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1、书 山 有 路 1 2020 中考英语冲刺 阅读理解 专题训练 2 A Elephants are the largest land animals alive today African elephants live in family groups called herds 群 All of the elephants in the herd take care of each other The leader of the herd is an old mother elephant She is the matriarch 族长 A herd may have as few as ei
2、ght or as many as 100elephants The other elephants follow the matriarch because she knows how to keep them safe from coming danger Elephants learn by watching and copying other elephants and also learn from life Baby elephants stay with their mothers until they are fully grown at about ten years old
3、 Elephants live to be 50 or 60 years old Elephants are smart animals with long memories In the dry season a matriarch can remember where water was found in the past The herd will follow her there She can also remember the safest place for baby elephants to cross a fast moving river Elephants talk to
4、 each other with rumbling sounds Some rumbling sounds are so low and deep that people are unable to hear them Elephants hear sounds not only with their ears but also with their feet and even trunks long noses of the elephants They also greet each other by touching with their trunks and feet If dange
5、r appears mothers beat their ears to call their babies to them Other animals don t usually attack 攻击 elephants However a lion might try to attack a sick elephant or a baby If this happens the adult elephants circle around the baby elephants The adults make louder sounds and hit the ground with their
6、 trunks The matriarch puts herself between the lion and the herd She beats her ears out to make herself look even larger Then she lowers her herd and attacks the enemy 敌人 in a big cloud of dust 灰尘 1 According to paragraph 1 an elephant herd A has a father elephant as the leader B owns a matriarch wh
7、o keeps it away from danger C always has several leaders and hundreds of elephants 2 Long memories help elephants to A choose their matriarch B communicate with each other C find water and cross the river 3 What does the underlined word rumbling mean A 低沉的 B 尖细的 C 高亢的 4 Why do the adult elephants ci
8、rcle around their babies A To keep their babies safe B To welcome their friends C To attack their enemies 5 The passage mainly tells us about A why the elephants live in herds B what the elephants living habits are C how the elephants avoid being attacked B Inventions usually make a big difference t
9、o people s lives Do you have any great inventions at home Do they help you a lot in your life or bring you much fun Here are some of the most useful inventions in families according to a survey 书 山 有 路 2 The most helpful and creative invention for kids is the reading pen With the specially designed
10、pen kids find it convenient and fun to learn Little kids can learn a lot including story telling poems and music They start learning by touching the contents in the books with the pen This way kids can learn by themselves They are also great helpers for primary school students after school Mopping r
11、obots 扫地机 are popular with people who are too busy to do housework They are more popular with office ladies They can help people clean dirt dust and hair easily With the help of them people don t need to spend much time on housework They can enjoy a more relaxing life after work As for old people an
12、 electric foot basin 电动洗脚盆 is the best invention It s a good choice to buy one for your grandparents It can help keep their blood pressure normal and improve blood circulation 循环 The special basin can keep the water help old people become healthier and warm So washing feet with it will more relaxed
13、6 It is for kids to learn with the reading pen A boring B convenient C difficult 7 The three useful inventions are mainly used A at school B in the office C at home 8 Mopping robots are popular with A kids B office ladies C old people 9 Old people can keep their blood pressure normal by A using the
14、electric foot basin B listening to music with the reading pen C enjoying the mopping machine working 10 Which of the following sentences is TRUE A The water won t get cold when the electric foot basin is used B It s dangerous for kids to use the reading pen alone C Mopping robots can help people for
15、get their busy life C The world s largest radio telescope was finished on Sept 25 2017 in China FAST is a five hundred meter telescope It is also called Tian yan The Eye of Heaven with a dish the sire of 30 football grounds deep in the mountains of southwest China s Guizhou Province The giant dish i
16、s built on a howl like valley The surrounding area has radio silence as there are no towns and cities within a 5 kilometer radius 半径范围 and only one county center within 25 kilometers FAST is made up of 4 450 panels 面板 The second largest radio telescope is in Russia The bigger dish will be able to pick up weaker signals 信号 The radio telescope is like an ear listening to tell meaningful radio messages from white noise in the universe With the help of the telescope we can receive weaker and more ra
