2022上海中考英语真题解析：阅读理解B篇

摘要：Wang Zhenyi was a great Chinese (65) . She was born in the Qing Dynasty. At that time, girls had no chance to get a formal educati

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2022上海中考英语真题解析：阅读理解A篇

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【真题回忆】

Part 3 Reading and Writing

（第三部分读写）

Ⅵ. Reading comprehension（阅读理解）（本大题共25题，共50分）

B. Choose the best answer and complete the passage（选择最恰当的选项完成短文）（12分）

Star Woman

Wang Zhenyi (王贞仪)

Have you ever heard of Wang Zhenyi? Perhaps most of us didn’t know this great name until she was introduced in a CCTV programme.

Wang Zhenyi was a great Chinese (65) . She was born in the Qing Dynasty. At that time, girls had no chance to get a formal education. However, her father and grandfather were open-minded. They thought girls should share equal opportunities with boys. They (66) her to read the books in their home library. Wang Zhenyi educated herself and read a lot about astronomy (the study of the stars, planets, etc.), maths, geography as well as medicine. Later, she decided to (67) astronomy.

In her time, many people expected the stars to tell what was going to happen. They thought certain events in the sky, such as lunar eclipses(月食) happened when gods were angry. But Wang Zhenyi thought differently. She believed in facts and observation. In order to explain those “strange” events, she did some (68) . In one, she used a round table as the Earth, a lamp as the Sun and a mirror as the Moon. She moved them around to show what (69) happens during a lunar eclipse: when the Earth is passing directly between the Sun and the Moon, the sunlight cannot reach the Moon and the Moon “disappears”.

Throughout her short life, Wang Zhenyi wrote many articles about her research. In her articles, she explained difficult ideas in clear and (70) ways so that people could understand science more easily. She helped make science available to more people.

65. A. doctor B. scientist C. lawyer D. teacher

66. A. invited B. selected C. followed D. encouraged

67. A. rely on B. show off C. focus on D. talk about

68. A. exercises B. drawings C. reviews D. experiments

69. A. actually B. suddenly C. nearly D. recently

70. A. simple B. polite C. funny D. traditional