【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.
“An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue(队伍) of one,” wrote a famous British author, George Mikes．While this sounds funny, it’s a popular English stereotype (刻板印象)．From the supermarket to the subway, queues are a common sight on the streets of Britain．
Here in China, queues are normal, too．It is a part of everyday life．People queue most of the time, from buying tickets in the cinema to waiting for seats at a restaurant．But in certain situations, you’ll find yourself in the middle of a rushing crowd, such as getting onto the subway．Even away from the busy subway platform, queues are different．
One day I was standing in line at the supermarket．I left a small space in front of me．Within seconds, a girl walked by and took her place in that small space．I was surprised at first, but later I found these experiences very interesting．It is with these small, everyday differences that I get to live and learn in a new culture．
Back in Britain, the person spends about six months of their life waiting in a queue, according to the auction site MadBid．To pass the time, maybe they tell themselves the famous proverb: Good things come to those who wait．
| A．forming an orderly queue |
| B．being rude and loud |
| C．traveling on subways |
| D．spending more time waiting in a queue |
| A．call on people in China to queue more |
| B．compare queuing in two cultures |
| C．praise the English for following good manners |
| D．explain why people rush in some situations |
| A．Sports. | B．News. |
| C．Culture. | D．Business. |
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳答案。
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| Tickets Information for Beauty and Beast Dates: Mon. —Fri. 10 am, 7 pm Sat. —Sun. 10 am, 2pm, 7pm Place: Star Theatre Time Period: 1.5 hours Ticket Prices: $ 15 per child $ 35 per adult Attentions: Please arrive early．People who are late for the show will not be allowed to enter until a proper break． |
| A．At 12 a.m. on Tuesday． | B．At 10 a.m. on Thursday． |
| C．At 2 p.m. on Friday． | D．At 9 p.m. on Saturday． |
| A．13. | B．14. | C．15. | D．16. |
| A．$45. | B．$70. | C．$ 85. | D．$ 105. |
I’m Cathy Brown. I am now working for the Sunshine Travel Service in Changsha. I have just come back from Taiwan, the biggest island of China. It is in the Pacific Ocean(太平洋) to the east of Fujian.
Last week, I took a group of French holiday-makers for a week’s trip to Taiwan. We traveled all around the island. There are a lot of places of interest. My favorite is Sun Moon Lake. You may ask why people call it so. If you fly high up over the lake and look down from your plane, you will find the answer yourself. In the middle of this lake, there is a small island that is called Pearl Island because it looks like a pearl. On one side of Pearl Island the lake looks like a sun, and on the other side it looks like a moon. That is why people call it the Sun Moon Lake.
There are many mountains around this lake. One of the nearest is Mount Ali. We stayed there for three days. We also had a dancing party with Gaoshan people. On our first day there we went to the mountain and watched the sun going down slowly in the west. On our last day we got up early and saw the beautiful sunrise(日出).
Taiwan is a wonderful place which is known for beautiful scenery.
根据短文内容，完成下列任务。将文中画线句子改为定语从句。
_______________________________________________________________What does the word “holiday-maker” in this passage mean in Chinese? ( )
| A．假期的 | B．制造者 | C．旅游 | D．度假者 |
Which place does Cathy like best?
_______________________________________________________________Why do people call the lake Sun Moon Lake?
They stayed in Mount Ali for ______.
Mails, games, music, news, chat rooms and shopping! The Internet is part of our life today. It’s easy to get onto the Internet. The only thing we need to do is to use a modem(调制解调器) which is used for connecting a computer to a telephone line. The Internet is changing and growing all the time. More and more people have computers and use the Internet. Using the Internet means surfing the World Wide Web(That’s the “WWW” you always hear about). The Internet has a large number of websites(网站). They are the places where you go to get information and do things.
Where do these websites come from? They are made by web designers. What happens when you click on a word or a picture? You are sent to another page. It’s all because of the web designers. Web designers do a lot of work by using a computer programming(程序编制) language.
Is web design all about computer programming? No, it’s about making something new. Web designers must imagine a lot when they are making a website. It must look good and be fun to use. A big part of web design is art. They choose the best pictures and colors to make the website look good. They also write the things that you see on the website. An important part of their job is to share ideas with the website manager about how to design the website well.More and more people are using the Internet because _____.
| A．it’s easy and useful |
| B．it’s changing and growing |
| C．websites are designed quite well |
| D．people can design a computer |
Which of the following is NOT true?
| A．“WWW” means “World Wide Web”. |
| B．There’re a few websites on the web. |
| C．The Internet has changed people’s lives. |
| D．We can do things like shopping on the Internet. |
Web designers must _____.
| A．write all the articles on the website by themselves |
| B．follow the managers’ ideas |
| C．be creative |
| D．share computer with the website manager |
It’s possible for us to change websites just by a click because of _____.
| A．the modem’s help |
| B．the telephone line’s help |
| C．the web designers’ work |
| D．the website manager’s work |
We have always been interested in the moon. 2, 000 years ago, people already knew it moves around the earth and where it would be in the sky at different times of the year. At that time, everything about the moon was learned by watching it carefully in the sky.
When scientists could use telescopes to study the moon more closely, their ideas began to change. They could see the moon was made of rocks. Most scientists thought moon rocks would be different from those on the earth. This was because they believed the moon had once been a planet that had been caught in the earth’s gravity millions of years earlier.
In 1969, moon rocks were finally brought to the earth and studied. Much to their surprise, scientists found that, except for water, the moon and the earth were made of the same things. Once again new ideas were needed for this new information.
After years of study, most scientists now think that the moon was once part of the earth. They believe very early in its history, maybe 4 billion years ago, something about the size of Mars hit the earth. This sent billions of rocks into space around our planet. These rocks slowly joined together and after many years became the moon.
In the future, even though our ideas about the moon may change again, we will still be interested in it.Before 1969 most scientists thought the moon was _____.
| A．part of the earth billions of years earlier |
| B．older than the earth |
| C．a planet caught by the earth’s gravity |
| D．made of the same things as the earth |
After years of study, most scientists now think _____.
| A．the earth was once part of the moon |
| B．the moon was once part of the earth |
| C．something about the size of Mars will hit earth in the near future |
| D．a lot of rocks will slowly join together to become the other moon |
From this passage we can learn that _____.
| A．scientists in the past were not clever |
| B．scientists are so clever that they know everything |
| C．new information brings new ideas |
| D．we now know everything about the moon |