（5）读写综合—回答问题【备战2024年广东中考英语题型强化专项训练】（含答案）

中小学教育资源及组卷应用平台 备战2024年中考英语题型专项训练 专题五 读写综合 第一节 回答问题 Passage 1 Arctic fox(北极狐) is a kind of small fox that lives in the Arctic. It grows about 50 centimeters(厘米)long, not including its tail, 30 centimeters tall and weighs from 3 to 7 kilos. The Arctic foxes are white or blue in color. The white ones are white in winter, but gray-brown in summer. The blue ones are blue-gray all year round. The Arctic foxes have long, thick hair that is called fur (毛皮). And the long fur covers their whole bodies, including both their cat eyes and rabbit feet, to keep them warm in the low tempereture in the Arctic. The Arctic foxes feed mainly on birds, birds’ eggs and other small animals. Teamwork is the way they look for food, and they don't like to do that alone. Baby Arctic foxes are very lovely. They don't open their eyes until a week after their birth. For the first half of the year, their parents offer them food. They begin to look for food on their own when they are about six months old. The next year they can live alone. Today the number of the Arctic foxes is becoming smaller and smaller, because people kill them fort heir fur to make beautiful coats for money. Something must be done to protect the Arctic foxes. What is the weight of an Arctic fox _____ What is an Arctic fox's long, thick hair called _____ What do the Arctic foxes mainly feed on _____ When do baby Arctic foxes begin to look for food on their own _____ Why is the number of the Arctic foxes becoming smaller and smaller _____ Passage 2 A lot of countries need different kinds of seeds so that they can plant them again. There is an important reason for this. Sometimes plants can't grow in a country because of bad weather or disease, so farmers need new seeds. You can keep seeds in a“seed vault”. It's a place at a special temperature. The seeds don't grow, but they can live for a long time. Norway has the biggest seed vault in the world—the Svalbard Global Seed Vault—and it has seeds from a lot of different countries. The vault is on the island of Spitsbergen. The island is about one thousand kilometers from the North Pole. It's a very cold place so it's good for seeds. Above the ground, the doorway is small, but inside, the building is huge. You walk down a long corridor(走廊), which is one hundred and thirty meters inside a mountain. At the end of it, there are three large areas with seeds. There are about half a million kinds of seeds inside the vault. For example, there are kinds of seeds for nice from Asia and Africa, 32 kinds of seeds for potatoes from Ireland and seeds for different tomatoes from the USA. The seed vault has space for a lot more seeds. You can put about 2.2 billion(十亿) seeds inside. The seeds can live here for thousands of years because of the cold temperature of -180℃. So, in the future, humans can grow any seed they want. In other words, the seed vault is the difference between life and death. Why can't plants grow in ... ...