中考英语口语朗读部分专项练习(2)

　　套题6

　　Wang Damin sitson the side of the river. He is cooking a meal, with a large bird on his head.The bird is a cormorant, and Damin is a fisherman. He is over 60 now but stillworks every day and is still strong enough to control his raft on the river. Helives and works with his cormorants on this river.

　　Cormorants are large, black birds, about ametre long. They are good at catching fish because they can swim well under water, their largefeet are used to push them quickly through the water.

　　Damin does not require nets to catch fish.That is done for him by his twelve cormorants. Damin begins his work on hisbamboo raft with his birds in the late afternoon. The birds swim down and catchfish.

　　套题7

　　The writer asksus to imagine Earth inside a kind of greenhouse. The atmosphere around Earthacts like the glass. It lets sunlight in and keeps much of the warmth fromgetting out. It is important to us all. “Without it, Earth would be as cold andlifeless as the surface of the moon”. The trouble is that our atmosphere ischanging because we are polluting it with chemicals --- in the form of gases--- and it is keeping in too much heat!” This will cause the level of seas torise and drown cities and even whole countries.

　　The burning and cutting down of trees ismaking the greenhouse effect worse because trees taking in harmful gases. Itwill also cause floods because trees can help hold soil together, and soilabsorbs water when it rains.

　　套题8　　In 1897, H GWells wrote a science fiction book about spaceships coming to Earth. Its namewas The War of the Worlds. The book was still very popular in the 1930s. On 30October, 1938, a man named Orson Welles put out a radio programme from the book.The programme was different from the book in one important way: in theprogramme the actors talked like reporters and it sounded like a news report tothe listeners.

　　The actors said, “Space people from theplanet Mars are going to attack Earth. Huge things like snakes will come out ofspaceships and kill people and people’s guns cannot hurt any of them.” Whenpeople heard this, they were very afraid. Some even left their homes and triedto hide.

　　套题9

　　Kelly alwayswanted to be a scientist. She was interested in Maths and physics. She hoped towork in space one day. “I will discover something important in the future,” sheoften told herself. Every evening, Kelly went out with her dog to look at the stars.One night, she saw a strange, coloured light moving across the sky. “It can’tbe a star,” she thought. “It’s too bright. It must be a spaceship! I’m going tosee it!”

　　She walked quickly towards the light. “Thepeople in the spaceship will want to talk to me. Can they speak our language?Will I be able to understand them? Are they lost?

　　The spaceship landed a few metres in frontof Kelly and the door slowly opened. Suddenly, Kelly’s dog ran towards thespaceship.

　　套题10

　　Disneyland is afamous park in the USA. Its founder was Walt Disney (1901—1996). He is famousfor his cartoon characters such as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy and SnowWhite. Disney was born in the USA. After leaving school, he sold newspapers anddelivered letters. At the same time, he studied art at night. Finally, he got ajob drawing cartoons for films. Sometimes a mouse sat on Walt’s desk when hewas at work. He drew the mouse and put it in a cartoon. This became Disney’smost famous cartoon character ---- Mickey Mouse. Mickey soon became a star andDisney became rich and famous.

　　Disneyland opened in many places, such as inJapan and Hong Kong. Not only young people but also the old go to Disneylandfor fun.