河北省中考任务型阅读练习

任务型阅读

A

If you break your arm or catch a cold, you may go to the hospital. But when you feel very sad or unhappy, you may need the help of a therapist（心理咨询师）.

Xu Mali, 38, is a therapist in Beijing. Her job is to talk with people and help them feel better. Every day Xu talks to people face to face, on the telephone or by Internet. She took the job about five years ago and helped lots of people.

Being a therapist is not easy. Some people don’t talk. Some even get angry with the therapist. What’s more, in China people don’t see therapists much. They ar afraid that others may call them “psycho（精神病人）”.

Although there are these problems, Xu loves her job. She thinks her job is useful. She thinks there are more benefits（好处）than problems for therapists. “For example, there were problems between my daughter and me, but now we get along well with each other,” says Xu. “

1题完成句子；2-3题简略回答问题；4题找出全文的主题句；5题翻译成汉语。

1. Xu Mali talks to people face to face, on the telephone or .

2. Why don’t people in China see therapists much?

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3. What does Xu Mali think of her job?

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4. .

5. .

B

My name is Rienier Berghoff. My four weeks as a volunteer in Batdambang, Cambodia is an experience I will never forget.

I worked as an assistant teacher in English in two different schools. I did outdoor activities with the children and we also did some community work like painting the schools. Of course the schools were completely different from those in my home. During these four weeks, Dustin and Onion guided and helped me. I learned a lot from them. We had fun and they were always there for me.

The children were so eager（渴望）to learn. They felt happy and cheerful all the time. In my free time, I was able to travel around and learned about the history of Cambodia.

1题完成句子；2-3题简略回答问题；4题找出全文的主题句；5题翻译成汉语。

1. The schools in Cambodia were completely those in my home.

2. What was Rienier’s job in two different schools?

3. How did the children feel all the time?

4. .

5. .

C

If you can’t find anyone to take care of your pets when you go traveling, take them to Dogotel. It is a nice hotel with TVs, toys and showers for dogs. Sisse Pang is a dog lover. She has seven dogs. Her sister has five. “We both enjoyed traveling. So we really worried about our dogs when we were away. That was how we got the idea of Dogtel,” Pang says. The borrowed some money from their friends and finally opened Dogotel in 2002.

Cindy Tsang thinks it’s a great idea. It is like a deam place for her dogs. All the workers ae dog lovers. “I always take my two dogs to Dogotel. They get a nice place to sleep and play. And the workers look after them well. I often walk them to Dogotel. They start to jump up and down when city with more than 320, 000 pet, pet hotels, however, are a new business. Dogotel is the first one. 1题完成句子；2-3题简略回答问题；4题找出全文的主题句；5题翻译成汉语。

1. Sisse Pang’s sister has dogs.

2. When did they open Dogotel?

3. What do Cindy’s dogs do when they get to the door of Dogotel?

4. .

5. .

D

Talking to someone helps to solve problems.

Students often have a lot of worries these days. Sometimes they have problems with their schoolwork, and sometimes with their friends. What can they do about this?

Laura Mills is a teenager from Washington. “Problems and worries are normal in life, ” says Laura. “But I think talking to someone helps a lot. If we don’t talk to someone, we’ll certainly feel worse. ”

Laura once lost her wallet, and worried for days. She was afraid to tell her parents about it. She even walked three miles to school each day because she didn ’t have any money. She just kept thinking. “If I tell my parents, they’ll be angry!” But in the end, she talked to her parents and they were really understanding. Her dad said he sometimes made careless mistakes himself. They got her a new wallet and asked her to be more careful.” I will always remember to share my problems in the future!” Laura says.

Robert Hunt advises students about common problems. He says, “It is best not to avoid our problems. We should always try to solve them.” He thinks that you can first find someone to talk to. This person doesn’

1题完成句子；2-3题简略回答问题；4题找出全文的主题句；5题翻译成汉语。

1. Laura Mills thinks are normal in life.

2. What did Laura once lose?

3. What’s Robert Hunt’s advice about problems?

4.

5.

E

Many people believe that yellowing and wetness are the greatest enemy of stamps. In fact, stamps are afraid of not only wetness, but also light and dirty things. People protect their stamps in several different ways.

To protect stamps, we should never touch the stamps with our hands. This avoids moving dirty things onto them. Stamp tweezers (镊子) should be used in all conditions.

Stamps are printed things. The colour will slowly disappear if the stamps are put in the light for a long time. So we should not put stamps in the light for long. Direct sunlight must be avoided as well.

Wetness is an important problem for stamps. Some collectors will put stamps in separate plastic (塑料) bags. However, it is possible that some stamps have taken in some water from the air before they are put into the plastic bags. Stamps become yellow easily and rapidly after they take in wet air. To protect the stamps, some people also put the stamps into a special room which has a machine to keep the air cool and dry. However, not many people can afford that.

To keep stamps, stamp collectors usually put them under plastic covers. It is a common and simple way. This helps because the plastic cover keeps the stamps off the wet air. It also stops the fingers from touching the stamps.

Some collectors prefer to store stamps inside a plastic box with desiccants (干燥剂).However, we should take care not to let the stamps. touch the desiccants. On top of that, don't take your stamps out on a wet day.

1题完成句子；2~3题简略回答问题；4题找出并写下全文的主题句；5题将文中画线句子译成汉语。

1. One way to protect stamps is that we should never touch them __________________

2. What will disappear if we put the stamps in the light for long?

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3. When do stamps become yellow easily and rapidly?

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4. _______________________________________________________________

5. _______________________________________________________________

F

Where does your food come from? How is it made? These days, many people worry about food safety. But food safety is not a new worry. In 1906, Upton Sinclair wrote the Jungle. The book is the story of a poor family in Chicago. It is also about the dangerous ways that food was prepared. People were so worried that the U.S. started testing food.

These days, most food in the world is safe. Laws control where food comes from. They also control how food is managed and prepared. Laws are important. But it’s more important to make sure the rules are followed. A good food safety system（系统）keeps people safe. It also helps them eat healthy food. Labels（标签）on food give people important information. Then they can make good choices about their food.

Although food safety systems usually work, there can be problems. Sometimes mistakes are made. For example, a truck might carry eggs and then ice cream. The ice cream could make

people sick when the truck isn’t cleaned before carrying it. Other problems are not mistakes. Sometimes companies break rules to make more money. When this happens, people don’t know if their food is safe.

As we all know, food is closely related to our daily life. We should take actions to make food safer ！

1题完成句子；2~3题简略回答问题；4题找出并写下第三段的主题句；5题将文中画线句子译成汉语。

1. People were so worried about food safety that the U.S. started __________________.

2. What can people do after reading the information on food labels?

__________________________________________________________________.

3. When could ice cream make people sick in the example?

__________________________________________________________________.

4. __________________________________________________________________.

5. __________________________________________________________________.

G

I want to tell you something interesting about my trip to New York one night.

Last week, my family took a trip to New York. One night, my father was driving the car. My brother and I were sitting in the back seat of the car. So we could see the sky. It was a clear night. There were so many stars. While we were talking about how bright the stars were, we saw one star that was bigger and brighter than the others. An hour later, we saw the brightest star start to move across the sky. It was a bit strange for it to move now because it stayed in the same place for an hour. It moved slowly across the sky at first. After a few minutes, it began to move very fast and then flew away! I knew that we didn’t have a plane that could hover（盘旋） in the sky for an hour, or fly away so fast.

The experience makes me believe there are aliens in the world. Maybe someday in the future a UFO will land in front of my house and I will meet some aliens.

1题完成句子；2-3题简略回答问题；4题找出全文的主题句；5题翻译成汉语。

1. When we saw the sky, there were in the sky.

2. Where were the writer and his brother sitting?

3. Why didn’t the writer think the brightest star was a plane?

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5.