科目：初中英语 来源：2013届江苏省南京市玄武区中考一模英语试卷（带解析） 题型：阅读理解
The Statue of Liberty, which has been closed to the public since super storm Sandy struck in October, will reopen by July 4.
The Statue of Liberty was presented to the United States by the French people in 1886. It stands at Liberty Island as a welcome to all returning Americans.
It’s five months since the monument and Liberty Island were shut down after the storm.
While the statue itself was not seriously harmed by the storm, several buildings on the island experienced the terrible flood. The way used by ships carrying visitors from lower Manhattan and New Jersey was also destroyed.
“It’s good news, it’s a little late, but at least it’s there, and now we’ll watch like an eagle to make sure this promise is kept,” Schumer told NBC New York.
In January, the government spent $59 million repairing both Liberty Island and nearby Ellis Island, which was also damaged in the storm. But the officers have not announced when Ellis Island will reopen. In November, more than a million art works had to be removed from the museum there because of the storm. The Statue of Liberty is one of the country’s most popular tourist attractions. According to the National Park Service, more than 3.7 million people visit the site every year.
【小题1】Why was the Statue of Liberty closed last October?
| A．Because of the super storm Sandy. |
| B．Because of the destroyed way. |
| C．Because of the damaged buildings. |
| D．Because of nearby Ellis Island. |
| A．One month. | B．Four months. |
| C．Five months. | D．Ten months. |
| A．The Statue of Liberty was presented by French people. |
| B．The government spent $59 million repairing Liberty Island and Ellis Island. |
| C．The Statue of Liberty stands at Liberty Island as a welcome to all. |
| D．The Statue of Liberty will reopen by July 4. |
| A．The Statue of Liberty was seriously harmed by the storm. |
| B．In January the government spent $59 million repairing Liberty Island. |
| C．It’s announced that Ellis Island will reopen in November. |
| D．The Statue of Liberty attracts over 3.7 million tourists every year. |
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科目：初中英语 来源：2012-2013学年江苏省南京学大教育专修学校七年级3月月考英语试卷（带解析） 题型：阅读理解
Do you know Eskimos? Let me tell you something about their lives.
Eskimos live near the North Pole(北极).There are only two seasons there, winter and summer.
There is no spring or autumn there. The winter nights are long. You can’t see the sun for more than two months, even at midday. The summer days are long. For more than two months, the sun never goes down and there’s no night.
Eskimos have warm clothes. They make their clothes from the skins of animals. From skins(皮毛) they make coats, caps and shoes.
Near the North Pole trees can’t grow, for it is too cold there. The Eskimos have to make their houses from skins, snow or stone. When they got out in storms and can’t get back home, they make houses of snow. They leave these houses when the storm is over.
Life is hard for the Eskimos, but they still like to live there.
【小题1】Near the North Pole there are _______ in a year.
| A．two seasons—winter and summer |
| B．two seasons – spring and autumn |
| C．four seasons |
| D．two seasons sometimes and four seasons sometimes |
| A．24 hours | B．Over a week | C．A month | D．Over two months |
| A．clothes | B．houses | C．trees | D．both A and B |
| A．days | B．nights | C．trees | D．animals |
| A．animals | B．storms | C．snow | D．rain |
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科目：初中英语 来源：2013届江苏省南京市玄武区中考一模英语试卷（带解析） 题型：阅读理解
Ang Lee won the Best Director Oscar for his adventure film Life of Pi at the 85th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California February 24, 2013.
Life of Pi shows a young Indian named Pi, who finds the world he knows swept away when his family sells their zoo and sets sail for Canada with a few animals. Only Pi escapes from the storm and floats in a lifeboat with a giant Bengal tiger.
“I really want to thank you for believing this story and sharing this unbelievablejourney with me,” Lee said in his speech. The film also won three other Oscars, for best original music, best cinematography(电影艺术) and best visual(视觉) effects. It won more awards than Lincoln and Argo which were also among the hottest nominees.
Coming from China's Taiwan, the 58-year-old Lee won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2001 for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and another for Best Director in 2006 for Brokeback Mountain. He is the only person of Asian to win the directing award and one of the rare people who won that award more than once.
In an after-ceremony interview, Lee said he believed Asian films would come to the main stage of the world sooner or later. "I was born in Asia and grew up with Chinese education. It is natural for me to put Asian thinking into Western things." The film, which cost 120 million U.S. dollars, has earned nearly 600 million dollars worldwide. Lee said most of the earnings came from outside China. Lee said he felt warm that he won the award on the day of the Lantern Festival, a Chinese traditional festival on which families get together to solve puzzles on lanterns and eat Tang Yuan. He wished everyone a happy new year of the snake and everybody gets lucky.
【小题1】What kind of film does Life of Pi belong to?
| A．Comedies. | B．Tragedies. |
| C．Detective films. | D．Adventure films. |
| A．One. | B．Two. |
| C．Three. | D．Four. |
| A．Families get together and have rice dumplings. |
| B．Children make lanterns out of big orange pumpkins. |
| C．People solve puzzles on lanterns and enjoy Tang Yuan. |
| D．Children go to the display of lanterns and receive red packets. |
| A．The 85th Academy Awards was held in Hollywood, California this year. |
| B．Pi was a young American who had an adventure trip with a tiger in India. |
| C．Lincoln and Argo won more awards than Life of Pi. |
| D．Asian films have come to the main stage of the world. |
| A．It was a great success as it won four Oscars. |
| B．It earned nearly 600 million dollars in China. |
| C．It describes Pi’s escape from a terrible earthquake. |
| D．It is the only successful film Ang Lee has ever made. |
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科目：初中英语 来源：2013-2014学年浙江省九年级上学期期末考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
This past month saw one of the most devastating storms in history brings death and destruction on the Philippines. The number of lives lost is still being calculated, but it is already sitting above five thousand. In the flurryof news about the storm and its after－math, the cries of “I told you so” from environmentalists rang out loud and clear.
These scientists were especially vocal during the United Nations Climate Change Conference, which just wrapped up in Warsaw, Poland. The timing of the conference and Typhoon Haiyan was an eerie coincidence, but perhaps the concurrence offered a wakeup call for all.
Christiana Figures, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) said, “We are witnessing ever more frequent extreme weather events, and the poor and vulnerable are already paying the price.”
Scientists claim that storms like Typhoon Haiyan are an inevitable result of the effect greenhouse gases are having on our environment. Environmental analysts claim that rising temperatures around the globe and changing weather patterns are all part of the same problem.
This isn’t breaking news. We’ve heard the warnings for years. The UN has been hosting the Climate Change Conference since1995.But the changes that need to be made are huge. Added to this, the developed nations and developing countries have competing interests that are difficult to settle. The issue of who takes responsibility becomes difficult to resolve.
We may feel far away from Poland and resolving conflicts between countries, but we mustn’t feel far away from the issue. When we watch neighboring countries suffer in severe weather, when we hear reports of increasing global temperatures, when we walk outside and find it difficult to breathe the Shanghai air, we know we have a very real problem. So what are we going to do about it? Are we making every-day choices that can have a positive impact? Are we reducing our carbon footprint? Are we choosing to walk, ride a bicycle or take public transportation instead of a car? Are we recycling? Are we turning off the lights and electronics whenever possible?
The problem is complex, but saving our earth starts with each of us taking simple steps.
1.What is the most terrible typhoon in 2013? It is _________.
A. Haiyan??? ???? B. Bebinca????????? C. Danas?? ???????? D.Cimaron
2.Warsaw isn’t in Poland，is it?
A. Yes, it is?????? B. No, it isn’t????? ? C. Yes, it isn’t ????? D. No, it is
3.How many years have we heard the warnings? For nearly ______years.
A. 21????? ?????? B. 18???? ???????? C. 19?????? ??????? D. 20
4.Which of the following is NOT FALSE?
A. The environment is worse and worse and we have no ideas about it.
B. The environment is worse and we needn’t do anything about it.
C. Saving our environment is not so complex.
D. The environment is a big problem and we must take simple steps
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科目：初中英语 来源：2012-2013学年江苏省实验学校九年级3月适应性练习英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
For the 17 years my life was very happy. Then the first sad thing happened. My mother became very ill. Just before she died, she asked Elizabeth and me to go to her room. She said, “Victor and Elizabeth, I’m very happy because you love each other, and because one day you’ll get married. Everyone in the family loves you, Elizabeth. Will you take my place in the family, my dear? I can die happy if you look after them when I have gone.”
My mother died and we were very sad, because we loved her so much. Elizabeth was brave and helped us; her sweet smile gave us some happiness in the unhappy days after my mother’s death. The time came for me to go to university(大学). I didn’t want to leave my sad family, but we all knew that I should go. It was hard to leave, too, because the parents of my good friend Henry would not let him go to university with me. So I had gone alone.
On my first day at university I met Professor Waldman. He gave a wonderful talk to all the students. He ended his talk by saying, “Some of you will become the greatest scientists of tomorrow. You must study hard and discover everything that you can.”
After the professor’s talk, I thought very carefully. I remembered the storm when I was 15; I remembered how the lightning had destroyed the tree. From then on, I wanted to use electricity to help people, and I wanted to discover the secrets of life. I decided to work on these two things.
I started to work the next day. I worked very hard and soon Professor Waldman and I realized that I could learn to be a very good scientist.
The professor and other important scientists helped me. I was interested in my work and I did not take one day’s holiday during the next two years. After two years, I had discovered many things and I built a scientific machine that was the best in the university. My machine would help me answer the most important question of all. How does life begin? Is it possible to put life into dead things? To answer these questions about life I had to learn first about death. I had to watch bodies from the moment when they died and the warm life left them. In the hospital and in the university, I watched the dying and the dead. Day after day, month after month, I followed death, so it was a dark and terrible time.
I built a tall mast(桅杆)about 150 metres high, which is higher than the tallest building in the city, to catch lightning and send the electricity down to my machine in the lab. I believed I could use that electricity to give life to things that were dead.
Then one day, the answer came to me. Suddenly I was sure that I knew the secret of life.
1.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A．Elizabeth married shortly after Victor’s mother died.
B．Elizabeth was a brave girl who loved Victor and gave him much help.
C．Victor’s mother was very angry when she knew he loved Elizabeth.
D．Victor did not want to leave his family because his mother died not long before.
2.Victor did all the following during his research in the university EXCEPT that ______.
A．he discovered many things and built a scientific machine
B．he learnt much about death both in the hospital and in the university
C．he worked hard and took only one day’s holiday during the next two years
D．he built a tall mast to catch lightning and send the electricity down to the lab
3.According to the writer, the secret of life is to _______.
A．give life to things that were dead
B．build the best machine to learn about death
C．use electricity to help others
D．become the greatest scientist of tomorrow
4.Which is the correct order about the life of Victor?
① Victor’s mother passed away.
② Victor got help from the professor and other scientists.
③ Victor went to university and attended the professor’s talk.
④ Victor found the answer to giving life to things that were dead.
⑤ Victor experienced a storm, seeing the lightning destroying the tree.
A．①②③④⑤ B．⑤①②④③
C．①③②⑤④ D．⑤①③②④
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