中考模拟，题型全面， 实战演练。

IV. 任务型阅读（共5小题，每小题2分，计10分）

Remember when you had your last birthday? You were one year older, and yet you didn’t feel any difference. You still looked the same as the day before. Your friends were the same, and they still looked and acted the same.

But because of that one day, you are a year older. So a birthday is in fact a mark of change in time. Then what really makes the difference? The biggest change that you can see is that you are growing up. Each year you grow physically（生理上）, you are taller and heavier and you can do more things than you could before. And you are also growing in your ability to think. You can make more decisions and can be independent（独立的）more.