一轮复习 专题20 阅读理解 说明文(原卷版)

1 专题20 阅读理解说明文（原卷版）

【母题来源】（2021·湖南郴州市·中考真题）

【母题题文1】

Computers, smartphones, and other machines are the perfect servants. They always do what they

are “told”. We usually “tell” them to do things by using a mouse or keyboard. But what if we could

just talk to them normally and tell them what to do?

This type of technology, known as voice control or voice recognition (识别), has been shown in

films and TV shows since the 1960s. The TV show Star Trek showed some spaceships which could

reply to human voice commands (命令). The film 2001: A Space Odyssey showed a computer that

human astronauts could talk to. It was mainly used to play chess and repair the astronauts’ spaceship.

On the other hand, real-world voice recognition is used for more everyday tasks. For example,

Apple and Amazon made two pieces of voice recognition software (软件). They can be asked to do

many things, such as setting alarms and playing music and so on.

One of the nice things about voice recognition is that it can be used when we’re on the go. When

you’re driving a car or walking down the street, it’s not convenient or even dangerous to pick up

your smartphone and type away on the keyboard. Voice recognition allows you to focus on whatever

you’re doing at the moment while still doing other tasks.

Speech recognition software is also helpful to deaf people. It can be used to “listen” to spoken

words and turn them into text that deaf people can read. Some speech recognition software can even

hear words spoken in one language and then translate them into another language.

4．According to Paragraph 1, how do we usually control machines in daily life?______

A．By using body language.

B．By talking to them.

C．By using a mouse or keyboard.

5．When was voice recognition first shown in films and TV shows?______

A．In the 1980s. B．In the 1970s. C．In the 1960s.

6．How does voice recognition help to keep you safe while driving a car?______

A．It helps you to focus on what you are doing.

B．It allows you to type on the keyboard more conveniently. 2 C．It can control your car for a short while.

7．In the last paragraph, what can we infer about the speech recognition software?______

A．It can hear words spoken in English and then translate them into Chinese.

B．It can turn text into spoken words for the blind.

C．It can help you do anything that you want to do.

8．Where do you probably read the passage?______

A．In a movie ad.

B．In a science magazine.

C．In a sports magazine.

【母题来源】（2021·辽宁中考真题）

【母题题文2】

Have you ever heard of “Who knows that each bowl of rice is the fruit of hard toil (苦工)?’’ It

tells us not to waste food.

As we all know, every bit of food we eat comes from hard work. It’s not easy to turn a seed (种子) into the food you can eat. Recently, to help students better understand this, the No. 4 Middle

School in Huzhou, Zhejiang held an activity. Under the hot sun, hundreds of students went to a field

to experience farming. With the help of others, they learned how to grow rice and pick vegetables.

After the activity, they better understood how hard farming was.

Many countries are facing the food-shortage problem now. According to the UN, there are 820

million people living in hunger today. Our country used to face this problem, too. In the 1960s,

because there wasn’t much food, many people even died from hunger. In 1973, Yuan Longping and

his team succeeded in the development of hybrid (杂交) rice. They made great progress in solving

our food-shortage problem. Many scientists like Yuan are always going out of their way to solve this

problem now.

When we waste food, we waste not only food but also resources (资源) for growing,

transporting and cooking the food. These all take energy, time and water. Wasting food also creates

greenhouse gas. So food waste is bad for the environment, too.

Please value what you’re eating.

9．The poem tells us not to ______.

A．throw food B．waste food C．pollute food D．hate food

10．Students from Huzhou ______ on the farm. 3 A．sold seeds B．grew vegetables

C．understood each other D．experienced farming

11．Chinese people ______ in the 1960s.

A．had a hard life B．died from illnesses

C．had much food D．ate a new kind of rice

12．Saving food is ______ for the environment.

A．good B．bad C．safe D．meaningless

13．The main idea of this passage is ______.

A．how we should save food

B．why we should value food

C．where we can experience farming

D．how we should protect the environment

【母题来源】（2021·辽宁中考真题）

【母题题文3】

What are the cultural differences between China and the West? You might be able to find the

answer in Cao Siyu’s comics（漫画）. Cao, 32, was born in Beijing, but left home at 20 and has

studied and lived in the US, the UK, and France for 12 years. Having seen so many cultures, Cao

wanted to use her drawing sills to show the differences she has experienced. So she created the