Does a person from Ohio or Virginia have a better chance of living in the White House than anyone else? It seems that way. Eight out of 40 U. S. Presidents came from Ohio. Eight came from Virginia. William Henry Harrison, the ninth U. S. President, had the best chance of all. Why? He was born in Virginia and then lived in Ohio.
Here is a map of the United States. You will see that Virginia and Ohio are not too far away from each other. New York, Massachusetts, and California are worth noting(注意), too. They each have sent at least three of their native sons to the White House.
Maps are flat (平的) drawings of Earth or parts of it. The map on the above shows the shapes and sizes of the 50 states. Like most U. S. maps, it abbreviates(縮寫) the names of the states. Use the map to answer the questions below.
1．President Lyndon Johnson came from the largest state on the Gulf of Mexico. He was from ________ .
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2．President Jimmy Carter is from Georgia. Which state is below Georgia on the map?
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3．President Harry Truman was from a state surrounded by Illinois and seven other states. He was from ________ .
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4．Which area of the United States has more states?
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5．Which of these states is closest to Canada?
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科目：初中英語 來源：考前百天點拔與千題解答（中考閱讀） 題型：050
How can you fill a balloon with air without blowing it up? Read these steps.
1．Get a balloon, an empty soda-pop bottle, some baking soda, and some vinegar (醋).
2．Put two teaspoons of baking soda into a balloon.
3．Pour one inch of vinegar into the empty bottle.
4．Put the neck of the balloon tightly over the neck of the bottle.
5．Shake the bottle so that the baking soda will fall in.
6．In a few minutes, the balloon will begin to fill with air.
7．The baking soda and the vinegar mix together to form a gas. This gas fills the balloon.
1．Which step has a list of four things to use?
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2．Where do you put the baking soda?
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3．How much vinegar should you use?
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4．When do you shake the bottle?
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5．The baking soda and vinegar mix together to make ________ .
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科目：初中英語 來源：考前百天點拔與千題解答（中考閱讀） 題型：050
The Cat That Showed Up
Li Ping was the pet (寵物) cat of a young woman named Vivian. Vivian lived in Ohio. She decided to take a job in Florida. She could not take Li Ping with her right away, so she left the cat with her sister.
In a month, Vivian found a good place to live. She wrote to her sister and asked her to send Li Ping to Florida. Vivian missed her cat very much. She mailed the letter and went to visit a friend. She started up the steps of her friend' s house. Suddenly, something caught her eye. A cat was coming toward her. It looked thin and very hungry.
“That cat looks like Li Ping, ” thought Vivian. But it couldn't be. Li Ping was more than a thousand miles away. The cat ran straight to Vivian. She picked it up and looked at it. The cat opened its mouth and let out a tiny squeak(吱吱叫聲) . Then Vivian knew the cat was hers. Li Ping got hurt when he was a kitten (小貓) . The only sound he could make was a little squeak.
Vivian called her sister in Ohio. Li Ping had been missing for two weeks, her sister said. She was afraid to tell Vivian. She knew how much Vivian loved her cat.
How did Li Ping make such a long trip? How did the cat find Vivian? She was not even at her own home. No one knows the answers to those questions. No one knows how a cat's mind works.
1．Vivian moved to Florida so she could ________.
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A．start a new job |
B．find a new cat |
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C．visit a friend |
2．The only sound Li Ping could make was ________.
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A．a growl |
B．a squeak |
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C．a scream |
3．At first Vivian could not tell if the cat was Li Ping because
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A．it was running |
B．it looked thin and hungry |
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C．it got hurt |
4．The story does not tell ________.
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A．why Vivian left Ohio |
B．where Vivian moved |
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C．how Li Ping got to Florida |
5．Another title for this story could be ________.
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A．“Cats in Florida” |
B．“ The Strange Story of Li Ping” |
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C．“How To Care for a cat ” |
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科目：初中英語 來源：考前百天點拔與千題解答（中考閱讀） 題型：050
Thomas Alva Edison was born in 1847 in Ohio, America. As a little boy he was very inquisitive (好問的) . He always wanted to know how things were done. Very early in life he showed he was full of curiosity(好奇) , a quality(素質) which is so important to inventors. In 1869 he went to New York, where he worked for some time as a telephone operator. But soon he became interested in inventions. In a very short time they were his chief business. In order to carry on his business, which was to become his life's work, he built a lab at Menlo Park, where he had gone to live. His first great invention was a system of telegraphy (電報學) . Soon afterwards he invented the phonograph (留聲機), the first form of the instrument that we now know as the gramophone or record player. The word “phonograph” means something that can “write” or record sound. Other scientists before Edison had thought of instruments which would do this, but Edison was the first to make an instrument which actually(實際地) worked. He also invented the incandescent lamp (白熾燈), the wire is heated by an electric current (電流) . People could now use electricity (電) to illuminate (照亮) their homes. By the time Edison died in 1931 he had about a thousand inventions.
1．As a little boy Thomas Alva Edison was ________ .
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2．Edison worked as a telephone operator ________ .
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A．when he was a little boy
B．because he was full of curiosity
C．in his twenties
D．when he became interested in inventions
3．Edison built a lab at Menlo Park ________ .
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A．because he wanted to live there
B．in order to carry on his business
C．to invent phonograph
D．because he had no room to live in in New York
4．Edison was the first to ________ before other scientists.
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5．The incandescent lamp ________ .
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A．was the first invention of Edison's
B．was invented just before the year 1931
C．was Edison's last invention
D．has been used to illuminate for more than 60 years since it was invented
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科目：初中英語 來源：考前百天點拔與千題解答（中考閱讀） 題型：050
A doctor had a son, he also became a doctor after graduation (大學畢業(yè)), and joined his father in his clinic (診所). Before long his father decide to have a holiday, and he left his son to look after all his patients (病人). When he returned from holidays he asked his son if anything had happened.
“Well, yes, Dad, ” the son said, feeling very proud (驕傲) of himself. “Do you remember Mrs. Jones? Her back pains (疼痛) have been treated for twenty years by you. Well, they are gone now. Do you know who did it? Your son, I did it !”
“I see. ”replied his father, not very pleased. “Mrs. Jones' back paid for your university fees (費用). I was hoping they would pay for your new car, too. ”
1．The doctor's son had been a student of ________ .
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2．________ , the doctor decided to have a holiday.
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A．As soon as his son graduated from the college
B．Shortly after his son had started working in the clinic
C．The doctor was too old to work
D．After the medicine was given to Mrs. Jones for her back pains
3．Mrs. Jones was ________ .
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4．“they are gone” means ________ .
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A．the patients have all left the clinic
B．they have gone to other clinic
C．the patients have all regained (恢復) their health (健康)
D．the pains have disappeared
5．The doctor didn't do his best to treat Mrs. Jones' back pains because ________ .
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A．he wanted to get more money from the sick lady
B．he knew little about Mrs. Jones' illness
C．he would like to let his son treat the sick lady
D．Mrs. Jones' illness was too serious to cure (醫(yī)治)
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科目：初中英語 來源：考前百天點拔與千題解答（中考閱讀） 題型：050
We each have a memory (記憶力). That's why we can still remember things after a long time. Some people have very good memories and they can easily learn many things by heart, but some people can only remember things when they say or do them again and again. Many of the great men of the world have got surprising memories.
A good memory is a great help in learning a language. Everybody learns his mother language when he is a small child. He hears the sounds, remembers them and then he learns to speak. Some children are living with their parents in foreign countries. They can learn two languages as easily as one because they hear, remember and speak two languages every day. In school it is not so easy to learn a foreign language because the pupils have so little time for it, and they are busy with other subjects too.
But your memory will become better and better when you do more and more exercises.
1．Some people can easily learn many things by heart because ________ .
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2．Everybody learns his mother language ________ .
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3．Before a child can speak, he must ________ .
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4．In school the pupils can't learn a foreign language well because ________ .
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A．they have no good memories
B．they have no recorders
C．they have too much time for it
D．they are busy with other subjects
5．Your memory will become better and better ________ .
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A．if you have plenty of good food
B．if you do more and more exercises
C．if you do morning exercises every day
D．if you get up early
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科目：初中英語 來源：考前百天點拔與千題解答（中考閱讀） 題型：050
Mr. James, aged sixty-three, of Brittania Road, Sheffield, was held prisoner five days without food or water when his thirty-year-old bed fell in, plunging (使陷入) him among the springs (彈 簧) . Neighbors, who found he had not left home since last Wednesday, called the policemen.
Mr. James was set free by ambulance men(救護人員)and taken to the Royal Hospital, Sheffield, given a medical examination and a good meal and allowed to return home.
He said yesterday, “I went to bed to listen to the football match on the radio last Wednesday and fell asleep. When I woke up I was down among the springs. I kept struggling to get free but the springs were too strong for me. I don't know what I would have done if the police hadn't come because I was getting weak.”
1．Mr. James was ________ .
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2．He bought a new bed ________ .
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3．Sheffield is the name of a ________ .
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4．Mr. James was saved by ________ .
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5．Mr. James nearly died because ________ .
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A．he couldn't get away from the bed springs
B．he fell asleep while listening to the radio
C．he was too old to get up
D．his bed springs were too strong
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科目：初中英語 來源：考前百天點拔與千題解答（中考閱讀） 題型：050
The state of Florida was once almost gobbled (大吃) up by snails(蝸牛). They were giant(巨大的) snails from Africa. A visitor took some to Florida, where they spread quickly. Some of the snails were as big as a person's hand. They ate the leaves on trees and other plants. They had to be stopped, and they were. Poison killed thousands of the snails, and Florida was saved.
Catching a snail should be easier than catching any other animal. The snail is the slowest of all land animals. Its top speed is 55 yards per hour. At this speed it would take the snail about 32 hours to travel one mile. A snail only goes that fast when it's very hungry.
The bar graph below shows some other top speeds.
A bar graph has bars of different lengths, instead of pictures. This kind of graph makes it easy to compare several things quickly. To read the graph, notice where each bar ends. Then find the closest number at the bottom of the graph.
Use the bar graph about running speeds to answer the questions.
1．What is the top speed of a rabbit?
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2．Fifty miles per hour is the top speed for ________ .
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3．What is the difference in running speed between a greyhound and a gazelle?
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4．The closest to an elephant in running speed is ________ .
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5．A rabbit and greyhound can both run faster than ________ .
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科目：初中英語 來源：英語競賽初三年級 題型：050
Read “African Animals” and answer questions 1 to 6.
African AnimalsThe waterbuck is a type of antelope. All male waterbucks have horns, which may be big or small, straight or curved. Waterbucks use their horns when fighting and defending themselves.
Zebras have sturdy bodies and long, straight legs that are good for running. Zebras help one another to look and listen for danger. If one zebra sees a lion, it makes a loud noise to warn the others. A zebra can run faster than a lion unless it is caught by surprise. No two zebra have exactly the same stripes.
Cheetahs can run as fast as seventy-five miles an hour. Strong claws on the cheetah's feet help it to grip the ground when it is running fast. Powerful back legs help it spring forward.
A meerkat is a type of mongoose, and it makes its home in an underground burrow. When a group of meerkats goes out hunting for food, one of them acts as a sentry and looks out for larger predators that might be hunting them. If it spots danger, it calls out a warning, and all the meerkats race back to the burrow.
1．Which of these animals has horns?
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2．According to the information, a zebra's long, straight legs help it to ________.
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3．The two animals which help to warn others of danger are the ________.
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4．According to the information, what is unusual about zebras?
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A．Male zebras can run at seventy-five miles an hour.
B．Zebras hide from predators in a burrow.
C．No zebra has the same pattern of stripes as any other zebra.
D．Zebras have powerful back legs to help them spring forward.
5．According to the information, which of the following statements is TRUE?
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A．A lion can run faster than a zebra.
B．Strong claws help the cheetah to run fast.
C．The waterbuck is a type of mongoose.
D．Meerkats like to be on their own when hunting for food.
6．The best word to replace “defending”, as it is used in the information, is________.
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