训练 08 任务型阅读-2024年初中英语中考题型汇编训练(上海专用)

2024年初中英语中考题型汇编训练(上海专用) 训练 08 任务型阅读 (一) SIT WITH US You’re at your new school. It’s lunchtime, but you don’t have anyone to sit with. You want to join someone at their table, but you’re not sure if they’re friendly. What do you do? One student’s solution was to create an app. Natalie Hampton from California, USA, knows what it feels like to be alone at a new school. She found it difficult to make new friends and had to search for a new table at lunch every day. If she , she felt . But if she asked to join someone and got rejected[1], she felt embarrassed. Her solution was to create a lunch-planning app to help students like her find people to have lunch with. The app—called Sit With Us—is simple. If a student is having lunch in the afternoon, they can create an invitation. Other students can open the app and accept that invitation. They can then use the app to decide when and where to meet. This allows students to make plans online instead of face-to-face. This is the reason it works so well: it reduces the risk[2] of rejection, and the embarrassment that goes along with it. Natalie is pleased with the way people are responding to her app-especially those who suffer from bullying[3]. Soon after the launch[4] o f her app, she won an award for it. She also appeared in many news stories. Natalie was even asked to speak at a United Nations Youth Assembly[5]. In her talk, Natalie wanted people to know that you don’t have to do something big to change lives. Sometimes, a simple thing—like having a friend to enjoy lunch with—can make all the difference. Word box [1] reject v. 拒绝   [2] risk n. 风险   [3] bullying n. 欺凌行为   [4] launch n. 上市   [5] assembly n. 集会 1．Natalie created the app for a school project, didn’t she? _________________________________________________________________________________________ 2．What caused Natalie to feel embarrassed, sitting by herself or getting rejected? ___________________________________________________________________