初中英语专项解题指导

2019-09-10

阅读与作文（英语初中版） 2019年11期

閱读下面短文，根据短文内容回答问题。

（一）

In the United States, every year, Thanksgiving Day is on the fourth Thursday of November. Because Canada is north of the United States, and is colder. The harvest comes earlier in the year. In Canada, people have Thanks giving Day on the second Monday in October.

The harvest brings a lot of food to the people. On Thanksgiving Day people in Canada and America like to have a big meal with their friends and family just like Chinese people do at Mid-Autumn Festival. Many Canadians and Americans put flowers, vegetables and fruits around their homes to say “Thank you” for the harvest.

At a Thanksgiving Day dinner, many Canadians and Americans will eat turkey, potatoes, and pumpkins pie. These are food like the food of many years ago. They are saying “Thank you” for the harvest that comes every year.

1. Which country has the Thanksgiving Day like the United States?

A. Japan.

B. China.

C. Canada.

D. Korea.

2. In the United States, Thanksgiving is on the fourth Thursday of _________.

A. January

B. May

C. November

D. December

3. Canada has Thanksgiving earlier in the year because _________.

A. they like flowers

B. the harvest come earlier

C. they have a big meal

D. they want to be different

4. The harvest brings _________ to people.

A. flowers

B. turkeys

C. food

D. pumpkins

5. What do people usually say on Thanksgiving Day for the harvest?

A. Good morning.

B. I’m hungry.

C. Hello.

D. Thank you.

（二）

Thousands of years ago, people didn’t live in cold places because they didn’t know how to keep themselves warm. Later they learned to make clothes. When an animal was killed, they made use of its skins to cover their bodies. _____________

Nature is people’s good friend. It once helped people find fire, when lighting hit a forest and started a fire.

___________ The fire kept them warm, and also frightened wild animals. Soon people found the food cooked tasted much better, so they began to use the fire to cook food.

But people still didn’t know how to make a fire. When they got a fire from the forest they tried to keep it burning. _____________________

But later they found different ways to make fire. For example, they made fire by burning wood or knocking two pieces of stones.

Today it’s easy for people to make fire because they have matches, lighters and different kinds of heaters.

___________________.

A. If it went out, they had to wait for years.

B. The skins keep them warm.

C. They can make fire at any time they need.

D. People took some of this fire to their homes.

E. People didn’t know how to use fire.

（三）

London is one of the oldest cities in the world. It is also one of the biggest. But New York is big, too. It is as big as London if it isn’t bigger. There are many streets in New York, beautiful shops and big factories in it. The streets in New York are just as crowded as in London. And the New York buses carry more people each day than the London buses.

There are a lot of places in London. New York isn’t as old as London, and it hasn’t many old buildings. The buildings in London are as high as in New York.

London has more parks than New York. But some parks are much smaller than the ones in New York.

Now there is a school in New York. It has no lessons every day. It has no class teachers and no school buildings. The students themselves learn and renew their lessons. They are 15 to 18. They live near the city. And the students study very hard. They know a lot about different kinds of work in the city. The work of the school is the best work in the world. The people like it very much and want to do it better.

1. The streets in London are _________ those in New York.

A. as big as

B. newer than

C. just as crowded as

D. better than

2. In the passage the writer _________.

A. says New York is larger than London

B. compares[比較] New York with London

C. says he likes New York as much as London.

D. tells us a story about New York

3. In New York, _________.

A. buses carry more people to the parks