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1、2019中考英语阅读、任务型阅读、完形填空精享新编（3）一、阅读理解。A（2019中考教育类选练）Do you consider failure as an ending? Do you often feel after a failure that you are good for nothing? Then be careful, you are one of them who have bad relationship with failure. And this is the only reason why people often keep themselves away from
2、their success. The power of failure is that it helps us to learn fro our mistakes and missteps and we must consider a failure as an opportunity to grow rather than giving up.Lets discover the reasons why successful people believe that opportunity lies in every failure.Disappointment or failure shows
3、 that you are tryingThe best way to gauge（衡量）your progress at something is to see how many times you failed. In case you havent failed yet, chances are that you havent tried hard yet.Look at all successful men and women throughout our history, they all had one thing in common. Thats to say they fail
4、ed not once but several times before they achieved success. Lets take an example of Thomas Edison: he failed a lot of times to find right filament（灯丝）for his light bulb. Henry Ford had a stronger relationship with failure, which inspired him to quote this unforgettable saying “failure is the opportu
5、nity to begin again, more intelligently.”Achievement lies in looking at failure as an opportunityJust like every successful person had one thing in common, similarly all unsuccessful persons throughout our history had one thing in common - their inability to use failure as an opportunity and a tool.
6、 If you feel your one failure is your ultimate （终极的）failure, and that feeling of sinking down is known as an ultimate failure, you are pushing yourself away from your expected success. Achievement is all about finding out what mistakes you made, what is the main cause of that failure, and how you ar
7、e going to make up for it.Success requires willpower, passion, hard work, intelligence, determination, but all of the above, success requires failure. Use your failure as an opportunity to learn, to become wiser and to reconsider your relationship with failure, the true key to success.1. According t
8、o the writer, why do people keep themselves away from their success?A. Because they dont set long-term goals.B. Because they havent got enough time.C. Because they cant deal with failure properly.D. Because they are disappointed in themselves.2. Why does the writer take the example of Thomas Edison?
9、A. To explain the reasons for failure.B. To prove the importance of failure.C. To take pride in Thomas Edison.D. To introduce the process of making a light bulb.3. What can you learn from the passage?A. Failure can build up your confidence.B. Successful people seldom failed.C. Failure is more import
10、ant than success.D. Successful people use failure as a tool.参考答案1. C 2. B 3. DB歌剧版红楼梦You must have read or heard of the sad love story between Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu. But can you imagine the two singing opera in English instead of speaking poetic Chinese?Jia and Lin are two characters from the clas
11、sic Chinese novel A Dream of Red Mansions(红楼梦), written by Cao Xueqin(17151763). Now the book has been made into an English language opera. The opera was first performed last September in San Francisco, US. This month it came to Beijing, Changsha and Wuhan.Many of the operas creators have background
12、s(背景)in both Chinese and American cultures, including the director and playwrights. Their understanding of both cultures helped them to change a Chinese classic into a foreignlanguage opera.The book, which covers the rise and fall of the Jia family, has 120 chapters and hundreds of characters. But o
13、pera writer David Henry Hwang cut down the number of characters to just seven. Hwang, a ChineseAmerican, focused on the love story between Jia and Lin and tried to write a heartbroken tragedy(悲剧) that everyone would understand.The art director Timmy Yip, from Hong Kong, tried to help foreign people
14、understand the characters using costumes(服装) and stage settings(布景). He compared Lin to water and gave her a light green costume. When Lin shows up on stage, there is usually water around her on the stage.The creators consider it to be a meaningful job to introduce a Chinese classic to Western audie
15、nces. Hwang told China Daily he was happy to “have made a contribution to the land where my parents were born”1. Who wrote the opera for the Chinese classic novel A Dream of Red Mansions?A. Lin Daiyu. B. Cao Xueqin. C. Jia Baoyu. D. David Henry Hwang.2. The opera was _A. sung in poetic Chinese B. fi
16、rst performed in BeijingC. performed in China after one year D. performed in many languages3. Which of the following is NOT a difference between the book and the opera?A. The language used. B. The sad love story.C. The number of characters. D. The whole familys story.4. Why did the creators make the book into an Englishlanguage opera?A. Because they
