【浙江省台州市2015年中考英语试题】阅读理解（本题有15小题，每小题2分，共计30分）
阅读下面材料，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
Roald Dahl was one of the most successful writers of children’s books. He sold millions of books all over the world. Many of his books have been made into films and videos. He is so famous that there is even a Roald Dahl Museum you can visit.
Roald Dahl was born in 1916 in Wales, Britain. His father was rich but he died when Roald was very young. Roald and his mother lived a hard life. He had to leave school and went to Africa where he worked for an oil company.
In 1939 Roald became a pilot, but he had a bad accident. It made him limp(瘸的) for the rest of his life. After this, Roald went to America where he wrote a story about his experience as a pilot. It was so good that it was put in a magazine.
Roald married an American film star. They bought a house in England and had five children. From 1960 to 1965, : Theo, one of his children, was hit by a taxi and was seriously hurt. Olivia, one of Roald’s daughters, died of a strange illness. Soon after this, his wife also had a serious illness. It took her years to get completely better.
Gradually Roald became more and more successful. He always did his writing in an old shed(棚) at the back of his house. He always sat in the same old armchair with a wooden board on his lap.
“One of the nice things about being a writer,” he once said, “is that all you need is what you’ve got in your head and a pencil and a bit of paper.”
In 1983 Roald won a big prize for his book The BFG. During his life, Roald wrote many famous books, such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, Fantastic Mr. Fox.
After he died in 1990, Roald left money to help people with serious illnesses and those with problems with reading and writing.
Roald Dahl was famous as a (an) .
| A．doctor | B．teacher | C．actor | D．writer |
After Roald went to America, he .
| A．lost his parents in a plane accident |
| B．wrote a story about his pilot experience |
| C．got married with an English film star |
| D．won a big prize for his book Matilda |
Which of the following is the best for the blank in Paragraph 4?
| A．they lived a happy life |
| B．three terrible things happened |
| C．he went on writing books |
| D．he created some unlucky characters |
What Roald said in Paragraph 6 mainly shows that .
| A．being a writer was a popular job at that time |
| B．one needs to practice a lot if he wants to be a writer |
| C．Roald loved writing very much and was talented in it |
| D．though he was successful, Roald lived a simple life |
根据短文内容，判断句子正（T）、误（F）。
Most animals are helped by people. They can’t live without us. But sometimes people have made the environment worse. For example, in some parts of the world the forests are being cut down.
The animals in the forests have become fewer and fewer. People hope to grow more food on the land, but the wind blows the earth away. Now forests become smaller and smaller, the soil becomes poorer and poorer. Now there are fewer animals and plants in the world. Insects (昆虫) are usually killed, but some plants need insects. Their seeds (种子) can’t spread without them. Birds eat insects, and without insects many kinds of birds will die.
There are hundreds and hundreds of plants and animals, and each plant is helped by another, so does each animal. If you hurt one, you will hurt another, then another. Scientists know this well. They don’t want people to break their environment.It isn’t good for our environment to cut down forests.
Animals in the world are becoming fewer and fewer.
Animals and plants helped by each other.
After the wind blows, the earth becomes richer and richer.
This article tells us it is important to make our environment worse and worse.
根据短文内容，选择正确的选项。
The world itself is becoming much smaller by using modern traffic and modern communication means(交流方式). Life today is much easier than it was hundreds of years ago, but it has brought new problems. One of the biggest is pollution. To pollute means to make things dirty. Pollution comes in many ways. We see it, smell it, drink it and even hear it.
Man has been polluting the earth. The more people, the more pollution. Many years ago, the problem was not so serious because there were not so many people. When the land was used up or the river was dirty in a place, men moved to another place. But this is no longer true. Man is now slowly polluting the whole world.
Air pollution is still the most serious. It’s bad to all living things in the world, but it is not only one kind of pollution. Water pollution kills fish and pollutes drinking water. Noise pollution makes us become angry more easily.
Many countries are making rules to fight against pollution. They stop the people from burning coal in houses and factories in the city, and from blowing dirty smoke into the air.
The pollution of SO2 is now the most dangerous problem of air pollution. It is mostly caused by heavy traffic. It is certain that if there are fewer people driving, there will be less air pollution.
The earth is our home. We must take care of it. That means keeping the land, water and air clean. And we must try to control the growth of population at the same time.Our world is becoming much smaller .
| A．because the earth is being polluted day and night |
| B．because science is developing |
| C．because of the rise in population |
| D．because the earth is blown away by the wind every year |
Thousands of years ago, life was it is today.
| A．much easier than | B．as easy as |
| C．as hard as | D．much harder than |
Pollution comes in many ways. We can even hear it. Here “it” means .
| A．water pollution | B．air pollution |
| C．noise pollution | D．rubbish |
What is the most dangerous problem of air pollution?
| A．CO2 | B．H2O | C．SO2 | D．CO |
Air pollution is the most serious kind of pollution because .
| A．it’s bad to all living things in the world |
| B．it makes much noise |
| C．it has made our rivers and lakes dirty |
| D．it makes us become angry more easily |
The London Eye
The London Eye was opened on New Year’s Eve in 1999 to celebrate the Millennium (千禧年). It is 135 meters high, and from the top you can see the whote London. On a clear day you can even see Windsor Castle, which is 40 kilometers away. The London Eye has 32 capsules (密封舱), each with room for 25 people. Each “trip” lasts 30 minutes. It moves quite slowly, at a speed of about 15 meters a minute, but it never stops. Passengers have to get on when it’s moving.
OPENING TIME: Daily from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. in summer and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in winter.
TICKETS: Online or by phone. A limited number of tickets are available (可获得的) in the day.From the Ticket Office in County Hall (the building next to the Eye), but go early because you often have to wait in a queue.
HOW TO GET THERE: 5 minutes’ walk from Waterloo underground station.
Choose the best answers:The London Eye was built for celebrating __
| A．New Year’s Eve | B．1999 |
| C．foreign visitors | D．the Millennium |
On sunny day from the top of the London Eye you can see __--
| A．all of England |
| B．Windsor Castle |
| C．all the buildings which are 40 kilometers away |
| D．the building that is 135 meters high |
There are_____ passengers in the London Eye when it’s full.
| A．32 | B．800 | C．25 | D．72 |
The opening time of the London Eye in summer is _that in the winter.
| A．shorter than | B．the same as |
| C．as many as | D．longer than |
People_____ get tickets from the Ticket Office because tickets there are limited.
| A．can usually |
| B．can never |
| C．can’t always |
| D．walk from Waterloo underground station to |
根据短文内容，回答下列问题，每空一词。
The ladies club always had a meeting every Friday afternoon and someone came to talk to them about some important things. After that, they had tea and asked questions.
One Friday, a man came and talked in the club about the food problem. “There is not enough food in the world for everybody,” he said, “more than half of the people in the world are hungry, and when these people get more food, they have more babies, as a result they never stop being hungry. Somewhere in the world, a woman is having a baby every minute, day and night. What are we going to do about it?” He waited for a few seconds. Then one of the ladies said, “Why don’t we find that woman and stop her?”What did people often do in the ladies club?
They often _____ a meeting, talked, had tea and _____ questions.What did the man come to talk about one Friday?
He came to talk about the _____ _____.What did the man think about the food problem?
Some people never stop _____ _____.What is the woman’s answer to the man’s question?
She said they should find that woman and _____ her _____ having babies.Do you think the woman’s answer is helpful?
_____, it _____.
Health experts predict that soon, more people will die from cancer than from AIDS, tuberculosis (结核病)and malaria combined（疟疾）. They expect that by 2013, cancer will become the world’s leading cause of death.
Experts say one reason that more people are dying from cancer is because they are smoking cigarettes in developing countries. 40 percent of the world’s smokers are believed to live in China and India alone. Other things including high fat diets and fewer physical activities are also believed to be pushing the numbers more.
Rates (比率) of breast cancer (乳腺癌) in Japan, Singapore and South Korea are now3 times what they were40 years ago.
The W.H.O. report says that12 million people will be found to have some kinds of cancer this year. It predicts that more than7 million people will die early as a result of cancer. And more than5 million of the new cancer cases will be in developing countries.
The number of cancer cases and deaths from cancer are expected to increase one percent each year. Experts are predicting the largest increases will be in China, Russia, and India.
Without new treatments, the W.H.O. says, the number of new cancer patients could reach 27 million a year by 2030. The number of deaths could reach17 million a year.
A report in December said the number of men and women dying of cancer in the United States had dropped for the first time .The report in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute said the drop was mainly the result of fewer cases of lung（肺）, prostate（前列腺） and colorectal(结肠) cancer in men. In women, it resulted from fewer cases of breast and colorectal cancer.
The American Cancer Society says governments can do things to help stop the increase in cancer cases and deaths. One idea is to provide poor and developing nations with vaccines(疫苗) that help to stop some cancer-causing infections (感染). One example of a cancer-causing infection is human papillomavirus (乳头瘤病毒). This virus(病毒) can cause cervical cancer in women.
Another suggestion is more support for cigarette-control programs. And the cancer society says health officials and governments should pay more in cancer research and early detection(检测).根据短文内容完成句子填空(每空限填一个单词)。
From the first paragraph of the passage, we know __________ will be the ________ killer soon.根据短文内容完成句子填空(每空限填一个单词)。
According to the passage, in developing countries more people are dying from cancer because of ___________ ____________ 根据短文内容回答问题。
According to the passage, in which countries will cancer increase fastest ?
____________________________________________________________________.把短文中划线句子译成汉语。
_____________________________________________________________________根据短文内容用一个完整的英文句子回答问题。（10个词左右）
What can governments do to stop the increase of cancer ? （one thing is OK）
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