2023年中考英语新热点时文阅读-走近外国著名作家
题型 | 主要内容 | |
1 | 阅读理解 | |
2 | 阅读理解 | 本文讲了马可波罗的故事，他走遍中国并写了一本关于中国的书，但其他人不知道中国在哪里，所以没人想信他，后来有人来到中国并想信了马可波罗，哥伦布长途旅行后发现了美洲。 |
3 | 阅读理解 | 介绍的是世界文化名人、剧作家、诗人莎士比亚的生平和经历。 |
4 | 短文填空 | 讲述了英国有史以来最著名的小说家之一——查尔斯·狄更斯。 |
5 | 短文填空 | 介绍了海伦凯勒的故事。 |
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（2022·安徽·合肥市五十中学新校三模）
Have you seen this meme (表情包) online before? The man in the meme is Michael Rosen, a famous British children’s book writer who has written about 140 books. He’s known as “nice granddad” in China.
Michael Rosen was born in Middlesex, the UK in 1946. His parents were both teachers. Michael Rosen started writing poems about people he knew when he was twelve years old.
Michael Rosen is busy with the teaching of writing and the reading of literature (文学作品) in schools. He visits schools to encourage children with his love for books and poems. He is one of the first poets to make visits to schools around the UK and the world. He is also one of the first poets to write about his own childhood (童年) experiences and to write them in the language children actually use.
However, life hasn’t always treated Rosen well. Eddie, his second son, died at the age of 18. Rosen couldn’t forget how he felt. The death of his son was the inspiration (灵感) for Michael Rosen’s Sad Book. In March 2020, Rosen was sent to the hospital because of COVID-19. Later, Rosen recovered (恢复), but one of his ears went deaf and he had to lear
n how to stand up again, just like a kid. However, for Rosen, it was not the end of the world. He turned the sad experience into writing. He wrote the book Many Different Kinds of Love and faced up to life with the most important thing — optimistic (乐观的) spirit.
1．When did Michael Rosen start writing poems?
A．In 1946. B．In 1958. C．In 1964. D．In 2020.
2．What happened to Michael after he recovered from the hospital?
s.b.poloA．He couldn’t hear anything.
B．He had to learn how to run again.
C．He turned the sad experience into writing.
D．He felt it was the end of the world.
3．What can you know about “nice granddad” according to the passage?
A．He had a sad childhood.
B．He didn’t love his second son.
C．He never gave up his writing in his life.
D．He wrote jokes in the lanuange children use.
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（2022·河北石家庄·八年级期末）If you tell others you have been to a fairy (梦幻般的) place, how do they feel? Usually, they might say, “What an imagination you have!”
That’s what happened to Marco Polo. Marco Polo lived in Italy. In his time, very few people traveled. But Marco Polo’s father traveled to other countries. Marco Polo went with his father. They went far to the East.
Marco met Kubla Khan (忽必烈). Kubla Khan asked Marco to work for him. Marco then became his helper and traveled all over China.
After many years, Marco Polo came back to Italy. He wrote a book about China. It told all of the strange and wonderful things. But very few people believed him. No one else had been to China. They had no idea where China was. Almost everyone thought he’d made it all up.
Many years later, other Europeans came to China. Then they found that Marco was right. Christopher Columbus read Marco Polo’s book, and he believed it. He tried to sail to that part of the world. You know what happened. He found America after his long trip by ship.
4．What did Marco Polo do in China?
A．He traveled all over China.
B．He worked in Eastern China.
C．He wrote a book about China.
D．He became a farmer in China.
5．What did Marco Polo write in his book?
A．His trip to China.
B．How he found America.
C．China’s wonderful things.
D．Why he traveled to China.
6．What did people think of Marco Polo’s book at first?
A．Interesting. B．Useful. C．Unbelievable. D．Wonderful.
7．What does the underlined word “sail” mean?
A．Travel on foot. B．Travel by air. C．Travel by train. D．Travel by ship.
8．What is the writer’s purpose (目的)?
A．To introduce China’s history.
B．To introduce Marco Polo’s story.
C．To encourage people to be brave.
D．To encourage people to travel more.
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（2022·云南昆明·二模）Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Stratford of England. He was one of eight brothers and sisters. His father, John Shakespeare, was a successful businessman. William went to school in Stratford, but he didn’t go to university. At the age of fifteen he went straight to work in his father’s business.
When he was eighteen, he met and fell in love with Anne Hathaway. She was eight years older than him. They got married in November 1582, and six months later their daughter Susanna was born. In 1585 they had twins, Hamnet and Judith. We don’t know much about the following seven years of his life. We only know that he moved to London, leaving Anne and the children in Stratford, and that by 1592 he was writing plays and working as an actor.
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