2023年英语中考阅读理解 词义猜测练习

2023年词义猜测题 学校:___________姓名：___________班级：___________考号：___________ （1） When is the best time for us to enjoy the bright moon? Of course, it is Mid-Autumn Festival, one of the most important holidays in China. We look at the moon, eat moon cakes, and get together with our families. The tradition is thousands of years old. The moon, the key part of the festival, is special to most Chinese people. We enjoy and admire it. We use the round moon to describe reunion, that is, get together. Our respect of the moon dates back to ancient times. There is the legend of Chang’e flying to the moon — the most famous story about the moon. Many Chinese poets connect the moon with homesickness. For example, “Beside my bed a pool of light. Is it hoarfrost on the ground?” fromJing Ye Si(Thoughts in the Silent Night) by Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai. Today, the moon is still important to Chinese people. The Miao minority in Guizhou province has a special custom. On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, young people dance under the moon to find their other half. However, Western people see the moon differently. In some stories, the full moon is somewhat frightened to people. The most well-known story is the werewolf. A werewolf usually looks like a human, but changes into a wolf-like creature when there is a full moon. Also, if someone is very excited or even crazy about something, others may joke, “It must be a full moon.” 1．What’s the Chinese meaning of the underlined word “reunion”? A．团结 B．联合 C．团聚 D．合作 （2） If you think of the jobs robots could never do, you would probably put doctors and teachers at the top of the list. It’s easy to imagine robot cleaners and factory workers, but some jobs need human connection and creativity. In some cases, they already perform better than doctors at diagnosing illness. With these machines, doctors can know what’s wrong with the patients more easily and quickly. Also, some patients might feel more comfortable sharing personal information with a machine tha