专题04 阅读理解-冲刺2023年中考英语必考题型终极预测（广东专用）

冲刺2023年中考英语必考题型终极预测（广东专用） 专题04 阅读理解 （2022·广东江门·统考一模）Not everyone is born smart or good at sports. But everyone can study to become smarter and train to get better at sports. Science shows that anyone can get better skills. Your brain is made up of billions of neurons（神经元）. They are all connected and send messages to each other. Scientists have found that when we learn, neurons make new connections and old connections grow stronger. But if connections aren’t used, they will break down. So, learning is like exercise for your brain. A mindset is a way of thinking. Some people have a fixed mindset. They think they are either smart or stupid and they will stay that way forever. Other people have a growth mindset and they think they can learn and get better. According to Dr. Carol Dweck’s studies, people with a fixed mindset worry about grades. They’re afraid of looking stupid when they make mistakes. People with a growth mindset care about learning, not grades. They learn from their mistakes and try to find different ways of solving problems. They ask for help when necessary. In only two years, babies learn to walk, talk and feed themselves. They never worry about looking stupid when learning. If they make mistakes, they just try again. Dweck’s team discovered that kids can choose to have a growth mindset. They can do better in school. So notice what mindset you have. If you ever think yourself stupid, it’s not true. You just have not learned how to do something yet. 1．Everyone can get better skills by ________. A．eating healthy food B．getting enough exercise C．sleeping well D．studying or training 2．When you learn, neurons will ________. A．collect messages B．make new connections C．make old connections weaker D．break down 3．The underlined word “fixed” in the passage means ________ in Chinese. A．变化的 B．固定的 C．聪明的 D．修复的 4．The writer gives the example of babies in Paragraph 4 to show ________. A．babies learn skills faster than older people B．babies have fewer worries tha