2018年成都市中考英语题型专项复习练习（word版）：补全表格

learning opportunity

Added Chinese into the national exam list of languages Take Chinese as a subject in the college entrance exam 5

Irish students come to China to

study

【主旨大意】本文是一篇说明文。主要介绍了以前中国学生花费很多精力去学习 英语，现在世易时移，中国变得强大了，很多外国人爱上了学汉语，很多国家也 把汉语列入了国家外语教学计划，爱尔兰当局就宣布将把汉语列入学校教育学科 和大学入学考试，中国和爱尔兰的教育合作也运行良好。

1. The past 【解析】文章结构题。根据文章内容可知以前中国学生努力学习英语， 根据下面的 Now 也可以知道这里应该是指时间上的对比，故填 The past。 2. Purpose 【解析】推理判断题。根据后面的四个不定式可知这些不定式后是学 习英语的目的，故填 Purpose。

3. Learning English 【解析】细节理解题。根据第一段最后一句“It takes up most of your time remembering vocabularies, reciting grammar rules, practising exercise.” 可 知这里的 it 指代的是学英语，故填 Learning English。

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4. China【解析】推理判断题。根据第二段最后一句“It’s time for them to make every effort to learn Chinese, Chinese culture and Chinese wisdom. ”可知这些人想学习汉 语、中国文化和中国智慧，归纳起来就是和中国有关的东西，故填 China。 5. More 【解析】细节理解题。 根据最后一段第二句“And the number of Irish students coming to study in China is also growing. ”可知来中国留学的爱尔兰学生 人数正在增加，即是说越来越多的爱尔兰学生来中国留学，故填 more。

Passage 3

If you are finding a job in the UK, Chinese is one of the most attractive foreign languages. Graduates in Chinese earn an average yearly salary( 平 均 年 薪 ) of 31,000 pounds or more,

higher than other people. For students today a degree in Chinese may help them get a better job or get the job easier.

For students today, saddled with rising debt, a degree in

Chinese promises to set them apart in the workplace.

There is a big difference between students learning Chinese and students learning other languages. While an English student

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may have as little as six hours of class a week, those studying Chinese are in class for most of the day. “I had a lot of friends learning other languages who didn’t do much in first or second year. Studying Chinese is really a hard slog throughout every year. It was a challenge — there is no way you can bullshit your way through it. If you don’t put the hours in then you will fail. That’s it.” says a Chinese student Hannah Jackson. “The first year was really difficult. Most of my friends cried in the first week because it is too hard. I was almost want to drop out and choose another major. ”

So are the evenings in spent learning characters while your friends are at the student bar really worth it? Despite the ups and downs of their degrees, all three graduates think so. They each use Chinese in their chosen careers, and would not be in the jobs

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they do now without their knowledge of the language. “The degree was surely worth it. The slog has paid off. Looking around at people I know who have studied French or Spanish at university, there’s not such a chance to use it in the workplace.” Hannah Jackson said.

Thanks to his ability to speak Chinese, Zak helped to create a role for himself in a company selling health supplements to the Chinese market soon after graduating. Starting as a research assistant at Simply Supplements in Peterborough, he was able to prove there was enough commercial interest from China, making him promoted to online operations executive within six months. He earned 26,000 pounds in the role, with the potential to earn as much as 50,000 pounds as an account manager if he stayed at the company. “Studying Chinese surely makes you more marketable

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