湖北地区2023年中考英语真题分类汇编-阅读理解（1）（含解析）

中小学教育资源及组卷应用平台 湖北地区中考真题分类汇编-阅读理解（1） 学校:_____姓名：_____班级：_____考号：_____ 一、阅读理解 （2023·湖北襄阳·统考中考真题） China is the country that eats the most watermelons in the world. It’s not because foreigners don’t like watermelons but “they can’t afford them.” Do you know why 1 It’s reported that a kilo of US watermelon is about $6.91 in New York, which is about ￥46 in China. 2 But things are different in China. According to the FAO (联合国粮农组织), China now is the world’s largest watermelon producer and customer. 3 And the weather is just right for planting watermelons. With the large output(产量), the price is naturally much lower. Secondly, countries like the USA and Australia have a wide land, but watermelons were not introduced there as early as in China. The local people prefer other fruits that were known earlier to watermelons. 4 Thirdly, according to some reports, watermelons from foreign countries may not taste good. 5 Why is that Wu Mingzhu is an 80-year-old Chinese scientist who spends her whole life on the improvement of growing better watermelons. Thanks to her hard work, we can enjoy more delicious and much cheaper watermelons. A．Firstly, China’s land area is large. B．Watermelons are my favorite fruit. C．So, watermelons are not as popular as other fruits. D．That’s because they’re too expensive in most countries. E．However, in China, we seldom eat watermelons that taste bad. F．Watermelons are also famous for being expensive in Japan and South Korea. （2023·湖北襄阳·统考中考真题）When September comes, the new term begins. Parents are all excited because their kids are going back to school. There’s nothing better than this. Looking back at the online-class period, what woke up the parents every morning was not their alarms, but their kids’ coming online classes. Cooking meals, signing-in(登陆) learning apps and handing in homework pictures were daily activities for parents to get everything ready for kids. At the same time, the parents had to pay full attention to their kids because there’s no difference between giving a kid an electronic product and ▲ . What a coincidence! In ancient times, the new term started around White Dew(白露) in September, too. People used to have “four big ceremonies in life” which included the ceremony of “starting school, becoming an adult , getting married and burial”. The ceremony of starting school was a big thing. It showed everyone’s best wishes for a kid. Not every kid could go to school. Most of them had to work. But if you were a boy, your father could send you to school. Luckily, beginning in the Han Dynasty, the school fees(费用) were paid by the emperor. Boys studied very hard. They went to school every day, with no weekends, from about 6: 00 a. m. to about 4:00 p. m. The school prepared them for the government tests, and whoever scored high in the tests could get a good job. There weren’t any math or science lessons. The ... ...