You rarely have dinner in restaurants, ________?
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阅读快车系列答案科目：初中英语 来源：2013届北京市门头沟区中考二模英语卷（带解析） 题型：完型填空
Have you ever heard someone use the phrase” once in a blue moon”? People use this expression to describe something that they do not do very often. For example, someone might say that he tries to avoid eating sweets because they are unhealthy, but will eat chocolate” once in a blue moon”. Or someone who does not usually like to go to the beach might say “I visit the shore once in a blue moon.”While many people use this phrase, not everyone knows the meaning behind it.
The first thing to know is that the moon itself is never really blue. This is just an expression. In fact, the phrase” blue moon” has to do with the shape of the moon, not the color.
As the moon travels around the earth, it appears to change shape. We associate certain names with certain shapes of the moon. For example, when we can see a small part of the moon it is called a crescent moon. A crescent is a shape that looks like the tip of a fingernail when we cannot see the moon at all; it is called a new moon.
When we can see the whole moon is called a full moon. Usually, there is only one full moon every month. Sometimes, however there will be two full moons in one month. When this happens, the second full moon is called a blue moon”.
Over the next 20 years, there will only be 15 blue moons. As you can see, a blue moon is a very rare (稀有的)event. This fact has led people to use the expression” once in a blue moon” to describe other very rare events in their lives.
【小题1】Which of the following would be a good example of using the phrase” once in a blue moon”.
| A．Simon often tells jokes. Simon tells jokes once in a blue moon. |
| B．Tom rarely remembers to do exercise. Tom does exercise once in a blue moon. |
| C．Mary likes to go shopping every weekend. Mary goes shopping once in a blue moon. |
| D．Cindy hates to stay up, but she stays up every day. Cindy stays up once in a blue moon. |
| A．When the moon has a blue moon. |
| B．When we cannot see the moon at all. |
| C．When there are two full moons in one month. |
| D．When we can only see a small part of the color. |
| A．Once a year. | B．Less than once a year. |
| C．More than once a year. | D．At least twice a year. |
| A．A blue moon is a very rare event. |
| B．The moon appears to change shape. |
| C．The moon itself is never really bluee. |
| D．A blue moon has to do with the shape of the moon. |
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科目：初中英语 来源：2012届四川省成都市玉林中学初三下学期期末考试英语试卷（带解析） 题型：阅读理解
Nora, a 17-year-old American, notices that when she has to do a paper for school and researches it on the Internet, she rarely reads a whole page and does deep reading. “I’ll read the beginning of a paragraph and then I'll skip(跳过) the rest,” she says.
While Nora's mother, Martha, loves sitting down with a good book and reading carefully, her daughter may be the wave of the future.
“Deep reading”, or slow reading, is a process in which people think carefully while they read. With most, that means slowing down --- even stopping and rereading a page or paragraph to really understand what the author is trying to say.
Last summer, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said he was concerned about what he sees as a decline（衰退）in slow reading. Instant messages and 140-character tweets（微博）appear to be reducing out ability to concentrate on a single idea or theme of a book, he told Foreign Policy Magazine.
It's easy to forget the benefits of deep reading in an age when anything worth doing is done fast. Experts warn that without deep reading, it is impossible to be an educated person of the world, a knowledgeable voter or even an imaginative thinker.
“If you want to have a deep relationship with a text and understand a complex idea, then slow reading is a preferred style. It is good for pleasure, too. It is not a rushed experience and you can lose yourself in a text,” said Canadian writer John Miedema, the author of the book Slow Reading.
US' Ohlone College English professor Cynthia Lee Katona says reading is a highly social activity that builds the mind and social connections. If you read, she says, you simply know more and have more to talk about with friends, partners and people you know.
Deep reading can also take a reader on a trip around the world even if they are sitting in a living room armchair, Katona says. Also, deep reading helps people develop thinking, writing and conversation skills.
“If you like beautiful things, authors put words together that are really beautiful and expressive,” she says. “If you want to write well--- and there are lots of reasons to express yourself clearly --- you should read.”
【小题1】The comparison（对比）between Nora and her mother's reading habits _______.
| A．introduces the wave of future |
| B．adds a lot of fun for readers |
| C．explains what deep reading is |
| D．calls attention to deep reading |
| A．The fast pace of modern society. |
| B．The lack of desire for knowledge |
| C．The weakening ability to concentrate. |
| D．The wide use of instant messages and tweets. |
| A．A deep relationship. | B．A complex idea. |
| C．Slow reading. | D．A preferred style. |
| A．it makes sure you a better paid job |
| B．it makes you a better writer |
| C．it is better than travelling |
| D．it helps build better family relationship |
| A．The importance of deep reading. |
| B．How to improve reading skills. |
| C．The benefits of different reading styles. |
| D．The secrets of a knowledgeable person |
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科目：初中英语 来源：2012届浙江省台州市仙居中学初三中考模拟英语试卷 题型：阅读理解
Take a class at Dulangkou School, and you’ll see lots of things different from other schools, You can see the desks are not in rows（排）and students sit in groups. They put their desks together so they’re facing each other. How can they see the blackboard? There are three blackboards on the three walls of the classroom!
The school calls the new way of learning “Tuantuanzuo”, meaning sitting in groups. Wei Liying, a Junior 3 teacher, said it was to give students more chances to communicate.
Each group has five or six students, according to Wei, and they play different roles（角色）.There is a team leader who takes care of the whole group. There is a “study leader”who makes sure that everyone finishes their homework. And there is a discipline（纪律）leader who makes sure that nobody chats in class.
Wang Lin is a team leader. The 15-year-old said that having to deal with so many things was tiring.
“I just looked after my own business before,”said Wang. “But now I have to think about my five group members.”
But Wang has got used to it and can see the benefits（好处）now.
“I used to speak too little. But being a team leader means you have to talk a lot. You could even call me an excellent speaker today.”
Zhang Qi, 16, was weak in English. She used to get about 70 in English tests. But in a recent test, Zhang got a grade of more than 80.
“I rarely（很少） asked others when I had problems with my English tests. But now I can ask the team leader or study leader. They are really helpful.”
【小题1】What makes Dulangkou School different from others?
A. The students desks are in rows.
B. Students sit and study in groups.
C. There are three blackboards in the classroom.
D. Both B and C.
【小题2】A discipline leader is supposed to .
| A．take care of the whole group |
| B．make sure that everybody finishes homework |
| C．make sure that nobody chats in class |
| D．collect all the homework and hand it in to teachers |
| A．chat with each other | B．listen to the teacher |
| C．make friends | D．communicate |
| A．get benefits from | B．are tired of |
| C．cannot get used to | D．hate |
| A．Three. | B．Four. | C．Two. | D．Five or six. |
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科目：初中英语 来源：2014年上海市闸北区中考一模英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Did you know that a new weblog is being created each second? Many of these bloggers are teenagers. While their parents wrote in a diary to express their emotions, or shared their interests by spending time with friends, teens are now using blogs instead. In fact, in the US, one in every five school-aged teens has a blog. Most of these are just chatter, some are funny or clever, but a few have become Internet success.
For example, Chloe Spencer’s blog ‘Neopets Fanatic’ gets around 300,000 hits per month. When Chloe was 15, she started the blog out of her strong liking for Neopets, a kind of pet website. One reason her blog has so many visitors is because she gives instructions and tips for the popular pet site.
Then there is Tavi Gevinson’s blog ‘Style Rookie’. It is said to get 1.5 million hits per month. Tavi, who started her blog when she was just 12, puts up her photos of her own clothes online as well as designers’ collections. Tavi’s blog has caught on because she knows a lot about style for someone so young, and she is not afraid to try out unusual clothes or see things in a different way.
Blogs like these are interesting, but they only become really popular after better-known websites link to them or they get noticed by the media(传媒). For example, Tavi’s blog became an overnight(一夜之间) success after being written about in The New York Times. Popular blogs can even earn money, usually from advertisements that companies pay to put up on the bloggers’ sites.
So for some, blogging is just a recreation(消遣), but for others, it can become a source of income and even a full-time job!
1. Teens nowadays ________ than their parents did.
A. have more ways of communication?????????????
B. share their feelings more
C. write in diaries more often ?????????????
D. make more friends
2. In line 4, the underlined word ‘chatter’ means talk about ________ topics.
A. funny????????????? B. clever????????????? C. serious????????????? D. unimportant
3.Chloe Spencer and Tavi Gevinson are both ________.
A. pet lovers????????????? ????????????? B. teenage bloggers
C. interested in fashion????????????? ????????????? D. keen on taking photos
4. From the passage we know that Chloe Spencer is a person who ________.
A. visits many websites????????????? ????????????? B. loves pets
C. is easy to get angry????????????? ????????????? D. rarely gives opinions
5. According to paragraph 4, Tavi Gevinson’s blog ________.
A. is not well-known yet????????????? ?????????????
B. is written every night
C. became popular very quickly?????????????
D. got a lot of money from advertising?
6.The best title for the passage might be ________.
A. How to be good teen bloggers?????????????
B. How teen bloggers attract the media
C. Keeping diaries or writing blogs?????????????
D. Teen bloggers mean business
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