09：娱乐天地 Play time -2023中考英语外刊阅读原创试题（全国）

娱乐天地中考英语外刊原创题09Play time-2023主题语境人与社会话题内容娱乐运动语篇类型说明文外刊原文:Play timeXBOX360Kinetic.RoboSapien.WiiParty.These arejust afew of the moderntoys soldin recentyears.But someofthe mostpopular toys are actuallyquite old.（巴比伦人）Games have been aroundfor thousandsof years.In4000BC,Babylonians playeda board game thatwassimilar tochess.Yo-yos made of stonewere firstused in ancient Greecearound1000BC.And kitesappeared inChinaaround thesame time.（拼词游戏）Another famousgame isScrabble.It wasinvented byan architectin the1930s,but itdidnt getpopularuntil

1953.And sincethen,more than100million setshave been sold worldwide.As youcan imagine,toys andgames areamulti-billion dollarindustry.Mr.Potato Head,the firsttoy advertisedonTV,grossed morethan$4million inits firstyear.Play-Doh madeits inventorJoseph McVickera millionaireby（）his27th birthday,while Mattelsells

1.5million Barbie dolls eachweek thatstwo dollseach second!.Some toysgo out of fashion,but thenbecome popularagain,such asRubiks Cube.Research says parents areincreasinglychoosing to buy toys they remember from theirown childhood.These days,toysarenot justfor fun.RoboSapien isa remote-controlled robotthat waslaunched in

2004.He canwalk.turn aroundand doother poses.RoboSapien wasdesigned byMark Tildenwho oncecreated robotsfor NASAspace missions.He expectedthe toytobe usedmostly byschools andscientists,but almost2million Robosapienshavebeensold worldwidesince itslaunchas atoy.Fancy agame,anyone核心词汇:建筑师；设计师

1.architect n.The architectis drawingup plansfor thenew offices.考查形容词.害羞的；伤心的；满意的;激动的.根据上文14A.shy sadsatisfied excitedCharlie feltperfectly可知，卓别林在舞台上感觉无拘无束.它根本没有感到害羞，并且为观众又跳又唱了很多.at home on stage”故选A.考查名词,麻烦；怒气；沉默；笑声.根据语境可知，使他感到吃惊的是，15D troubleanger silencelaughter笑声更多，钱也扔得更多了.故选D.建筑师正在绘制新办公楼的设计图世界各地的（地）

2.worldwide adj./adv.The storyhas attractedworldwide attention.这件事已经引起了全世界的关注We have2000members worldwide.我们在全世界有名成员2000做广告；征聘；宣传

3.advertise v.如果你要吸引更多顾客，就试试在If youwant toattract morecustomers,try advertisingin thelocal paper.当地报纸登广告We arecurrently advertisingfor a new salesmanager.目前我们公开征聘一位新的销售经理总的，毛的；总收入；总共收入为

4.gross adj.n./vtHis grossincome willvery likelyexceed$900000this year.他今年的总收入将很可能超过万英镑90Im afactory workerwho grossed£12,900last year我是个工厂工人，去年的总收入为英镑12,900百万富翁

5.millionaire n.By thetime hedied,he was a millionaire.到他去世的时候，他已经是一位百万富翁了遥控的

6.remote-controlled adj.此系列产品性能强，可隔墙遥控This powerfulproducts thatcan beremote-controlled throughthe wall.开始从事；发起

7.launch v.He usedthe moneyto launchinto anew business.他利用这笔钱开始从事一新行业The Governmenthas launchedan advertisingcampaign toencourage peopleto vote.政府已发起一系列广告宣传攻势鼓励民众参加选举想要；想象；喜好；幻想精致的；昂贵的

8.fancy v.n.adj.Do youfancy goingout thisevening今晚你想不想出去？They sentme toa fancyprivate school.他们把我送到一所昂贵的私立学校学习So Ihad totake herout toa fancyrestaurant foran eveningof diningand dancing.所以有一天晚上我把她带到一家精致的饭店，跟她一起共进晚餐，一起跳舞参考译文游戏时间XBOX360动力学机器人技术人员WiiPartyo这些只是近年来销售的一些现代玩具但一些最受欢迎的玩具实际上已经相当古老了游戏已经存在了几千年了公元前4000年，巴比伦人玩了一种类似于国际象棋的棋盘游戏由石头制成的溜溜球球大约在公元前1000年左右在古希腊首次使用而风筝也大约在同一时间出现在中国另一个著名的游戏是拼字游戏它是在20世纪30年代由一位建筑师发明的，但直到1953年才流行起来从那以后，全球已经售出了超过1亿套电视机你可以想象，玩具和游戏领域拥有数十亿美元的产业先生电视上的第一个玩具土豆头，第一年就超过了400万美元Play-Doh使其发明者约瑟夫・麦克维克在27岁生日时成为百万富翁，而美泰公司每周销售150万个芭比娃娃（每秒钟有两个娃娃！）有些玩具已经过时了，但后来又流行起来了，比如魔方研究表明，越来越多的父母选择购买他们小时候记得的玩具如今，玩具不仅仅是为了好玩RoboSapien是2004年推出的一个遥控机器人他能走路转身，做其他姿势智能机器人是由马克・蒂尔登设计的，他曾为美国宇航局的太空任务创造了机器人他预计这款玩具主要由学校和科学家使用，但自作为玩具推出以来，全球已售出近200万种智能机器人大家喜欢玩游戏吗？原创试题:VocabularL Matcheach wordto thecorrect meaning.

1.advertise a.to gaina totalamount ofmoney

2.worldwide b.to tellpeople abouta productthat youwant themto buy

3.millionaire c.all around the world

4.gross d.to showand sellanewproduct forthe firsttime

5.launch e.a veryrich personII.Complete eachsentence with the properform ofthe givenwords orphrasesancient imagineincreasingly outof fashionpopular recentremember similar

1.The priceof oillast Friday.

2.Close youreyes andyou areinaforest

3.We havebought anew houseand movedin.

4.As faras Ican,this isthe thirdtime we*we met.

1.1was happybecause herideas arequite tomine.

6.Though mytoy dollis,its stillmy favorite.

7.Standing underthis wall,I feellike Ivebeen throughtime.

8.Fm sosurprised thathis songsare stillamong teenagers.Reading comprehensionI・Choose thebest answer.L“A board1ameis probablya.A.宾果游戏B.棋盘游戏C.电脑游戏D.拼词游戏

2.Which ofthe followingsentences iswrongA.People havea longhistory playinggames.B.In4000BC,Babylonians startedto playchess.C.Kites appearedaroundthesame timeas yo-yosD.The earliestversion ofyo-yos weremade ofstones.

3.Scrabble was.A.a bestsellerof1953B.invented bya successfulbusinessmanC.won alot offans assoon asit wasinventedD.invented in the1930s butgot popularin

19534.People firstgot toknow onTV.A.Play-Doh B.Barbie dollsC.RoboSapien D.Mr.Potato Head

5.Rubiks Cubeis popularagain because.A.kids loveitB.it isoften advertisedon TVC.it neverruns outof fashionD.parents liketo buyit fortheir children

6.The sixthparagraph mainlytalks about.A.what thetoy robot RoboSapien candoB.how therobotRoboSapienwas inventedC.the designerofthetoy robotRoboSapienD.RoboSapien,a populartoy robotfor bothfun andlearningIL Fillin theblanks accordingto thearticle.Games havealong historyBabylonia:a_____1_____similar tochess,in4000BCAncient Greece:_______2______madeofstone,around1000BCCChina:_____3_____,around1000BCScrabbles:in the1930s____4____:made morethan$4million inits firstyearToys andgames make____5_____Joseph McVickertheirinventors rich\____6____:MattelPopular toysgo andcomeExample:____7______againReason:_____8______Example:RoboSapien,a____9____robotToys arefor funandDesigner:Mark TildenlearningPopularity:_____10______【试题答案】Play timeVocabularyI.I.b

2.c

3.e

4.a

5.dII

1.increased

2.imagine

3.recently

4.remember

5.similar

6.outoffashion

7.ancient

8.popularReading comprehensionI1-6BBDDDDII.

1.boardgame

2.Yo-yos

3.Kites

4.Mr.Potato Head

5.Play-Doh

6.Barbiedolls

7.Rubik飞Cube

8.Parents lovetobuytoystheyrememberfromtheir childhood

9.remote-controlled

10.two millionRoboSapiens havebeensoldworldwide中考题型精选【完形填空】阅读下面短文，掌握大意，然后从、、、四个选项中选出最佳选项.A BC DCharlieChaplin7sparentsseparated ayear afterhis birthin

1889.He livedwith his mother andelder brotherina flatin London.Mrs.Chaplin managedto1her children on her own withthe money she made asa singer.2,their economic喉炎situation changedwhen shebecame illwith laryngitisin

1894.Instead ofresting her3until itgot better,Mrs.Chaplin kepton singing.Her voicegot weakerand weakerand shebegan to find it4tofindwell-paid work.One eveningCharlie happenedto beinthetheatre5hismothersinging onstage.Suddenly,her voice