Ⅲ. 阅读理解(每小题 2 分,共 16 分)
A
1. What is the CORRECT order of the following activities?
A. dcba B. acda C. bacd D. cdba

2. 语言能力 分析能力 Which of the following best describes Mathilde according to the passage?
A. Tricky. B. Hard-working.
C. Silly. D. Polite.

3. Why didn’t Forestier know Mathilde when they met ten years later?
A. Because Mathilde had changed a lot.
B. Because actually they were not friends.
C. Because she didn’t remember Mathilde.
D. Because they didn’t know each other well.

4. What can we learn from Mathilde’s story?
A. Everyone should pay for what they did.
B. Believing in yourself is the secret to success.
C. The best things in life are actually expensive.
D. Enjoy good times before something terrible happens.

B
5. How has advertising encouraged the shift from needs-based to wants-based production?
A. By increasing the amount of advertising.
B. By highlighting the price of the latest products.
C. By providing more attractions to the consumers.
D. By telling companies to throw away out-of-fashion products.

6. The underlined word “addictive” in Paragraph 3 probably means “making people ______ something”.
A. interested in trying
B. unable to stop doing
C. worried about missing
D. happy to throw away

7. The writer probably agrees that ______.
A. the misleading of advertising is the main reason for more waste
B. advertising fails to change buyers’ opinions about second-hand items
C. social media has more powerful force to persuade buyers than FOMO
D. FOMO can lead people to buy something that they might have no need for

8. 语言能力 推断能力 What is the writer’s main purpose in writing this passage?
A. To introduce some useful advertising techniques.
B. To discuss the advantages and disadvantages of advertising.
C. To explain why advertising brings buyers a wasteful lifestyle.
D. To advise people to make right choices when facing advertisements.

中考趋势 Ⅳ. 阅读还原(每小题 2 分,共 10 分)
从方框中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有一项多余。
Why do you seldom see windows in supermarkets? It’s no accident that supermarkets don’t have windows. One of them is that it’s a try to keep people inside longer. “The owners want to create a separate environment within their stores, where the outside world cannot be noticed,” explains Andrei Vasilescu, a shopping expert. “Your attention won’t be taken away by the rain or the sunshine. You may even forget the fact that someone is waiting for you outside. ” It really helps create an “immersive (沉浸式的)” shopping experience, for better or worse.
Keeping daylight out of supermarkets can also help store products. Nobody wants to buy anything not fresh. Too much sunshine can even make some products look not as new as before.
What’s more, having windows in their stores would take up the space to place products. “ So the walls can hold the heavier objects on the shelves,” says Margine Biswas, a building expert.
Not to mention, windows are expensive and the owners of supermarkets want to keep the building costs lower. It is possible that bad guys would enter their stores by breaking windows.