中考英语专题复习之外刊英语阅读理解每日一练（二）(含答案)

外刊阅读理解每日一练（二）
Day 1
C919 has arrived (P2)
A pilot of Eastern Airlines waves the national flag after the C919 is delivered on Dec 9. VCG

China’s first homemade large passenger plane has been delivered
首架国产C919大型客机交付东航
We’ll soon be traveling around in large passenger planes (大型客机) made in China! The country delivered (交付) its first homemade C919 large passenger plane to China Eastern Airlines on Dec 9, China Daily reported. The plane is expected to be put into commercial operation (商业运营) in early 2023.
The plane has been developed by the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC, 中国商用飞机有限责任公司). The company said the delivery marked an important milestone (里程碑) in the development of China’s large aircraft industry (飞机制造产业).
For a long time, the US Boeing company and Europe’s Airbus have ruled the commercial aircraft market. Experts said that, in being comparable to the Airbus A320 and the Boeing B737 series, the C919 is expected to break the market duopoly (双头垄断). So far, the C919 has seen 1,115 orders made from home and abroad, reported China Daily.
The C919 aircraft uses advanced design (先进的设计) and materials. It has a wingspan (翼展) of nearly 36 meters, a length (长度) of about 39 meters and a tail height of around 12 meters. There is a new generation of operating levers (操纵杆) and high-definition display screens in the cockpit. The middle seat is a little wider than the seats on both sides, which will make passengers feel more comfortable. With a range (范围) of 4,075 to 5,555 kilometers, the C919 is able to fly between any two cities in China, Qi Xuefeng, general manager of the C919 project at the COMAC, told CGTN.
President Xi Jinping once praised (称赞) the achievements in the development of the C919 large passenger airplane. He said that the plane carries “the country’s will, the nation’s dream and the people’s aspiration (期盼)” to make it possible for Chinese-developed large passenger plane to fly in the sky.
Choose the answer:
1. What do we know about the C919
A. People can go on it with China Eastern Airlines next year.
B. China didn’t have a plane as large as C919 before.
C. It is the first homemade passenger plane.
D. It will come into service on Dec 9.
2. What can we learn from Paragraph 3
A. The C919 will mainly be sold to the US and Europe.
B. The C919 is better than the Boeing B737 series.
C. The C919 will fully take the place of the Airbus A320.
D. The C919 can boost market competitiveness.
3. Which of the following are parts of the design of the C919
a. New generation of operating levers.
b. A long wingspan.
c. Wider seats on sides.
d. High-definition display screens for passengers.
A. ab B. ac C. bc D. bd
Day 2
Feeding the hungry through street fridges (P4)
An open fridge is a helpful way to help others around you.
Sharing food reduces waste and spreads joy
解锁冰箱新妙用：慈善又环保
Do you ever worry that you might waste food During the COVID-19 pandemic, many people round the world were going hungry. But people came up with unique (独特的) ways to try and help. One of these was to put fridges filled with food outside for people who needed it. The movement was very popular in the US but there are community fridges all around the world.
However, this trend (趋势) started before COVID-19. Back in 2016, a restaurant owner in Kochi, India, had the idea late one night when she saw a lady looking for food in a trash (垃圾) can. She was really sad because that night, her restaurant had made lots of food and she could have given some to her.
Over in the UK, the idea of communal (公用的) fridges was used in Sommerset to fight against food waste and poverty (贫穷), encouraging people to donate and also take unwanted food. UK supermarkets and eateries like Marks & Spencer and Greggs have helped.
Now there is a large movement in the UK providing communal fridges. The charity (慈善组织), Hubbub, has worked with The Community Fridge Network. It supports groups running communal fridges across the UK. Now there are over 300 fridges in the UK. Hubbub has partnered with Co-op to fund 500 fridges by the end of 2023.
“A fridge is so often much more than a fridge,” said Hubbub’s official website. “The fridges bring people together, address social isolation (隔离) and provide people with the opportunity to access (取得) healthy food, try something new and save money.”
Answer the questions:
1. What is the unique way for people to help the hungry
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2. Why did the restaurant owner in Kochi feel sad
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3. What was used in Sommerset to fight against food waste
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4. What do Hubbub and Co-op work together to do
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5. What is the last paragraph mainly about
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Day 3
Reviving tradition (P4-5)
Artists make porcelain wares in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi. VCG
Artists follow their dreams in China’s porcelain capital
景德镇：“景漂”爱上“镇生活”
Ran Xiangfei, a porcelain (瓷) maker from Jiangsu, has stayed in Jingdezhen for over eight years. He first visited the city in 2009 and had a close look at the porcelain-making process. “In Jingdezhen, a place with unique (独特的) clay for making quality (优质的) porcelain and that has a complete industrial chain, it is very easy to produce porcelain,” Ran told Beijing Review.
He likes Jingdezhen also because the size and pace of the city make life more relaxing there than in larger cities.
Jingpiao — or “Jing drifters (漂流者)”, is the name for people like Ran in Jingdezhen. It was first used to talk about young people following their dreams in big cities like Beijing and Shanghai. Now the small city’s low cost (花费) of living and artistic (艺术的) culture make it a dream destination (目的地) for youngsters.
However, living the life of a drifter is not easy. The 27-year-old Jiao Congyue moved to the city in 2017. She now makes a living mainly by selling handmade ceramics (手工的陶瓷) in her own studio. For every excellent cup Jiao makes, there must be several failed ones. “But most customers only see the excellent ones,” said Jiao. “They always complain (抱怨) that the prices of my products are pretty high.”
Despite the hardship (艰难), working in Jingdezhen can be inspiring. Jiao often gets new ideas from chatting with other Jing drifters and finds it easy to buy raw materials (原材料) like glaze (釉料) and earthware molds (陶器模具). Plus, she finds it exciting to be in a place with such a long history of ceramics production (制作).
According to Li Wei, a teacher at the Jingdezhen Ceramics Institute, today’s Jingdezhen is a huge magnet (有吸引力的地方) for young people starting their careers (事业). “People choose to stay because they have hope in their dreams, their career and their future,” said Li to Xinhua.
history of the porcelain capital
Jingdezhen in Jiangxi is known as the “Porcelain Capital”. It began producing pottery during the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) and porcelain about 1,700 years ago.
The city of Jingdezhen has been famous for its porcelain since the Song Dynasty (960-1279). Under the rule of Emperor Zhenzong, the city got its present name because of him. Jingdezhen became the producer of imperial porcelain at the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, Jingdezhen exported (出口) a huge amount of porcelain to Europe.
Jingdezhen porcelain has many styles, including elegant blue and white, and vibrantly (充满活力地) colorful porcelain, the former being the best known.
‘yangjingpiao’
Jingdezhen will turn itself into a world ceramic cultural center by 2035, said Xinhua. As one of the areas with the highest concentration (聚集) of artistic talent in China, Jingdezhen has over 30,000 artists, including 5,000 foreigners, living in the city. These artists are known as Jingpiao and foreigners as yangjingpiao.
For Japanese ceramist Takeshi Yasuda and his wife, who have lived in the city for 17 years, Jingdezhen is not only their creative base (基地) but also their second home.
In Yasuda’s eyes, foreign artists choose to come to Jingdezhen because they can learn advanced skills in craftsmanship (手艺). Plus, precious (珍贵的) materials and equipment (设备) in Jingdezhen can turn their ideas into reality, which is sometimes difficult to achieve in their own countries.
“The future of Jingdezhen will be brighter as it is building cultural confidence at a higher and more international level," said Yasuda to China Daily.
Taoxichuan
Since its opening in 2016, Taoxichuan Ceramic Art Avenue has been a tourist spot (地点) and art landmark in Jingdezhen. Covering an area of 2 square kilometers, Taoxichuan has been built by renovating (翻新) a number of old ceramic factories. For example, the old workshops have been made into art galleries (美术馆), cultural centers, museums, restaurants and hotels.
It’s a popular site forJingpiao. By September 2021, over 18,000 young people gathered there and more than 2,900 companies started businesses.
Taoxichuan has also attracted nearly 200 international artisans and designers to hold lectures and exhibitions.
Choose the answer:
1. Why does Ran Xiangfei like Jingdezhen
A. Because it is large areas and has beautiful scenery.
B. Because he started to learn porcelain-making there.
C. Because it has quality materials for making porcelain and a relaxing lifestyle.
D. Because it has a complete industrial chain and a fast pace of life.

2. What do “Jing drifters” refer to
A. Young people following their dreams in big cities.
B. Young people moving to Jingdezhen to follow their dreams.
C. Young people who left their hometown of Jingdezhen.
D. Young people who come from Beijing or Shanghai.

3. What does Jiao Congyue think of the prices of her ceramics
A. She thinks the prices should be higher.
B. She can hardly make any money.
C. They are higher than those of artists’ works.
D. They are not high considering the cost.
4. According to Li Wei, what can young people gain in Jingdezhen
A. A dream different than before.
B. A future filled with money.
C. A relaxing life.
D. A chance to realize their dreams.


Day 4

Making sense of the big (P6)
TUCHONG

Admit it. We are not born “number people
人类大脑为何难以理解庞大的数字？
There are 8 billion humans on Earth. The sun is 150 million kilometers away. The universe (宇宙) may have 200 billion trillion (万亿) stars …
As scientists explore the world with more and more advanced (先进的) tools, the numbers used are also becoming bigger. Recently, scientists added four new names for really big and really small measurements (度量): ronna (1027), quetta (1030), ronto (10-27) and quecto (10-30).
Do you find these numbers too big to make sense (有意义) Don’t worry. Almost all human brains have a problem dealing with big numbers. “While living and evolving (进化), our ancestors (祖先) had no need to develop such a skill,” US mathematician Spencer Greenberg told the science website Gizmodo. Early humans only needed to understand small quantities (数量), like the number of people in the clan (族群), or how many animals they had caught. “So it’s not important to differentiate large from very large from an evolutionary perspective (进化的角度).”
However, there are some methods that can help us better understand big numbers. One way is to turn big numbers into something you are familiar (熟悉的) with. For example, if imagining 400,000 people is too hard, you can think that an average soccer stadium can hold around 40,000 people. Then 400,000 people mean 10 soccer stadiums of people. Or if you have 1,000 yuan, then a millionaire (百万富翁) has 1,000 times more money than you.
Needless to say, there are limits to these methods.v“This is why we often just ‘do the math’,” said Greenberg. “We can work with large numbers in calculations and get useful answers. We just can’t necessarily grasp (理解) the numbers throughout that process.”
How to better imagine big numbers
· Break it down
In the first nine months of 2022, China’s online sales of physical goods (实体商品) reached 8.24 trillion yuan, reported China Daily. How much money is that, really Well, there are 1.4 billion people in China. So it means on average every Chinese person spent 5,885 yuan during the first nine months of 2022.
· Bring in ‘time’
Let’s say someone wins the lottery (彩票) of 400,000,000 yuan. If you live for 60 more years, that’s 525,600 hours. So winning the lottery is like getting paid 761 yuan for each hour in the rest of your life (including when you’re asleep).
· Making analogies (类比)
The sun has a diameter (直径) of 1.4 million kilometers, while Earth’s diameter is 12,756 kilometers. Diameter-wise, the sun is about 109 times larger than Earth. It’s like a soya bean (Earth) compared with a watermelon (the sun). If we think of the sun as a grain of sand, the Milky Way could be as large as the whole area of Beijing.
Can you turn the three examples at the beginning of our story into something you can better grasp Discuss with your classmates.
Choose the answer:
1. What might one quetta refer to
A. One followed by 27 zeros.
B. One followed by 30 zeros.
C. A decimal point (小数点) followed by 26 zeros.
D. A decimal point followed by 29 zeros.
2. According to Paragraph 3, we can learn that _____.
A. there were no large numbers in ancient times
B. ancient people didn’t need to understand big numbers
C. human brains don’t have a problem dealing with big numbers
D. big numbers appear throughout human evolution

3. According to the story, we can understand big numbers by _____.
A. comparing the numbers to money
B. imagining how many people there are on Earth
C. thinking about how many soccer stadiums we have
D. turning them into something we are familiar with

4. What can we infer from the story
A. Math is the best discipline for us to understand the world.
B. People cannot understand numbers by doing calculations.
C. Extremely large numbers cannot be calculated.
D. Calculations help us deal with large numbers.
Day 5
Cloze
A group of people got together to visit their old university professor. They talked about their 1 in work and life. After the professor had 2 his guests a drink, he went into the kitchen and returned with a large pot of 3 and some cups – porcelain (瓷的), plastic, glass, crystal (水晶的), some plain-looking (外表平常的), some beautiful, some expensive. The professor told them to help 4 to the coffee.
When all his students had a cup in hand, he said: “I don’t know 5 you noticed, but when all the nice-looking expensive cups were taken up, the plain and 6 ones were left behind. While it is normal for you to want only the 7 for yourselves, that is the source (根源) of your problems and stress.”
“ 8 all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you went for the best cups and were eyeing each other’s cups to see if they were better.”
“But think about this: Life is the coffee, and the jobs, money and titles are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain 9 , and do not change the quality of life. Sometimes, by concentrating (专注于) only on the cup, we 10 to enjoy the coffee. So, don’t let the cups drive you. Enjoy the coffee instead.”
( )1. A. happiness B. trouble C. studies D. jobs
( )2. A. afforded B. offered C. finished D. refused
( )3. A. tea B. milk C. juice D. coffee
( )4. A. yourselves B. ourselves C. themselves D. itself
( )5. A. when B. because C. if D. while
( )6. A. ugly B. cheap C. broken D. heavy
( )7. A. best B. worst C. most D. least
( )8. A. Which B. When C. What D. How
( )9. A. cups B. drinks C. life D. dream
( )10. A. fail B. remember C. lend D. drop
参考答案：
Day 1: ADA
Day 2:
1. Putting fridges filled with food outside.
2. Because her restaurant made a lot of food but she couldn’t give it to a poor lady.
3. The idea of communal fridges.
4. Fund 500 fridges by the end of 2023.
5. The meaning of communal fridges.
Day 3: CBDD
Day 4: BBDD
Day 5: 1-5 BBDCC 6-10 BACCA