea
49、h, me too.” Collin sighed(叹息). Their family had moved to the new place nearly four months ago. The new place was housed inside a huge transparent dome (透明的圆屋顶). It still didnt feel like home. “I miss my friends,” Carina said sadly. “And green grass and swimming, and everything. I even miss the sound
50、 of rain on the roof(屋顶).” “Worst of all,” Carina continued, “my birthday is in two days, and I dont think Mom and Dad are planning anything special. Theyre too busy.” “Shes probably right,” thought Collin. Life here was very busy for scientists like their parents. He doubted if they had time to pla
