2025年中考英语任务型阅读问答题周练(2)

中考任务型阅读问答题周练（第15周）

A篇

There are any cut a if es between China in fuchsia Dunlop writes about hook There are many cultural differences between China and other countries. One of them is, of She slowly grew to love the strange and wonderful food found across the country in her book Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper.

Dunlop recalls how she became the first foreigner to study at the Sichuan Higher Institute of Cuisine. In a class of nearly fifty young Chinese, she was the only girl student. When she arrived there for the first time, she expected the usual Western meat, fruit, and vegetables. But she was greeted with pig brains, duck intestines (肠) and duck tongues. She also had to get used to eating insects, snakes, bear paws and chicken feet.

While shocking (震惊的) in the West, these foods are well-loved in China.

However, Dunlop decided to expand（扩展）her taste buds（味蕾）. Dunlop writes about her travels across the country over 15 years and shares her opinions of each place's specialty dishes.Slowly, she learns to see the different kinds of strange foods through the eyes of a local person.

In the book, Dunlop writes: "I have to say that, inside me, there is someone who is no longer entirely（完全地）English.”

 

回答下面5个问题，每题答案不超过6个词。

1. What did Dunlop spend 15 years doing?

                                                                                

2. How many students were there in Dunlop's cooking class?

                                                                         

3. How might Dunlop feel when she first saw pig brains, duck intestines and duck tongues?

                                                                           

4. Where does Dunlop come from?

                                                                          

5. What does Dunlop think of Chinese food now?

                                                                          

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

B篇

 

阅读下面的短文，根据短文内容回答问题。

Yang Jun'ao, a 16-year-old student from No. 1 Middle School in Nanxian County, Hunan province, invented a "lotus root harvesting robot（采藕机器人）”.

"I got the idea when I saw my grandmother, in her 70s, working hard to harvest lotus roots under the hot sun," Yang said. Sometimes, his grandmother would badly hurt her fingers using her harvesting tools.

To make things easier for his grandmother, Yang thought of creating a machine that could harvest lotus roots. With guidance from his teacher Hong Wei, Yang spent nearly a year building a model of the machine.

The robot moves on its own through the muddy field. It uses image recognition (识别) to find mature（成熟的）roots by looking at the color of the lotus leaves. The robot's arm then cuts the mature lotus roots without damaging them.

During the invention process, Yang faced challenges like collecting parts for the model, putting them together and using a hot glue gun for bonding. "The first time I used a hot glue gun, my hands were shaking” Yang laughed. At first, he planned to use rotating blades（旋转叶片）for harvesting lotus roots, but it was hard to find them, so he used more common blades instead.

When Yang showed the machine to his grandmother, she was happy and gave helpful suggestions for improvement. She suggested using the audio player to show the machine's location in thick lotus leaves. "My grandmother's suggestion reminded me that any technological invention must be practical to have true value," said Yang.

Although Yang still needs to make improvements, like finding cheaper ways to make the machines, his teacher Hong spoke highly of Yang's creative thinking and working on helping his hometown.

 

1. What does Yang Jun'ao do?

                                                                               

2. Why did Yang want to create such a machine?

                                                                        

3. Was his grandmother happy when he showed the machine to her?

                                                                               

4. What did he understand from his grandmother's suggestion?

                                                                          

5. What do you think of Yang Jun'ao?