【浙江省丽水市2015年中考英语试题】阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下面四篇短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。C
One weekend in May 2015, over 48 centimeters of rain fell in Houston, Texas, USA. Soon the city was covered with water. The rising water rushed into the cars on the roads. There were 16 deaths that weekend.
Changing Weather
The weather is changing. Over the last few years, heavy rains have caused floods (洪灾) in Brazil, Pakistan, and Thailand. Droughts (干旱) have struck Russia and Australia. Heat waves have killed thousands in Europe. There are more different kinds of terrible wild weather all over the world. In 2011 alone, the bad weather caused the world to lose 150 billion dollars.
Warmer and Wetter
As more wild weather events happen, a worried world is beginning to ask questions like: What is going on with the weather? And why? Many also want to know: Is this natural, or are we to blame (责怪)?
The answer seems to be: a little of both. Wild weather is natural. This global (全球的) warming makes heat waves more likely to happen. The higher temperatures also cause more water to enter the air. This causes much more rain. Some scientists also believe global warming makes some storms stronger.
This means we’re likely to see more wild weather. “But we don’t have to just stand there and take it,” says Scientist Michael Oppenheimer. He and other scientists say we need to stop the Earth from getting warmer. We also need to be prepared, to do things that will help save lives.
What is the purpose of the second paragraph?
| A．To give examples of wild weather events. |
| B．To guess how the weather will change. |
| C．To explain why the weather is changing. |
| D．To describe the weather events in 2011. |
Which of the following can be put in the blank in Paragraph 4?
| A．And wild weather happens more and more. |
| B．And nature also influences human activity. |
| C．But humans have already paid enough attention to the wild weather. |
| D．But most scientists agree human activity has made the Earth warmer. |
Which of the following would Oppenheimer probably agree with?
| A．It is too late to stop global warming. |
| B．Humans have nothing to do with global warming. |
| C．The weather will get better if we can stop global warming. |
| D．To find ways to keep our things safe is the most important. |
What is the main idea of the passage?
A. In May 2015, there was a deadly flood in Houston, Texas, USA.
B. There are more kinds of terrible wild weather all over the world.
C. Many scientists believe global warming makes some storms stronger.
D. Global warming causes wild weather events and that makes people worried.
Jimmy is at school now. He is in the classroom, but he can't find his schoolbag. Where is it? Is it lost? Oh, no! It is in his room. He doesn't take (带) it to the school. He calls his sister Sally and asks her to take(带)his school things to the school. Here are his school things.
His schoolbag is on the chair. Under the chair is his pencil box. His notebook is on the desk. His dictionary is on the bed. His pencils aren't in the pencil box. They're on the sofa.
Oh, Sally, don't forget(忘记) to take his baseball. Jimmy always plays baseball after school. But where is his baseball? Oh, it's under the table.Where is Jimmy's schoolbag?
| A．In his room. | B．In the lost and found box. |
| C．In the classroom. | D．We don't know. |
Sally is Jimmy's ____ .
| A．mother | B．sister | C．cousin | D．friend |
Jimmy' s pencil box is___________.
| A．on the desk | B．in the schoolbag |
| C．on the sofa | D．under the chair |
What is on the sofa?
| A．Sally’s pencils. | B．Jimmy’s pencils. |
| C．Sally’s notebook. | D．Jimmy' s notebook. |
What does Jimmy do after school?
| A．He calls his sister. |
| B．He calls his mother. |
| C．He plays baseball. |
| D．He plays computer games. |
Is this your English book? Call John at 597-4393. |
Alan Is that your computer game in the lost and found case? Robert |
| Found: Gold ring. Is this your ring? Please call Mary. Phone# 235-0285. |
Lost: My school ID card. My name is Steve. Please call 685-6034. |
__________lost his school ID card.
| A．John | B．Robert | C．Mary | D．Steve |
If you lost your English book, you will call John at ____________.
| A．597-4393 | B．235-0285 |
| C．685-6034 | D．597-0285 |
You can find a ___________in the lost and found case.
| A．dictionary | B．computer game |
| C．gold ring | D．school ID card |
235-0285 is ___________ telephone number.
| A．John’s | B．Francisco’s | C．Mary’s | D．Steve’s |
“Lost and found” means __________ in Chinese.
| A．失物 | B．拾物 |
| C．失物招领 | D．拾金不昧 |
Dear Amy,
How are you ? I’m in a new school this term. This school is big and nice. There are about 1800 students in my school. I like the teachers. They are all kind to me. My classmates are polite and helpful. They teach me Chinese and I teach them English.
There are trees and flowers in my school. It is very beautiful. Behind my school, there is a small river. We often go fishing there.
We have no classes on weekends. Sometimes I go to play football or basketball with my classmates. Sometimes I stay at home and read some interesting books. Sometimes I go shopping with my parents. We all like China.
Please e-mail me soon.
Yours,
Sandy
根据短文，判断正（A）误（B）。This is an e-mail from Sandy to Amy.
Amy is in a new school this term.
Sandy’s classmates teach her Chinese and English.
There’s a playground behind the school.
Sandy has no classes on Saturdays and Sundays.
Last month when I was taking part in a US college interview ， I was asked ， “ what makes you special ? ” In fact I had answered questions likes this many times since I decided to go to college in the US. The US colleges paid special attention to different achievements. For example, a person who is very good at math can go to a famous college but also can be a good football player.
This experience made me think again that I must try to find where my own interests might lead me . To be honest, it was not easy. However, I never felt sorry to choose this way because it helped me understand myself . If I took the College Entrance Examination, as we call it gaokao in China, it could never possibly do .
When I entered high school, I took gaokao seriously because it seemed to me a great way to show how good at my lessons. However ,as I grew older , I realized gaokao did make me work hard at my lessons , but the pressure also pushed many other activities out of my life , like guitar―playing . Although I had no time for it , I will still get to it in the future .
No doubt, gaokao provides a way of choosing those who are successful in their studies . But it is really important for all of us to rethink what “ talent ” really is today . This is because we now live in a world in which all of our other human qualities are needed for success, not just the high grade .
Ken Robinson once said, “ the society depends on different kinds of talents . ” However, gaokao pays too attention to a person' s grades but little to his other qualities. And it is these qualities that makes life colorful and fun.
As high school students, we can not change the present situation of eduction , but we are always free to think outside of the box . Although good school grade is still useful, I hope one day we will see our education also welcomes the amazing possibilities in different people .The US colleges pay special attention to ________.
| A．students ' family background . |
| B．the different achievements |
| C．students ' ideas about way of life . |
| D．the school a student is from . |
When at high school, the writer ________.
| A．had a lot of activities . |
| B．did not work hard at her lessons . |
| C．did well in gaokao |
| D．had no time to play the guitar . |
Which of the following might be the best title for the passage?
| A．My school life abroad. |
| B．Different exams in the US. |
| C．My view on gaokao |
| D．The importance of school grades |
During the 1800s, African Americans worked long days in the fields of the American South. They sang songs that they had brought from Africa while working. One person sang a line. Then a group of workers repeated it. The songs' words told of the hardships (艰苦) that people suffered. They clapped their hands and stomped (跺) their feet to the music.
In the 1860s, the music changed greatly. African American music took new forms. It was also influenced by dance music, which had great rhythm. Banjos (班卓琴) became popular. A blues singer usually sang a line and then played the banjo in reply. By the early 1900s, the guitar had taken the place of the banjo in the blues music.
The blues music has many obvious characteristics. One of them is that the musical notes are often "bent". That is, they are changed slightly to give a song more strength.
Lyrics are the words of a song. Blues lyrics describe everyday life. The lyrics are often about the relationships between men and women. They tell about sadness and overwork. They tell about finding and losing love, having money or being poor, being happy or sad and lonely. They almost always use the rhythms of everyday speech. A group of blues lyrics usually has three lines. The second line repeats the first line. The third line has different words.
By the 1940s, a large number of African Americans moved to Chicago. There, a new kind of "Chicago" blues began. The new music was excellent dance music. Chicago blues led to the birth of a new music style-rock and roll.This passage is mainly about ___________.
| A．the rhythms of different music |
| B．the life of African Americans |
| C．the blues lyrics |
| D．the blues music |
What information does the passage NOT provide?
| A．How the blues music developed as time went by. |
| B．What the blues lyrics are mostly about. |
| C．When African Americans moved to the American South. |
| D．How long the banjo was popular in the blues history. |
Which of the following is the most likely taken from a blues song?
| A．You have to help me. I’ll die if you don't. You have to help me. |
| B．You have to help me. You have to help me. I'll die if you don't. |
| C．I'll die if you don't. You have to help me. You have to help me. |
| D．I'll die if you don't help me. You have to help me. Please help me. |
What fact does the passage lead you to believe?
| A．African Americans sang songs after a long day's work to relax in the 1800s. |
| B．The blues singers in the 1860s usually played the guitar while singing songs. |
| C．It is not difficult to tell the blues music from others from its musical notes. |
| D．Rock and roll was the most popular blues music in Chicago in the 1950s. |