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初三英语阅读：Slow Travel
Slow Travel
When we travel in a hurry, we miss the small details that make each place unique. We lose
the wonder and joy of the journey. We spend more time taking photos than actually experiencing a place. And at the end of all that rushingaround（忙碌）, we return home more tired than when we left. That is why the age of Slow Travel is dawning（开始）.
Slow Travel believes, you should stay in one location for a longer period of time (at least a week), and dive more deeply into the local culture. You can enjoy a drink at the local watering hole, make friends with the locals, take time to take in the local rhythms（节奏）.
You become a temporary resident instead of a tourist. Slow Travel believes you should know there will be more trips. Even getting there should be leisurely —instead of being crammed into a plane and subjected to ridiculous security（安检）, why not take a train, car or a boat？
When traveling, I always love walking away from the tourist path and taking in things as a local. When I visited a friend in Germany recently, one of my favorite things to do was wander (漫步) around the local grocery stores and cafes to see what Germans like to eat.(Lots of breads, and boys are into their sweets!)
How can you make your next trip a slow trip？
★Stay in a local rental.
★Stay in a place that is non-touristy. Better yet, go to your destination in the off-season (淡季) .
★Stay out of cars. If you’re lucky enough to live in a place that supports walking (or biking), forsake（放弃）a rental car, and hoof (步行) it around your neighborhood.
★Get out among the locals. Make it a point to relax at a local cafe or bar, even if you’re traveling solo.
★Ask the locals. Instead of consulting guide books on what to do and where to eat, ask the locals.
Choose the best answer.
（）1.Slow Travel means ______.
A. rushing around many places in a short time
B. staying one place for longer time
C. enjoying local culture more deeply
D. both B and C
（）2.Slow Travelers can dive into the local culture by ______.
A. enjoying a drink at a local pub
B. making friends with the locals
C. taking time to get into the local life
D. all of the above
（）3.The underlined word“resident”means ______.
A. local
B. foreigner
C. visitor
D. tourist
（）4.Which transport wouldn’t a Slow Traveler prefer to take？
A. A train.
B. A plane.
C. A boat.
D. A car.
（）5.When I visited Germany, one of my favourite things to do was to ______.
A. walk along the tourist path like a visitor
B. go sightseeing from one place to another hurriedly
C. wander around the local grocery stores and cafes
D. take photos busily at different tourist attractions
（）6．How many suggestions does the author mention for having a slow trip？
A. Four.
B. Five.
C. Six.
D. Seven.
解析：
听说过“慢游族”吗？人们厌倦了走马观花式的旅游方式，自助游、休闲游、深度游成
为了一种旅游度假的流行时尚。慢旅游也是漫游，随心所欲地停停走走，慢慢地欣赏一次日
落或者感受一场疾雨，又或者悠闲地在咖啡馆坐一个下午，轻松地与当地人聊聊天，都会给
旅程增添无穷乐趣。慢旅游提醒我们在赶路的过程中别忘了停下来欣赏一下路边的风景，学
会欣赏是一种很容易实现的慢游方式。人们享受最多的，莫过于在旅游欣赏过程中放松身心，
体验真正的趣味。
1.参考答案为D。原文第二段第一句提到慢游者应当在一个地方停留至少一周，并且深
入当地文化。
2.参考答案为D。根据第二段最后提到的几种方法——enjoy a drink at the local watering
hole, make friends with the locals, take time to take in the local rhythms，不难判断所有选项都是
深入当地文化的方法。
3.参考答案为A。这里需要根据上下文推测词义。前面提到Slow Travel要深入当地文
化，而原句又提到要像一个resident而不要像一个旅游者，因此要找一个和旅游者词义相对
的选项，故“当地人”成为最合理的选择。
4.参考答案为B。原文第三段最后一句提到，“到达旅游点也应该是悠闲的。乘飞机要
忍受拥挤的机舱还要接受可笑的安检，为什么不乘车、船或者火车？”显然“慢游族”不喜
欢乘飞机。
5.参考答案为C。第四段第二句中作者告诉我们，他在德国的“慢游”方式是在当地的
食品店或咖啡馆闲逛。
6.参考答案为B。根据文章最后的文字，可知作者共提出了五条建议。
阅读简答题
1.
Do you want a happier, healthier family? Here’s a simple way: Eat with your family more often. Increasingly, researchers are discovering the importance of family mealtime. Several recent
studies have pointed to the same result: Children who often eat dinner with their parents are
happier and have fewer behavior problems.
Dr. Blake Bowden, an American researcher, carried out one study. He found that young people
who have family dinners at least five times a week may not use drugs. They are often happier and
do better in school.
ause dinnertime offers
Clearly, family dinners are important for a child’s development. Why? Bec
busy families a good chance to sit down together and talk. The relaxing conversation at the dinner
table helps keep good family relationships(关系). And good family relationships help children
develop self-respect and a sense of belonging.
health. One study shows that children who
Family relationships can also influence a person’s
enjoy close relationships with their mothers will not develop serious health problems.
Sadly, however, meaningful family time is too often forgotten. Parents are busy working and
children are busy studying for tests. According to Dr. Blake’s study, nearly 25 percent of people say that they have little time for family.
According to another study, people spend only about 50 minutes of free time with family each day.
And those 50 minutes are not well spent on meaningful conversations, either. Many parents say
they know little about their children’s friends.
So how can families find more time for each other? How can they enjoy more family meals and
conversations? They need to make choices. For children, they’d better not spend so much on their tests, but they may risk(冒险) falling behind their classmates. For parents, they need to go back
home earlier and risk not getting a high position.
But for families who do make those tough choices, the rewards are rich. Making time to eat dinner
with family does more than feed the body—it nourishes (滋养) the heart.
1.Are family dinners important for children?
2. Why is meaningful family time often forgotten?
3. According to a study, how long do people stay with family each day?
4. What should parents do to keep good family relationships?
5. How do good family relationships help children?
Key:
1.Yes, they are.
2. Because parents and children are too busy.
3. About 50 minutes.
4. They should go back home earlier.
5. They help children to keep healthy physically and mentally.
/ They help children develop self-respect and a sense of belonging. What’s more,
children may not have serious health problems if they enjoy happy family relationships
2.
You don’t need millions to be happy. In fact, at the Happiness Training Centre in Australia, a
couple of hundred dollars may be enough.
The training centre opened its doors last year, and, since then, men and women of all ages have
been paying $200 an hour for lessons on how to feel great. “You c an really increase your
happiness levels. That’s what we teach,” said Timothy Sharp, beginner of the centre.
Experts say that only about 15 per cent of happiness comes from incomeandfinancer (收入及财务
因素). As much as 85 per cent comes from things such as attitude, life control and relationships.
Most of us are better off financially than our parents and grandparents, but happiness levels
haven’t changed to match that.
Studies show that once the basic needs of housing and food are met, other wealth adds very little
to happiness.
Scientists now say part of the reason we are richer but not happier is that we compare ourselves to
people better off.
“The fact is that if you want to be happy, there’s a very simple thing you can do: compare yourself to people who are less well off than you —poorer, smaller house, etc.” said Sharp.
The Happiness Training Centre hopes to show you how to overcome these unhappiness factors by
paying attention to “more than just your bank account.”
“If I compare myself to Bill Gates, then I’m always going to be down,” said Sharp.
1. Do people need a lot of money to be happy?
2. When did the Happiness Training Centre open?
raining Centre in Australia?
3. Who’s the beginner of the Happiness T
4. What does happiness depend on according to the passage?
5. What does the last sentence mean?
Answer:
1. No, (they don’t).
2. Last year.
3. Timothy Sharp.
4 Income, finance and things such as attitude, life control and relationships.
5. People should be satisfied with the present life.
( Don’t compare yourself to others.)
( Learn to compare myself to people who are less well off than me.)
3.
eave their cars at
More than 200,000 members of Beijing’s driving associations are being asked to l
home at least one day a month in the hope of improving air quality in the capital.
运动) on Monday calling
More than 100 Beijing-based drivers’ clubs jointly started the campaign (
on local drivers not to use their cars for at least one day a month. Their goal is to lessen traffic
jams, reduce noise and improve air quality.
-sky days in Beijing and for
“I love driving, but I’m willing to make my contribution to more blue
said Lu Chuan, a film director and a former environmental ambas sador (大使) who
myself,”
helped raise public awareness of pollution problems in China.
Lu said he planned to make improvements to his car to make it more environmentally-friendly. He
also plans to ride his bicycle and walk more often in the future.
There are more than 2.6 million motor vehicles in Beijing and the number is increasing by more
than 1,000 a day, said Du Shaozhong, from the Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection
said.
Bureau. Motor vehicle emissions (排放) are the leading cause of Beijing’s air pollution, Du
According to the city’s environment department research, Beijing’s vehicles spew out 3,600 tons of pollution each day.
-sky days”, or days with
The “no-car day” campaign comes as Beijing tries to achieve 238 “blue
fairly good air quality this year, five days more than last year.
Beijing started the program called “Defending the Blue Sky” in 1998, when the city had only 100 days of blue sky.
While the city has seen a big increase in the number of blue-sky days by moving industry from the
city and more stringent vehicle emission requirements, it still faces many difficulties to improve
its air quality. Most of them have a lot to do with air pollution caused by motor vehicles.
The city has removed 4,000 old polluting buses and 30,000 cabs from service this year and
replaced them with vehicles meeting new, state emission standards.
first
The “no-car day”
was first introduced by 34 French cities that jointly started the world’s
“no-car day” on September 22, 1998.
aign __________.
1. Many Beijing drivers’ clubs started a camp
A. to forbid the use of private cars for one day
B. to make the air above Beijing city clean
C. to reduce the amount of oil consumption (消耗)
D. to do good to traffic and the environment
2. The underlined word “stringent” here means “___________”．
A. strict
B. expensive
C. beautiful
D. serious
3. The best title for this passage probably is “___________”．
A. More blue sky days to come
B. Stop blaming drivers for pollution
C. More laws needed to beat pollution
D. Old buses and taxis are the main cause of pollution
上海市初三英语倒计时38天练习（阅读选择）
I needed to get some money so after Christmas I took a job in the clothes department at Graham's.
I can't say that I enjoyed it, but it was an experience I'll never forget.
I could never understand why there were so many things in the sales; where did they all come from? Now I know the secret! Firstly, there is the special winter stock (货物) and the stock that people buy all the year round; some of these things are reduced(降价) a little. Secondly, there are the summer clothes they couldn't sell last year; these are reduced a lot to clear them. Thirdly, there are cheap clothes bought in specially for the sales; these are put at high prices ten days before the sale begins and then are reduced by 60% in the sale. Clever! Lastly, they buy in "seconds" (clothes not in perfect condition) for the sale and they are sold very cheaply.
When I arrived half an hour before opening on the first day of the sale, there was already a queue around three sides of the building. This made me very nervous.
When the big moment arrived to open the doors, the security guards, looking less confident than usual, came up to them, keys in hand. The moment they had unlocked the doors, they hid behind the doors for protection as the noisy crowd charged in. I couldn't believe my eyes; this wasn't shopping, it was a battlefield(战场)! One poor lady couldn't keep her feet and was knocked over by people pushing from behind.
Clothes were flying in all directions as people searched for the sizes, colours and styles they wanted. Mothers were using their small children to crawl(爬行)through people's legs and get hold of things they couldn't get near themselves.
Within minutes I had half a dozen people pushing clothes under my nose, each wanted to be the first served. Where had the famous English queue gone? The whole day continued like that,
but I kept my temper! I was taking money quickly and began to realize why, twice a year, Graham's were happy to turn their expensive store into a battlefield like this.
In the sale fever, people were spending money like water without thinking whether they needed what they were buying. As long as it was cheap, it was OK.
I was so tired that I crashed out for four hours after I got home. Then I had dinner and went back
to bed, feeling the sound of the alarm clock which would tell me to get ready for the second day of the sale.
1. According to the passage, why were Graham's happy to make their expensive store into a "battlefield"?
A. There were too many clothes and they wanted to clear them in the sales.
B. They wanted to make more money by having sales.
C. They could take the chance to raise the prices of all their clothes.
D. They wanted to show that they were clever at doing business.
crashed out” in the last paragraph?
2. What’s the meaning of “
A. Went to sleep.
B. Chatted with friends.
C. Went for a walk.
D. Had dinner out.
3. What would be the best title for the passage?
A. The Cheapest Clothes.
B. Looking for a Job.
C. Sale Fever.
D. A Pleasant Experience.
倒计时38天答案：BAC
上海市初三英语倒计时39天练习（阅读选择）
Everybody is happy as his pay rises. Yet pleasure at your own can disappear if you learn that a
fellow worker has been given a bigger one. Indeed, if he is known as being lazy, you might even
be quite cross. Such behavior is regarded as “all too human”, with the underlying belief that other animals would not be able to have this finely developed sense of sadness. But a study by Sarah
Brosnan of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, which has just been published in Nature,
suggests that it is all too monkey, as well.
The researchers studied the behaviors of some kind of female brown monkeys. They look smart.
They are good-natured, co-operative creatures, and they share their food happily. Above all, like
female human beings, they tend to pay much closer attention to the value of “goods and serv than males.
Such characteristics make them perfect subjects f or Doctor Brosnan’s study. The researchers spent
two years teaching their monkeys to exchange tokens (奖券) for food. Normally, the monkeys
were happy enough to exchange pieces of rock for pieces of cucumber. However, when two
monkeys were placed in separate and connected rooms, so that each other could observe what the
other is getting in return for its rock, they became quite different.
In the world of monkeys，grapes are excellent goods (and much preferable to cucumbers). So
when one monkey was handed a grape in exchange for her token, the second was not willing to
hand hers over for a mere piece of cucumber. And if one received a grape without having to
provide her token in exchange at all, the other either shook her own token at the researcher, or
refused to accept the cucumber. Indeed, the mere presence of a grape in the other room (without
an actual monkey to eat it) was enough to bring about dissatisfaction in a female monkey.
The researches suggest that these monkeys, like humans, are guided by social senses. In the wild,
they are co-operative and group-living. Such co-operation is likely to be firm only when each
animal feels it is not being cheated. Feelings of anger when unfairly treated, it seems, are not the
nature of human beings alone. Refusing a smaller reward completely makes these feelings clear to
other animals of the group. However, whether such a sense of fairness developed independently in
monkeys and humans, or whether it comes from the common roots that they had 35 million years
ago, is, as yet, an unanswered question.
1. According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?
A. Only monkeys and humans can have the sense of fairness in the world.
B. Women will show more dissatisfaction than men when unfairly treated.
C. In the wild, monkeys are never unhappy to share their food with each other.
D. Monkeys can exchange cucumbers for grapes, for grapes are more attractive.
2. The underlined statement “it is all too monkey” means that ________.
A. monkeys are also angry with lazy fellows
B. feeling bitter at unfairness is also monkey’s nature
C. monkeys, like humans, tend to be envious of each other
D. no animals other than monkeys can develop such feelings
3. Which of the following conclusions is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Human beings' feelings of anger are developed from the monkeys.
B. In the research, male monkeys are less likely to exchange food with others.
C. Co-operation between monkeys stays firm before the realization of being cheated.
D. Only monkeys and humans have the sense of fairness which dates back to 35 million years ago.
4. What can we infer about the monkeys in Sarah’s study?
A. The monkeys can be trained to develop social senses.
B. They usually show their feelings openly as humans do.
C. The monkeys may show their satisfaction with equal treatment.
D. Co-operation among the monkeys remains effective in the wild.
倒计时39天答案：BBCC
上海市初三英语倒计时40天练习（回答问题）
People didn’t use to throw things away. They used to mend their clothes and reused them until
they wore out. When they bought things, they used to carry shopping baskets. But now we don’reuse things well and more rubbish has been produced. We throw away 25 million tons of waste in
our dustbins (垃圾箱) every year. That means one family throws away about one thousand kilos of
waste.
We have a strong reason to take it as a serious problem! The fact is that lots of rubbish we throw
away could be reused or recycled (回收利用). The so-called rubbish isn’t really rubbish.
The UK is one of the worst recyclers in Europe. In other words, in the UK they’re recycling only
about 8% of their everyday waste. That’s much less than many other countries. Germany recycles
10%, while Japan recycles 40%. The government has set a goal of recycling 30% of their
everyday waste by the year 2010. But it looks that it is not easy to reach it. As we know, some
habits are difficult to change and some collection plans are expensive to carry out.
At present, the movement called Recycle Now in the UK tries to change that situation. The Top
designer (设计师)Oliver Heath is a strong fan of the movement. In 2005 he designed the first
home built completely from recycled things, including metal cans and glass bottles. “It always
ybe in the near
makes me excited when I make good use of those recycled things,” he said, “Ma
future, you can also make something from recycled computer printers, plastic bags, bottle tops or
CDs.” When his story was reported on TV, more and more people begin to try his ideas.
Some local (地方的) governments have set up recycling centres where it’s
easy for families to
take their empty bottles and old newspapers. Instead of throwing away the so-called rubbish, some
families start doing more about it.
With the effort of the whole country, we are happy to see some progress in some places in the UK.
1. Do people produce more rubbish than before?
_______________________________________________________________________
2. Why does the writer think rubbish is a serious problem?
_______________________________________________________________________
3. Which country recycles more than 10%, Germany or Japan?
_______________________________________________________________________
4. How does Oliver Heath feel when he turns recycled things into something useful?
_______________________________________________________________________
5. What conclusion (结论) can you get about the recycling work in the UK?
______________________________________________________________________
公布倒数40天的答案：
1. Yes.或Yes, they do.
2. Because lots of rubbish we throw away could be reused or recycled.
3. Japan.
4. (He feels) Excited.
5. Although some progress has been made, they still have a hard way to go.