上海中考英语首字母阅读10篇

A great night in the

There can be few more beautiful places in China to see Peking Opera

theater you can imagine what it was like for an imperial (皇家的) family to

watch a show h___93______ of years ago.

On the stage in front of me is a man in colored face paint singing,

dancing and performing acrobatics (杂耍). I am watching 18 Arhats (罗汉) Fighting the Monkey King. It is the first time I have s___94____ Peking Opera. I am amazed by the energy of the performances.

I can o__95____ understand a little of what I am hearing and seeing because I don’t speak Chinese. I just sit back and w__96_____ the graceful movements of the actors in their beautiful costumes.

Peking Opera is d___97_____ from Western Opera. In Western Opera, the singing is more important. Peking Opera combines (结合) dancing, acting and acrobatics. But I am not a fan of the singing. The sound reminds me of cats screaming (尖叫).

It is sad that young people in China are losing interest in Peking Opera. It is full of Chinese

culture and h__98______. If it is lost, it will be a shame not just for China but also for the rest of the world.

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Athletes（运动员）at international events like the Olympic Games work hard to i__92____ their results. With the proper training, they can break records set at previous events. It is always exciting to watch someone win a race, e___93____ if they are the fastest runner in the world.

In recent years, however, it has been d__94_____ that some athletes use illegal drugs（违禁药品）to help them achieve better results. Without such drugs, many of these athletes wouldn't win their events.

At the Asian Games in 1994, 11 athletes returned their medals after tests p__95_____ they had taken illegal drugs. They included seven swimmers, two canoeists, one cyclist and one hurdler. All of them were banned（禁止）from international competitions for two years.

There are t__96_____ main groups of drug that athletes can take to make their results better. These are anabolic steroids（合成类固醇）and stimulants.（兴奋剂）Long-distance runners and swimmers use stimulant to stop t___97____ from feeling tired.

There are three r__98_____for not using illegal drugs. First, many drugs are harmful to health. Second, the athletes will be banned after using them. The final is that they give athletes unfair advantages.

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Many people go to school for education. They learn languages, history, geography, physics, chemistry and maths. Others go to school to learn a s 92 so that they can make a living. School education is very important and useful. No one can learn everything from school. A teacher, no matter how much he k 93 , cannot teach his students everything they want to know. The teacher’s job is to show his students how to learn. He teaches them how to read and how to think. So, m 94 more is to be learned outside school by students themselves.

It is always more important to know how to study by o 95 than to remember some facts or formula（公式）. It is quite easy to learn a certain fact in history or a formula in working out a maths problem. Great scientists, such as Einstein, Newton And Galileo didn’t get everything from school. But they were all so s 96 . They invented so many things for the people. The reason for their success is that they knew how to study. They read books that were not t 97 at school. They worked hard all their lives, wasting not a single moment. They would ask many questions a 98 they read and they did thousands of experiments.

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As wonderful as memory is, it isn’t always perfect. Sometimes

you f 92 the name of somebody you just met or where you put your

shoes. It’s also typical (典型的) for people to forget more things

as they grow o 93 .

But some memory problems are serious, such as when a person has

amnesia (健忘症).An injury to the head and brain can cause trouble

with a person’s m 94 . Some people who recover from brain

injuries need to learn old things all over again, like how to talk or tie their shoes. That’s why it’s so important to protect your head by w 95 your seat belt in the car and wearing a helmet (头盔) when you skate, ride your bike or skateboard (滑板).

Most memory p 96 affect older people, so what can you do for your memory if you’re 18, not 88? In a 97 to remembering to wear your helmet, use your brain! By doing challenging (挑战性的) activities, like reading and doing puzzles, you can exercise your b 98 so you’ll be remembering great memories for many years to come!

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Pansy wanted to write an article on detectives for the school newspaper. Detective Ken told her about a r____92___ case that he dealt with. Mr. Jones was a very rich man who lived alone and enjoyed collecting things. He p____93____ a vase for 300,000 dollars. He showed it to only two people----his friends Jill and Jenny. But one night his vase was stolen. Mr Jones reported the theft. Detective Ken went to his house to look for clues. He found a black pearl earring near the open safe and outside the open window of the room there was a lot of mud on the ground, but inside the room the carpet was s______94____ clean. He also noticed Jill wearing a black pearl necklace---but no earrings. He interviewed Jill and Jenny. They both denied stealing the vase and Jill admitted the earring was h___95___. Detective Ken didn’t jump to conclusions b____96____ he needed proof to find out the guilty. F___97______, he knew that Mr Jones stole his own vase in order to let the insurance company to pay him 300.000 dollars. Mr Jones also stole Jill’s earring to make sure that Jill would go to jail i_____98___ of him.

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If you have to choose a “ Person of the Year “ for 2005, who will you pick? For many of us, the choice might not be a person at all. It would be Mother Nature.

While the world was s____92____getting over the Indian tsunami (海啸) December 2004, Mother Nature went on s____93____ her power throughout 2005.

From July to October, about seven typhoons hit China’s coastal are. In August, the US was h____94____ with its worst-ever natural disaster, Hurrican Katrina. In early October, an earthquake in Pakistan killed more than 70,000 people.

Mother Nature was trying to give us a message: humans should be r____95____ for the earth. She was just fighting back.

It is we humans who burn coal a____96____ oil to make huge amount of greenhouse gases, which cause global warming.

It is we humans who cut forests and fill marshes (湿地) to make space for buildings. This leaves fewer trees and l____97____ to keep flods (洪水) from rushing to towns and cities.

We need to work out hard to ease Mother Nature’s anger, or we’ll see more years of disasters. For example, we can start to use l____98____ electricity. Turn off lights, TVs and computers when we’re not using them. We can plant trees. One new tree a year from each of us can make a

forest. Forests not only hold floods, they also take in greenhouse gases.

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When teenagers ask for cell phones (手机) or MP3 players, schools say they cause cheating (作弊) and make students listen less c____92____ in class. So some

schools in UK drive these things out of schools. I____93____ students

bring them to school, the teachers will take these things away if they are

found. Some other schools let students bring cell phones, but they must

t____94____ them off and don’t let teachers see them during school

hours, even lunch time or b____95____ classes.

School officials say it is to keep students focusing on (集中注意力于…….) studies and to make cheating less. “We know that parents want their children to have cell phones after school or as they go to work. We just don’t want students to use them to district (使…...混乱) the c____96____,” said Terry Locke, from Chandler Unified District.

Many teachers are happy about this and they agree to this idea. “I think this idea is very good. In my class before, I often told my students to turn the phone off and put the MP3 players away. I said many times every day. So I am h____97____ about this idea,”Chris Campbell, a teacher from Phoenix, said.

But some parents are angry they can’t get in touch with their kids if they don’t take cell phones with them. Students also have different ideas. Some agree, and o____98____ don’t. What do you think?

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About ten years ago when I was a student at college, I spent my summer holidays working at a museum. Life was 92 h______for me then. Dad had lost his job and Mum was sick in bed. I was wondering if I would be able to go on with my study the next term.

One day while I was working, I saw an old man come in with a little girl in a wheelchair(轮椅). As I looked closer at this girl, I 93 f______ that she had no arms or legs. She was wearing a little white dress and she also had a hat on.

As the old man pushed the wheelchair up to me, I was busy with my work. I turned my head 94 t_______ the girl and gave her a wink(眨眼). When I took the money from her grandfather, I looked back at the girl, who was giving me the 95 p_____, largest smile I have ever seen.

96.S______ her handicap(生理缺陷)was gone and all I saw was this beautiful girl, whose smile almost gave me a better understanding of what life is all 97 a______. She took me from a poor, unhappy 98c__________ student and brought me into her world of smiles, love and warmth.

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During his first year in the classroom, a teacher had two students named Johnny. One is a happy child, an excellent student, and a very good boy. The other Johnny s 92 much of his time goofing off (混日子), and he never studied very hard.

When the Parent Teacher Association (PTA) held its first meeting of the year, a mother came up to this teacher and said, “How’s my son, Johnny, getting a

93 ?” He thought she was the mom of the b94 student of the two and replied, “I can’t tell you how much I enjoy him. I’m so glad he’s in my class.”

The next day the problem child came to the teacher and said, “My mom told me

what you said about me last night. I haven’t ever had a teacher who wanted me in his class.” That day he

c 95 his homework carefully an

d handed it in th

e next morning. A few weeks later, the “problem” Johnny had become one o

f his teacher’s h96 workin

g students and one of his best friends. This child’s l97 was turned around all because he was mistakenly identified as a good student.

Not every lazy boy or girl could be motivated (激发) by a s 98 compliment (赞美) from a teacher, of course, but there is something here that applies to all kids: A little encouragement can go a very long way.