三、阅读理解。(每小题 1.5 分，共 22.5 分)
第一节 阅读下面短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A(2025·盐城市东台市期中)
Are you looking for a special place for your holiday? How about having fun in space? Lucky for you，a US company is going to open a space hotel to give you a new choice!
The Orbital Assembly Corporation，a company in California，will open the hotel in 2027. It will be able to hold about 400 people at the same time. The hotel will look like the London Eye—it'll be a large circle with 24 space pods(太空舱)around it. Each pod will be about 20 metres long and 12 metres in diameter(直径).
The company will plan everything for the tourists. The pods will be used for restaurants，sports halls，movie theatres and so on. Besides，there will even be some pods for people to buy. But the company hasn't decided the price for
them yet.
The space hotel will allow you to enjoy 1/6 of the Earth's gravity(重力). When you are there，something fun can really happen，like jumping higher，carrying heavier things，and playing basketball in a new way.
“In the future，going to space will be another choice for holidays，just like going to Disneyland，” says the CEO of the company. “We are trying our best to build a dream place for more people to have fun. ” Are you ready to try the space hotel? Let's wait and see.
( )1.(创新考法·行文方式)How does the writer begin the text?
A. By telling stories.
B. By giving facts.
C. By using numbers.
D. By asking questions.
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)2.(创新考法·组合选择)According to the text，what can you do in the space hotel?
① Watch movies.
② Do some sports.
③ Go fishing.
④ Enjoy delicious food.
A. ①②③
B. ②③④
C. ①③④
D. ①②④
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)3. What does the word “them” in Paragraph 3 refer to?
A. Pods.
B. Theatres.
C. Restaurants.
D. Holidays.
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)4. Which of the following is true about the space hotel?
A. It will be big enough for 400 people to live in.
B. There will be 20 space pods around it.
C. It will be fun to live there with 1/3 of the Earth's gravity.
D. There will be some Disneyland parks in the hotel.
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)5. What is the passage mainly about?
A. The Orbital Assembly Corporation.
B. A new choice for holidays.
C. Ways to enjoy sports in space.
D. How to grow vegetables in space.
解析：
【分析】
做这篇阅读理解时，先通读全文明确核心是介绍即将建成的太空酒店这一新型度假选择，之后逐题对应原文找解题依据：
1. 第一题判断开篇方式，直接查看文章开头的语句形式，匹配对应的行文手法即可；
2. 第二题是组合式细节选择题，用排除法将四个活动逐一回原文核对，排除原文未提及的活动，就能选出正确组合；
3. 第三题代词指代题，定位到划线词的前后句，找到它指代的前文最近提到的核心事物即可；
4. 第四题细节正误判断题，把每个选项的内容都回原文比对，和原文表述完全一致的就是正确选项，其余选项都能找到和原文不符的错误点；
5. 第五题主旨大意题，梳理全文核心介绍对象，排除只覆盖局部内容的干扰选项，选出最贴合全文主旨的答案。
【解析】
1. 文章开头第一句连续抛出两个设问句"Are you looking for a special place for your holiday? How about having fun in space?"，通过提问的方式引出下文太空酒店的话题，对应选项D，排除A讲故事、B给事实、C用数字的表述，选D。
2. 根据第三段"The pods will be used for restaurants, sports halls, movie theatres and so on."可知，在太空酒店可以去餐厅享受美食、去运动馆做运动、去电影院看电影，全文完全没有提到钓鱼的相关内容，因此①②④正确，选D。
3. 定位第三段划线词所在句："Besides, there will even be some pods for people to buy. But the company hasn't decided the price for them yet."，句意为甚至有一些太空舱可供人们购买，公司还没有定它们的售价，这里的them指代前文提到的待售卖的pods（太空舱），选A。
4. 细节逐一核对：
选项A：原文第二段"It will be able to hold about 400 people at the same time."，和表述“它足够大可以容纳400人入住”完全一致，表述正确；
选项B：原文提到环绕酒店的太空舱数量是24个，不是20个，表述错误；
选项C：原文提到太空酒店的重力是地球的1/6，不是1/3，表述错误；
选项D：原文CEO说未来去太空度假就像去迪士尼一样，并非酒店里设有迪士尼乐园，表述错误。因此选A。
5. 全文围绕即将开业的太空酒店展开，介绍它的外观、功能、特殊体验等内容，核心是给人们提供了一种全新的度假选择，对应选项B。A只是建造酒店的公司，属于局部信息；C只是太空体验的其中一个细节；D文中完全没有提及，均排除，选B。
【答案】1.D 2.D 3.A 4.A 5.B
【知识点】细节信息判断，代词指代辨析，主旨大意归纳
【点评】这是一篇介绍未来太空度假酒店的科普类短文，话题新颖贴近科技热点，覆盖了初中英语阅读理解的高频考点，解题时要牢记所有选项都要从原文定位找对应依据，不能仅凭主观常识判断，能有效锻炼学生的信息筛选和文本理解能力。
【难度系数】0.7
