H
a r v a r d U n i v e r s i t y
Harvard University is one of the best universities in the US and the world. It was set up in 1636. It has the second-largest library in the country. Eight presidents of the US have graduated from Harvard. It has produced 34 Nobel laureates (诺贝尔奖获得者). There are about 20,000 students studying there now.
T h e U n i v e r s i t y o f C a m b r i dg e
The University of Cambridge is in Cambridge, the UK.
Founded in1209, Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English- speaking world and the third-oldest university in the world. It has produced 90 Nobel laureates. About 18,000 students are studying there now.
Y a l e U n i v e r s i t y
中考英语阅读理解专项训练9
阅读下面5篇短文,掌握大意,然后从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出一个最佳选项。
A
Yale University is a private university located New Haven, Connecticut, the United States. It was founded in 1701. It has produced three Nobel laureates and five American presidents. Yale Law School is one of the top law schools in the United States .
P e k i n g U n i v e r s i t y
Peking University is in Beijing, China. It was setup in 1898. It is one of the oldest universities in China. It is also one of the best universities in China and the world.
( )1. The University of Cambridge is in .
A. China
B. France
C. the UK
D. America
( )2. Which university has the second-largest library in the country?
A. Harvard University.
B. The University of Cambridge.
C. Yale University.
D. Peking University.
( )3. Which of the following is NOT true about Yale University?
A. It was set up in 1701.
B. It is a private university in the US.
C. Three American presidents have graduated from Yale University.
D. I f you want to study law at university, Yale University is the best place.
( )4. What can we learn from the passage?
A.There are about 20，000 students studying at Y ale University now.
B.Peking University is one of the oldest universities in China.
C.The University of Cambridge is the oldest university in the English-speaking world.
D.Harvard University has produced more Nobel laureates than the other three universities.
B
I was woken up by a strange sound. I saw something moving by my window. I was terrified and ran downstairs. I found my mom in the kitchen, getting my brother ready for school.
"Mom, did you hear anything? I, uh, I thought I saw an alien."
“Are you all right? Just a dream!" Mom answered.
Then I went back to my room. As I walked to the window, I cried. I saw a little alien, no more than three feet tall, with big and black eyes. It tried to run between my legs and escape through the window. Although I was scared, for some reason, I squeezed (挤) my legs together in time to catch it. It took out something and hurt me. I felt a terrible sense of nothingness and fainted (晕倒). Then I woke up.
At first, I could hardly move. i wasn't sure whether I had had a dream or not.
I stood up and walked downstairs. I saw my mom in the kitchen. She was really getting my brother ready for school, wearing her pink clothes. Then I realized it was just a dream because in my dream she was wearing her work clothes.
From then on, I always dreamt about aliens and all the dreams felt so real. At that time, I really thought maybe I had some kind of relationship (关系) with aliens. About two months later, I stopped having such dreams. Later I realized that I used to have those dreams because I always read books or watched TV programs about aliens before I fell asleep!
( )5. The underlined word “nothingness” in the passage means “” in Chinese.
A.虚无
B.无奈
C.兴奋
D.开心
( )6. The writer found that it was just a dream .
A. as soon as he woke up
B. before he went downstairs
C. when he saw his mother
D. when he was hurt by the alien
( )7. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A.The writer had the dream at noon.
B.The writer's mother's work clothes might not be pink.
C.The writer's mother was worried about his dream.
D.When the writer had the dream, his family were out.
( )8 Why did the writer use t have dreams about aliens?
A.He had some kind of relationship with aliens.
B.He was terribly ill
C He often did something about aliens before going to bed.
D. The dreams were all about the writer's real experiences.
C
The road in front of my school is not very wide. Every afternoon school is over, the road becomes very crowded children, bicycles cars and buses fill the road. Sometimes a policeman is there to help control (控制) the traffic. However, we still have to be careful enough to stop accidents from happening.
I am always careful when I cross the road because I ever saw a terrible accident. It happened just after school. As usual the road was full of traffic. Children were running across the road to get to their car and buses. When the traffic lights turned fed I stopped to wait, but I saw a young boy running across the road. At this time, a car came and hit him. The boy fell and lay on the ground. Fortunately the car was not moving very fast and the driver successfully stopped the car before it could fun over the fallen boy.
At that time all the traffic stopped. I ran to the boy and saw some blood (血) on the road. His head was hurt. A woman came and checked the boy. Then she lifted him and carried him to her car. They hurried to the hospital. Many people crowded around the driver who looked perplexed (不知所措的),and his face turned white. Later a policeman came and calmed the situation down. As there was nothing I could do, I left the place where the accident happened and walked down the road carefully.
It was terrible to see an accident. I don't think I can forget it. Certainly, I would not like to get into one. So I have to be more careful in the future.
( )9. How did the accident happen?
A.The boy broke the traffic rules and ran across the road，
B.The boy played with his friends and didn't see the car.
C.The driver drove very fast and didn't see the boy.
D.The driver was very sleepy when he drove the car.
( )10. Who took the boy to the hospital?
A. The writer .
B. A woman.
C. A policeman.
D. The driver.
( )11. After the accident happened, the driver .
A.continued driving
B.was too afraid and his face turned white
C.was taken away by the policeman
D.left the place where the accident happened quietly
( )12. What can we learn from the passage?
A.Never cross the road when it's busy.
B.We should always obey traffic rules.
C.Don't drive a car when the road is crowded.
D.It's impolite to crowd around a driver.
D
A N e w T y p e o f D i n o s a u r(恐龙)
Scientists recently found some huge fossils(化石) in Argentina (阿根延) . They are from a new type of dinosaur. Scientists believe that it may be the largest dinosaur ever known. But don't be afraid: they were plant-caters.
This kind of dinosaur, which is not yet named, probably once reached 131 feet in length and 80 tons in weight. Jose Luis Carballido is the leader of a team of scientists at the Egidio Feruglio Muscum. "It's as long as two trucks and heavier than 14 African elephants together in weight," Carballido said.
Carballido and his team found seven huge dinosaurs among more than 200 fossils in the province of Chubut, Argentina. A local farmworker let the museum know about the fossil-filled area in 2011.
Ea t i n g M a c h i n e s
How did these dinosaurs get so big? To find out, scientists like Martin Sander, at Bonn University in Germany, have studied the dinosaurs' fossils and some animals. These animals and the dinosaurs have similar features( 特征 ). Scientists have discovered that the huge dinosaurs were built to eat.
Sander says a dinosaur can grow big because of its ability to eat without chewing (咀嚼). This kind of dinosaur could cat leaves quickly without stopping to chew on them.
Not chewing also influenced the dinosaur's shape. Its head could stay small and light because it didn't need to chew. Having a little head allowed the dinosaur's neck to grow very long.
The long neck, says Sander, was the dinosaur's most important feature. The dinosaur could reach plants一near and far一easily. By eating quickly, dinosaurs grew to be the biggest land animals on Earth.
( )13. How did the team know about the foss il-filled area?
A.They found it by accident.
B.Someone told them about it
C.They knew about it from a magazine.
D.They learnt about it from a TV program.
( )14. What is Martin Sander?
A. A gardener.
B. A farmworker,
C. A scientist.
D. A doctor.
( )15. Which feature of this dinosaur is mentioned in the passage?
A. It has a small head and long neck.
B. It can fly in the sky.
C. Its legs are very short.
D. It can run very fast.
( )16. How can a dinosaur grow so big, according to the passage?
A. It can drink a lot of water.
B. It can eat without chewing.
C. It can cat very sl owly.
D. It can find a lot of food.
E
Hip hop or rap (说唱) music started on the street and in the clubs of the New York City in the 1970s People rap to express how they feel about their lives and problems.
Would you like to rap in class? Well, actually hip hop music is played in more than10,000 schools in the US. Why? There is a new school program called "Flocabulary" in which teachers use texts and hip hop CDs to help teach different subjects. The words of the songs are ju st what students are studying. This makes learning easy and fun. Students and teachers are excited about the good results it has had on exam marks. Mr. Lee, a teacher in a high school, said, "I've used hip hop songs in class, and I have never seen my students So crazy about science! You can't imagine how well they remember what I teach! We even try to write our own songs.”
Blake Harrison, a high school student, was the first person to come up with the idea of Flocabulary. The word "Flocabulary" comes from the word“flow" and "vocabulary". "Flow" is a rap word for "style", or the way a rapper says the words of a song. "Vocabulary” means the words you have to learn in a language. How did he get the idea? Well, he realized he could remember the words of a hip hop song
very easily. So, why not make lessons into songs? Today together with Alex Rappaport, a song writer, Blake produces hip hop songs for math, science and English.
( )17. From the passage，we can learn "Flocabulary" is a program to .
A. write rap music
B. remember the words of a song
C. write our own songs
D. help teach school subjects
( )18. Who is Mr. Lee?
A. A high school teacher.
B. A musician.
C. A university teacher.
D. A song writer.
( )19. Blake has produced hip hop songs for all the following subjects EXCEPT .
A. math
B. history
C. science
D. English
( )20. What is the main idea of the article?
A.The history of hip hop.
B.Why students like Flocabulary.
C.How Blake got the idea of Flocabulary.
D.Flocabulary is a good way to help students learn.
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