科目：初中英语 来源：考前百天点拔与千题解答（中考阅读） 题型：053
In the United States, gifts by a company or a person to a charity(慈善机构) which is approved (许可) by the government can be used to reduce(减少) the company's or the person's tax. (This is, of course, to encourage people to give money to charities. ) One day the secretary of a world-famous charity had a telephone call from a tax officer, who said, “A certain gentleman who says that his name is Howard Vine claims(声明) to have given your society $15000 in gifts last year. I am telephoning to find out whether he did in fact do so. ”
“Howard Vine, did you say?” answered the secretary of the charity cautiously (慎重的). “Wait a moment, please. I'll have a look in our records. ”
After half a minute, the tax officer heard the secretary's voice again. “Mr. Howard Vine hasn't given us $15000 yet, ” the secretary said delightedly, “but he's going to now !”
1．How can people in the United States reduce their tax?
2．Why does the government allow this?
3．What had Mr. Vine done?
4．Why was the secretary of the charity so happy?
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科目：初中英语 来源： 题型：阅读理解
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Salesman： $73.07，please.
Peter： What? Show me the receipt.
Salesman： Here it is.
Peter： Look. The price on this shirt is $17. But the receipt says $27.
Salesman： You are right. The receipt is wrong.
Peter： And what is the $5.57 for?
Salesman： That’s for tax（税）.
1 The $5.57 is for the ___________.
A. tax B. bags C. jacket D. shirt
2 When did Peter do shopping?
A. On June 17. B. At noon. C. On June 25. D. At night.
China has three economic areas(经济区): eastern China，central China，and western China.
Shanxi，Gansu，Qinghai，Xinjiang，Ningxia，Sichuan，Chongqing，Yunnan，Guizhou and Tibet
are in western China. It covers 5，385，700 square kilometres，making up 56.4% of Chinese
territory(国土) and is home to 230 million people. It is 23% of China's population.
The western area is rich in mineral(矿产) and energy resources(能源) (water，coal，sun
energy，and wind power). It also has large grassland，ice and snow resources waiting to be
developed. It is home to many wild animals and plants，and it gives us with important medicinal
resource.
The Chinese leaders have decided to develop the western area. Jiang Zemin said，“Without
development of the western area，how can we modernize the whole country，and how can China
become an economic power?”
Since 1949，when the People's Republic of China was founded，it is not the first time for
China to develop its western part. China will make its western area a long-term base for economic
development and use its rich resources to develop economic power.
3 The territory of western China is _______.
A. as large as that of eastern China
B. as large as that of central China
C. as large as that of eastern China and central China
D. the largest one of the three areas
4 Do you know why we develop western China?
A. Because the people of western China are rich
B. Because it has 230 million people
C. Because it makes up 56.4% of Chinese territory
D. Because we will modernize the whole country
5 An economic power means _____.
A. a rich and strong country
B. a large country
C. a country with much more population
D. a large country without economic development
6 What is the best advantage(优势) of West China?
A. Its rich resources B. Animals C. Plants D. Its economic power
7 What is the best title for the passage?
A. China-a large country B. Developing Western China
C. Home to wild animals and plants D. Rich Western China
One day James came up to Dick and said，“Look，what I’ve found in Mr. Trotter’s rubbish
bin!” It was a piece of paper. On it were test questions for history. “That’s our history paper. I’m
sure of it，” said James，“ It’s in Mr. Trotter’s handwriting.” “Yes，I think so.” said Dick. “ I’ll sell the
paper for $1 to our classmates.” said James. So in the three days he went round the class and sold
the “test paper” to his classmates. James felt happy because he got $40. All the students were
sure that these questions would be in the test paper. The questions were quite difficult so they
had to work hard at preparing them.
The day for the exam came. Mr. Trotter walked into the classroom. “History test，”he said
and then gave out the test paper. Oh dear! It was different from the paper that James had found.
None of the questions were the same. None of the students did well. James had to give all their
money back to his classmates. Ever since he has never looked in teachers’rubbish bins again.
8 Who wrote the test questions on the paper?
A. Mr. Trotter. B. James. C. Dick. D. The headmaster.
9 In the end，James got _________ from his classmates.
A. $40 B. $1 C. no money D. some money
10 Which of the following was true?
A. The question in the paper were quite easy.
B. James never sold the test paper to his classmates.
C. The test paper Mr. Trotter gave out was different from the one James had found.
D. Some students did very well in the history exam.
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