12.管理自己的学习-2024年中考一轮复习英语热点话题梳理题型专练(通用版)

2024年中考一轮复习英语热点话题梳理题型专练(通用版) 12.管理自己的学习 一、阅读理解 1 When I was a child, my mother had one weapon (武器) to overcome my strange problem—being unable to read. She always gave me an order: I was ordered to walk to the public library to borrow books to read. One day when I was 12, I found my way into the “Children’s Room” in the library. I sat down on the floor and pulled a few books off the shelf. The cover of a book caught my eyes. It presented a picture of a beagle (小猎犬). I had recently had a beagle, the first and only pet I ever had as a child. He was my secret sharer, but one morning, he was gone, given away to someone who had the space and the money to care for him. I never forgot my beagle. There on the cover was a beagle which looked similar to my dog. I ran my fingers over the picture of the dog on the cover. My eyes ran across the title, Amos, the Beagle with a Plan. Unknowingly, I had read the title. Without opening the book, I borrowed it from the library for the summer. Under the shade of a bush, I started to read about Amos. I read very, very slowly with difficulty. Though pages were turned slowly, I got the main idea of the story about a dog who, like mine, had been separated from his family and who finally found his way back home. It seemed that that dog was my dog, and I was the little boy in the book. At the end of the story, my mind continued the final scene of reunion, on and on, until my own lost dog and I were, in my mind, running together. My mother’s call returned me to the real world. I suddenly realized something: I had read a book, and I had loved reading that book. Everyone knew I could not read. But I had read it. I would never forget my “magical” experience that summer when I was 12. After that, my mother saw a slow but great improvement in my classroom performance during the next year. Books could be incredibly wonderful and I was going to read them. And years later, she took pride in her son who had read thousands of books, wrote lots of famo