冲刺中考任务型阅读考前第三周集训(一空一词+精细排版+答案)

中考任务型闯关专题区考前第三周星期一Stop Smoking Now ---We Can HelpIn almost every US city and town, there are local organizations tohelp people to stop smoking. One of the most popular and successful isCalifornia Smokers’ Helpline. Here is a page from one of their leaflets.When you really want a cigarette---try the three DS:1. Delay: Look at your watch and wait for a couple of minutes. If you can wait two minutes, you won't want to smoke.2. Drink something: If you drink water or some other drinks, you’ll reduce the need to have something in your mouth.3. Deep breathing: Breathe in slowly and deeply. Count to five when your lungs are full. Then breathe out slowly. Repeat several times.And here are some ideas from Florida Anti-smoking Club to help people to give up smoking:1. Make a plan: Make a list of friends wh o smoke and places you smoke. Don’t see those people and don’t go to those places!2. Keep busy: Instead of smoking, make a phone call, take a short walk, talk with a friend.3.Develop new interests: Exercise—walking, biking, jogging, swimming, or taking a gymnastic class—helps you to forget about cigarettes.It is now against the law for anyone who smoke anywhere at any time in our schools. So set a date and act at once to give up smoking for your own good.Title: Stop Smoking Now ---We Can Help中考任务型闯关专题区考前第三周星期二father farmed and worked as a weaver. His mother was a housewife.Few people went to college at that time, but Noah loved so much to learn that his parents let him g o to Yale, Connecticut’s only college. Noah graduated in 1778. He desired (渴望) to study law, but his parents didn’t have more money to send him to school. So, in order to make a living, Noah taught in Glastonbury, Hartford and West Harford. Later he studied law.Noah did not like American schools. Sometimes 70 children of all ages were crammed (挤满) into one room schoolhouses with poor books and untrained teachers. Their books came from England. Noah thought that Americans should learn from American books so in 1783. Noah wrote his own textbook A Grammatical Institute of the English Language. Most people called it the “Blue Backed Speller” because of its blue cover.For 100 years, Noah’s book taught children how to read, spell, and pronounce words. It w as the most popular American book of its time. Ben Franklin used Noah’s book to teach his granddaughter to read.When Noah was 43, he started writing the first American dictionary. He did that because Americans in different parts of the country spelled, pronounced and used words differently. He thought that all Americans should speak in the same way. He also thought that Americans should not speak and spell just like the English. Noah used American spellings like color instead of the English color and mu sic instead of musick. He also added American words that weren’t in English dictionaries like skunk and souash. He spent over 27 years writing his dictionary. When Noah accomplished (完成) his dictionary in 1828, at the age of 70, the first American dictionary came out. It had 70. 000 words in it.Noah did many things in his life. He worked for copyright laws, wrote textbooks, Americanized the English language, and edited magazines. When Noah Webster died in 1843, he was considered an American hero.中考任务型闯关专题区考前第三周星期三A good book can teach you things beyond your class. It can open your eyes and clear your minds. If you want to get into a good reading habit, there are a number of ways to develop it.Plan your timeYou should give yourself at least thirty minutes in all for reading every day. When time is set, nothing can change it. For example, make it a habit to read during breakfast or lunch time.Always carry a bookWherever you go, take a book with you. When you leave the house, make sure that you always carry a good book as well as your school things. Remember that a book always stays with you.Find a quiet placeFind a place in your home where you can sit in a comfortable chair. When you read a book, no one will trouble you. There should be no television, computer, music or even noisy family members around you.Have a library dayHave a library card, and you read as many good books as possible in the library. Make it a weekly trip to the library, you can save a lot of money.Blog itOne of the best ways to develop a good reading habit is to put it on your blog (博客). If you don’t have one, create one. It’s free. Ask your friends and family to go there to share your ideas and offer you suggestions.中考任务型闯关专题区考前第三周星期四A "blog" is a shortened name for a "web log". People write blogs about all kinds of things, from news and events to hobbies and reviews. Some people use them just as a simple record of what they have done.“Blogging" has become very popular as more and more people u se the Internet. New technologies have made keeping a blog an easy thing to do, so millions of people now have their own blogs. They are usually free to set up and are easy to update. You can upload pictures onto a blog and link to other websites. To many people, these features make blogs much more useful than traditional diaries.We are now able to send texts, pictures and videos from our mobile phones directly onto the Web. New technologies like this are making blogging even easier, People also think that blogs are better than newspapers for finding out about news, events and opinions. They like to use blogs because they can get information from everywhere. It looks like blogs are going to become one of the most important ways to find and share information in the near future.Title: Basic Knowledge of A Blog中考任务型闯关专题区考前第三周星期五of ears. This animal is the fennec fox.Fennec foxes have ears that are 5 to 6 inches long. That’s big for an animal that weighs less than four pounds. Their ears help shed（去除）body heat. And, as you may have guessed, they also provide great hearing.It’s also interesting to think about the hair of fennec foxes. Why would a fox that lives in thedesert need a thick, fur c oat? Actually, the desert isn’t always warm. During the nighttime, a desert can be terribly cold! A fennec fox’s fur keeps them warm during those desert nights. They also have long bushy tails that they use as a blanket. And the hair on their feet protects them from the hot sand in the daytime.Fennec foxes live in small communities of dens（兽穴）.They spend most of the day sleeping in their dens, out of the hot sun. Then, when night comes, they come out in search of food. I n addition to their great hearing, fennecs also use their great sense of smell and big eyes to track down dinner.Like other foxes, fennecs are omnivores. This means they eat both meat and plants. They like eating birds, eggs, insects, snails, fruit and leaves best.Fennec fox mothers have one to five babies at a time. The lifespan of a fennec fox is 10to 12 years. The cream coloration of fennec foxes help them blend into their desert habitat. Still, they have to watch out for predators（捕食性动物）. These include caracals ( a type ofwild cat ) , jackals, eagle owls, hyenas and humans. Humans catch them for their fur and tosell as pets.中考任务型闯关专题区考前第三周星期六The moon is always associated (相关的) with gentleness and brightness in China, expressing the hopes of the Chinese people. This is especially true during the Mid-Autumn Festival –a holiday for family members to get together and enjoy the full moon. This year the festival falls on Sept 8. In Chinese folklore (民间传说) a beautiful lady named Chang’e, who lives on the moon with her pet jade (玉的) rabbit, and a neighbor, a wood cutter named Wu Gang, adds a romantic (浪漫的) touch. But the moon is also home to many interesting myths and legends (神话传说) in other cultures.For example, many people in Europe say there is a man in the moon because the surface (表面) of a full moon sometimes looks like the face of a man.A German legend says that a man was sent to the moon because he refused to stop working on Sunday, a traditional day of rest.The moon is also a popular romantic symbol. US singer Frank Sinatra’s song Fly Me to the Moon is one of the world’s most famous love songs. The English idiom “to be over the moon”, means to be very happy.There is another famous idiom about the moon. When someone “asks for the moon”, he or she is asking for the impossible. But perhaps it will begin to lose its meaning in future.In the coming years, space tourists may be able to ask for the moon and have their wish come true, as long as they have enough money.中考任务型闯关专题区考前第三周星期七You may know that more people drink coffee than tea around the world. And that, after oil, it is the second biggest traded commodity(商品). You may also know that the drink comes from beans which are first roasted and then ground(研磨). But what else do you know about this popular drink?It is said that the story of coffee started with an Ethiopian goatherd(牧羊人)named Kaldi. One day Kaldi was surprised to see that his goats were behaving very strangely.Instead of grazing(吃草)quietly, they were jumping around, almost dancing. He also noticed some red “cherries” from a plant that the goats were eating. He tried some himself and was surprised by the feeling of extreme happiness and excitement. He felt like dancing too!But it wasn’t used as a drink at first. It was used as food. The coffee berries, mixed with animal fat, were used by monks to stay awake during long hours of prayer. From Ethiopia, coffee was later cultivated(培育)in Yemen and the first hot drink was developed there around AD 1000.Three centuries later Muslims were keen coffee drinkers and as Islam spread, so did coffee. Coffee houses appeared in Cairo and Mecca.For hundreds of years the plants were protected safely. But some beans were smuggled(偷运)out of Arabia and taken to India. In the 17th century, coffee was soon grown in a new continent. From India to Indonesia, a century later the beans were once again smuggled to Brazil. Brazil is now the largest coffee producer in the world.It was the caffeine(咖啡因)that made the goats dance and kept the monks awake. Although it is found in other soft drinks and tea, coffee has the most caffeine. In the short term(短期), a couple of cups of coffee can prevent fatigue and delay sleep. But several cups a day, every day, can cause anxiety and restlessness.。