中考英语阅读专项练习.docx

1、中考英语阅读专项练习AMore and more people like bicycling and it is no surprise. It is fun, healthy and good for the environment.Maybe thats why there are 1.4 billion bicycles and only 400 million cars on roads worldwide today. Bikes cantake you almost anywhere, and there is no oil cost! Get on a bicycle and r

2、ide around your neighbourhood. You may discover something new all around you.Stopping and getting off a bike is easier than stopping and getting out of your car. You can bike to work andbenefit (受益) from the enjoyable exercise without polluting the environment. You dont even have to ride all theway.

3、 Folding (折叠) bikes work well for people who ride the train. Just fold the bike and take it with you. You cando the same on an airplane. A folding bike can be packed in a suitcase. You can also take a common bike withyou when you fly. But be sure to look for information by getting on airline website

4、s. Not all airlines arebicycle-friendly to travellers. Health Benefits of Bicycling: It helps to prevent heart diseases. Bicycling helps to control your weight. A 15-minute bike ride to and from work three times a week burnsoff five kilos of fat in a year. Bicycling can improve your mood (心情). Exerc

5、ise like bicycling has been shown to make people feelbetter, more relaxed and self-confident. Bicycling is healthier than driving.1. From the passage, we know that bicycling is becoming very _.A. surprising B. exciting C. expensive D. popular2. When you are riding your bicycle around your neighbourh

6、ood, you may _.A. pollute the environment around B. find something you didnt noticeC. go everywhere and use a little oil D. get off your bike and begin to work3. If you travel with a folding bike, you can fold it and _.A. get out of the car B. take it onto a trainC. put it in your purse D. go on air

7、line websites4. One of the benefits from bicycling is that _.A. you can fold the bicycle B. you will be friendly to othersC. you will be more relaxed D. you may get fatter and fatter5. Which is TRUE according to the passage?A. Bicycling is enjoyable exercise for people.B. Driving cars is healthier t

8、han riding bikes.C. Riding a bike pollutes your neighbourhood.D. Common bikes are welcomed by all airlines.BWho wants to carry a bulky bag to school? No children. Nobody wants one shoulder to be lower than the other, and paining（疼痛）too. In India, most of us would look at the reduction（减少）of textbook

9、s as a way out. But in a country like America, there are always more choices. A company called goReader has created a school bag which is the size of a laptop computer（笔记本电脑）, weighing about 2.5 kg. The goReader has a color screen and can hold all the textbooks that a student may need, says a report

10、 in The Asian Age newspaper.The company plans to work closely with the publishers（出版商） of textbooks so that these books can be supplied on the Internet. All the students will have to do is to download（下载） their textbooks. Making notes and marking important parts of a lesson can be done just as lots

11、of students have done on their textbooks before.At present, the plan is being tested out in a university. Richard Katzmann, the owner of the company is having his creation tested at Chicagos DePaul University, where he studied. Does that mean it is goodbye to the new paper, and the smell of the blac

12、k ink?1.What does the underlined word “bulky” in the first line mean?A. light B. small C. big and heavy D. old2.What would Indians do to solve（解决）the problem?A. They would reduce the textbooks. B. They would tell the parents to help students.C. They would tell the teachers to help students. D. They

13、would take students to school by bus.3. The writer may think that Americans have a _ way to solve the problem.A. more stupid B. worse C. better D. quicker4.The goReader may be a machine _.A. that can work as a teacher B. that can be used as textbooksC. that can cheat students D. that can hurt studen

14、ts5.When the new machine is used, it is possible that _.A. students might study harder B. students might study at homeC. students might not need teachers D. students might study without paper textbooksCAlmost every family buys at least one copy of a newspaper every day. Some people subscribe (订阅) to as many as two or three different newspapers?Five hundred years ago, news of important happeningsbattles (战斗) lost and won, kings of rulers overthrown (推翻) or killedtook months and even years to travel from one country to another. The news passed by word