中考英语口语朗读部分专项练习(3)

　　套题11

　　A photographercan have a very interesting life. Norma Parkinson was a famous Englishphotographer. She liked travelling to interesting places and takingphotographs. It was her hobby as well as her job.

　　Taking photographs is a favourite hobby of manypeople all over the world. It can help us remember things. We all love to takephotographs of each other, especially when we travel to new places. We alsolike to have a photograph of everybody in the group together. When we want tobe in the picture, we need to ask someone to take the photograph for us.

　　Having the photographs is important becausepeople and places always change. It is very sad, for example, if childrencannot look at photographs of their parents or grandparents. What didGrandfather look like? Where did he use to live?

　　套题12

　　Debbie and Simonlooked up as an old lady entered their office. The lady looked at them bothquickly, and then walked over to Debbie. Debbie greeted her cheerfully.

　　Simon sighed and took some papers over tothe fax machine. Chris, a senior member of staff, was standing there. “What’sup, Simon? You don’t look very happy.”

　　“Customers always prefer Debbie to me. Ican’t understand it.” Simon answered.

　　“But I can. It’s the way you communicate.”Chris said.

　　“How can that be? I don’t even get a chanceto speak to them.” Simon asked.

　　“Communicating is not just about speaking.Body language is important, too. Look at Debbie. She holds her head up. She looks at people’seyes. She smiles before speaking to them. That’s why they go to her for help,”Chris said.

　　套题13

　　Throughout thehistory of mankind, people have communicated with body language. Although youprobably don’t realize you are doing it, you use your hands and the rest ofyour body every time you talk to someone. In many situations, what you say withyour eyes is more important than what comes out of your mouth. Eye contact isone of the most important forms of body language. It can be the key tosuccessful communication. It can show whether a person is friendly orunfriendly, interested or bored, clear or confused. However, eye contact canmean different things in different cultures. In Western cultures, making eyecontact in conversations is necessary. As a matter of fact, a Westerner mightconsider a lack of eye contact as a lack of interest.

　　套题14

　　Animals showtheir feelings with their faces and bodies—if they show their teeth and raisetheir backs, that means they’re angry. Humans do many of these things, too. Youcan usually tell whether someone is happy or angry, relaxed or nervous, proudor ashamed, just by looking at them. Words are not always necessary. We onlyhave to observe our pets to see how close animal and human body languages are.When a cat is feeling confident, it will stand very tall and point its noseinto the air. Humans do the same thing when they are feeling proud. They lifttheir heads and push out their chins. Chimpanzees are very similar to humans.For example, children often put their hands together and point their palms upwhen they want something. Chimpanzees use the same gesture to beg for food fromother members of their group.

　　套题15

　　For thousands of years, people used different ways to measure things.Some people measured things using the size of their king's foot or hand. Whenthe king died, they used the new king's foot, and so on. This wasn't a good wayto measure things.

　　People all over the world used the sun andthe moon to measure time. However, they all had different numbers of days in aweek and different numbers of hours in a day. In 1584, one of the scientistsstarted to think about a set of measures which used the number ten, but no onewas interested in his ideas. About two hundred years later, many scientistsdecided to use metres to measure length and they worked out how long a metreshould be.