上海牛津版7B选择类阅读理解提升练习（一）
（一）
Mrs. Brown lives in a city. She likes growing all kinds of vegetables very much. There is a small garden behind her house. And in spring she usually plants some vegetables in it. Every day, she waters them and looks after them very carefully. When summer comes, they look very nice.
One evening Mrs Brown looked at her nice vegetables and said with a smile, " Tomorrow I am going to pick them. Then I will have some delicious vegetables. " After that she went into her house happily.
But early in the next morning, her son ran in and shouted, " Mother! Mother! Come quickly! Our neighbour's duck is in the garden and he is eating our vegetables. "
Mrs. Brown ran out quickly, but it was too late. All the vegetables were gone. Mrs. Brown sat on the ground and cried, and her neighbour was very sorry, but that was the end of the vegetables.
One day before Christmas, the neighbour brought Mrs. Brown a nice and fat duck, and on the duck's back was a piece of paper with the words: Enjoy your vegetables!
()1. The vegetables in Mrs. Brown's garden were_____________ .
A. fast
B. nice
C. careful
D. bad
()2. The next morning the neighbour's duck _____________ .
A. went into the garden
B. came and ate up the vegetables
C. was gone
D. come to pick the vegetables
()3. The neighbour felt very ____________ for that.
A. happy
B. glad
C. exciting
D. sorry
()4. The neighbour brought Mrs. Brown a nice and fat duck_____________ .
A. before new year
B. after new year
C. before Christmas
D. after Christmas
()5. From the story we can see the neighbour was _____________.
A. bad
B. greedy
C. kind
D. clever Keys:1.B 2.B 3.D 4.C 5.D
（二）
One of my favourite things to do is hiking in mountains. Because nobody likes the idea of getting lost, I always prepare before every trip. But what’s the best tool, a Global Positioning System(GPS) or a good old map and compass?
Five of my friends and I hiked through the mountains on a trail（路线）I marked. One team of three carried a GPS, and the other team used a map and compass.
It took the GPS team 3 hours and 11 minutes to get through the whole hike; however, it took the map and compass team only 2 hours and 29 minutes. The biggest problem the GPS team met was that they lost the satellite signal in some places. With no map or compass, they had to walk around until they were in a place where the signal was good. However, the map and compass team was able to spot the right direction quickly and easily.
When I am getting ready for my future hikes, I’ll bring a map, a compass and a GPS to show me the way.
( ) 1. The writer always get everything ready before a trip because ____________.
A. the writer enjoys hiking
B. mountain is the writer’s favourite
C. the writer hates to miss his way
D. things are more expensive when traveling
( ) 2. ____________ people hiked through the mountains.
A. Four
B. Five
C. Six
D. Seven
( ) 3. ______________ people with the map and compass got through the whole hike.
A. Two
B. Three
C. Five
D. Six
( ) 4. The group with the map and the compass finished the hike first because ____________.
A. they also had the GPS
B. they didn’t need to find satellite signals
C. they got help from the satellite
D. they walked at a high speed
( ) 5. Which of the following is NOT true?
A. It took 191 minutes for the team with GPS to finish the hike.
B. Satellite signals were always available during the hike.
C. The GPS team walked around as they didn’t find the right direction.
D. The map and compass team spotted the direction quickly.
( ) 6. What can we learn from the last paragraph?
A. The writer thinks that a map and a compass are more useful than GPS.
B. The writer thinks that GPS is more useful than a map and a compass.
C. The writer thinks both the two ways work.
D. The writer thinks neither of the two ways works.
Keys:CCBBBC
（三）
In Canada you can find dogs, cats, horses, etc. in almost every family. They 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 injections so that they won’t carry disease. They have special animal food stores, though they can get animal food in almost every store. Some people spend around two hundred Canadian dollars a month on animal food. When you visit people’s houses, they would be very glad to show you their pets and they are very proud of them. You will also find almost every family has a birds in their garden. All kinds of birds are welcome to come and have a good meal. They are free to come and nobody is allowed to kill any animal in Canada. They have a law against killing wild animals. 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 animals. One of them might be that their family ties are not as close as ours. When children grow up, they leave their parents and start their own life. Then the old will feel lonely, but pets can solve this problem. They can be good friends and never leave them alone.
( ) 1. In Canada, we can find pets in ____________.
A. all families
B. some families
C. most families
D. few families
( ) 2. The word “injection” in line three probably means ____________ in Chinese.
A. 治疗
B. 手术
C. 检查
D. 注射
( ) 3. Canadians buy animal food ______________.
A. only in special animal food stores
B. in the animal hospitals
C. in nearly all stores in Canada
D. from some families
( ) 4. The bird feeder in the garden is used for ____________.
A. providing food for their own birds
B. offering food to birds in need
C. giving food to the injured birds
D. attracting more birds to come
( ) 5. If a truck runs over a wild animal accidentally, ____________.
A. the driver will feel upset
B. the drive will be killed
C. the driver will be punished
D. the driver will take it home
( ) 6. ____________ leads to the problem that pets can solve in Canada.
A. Friendship between Canadians and animals
B. The family tie that is not so close
C. Feeling lonely
D. Killing animals and running them over
Keys:CDCBAB
（四）
Not many years ago, some farmers were worried because hawks（鹰）were taking many of their chickens. The farmers did not know what to do. Finally they went to the country officials and asked for help.
“Kill the hawks,” the officers said. “We’ll even pay you for them.” So the farmers began to think of ways to kill the hawks.
The farmers killed many hawks. They no longer had to worry about their chickens. But now they had a new worry. Field mice were eating up a lot of the farmers’ grain.
Hawks eat not only chickens but also field mice. They eat more field mice than chickens. But the farmers did not know this. When they killed a lot of hawks, they changed the balance of nature.
When people move into a new place, they often destroy many wild plants. Often these plants are food for the animals. If the animals cannot find enough plants to eat, they will starve（饿死）or have to leave the place.
In one part of the United States, for example, the deer there like to eat a certain kind of wild rose. The mountain lions there eat the deer. The numbers of deer, mountain lions, and wild roses do not change much if people leave things as they are.
But people killed many mountain lions to protect the deer. Soon there were so many deer that they ate up all the wild roses. Then the deer began to eat leaves of young trees. These trees were important to the farmers. So the farmers thought of ways to protect trees. Now the deer had nothing to eat, and many of them died. This was another lesson from nature.
To keep the balance of nature is important for us to remember.
( ) 1. ____________is (are) the food for field mice.
A. Hawks
B. Chickens
C. Grain
D. Farmers
( ) 2. ____________ ordered to kill the hawks.
A. The farmers
B. The country officials
C. People who were worried
D. The American government
( ) 3. According to the passage, it is wise to kill ______________ first.
A. the hawks
B. the chickens
C. the mice
D. none of the above
( ) 4. People often destroy wild plants. Therefore, ________. Which of the following is NOT correct?
A. animals cannot find enough to eat
B. animals will feel hungry and even die
C. animals will move to other places
D. the balance of nature is kept
( ) 5. If people in one part of the U.S.A. kill mountain lions, the number of _________will be smaller
and smaller in time.
A. all the followings
B. the wild roses
C. the young trees
D. the deer
( ) 6. The passage tries to tell us that ____________.
A. we should plant more trees
B. we should leave the nature
C. we should learn more lessons
D. we should leave things as they are
Keys:CBDDAD
（五）
One day a police officer managed to get some fresh mushrooms. He was so pleased with what he had bought that he offered to share the mushrooms with his workmates. When their breakfast arrived the next day, each officer found some mushrooms on the plate.
“Let the dog try a piece first,” suggested one officer who was afraid that the mushrooms might be poisonous（有毒的）. The dog seemed to enjoy his mushrooms, and the officers then began to eat their meal saying that the mushrooms had a very strange but quite pleasant taste.
An hour later, however, they were all surprised when a gardener rushed in and said seriously the dog was dead. Immediately, the officers jumped into their cars and rushed to the nearest hospital. Pumps（洗胃器）were used and the officers had a very hard time getting rid of the mushrooms that were left in their stomachs.
When they returned to the police station, they sat down and started to discuss the mushroom poisoning. Each man explained the pains （痛苦）that he had felt and they agreed that they had grown worse on their way to the hospital. One officer called the gardener to ask how the poor dog had died. “Did it suffer（遭受）much before death?” asked another officer. “No,” answered the gardener, looking rather surprised. “It was killed the moment a car hit it.”
( ) 1. The police officer got some fresh mushrooms probably from____________.
A. a river
B. his workmate
C. a hospital
D. a market
( ) 2. An officer wanted the dog to try first because ____________.
A. the dog was brave enough and never afraid of poison
B. he loved the dog very much and was always kind to it
C. he wanted to make sure of the safety of the mushroom
D. mushrooms were one of the dog’s favourite foods
( ) 3. That ______________ surprised all the police officers.
A. the gardener ran quickly in
B. the mushrooms were poisonous
C. the dog lost its life
D. a car hit the dog
( ) 4. After the officers went back, they ___________.
A. felt even worse
B. got still surprised
C. went to sleep
D. talked over the mushrooms
( ) 5. ____________ knew exactly what on earth happened.
A. The policeman who got the mushrooms
B. The gardener
C. The doctor
D. The other policemen
( ) 6. What can we learn from the story?
A. It is important to eat safe food although some food tastes nice.
B. Doctors are the loveliest people in the world as they save our lives.
C. One should know something clearly before taking action.
D. To love animals is what we human beings should do.
Keys: DCCDBC
（六）
All the people who went to the new supermarket had one great hope: to be the lucky customer who did not have to pay for his shopping. For this was what the notice just inside the entrance promised. It said, “Remember, once a week, one of our customers gets free goods. This may be your lucky day!”
For several weeks Mrs White hoped, like many of her friends, to be the lucky customer. Unlike her friends, however, she never lost heart. Her kitchen was full of things which she did not really need. Her husband tried again and again to let her give it up, but she just wouldn’t listen. She dreamed of the day when the manager of the supermarket would come up to say, “Madam, this is your lucky day. Everything in your basket today is free.”
One Friday morning, after she had finished her shopping and had taken it to her car, she found that she had forgotten to buy some tea. She rushed back to the supermarket, got the tea and went
to the desk to pay for it. As she was walking, she saw the manager of the supermarket coming up, “Madam,” he said warmly, holding out his hand, “I want to congratulate you! You are our lucky customer today. Everything you’ve got in your basket is free.”
( ) 1. All the people went to the new supermarket for ____________.
A. new arrivals
B. free goods
C. first experience
D. nothing
( ) 2. In a whole week, ____________ customer(s) can get the luck.
A. seven
B. five
C. one
D. zero
( ) 3. Mr White tried to ______________.
A. help his wife
B. stop his wife
C. buy more things
D. win the chance
( ) 4. One day, Mrs White rushed back in the supermarket because ___________.
A. she heard someone calling her
B. she wanted to put something back
C. she wanted to pick something else
D. she wanted to talked to the manager
( ) 5. Which of the following is NOT true?
A. Mrs White realized her dream.
B. Mrs White got something free finally.
C. The manager was kind to Mrs White.
D. Mr White wanted to buy some tea.
( ) 6. From the ending, we can make sure that Mrs White would feel ____________ in the end.
A. excited
B. happy
C. disappointed
D. worried
Keys: BCBCDC