陕西·近5年中考英语真题分类汇编：任务型阅读（阅读补充句子）

 Professor Chen Lin was a famous Chinese educator of the English language. He did a lot to help English learners in China. On January 21, 2023, he passed away at the age of 101.  

 When he was interviewed in 2006, he talked about an amusing experience with China Daily to express his special love for it: "I must say that over the past 25 years, I have come to like this English title—China Daily—more and more, with my love for the newspaper. One small event in my relationship with China Daily was an amusing and unforgettable one.  

"In 1982, China Daily celebrated its first anniversary（周年纪念）. At that time, Katherine Flower of the UK and I were helping with the British English-teaching TV programme ‘Follow Me.'

"Soon after that, the editorial board（编辑部）suggested that Kathy and I could help them with their publicity（宣传; 推广）programme. So the two of us appeared in a CCTV ad in which we sat at breakfast table reading China Daily. We raised our heads and said to the audience, smiling: ‘Let's read China Daily DAILY.'

 "We thought it was very clever and enjoyed it." 

 From then on, the number of China Daily's readers has been increasing. More and more people, both at home and abroad, fell in love with it. Then at Professor Chen Lin's suggestion, a series of English weekly newspapers for middle school students, such as 21st Century Teens JR and 21st Century Teens SR, came out after China Daily. Now, they are enjoyed by many teachers and students in China.  

 *China Daily is China's official English newspaper. Its Chinese title is 《中国日报》.  

My name is Xue Mingwen, a middle school student. My brother is two years younger than me. He is now in Grade 6 at a primary school. Both of us like reading famous stories and we often share storybooks. Some stories are famous because people have been telling them for many years. Others, such as fables (寓言), are famous because they have an excellent ending or teach a good lesson - a moral in other words.

The other day, my brother shared a very old story from an English storybook. Both of us were attracted (吸引) by the new, useful language in the fable that everyone can tell. Although the story was simple, it was educational. It is our decision that we should share it here. We hope you can learn more words and a new way or two of expressing your ideas in English after you read this fable.

    Let's say you are taking a walk along the road and you happen to see one or two waste bottes lying on the grass beside the road. What would you do?

    You may have different choices. Firstly, you can leave the bottles there as they are. It was not you who threw them away. Why should you do something about it? This is quite OK. Secondly, you can pick them up and throw them into a dustbin (垃圾箱). By doing this, you have walked a step further to help make our home clean. This action is a better choice. Thirdly, you might want to pick them up and give them to an old man or woman who ollects waste for a living. If this is your choice, you have walked even further. You're not only thinking about doing something for the environment, you're also developing yourself to be a person who would think of others and help them.

    As for young kids, they may always have such a question: "When do I grow up?" Yes! When does a child grow up? And how can a kid know he or she has grown up? These are interesting questions. As for us, fifteen-year-olds, who are finishing middle school, we're no longer younger children. We should know whether or not we have grown up. When we start to have a sense of offering a helping hand for a cleaner city and greener world, and when we have a loving heart to think more of others than of ourselves and are ready to help them, we can say that we have grown up.

    Remember: If we help others, others will help us. If we do our best for nature, nature will ofer its best to us in return!

    Iceland is a northern European country with amazing natural beauty and oceans around. There are lots of volcanoes(火山). It has a short summer which lasts from June to August. The long winter starts from September and ends next May.

    Summer in Iceland is a golden season for tourists. Every year, people from all over the world come here to see the beautiful sights and enjoy the exciting whale-seeing(观鲸).

    In winter, when people in Iceland complete their daily work, they will have a lot of special activities to spend the long dark night. Skating, riding snow motorbikes and having parties can really make an exciting night. After all the fun, a hot bath must be the first choice to relax. There are also story telling activities for children, which can teach them to be strong and kind. The most popular stories are about Christmas in Iceland.

    Because of a long cold winter, Iceland has a short growing season. Food problem was always a headache for Iceland in the past. It had to buy most of its food from other countries. Later, when farmers learned to use lights and underground heat to grow crops(庄稼)all year round in the greenhouse, things changed a lot.

    Living in such a nice environment, most people in Iceland live a happy life. According to a survey about happiness made each year in Europe, Iceland is always among the top 3.