【湖北省孝感市2015年中考英语试题】阅读理解 阅读短文，然后根据其内容选择正确答案。（共30分，每小题2分）
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Once a small boy lived on a farm which seemed so far away from everywhere.
He needed to get up before sunrise every morning to help his father on the farm. During sunrise he would take a break and climb up on the fence(篱笆) along the side of the farm. He could see a house with golden windows. “If they could afford golden windows, then there must be other nice things inside the house.” He imagined how great it would be to live there. Then he promised himself, “Some day I will go there and see this wonderful place.”
One morning, his father would go to the town and told him to stay at home for a rest. Knowing that this was his chance, he took a sandwich and headed across the field towards the house with the golden windows.
As the afternoon went on, he began to realize how wrong he was. The house was much farther than he had expected. As he went near the house, he saw no golden windows but instead a place in bad need of painting. A small girl very close to his age came out of the poor house and stood by the broken fence. He asked her if she had seen the house with the golden windows.
The girl said, “Sure, I know.” and invited him to sit on the porch(门廊). As he sat there, he looked back from where he just came. There he saw the sunset(夕阳) turned the windows of his house to gold! Now he understood that everyone had his own house with golden windows.
During his break every morning, the small boy would __________.
| A．fix the fence | B．climb up on the fence |
| C．eat sandwiches | D．walk around the farm |
One morning, when knowing he would stay alone, the boy thought it was a chance for him to __________.
| A．go to the town | B．play on the field |
| C．go to see the house | D．make the golden windows |
What did the boy find when he got there?
| A．Nobody lived in the poor house. |
| B．The house was as old as he expected. |
| C．No golden windows were in the house. |
| D．The house was nearer than he thought. |
The story tells us that people sometimes may have the thought __________.
| A．Like father, like son | B．Love me, love my dog |
| C．Every dog has its day | D．The grass is greener somewhere else |
Which is the best title for the passage?
| A．Golden Windows | B．A Wonderful Place |
| C．Father and Son | D．A Boy’s Promise |
阅读下面短文，回答问题。（共5小题，每小题2分，满分10分）
Why do people cry? Scientists say the body produces tears because they need them. One kind of tears is for the eye, the other is for the heart. They both work as cleaners. If something else like dust(灰尘) gets into your eye, tears also come into the eye to clean it out. If you are hurt by something, your strong feelings produce some poisonous chemicals(毒素) in your body, and at the same time, tears come out with them. If these poisonous chemicals are not cleaned out of your body as soon as possible, they will do harm to the heart sooner or later.
In the United States men have heart problems more often than women do. Doctors say heart problems have something to do with the pressures(压力) of living and working now. Perhaps men suffer more from these illnesses because they do not cry enough. They need to cry more.
In fact, you can find many ways of reducing the pressures to keep fit. Crying is a natural and physical one.How many kinds of tears does the body usually produce?
What do tears do when dust gets into your eye?
Will the poisonous chemicals in the body do harm to the heart?
Why do men suffer more from heart problems than women?
What will you do to reduce the pressures of living and working to keep fit? Please give TWO examples.
The class teacher thought that hobbies were important for children. So she encouraged all her students to have one, and sometimes she arranged hobby shows for their parents to see as a result.
One morning the teacher told the class to have a holiday and get their hobby things to school before 5p.m. A hobby show would be held the following afternoon.
So in the afternoon, the students with nothing to show did their lessons at school as usual, while the lucky ones had a holiday to go home for their hobby works.
When the afternoon lessons began, the teacher was surprised to see that Tommy was not there. “I don’t believe Tommy has a hobby,” she thought. However, at a quarter to five, Tommy arrived with a beautiful collection of butterflies in glass cases. The teacher liked the samples(标本) very much and put them on a desk in the classroom. But, to her surprise, Tommy picked them up again and began to leave.
“What are you doing, Tommy?” she asked. “Those things must stay here until tomorrow afternoon. That’s when the parents are coming to see them.”
“I know that,” answered Tommy, “and I will bring them back tomorrow, but my big brother doesn’t want them to be out of our house at night.”
“But, aren’t the butterflies yours?” asked the teacher.
“No,” answered Tommy. “They are my brother’s”
“But Tommy, you should show your own hobby here, not somebody else’s”
“I know that,” answered Tommy. What surprised her most was the answer, “My hobby is watching my brother collecting butterflies.”What did the class teacher think of hobbies for children?
| A．Unwelcome | B．Hopeless | C．Harmful | D．Important |
What time did Tommy get back to school that afternoon?
What would NOT happen the following afternoon?
| A．The parents would enjoy the show in the classroom |
| B．Tommy would bring the butterflies back |
| C．The teacher would encourage her students for hobbies |
| D．The butterflies would fly away |
Which was the teacher’s greatest surprise?
| A．Tommy was not at school as usual |
| B．Tommy picked the butterflies up again and began to leave |
| C．Tommy said his hobby was watching his brother collecting butterflies |
| D．Tommy came back to school before 5 that afternoon |
What’s the best title for this passage?
| A．Important Hobbies | B．Tommy’s Hobby |
| C．Different Hobbies | D．Collecting Butterflies |
In the past, when people had problems, they usually went to their families or friends to get advice. Today it is possible to get advice from radio shows, TV programmes and telephone hot lines. A hot line is a telephone line. It offers a direct way of getting in touch with advisers. Most hot lines are completely anonymous. That is to say, callers do not have to say their names or telephone numbers. Most hot lines are free. Callers do not have to pay for the advice or the phone calls. At some hot lines, the advisers are volunteers. Other hot lines pay their advisers for their work. Usually the advisers are full-time-job people with years of education and experience, but sometimes, the advisers have only taken a short class before starting to work on the hot line. All the advisers listen to people and help them solve their problems.How did people get advice when they had problems in the past?
| A．They listened to the radio |
| B．They went to their families or friends |
| C．They watched TV programmes |
| D．They made telephone calls |
What is a telephone hot line?
| A．A hot telephone |
| B．A phone call to the listeners |
| C．A telephone line for people to get advice |
| D．A training class on the phone |
What does the underlined word anonymous mean in Chinese in the passage?
| A．匿名的 | B．虔诚的 | C．开放的 | D．免费的 |
According to the passage, how does a caller get in touch with the adviser working on the hot line?
Most schools in England require children to wear a school uniform.
There are at least four advantages. Firstly, when they go on a
school trip they all look the same and so they can’t get lost.
Secondly, it stops kids worrying about what to wear each day. Everyone is equal. Thirdly, parents don’t have to shop for expensive and different clothes for their children to show off. Fourthly, wearing a uniform gives a sense of being proud and discipline(纪律约束) in them.What colour are the shoes that the English students wear in school?
| A．White | B．Grey | C．Black | D．Yellow |
Where can you find the school name?
| A．On the tie | B．On the sweater | C．On the shirt | D．On the skirt |
Which of the following is one of the advantages of wearing a uniform?
| A．It gives students a sense of being proud |
| B．It helps children show off |
| C．It helps children choose different clothes |
| D．0It makes children strange |
Everything that humans hear is in the form of waves (波).Just as the eye sees light wares in the form of colors, the ear and the eye Curs these different waves into signals that the brain (大脑) can make sense of.
The ears and brain have an Amazing amities to recognize（识别）particular sounds. For example, a mother often can tell when her baby is crying even if there are other crying babies in the same room. This is because the sound of her baby’s cry has special meaning to her and the brain has recorded is importance.
The ability to recognize sounds improves with experiences. As the brain receives information about sounds from day to day, it stores the information in its memory. When the brain hears new sounds, it gives meaning to them based on the information already in the memory. This is why certain words or songs can make a person happy. Often it is not the words or songs themselves that cause this feeling. The sounds are connected to happy memories for that person.
After hearing process controlled by the brain is to decide where a sound is coming from. One ear is usually closer to the source (来源) of a sound than the other ear is. Sound waves are stronger when they reach the ear that is closer. They also reach the closer ear first. The brain recognizes these differences and uses them to decide the location of the source of the sound.Which of the following shows the normal hearing process of a mother hearing her baby crying?
a. The ears receive the sound waves.
b. The mother recognizes her baby’s cry.
c. The ears turn the sound waves into signals.
d. The baby’s cry ravels in the form of sound waves
e. The brain connects the signals to the information in me memory.
| A．d-a-c-b-e | B．d-a-c-e-b | C．a-d-c-b-e | D．a-d-c-e-b |
Certain words or songs can change tarpon’s moods mainly because of his .
| A．lifestyle | B．personality | C．experiences | D．hobbies |
According to the last paragraph, It will be the most difficult for a person who has lost the hearing in one ear to tell .
| A．where the source of a sound is | B．how loud a sound is |
| C．when a sound starts to appear | D．what makes a sound |
What is the best title for this passage?
| A．Human Brain’s Amazing Facts |
| B．Human Hearing Characteristics |
| C．How to improve Hearing |
| D．How Do Humans Hear |