2015年全国各地市中考英语模拟试题汇编：阅读理解——说明文

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2015年全国各地市中考英语模拟试题汇编
　　阅读理解——说明文
　　【山东泰州市姜堰区2015年中考模拟】C
　　There is an old saying in English, “Laughter is the best medicine”. Until recently, few people took the saying very seriously. Now, however, doctors have begun to study laughter and the effects (作用) it has on the human body. They have found evidence that laughter really can improve people’s health.
　　Tests were carried out to study the effects of laughter on the body. People watched funny films while doctors checked their heart rate, blood pressure, breathing and muscles. It was found that laughter has similar effects to physical exercise. It increases blood pressure, the heart rate and the rate of breathing. It also works several groups of muscles in the face, the stomach and even the feet. If laughter exercises the body, it must be helpful.
　　Other tests have shown that laughter appears to make the effect of pain on the body less. In one experiment doctors produced pain in groups of students who listened to different radio programs. The group which could bear the pain for the longest time was the group which listened to a funny program. The reason why laughter can make pain less seems to be that it helps to produce endorphins (内啡肽) in the brain. These are natural chemicals which make both stress and pain less.
　　There is also some evidence to suggest that laughter helps the body’s immune system — that is the system which fights infection (感染). In an experiment, one group of students watched a funny video while another group served as the control group — in other words, a group with which to compare the first group. Doctors checked the blood of the students in both groups and found that the people in the group that watched the video had an increase in the activity of their white blood cells — the cells which fight infection.
　　As a result of these discoveries, some doctors and psychiatrists (精神病专家) in the United States now hold laughter clinics, in which they try to improve their patients’ condition by encouraging them to laugh. They have found that even if their patients do not really feel lighing, making them smile is enough to produce good effects similar to those caused by laughter.
　　66. We learn from the first paragraph that laughter _______.
　　A. is good for one’s health             B. has strong effects to do with some illnesses
　　C. has been studied for a long time      D. has no effect on the body
　　67. Doctors have found that laughter _______.
　　A. keeps down blood pressure          B. has similar effects to physical exercise
　　C. decreases the heart rate              D. increases stress and pain
　　68. Which of the following statements is NOT true of laughter according to the passage?
　　A. It makes pain less.                    B. It exercises the body.
　　C. It improves the body’s immune system.   D. It can cure cancer.
　　69. Smiling can produce _________.
　　A. about the same effects as laughter        B. more effects than laughter
　　C. fewer effects on the human body         D. no effects on the human body
　　70. The main idea of this passage is that _________.
　　A. the doctors should learn how to make people laugh 
　　B. there are several ways of studying the advantages of laughter 
　　C. tests show that laughter can produce positive effects on human body
　　D. laughter and physical exercise have the same effects on human body
　　【答案】66—70 ABDAC
　　【河南省中考英语2015年样卷】B
　　Each country has many volunteers (志愿者) who help to take care of others. They read books to the people in the hospitals or care for the aged. Sometimes they just visit them and play games with them or listen to their problems.
　　Other young volunteers go to the homes of people who are sick or old. They paint their houses, clean up their rooms or do shopping for them.
　　For boys who no longer have fathers, there is an organization called Big Brothers. College students and other men take these boys to watch baseball games or take them to go fishing and help them to get to know things that boys usually learn from their fathers.