【正文】 h the last flower.B. Whether to visit his grandfather’s grave.C. Whether to phone Mom for the grave’s location.D. Whether to ask Mom how many flowers her cousin saw.37. This passage shows the writer’s character mostly through the use of ________.A. description of his thoughts and actionsB. his long dialogues with other peopleC. description of his looks and personalityD. other people’s thoughts about him科普知識類閱讀7. 閱讀理解Today there are many more fires than in the past. Over 100000 wildfires burn each year in America. Russia has 20000 to 35000 wildfires every year. Australia has on average 60000 each year. These fires destroy(損害) huge areas of forests and burn hundreds of homes.Many experts believe there are several reasons for this sudden increase in fires. The first reason is climate(氣候) change. Recent weather has been warmer and drier. This leads to dangerous fire conditions. When lightening strikes(發(fā)生雷電), dry grass easily catches fire. Hot winds add to the problem. The wind spreads a fire quickly. In 2010, Russia had the hottest and driest summer in a century. In just one month. 500 fires destroyed over 2000 homes. Some people lost their lives.Traditional firefighting practices are another reason for the increase in fires. In America, firefighters used to quickly put out every fire. They didn39。最新中考英語閱讀理解分類訓練環(huán)境保護類短文閱讀1. 閱讀理解It is reported that some developed counties have shipped broken parts of putes to a thing can be founded every day although it is against international laws. Last month Hong Kong officers found 131,000 kilograms of broken puters, TVs and phones send from Japan. Things like these are called electronic waste, or ewaste. Dealing with is not an easy job because dangerous poison like mercury(汞)and lead (鉛)can be found in them. Every time an old puter breaks down, it needs to be deal with safely. But at present, broken puter parts are usually buried. It may be hundreds of years before they are really goes in the earth. Many places in China are polluted by ewaste. Guiyu in Guangdong province is one of them. This town is named as”the ewaste capital of the world”. It has to deal with kilograms of ewaste each year, from which it makes 75 million years. But it es at a cost. Many of the poison in ewaste find their way into the environment. Plastic is burned outdoors and chemical water is poured into rivers, Greenpeace, an environmental group, has found the air, the earth and the rivers in Guiyu badly polluted. The Chinese government wants the country to develop, but in a way that doesn。s easy for you to choose one and start an enjoyable visit! Do some research online. Every museum now has a website which allows you to look through the information about it. On the website, you may look for such things as: ?The exhibits(展品)–See what is on show at the museum at all times, and what special exhibitions are held for a short time. ?The history of the museum –There will often be very interesting stories about the exhibits and the benefactors(捐贈者). That can make your visit more interesting. ?Activities –See whether there are talks, tours our special activities on the day when you visit. Many museums hold some activities that meet the interests of all age groups. ?Cost,food or shortage–It39。s energy38. What is true about the Plant Lamp?A. It can be made by local people.B. It is much easier to use than oil lamps.C. It can produce all the electricity the village needs.D. The things it needs to make electricity are easy to find.39. The Plant Lamp39。1 300 helps train a doctor new skills。 anger about British rule and the rest, as they say, is history.31. In the early 1700s where did most tea drunk in America e from?A. China.B. India.C. America.D. Britain.32. The underlined word “it” in Paragraph 3 refers to “________”.A. the tea makerB. the American governmentB. the British governmentD. the East India Company33. Why did may Americans begin to buy tea from the Dutch traders?A. The tea was much cheaper.B. The tea was a lot healthier.C. They could buy it more easily.D. They didn39。t pay much attention to the blind43. According to this passage, ORBIS helps fight blindness by doing the following EXCEPT ________.A. writing this kind of articles to ask for helpB. providing sightsaving trainingC. treating thousands of blind people every yearD. trying to keep a close relation among countries44. The last paragraph is mainly about ________.A. how much a training program for a group of doctors costsB. why ORBIS needs your help to continue their workC. who can make thousands of blind people see againD. what you can do to help blind people open their eyes45. The writer writes this passage in order to ________.A. introduce an international charitable organizationB. ask people to give the blind a handC. tell how you feel if you lose your eyes for a minuteD. explain why ORBIS helps fight blindness史地常識類閱讀10. 閱讀理解It may be hard to believe, but the American Revolution(革命)—the war that freed the American states from British control—began over a cup of tea. Tea was not the only thi