南京中考閱讀理解真題訓練

　　閱讀理解在中考英語試卷中佔有很大的分值，為了幫助大家提高英語閱讀能力，下面是小編帶來的，歡迎考生閱讀練習。

　　原文

　　The first chocolate was eaten by people in South America hundreds of years ago. In those days,the people did not really eat chocolate. They used the cocoa bean***可可豆***to make a chocolatedrink and they enjoyed it very much. Many years later, the cocoa bean was brought to othercountries and people came to love the taste of chocolate.

　　In 1824, John Cadbury opened a small shop in Britain. One of the things he sold was chocolatedrink. In 1831, he opened a factory to make chocolate drink. He wanted to encourage peopleto drink chocolate instead of other drinks. A few years later, a man called Joseph Fry found away to make chocolate instead of only drinking it. But at that time chocolate was very expensiveand only the rich people could buy it. Later, ad more and more chocolate bars were producedand sold, it became cheaper.

　　However, aT first only plain chocolate ***a kind of chocolate without milk and with very littlesugar***was produced. Milk chocolate came later and this was made by adding milk to thechocolate. The first milk chocolate bar was made in Cadbury’s factory in 1897. Their mostfamous chocolate, Cadbury’s Milk Bar, was made in 1905, It has been the most popularchocolate in Britain and around the world for over 100 years. The Cadbury factory is still inBritain and the chocolate produced there is eaten all over the world. Every year, thousands ofvisitors visit the factory in order to see how chocolate is made.

　　56.Hundreds of years ago, people first began to drink chocolate in ____.

　　A.South America B.South Africa C.Britain D.Australia

　　57.John Cadbury opened a factory to make chocolate drink in____ .

　　A.1824 B.1831 C.1897 D.1905

　　58.People had the chance to eat chocolate instead of drinking it for the first time ____.

　　A. when chocolate was cheaper

　　B. when more and more chocolate was produced

　　C. when John Cadbury started to make chocolate drink

　　D. when Joseph Fry found a way to make chocolate bars.

　　59.At first, not many people bought chocolate____ .

　　A. because it was very expensive

　　B. because people didn’t like the taste