2017年中考英語閱讀組合訓(xùn)練(3)

　　【完型填空】

　　When I was in the third grade, I was picked to be the princess in the school play.

　　For weeks my mother helped me 1 my sentences. But once during a performance, every word 2 from my head. My teacher asked me to change roles and be the narrator(解說員). Though I didn’t tell my mother what had 3 that day, she felt my 4 and asked if I wanted to take a walk in the yard.

It was a lovely spring day. We could see dandelions(蒲公英)coming out through the grass, just like a painter had touched our woods and fields with bits of gold. I watched my mother carelessly bend down(彎腰) 5 some flowers. “I think I am going to dig up all the wild grass,” she said. “But I like dandelions, all flowers are beautiful—even dandelions!” I said . My mother looked at me seriously. “Yes, every flower shines in 6 own way. And that is true of people, too,” she said. She had guessed my pain. I started to cry and told her the 7 . “You will be a beautiful narrator,” she said, 8 me of how much I loved to read stories aloud to her.

　　Over the next few weeks, I learned to take 9 in the role. The big day finally came. A few minutes before the play, my teacher came over to me. “Your mother asked me to give this to you,” she said, handing me a 10 . After the play, I took the flower home, laughing that I was perhaps the only person who would keep such wild grass.

　　1. A. write B. listen C. practice D. teach

　　2. A. disappeared B. spread C. forgot D. left

　　3. A. done B. happened C. gone D. made

　　4. A. illness B. fearlessness C. kindness D. unhappiness

　　5. A. by B. for C. with D. at

　　6. A. it B. its C. it’s D. it is

　　7. A. memory B. discovery C. truth D. accident

　　8. A. reminding B. thinking C. reminded D. thought

　　9. A. action B. turns C. risks D. pride

　　10. A. note B. dandelion C. sunflower D. dictionary

　　【閱讀理解】

　　Have you ever heard of “a ball of energy”? People often use it to describe very active children. But today we tell about an invention called the soccket, that is a real soccer ball of energy. Julia Silverman explains that in fact the soccket is a portable generator(便攜式發(fā)電機(jī)).

　　Julia Silverman and Jessica Matthews developed the soccket as part of a group project for an engineering class at Harvard University.

　　There are mechanisms(裝置) in a soccket. When you kick, hit or throw it, energy is then kept in it by these mechanisms instead of disappearing into the environment.

　　Then the user can put something directly into the ball, like a lamp, or a mobile phone charger so that they can get energy from it.

　　For every fifteen minutes of the game play, the sOccket can provide enough electricity(電) for an LED lamp for three hours, and the ball can store(儲藏) up to 24 hours’ electricity.

　　The International Energy Association reported last year that nearly one and a half billion people in the world had no electricity to use, and most of them live in sub­Saharan Africa and in India and other countries in Asia.

　　Julia Silverman and Jessica Matthews both had experiences in developing countries before they began the project. They knew that power shortages are a serious problem in really areas.

　　There’s an energy crisis in the world. One out of every five people in the world don’t have any electricity. And besides that, there are a lot of health problems because what people use instead of the electricity are harmful choices like kerosene(煤油) lamps, which produce a lot of smoke.

　　Julia Silverman says the sOccket ball is one small solution(解決方法) to a big problem.

　　Jessica Matthews and Julia Silverman hope their sOccket ball will shine more light on the problem of power shortages. It offers people a chance to put their energy into the world’s most popular sport and get some energy in return.

　　(　　)41. From the passage, we know the sOccket is ________.

　　A. an active child　　 B. an invention