北京市昌平区2019-2021年（三年）中考二模英语试卷分类汇编：阅读问答

北京市昌平区 2019-2021 年三年中考二模英语试卷分类汇编 阅读问答 2021 年北京市昌平区九年级中考二模英语试题 四、阅读短文，根据短文内容回答问题。（共 10 分，每小题 2 分） Where did the moon come from? How much do you know about the moon? Is it older or younger than the Earth? Where did it come from? Let me take you back to the earliest days of the Earth, four and a half billion (十亿) years ago. At that time, the Earth had no moon. It was moving around the Sun alone. The early Earth was hit by rocks and comets (彗星). Today, there are no marks left from this huge ball. But to know more about the hitting, I’ve come to the Arizona desert to see a great hole in the ground. This is a beautiful, large and round hole, a near-perfect circle. It was formed when a shooting star fell down strongly into the Earth fifty thousand years ago. It’s amazing how much damage that one passing rock can cause. It must have been a mess with many rocks hitting the Earth. And then along came something much, much bigger. Another planet, the size of Mars, came into the path of the Earth. It was on the way to hit the Earth. It hit the Earth with a very fast speed. It was unbelievable and difficult to guess the power broken out by such a hitting! The hitting sent a large amount of running rocks into the path of the Earth. After the strong hitting, the broken pieces got together into a ball and the moon was formed, just 14,000 miles away from the early Earth. This was the closest point it could have been. If it were any closer, the gravity (重力) would have pulled the broken pieces falling down strongly back to the Earth and there would be no moon. Today the moon is just a rock without light, but back then, it was a hot and round ball in space burning brightly. It must have looked amazing: a really large orange disc in the sky. Imagine the scene: the first moonrise over the early Earth. Our world was no longer alone. It had a huge, powerful neighbour, and ever since then, the Earth has been a very different kind of planet. 34. When was the Earth moving around the Sun alone? 35. What hit the early Earth? 36. How did the moon form after the strong hitting? 37. What was the early moon like? 38. What do you think of the very first moonrise? 答案： 34. Four and a half billion years ago. 35. Rocks and comets. 36. (After the strong hitting,) the broken pieces got together into a ball (and the moon was formed). 37. It was a hot and round ball in space burning brightly. / It was a really large orange disc in the sky. 38. It’s huge, powerful, amazing, different, beautiful, great, fascinating… (any reasonable comments) 2020 年北京市昌平区九年级中考二模英语试题 四、阅读短文, 根据短文内容回答问题。 In England, people buy bus tickets on the bus. In France, they buy them at a bus station. In Australia, they can buy them from a magazine store. Books on cross-cultural communication make us curious by focusing on differences between people across the world: in social behavior and the importance of their body language, etc. For example, how close you stand to someone when you are speaking to him is different in different cultures. Surveys in most countries tell us that the proper distance（距离）of two people standing in a social situation is between 1. 2 metres and 3.5 metres. But in China, this distance seems to be smaller, while in Sweden, people usually stand farther. The message sent by the way you stand or sit is another condition. For example, it is quite common in European countries to sit with your legs crossed. But people in Arab countries hardly ever sit in this way—because they might show you the bottom of their shoes, and it is thought to be impolite. Such information fills the pages of guides for travellers and international business people. Clearly it is important to know a little about eating customs and the rules about basic greetings—whether you should bow or shake someone's hands. But under the surface, we are not so different. There are many signs that are common in the emotions（情感）that they communicate. Smiling is the best known of these, but not the only one. Scientists have proven that all over the world, people show sadness in a similar way. People look down with their face “falling” and mouth corner turning down. There are also common factors when people are bored. They will look at other things in an distracted（漫不经心的） way--their watches, for example. Their feet will begin to move restlessly showing that they want to escape. Understanding these body languages and acting properly is the real key to cross-cultural communication. If we all pay just a little attention, it is impossible that we will cause lasting inconvenience by using the wrong body language or standing too near to strangers and then make them feel uncomfortable. 34. Where do people in England buy bus tickets? 35. What is the proper distance of two people standing in most countries? 36. Why do people in Arab countries hardly sit with their legs crossed? 37. How do people around the world show sadness in a similar way? 38. What is the passage mainly about? 答案： 34. On the bus. 35. Between 1.2 metres and 3.5 metres. 36. Because they might show you the bottom of their shoes, and it is thought to be impolite. 37. People look down with their face “falling” and mouth comer turning down 38. The differences in social behavior between people across the world and the importance of body language. /Understanding the body languages and acting properly is the real key to cross-cultural communication. 2019 年北京市昌平区九年级中考二模英语试题 四、阅读短文，根据短文内容回答问题。（共 10 分，每小题 2 分） Englishmen are well known for the amount of tea that they drink. The average person in the UK drink around 1.9 kg of tea every year. That’s around 876 cups of tea. Tea is drunk by the whole society. But tea is not native(本土的) to Britain. Most tea is grown in India and China. So, how did it become an important part of British culture? Tea arrived in London in the 1600s. At this time, British ships were exploring the world and came across(偶然发现) the drink in Chi na. It was not long before green tea could be bought. However, this could be only bought by the richer people in the UK. At the beginning of the 1700s, the amount of tea arriving in Britain increased gradually. Black tea arrived at this time. At first people drank this tea exactly as it was in China. They soon discovered that tea tasted good with a little milk and sugar in it. That’s just the special British characteristic(特征) about it. In the 1800s, tea was still a product enjoyed only by people with money. At this time they began to have “afternoon tea”. This means drinking tea with snacks (零食) around 4 pm. Because it can help people to avoid feeling hungry between lunch and dinner. It is a tradition that is still going today but has become less popular in recent times. In the late 1800s, the price of tea went down sharply as more tea began to arrive on ships from India and China. It was no longer a drink just for rich people and everyone could enjoy it. Tearooms — shops where you could buy and drink tea — started to appear across the country. People enjoyed drinking tea and socializing(社交) in these places. At the start of the 20th century, Englishmen began to make tea in their homes whenever they felt like it. Teapots became necessary in every kitchen. 34. Is tea native to Britain? 35. What is the British characteristic of tea? 36. What does “afternoon tea” mean? 37. When could everyone in Britain enjoy tea? 38. What is the passage mainly about? 答案： 34. No./ No, it isn’t. 35. (Tea) with a little milk and sugar. 36. This means drinking tea with snacks around 4 pm. 37. In the late 1800s. / When the price of tea went down sharply. / When more tea began to arrive on ships from India and China. 38. How tea becomes an important part of British Culture./ The history of tea in the UK.