广东省广州市2020-2021学年七年级下学期期末总复习之阅读理解专项训练 (含答案)

广州市2020-2021学年七年级第二学期期末总复习 阅读理解专项训练 (1) 阅读理解 Rachel Carson was born in the USA on May 27, 1907. Her mother, Maria Carson, was a school teacher. She loved nature and showed Rachel the beauty of it. She also loved books and taught little Rachel to read. Later Rachel fell in love with books too. At a very early age, she dreamed to be a writer some day. Her story first appeared in a children's magazine when she was ten years old. Her first book, Under the Sea-Wind was a book about a sea bird, a fish and an eel. and their life in the open seas. In 1948, Miss Carson began working on her another book. The Sea Around Us. She always learned about the sea carefully before she wrote. She collected information from more than one thousand places to write the book. When the book came out in 1951, it won the National Book Award. It was No.1 on the best-seller list for more than a year. It made Rachel Carson famous and rich enough to leave her job and spend all her time writing. In the book called The Edge of the Sea, Carson told what happened to life in and near the sea. Rachel Carson's most famous book, Silent Spring came out in 1962. In this book, She pointed out that the use of some kinds of pesticides ( 杀虫剂) like DDT would make the number of birds decline because it would kill them. Finally, in November 1969，the United States government, decided to give up using DDT in two years. Rachel Carson died in 1964. She will be remembered by the world as a great writer. 41. How old was Rachel Carson when she died? A. 56. B. 57. C. 58. D. 59. 42. Which book made Carson well-known? A. Under the Sea-Wind B. The Sea Around Us C. The Edge of the Sea D. Silent Spring 43. Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the passage? A. The US government stopped using DDT in 1969. B. Carson learned to read because of her mother. C. Carson hoped to become a writer when she was very young. D. The Sea Around Us was the best-seller book for over a year. 44. In Paragraph 3, the word “decline” most probably means . A. 增加 B. 加强 C. 减弱 D. 减少 45. What is probably the best title for the passage? A. A wonderful life. B. Books about sea. C. A successful writer. D. Four interesting books. (2) 阅读理解 Think about the different ways that people use the wind. You can use it to fly a kite or to sail a boat. Wind is one of our cleanest and richest power source (来源), as well as one of the oldest. People began to use windmills (风车) in West Asia about 2700 years ago. During the 1100s, European soldiers returned from the Middle East and they knew how to use wind power. Then windmills first appeared in Europe. For many centuries, people used windmills to make wheat (小麦) into flour (面粉) or get water from deep underground. When people discovered electricity in the late 1800s, people living in faraway areas began to use windmills to produce electricity. This allowed them to have electric lights and radio. However, by the1940s when almost all areas of ... ...