pugna【部编】浙江省杭州市2021年中考英语模拟试卷(十二)

2021年1月7日发(作者：纪镇)



浙江省杭州市2021年中考英语模拟试卷（十二）

一、阅读理解（共3题，共30分）
1.阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出最
佳选项。
Bored with your life? Dreaming of something different? When
I feel like that I look up and wonder what life would be like
400km above my head. That's where the International Space
Station orbits the Earth, with six astronauts living and
working on board, for months at a time.
How do they sleep? They spend the night floating in a sleeping
bag inside a small cubicle on the ceiling. American astronaut
Sunita Williams explains:
it's pretty comfy and it doesn't matter if I turn over and sleep
upside down. I don't have any sensation in my head that tells
me I'm upside down.
Brushing your teeth in a place where you can't have a tap or
a sink can be a challenge. Can you imagine the mess that running
water would make in zero gravity? Canadian astronaut Chris
Hadfield uses a straw to put a big blob of water from a sealed
bag onto an ordinary toothbrush and adds a little toothpaste
- which he has to swallow when he's done.



Daily exercise is essential. The lack of gravity makes bones
more brittle and muscles lose strength – so astronauts are
encouraged to work out for at least two hours a day.
The role of astronauts in the International Space Station is
to act as lab technicians for scientists back on Earth. So they
spend their time maintaining their environment and performing
and monitoring experiments in a confined space about the size
of a Boeing 747. Almost every task is carefully planned by
mission control - although most astronauts spend their first
days losing stuff until they get used to sticking everything
they use to the walls with Velcro, duct tape or clips.
One of their most valued perks is the view from
dominated by that gigantic blue ball down there, sitting in the
darkness of space. Wow! Absolutely breathtaking!
(1)From the passage we can infer that at first __________
astronauts are used to sticking everything
astronauts do exercise every day
astronauts brush their teeth easily
astronauts have difficulty in holding something
(2)To brush the teeth in space, astronauts need something
special except________.
A.a tap



B.a toothbrush
C.a straw
D.a little toothpaste
(3)The underlined word “gravity” in the paragraph 5 means
__________.
A.弹力
B.压力
C.重力
D.浮力
(4)We can learn from this passage that astronauts__________.
their time working in a Boeing 747
in a sleeping bag every night
encouraged to exercise for at least two hours a week
and work on the earth
(5)Which would be the best title for this passage?
unforgettable journey.
ational Space Station
g in space
taking view
2.阅读理解
One day a daughter complained to her father that her life was
miserable and that she didn,t know how she was going to make



it. She was tired of fighting and struggling all the time. It
seemed just as one problem was solved, another one soon followed.
Her father, a chef, took her to the kitchen. He filled three
pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Once the three
pots began to boil, he placed potatoes in one pot, eggs in the
second pot, and ground(研磨过的)coffee beans in the third pot.
He then let them sit and boil, without saying a word to his
daughter.
After twenty minutes he turned off the burners. He took the
potatoes out of the pot and placed them in a bowl. He pulled
the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. He then ladled the coffee
out and placed it in a cup. Turning to her, he asked. “Daughter,
what do you see?”
“Potatoes, eggs, and coffee,” she hastily replied.
“Look closer,” he said. She did and noticed that potatoes
were soft. After pulling off the shell of the egg, she found
the hard- boiled egg. Finally, the rich aroma from the coffee
brought a smile to her face.
“Father, what does this mean?”She asked.
He then explained that the potatoes, the eggs and coffee
beans had each faced the same adversity– the boiling water.
However, each one reacted differently.



The potato went in strong, hard, and unrelenting, but in
boiling water, it became soft and weak.
The egg was fragile, with the thin outer shell protecting
its liquid interior until it was put in the boiling water. Then
the inside of the egg became hard.
However, the ground coffee beans were unique. After they
met the boiling water, they changed the water and created
something new.
“Which are you,” he asked his daughter. “Are you a potato,
an egg, or a coffee bean? ”
(1)Why did the father take his daughter to the kitchen?
was hungry
daughter was hungry
was unhappy
daughter was unhappy
(2)The father put three kinds of food into the water except
__________.
es

beans
es
(3)After being put into boiling water, what happened?



potato became soft and weak.
inside of the egg became hard.
bean created something new.
of the above.
(4)The underlined word “adversity” in the passage
means__________.
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situation
situation
(5)What did the father and the daughter mainly talked about?

to cook delicious food
difference among a potato, an egg and a coffee bean
to face difficulties
is full of trouble
3.阅读理解
There was a man who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn
to not judge things too quickly. So he sent them each on a quest,
in turn, to go and look at a pear tree that was a great distance
away. The first son went in the winter, the second in the spring,
the third in summer, and the youngest son in the fall.



When they had all gone and come back, he called them
together to describe what they had seen. The first son said that
the tree was ugly, bent, and twisted. The second son said no
- it was covered with green buds and full of promise. The third
son disagreed, he said it was laden with blossoms that smelled
so sweet and looked so beautiful, it was the most graceful thing
he had ever seen. The last son disagreed with all of them; he
said it was ripe and drooping with fruit, full of life and
fulfillment.
The man then explained to his sons that they were all right,
because they had each seen but one season in the tree's life.
He told them that you cannot judge a tree, or a person, by
only one season, and that the essence of who they are - and the
pleasure, joy, and love that come from that life - can only be
measured at the end, when all the seasons are up.
If you give up when it's winter, you will miss the promise
of your spring, the beauty of your summer, fulfillment of your
fall. Don't let the pain of one season destroy the joy of all
the rest.
(1)From the last paragraph we learn that we _______.
n,t give up too quick
love our life