2021届中考英语一轮复习阅读理解专练（二）
1. Is Fruit Juice Healthy?
You might think that drinking fruit juice is healthy. But that's not quite true. A recent study published(出版）in US medical journal(期刊) shows that drinking too much juice-even 100-pcrcent natural fruit juice-will increa your risk of early death.
This is mainly becau the drinks have a lot of sugar. According to scientists, drinking too much fruit juice is just like drinking too much soda(汽水) -they both have a lot of sugar. Taking in too much sugar can cau many health problems, such as weight gain, heart dia, and diabetes(糖尿病)usb麦克风. Although there are also vitamins and minerals (矿物质) in fruit juice, the amount is too small to make up for the harm the drinks do.
In the study, "sugary drinks" were defined(定义)蹊跷to include both sugar-sweetened(添加糖的)drinks like soda and IOO-percent natural fruit juice. Scientists found that if people get 10 percent or more of their energy from sugar 加油朋友beverages every day, they will be 44 percent mo
re likely to die from heart dia and 14 percent more likely to die from other dias.
This is why some cities in the US have incread prices for sugary beverages. This will discourage people from buying them. As Jean Welsh, one of the rearchers in the study, told CNN, "Sugary beverages, whether soft drinks or fruit juices, should be limited."
But limited by how much? Scientists say kids between I and 6 years old should drink less than 170ml of fruit juice per day. Adults and children older than 6 should not drink more than 230ml per day.
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Does this mean that eating fruit is also unhealthy? Fruit is still fine, as it turns out. When you cat 100g of fruit, you're getting less sugar than if you drink 100g of juice becau the fruit has lots of fiber (纤维)This fiber is also good for our stomachs. It's better to cat whole fruit and avoid fruit juice, if you can.
1. What will happen if people take in too much sugar every day?
A. They will lo some weight. B. They might have sleep problems.
C. They will get fewer vitamins. D. They might die from heart dia.
2. What do some US cities do to get people to drink fewer sugary drinks?
A. They increa the prices for fresh fruit. B. They clo shops that ll sugary drinks.
C. They t higher prices for sugary beverages. D. They don't allow shops to ll sugary drinks to kids.
雁门胡人歌3. What docs the underlined word "beverages" mean in the third paragraph?
A.糖 B.饮料 C.水果 D.汽水
4.If you don't want to gain weight, which of the following would you choo?
A.A whole fruit. B. Sugar-sweetened drinks.
C.A lot of sugar. D.100-percent natural fruit juice.
5. What does the story mainly tell us?
A. Fruit juice is a kind of sugary drink. B .Fruit juice is not as healthy as we think.
C. People take in too much sugar every day. D. Drinking soda can cau many health problems.
2.
It was the worst day of Peter's life. He could not stop thinking about what happened just an hour ago on the school soccer field. How could he have misd scoring that goal? He had let his whole team down. His stupid mistake made him angry. His team had lost the game becau of him. He was really worried that his coach might kick him off the team.
As soon as he got home, his father asked, "What's wrong, son?" Peter's feelings were written all over his face. "I lost the game," Peter replied. Then he went into his room without another word. Ten minutes later, Peter heard his father knocking on his bedroom door. He opened the door and let him in.
"Look, Peter. I don't know what happened. But whatever it was, don't be too hard on yourlf."
"I lost the game, Dad. I failed my team. They'll probably never let me play again."
“Soccer is about team effort. You're not the only reason your team lost. If you have a goo
d team, you should support each other. Besides, winning or losing is only half the game.
The other half is learning how to communicate with your teammates and learning from your mistakes."
Peter didn't say anything, but what his father said made him think carefully. The next day, Peter went to soccer practice with courage rather than fear in his heart.
"Hey, guys," he said to his teammates, "I'm really sorry about yesterday. We were so clo to winning that game. But I think if we continue to pull together, we're going to win the next one."
To his surpri and relief(安慰), his teammates all nodded in agreement.
"Yeah, they said, don't worry about it. It's never just one person's fault. We should think about how we can do better next time."
Peter smiled. It made him feel lucky to know that he was on a winning team.
3.
One day in class, Socrates took out an apple, stood in front of the class and said, "Plea smell the smell in the air!"广州春节活动
One student raid his hand and answered, "I've smelled it. It's the scent(诗经中的女孩名字香味)洛阳桥 of the apple!" Socrates stepped down the dais(讲台), held up the apple, slowly pasd by each of the students and said, "Smell it more carefully if there is the scent of the apple in the air."
At this moment, half of the students had raid their hands. Socrates returned to the dais and repeated the question. This lime, except one student, the others all raid their hands. Socrates walked clo to the student and asked, "Didn't you really smell any scent?"
The student answered, really smelled nothing!"
The students was Plato, who later became a famous philosopher(哲学家).
