【試题重现】 2020年全国中小学英语学习成绩测试（NEAT）冬季测试七级试题

阅读理解（共四篇，计25分）

请阅读下列短文，按要求完成各题。（请将答案涂或写在答题纸上）

C

HOST： Hi， welcome to the show. Today we’re looking at great inventions for the future. What really useful inventions do you think we need？ People have been called in to the show to tell us their ideas. First up we have Alan. Hi， Alan！

ALAN： Hi.

HOST： Tell us about what invention you’d like to see.

ALAN： I think the most important invention we need is a new kind of car engine that doesn’t need petrol. Imagine a world with clean cars and no more pollution to worry about！ I’m sure it’ll be invented in two years. We already have electric cars， but I think it’ll be something different， maybe something like a car that runs on air. I’m sure someone will invent something to solve the problem. I hope so， anyway.

HOST： Thanks， Alan. That’s a great invention. Next on the line we have Karl. Karl， tell us about your invention.

KARL： Hi， well， one really useful invention will be man-made meat as it’s cheap and tastes good. It sounds like science fiction， but in fact they’ve already invented it in a way. Actually， they’ve produced beef in a laboratory， but it costs thousands of pounds to make one kilogramme of it. But that’s the same with all new inventions; they’re always expensive at the start. So， I think it’ll happen and it’ll be really good， because all the fields we use to grow food for cows can be used for something else—to grow vegetables or plant trees， for example.

HOST： Thanks， Karl. Artificial meat！ Cool. I love that invention more！ Thanks for those great ideas. Who knows which of them will happen！ We can only wait and see.

63—67：请根据短文内容，回答下列问题。（每小题1.5分）

63. What are the people talking about in the show？

_____                                                                                _

64. How soon does Alan think a new kind of car engine will be invented？

_____                                                                                _

65. Why does Karl believe the invention of man-made meat useful？

_____                                                                                _

66. How much does it cost to produce one kilogramme of beef in the laboratory now？

_____                                                                                _

67. Whose idea of invention does the host prefer， Alan’s or Karl’s？

_____                                                                                _

（C） 63. Great / Useful / Important inventions for the future. / The people are talking about the useful / great / important inventions for the future in the show.

64. In 2 / two years. / Alan thinks （that） a new kind of car engine will be invented in 2 / two years.

65. Because it’s cheap and tastes good.

66. It costs thousands of pounds. / Thousands of pounds.

67. Karl’s. / The host prefers Karl’s idea of invention.

D

The tiger is the largest of the Asian big cats and can be found in a wide range of habitats， from the forests of Southeast Asia to the woodlands of the far east of Russia and the swamps （沼澤地） in India and Bangladesh.

The characteristic striped skin patterns differ from one tiger to another and from one side of the animal’s body to the other. In fact， there are no tigers with identical markings. Males have a characteristic lengthened hairs around the neck， which is especially noticeable in the Sumatran tiger.

Tigers prey mainly on deers and wild pigs and the tigers typically hunts alone. They have homes in caves， tree hollows and dense vegetation. They mostly come out at night， but in the more northern areas Siberian Tigers may also be active during the day in winter. Using its senses of sight and hearing rather than smell， the tiger follows its prey， and once it is within easy reach attacks from the side or rear and kills its prey by a bite to the neck or the back of the head.

However， the tiger is one of the Earth’s fastest disappearing species. A hundred years ago， there were about 100，000 wild tigers. Today there are fewer than 2，500. Originally， there were nine different species of tiger—three of these are now extinct. The six remaining tiger species all have very shaky futures.

68—72：请完成上文摘要。每空不超过三个词。（每小题1.5分）

[Tigers live in the Asian continent in different 68. ___， which include swamps as well as forests and woodlands. They are the largest of the cat family in Asia and are recognised by the 69. ___ skin. The skin patterns of different tigers are never the same， and males have a lengthened hairs 70. ___. They 71. ___ mainly at night and sleep during the day. At one time there were as many as nine species of tiger in the world but 72. ___ of these have now disappeared.]

（D） 68. habitats 69. （characteristic） striped 70. around their necks / the neck 71. come out / are active / hunt 72. 3 / three

【解題技巧】在解答这种根据短文内容写summary的试题时，我们首先可以粗读短文，了解短文大意，然后对照所给summary，寻找关键词，在短文中定位关键词的位置，然后找到应填词语。

如本题中第68题，空格前面有Asian， different，空格后面有forests， woodlands，据此可以将其对应到文章的第一句：The Tiger is the largest of Asian big cats and can be found in a wide range of habitats， from forests of Southeast Asia to the woodlands of the far east of Russia and the swamps in India and Bangladesh. a wide range意为“范围广泛，很多”，据此分析，此空应填habitats。

（全国中小学英语学习成绩测试组委会办公室  提供）