1词义猜测 专项训练-2022年中考英语阅读理解微题型12类型集合复习

A1     Who is the greatest teacher in Chinese history? You can't think of anyone else when you hear people read Confucius' 2,500-year-old words: "All study but no thinking makes people puzzled. All thinking but no study makes people lazy."     September 28th was Confucius' birthday. He was born in the Kingdom of Lu, in today's Shandong Province. He had a hard childhood. His father died when he was only 3. His mother brought him up. As a child, he had to work to help his mother, but young Confucius didn't give up studying. He visited many famous teachers and learned music, history, poetry and sports.     Later, he became a teacher and started the first public school in Chinese history. At that time, only children from rich families could go to school if they wanted to learn. He had about 3,000 students in his lifetime.     Chinese look upon Confucius as the greatest thinker and also the greatest teacher. For more than 2,500 years, Confucius' ideas have been around in people's everyday lives. Now they have gone far into Western countries and South Asia. People can still hear them today.     Why are his ideas so popular? Confucius' most important ideas are kindness and good manners. Confucius said young people should take care of the old. A kind person should care for others. Be strict with yourself, but be kind to others. As a great teacher, Confucius said that all should go to school if they wanted to learn. People use his ideas to help themselves and society. Now, more than 100 Internet websites are teaching people about Confucius and his ideas. 1. The underlined word "them" in the fourth paragraph refers to ______. A. Confucius' ideas B. Confucius' students C. the greatest thinker and teacher D. people in Western countries and South Asia B2     You may have seen these special persons. They are disabled and they are in old, dirty clothes. They stand, sit or even lie at the entrance of a shopping centre with dirty bowls in front of them, hoping that other people can