门的英文中考英语复习： 难度较大的阅读文章含答案十

2021年1月20日发(作者：开式轴承)


义务教育基础课程初中教学资料
第一篇

New Foods and the New World





In
the
last
500
years,
nothing
about
people---not
their
clothes,
ideas,
or
languages
—
has
changed as much as what they eat. The original chocolate drink was made from the seeds of the
cocoa tree
（可可树）
by South American Indians. The Spanish introduced it to the rest of the world
during the 1500’s. And although it was very expensive, it quickly became fashionable. In London,
shops
where
chocolate
drinks
were
served
became
important
meeting
places.
Some
still
exist
today.




The potato is also from the New World. Around 1600, the Spanish brought it from Peru to
Europe,
where
it
soon
was
widely
grown.
Ireland
became
so
dependent
on
it
that
thousands
of
Irish people starved when the crop failed during the “Potato
Famine(
饥荒
)”of 1845—
1846, and
thousands more were forced to leave their homeland and move to America.




There are many other foods that have traveled from South America to the Old World. But
some others went in the opposite direction. Brazil is now the wo
rld’s largest grower of coffee, and
coffee is an important crop in Colombia and other South American countries. But it is native to
Ethiopia, a country in Africa. It was first made into a drink by Arabs during the 1400’s.





According to an Arabic legend, coffee was discovered when a person named Kaldi noticed

that his goats were attracted to the red berries on a coffee bush. He tried one and experienced the
“wide
-
awake” feeling that one
-
third of the world’s population now starts the day with.





31

According to the passage, which of the following has changed the most in the last 500
years?




A Food




B Clothing




C Ideology




D Language




32

“some” in the last sentence of the first paragraph refers to





A some cocoa trees




B some chocolate drinks.





C some shops




D some South American Indians




33

Thousands of Irish people starved during the “Potato Famine” because





A they were so dependent on potatoes that they refused to eat anything else




B they were forced to leave their homeland and move to America




C the weather conditions in Ireland were not suitable for growing potatoes




D the potato harvest was bad




34

Which country is the largest coffee producer?




A Brazil




B Colombia




C Ethiopia




E Egypt




35

Which of the following statements is NOT true, according to the passage?




A. One third of the world’s population drinks coffee.





B. Coffee is native to Colombia




C. Coffee can keep one awake.




D. Coffee drinks were first made by Arabs.




第二篇

Teaching poetry





No poem should ever be discussed or “analyzed”, until it has been read aloud by someone,
teacher or student. Better still, perhaps, is the practice of reading it twice, once at the beginning of
the discussion and once at the end, so the sound of the poem is the last thing one hears of it.




All discussions of poetry are, in fact, preparations for reading it aloud, and the reading of the
poem is, finally, the most telling “interpretation” of it, suggesting tone, rhythm, and meaning all at

once. Hearing a poet read the work in his or her own voice, on records or on film, is obviously a
special reward. But even those aids to teaching can not replace the student and teacher reading it
or, best of all, reciting(
背诵
) it.





I have come to think, in fact, that time spent reading a poem aloud is much more important
than “analyzing” it, if there isn’t time for both. I think one of our goals as teachers of English is to
have students love poetry. Poetry is “ a criticism of life”, and “ a heightening
(
提升
) of life”. It is
“an approach to the truth of feeling”, and it “ can save your life”. It also deserves a place in the
teaching of language and literature more central than it presently occupies.




I am not saying that every English teacher must teach
poetry. Those who don’t like it should
not be forced to put that dislike on anyone else. But those who do teach poetry must keep in mind
a few thing s about its essential nature, about its sound as well as its sense, and they must make
room in the classroom for hearing poetry as well as thinking about it.




36 To have a better understanding of a poem, one should




A discuss it with others.




B analyze it by oneself.




C copy it down in a notebook




D practise reading it aloud




37 Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a function of poetry?




A Extending your life.




B Saving your life.




C Criticizing life.




D Heightening life.




38 According to the writer, one of the purposes of teaching English is to get students




A to understand life.




B to enjoy poetry.




C to become teachers.




D to become poets




39 What does the last sentence in the third paragraph imply?




A More stress should be laid on the teaching of poetry.