二、2017年聊城市中考英语试题阅读理解(共15小题;每小题2分，满分30分)
阅读下列短文，从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个能回答所提问题或能完
成所给句子的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Just 28 years ago, Berlin was a city divided into two by the Berlin Wall. How excited people were as the Berlin Wall came down. Since then, Berlin has become one of the coolest cities in Europe. Here are the main reasons why I think Berlin is cool.
First, Berlin has cheap hotels and everyday objects (物品). You needn’t worry about spending too much money when visiting Berlin.
Second, Berlin knows how to give parties, and there is a festival here every month of the year. Perhaps the most famous is the Berlin International Film Festival (the BIFF).
Third, Berlin has beautiful buildings of its own. The Brandenburg Gate is one of the city’s most famous buildings. It’s the symbol (象征) of more than 200 years of history. The TV Tower is as good as the Eiffel Tower in Paris and the London Eye.
Lastly, Berlin is a city of living art. Artists can create works of art on the sides of buildings.
If you want to visit a European city with culture, cheap objects and lots of colours, Berlin is the place to be. What are you waiting for? Get to Europe’s coolest city before anyone else discovers it
26. The Berlin Wall came down in_______.
A. 1 969. B. 1979. C. 1989 D. 1999.
27. The writer does NOT tell us that______ in Berlin.
A. everyday objects are cheap B. how often a festival is held
C. people know how to give parties D. in which month the BIFF is held
28. According to the 4th paragraph(段落 ), _____great buildings of Berlin are mentioned.
A. two B. three C. four D. five
29. The writer suggests that we_____________.
A. create works of art[来源:Z.xx.k.Com]
B. choose Berlin as the city to visit
C. build some towers like the Eiffel Tower
D. discover a cooler city than Berlin to visit
30. Which is the best title (题目) for the passage?
A. Berlin’s festivals B. Berlin - a really cool city
C. Berlin’s beautiful buildings D. Berlin - a city of living art
B
Every year on my birthday since I was 11, a white gardenia (栀子花) was sent to my house. No card ever came with it. Calls to the flower shop were not helpful at all. After some time I stopped trying to find out the sender’s name and was just pleased with the beautiful flower, in soft pink paper.
I couldn’t stop imagining who the giver might be. Some of my happiest moments were spent daydreaming(幻想 )about the sender. My mother encouraged these daydreams. She’d ask me if I had been especially kind to someone. Perhaps it was one of my classmates Perhaps it was the old man who I once helped. As a girl, I had more fun imagining that it might be a boy that I had met.
A month before my high school graduation(毕业), my father died. I was so sad that I became completely uninterested in my coming graduation dance, and I didn’t care whether I had a new dress or not. My mother, in her own sadness, would not let me miss (过) any of those things. She wanted her children to feel loved. In fact, my mother wanted her children to see themselves much like the gardenia: lovely, strong and perfect.
My mother died ten years after I was married. That was the year the gardenia stopped coming.
31. The writer received on her birthday since she was 11.
A. a white gardenia B. a card
C. a card and soft pink paper D. a gardenia and a card
32. The writer was very______ when she was imagining who sent the flower.
A. happy B. sad C. worried D. nervous
33. It can be inferred (椎断) from the passage that_______.
A. the writer didn’t get a new dress for the dance
B. the writer probably joined in the graduation dance
C. the writer’s father died ten years earlier than her mother
D. the writer’s father received a gardenia on each of his birthdays
34. The writer got the gardenias from______ on her birthdays.
A. her classmate B. the old man C. the boy D. her mother
35. The passage mainly talks about________.
A. what a gardenia meant B. what a girl dreamed about
C. how a mother loved her children D. how a daughter missed her father
C
Lots of students know what a marathon (马拉松赛跑) is, but perhaps they don’t know what a triathlon is. The triathlon is a sport that has three parts - swimming, bicycling and running. It is not an easy sport, but a man named Joe Salter is very good at it. A few months ago, he finished a special triathlon — he juggled (抛起接住) three balls all the time during the triathlon. That is to say, he kept on throwing and catching three balls while he was swimming, riding a bicycle and running.
31-year-old Joe is from Florida, the USA. He loves juggling and he started at the age of 8. Joe did well in juggling. Later, he got the idea to do a triathlon and juggle at the same time to make it more fun. Many juggling fans laughed at his idea and thought it was just a joke. But Joe didn’t give up and he kept practising it. Because of his hard work, he made it at last.
Talking about his triathlon, Joe
said swimming was the hardest part. “lt was difficult and complex(复杂的)," he said. “I basically only used my legs, so it took quite a lot of work. Also, swimming in open water made it a little harder. It was not like in a pool.”
36. According to the writer, the common triathlon_________.
A. is a difficult sport B. is more famous than the marathon
C. includes the three parts and juggling D. includes the marathon and swimming
37. Joe’s triathlon was special because_______ during the triathlon.
A. he picked up three balls B. he played juggling
C. he carried his bicycle on his shoulder D. he threw away all his balls
38. Many juggling fans thought Joe’s idea_____
___.
A. could not be realized B. should not be laughed at
C. should be realized as soon as possible D. could make triathlon more exciting
39. The underlined (画线的 ) part “made it" in the 2nd paragraph probably means________.
A. forgot B. failed C. succeeded D. left
40. Swimming was the hardest part for Joe mainly because_______.
A. he swam in open water B. his swimming skills were bad
C. he was very tired when swimming D. he almost could only swim with his legs
