I Don’t Have to Be Like Them(保持真我)
All students have to face their own problems when they are growing up. You may not think that having a good family is a problem. But for me, it was. I had to face the problem of being the youngest of the Smith girls.
We live in a small town in Pennsylvania, US. There are three girls in the Smith family, Amanda, Theresa and me . People often say things to me , like “ Oh, the three of you, you’re such nice girls. Your sisters are so pretty and so thin! You’re really nothing like them. ” That made me sad.
At school, all of my teachers had taught my sisters. On the first day of school, they said , “Oh , the youngest of the three! I hope you’re just like your sisters. They’re such wonderful students.”
People always compared（比较） me with my sisters. So I couldn’t help comparing myself with them, too. Theresa was smarter（更聪明的, Amanda was prettier. I began to work hard to be more like them. What my sisters did, I did, too. At last, I became drum major（主鼓手）of our school ’s marching band. Both Amanda and Theresa had been drum majors. I became editor of the school’s newspaper. Theresa had been the editor two years before.
But last year, Amanda went to college（大学）, and Theresa went to high school . Now I’m by myself at junior high. Everyone knows me, because I’m the drum major and the newspaper’s editor.
Now I don’t feel like a Smith girl any more, I feel like myself. I’m proud of doing all of the same great things that my sisters did. But the best thing I did was to learn to stop comparing myself with them.
When people compare the author(作者) with her sisters , she feels________
| A．happy | B．nervous |
| C．sad | D．comfortable |
The author _________
| A．had the same teachers with her sisters |
| B．had different teachers from her sisters |
| C．was taught by some of her sisters’ teachers |
| D．was taught by herself |
Why did the author become drum major of her school’s marching band ?
| A．Because she liked that. |
| B．Because her parents asked her to . |
| C．Because her sisters did that before. |
| D．Because her teacher asked her to . |
To the author , now the best thing is that ______________.
| A．she becomes much better than her sisters |
| B．she stops comparing herself with her sisters |
| C．no one compares herself with her sisters |
| D．she has graduated from the junior school |
From the passage, what does the author probably tell us?
| A．To be yourself. | B．Stop working hard. |
| C．Learn from the older. | D．Do what others say. |
【福建省厦门市2015年中考英语试题】根据情景提示，用适当的短语或句子填空。 （每空2分，共10分）你找不到自己的书包，可以这样问：
_____________________________________________________?你想知道Lisa 上周末做什么，可以这样问：
_______________________ ____________________,Lisa?你想知道附近是否有超市，可以这样问：
______________________ a supermarket ____________________?你告诉你的朋友你以前个子不高，可以这样说：
_________________________________________________short.你想知道同学们春游的感受，可以这样问：
_ school trip?
【陕西省2015年中考英语试题】任务型阅读：阅读下面短文，根据短文内容，完成下列各题。（共5小题，计10分）
In the UK, bus journeys are very common. Buses are often convenient（便利的）for the people who live or work in the city center. Passengers can avoid heavy traffic and not have to pay for the parking. However, taking the bus is just a necessary but boring part of life: they get on the bus, pay for it and sit or find a place to stand when it is crowded. Everyone seems sad and bored.
In Latin America, however, bus trips can be wonderful. For a start, films are showed on the buses between cities for passengers to have fun along the journeys. Local buses do not show films, but drivers usually turn on the radio and it can be great for passengers to listen to songs and get relaxed.
Even better than films and music are the sights and sounds on the buses. Local buses always go to parts of the town that passengers would not visit by themselves. There passengers can see shops that they have never heard about. And they can also see other cultures of the town from the windows of the buses.
Besides, passengers’ luggage（行李）is also interesting. It is common to see a happy dog’s head getting out of somebody’s bag or a lovely chicken“speaking cheerfully”under somebody’s arm. Once on a bus in Peru, a farmer even tied a sheep to the top of the bus. It was quite surprising.
In all, taking the bus in Latin America is really fun and unforgettable.According to the passage, in the UK, how to passengers probably feel on the buses?
They probably feel .In Latin America, how can people have fun on the buses between cities?
They can .In the writer’s opinion, what are even better than films and music on the buses?
Are. Why does the writer think passengers’ luggage is interesting?
Because it’s common to see different kinds of on the buses.What does the passage mainly tell us?
It mainly tells us about in Latin America.
【辽宁省丹东市2015年中考英语试题】任务型阅读（根据短文内容按要求完成任务，并将答案写在答题卡相应位置上。每小题2分，共20分）
(A) 根据短文内容简要回答下面的问题
My mother was a cleaner in our school canteen(食堂) when I was in the middle school. At that time she was such an embarrassment(难堪) to me not only because of her job but also her look. She had only one eye. Every time I saw her in my school, I pretended(假装) not to see her and ran away.
After graduating, I got a good job in another city. Then I got married and had two kids. I told my family that my parents had been dead, so they never saw my mother, even her photo. But one year later, I got a letter, it read:
My dear son Jeff,
I’m sorry to disturb(打扰) you, but I really miss you all the time. I’m afraid that I will have no chance to see you again.
I’m sorry that I was always an embarrassment to you when you were growing up. However, I had no choice. When you were very young, you got into an accident and lost your eye. As a mother, I couldn’t stand that you would have to grow up with one eye. So I ……
I was proud of my son who was enjoying his beautiful world for me with that eye.
With all my love to you!
Mom
After reading the letter, I couldn’t help crying.What was his mother’s job?
What did Jeff tell his family about his mother?
Who got into an accident?
Do you think his mother gave one of her eyes to her son?
What do you think of his mother?
【江苏省淮安市2015年中考英语试题】任务型阅读（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分）
B
Many companies today hold meetings to discuss their new plans. As people are paying more attention to the environment problems, more companies are looking for ways to reduce their bad influence on the environment. Many of them achieve this by using web meeting.
Web meeting is a technology that allows people to communicate better over the Internet. It’s an easy way of hosting and attending a meeting. Participants(与会者) don’t have to leave the office. Each of them will receive an invitation with the meeting time and date on it. When the meeting is ready to begin, they must sit before their computers.
With web meeting, all participants can attend the meeting at their own desks. They don’t need to drive a car to travel to and from the meeting. As a result, no fuel（燃料) is used and less time is taken up in attending a web meeting.
Materials for the meeting are simply e-mailed to all the participants before it begins. Then participants can just read them on the screen. For the company, this not only saves the use of paper but also greatly reduces the mailing cost.
As a meeting hall is not used, the only power for a web meeting is the power that is used by the computers. Besides, organized don’t have to pay for food or accommodation（住宿)for the participants. All this means that less energy is used.
In a word, web meeting is a cheaper, greener, and more friendly way of hosting and attending a meeting. Companies that hold web meetings are willing to work hard for a better environment. So they can more easily find their working partners who have the same green ideas. In return, they develop good relationship with other companies and improve their business.
根据上面短文内容填空。Many companies are looking for ways to _________ on the environment, because people are paying more attention to the ________.
Web meeting is an easy way to _________the meeting. Participants just sit before their computers instead of ________________the office.
The use of paper___________and the __________is greatly reduced by e-mailing meeting materials.
Power is only used by the computers because there is no need for a__________. Besides, organizers needn’t ________on food and accommodation for the participants.
If they have the same___________, it’s ________for companies to find their working partners.
【江苏省淮安市2015年中考英语试题】任务型阅读（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分）
A
Ma Yun became one of the richest men in China when his company Alibaba went on the stock（股票)market last year with a value of around 140 billion-the largest public offering in history. Here are some stories about him on the way to success.
Ma made his first trip to the a US in 1995 and used the Internet for the first time. After searching for “beer”, he saw that no results came up about China. Then he searched for “China” and still saw no results. He decided to set up a Chinese website--the seed for Alibaba was sown(播种).
Ma said he was refused many times in his life. He failed the College Entrance Examination in China three times and few companies offered him jobs, including one at KFC. And he was refused by the famous Harvard University 10 times.
It was difficult to learn English when Ma was a teenager because of limited resources. However, he found that he could learn English well by giving tourists free guides around his hometown Hangzhou. And he kept it for nine years. Ma said that tourists opened up a new world for him because everything they said and did was so different from what he had been taught at school and by his parents.
Ma’s hero is Forrest Gump who never gives up. When he made a speech about his success at Davos(达沃斯论坛)in 2015,Ma said, “Life is like a box of chocolates because you never know what you are going to get.”
根据上面短文的内容回答问题。When did Ma Yun make his first trip to the US.
____________________________________________________________________How many times was Ma Yun refused by Harvard University?
____________________________________________________________________How did Ma Yun learn English well when he was a teenager?
____________________________________________________________________Did Ma Yun make a speech at Davos in 2015?
_____________________________________________________________________Why does Ma Yun consider Forrest Gump as his hero?
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