2011-2020常州中考英语：任务型阅读汇编【有答案】 试卷

2020年江苏省常州市中考英语试卷
四、阅读表达（共1小题；每小题5分，满分5分）阅读下面短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词．
16．（5分） The game of Go was one of the four greatest artistic types in Chinese culture． It is not only a competitive event of the mind，but also a board game of entertainment．
Created in China more than four thousand years ago． Go was introduced to Korea and Japan over 1， 000 years ago， and has since become a favorite activity of many people there． Today， Go still serves as a way of cultural exchange among the people in many Eastern and Western countries， as players in these countries take part in many international games every year．
A game of Go has many implications（含义） for real life． It represents a square world of round pieces in black and white． There are 181 black pieces and 180 white ones in total．While the board is fixed，the pieces can be placed in millions upon millions of different ways， just as life in the real world may take many turns． The proper placement of each tiny Go piece is similar to how one might solve a difficult problem in life．
Go pays much attention to peaceful competition and coexistence （共存）． In a game of Go， the players do not wipe out（消灭） each other's pieces． Instead， they simply try to win a larger share of space while allowing the other side some space． However， in chess and Chinese chess， the players try to wipe out as many of the other side's pieces as possible．The one who forces the other side's commander（主帅）into a dead corner then wins the game． Therefore， Go carries deeper cultural and philosophical connotations（哲学内涵）．
Wu Qingyuan（1914﹣2014）， a modern Go talent， believed that the final purpose of the game was to try to achieve peace． Instead of fighting as enemies， the two players work together to play an excellent game．
Title： A game of wisdom and peace
Main Parts
Detailed Information
Introduction
The game of Go is known as one of Chinese greatest artistic types． It is a competition of the（1）　 　， and a game of entertainment as well．
History and importance
●Go was created over 4， 000 years ago in China and has（2）______　 　throughout the world ever since．
●Today， Go still plays an important（3）　 　in Cultural exchange．
Implications and value
●Go pieces can be placed in millions upon millions of different ways． In a（4）　 　way， people may meet with lots of difficult problems in life， and need to learn how to solve them properly．
●Compared with chess， Go has deeper connotations since peace and competition coexist in a game of Go while（5）　 　the enemy's commander is the only purpose in chess．
●The real meaning of Go is to achieve peace between two sides．


【答案】mind、spread、role、similar、beating









2019年江苏省常州市中考英语试卷
四、阅读表达（共5小题; 每小题1分, 满分5分）
阅读下面短文, 并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。
注意：请将答案写在答题卡上相应题号的横线上。每个空格只填一个单词。
One cannot discuss Chinese music without mentioning the Chinese seven-string zither (七弦琴) , also known as the guqin, one of the four arts - along with go, calligraphy and painting. It first appeared over 3, 000 ago and represents China's solo musical instrument tradition.
At first, the gugin had only five strings, representing the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire and earth. Later. in the Zhou dynasty, King Wen of Zhou added a sixth string for his son, King Wu of Zhou, added a seventh string to encourage his army to fight with the Shang.
Ambience (环境气氛) was important in playing the Chinese zither. Usually, it was practised in quiet setting and never for public performance.
Ancient artists enjoyed performing by a stream in the mountains. The sound of the quqin mixed with the echoes (回音) from the mountains, until the musician found himself at one with nature. Playing it in snow was also a favorite pastime for ancient artists, who believed the instrument was the purest of its kind in the world. Also. a night with moonlight was considered ideal for Playing the guqin. Wang Wei (701-761), a highly talented man of the Tang dynasty, liked playing it in a bamboo forest on nights with moonlight most.
Guqin pieces are usually around three to eight minutes long, with the longest being Guangling Verse, which is 22 minutes long. Other famous pieces include Plum Blossoms in Three Movements, Wild Geese Landing on the Sandbank and Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute.
Nowadays, there are fewer than one thousand well-trained gugin players and perhaps no more than fifty living masters. The original number of several thousand pieces has greatly reduced to only a hundred works by today. The guqin and its music was added to the list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity (人类非物质文化遗产) in 2003.
Title: The Guilin and Its Music
Main Parts
Detailed information
Introduction to the guqin
l As one of the four arts, it has a (36) of 3, 000 years and represents China's solo musical instrument tradition.
The strings
l At first, there were five strings, which represented five elements.
l Later, kings in the Zhou dynasty added (37) more strings to them.
The ambience
l In quiet setting, not for public performance.
1. By a stream in the mountains. The (38) sound of the guqin and its
echoes could make musicians find themselves –at one with nature.
2. In snow. It was believed to be the purest instrument in the world.
3. On a night with moonlight. Wang Wei's (39) was to play the guqin in
a bamboo forest on a night full of moonlight.
The present
(40)
l Not many players, masters and works-are alive nowadays.
l The guqin and its music entered the list the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2003.


【答案】36. history 37.two 38. mixed 39. idea 40. situation
2018年江苏省常州市中考英语试卷
四、阅读表达（共1小题；每小题5分，满分5分）阅读下面短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词．注意：每个空格里只填一个单词．
When a thought has found words Poetry（诗歌)is the forgotten child of literature． Few people read it for pleasure.In Western high schools， poetry is seldom taught because it is considered to be out of date and have little to do with the life of today's students．
In China． however． poetry is still an important part of the curriculum（课程）． Recently， the Ministry of Education has increased the number of ancient Chinese poems for students to memorize and recite， from 14to 72． Why is it important to learn poems？
First of all， poetry is a necessary part of learning traditional Chinese culture． It is a path to understanding your history and your society． It is also the key to understanding the thoughts and feelings that are common to everyone but that we may be unable to express-the joy of Li Bai dancing with the moon， for example． Everyone has feelings of joy， love， loneliness， sadness and even anger， and a good poem can put those feelings into words and bring us self-understanding．
Poems can also express beauty． In a few short lines， even something common can become beautiful． Here is a poem called Fog by Carl Sandberg： The fog comes/on silent haunches（弓腰）/and then moves on． Yes， fog does move smoothly， silently and like a cat， and Sandberg catches that feeling and image（形象）， and makes it beautiful．
Of course， to really enjoy poetry， it has to be read aloud． After all， a poem is really just a song without music． Most ancient poetry， like Homer's Epics（《荷马史诗》） and China's Book of Songs， was spoken for hundreds of years before it was written．
The American poet Robert Frost said， "Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words．" You are lucky that you now have seventy-two poems to learn!
Title： When a thought has found words
Passage outline
Detailed information
In the West
Most people think poetry is（1）
different
from the life of today's students
China's recent action
Students must memorize and recite more ancient Chinese poems
（2）
Reasons
for learning poetry
◇Learning poems helps you （3） Reasons understand
history and society
◇Poems help express your personal thoughts and feelings
◇Poems can express beauty of （4） Reasons
common
things with very few lines
A tip on enjoying poetry
（5） Reasons
Reading
aloud is the best way to enjoy poetry． In tact， many ancient poems were spoken before they were written
Conclusion
Chinese students should feel lucky to have 72poems to learn!



【答案】Different Reasons understand common Reading．







2017年江苏省常州市中考英语试卷
British people pride themselves on their polite manners towards one another in public. They often use the word ‘sorry’—even when they don’t really mean it! Usually, if they want to ask a stranger for the time, they would start by saying ‘Sorry to bother you. Do you know what time it is?’ If they’re five minutes late for an appointment (约会), they would generally greet the person by saying ‘Sorry I’m late!’
They use the word ‘sorry’ in so many different situations that the meaning of the word has changed a little over time. The two main dictionary definitions (释义) of ‘sorry’ are: 1) feeling sad for someone else because of their problems or bad luck; 2) feeling regret because you’ve done something wrong. Now, think about this. Normally, when they want to ask a stranger a question, they start with ‘Sorry to bother you’. In this situation, they aren’t saying sorry because they feel sad for that person or because they feel regret.
So what does ‘sorry’ really mean? And why do British people use it so much? Well, in the British culture, saying ‘sorry’ is a way to be polite, especially to people who they don’t know very well. It’s also a very clever way to get what they want. In a recent experiment, an actor went up to a different strangers on a rainy day to ask if he could use their mobile phones in order to make a call. When he went up to one group of strangers and asked them without saying ‘sorry’ first, he was only 9 per cent successful in borrowing their phones. However, when he said ‘sorry’ to another group of strangers about the bad weather before asking if he could use their mobile phones, he was 47 per cent successful. So maybe saying ‘sorry’ is not just being polite, but it is also a good method to get what they want too!
Title: Why do British people say sorry?
Main points
Detailed information
The ___36___ in which they say ‘sorry’
l asking for the time
l Being late for an appointment
The change of the meaning of ‘sorry’
l The two main dictionary definitions of ‘sorry’;
 feeling sad for others’ problems or bad luck
‚ feeling regret because of one’s own ___37____
l When British people ask a stranger a question by starting with ‘sorry’, they are saying sorry ____38____ because they feel sad for that person nor because they feel regret.
The ____39____ meaning of ‘sorry’
l a way to be polite
l a good way to get what they want
The result of an experiment shows it’s easier for one to ____40____ in borrowing a mobile phone by saying ‘sorry’.
【答案】
occasions/situations/chances 、fault/mistakes 、neither 、real 、succeed
2016年江苏省常州市中考英语试卷
四、阅读表达(共5小题；每小题l分，满分5分)
阅读下面短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。每个空格里只填一个单词。
The Internet nowadays opens a wide world to people, including teenagers, but many parents worry that their children may meet with something unhealthy when searching online. In order to solve this problem, a new search engine for children called Kiddle has appeared.
Search results are filtered(过滤 ), so only safe websites are shown and descriptions are written in simple language. Searches with bad words are shut off, too.
Kiddle uses the same colors as Google in its logo and a similar
design, on its homepage, too--with an extra robot picture.
The top three Kiddle search results show safe websites and pages written specially for kids, and those websites and pages are well chosen and checked by Kiddie developers.
The fourth to seventh results will be safe and trusted websites that are not written specially for kids, but have content written inn a simple way. These results are also chosen and checked.
Results on the eighth and onwards pages are safe and famous websites that are written for adults. They provide expert content, but are harder for kids to understand
Unlike on Google, most results appear along with large thumbnail pictures (缩略图) to make it easier for children to find what they are looking for. For example, when searching for "meow meow", Google produces pages for information about a drug(毒品) that has "meow meow" as its nickname(绰号)， but Kiddle lists information only about cats, even with some cat cartoon .pictures.
The company explained,” Websites which appear in Kiddle search results satisfy family-friendly requirements, as we filter websites with unhealthy content. "
Kiddle-一一a Child-Friendly Search Engine
Characteristics
l Only safe websites are shown．
l Descriptions are written in simple language.
l 36 bad words appear
Logo
It uses the same colors as Google with a robot picture．
Content
The top three search results
Websites and pages are written 37 for kids，after being well chosen and checked．
The fourth to seventh results
Websites are also worth 38 and have content written in a simple way．
The eighth and onwards results
Websites are safe and famous，written for adults，and they are not 39 for kids to understand．
40 from Google
l Kiddle has many thumbnail pictures．
l Kiddle only gives safe information．
Advantage
Kiddie satisfies family-friendly requirements．
36______ 37.______ 38._______ 39._________ 40._________

【答案】
36. No. 37.specially 38.trusting 39. easy 40.Differences

2015年江苏省常州市中考英语试卷
四、 阅读表达
阅读下面短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词
注意:请将答案写在答题卡上相应题号的横线上。每个空格里只填一个单词。
Any time of the day you can devote to exercising is a good time for getting active, but if you want to make a healthy fitness plan, it may be helpful to keep several points in mind and find out the best time to exercise.
First, try to know what kind of person you are. Especially, are you an early bird who always wakes up early in the morning, or a night owl(猫头鹰)who almost never goes to bed before midnight? Once you are generally aware of what your sleep characteristics are, you will understand better when your body needs exercise, either early in the morning, sometime during the day, or later on in the evening.
Second, consider your daily plan. When do you seem to be most busy, and when do you plan your most important tasks? Try to fit in your exercise before or at least around these events if possible, so that you can keep exercising and your life won't be affected(影响) as well.
Third, think about when you feel you have the most energy. For most people, that time is usually in the morning after a good night's rest, or after a long day of work. After a busy or much stressful day, exercising can reduce your working stress from hard work.
Lastly, find out the place you plan to do exercise. Your house provides exercise at any time if you own fitness equipment(设备), but if there is a gym(健身房)down the street or along the way home from work, it will make it more suitable for you to exercise.
More importantly, you need to make a plan and try sticking to it for one week. If you do so and can get through the exercise without being pulled in another direction, make it a habit. And once you have set up your fitness plan, don't make any great changes to it unless your doctor allows you to.



Introduction
__ 36___ to take several points about exercise and find out the best time to exercise.
Main Points
▲Know your sleep characteristics and you will have a better __ 37___ of when your body needs exercise.
▲Make your daily plan well so that you can keep exercising __ 38___ affecting your life.
▲Think about when you are most energetic. Exercising after work can make you __ 39___ stressed.
▲Find out where to do exercise, and it will make it more suitable for you.
Suggestions
▲Stick to your time table and never give up for one week. Then a habit may be formed.
▲Don’t change your plan unless you and your doctor reach a(n) __ 40___.
【答案】
36. 【答案】Remember
【解析】信息转换。把 “it may be helpful to keep several points in mind and find out the best time to exercise.”中“keep several points in mind” 转换为动词remember。
37. 【答案】understanding
【解析】原词重现。根据第二段“you will understand better when your body needs exercise”把动词understand改为have a better understanding of。
38. 【答案】from
【解析】信息转换。根据第三段“so that you can keep exercising and your life won't be affected(影响) as well.”改为词组keep … from doing…。
39. 【答案】less
【解析】信息转换。根据文中“exercising can reduce your working stress from hard work.”把reduce改为make you less stressed。
40. 【答案】agreement
【解析】信息转换。根据最后一段“don't make any great changes to it unless your doctor allows you to”可以需要医生同意才可以改变健身计划，根据搭配选择使用make an agreement。

2014年江苏省常州市中考英语试卷
四、阅读表达
阅读下面短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。
In modern society(社会)there is a great deal of argument about competition .Some value it highly, for they believe that it helpful for social progress and richness. Others say that competition is bad, and that it sets one person against another and leads to unfriendliness between people.
I have trained many children who held the belief(看法) that their self-worth came from well they performed at tennis and other skills. For them, playing well and winning are often life-and-death matters. Sadly, they forget to develop many other human qualities.
However, while some seem to be lost in the strong wish to succeed, others think quite the opposite. In a culture which values only the winner and pays no attention to the ordinary(普通) players, they strongly blame competition, especially youngsters who have suffered under competitive pressures(压力) from their parents or society. Teaching these young people, I often find that they even choose to fail. They seem to choose failure by not trying to win or achieve success. By not trying, they always have an excuse, “I may have lost, but it doesn’t matter because I really didn’t try.” In fact, they are worried that if they had really tried and failed, the failure would mean that they were worth nothing.
Clearly, this belief is the same as that of the true competitors who try to prove themselves. Both are based on the mistaken belief that one’s self-worth comes from how well one performs in comparison(比较) with others. Both are afraid of not being valued. We can only discover a new meaning in competition as such worries and fear begin to disappear.
Title ： Opinions about competition
Main argument
Some believe that competition can push society 36 , while others think competition 37 unfriendliness between people.
Children’s performances
Some children 38 are about performing well and winning.
Some children give up trying to prevent themselves from 39
Reason behind
They think one can prove his self-worth only by performing better than others in competition
Writer’s 40 to children
Understand the new meaning of competition.
36. 37. 38. 39. 40.


【答案】36 forward 37 causes 38 only/just 39 failing 40 suggestion/advice


















2013年江苏省常州市中考英语试卷
阅读下面短文，并根据短文内容在在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。每空一词。
How important is music? When they are asked this question, students and parents usually answer that music is nice, but not very important. It is often considered only as entertainment, but not the first choice for education. This opinion is shortsighted. In fact, music education is necessary and important for all students.
Music tells us who we are. Music reflects the creators’ thinking and values, as well as the social environment it came from. For example, just as Mozart music represents a lifestyle, rock music represents a lifestyle, too. The jazz influence that George Gershwin and other musicians introduced into their music is obviously American because it came from American musical traditions.
Music provides a kind of ability to know the world in a different way. Science explains how the sun rises and sets. Music explores the emotive meanings. We need every possible way to discover and response to our world because no one way can get it all.
Music is a form of thought, as powerful as science. It is a way we human beings “talk” to each other. Through the language we expresses our feelings, our discoveries, our ideas, our imagination and our hopes so that they can be shared with others. When we do not let our children receive good music education, we take away from them the meanings that music expresses. Science does not tell us what it means to be human. Music does.
So music education is much more necessary than people generally realize.








Title: Music education is of 36

Passage outline
Detailed information
Introduction
Shortsighted opinion: Music is only a way of entertainment, not the top choice for education.
Truth: Music education is necessary and important for all students.
Main Body
A way to tell who we are:
Music not only reflects the social environment it came from but also expresses people’s thinking and __37____
A way to know the world:
We can’t discover and respond to our world in just one way.
Science explains how nature 38.
Music explores the emotive meanings of nature.
A way to communicate with others:
We use music to 39 our feelings, our discoveries, our ideas, our imagination and our hopes with others.
Music, 40from science, tells us what it means to be human.
Conclusion
Music education is necessary.
【答案】
36，importance 　37, values 38, works 　39,express 40, different 　







2012年江苏省常州市中考英语试卷
四、阅读表达(共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分)
阅读下面短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。每个空格里只填一个单词。
The 2012 London Olympic Games are around the corner. If you have the chance to visit Britain yourself, you can see at every bus stop the British people form a queue. You may have read about it, but you will still feel amazed to see it with your own eyes.
It’s an amazing social behavior; it brings the British to a higher level of civilization(文明). At least that is what one German professor thinks. The professor named Joseph Heinrich and his workmates say that standing in line is the “highest form of cooperative(协作的) group behavior”.
The social rules(细则) of standing in line are also interesting. For example, you need to be able to decide the correct distance to the person in front of you. Get too close and there is a danger of entering other people’s personal space. This is a serious mistake and often makes other people angry. However, when you leave too much space, the next person is likely to ask: “Are you in the queue?” This may sound polite but in fact it means: “Can’t you stand in line properly?”
In no other countries can you see the one-man queue except in Britain. If a British person arrives at a bus stop and no one else is there, he will not simply wait. Instead, he stands at the head of the queue.
Tourists are often unfamiliar with local customs(习俗), and if they do not get in line behind the British person, he or she will tell them strictly: “This is a queue.”
Though it might seem that the British people take their queues too Seriously, one thing is certain: queues can save lives. In dangerous situations, standing in line has prevented them from getting very frightened.
In the serious train accident in 1999, people who were hurt formed a queue as they escaped from their trains. One writer later wrote about a polite man who let her pass with a quiet “after you”.
Topic
Queuing in Britain
Professors’
(34)
of queuing
● The British have (35) a higher level of civilization.
● It is the highest form of cooperative group behavior.
Social rules
of queuing
● You should stand (36) too close to nor far from the person in front of you.
● Even if there is only one British person waiting for a bus, he queues too.
● If tourists do not queue, they will be strictly reminded to (37) the local custom.
The power
of queuing
The British queued and kept calm even in face of (38) .

【答案】
四、阅读表达(共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分)
34. opinions/thoughts/ideas 35. reached
36. neither37. follow 38. danger


2011年江苏省常州市中考英语试卷
四、阅读表达(共5小题；每小题1分。满分5分)
阅读下面短文，在表格内的空白处填入合适的答案(每格限填一词)
The way in which we communicate with others can be greatly improved by building a better vocabulary. In our personal life，we communicate and share experiences with others. However, how well we do it depends on(取决于)our ability to express ourselves through spoken and written language. Luckily，increasing(增加)our word power can make us own the skills we need to communicate better with others and can also help us get better results in our study.
When you see a new word，whether through reading or hearing someone say the word，just be ready to take out your dictionary and look it up-learn about the word and anything that relates(与…相关)to it. If you understand the word, you’ll hopefully remember it well.
Meanwhile, you’d better write down words to learn. You can go through the dictionary，magazine and newspaper or even take down the unknown words you hear. Try to review them every day-look at the words and speak them out loudly. Copy the words over and over again，along with their meanings，and you will surprisingly remember themn in no time.
You can also do word searches，crossword puzzles or other word games. Playing these games，you are more likely to come across new words, and when you are caught in new words, study them. The more words you have in your brain’s word bank，the better you will become at these word games. You will be remembering，learning and having fun，too.
Finally, reading is also believed to be an excellent way to learn new words and build up your vocabulary. Read things you are interested in，because in this way，you are less likely to become bored. But dont skip over(忽略) those words you don’t know. Instead, you should remember and use them in your own daily conversations. Use them more, and you’ll surely have a better chance of remembering them.
Topic：Increasing Your Vocabulary
(34)__________
of building up vocabulary
●Improve your ability to express yourselves and communicate better with others.
●Be (35)___________to your study.
Suggestions on remembering new words

1.Remember every new word you meet with by(36)__________it.
●Learn about the word and anything that relates to it by looking it up in your dictionary.
2.Make a (37)__________of new words to learn.
●Review the words every day by looking at and speaking them out loudly.
●Copy the words and their meanings over and over again.
3.Do word games.
●Play these games，come across new words and study them with fun.
4.Learn words through reading.
●Read things you(38)__________.
●Do not skip over new words，but remember and use them more.
【答案】
四、阅读表达(共5小题；每小题1分。满分5分)
34.Importance / Advantages / Value / Reasons
35.helpful / useful
36.understanding
37.list
38.like /enjoy / love