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1、2019（届）中考英语阅读理精题（三）第一篇（2019中考科普环保类选练）Today there are 6 billion people on the earth. By the year 2050 there may be 12.5 billion. This means we need more food.One way to produce more food is by growing stronger plants. For thousands of years, farmers have made plants better. Every season, they pick th
2、e best plants for the next season. It works very slowly. Since 1983, scientists have been able to change plants more quickly by changing their genetic material (遗传物质). Foods from plants grown in this way are called genetically modified foods (转基因食品), or GM foods.By changing the genetic material of a
3、 plant, it is possible to make new plants. They make plants which are strong against plant diseases. They can also help in our diseases: a kind of rice is being prepared (准备), for example, which stops people from becoming blind.Rich countries produce GM food because they are easy to grow and bring i
4、n more money. Poor countries are interested in them because they help produce more food.GM plants are not natural. No one knows how good or bad they are. Making GM foods is only one way of feeding people in 2050. There are strong feelings against them, because they are unnatural. They may feed peopl
5、e, then hurt them or their children later. But, both rich and poor countries are very interested in their use, and they are not going to go away. In 2050 we may think differently about them. 1GM foods are made by . Afarmers Bworkers Cscientists Dplants2What are the good things about GM foods ? AThey
6、 make plants strong against diseases. BThey are unnatural. CThey can help in human diseases. DBoth A and C.3GM foods . Aare a quick way to produce food Bgrow in the wild Care safe Dare grown only in rich countries4Why do some people not like GM foods ? AThey are not useful. BThey are not helpful. CT
7、hey are not natural. DThey are not cheap.5From the reading we know that . AGM foods will disappear one day in the future BGM foods will not disappear in the future Cpeople will not be interested in GM food Dpeople will have to stop using GM food参考答案CDACB 第二篇 Plants are very important living things.
8、Life could not go on if there were no plants. This is because plants can make food from air， water and sunlight. Animals and man cannot make food from air， water and sunlight. Animals get their food by eating plants and other animals. Therefore animals and man need plants in order to live. This is w
9、hy we find that there are so many plants around us. If you look carefully at the plants around you， you will find that there are two kinds of plants： flowering plants and non-flowering plants. Flowering plants can make seeds. The seeds are protected by the fruits. Some fruits have one seed， some hav
10、e two， three or four， and some have many seeds. But a few fruits have no seeds at all. An example of a fruit without seeds is the banana fruit. Most non-flowering plants do not grow from seeds. They grow from spores（胚芽）。 Spores are very small. Some spores are so small and light that they can float i
11、n the air. We may say that spores are quite the same as seeds. When these spores are all on wet and shady places， they usually grow into new plants. 6. The main idea of the first paragraph is that _. A. plants are important for life B. plants cannot grow without air C. there are many plants in the w
12、orld D. we can not live without water 7. Plants can make food from_. A. flower， water and air B. water， sunlight and air C. air， water and soil D. air， sun and light 8. What can we infer（推断） from the passage ？ A. Of all living things animals are most important B. Spores are seeds C. All fruits of fl
13、owering plants have seeds D. Without plants， man will die out 9. This passage may be taken from_. A. a medicine book B. a novel C. a science magazine D. an experiment report 10. The underlined word “protected” in the third paragraph can be replaced by _. A. damaged B. polluted C. prevented D. guarde
14、d 参考答案 6-10 ABDCD 第三篇 Mrs. Blake teaches English in a large school in the inner area of a big city on the west of coast. Even since she was a young girl,she has wanted to become a teacher. She has taught eight years now and hasnt changed her mind. After she graduated from high school， she went on to college. Four years later， she received her bachelors degree （B A） in English and her teaching certificate（证书）。 Then she went to teach in the secondary schools of her state. In the summers， Mrs. Blake takes more classes； s
