2020-2021年英语中考英语阅读理解100及答案经典.docVIP

2020-2021年英语中考英语阅读理解 100及答案经典 一、初三英语阅读理解(含答案详细解析) 1 •阅读理解 Without music, life would be a mistake, famous German philosopher (哲学家) Friedrich Nietzsche said over a century ago. Music is a big part of our lives. But in recent years, some American schools have cut music classes to control budgets (预算) For example, Chicago public schools hurt arts education when it fired over 1, 000 teachers. Among them, 10 perce nt of the teachers taught art or music, accord ing to The Wash ington Times. In fact, this is not just a problem in the US. In other coun tries, such as China and the UK, music classes are not thought to be as importa nt as ones like scie nee, math and history. Thats partly because music is not see n as a very importa nt life skill, and it isnt tested. Many stude nts are busy with schoolwork, so pare nts and stude nts choose to focus on subjects that are tested more often. However, learning music is beneficial (有益的) in many ways. When playing music, you need different abilities to work together. It is not as simple as it looks, according to Kenneth K. Guilmartin of Music Together, an early childhood music development program. For example, when playing the piano, people see music notes and decode (解码) them in their brains. They also use their fin gers to make soun ds. You n eed to deal with all these things at the same time. Music has a special conn ecti on with scie nee as well. You can see that many scie ntists are good at playing music: Einstein played the violin and German physicist Max Planek was talented in play ing the pia no. (1) Some schools in the US cut music classes, because . A. they were too difficult to lear n B. stude nts in the US were nt i nterested in music C. the schools wan ted to con trol budgets iiD. there were nt eno ugh music teachers in the US (2) In Paragraph 2, what does the underlined word them refer to (指代) ？ A. Stude nts in Chicago. B. Public schools. C. Parents in Chicago. D. Fired teachers. (3) How many scientists who are good at