江苏省南京市玄武区
2019-2021年三年中考二模英语试卷分类汇编
阅读理解
2021年南京玄武区中考英语二模试卷
三、阅读理解（共 15 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 15 分）
阅读下面短文，从各题所给的 A、B、C 和 D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A
The master of wuxia is taking on the spy genre. Zhang Yimou, who wuxia masterworks Hou of Flying Daggers and Hero helped catapult the Chine martial arts film to the global stage, is back with his first film since 2018’s Shadow, and his first-ever espionage movie. Cliff Walkers is a snowy spy thriller t in the puppet state of Manchukuo in the 1930s and follows four Communist party special agents on a cret mission. Watch the Cliff Walkers trailer below.
26. The following films are directed by Zhang Yimou except ____________.
A. Shadow B. Cliff Walkers C. Hou of Flying Daggers D. The Bravest
27. Which is TRUE about Cliff Walkers according to the website?
A. It will be shown on screen only in China.
B. It will be shown on Tuesday, April 13th, 2021.
C. It is Zhang Yimou’s first-ever espionage movie.
D. It is bad on the story which took place in the U. S. .
B
The branches swing
The leaves sway
The roots stand their ground
Through night and day
The wisdom beneath
The great oak
Is one so powerful
It’s never been spoke
The light the oak gives Brings joy to us all
We play every day Like it will never fall
But soon comes along The heavy blade Goodbye Great Oak
How I’ll miss your shade
28. What do you know about the “oak” after reading the poem?
A. A kind of light. B. A kind of tree. C. A kind of animal. D. A kind of inct.
29. After reading the poem, we can infer that _________________.
A. the poet likes the oak best.
B. the poet only likes the oak’s shadow.
C. the poet has a wonderful time with the oak.
D. the poet is excited to say goodbye to the oak.
C
Chine scientist Yuan Longping, famous for developing first hybrid rice strain that pulled countless people out of hunger, pasd away at 91 at about 1p. m. , May 22, 2021.
On China’s Twitter-like Sina Weibo, the news has been viewed 950 million times so far. “Three times a day, when we enjoy the fragrance of rice, you will be dearly remembered. ” said a comment (评论)that has been liked more than 600,000 times.
Yuan once said he had two dreams --- to “enjoy the cool under the rice crops taller than men” and that hybrid rice could be grown all over the world to help solve the global food scarcity.
Having spent over five decades in hybrid rice rearch, the academician with the Chine Academy of Engineering has helped China work a great wonder --- feeding nearly one-fifth of the world's population with less than 9 percent of the world's total land.
Since the 1980s, Yuan’s team has offered training cours in dozens of countries in Africa, the American and Asia --- providing a robust food source in areas with a high risk of famine. Globally, more than 820 million people were hungry in 2018, according to a UN report. And if hybrid rice is planted in half of the world’s 147 million hectares of paddy fields, the additional yield alone can feed another 500 million people, said Yuan.
Now the focus of Yuan’s hybrid rice project has changed from increasing output to green and sustainable development. In September 2017, a strain of low-cadmium indica rice (低镉籼稻) developed by Yuan’s team and the Hunan provincial academy of agricultural scie
nces was able to reduce the average amount of cadmium in rice by more than 90 percent in areas suffering from heavy metal pollution.
30. In paragraph 2, the writer gave the example of a comment to show that ____________.
A. China’s twitter-like Sina Weibo has got a lot of clicks.
B. Chine people are ud to having rice for three meals.
C. many people enjoy making comments on the news they view.
D. people will always remember the scientist for his great help.
31. The underlined word in paragraph 3 may be similar to ______________.
A. safety B. shortage C. pollution D. development
32. Which of the following is suitable for the title of the news report?
A. Make two dreams come true.
B. Help China work a great wonder.
C. Father of hybrid rice pass away.
D. Yuan solved the problem of hunger.
D
Every week, two converted blue bus packed with children’s books carefully drive along the streets of Kabul, avoiding areas where deadly explosions ( 爆 炸 ) are common. The travelling libraries stop off at schools in different parts of the city, delivering a wealth of reading material directly to youngsters who have limited access to books.
