鲁教版2019-2020年英语中考英语模拟试卷（二十四）C卷
姓名:________ 班级:________ 成绩:________
一、阅读理解 (共3题；共24分)
1. （6分）阅读理解
Teaching English is the best way to get paid to travel the world. Flexible(灵活的) hours, paid holidays, and paid accommodations(膳宿) are just some of the reasons why teaching English is fit for those who want to take a gap year abroad.
Flexible Hours!
Teachers can choose their hours in many teaching abroad programs. So if you want to spend a day walking in the city, taking a cooking class, reading a book, learning a new language, or simply resting under a tree, teaching English gives you that flexibility to let yourself experience the new culture. Tell us what you would do for fun in another country and get a free Teaching English to Young Learners course when you enroll in the advanced 120-hour TESOL certificate course(证书课程)!
Paid Holidays!
Our paid teaching abroad programs include paid holidays, so you can take a few weeks to travel anywhere in the world.
Save Money to Travel!
TESOL includes accommodations. Many also provide teachers with transportation and health insurance(保险). When you have all your living expenses paid for, you can use every dollar that you earn when teaching English abroad to have fun and travel!
What are you waiting for? Go Abroad!
TESOL offers free job placement assistance(就业帮助) to certified teachers. You don't even need a degree in Education or a teaching license to teach English abroad. A TESOL certification is your key to ditching your 9-to-5 job and getting paid to travel the world. The TESOL course will give you all the training that you need to teach English. It only takes 120 hours of TESOL training to get qualified to teach abroad and you can complete the course in 4 weeks!
（1）When you teach English abroad, you.
A . don't have to pay for your travels
B . can travel at your own convenience
C . are able to learn some local languages
D . have to pay for health insurance by yourself
（2）What does the underlined word "ditching" probably mean?
A . getting
B . leaving
C . finding
D . losing
（3）What's the writer's purpose in writing the passage?
A . To turn to TESOL for help to teach abroad.
B . To tell us how to save money while traveling.
C . To advise the readers to travel around the world.
D . To encourage us to attend the TESOL training course.
2. （10分） A rabbit is running into his hole. You may ask, “What happened?”
Well, when a rabbit sees something dangerous, it runs away. Its tail moves up and down as it runs. When other rabbits see this tail moving up and down, they ran, too. They know there is danger. The rabbit has told them something without making a sound. It has given them a signal.
Many other animals use this kind of language. When a bee finds some food, it goes back to his home. It can’t tell the other bees where the food is by speaking to them, but it does dance in the air. This tells the bees where the food is.
But animals say things by making sounds. A dog barks, for examples, when a stranger comes near.
A cat purrs(发出呼噜呼噜的声音) when pleased. Some birds make several different sounds, each with its own meaning.
But human beings have something that no animals have---- a large number of words about things, actions, feelings or ideas. We are able to give each other information to tell or inform other people what is in our mind or how we feel. By writing words down we can remind ourselves of the things that have happened, or send messages to people far away. No animals can do this. No animals has the wonderful power of language.
No one knows how man learned to make words. Somehow he learned to make them. As centuries went by, he made more and more new words. This is what we mean by language.
People in different countries made different kinds of words. Today there are about fifteen hundred different languages in the world. A very large English dictionary, for examples, contains four or five hundred thousand words. But we don’t know all these. The words we know are called vocabulary. We should try to make our vocabulary larger. Read as many books as possible. When we met a new word, look it up in the dictionary. A dictionary is the most useful book.
（1）What's the meaning of the underlined word?
A . 标语
B . 信号
C . 唱片
D . 图像
