专题05 阅读理解（记叙文）15篇-冲刺2024年中考英语必考题型终极预测（江苏专用）

冲刺2024年中考英语必考题型终极预测（江苏专用） 专题05 阅读理解（记叙文）15篇 （2023·江苏淮安·统考中考真题）Jim and Jack came from a small town. They were ceramic (陶瓷) artists and good at making pots(罐子). They heard city people liked pots, so they decided to sell their pots to a big city. Through more than ten years of hard work, they made the best pots in the town. They hired a ship to take all the pots to the city. Unluckily, the ship met a strong storm on the way. After the storm, the ship landed. All the pots were broken into pieces. The two men’s dream of becoming rich was broken along with the pots. Jim suggested that they should stay in a hotel for the night and walk around the city to enjoy the sights the next day. Jack looked at Jim in pain and asked, “You still want to go around the city? Don’t you show any care to these pots? We worked so hard to make them!” “We are unlucky enough to lose the pots. We will be more unlucky if we lose happiness,” Jim said calmly. Jack thought for a while and nodded. The next day, he followed Jim around the city and had a good time for a few days. During their stay in the city, they found by accident that people there decorated their walls with things that looked like what they used to make pots. So Jim and Jack used the broken pots to make mosaic tiles (马赛克瓷砖) and sold them to the city people. In this way, they made much money and returned home happily. 1．Where did Jim and Jack come from? A．A city. B．A town. C．A ship. D．A hotel. 2．Why didn’t Jim and Jack realize their dream according to Paragraph 3? A．Their pots were not good. B．City people didn’t like pots. C．They lost the way to the city. D．Their pots were broken into pieces. 3．What did Jim and Jack do to make money at last? A．Sell pots. B．Decorate walls. C．Make pots. D．Sell mosaic tiles. 4．What does the story mainly want to tell us? A．Knowledge is power. B．It never rains but it pours. C．Where there is an active mind, there is hope. D．The grass is always greener on the other side. （2023·江苏盐城·统考中考真题）When Mark walked