2012中考英语口语朗读部分专项练习

>　　【中考英语口语】口语朗读部分专项练习。广州中考英语口语考试日渐逼近，英语口语一般分为三个主要题型(朗读、对话及作文)。考生们是否都已经准备好了呢下面，是【中考英语口语】口语朗读部分专项练习：

　　套题1

　　Not so many years ago, you hardly ever sawcomputers. Now they seem to be everywhere. There are also many hidden “computers” in your home, but youmight be unaware of them. For example, there may be one inside your TV set,telephone or washing machine. You are more dependent on computers than youknow.

　　Computers are probably the best calculators in the world. They arefaster at calculating than people, and they rarely give wrong answers. They canalso type, print and draw things like diagrams and graphs. They can teach youmany things and also play games with you. More importantly, they can operaterailways and fly planes and spaceships. For these reasons, we sometimes callthem “electronic brains”.

　　套题2

　　Thesoldier rushed down the stairs. “Captain, they’ve gone”, he cried. “All of them…” Before the soldier could finish, the captain of the guards quickly ran upthe stairs.Seconds later, the captain stood on the high wall of the city ofTroy, and looked down at the empty plain. “The Greeks have tried for ten yearsto capture our city. Now they’ve gone and we’ve won!” he said. “But they’veleft their huge wooden horse outside the main gates,” the soldier said.“Well,it was too big for them to take with them. Pull it into the city now. It’s onwheels,” the captain ordered.“But why is it on wheels?” the soldier asked.“Maybe the Greeks want us to…”The captain interrupted him, “You’re a soldier.You have to obey orders. Move that horse, now!” The Trojans dragged it into thecity with ropes.

　　套题3

　　The first Olympic Games happened thousands of years ago in Greece.People started the Olympic Games to show respect to the gods. They would prayto their gods in the morning and then have the games in the afternoon. Thefirst Olympic Games only lasted for one day! In modern times, the Olympic Gameslast for two weeks.

　　Thousands of years ago, married women could not watch the games.Otherwise, they would be punished! Here is a story about a woman at the ancientOlympic Games in Greece. Her name was Helen. Helen’s son Rodus took part in thecompetition of running in the Olympic Games. Helen wanted to watch Rodus run,so she made herself look like a soldier and entered the stadium. Unfortunately,Helen was found inside the stadium. Rodus won the competition, but his motherwas punished.

　　套题4

　　I have a friend.His mane is Henry Day, but everyone calls him Happy. Happy travels widely. Whenhe comes to a new place, he opens a pet shop and begins selling African GhostFish.

　　According to Happy, these are the world’s only invisible fish, and theyneed no food. Once a year, the female Ghost Fish lays eggs. Then, whileeverything is quiet, she becomes visible. But, in no time, she’s the mostbeautiful creature alive.

　　After Happy tells his customers this story,his fish tanks sell very quickly. When Happy sells out of fish tanks, heusually leaves for another town. He has rarely received a complaint since hebegan the business. In fact, many people take pleasure in looking at theirinvisible fish with their friends.

　　套题5

　　Nobody has ever seen a dragon, but there arestill many drawings of dragons around the world. They have wings and sharpclaws, and they breathe fire. Dragons represent different things in differentcultures. For example, the Chinese dragon lives in the sky and controls all thewater on Earth. One type of dragon really does exist and that is the SeaDragon. It is found in the seas of Australia. It is about 45 centimetres long.There is a strange thing about this creature --- the males have the babies.Some males live for more than twenty years and give birth twice a year.

　　There is one type of jellyfish called theSea Wasp. It has no head, no brain and is 99% water. However, its sting cankill. If you get stung by one of these creatures, you have four minutes to gethelp, or die!

　　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.