2016郑州二模英语试题及答案(2)

C. A few years ago.
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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。  
A
Jumanji（勇敢者的游戏）is a story for children about a very strange game—a game that becomes far too real and frightening for the players.  It was a story by Chris Van Allsburg, which was later filmed in 1996, starring the famous American actor Robin Williams.
    The story begins in 1869 in New Hampshire, America. Two young brothers bury a box under some trees. A hundred years later, in 1969, a boy, Alan Panish, finds the box and takes it home. He is unhappy that his father may want to send him to a boarding school. Alan’s friend, Sarah, arrives, and they open the box. Inside is a board game. At the start of tile game, some words appear: “Do you want to leave the world behind and go back to the past? Then this is the game for you.” Suddenly Alan finds that he is disappearing into the game.
The story has a deep meaning. Through his adventures Alan learns something important—if you face your fears, your problems will go away. Alan turns to face Van Pelt, the hunter who is trying to kill him. In doing so, he completes the game and returns to reality. Then he finds that his father is not going to send him to a boarding school after all.
    In Jumanji, time is flexible. The film director Stephen Spielberg’s “Back to the Future” films play with time in the same way.  Top scientists even tell us now that time travel is theoretically possible !
21. From the story we learn that Alan is a boy who ________.
    A. dislikes his study at school           B. is afraid of his serious father
    C. was born a hundred years ago         D. goes back to the past in the game
22. Through the game Alan has realized that whenever he has difficulties he should _______.
    A. escape into the past                 B. face them bravely
    C. ask for his father’s advice            D. read the words on the box
23. What does the author mean when he says time is flexible?
    A. One can travel in time.              B. Science can change the limit of time.
    C. Time travel is impossible in space.     D. Time is a common topic in film-making.
B
It’s that time of year when people need to lock their cars. It’s not because there are a lot of criminals running around stealing cars. Rather, it’s because of good-hearted neighbors who want to share their harvest.  Especially with this year’s large crop, leaving a car unlocked in my neighborhood is an invitation for someone to fill it with zucchini（西葫芦）.
    My sister, Sharon, recently had a good year for tomatoes. She and her family had eaten and canned so many that they had begun to feel their skin turn slightly red. That’s when she decided it was time to share her blessings. She started calling everyone she knew. When that failed, she began asking everyone in the neighborhood, eventually finding a neighbor delighted to have the tomatoes. “Feel free to take whatever you want,” Sharon told her. Later that day, Sharon found that her garden had indeed been harvested. She felt happy that she could help someone and that the food didn’t go to waste.
    A few days later, Sharon answered the door. There was the neighbor, holding a hot loaf of bread. The neighbor smiled pleasantly, “I wanted to thank you for all of the tomatoes, and I have to admit that I took a few other things and hoped you wouldn’t mind.”
    Sharon couldn’t think of anything else in her garden that had been worth harvesting and said so. “Oh, but you did,” the neighbor said. “You had some of the prettiest zucchini I’ve ever seen.”
    Sharon was confused. They hadn’t even planted any zucchini. But her neighbor insisted that there really were bright-green zucchini in her garden. Sharon felt curious and decided to go to see where the zucchini had grown. The two of them walked together into the backyard. When the neighbor pointed at the long green vegetables, Sharon smiled.  “Well, actually, those are cucumbers（黄瓜）that we never harvested, because they got too big, soft and bitter for eating.”
    The neighbor looked at Sharon, shock written all over her face. She gulped（哽住）a few times, and then, smiling, held out the bread, part of a batch she had shared all over the neighborhood. “I brought you a nice loaf of cucumber bread. I hope you like it.”
24. Why does the author ware people in the neighborhood to lock their cars?
    A. They might be stolen by thieves at night.
    B. They might be moved away by the police.
    C. Their neighbors might fill them with their harvest.
    D. Their neighbors might throw cucumbers into them.
25. How did Sharon’s friends react to the invitation to take her tomatoes?
    A. They did not accept her kind offer.
    B. They were all delighted to have the tomatoes.
    C. They said they would go when they were free.
    D. They began to tell everyone they knew about it.
26. What did the neighbor do in Sharon’s garden?
    A. She only harvested some tomatoes.