Ⅲ. 阅读理解(每小题2分,共16分)
A
新语篇 名著节选 It was sunny for nearly a week and Mary found many more green points in the secret garden. She pulled up the weeds around them so they had space to grow. Sometimes she imagined (想象) the garden in summer.
One morning, as Mary was skipping (蹦跳) slowly along the long path, she heard the sound of music. She was very curious and went to find out. A boy was sitting under a tree. He was playing music. He had blue eyes and red cheeks. A squirrel and two rabbits were watching him and listening to the music. When he saw Mary, he said, "I'm Dickon. I know who you are. You are Miss Mary." He took out a package (包裹).
"Here are the garden tools. I bought some packets of seeds too."
"If you like," Dickon said, "I can plant them for you. Where's your garden?"
Mary said nothing. She didn't know what to say. "Have you got a garden?" Dickon asked patiently.
"Can you keep a secret?" she said.
"I keep secrets all the time," Dickon laughed.
"I stole a garden," Mary said quickly. "Nobody wants it. Perhaps everything is dead in it already. I don't know." She began to cry.
"Where is it?" asked Dickon.
"Come with me," she said.
She took him along the path to the wall with the ivy (常春藤) on it. Then she opened the door and they went in together.
"Here it is," she said. "It's a secret garden."
Dickon's blue eyes opened wide in surprise as he looked at the garden.
"It's very pretty," he whispered. "It's like being in a dream. In spring there are going to be lots of birds' nests (鸟巢) here." For two or three minutes Dickon looked at the garden while Mary watched him.
"Are the roses alive or dead?" Mary asked him.
He went up to an old tree and pointed at the branch (树枝). It was dry and grey but there was a small green bit growing on it.
"This bit's alive," he explained. "But there's a lot of old wood that is dead. We must cut it off. There are going to be lots of roses here this summer."
They went from bush to bush and from tree to tree. He was very strong and clever with his knife. He knew how to cut off the dry and dead wood.
"There's a lot of work to do here," he said.
"Can you come again and help me?" Mary asked him. "Please, Dickon!"
"Yes, every day if you like," he answered.
"Please, please don't tell anyone about the secret garden, Dickon," she said.
"Of course not," answered Dickon. "It's our secret."
—Adapted from The Secret Garden
1. What was Dickon doing when Mary found him?

A. Planting the seeds.
B. Playing with animals.
C. Playing music to the animals.
D. Skipping along the long path.
2. Which of the following shows the RIGHT order of the events?

①Mary took Dickon to see her secret garden.
②Mary was skipping slowly along the long path.
③Mary said nothing when Dickon asked patiently.
④Mary asked Dickon to come to the garden again and helped her.
A. ②③①④ B. ③④①②
C. ③②①④ D. ②④③①
3. 语言能力 推断能力 What would Mary do next?

A. Wait for the spring.
B. Listen to music with Dickon.
C. Save the garden with Dickon.
D. Close the secret garden forever.
4. What is the best title for the passage?

A. A Helpful Boy—Dickon
B. Exploring the Secret Garden
C. The Boy's Secret
D. Mary and Dickon
B
新素材 看视频“读”经典 ① Classics are the gems (宝石) of the literary (文学的) world. For years, people have read them to learn more. But now, more people love "watching" these classics in videos. According to a 2023 survey reported by the most popular Chinese short-video platform, the views for book-related videos jumped by 65.17 per cent year-on-year.
②A number of people get what they want by "watching" classics.
③"There are some classics that I am not interested in but need to read," said 14-year-old He Liyan from Jiangsu. "So I usually watch a video about the book to find out some interesting stories which can keep me reading." Some people also find classic books are really long and hard to understand, so they go to vloggers' explanations.
④"The vloggers also add personal opinions to their explanations, making the books easier to understand," added He.
⑤A Dream of Red Mansions is famous for showing Chinese society with interesting characters and a poetic writing style. It talks about family, society and human nature. These things can be fun to watch but boring and difficult to read. So it will take a long time.
⑥"There are so many characters in the novel, which make me confused a lot," said 12-year-old Shao Xinyao from Hubei. "The mind maps shown in the videos make their relationships (关系) clear and quick."
⑦While reading with videos helps many people, some express different opinions and worries.
⑧ For Zhang Boren, a 13-year-old from Beijing, reading is a journey about forming a personal relationship with the text, not just learning information. "Books can let me imagine. Although videos can help a lot, they can't show every part of a well-made story," he said.
⑨18-year-old Wang Hongjie from Sichuan agreed, saying, "It may weaken readers' ability to read independently (独立地) and think deeply."
5. According to the survey in Paragraph 1, which of the following about the views of "book-related videos" is RIGHT?

A. They went up greatly.
B. They went down quickly.
C. They stayed the same.
D. They went up and down.
6. 新考法 创新设问 Which picture can show the feeling of being confused?

7. Which student can get benefits (好处) by "watching" classics?
A. Cen Yinuo, who wants to design a play about Wu Song, a character from Water Margin, fighting with a tiger.
B. Teng Fei, who needs to write a reading report about Three Kingdoms and show his own ideas about the book.
C. Ran Lei, who wants to learn from Journey to the West and makes a character like Sun Wukong.
D. Tang Xiaoyun, who is too busy to read but has an exam about A Dream of Red Mansions.