山西壶关县2016中考英语二轮阅读理解（二轮）精编题及答案（三）.docVIP

山西壶关县2016中考英语二轮阅读理解精编题及参考答案 【中考先睹为快】 Passage A 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。Mr. Harris taught sixth-grade science. On the first day of class, he gave us a talk about an animal called “birdcat”, which died out during the Ice Age. He passed around a skull as he talked. We all took notes carefully and later we had a test. When he returned my paper the next day, there was a big red “X” through each of my answers. I had failed! There had to be some mistake! I had written down exactly what Mr. Harris said. Then I learned that everyone in the class had failed. What had happened? “Very simple,” Mr. Harris said. He had made up all that “birdcat” “There had never been any such animal. The information in our notes was therefore incorrect. Did you think you would get good marks for incorrect answers?” Needless to say, we felt that was unfair. What kind of a test was this? And what kind of a teacher? “We should have figured it out.” Mr. Harris said. After all, at the very moment he was passing around the “birdcat” skull, in truth a cat’s, hadn’t he been telling us no other findings about this animal except the skull? He had told us many unbelievable things about the animal, such as the size, the color, the strength… but none of us had questioned. Mr Harris said he hoped we would learn something from this lesson. Teachers and textbooks are not always correct. In fact no one is. He told us not to let our minds go to sleep and to speak up if we ever thought he or the textbook was wrong. Up to now I haven’t made any great scientific discoveries, but Mr. Harris’s class gave me and my classmates something just as important: To look people in the eye and tell them they are wrong. 16. “Figure it out” should mean “__________”. A. think and find it out B. answer it C. draw it out D. learn and turn it out 17. I failed in the science test because_________. A. I didn’t answer all the questions B. I didn’t a