2019中考英语阅读理解考前强化：the world

Around the orld more and more people are taking part in dangerous sports and activities. Of urse, there have alays been people ho have looked for adventures ----those ho have climbed the highest mountains, traveled into unknon parts of the orld or sailed in small boats across the greatest oceans. No, hoever, there are people ho look for an imdiate excitent from a risky activity hich may only last a fe minutes or even sends.

I ould nsider bungee jumping to be a good example of such an activity. You jump from a high place (perhaps a bridge or a hot-air balloon) 200 tres above the ground ith an elastic (有弹性的) rope tied to your ankles. You fall at up to 150 kilotres an hour until the rope ss you from hitting the ground. It is said that about 2 million people around the orld have no tried bungee jumping. Other activities hich most people ould say are as risky as bungee jumping include jumping from tall building and diving into the sea from the of high cliff.(悬崖)

Why do people take part in such activities as these? So psychologists suggest that it is because life in modern societies has bee safe and boring. Not very long ago, diseases uld not easily be cured, and life as a ntinuous battle for survival.(生存).

Noadays, acrding to many people, life offers little excitent. They live and ork in paratively safe nditions; they buy food in shops; and there are doctors and hospitals to look after them if they bee ill. The anser for so of these people is to look for danger in activities such as bungee jumping.

1. A best title for the text is ____.

A. Dangerous sports: hat and hy

B. The boredom of modern life

C. Bungee jumping: Is it really dangerous?

D. The need for excitent

2. More and more people today ____.

A. are trying activities such as bungee jumping

B. are climbing the highest mountains

C. are ing close to death in sports

D. are looking for adventures such as traveling into unknon places

3. In bungee jumping, you ____.

A. jump as high as you can

B. slide don a rope to the ground

C. attach(系) yourself to a rope and fall to the ground

D. fall toards the ground ithout a rope

4. People probably take part in dangerous sports noadays because _____.

A. they have a lot of free ti

B. they can go to hospital if they are injured

C. their life is short of excitent

D. they no longer need to hunt for food

5. The riter of the text has a ____ attitude toards dangerous sports.

A. Positive(肯定的) B. negative(否定的) C. neutral(中立的) D. nervous(紧张的)

The key :

4. A A C C C