中考英语阅读理解评估自测题及答案（三）

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　　To master a language one must be able to speak and understand the spoken language as well as to read and write. Lenin and his wife Krupskaya translated a long English book into Russian. But when they went to England in 1902， English people couldn’t understand a word they said and they couldn’t understand what was said to them. These days more and more foreigners are coming to China and more Chinese are going out to foreign countries to work or study. So the spoken language is becoming more and more important.

　　Speaking， of course， can’t go without listening. If you want to pronounce a word correctly， first you must hear it correctly. Thy sounds of the Chinese and English languages are not exactly the same. If you don’t listen carefully， you’ll find it difficult or even impossible to understand the native speakers.

　　Well， what about writing? Like speaking， it’s to exchange ideas. People generally use shorter words and shorter sentences in their writing. The important thing is to make your idea clear in your head and then to write it in clear lively language.

　　Chinese students read far too slowly. If you read fast， you understand better. If you read too slowly， by the time you have reached the end of a page you have forgotten what the beginning is about. When you meet with new words， don’t look them up in the dictionary. Guess the meaning from the context. You may not guess quite correctly the first time， but as new words come up again and again in different contexts， their meaning will become clearer and clearer. If you look up every word， you’ll never finish a book.

　　Students of a foreign language need a particular knowledge， the knowledge of the life， history and geography of the people whose language they are studying. They should study these subjects in the foreign language， not only in translation. In this way one can kill two birds with one stone: learn a foreign language and get some knowledge of the foreign country at the same time.

　　1. How many points are there in the passage?

　　A. Two　　B. Three　　C. Four　　D. Five

　　2. In his first point the writer told us ____________.

　　A. how to speak English　　B. how to read and write

　　C. why spoken English is important　　D. why English people couldn’t understand Lenin

　　3. In his last point the writer advised us ____________.

　　A. to kill two birds with one stone

　　B. to learn two languages at a time

　　C. to study all the subjects in a foreign language

　　D. to get some knowledge of the foreign country whose language you are studying

　　4. In the fourth paragraph the writer gave some advice on ___________.

　　A. how to read faster　　B. how to guess the meaning from the context

　　C. how to look up new words in the dictionary　　D. how to grasp the general meaning of a passage

　　5. “To kill two birds with one stone” means ___________.

　　A. to get some particular knowledge　　B. to get more than what one pays

　　C. the stone is too big　　D. the birds are blind enough

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　　February 14th， Valentine’s Day， is a complicated but interesting occasion. First of all， Valentine’s Day is not a holiday from work. No one gets a day off. In many countries it is observed by sending cards to your friends and candy or flowers to your husband or wife if you’re married， or to your boy friend or girl friend if you’re not married. In Japan， some girls even give their fathers chocolates.

　　Why is this holiday for people in love called Valentine’s Day?

　　One explanation comes from a Christian man whose name was something like“Valentine”. He lived at a time when the Roman Emperor refused to allow any Roman soldiers to get married for any reason. Many couples came to Valentine to be married. So he would secretly marry them in a Christian ceremony. He was discovered and put in prison by the Emperor. One tradition says that he wrote notes to his friends by marking on leaves and then throwing them out of the window of his prison. The leaves were shaped like a heart. Valentine was killed on February 14th and Valentine’s Day recalls his tragic death.

　　On Valentine’s Day， American elementary school children make or buy Valentine cards， write the name of a classmate on them， and take them to school and put them in a special Valentine’s Day box. And then on that day the box is opened， the cards are taken out and given out.

　　1. Which of the following is true about Valentine’s Day?

　　A. It is observed by sending flowers to one’s husband or wife.

　　B. Children in Japan give their fathers chocolates.

　　C. It is a legal holiday in many countries.

　　D. People send candy to each other.

　　2. The man called Valentine was put in prison because ________.

　　A. He secretly got married in a Christian ceremony

　　B. He helped people get married when love was not allowed

　　C. He helped Roman soldiers get married

　　D. He wanted to kill the Roman Emperor

　　3. So he would secretly marry them in a Christian ceremony. “marry” is closest in meaning to ________.

　　A. Which priest is going to marry them?　　B. She has married off all her daughters.

　　C. I’m glad Hubert married a girl of spirit.　　D. At present she doesn’t intend to marry at all.

　　4. People celebrate Valentine’s Day _________.

　　A. to take a day off　　B. in memory of Valentine

　　C. C. to show their love　　 D. both B and C

　　5. American school children don’t _______ on Valentine’s Day.

　　A. buy Valentine cards　　B. make cards for their teachers

　　C. give each other Valentine cards　　D. put their cards in a Valentine’s Day box

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　　Many people go to school for an education. They learn languages， history， politics， geography， physics， chemistry and mathematics. Others go to school to learn a skill so that they can make a living. School education is very important and useful. Yet， no one can learn everything from school. A teacher， no matter how much he knows， can not teach his students everything they want to know. The teacher’s job is to show his students how to learn. He teaches them how to read and how to think. So， much more is to be learned outside school by the students themselves.

　　It is always more important to know how to study by oneself than to memorize some facts or a formula. It is actually quite easy to learn a certain fact in history or a formula in mathematics. But it is very difficult to use a formula in working out a math problem. Great scientists before us didn’t get everything from school. Their teachers only showed them the way. Edison didn’t even finish primary school. But they were all so successful. They invented so many things for mankind. The reason for their success is that they knew how to study. They read books that were not taught at school. They would ask many questions as they read. They did thousands of experiments. They worked hard all their lives， wasting not a single moment. Above all， they knew how to use their brain.

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