
2026中考英语阅读专项训练week2 Monday “有趣的英语学习” If you want to describe something as nice and easy, you can say it is “a tea party”, but if something is very ▲ , you can say it is “no tea party”. Maybe you took a very long journey by bus to visit your family and the bus was not very comfortable. Then you could say, “Well, that bus ride was no tea party, but I’m here!” “A tempest in a teapot” or “a storm in a teacup” is when something makes people angry or worried, but it’s actually very serious. “A tempest” is a storm, but one that’s small enough to be in a teapot can’t cause much damage (损害). Perhaps your bus was late to arrive, and it made all the passengers very angry. You could tell your family, “Everyone was angry about waiting, but then the bus arrived, so it was a storm in a teacup really.” Fruitcakes are often eaten at Christmas with black English tea. Calling someone “nutty as a fruitcake” is a way of saying they’re crazy. This is because “nutty” and “nuts” are also ways of saying crazy, and fruitcakes are usually made with both fruit and nuts. So if your cousin asked if you were taking a bus home when you left, you might say: “You must think I’m nutty as a fruitcake. I’m going to fly home!” 1. Which of the following can be the best to put into the blank ▲ A. Creative B. difficult C. enjoyable D. meaningful 2. When Jim gets too angry about a small mistake, what can you say A. It is no tea party. B. It's really a tea party. C. It is a tempest in a teapot. D. He isn't nutty as a fruitcake. 3. If someone is nutty as a fruitcake, they are _____. A. Comfortable B. very friendly C. angry or worried D. very strange or mad 4. The passage is mainly about _____. A. table manners B. English idioms (习语) C. traditional foods of England D. different ways of learning English Tuesday/Week 2 音乐教送课到乡村 As the new spring semester began, music teacher Zhang Chong was quite happy to see her students at the rural schools in Jilin Province. Zhang, 41, has been working at Yangma Experimental Primary School in Longtan District for over 10 years. In 2007, after graduating from Yanshan University in Hebei, Zhang refused several job opportunities to be a music teacher or a member of orchestras (管弦乐队) in large cities. “I grew up in a rural area, and both my grandfather and father were village teachers,” she said. “Therefore, I decided to come back to my hometown and teach the children in the countryside to sing, helping them realize their dreams.” “In March 2018, when Zhang got the news from the principal that students at primary schools in three villages of Datun, Zhaozhou and Huangni had no music teachers because they lacked teachers, she immediately volunteered to teach them.” Beginning in March 6, she took on a new role as a visiting teacher. In addition to teaching at her own school, Zhang had to create a schedule that would allow her time to visit the three rural schools, each of which is about 10 kil ... ...
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