2019年中考英语阅读理解及答案（名师精选试题，值得下载打印训练）
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A
As the CEO and founder of Apple, Jobs hardly talked about his personal life
in public. Here are some specific things.
1. Early life and childhood Jobs was born in San Francisco on February
24, 1955. He was adopted(收养) shortly after his birth by a couple(夫妇) named
Clara and Paul Jobs. He grew up in California. Later in life, Jobs discovered who
were his birth parents. However, Jobs only had some communication with his
birth mother.
2. College dropout After leaving high school, Jobs entered Reed College in 1972. Jobs stayed there for only one semester, because his parents couldn’t afford his education.
3. An important date J obs actually missed a meeting because of his first date(约会)with his wife, Lauren Powell. He said, “I was in the parking lot (停车场)with the key in the car, and I thought to myself, ‘If this is my last night on Earth, would I rather spend it at a business meeting or with this woman? ’ I ran across the parking lot, and asked her if she’d have dinner with me. She said yes, we walked into town and we’ve been together ever since. ”
4. His sister is a famous author Later in his life, Jobs met up with his biological sister Mona Simpson, the famous author of Anywhere But Here.
5. His first daughter When he was 23, Jobs and his high school girlfriend Brennan had a daughter, Lisa Brennan Jobs. He and Brennan never married. Jobs paid for his first daughter’s education at Harvard. She graduated in 2000 and now works as a magazine writer.
6. His fortune As the CEO of Apple, Jobs only took $1 a year, but Jobs leaves behind a vast fortune. In 2011, with $8. 3 billion, he was the 110th richest person in the world, according to Forbes.
根据短文内容，判断正(T)误(F)
( )1. Jobs often told his personal life before others.
( )2. Jobs didn’t grow up with his birth parents.
( )3. When Jobs was a student, his family wasn’t rich.
( )4. Jobs fell in love with Lauren Powell after he met up with her.
( )5. Lisa Brennan Jobs is a famous author.
1.【解析】F。由第一段“. . . Jobs hardly talked about his personal life in public. ”可知，乔布斯很少在公共场合谈论他的私生活。
2.【解析】T。由第二段中的“He was adopted shortly after his birth by a couple named Clara and Paul Jobs. He grew up in Ca lifornia. ”可知，乔布斯是跟着他养父母长大的。
3.【解析】T。由第三段最后一句“Jobs stayed there for only one semester, because his parents couldn’t afford his education. ”可知，乔布斯的养父母并不富有。
4.【解析】T。由第四段最后一句乔布斯的叙述可知。
5.【解析】F。由第六段可知Lisa Brennan Jobs是乔布斯的第一个女儿，她现在是一家杂志的撰稿人，并非著名的作家。
B
Tea has a long history with more than two thousand years. Its hometown is certainly China.
At first, tea was considered as a kind of good thing that could make people awake so that they could study comfortably. Many knowledgeable people thought it was
helpful for their study, because their minds could keep awake after drinking too much
tea. During the Tang Dynasty, tea was sent to European countries first through the Silk
Road.It was tea that made Chinese culture spread over in Western countries. The first
book about tea was The Classic of Tea by Lu Yu in the Tang Dynasty. In the book, he
described all the tea cultures.
However, the tea culture changed into a kind of new form. Many people could find something bad in it in the Song Dynasty. Many people spent much time on it instead of
