（广东）初中英语2022-2023七年级下学期期末专项复习：阅读理解（2）

    I like cooking. I often help my mom cook. Chicken is my favorite food to make and eat.

    One day, Mom and Dad were not at home. They drove to visit a friend. I wanted to bake (烘烤) the chicken for lunch for my family, I washed the chicken and put it in the oven (烤炉). After about 40 minutes, I went to take the chicken out. Do you know what I found? The chicken was still cold! I started laughing(大笑). I laughed and laughed and laughed! I forgot to turn on the oven!

    Mom and Dad would come back soon. I didn't have time to bake the chicken again. So I called on the telephone for sandwiches to come to my house. When my parents came back, I told them how I baked the chicken. Morn and Dad laughed. And they said the sandwiches tasted good.

People love to share things on social media （媒体）like Weibo and WeChat. They show off things like foods and drinks. Stars have many social media followers. Many of them build ads into their posts （帖子）. So do other famous people.

Nancy, a 17-year-old teenager did a study into social media ads. She wanted to see if people share unhealthy foods and drinks. Nancy made a list of famous people on social media first. She picked 100 actors, 100 singers and 100 influencers （网红）. She looked for posts about foods and drinks. Then, she gave a grade for each of them. The grade showed how nutritious the food or drink was.

Nancy found that influencers shared the most foods and drinks by far. They also shared the most sweets which had an unhealthy grade. Nancy was surprised. She thought influencers would share healthier things. Fruits, vegetables and water were least shared by all three groups. Influencers often shared soft drinks. So did singers.

Influencers are often friendly and seem close to us. So young people are more likely to believe them. Many users are under 18 years old. “They should be kept away from unhealthy ads, " Nancy says."There should be new rules." Nancy has unfollowed some people. They were pushing unhealthy habits. Users need to choose who they follow in a smart way.

Last Saturday, it was sunny. My mother took my sister Helen and me to visit the Fengkai Museum of History. The museum is in  Guangxin Cultural Park (广信文化园). First we went to the Guangxin Tower (广信塔) in the park. Helen and I played for two hours in the tower.

We got to the museum at eleven o'clock. We saw many old things. We learned about what Fengkai was like hundreds of years ago. In the past, Fengkai was a small village. It is the birthplace of Lingnan culture and Cantonese.

Helen and I took some notes about the history of Fengkai. We also took some photos of the old things. We left the museum at two o'clock in the afternoon.

A long way to Mars

When Alyssa Carson was 3, she said that she wanted to become an astronaut and go to Mars(火星). Over the next 17 years, she worked hard for her dream. Carson is 20 now-and in the year 2033, her dream may come true. By that time, she hopes to become a NASA(美国航空航天局) astronaut and fly to the red planet. Let's take a look at how she is getting ready for her future space journey.

At 7, Carson went to a NASA space camp in the US for the first time. There, she saw a real rocket. At 12, she visited all 14 NASA visitor centers across nine different states in the US.

When she was older, she took part in a special project where she learned more about space. . She learned about-microgravity(微重力).

- She learned how her body reacts(反应) when losing oxygen(氧气). - She learned about robotics(机器人技术) and built her own rockets. - She learned about different parts of spaceship and how spacesuit work.

·Early in 2018, Carson did some underwater training. The underwater world is very quiet. People can easily lose their sense of direction there. It is just like being in space.

Dear Sue,

I am having a good time in Beijing. I am in a restaurant now. The restaurant is big and there are 30 tables in it. I order a bowl of noodles, some tofu and some vegetables. The dumplings here look good, and I want to order some next time. As for drinks. I order some green tea. We spend 50 yuan in the meal (8 yuan for the drinks and 42 yuan for the food).

The food here is very good. The noodles and the tofu are delicious, and the vegetables are great, but the green tea isn't very good.

The people in the restaurant use chopsticks(筷子) to have meals. I can't use them and I am learning how to use them. It is very interesting. I think it take me a long time to finish the meal.

Julia

     In Canada you can find dogs, cats, horses etc, in almost every family. These are their pets. People love these pets and regard them as their good friends. Before they keep them at their houses, they take them to animal hospitals to give them needles (注射针) so that they won't carry diseases. 

     They have special animal food stores, though they can get animal food in almost every store. Some people spend about two hundred Canadian dollars a month on animal food. When you visit people's homes, they would be very happy to show you their pets and they are very proud of them. You will also find almost every family has a bird feeder in their garden. All kinds of birds are welcomed to come and have a good meal. They're free to come and go and nobody is allowed(允许) to kill any animals in Canada. If you killed an animal, you would be punished. If an animal happened to get run over by a car, people would be very sad about it.

     People in Canada have many reasons to like family animals. One of them might be: their family tie is not as close as ours. When children grow up, they leave their parents and start their own careers. Then the seniors will feel lonely. But pets can solve this problem. They can be good friends and never leave them alone.

    My daughter Hanghui is six years old. I took her to attend the child modeling course two years ago.

Luckily, she has a gift for being a model. I let her take the class because when she was very young, she was pigeon-toed（内八字的）and I wanted to correct it.

    In the past, Hanghui was afraid to go out because she would have to meet so many people. That meant she always stayed at home, so I thought it necessary to take her out more to see the outside world.

    After taking the class for more than a year, I noticed her progress. She was not so shy and she dared to speak with strangers. Even on the T-stage（T台）, she could behave herself. So attending modeling class was the correct decision for her.

    I have read reports about child models working all day to make money, and they may have lost their innocence（纯真）, However, I don't feel worried about this, because Hanghui knows the difference between performances and real life. On the stage, she is serious and cool, but after classes or a performance, she becomes a lively kid again.

If she has a chance to be a Taobao or T-stage show model, I won't refuse the invitation. I will support her to do these jobs in her free time if she wants. However, if it influences her schoolwork, I won't encourage it.

    Throughout her life, I will respect her choices. Parents shouldn't impose（强加）their dreams on their children, because it's unfair to the children.

    We went on a school trip to New York. We had a good time. There were twenty-four students and three teachers. It was a five-day trip, and we visited some attractions (景点).

    We stayed at a hotel and six people shared (共享) one room. We often had our meals out of the hotel—there were a number of restaurants nearby. We went around the city, and we were really given quite a lot of freedom (自由). So long as (只要)we were back to our rooms by 10 p. m, we could go anywhere we wanted to. I was surprised at how safe I felt walking around New York in small groups. My friends and I enjoyed ourselves on the trip. I would like to advise you to go there. If you decide to go, you will have a great time!