2022年广东省深圳市龙华区高峰学校中考英语一模试卷二、 阅读理解40 分.第一节 阅读下列短文,从下面每小题的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出最佳选项。共15 小题,每小题 2 分.Inventions change how we live, work, play and think about what’s possible. Every year, TIME lists the 100 best inventions based on their creativity and impact（创造力和影响力）on our lives. What did the magazine choose this year? Here are three of them.Easier to read Reading can be a big challenge for tens of millions of people. They may have poor eyesight or reading difficulties. But OrCam Read can help them! It’s the first of its kind reading pen with a smart camera and an AI system. After scanning a page of text with the click of a button, it can read the text aloud to the user. You don’t need to connect it with the Internet. You can use it offline at home, work, school, or even in stores when you need to read a price tag（标签）.Sweet idea Honey is produced by bees. But today’s beekeeping business（养蜂产业）is not good for these hard-working insects. Bee farmers may kill them after getting honey because it’s cheaper than feeding the bees through the winter. To save bees, US company MeliBio has found a way to make the world’s first bee-free honey. They used synthetic biology（合成生物学）to create honey directly from plants. This kind of honey tastes just like the real one, and it is healthy, too.Keep you calm When you feel angry or unhappy, what do you do about it? Scientists say you can try to calm others. This can help you calm down. That’s why Purrble was invented. This furry,bear-like toy has 9 sensors（感应器）. It has a quick “heartbeat” and can reply to your touch. And it purrs like a cat. It sounds like it really enjoys your touch! Through petting Purrble, you’ll become more aware of your own feelings and learn how to feel calm yourself.1. How many inventions does TIME list every year according to the passage? _____A. 3.B. Over 3.C. 100.D. Over 100.2. What can we know about OrCam Read? _____A. People must use it online.B. It only helps read a price tag.C. Reading becomes easier with it.D. It's useless for the blind to use it.3. Why is today’s beekeeping business not good for bees? _____A Many bees die of hunger during the cold winter.B. Honey produced by bees tastes good but unhealthy.C. Bees will perhaps be killed after they produce honey.D. Bee farmers don’t want to spend money feeding them.4. What can Purrble help us with? _____A. The sense of touch.B. The sense of hearing.C. Awareness of safety.D. Awareness of being calm.5. Where can we most probably read the passage? _____A. In a newspaper.B. In a magazine.C. In a storybook.D. On a noticeboard.Do you know of anyone who uses the truth to deceive（欺骗）? When someone tells you something that is true, but leaves out important information that should be included, he can give you a false picture.For example. someone might say, “I just won a hundred dollars on the lottery. It was great. I took that dollar ticket back to the store and turned it in for one hundred dollars!”This guy’s a winner right? Maybe, maybe not. We then discovered that he bought $200 worth of tickets, and only one was a winner. He’s really a big loser!He didn’t say anything that was false, but he left out important information on purpose（目的）. That’s called a half-truth. Half-truths are not technically（技术的）lies, but they are just as dishonest.Some politicians often use this trick. Let’s say that during Governor Smith’s last term, her state lost one million jobs and gained three million jobs. Then she seeks（寻找）another term. One of her opponents（对手）says, “During Governor Smith’s term, the state lost on million jobs!” That’s true. However, an honest statement would have been “During Governor Smith’s term, the state had a net gain of two million jobs.”Advertisers will sometimes use half-truths. It’s against the law to make false statements so they try to mislead you with the truth. An advertisement might say, “Nine out of ten doctors advised their patients to take Yucky Pills to cure toothache.” It fails to mention that they only asked ten doctors and nine of them work for the Yucky Company.The kind of deception happens too often. It’s a sad fact of life: Lies are lies, and sometimes the truth can lie as well.6. How much did the lottery winner lose?A. One hundred dollars.B. Two hundred dollars.C. Three hundred dollars.D. Four hundred dollars.7. We may infer that the author believes people should ________.A. buy lottery tickets if possibleB. make use of half-truths.C. be careful about what they are toldD. not trust the Yucky Company8. How many examples does the writer give to show how the truth is used to deceive?A. OneB. TwoC. ThreeD. Four9. Which of the following is true according to the passage?A. Using half-truths is against the law.B. Technically, half-truths are in fact lies.C. Yucky Pills is a very good medicine for toothache.D. Governor Smith did a good job during her last term.10. Which of the following best expresses the main idea of the passage?A. He’s really a big loser!B. Sometimes the truth can lie as well.C. Advertisers will sometimes use half truths.D. It’s against the law to make false statements.According to a research, more than 130 billion pounds of uneaten food go to waste in Laura’s county each year. That is about 30% of the yearly food supply (供应). It is a sad fact, especially when you consider how many families and homeless people are in hunger. When Laura saw her school dining hall throw away food that was not eaten at all every day, she came up with an idea. She started a project to help her school dining hall to give away uneaten food to homeless shelters (庇护所) in her community. In the past three years, the same project has spread to other schools and some fast food restaurants throughout the city. The project is called Feed & Find, and has already fed thousands of people in her city. How does it work? Through an app, Feed & Find matches local homeless shelters with school dining halls and restaurants that have uneaten food to provide. When dining halls or restaurants have uneaten food left, they can use the app to share the information about the food. A truck driver working for the project is then sent to pick it up and take it to a shelter. Pretty cool, right? It’s not surprising that people in other cities have got in touch with Laura, hoping that she could help develop similar projects for their communities. Some people, however, have concerns about the safety of the uneaten food. They think such food may not be clean enough. Still, this project is a clever way to help solve the problem of food waste and it helps those in need.11. What do the numbers in Paragraph 1 tell us? _____A. Some people are poor.B. Food waste is serious.C. The population is large.D. The research is interesting.12. Where did Laura’s project first get food? _____A. From her family.B. From a homeless shelter.C. From a fast food restaurant.D. From her school dining hall.13. What would people in other cities like Laura to do? _____A. To find a truck driver.B. To visit their communities.C. To give away food to them.D. To help develop projects like hers.14. What does the underlined word “it” refer to in the last paragraph? _____A. The food.B. The problem.C. Food waste.D. The project.15 Which can be the best title for this passage? _____A. A Dining Guide App.B. A Food Sharing Project.C. A Driving Service App.D. A Food Safety Project.Few people knew about online food delivery( 外 卖) apps ten years ago, but today, many would find it hard to live without them. For better or worse, online food delivery services(服务)have changed the way we eat. ___16___ These services surely have many advantages. They provide jobs for millions of people and help restaurants find more customers. Since the apps are very easy to use, they also do good to customers:we can now have meals delivered at any time of day. This is especially important to people who might not have time to cook. Not only do these apps save time, they also provide us with lots of restaurants to choose from. ___17___ They can buy meals and foods more easily with these apps. ___18___ First, they make it even easier to order unhealthy food. Food safety is another problem:it can be hard to know where the food comes from. As delivery men need to send the orders as quickly as possible, some pay little attention to traffic rules. ___19___ What’s more, delivery services are creating too much packaging waste, and this will be harmful to the environment.There are many advantages of online food delivery services but we need to make sure that we make the right choices in the long run. We should do our best to avoid waste. We also need to make sure what we eat is healthy. Next time you are thinking about ordering in, ask yourself whether you really need to. ___20___A. They are useful for old people as well.B. They are also having a huge influence on us.C Almost everyone enjoys online food delivery services.D. However,we must not forget the disadvantages of these services.E. Most of the time,it’s better to buy what you need and cook by yourself.F. In recent years,a number of people have been hurt or even killed because of this.A. Fish live in water. A person who is in a strange or uncomfortable environment may feel like a fish out of water.B. People may get their feet into the water slowly when they start to learn swimming. “Get your feet wet”means trying to do something for the first time.C. In many ball games, the most important person is the one who carries the ball. Such a person is the leader and he makes sure that a job gets done.D. Birds mainly eat worms. A bird will go hungry if it cannot catch worms. The bird that gets up early is sure to get some food, so the early bird catches the worm.E. Your feet become hot when you run. But when you are made to sit in one place, your heels stay cool. When someone keeps you waiting, you can say he is cooling your heels.F. Some people seem to know what’s going on behind them, as if they had eyes in the back of their heads. “Eyes in the back of your head” refers to the ability to notice everything happening around you.21. Bella, one of the top students in her class, always gets up early and hopes to get better grades by working hard. _____22. Sam is a new comer to a high school. He feels a little nervous in the classroom with a lot of strangers around him. _____23. Victor’s friends are taking a high speed train to visit him. But his friends are late. He is now waiting for them at the station. _____24. Aileen is an English teacher. She always knows what’s going on in class, even when her students are passing notes behind her back. _____25. Vincent has joined a mountain climbing club. The club members will have a climbing trip next week and he will be the leader of the team. _____One Sunday, I decided to tidy my bookshelf up. Suddenly, a white envelope fell to the floor. I was ___26___ (surprise)! I couldn’t remember putting the envelope on my shelf. It must have been years ago! Anyway, I opened the envelope ___27___ (careful). Inside it, there was a folded piece of paper. I read it. It was a letter that was written ___28___ my mom.My dear children, I love you so much! This is not a letter to be posted. I have written this in the hope that one day you ___29___ (find) it. Yes, I wanted to let you know something ___30___ was not suitable to express face to face. Life is too short and uncertain. What I say ___31___ (be) not new at all, but why I say it is important. If you are reading this, I am no longer with you. You are alone now. I’m not there to help you or give you any kind of ___32___ (advise). But I have faith that the steps you take will be sound and wise. The world around you can be confusing(令人困惑的). But if you look inside yourselves, you can light your path and figure out where ___33___ (go). Remember the saying “you reap what you sow(播种)”. The way you act will have ___34___ effect on your life. Be careful and aware of every step. Be positive as much as possible. All of you are great children. I hope you can understand what I mean. Be kind to others and to ____35____ (you).Yours,MomI was silent for a long time, holding that letter. I thought about how much I loved and missed my mother.Franz Kafka 1883-1924, a famous writer, never married and had no children. Once, at the age of 40, when he was walking through a park in Berlin, Germany, he happened to meet a young girl crying. She ___36___ her favourite doll. He helped her ___37___the doll, but they couldn’t find it. Kafka told her to meet him there the next day and they would look for it again. The next day, when they ___38___ had not found the doll, Kafka gave the girl a letter “written” by the doll that said, “Please do not cry. I have ___39___ and I’m going to write to you about my adventures.” Thus began a story that continued to the end of Kafka’s life. When they would meet, Kafka read aloud the ___40___ which he had written, of course, of adventures that the girl found exciting. Finally, Kafka read her a letter in which the doll said it had finally ___41___ Berlin. Then, he gave her a doll that he had bought. “This does not look like my doll at all,” she said. Kafka handed her another letter that said, “It is my trips that have ___42___ me.” The girl hugged(拥抱) the new doll and took it home with her. A year later, Kafka ___43___. Many years later, the now grown-up girl found a letter hidden inside the ___44___. The tiny letter, signed by Kafka, said, “Everything you love is very likely to be lost, but in the end, _____45_____ will return in a different way.”36. A. boughtB. brokeC. lentD. lost37. A. ask forB. look forC. write aboutD. listen to38. A. justB. evenC. stillD. ever39. A. taken a tripB. had a picnicC. had a walkD. taken a rest40. A. emailB. letterC. storyD. poem41. A. gone away fromB. left forC. moved out ofD. come back to42. A. changedB. supportedC. encouragedD. challenged43. A. passed outB. walked inC. passed awayD. came along44. A. roomB. dollC. presentD. album45. A. courageB. helpC. safetyD. love