淘宝：中小学教辅资源店 微信：mlxt20222022 年浙江省杭州市中考英语试题第二部分 阅读理解（共两节, 满分 40 分）第一节（共 15 小题, 每小题 2 分, 满分 30 分）阅读下列短文, 从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C 和 D）中选出最佳选项。AA blog by Sascha Marr, aged 14My hobby is making shoes. I’ve always liked designing things. I remember drawing clothes and shoes when I was eight, and I made my first skirt aged nine. At eleven, I started making shoes, and I now spend my free time doing that.I became interested in making shoes when my cousin told me about an online shoe-making course that he was doing. I immediately wanted to do one too. Mum booked(为……预约) me on a four-day course at the I Can Make Shoes school in London to see if I liked it, and then I did a ten-day course there in the summer holidays.I loved the courses. On the longer one, I made four pairs of shoes! I couldn’t believe it. The teachers were excellent. That’s what was best about the classes. They made us work really hard but they wanted all their students to have fun, too.I’ve made about 15 pairs of shoes now. At the moment I’m making a pair of training shoes using an old pair of jeans, but I’ve used all kinds of different things before, from old leather(皮革) handbags to old cotton dresses!Making shoes has changed my plans for the future. I know now that I want to be a designer, but not a shoe designer. I’ve decided I’ll do home design. I’ve designed lots of shoes and also some clothes, so I’d like to try something new.16. What did Sascha begin to make at the age of 11?A. SkirtsB. ShoesC. JeansD. Dresses17. What does the underlined word “They” in Paragraph 3 refer to？A. The coursesB. The teachersC. The classesD. The students18.What does Sascha plan to be in the future?A. A shoe designerB. A handbag designerC. A dress designer D. A home designerBWhat did people do to communicate in ancient times? Here are some very interesting answers 淘宝：中小学教辅资源店 微信：mlxt2022to this question.Alphorns( 阿 尔 卑 斯 长 号 角 ) were once used to communicate in the mountains in Switzerland. They are very long and they are very heavy, too. So, alphorns are hard work to blow. Then why use them? Well, they make a loud sound which travels much further than the human voice. Herdsmen(牧民) used them to call cows in the distance for milking. At sunset, alphorns were also used to send a message down to villagers that all was well. These days, they’re mostly used as musical instruments.The people of La Gomera, an island in Europe, have their own special way of sending messages from mountain to mountain. They use a whistled( 口 哨 的 ) language called el silbo, which comes from their language Spanish. Whistling can be heard within five kilometers, which means it can be used across much greater distances than shouting. El silbo can be used for all kind...
