Today-almost-everyone-knows-computers-and-the-internet.doc

Today almost everyone knows computers and the internet.If I ask you what is the most important.If I ask you what is the most important in your life?maybe you will say Computers and the internet. The first computer was made in 1946.It was very big but it worked slowly.Today computers are getting smaller.But they work faster and faster.What can computers do? A writer has said ,People cant live without computers today. The internet came a little later than computers.It is about twenty-five years later than computers.But now it can be found almost everywhere.We can use it to read books,write letter,do shopping,play games or make friends. Many students like the internet very much.They often go into the internet as soon as they have never seen these friends.They dont konw their real names,ages,and even sex.They are so interested in making the unreal friendsthat they cant put their hearts in to study.Many of them cant catch up with others on many subjects because of that. We can use computers and the internet to learn more about the world.But at the same time,we should remember that not all the things can be done by computers and the internet.21,When the computer was invented,it was_A,large and worked quickly B,large but worked slowlyC,small and worked slowlyD,small but worked quickly 22,The internet was born in about_A,1960 B,1971 C,1980 D,198523,Which of the following is TRUE?A,Students koow the friends on the internet very wellB,Few students like surfing on the internetC,Students use the internet to make unreal friends.D,Theseunreal friendsoften meet each other.24,What does the writer think of the internet?A,It is helpful,but we can not do everything on itB,It can make students work harderC,It is not good for students D,It is wonderful 21 B22 C23 C24 A How can we get rid of garbage? Do we have enough energy sources to meet our future energy needs? These are two important questions that many people are asking today. Some people think that men might he able to solve both problems at the same time. They suggest using garbage as an energy source. For a long time people buried garbage or dumped it on empty land. Now, empty land is scarce. But more and more garbage is produced each year. But garbage can be a good fuel to use. The things in garbage do not look like coal, petroleum, or natural gas; but they are chemically similar to these fossil fuels. As we use up our fossil-fuel supplies, we might be able to use garbage as an energy source. Burning garbage is not a new idea. Some cities in Europe and the United States have been burning garbage for years. The heat that is produced by burning garbage is used to boil water. The steam that is produced is used to make electricity or to heat nearby buildings. In Paris, France, some power plants burn almost 2 million metric tons of the citys garbage each year. The amount of energy produced is about the sane as would he produced by burning almost a half million barrels of oil! But there are problems in using garbage as a fuel. Garbage that burns easily, such as food scraps and paper, must be separated from metals, glass, and other materials that do not burn easily This separation process is normally costly. Another problem is that burning garbage can pollute the air. Our fossil fuel supplies are limited. Burning garbage might be one kind of energy source that we can use to help meet our energy needs. This method could also reduce the amount of garbage piling up on the earth. 1. What two problems can be solved by burning garbage? A. The shortage of energy; Air pollution. B. The shortage of energy; The shortage of empty land for holding garbage. C. Air pollution; The shortage of empty land for holding garbage. D. Air pollution; The shortage of fossil fuel. 2. Which of the following is NOT a result of burning garbage? A. The heat produced is used to boil water. B. The steam produced is used to make electricity. C. The garbage burned is turned into fossil fuels. D. The steam produced is used to heat buildings. 3. According to the passage. Which of the following four groups of garbage is ready for burning? A. food scraps and metals B. paper and glass C. metals and glass D. food scraps and paper 4. Which of the following methods of exposition is NOT used in this passage? A. questions and answers B. figurers C. examples D. analogy 5. What is the general tone of the passage? A. optimistic B. indifferent C. advocating D. anxious答案 ： B C D D CMost of the ill heath we suffer could be prevented if people made more effort to change their life styles. Instead, many people continue to smoke, to drink excessively and to eat unbalanced diets. How can governments help people protect their health and avoid premature death? Well, many of the measures which need to be taken are primarily a matter of new legislation and need not he expensive. One of the first preventive health measures should be an increase in taxes on tobacco to the point at which consumption falls off. The aim should be to raise the same amount of revenue from a decreasing number of people. In the short term such a policy could even raise extra money, which could then be spent on subsidisings sport so that advertising tobacco through sports sponsorship could be banned. Legislation is badly needed to ban all advertising of tobacco products as it persuades people to smoke more and so is in a larger part responsible for the ill health and thousands of premature deaths caused by cancer of the lung. Other measures should he enforced , such as a much tougher health warning on cigarette packets, and tobacco companies should be made to contribute to research into a cure for lung cancer. Alcoholism could he prevented by making wines, spirits and strong beers more expensive and the revenue raised could be used to set up clinics to help the people who already have a drinking problem and want to give up. Similarly all advertising of alcohol should be banned and compensation paid to families of alcoholics who die of the liver disease. 1. Among the following statements, which one is not the life style that people should make more efforts to change in order to suffer less? A. stop smoking B. drink less C. eat balanced food D. collect stamps 2. What does revenue in the second paragraph mean? A. the general income of a government B. pocket money C. broad street with trees on both sides D. building built in memory of somebody or some event 3. Which of the following answers is wrong as to the result of new legislation on tobacco? A. In a short term, the new legislation will raise money for the country. B. Then the money can stop tobacco sponsorship with sports. C. In the long run, the new legislation will cause tobacco consumption to fall. D. But in the long run, the new legislation may raise the falling number of smokers again. 4. Choose the one measure that the writer wants to carry out against both tobacco and alcohol companies. A. higher taxes B. lower prices C. advertising banned D. tougher warning 5. How is the writers attitude towards tobacco and alcohol? A. positive B. slightly negative C. strongly opposing them D. objective 答案：D A D C C 首頁中考英語2010年中考英語第二輪復(fù)習(xí)(專項(xiàng)訓(xùn)練)閱讀理解2010年中考英語閱讀練習(xí)題作者：田冬云來源：轉(zhuǎn)載更新時(shí)間：2009-10-14點(diǎn)擊數(shù)：1422. 根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容完成句子。（10分）Dear editor, I am not a good-looking boy and I am not good at studying, either. Some people dont even want to talk to me. So I usually feel lonely. Sometimes I think that if I want to leave home, nobody will care. How can I stop feeling like this? PeterDear Peter, But first, I am sure that you are wrong that nobody will care if you leave your home. What about your parents? And other family members? It seems that you are very sad. Youd better go to see a doctor or talk to your parents. They can help you. Second, Im sure theres someone in your class who feels lonely, too. You never know how other people feel inside. Try to make friends with them. Or you join a club to meet new people and to keep yourself busy.You need to find happiness in yourself. Write a list of all the good things about yourself. Learn to like yourself, and then others will see your confidence (信心) and like you, too. Editor1. Peter isnt good at and he feels _.2. He writes to the editor to ask for _ because he wants to _feeling lonely. 3. If Peter joins a club, he can new people and keep busy.4. The editor suggests (建議) that Tom should talk to a and his .5. Peter is lack of (缺少) and he needs to find _ in himself(A)Believe it or not, a rain check is not a weather report. A rain check is a small piece of paper. When can you get a rain check? Well, if you are going to a ball game or some other open-air activity and it is called off because of rain or some other reason, you may receive a rain check. With it you may go there again without paying.You may also receive a rain check at a shop. As you know, sometimes when you go to a shop to buy something which is on sale, it is sold out. You may ask the assistant to give you a rain check and with it you can go again next time to buy what you need at the sale price.Heres another way to use this word. If someone invites you to go somewhere, you would like to go very much but cannot, you may say “May I have a rain check?” This means, “I will come next time.” But you can never say “May I take a rain check?” when your teacher gives you some homework.True or False （判斷下列句子是否符合短文， 符合的用“T”表示，不符合的用“F”表示）：( ) 1. A rain check is a piece of paper with whether report on it.( ) 2. When a ball game is called off because of rain, we can get a rain check.( ) 3. We can also get a rain check at a shop.( ) 4. We can buy something we need without paying with a rain check.( ) 5. Sometimes a rain check means “I will come next time.”( ) 6. Teachers will be glad to give their students a rain check when they ask them to do some homework(B)The United States is one of the greatest fruit-growing countries in the world. Fine red apples come from Washington and New York. Golden oranges come from Southern California and Florida. Fruit grows in all parts of America. The kind of fruit that is grown depends on the weather in each place.Orange trees cannot be grown where temperatures drop below freezing. Southern California and Florida are far away from each other, but their weather is much the same. They do not often have freezing temperatures.In Washington, apple trees are planted near the Atlantic Ocean. In New York, they grow near the Great Lakes. Apple trees are often planted near water. Water temperature changes more slowly than land temperature. Near water the temperature does not drop so fast. There is less change of frost（霜凍）in later spring or early autumn. Frost can kill apples.America has many kinds of weather. It has many kinds of soil. Because of this, we grow and eat more fruit than any other country in the world.Choose the best answer （根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，選擇最恰當(dāng)?shù)拇鸢福? ) 1. Near water, the temperature changes _.A. fasterB. slowerC. not at allD. the same as elsewhere( ) 2. The story does not say this, but from what we have read, we can tell that_.A. most fruits grow anywhere in the United StatesB. freezing temperatures are good for fruitC. the same fruit can be grown in different placesD. fruits can only be grown near water( ) 3. How fast does water temperature change?A. Water temperature does not change so fast as land temperature does.B. Water and land temperatures change almost at the same speed. C. Water temperature changes faster than land temperature.D. Water temperature seldom changes.( ) 4. Which of the following is not true?A. There is less change of frost in later spring or early autumn in Washington.B. Orange trees must be grown where temperatures are above freezing.C. In winter California and Florida have few freezing temperatures.D. Americans eat more fruit because of the weather.( ) 5. The main idea of the whole story is that _.A. orange trees usually grow where it is cold B. different fruits grow in different weatherC. the cold cannot kill oranges and applesD. apple trees cannot live through cold winter( ) 6. Which of the following does this story lead you to believe?A. The fruit we buy comes from many places in the country.B. Orange trees are often planted near water.C. The soil is about the same in all the states of the country.D. Frost is good for growing apple trees.(C)Today more than 20% of land is desert, but this is growing. There is a picture, for example, from a cave in Algeria. It shows cows and people. The area was very green, and plants and grass grew there. Many types of animals lived there. The picture is more than three thousand years old. Today, the cave is in a desert. Why are the deserts growing? There are three main reasons.One reason is climate(氣候) change. The climate changed and rain did not come every year. The sun was very hot and all the water in the land disappeared(消失).Another reason is animals. For hundreds of years, people who lived near deserts kept goats. Goats like eating plants. If they eat the plants, there arent any plants to stop the wind. When the wind blows, it blows all the good soil away. Soon, there isnt any good soil and it is very difficult for plants to grow.A third reason is people. People cut down trees, and trees stop the wind. Also, in some countries, people wanted to make electricity. They changed the direction of the rivers and they built dams(堤壩). This changed the direction of the water underground in other countries.In places this is a very big problem. In the Shale in Africa, thousands of people died between 1968 and 1974 because there was no water. We have to be very careful about what we do to nature.Answer the questions （根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容回答下列問題，每題所填內(nèi)容不超過五個(gè)單詞）：1. How much of land today is not desert?_.2. When was the picture drawn?It was drawn_ ago.3. Why did the water in land disappear?Because the climate changed, the sun_ and the rain _every year. 4. What can stop the wind and keep the good soil not to be blown away?_.5. What do we have to be careful about?_.6. What are the three main reasons for the growth (增長) of deserts?_.II. Choose the words or expressions and complete the passage （選擇最恰當(dāng)?shù)膯卧~或詞語，完成短文）：The word “Hello” is perhaps used more often than any other one in the English language. Everybody in the U.S. uses this word every day and everywhere. The first word you hear when you (1) up the telephone is “Hello”. The first word when you meet a friend in the street is “Hello”, too.Where did the word come from? People think the American (2) , Thomas Edison, is the first person to use the word “Hello” in the late 18th century, soon (3) the invention of the telephone.At first, people had greeted(問候) each other on the telephone with “Are you there?”. They were not (4) the new thing could carry (5) but Thomas Edison never wasted(浪費(fèi)) time. The first time he picked up the phone, he didnt ask if anyone was there. He was sure (6) was, and just said “Hello!”From then on, the word “Hello” became (7) used in America.( ) 1. A. putB. lookC. liftD. pick( ) 2. A. teacherB. doctor C. inventorD. worker( ) 3. A. afterB. before C. withD. behind( ) 4. A. afraid B. worried C. sureD. glad( ) 5. A. peopleB. noise C. linesD. voice( ) 6. A. noneB. someoneC. everyone D. anyone( ) 7. A. slowlyB. easilyC. luckilyD. widelyIII. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words （在短文的空格內(nèi)填入適當(dāng)?shù)脑~， 使其內(nèi)容通順， 每空格限填一詞， 首字母已給）：We call the Chinese New Year the Spring Festival. There is a n_ for each Chinese year. We may call it the year of the sheep, the year of the monkey or the year of the tiger. Before New Years Day, people are busy s_ and cleaning their houses. On New Years Eve, there is a big family dinner. After dinner, all the family stay up late to w_ the New Year. On the f_ day of the New Year, people put on their new c_ and go to visit their relatives and friends. They say “Happy New Year” and some other greetings to each other. People u_ have a very good time d_ the festival.I