八年级英语下阅读理解训练题含答案

八年级英语下阅读理解训练题含答案

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八年级英语下阅读理解试题

(1)

Fat and shy, Ben Saunders was the last kid in his class picked

for any sports team. “Football, tennis, cricket— anything with a

round ball, I was useless,” he says now with a laugh. But back

then he was the one always made fun of in school gym chasses

in Devonshire, England.

It was a mountain bike he received for his 15th birthday that

changed him. At first he went biking alone in a nearby forest.

Then he began to ride the bike along with a runner friend.

Gradually, Saunders set his mind on building up his body,

increasing his speed and strength. At the age of 18, he ran his

first marathon.

The following year, he met John Ridgway and was hired as

an instructor at Ridgway’ s School of Adventure in Scotland,

where he learned about Ridgway’ s cold-water exploits, Greatly

interested, Saunders read all he could about North Pole explorers

and adventures, then decided that this would be his future.

In 2001, after becoming a skillful skier, Saunders started his

first long-distance expedition(探险)towards the North Pole. It

took unbelievable energy. He suffered frostbite(冻疮), ran into a

polar bear and pushed his body to the limit, pulling his supply-loaded sled(雪橇)up and over rocky ice.

Saunders has since become the youngest person to ski alone

to the North pole, and he’s skied more of the North Pole by

himself than any other British man. His old playmates would not believe the change.

Next October, Saunders, 27, heads south from the coast of

Antarctica to the South Pole and back, a 2900 kilometre journey

that has never been completed on skis.

1.What change happened to Saunders after he was 15 years

old ?

A.He became good at most sports. B.He began to build up

his body.

C.He joined a sports team. D.He made friends with a runner.

2.The underlined word “exploits” (paragraph 3) is closest

in meaning to .

A.journeys B.researches C.adventures D.operations

3.Which of the following is the correct order of the events

that happened to Saunders ?

a.He ran his first marathon. b.He skied alone in the North

Pole.

c.he rode his bike in a forest. d.He planned an adventure to

the South Pole.

A.acdb B.cdab C.acbd D.cabd

4.What does the story mainly tell us about Saunders ?

A.He is a success in sports B.He is the best British skier.

C.He is Ridgway’s favorite student. D.He is a good instructor

at school.

(2)

If you were to walk up to Arthur Bonner and say, “ Hey,

Butterfly Man,” his face would break into a smile. The title suits

him. And he loves it.

Arthur Bonner works with the Palos Verdes blue butterfly(蝴蝶), once thought to have died out. Today the butterfly is coming

back — thanks to him. But years ago if you’d told him this was what he’d be doing someday, he would have laughed,

“ You’re crazy.” As a boy, he used to be “ a little tough guy

on the streets”. At age thirteen, he was caught by police stealing.

At eighteen, he landed in prison for shooting a man.

“ I knew it had hurt my mom,” Bonner said after he got out

of prison. “ So I told myself I would not put my mom through

that pain again.”

One day he met Professor Mattoni, who was working to

rebuild the habitat(栖息地) for an endangered butterfly called El

Segundo blue.

“ I saw the sign ‘ Butterfly Habitat’ and asked, ‘ How

can you have a habitat when the butterflies can just fly away?’”

Bonner recalls. “ Dr. Mattoni laughed and handed me a

magnifying glass(放大镜) , ‘Look at the leaves.’ I could see all

these caterpillars(蝴蝶的幼虫) on the plant. Dr Mattoni explained,

‘ Without the plant, there are no butterflies.’”

Weeks later, Bonner received a call from Dr. Mattoni, who

told him there was a butterfly needed help. That was how he met

the Palos Verdes blue. Since then he’s been working for four

years to help bring the butterfly back. He grows astragalus, the

only plant the butterfly eats. He collects butterflies and brings

them into a lab to lay eggs. Then he puts new butterflies into the

habitat.

The butterfly’s population, once almost zero, is now up to

900. For their work, Bonner and Dr. Mattoni received lots of

awards. But for Bonner, he earned something more: he turned his

life around.

For six years now Bonner has kept his promise to stay out of

prison. While he’s bringing back the Palos Verdes blue, the

butterfly has helped bring him back, too.