初中英语阅读理解20篇

英语八年级阅读理解20篇篇一：Our classroom faces our school garden. After class we like to look out of the windows to enjoy the lovely view. Our school garden is the most beautiful place in the school. There is a small pool in the middle. Some goldfish are swimming in it. Around the pool there are all kinds of flowers. We can always see flowers, even in winter. Between the school building and the flower-beds there is a lovely lawn. Boys and girls like to take a walk in the garden after school.But some years ago, there was nothing here but broken bricks, and wild weeds. We, teachers and students, built the garden with our hands. Since then we have planted trees and flowers every year. Everyone of us wants to do his best to make our school more and more beautiful.阅读上面的短文,从每题所给的四个选项中,选出一个最佳答案1. Where is the school garden?A. It faces the pool.B. It faces the writer's classroom.C. It is beside the pool.D. It is beside the writer's classroom.2. Which of the following is NOT right?A. There are all kinds of flowers around the pool.B. There are goldfish in the pool.C. There is a small pool in the middle of the garden.D. The students can't see flowers in winter.3. Between the school building and the flower-beds there is .A. a gardenB. an office buildingC. a lawnD. nothing4. Who built the school garden?A. StudentsB. TeachersC.Teachers and studentsD.Workers5. Which of the following is NOT right?A. Everyone likes the school very much.B. Every student wants to make the school more and more beautiful.C. The school garden was built fifty years ago.D. The students plant trees in the school every year.篇二：Mother's Day is a holiday for mothers. And on this day, mothers don't work. It is on the second Sunday in May. It is celebrated in the United States, England Sweden. India, Mexico and some other countries. Little by little, it becomes widely celebrated. On that day, many people send presents of love to their mothers. Those whose mothers are still living often wear a pink or red rose or carnation while those whose mothers are dead wear a white one.The idea of a day for mothers was first given by Miss Anna Jarvis of Philadelphia. The celebration of the first American Mother's Day was held in Philadelphia on May 10, 1908.Soon the holiday became popular around the country and the world 阅读上面的短文,从每题所给的四个选项中,选出一个最佳答案。

阅读中30篇1.September 20Dear Miss Gao,I’m sorry to tell you that I’m not feeling well today .I catch a bad cold .The doctor told me to stay in bed for two days. So I can’t go to school today and tomorrow. I hope to get well very soon.Thank you.Yours,Jane2. Mr Green works in a small store. It’s near a school. He works very long hours a day, but he likes working there . He thinks it’s interesting. He usually gets up at six in the morning, has breakfast and then goes to work at six thirty. He has no time to go home for lunch, so he often takes some food to work and eats there.He gets to the store at around six fifty. At seven, people start to come. They buy eggs, vegetables, meat and things like that. At seven thirty in the evening, he closes the store and goes home. He has dinner at home. After that he watches TV. He has a little dog and he likes it very much. He often plays with it in the evening, too.On weekends, he is not busy. He wants to watch soccer games, but his daughter and his wife like to see movies. So he usually goes to movies with his family.3. China is becoming one of the most popular countries for a holiday. More and more people are visiting China. Why not join us for a seven-day holiday? I am sure that you can have a good time travelling in China. We will leave on April 10th from London. Don’t for get to take your camera.Day 1: Fly from London Heathrow Airport at 9 a.m.Arrive in Beijing in the early morning.Day 2: In Beijing, visit the Summer Palace and the Temple of HeavenDay 3:Travel to the Great Wall. It was built more than 2000 years ago.Day 4: Fly to Xi’an. Pay a visit to the Terraa Cotta Warriors.Day 5: Fly from Xi’an to Hangzhou. Enjoy the West Lake and rest in the hotel beside it.Day 6: Fly back to Beijing, Enjoy a wonderful dinner on the last evening.Day 7: At 11:00 a.m. fly back to London Heathrow4. A small man goes to the cinema. He buys a ticket and goes in.. But after 2 or 3 minutes he comes out. He buys a second ticket and goes in again. After a few minutes he comes out again and buys a third ticket. 2 or 3 minutes after that he comes out a third time and asks for another ticket. After the girl gives him the fourth ticket. She asks him, “Why are you buying all these? Are you meeting friends in the cinema all the time?” “No, I am not doing that,” the small man says.” But a big woman always stops me at the door and tears(撕掉) my tickets up.”5. Linda Evans was my best friend—like the sister I never had. We did everything together: piano lessons, movies, swimming, horseback riding.When I was 13, my family moved away. Linda and I kept in touch through letters, and we saw each other on special time—like my wedding (婚礼) and Linda’s. Soon we were busy with children and moving to new homes, and we wrote less often. One day a card that I sent came back, stamped “Address Unknown. ” I had no idea h owto find Linda.Over the years, I missed Linda very much. I wanted to share (分享) happiness of my children and then grandchildren. And I needed to share my sadness when my brother and then mother died. There was an empty place in my heart that only a friend like Linda could fill.One day I was reading a newspaper when I noticed a photo of a young woman who looked very much like Linda and whose last name was Wagman —Linda’s married name. “There must be thousands of Wagmans,” I thought, but J s till wrote to her.She called as soon as she got my letter. “Mrs Tobin!” she said excitedly, “Linda Evans Wagman is my mother. ”Minutes later I heard a voice that I knew very much, even after 40 years, laughed and cried and caught up on each o ther’s lives. Now the empty place in my heart is filled. And there’s one thing that Linda and I know for sure: We won’t lose each other again!6. It's Saturday morning. Betty is having her breakfast. Betty's mother and father are with her. On Saturday morning Betty doesn't go to school. She helps her parents do some housework. This morning she says to her mother.“Can I help you,mum?”“Yes, you can help me,”her mother says.“You can go to Mr. White’s shop. Something is wrong with our clock. Mr.White mends c locks. Our clock is in his shop.” “Is he mending our clock?”Betty asks.“Yes,” her father says.“And this morning it is ready.” “Yes,it is ready.”Her mother says,“Go to Mr.White's shop.Take this bag.You can put the clock in it.”Betty takes the bag and goes t o the shop to get the clock back home.7.There is a shop near my home.The people in the shop are friendly. On Saturday afternoon, we often go and buy things there. It opens at six in the morning. It closes late in the evening. You can buy a lot of things in the shop.You can buy food, clothes, school things and many other things. But there are no English books there.Now we are in the shop. My mother wants to buy a shirt for my father and a blouse for me.Then we'd like to have a drink of orange.8. Sam likes fish very much. He often buys fish in the shop and takes it home. But when his wife sees the fish, she says to herself,“Good! Now I can ask my friends to have lunch, and we can eat this fish. They like fish very much.”So when Sam comes home in the evening, the fish is not there and his wifealways says,“Oh,your cat eats it.”and she gives Sam some bread for his supper. Sam gets very angry. He takes the cat and his wife to the shop near his house and weighs （称重）the cat. Then he turns to his w ife and says,“My fish weighs one kilo. This cat weighs one,too. My cat is here,you see. Then where's my fish?”9. Tom,Bill and Dave lost their backpacks.They are at the lost and found case.The backpack are the same,but the things in the backpack are different.Can you help them find the right backpack?Tom: I have a math book and a pencil case in my backpack.There are three pencils,a pen and an eraser in the pencil case.Bill: I have a Chinese dictionary,a math book and two notebooks in my backpack.Dave: There are two CDs,three picture books and an English book in my backpack.10.I'm a student in a middle school. I'll tell you something about my English teacher, Mrs. Wang. She is a middle-aged（中年) woman. She is not tall and not short, and she is also not fat and not thin. She has long, black hair. She likes wearing a red dress. She is very beautiful. She speaks English very well. She has three classes a week, but they aren't on Tuesday or Friday. All the students in her class love her very much.Mrs. Wan lives near the school. She walks to school early every morning. Her two children are twins. They're in Grade Four in a primary school. But they are not in the same class. They often wear the sameclothes. They look very happy.11. Everyone hopes to have a healthy lifestyle. But do you know what a healthy lifestyle is like? Here are some ways that lead to a healthy lifestyle.Get activeThis is the most important way of a healthy lifestyle. Walking, running and playing basketball and other sports will help you keep healthy.If your job needs long hours of sitting, g et up often and walk. Don’t let laziness stop your body and mind. Be active at your workplace, around your neighborhood and wherever possible.Keep cleanKeep the places around you clean. Cleanliness can create a healthy lifestyle. Unclean and untidy places can not only make you angry but also make you ill.Eat healthilyOur health depends on our food, so everyone should remember to eat healthy food. The healthier food you eat, the healthier you will be.Live greenThis is the easiest way to live a healthy lifestyle. Plant trees around your house. Try your best to save water. Stop using things that are bad for the environment.12. What do you usually do in your free time? Play sports? Watch TV? How about reading books? You must know the Chinese saying: "Read thousands ofbooks; travel thousands of miles" Books are important in our life. Reading books is good for us.It can help us know and understand the world better.It can help us get a lot of knowledge. It brings us a new and different world that we have never been before. Almost all the great men like reading, like Chairman Mao and Madame Curie. In a word, books are treasure(财宝) and we must love them. But before you read, remember to choose a good one. Ask your parents or teachers about what books to read. Be sure you are interested in them. There are many different kinds of books: I like biography(传记) because I can learn something from the characters.What about you? Young friends, please love books and read them, They are very helpful to you.14.BNanjing is happy to have the Youth Olympic Games this year. There are 28 programs. The Nanjing Youth Olympic Games have young players from all over the world. Players, between 14 and 18 years old, have the chance to take part in it.15. Rajib Roy comes from a poor family in India. He likes playing football, and he dreams of being a football star on day.“I often use the money for food to buy football shoes and clothes. I often feel hungry and it is a little diff icult, but I don’t care”, he said.Now he has a chance to train with Manchester United(曼联）in England. This makes him come closer to his dream. With 11 other talented young players from India, Rajib is going to have a 15-day training.Rajib wants to be great football player. So he can help his younger brother learn in a better school. This is also one of his dreams.18 People eat different things in different parts of the world. In some countries, people eat rice every day. They usually eat it with meat, fish and vegetables.Some people do not eat some kinds of meat. Muslims (穆斯林)，for example, do not eat pork.Japanese eat lots of fish because they live near the sea., it is easy for them to get fish.In Western countries such as Britain, Australia and the USA, the most important food is bread and potatoes. People there can cook potatoes in many different ways.Some people eat only fruit and vegetables. They do not eat meat or fish or anything from animals. They eat only food from plants .Some people say that food from plants is better than meat. These people are called Vegetarians(素食主义者). 19. Hi, I am a pencil box. I am blue. I am the house of two pencils and three pens. Oh! Two rulers and an eraser are here, too. They are good friends.I have other good friends. A pencil sharpener（转笔刀）and some books are my good friends, too. We are in a black schoolbag. Our owner is a nice girl. Her name is Linda. She takes us to school every day. She is kind to us20. Many things are in my house.What's on the sofa in my parents' room? Oh, it's my brother Mike's hat. Under the bed I see my mother’s watch.Oh,no,it's my father's.This watch is brown.but my mother's is a white one.Where 's the clock?It should be on the table.But now it's on the chair.My room is tidy.The books are in the bookcase.The computer is on the desk.Where's my schoolbag?It’s under my chair now.What’s in it?Oh,it’s our little dog,Bobo!21. A flying disk(飞碟) is made of plastic（塑料）. It was back in the1950s. A group of college students came into a restaurant to eat some applepies. After eating the apple pies, the felt bored, so they wanted to play agame. They threw the plates here and there. In this way, the flying diskcame into being.A camera is used for taking photos. It was invented in 1827 by Josephin Italy. It’s often used by the photographers to take pictures. There aremany fascinating pictures to be taken in order to help you to remember thebeautiful views.An umbrella is a most useful tool. It was invented over 4000 yearsago. It was invented in China and Egypt. It’s used for keeping the rain out.When the sun is shining in the sky, an umbrella is also used to keep the sun out. It is still used today.A bike is a very useful tool in the world today it is very cheap to travelon your bike. Taking a trip by bike is pleasant, because you can enjoy thebeautiful sunshine in autumn and you can share the cool fresh air in Summer. Riding a bike is good to the environment.22. This is an old English saying: Early to bed and early to rise (起床) makes a man healthy, wealthy (富裕) and wise（聪明）．It means that we must go to bed early and get up early in the morning．Then we shall be healthy ．We shall also be rich and clever．This is true．The body must have enough sleep to be healthy．Children of young ages should have ten hours’ sleep every night．Children who do not have enough sleep can’t do the work very well．They will not be wise and they may not be wealthy!The body also needs exercise, walking, running, jumping, swimming and playing games are all exercises．Exercise keeps the body strong．Exercise also helps the blood to move around inside the body．This is very important．Our blood takes food to all parts of our body．The head also needs blood．Exercise helps us to think better!23. Look at the clothes line in the twins' bedroom. There are some clothes on it. You can see a green blouse and a yellow skirt. The trousers on the clothes line are black. They are not new but clean. Are they Lily's clothes? No. I know they are Lucy's.Lily's clothes are on a clothes tree near the window. Her trousers are brown, her blouse is white and her skirt is blue. There is a new hat on the clothes tree, but it's not Lily's, it's Lucy's. There is an old hat on Lucy's bed in the room, it's Lily's. There are no clothes on the other bed, the bed is Lily's.24. My name is Xiao Jun. I come from the countryside. Now I’m studying in a big city. People can eat all kinds of foods and do lots of things. It’s so convenient(便利的). Many people like living in the city. But I don’t like it very much. In the city, the traffic is heavy and the cost of living is h igh. It’s noisy, too.I miss the life in the countryside. There are many houses with big yards. The air is fresh and the water is clean. We can see green trees and colorful flowers here and there. More people like living in the countryside now.25. He is quiet and shy. He likes to hide his eyes behind his hair. He doesn’t smile very often. However, if you talk to him about music, he’ll have a lot to say.This is Jay Chou, the 24-year-old Taiwanese pop king. His fans are so excited because he will sing songs in Beijing on September 12. Those songs are from his new album (唱片), “Ye Huimei”, and the album was released (发行) in July and was named after his mother.Chou grew up just with his mother. He did not talk much and did badly in many school subjects.His mother noticed the boy’s special interest in music and sent him to learn piano when he was only three years old. He loved it and kept on practicing.Chou is not very handsome. He does not speak clearly when he sings or talks. But the singer has huge crowds of fans. “He is really good at music. It makes himattractive(有魅力的) to me,” said Liu Jiajun, a Junior 2 student in No.101 Middle School in Beijing.“He is true to himself. He never follows others,” said Zhang Yujie, a Junior 1 girl at Huaibei Middle School in Sihong, Jiangsu Province.26. Shlander is a man from space. He thinks the people and things on the earth are very strange. He is now writing a letter to his friend at home. Here is part of his letter. Read it and answer the questions.Now I am in a strange world. It is very nice. There are many new things here. There are many earth monsters here, too. The earth monsters look very funny. They have just one head, two arms and two legs. They have thin black strings on their heads. Some earth monsters have brown or yellow strings. The earth monsters have a hole in their face. Every day, they put nice things and balls from the trees into the hole. They put water into the hole, too. The earth monsters do not walk very fast. They move from place to pace in tin boxes.At night, the earth monsters like to look at a square window box. This box has very small earth monsters in it.27. In many English homes people eat four meals a day: breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner.People have breakfast at any time from seven to nine in the morning. They eat porridge, eggs or bread. English people drink tea or coffee at breakfast.Lunch comes at one o’clock. Afternoon tea is from four to five in the afternoon. And dinner is about half past seven. First they have soup, and then they have meat or fish with vegetables. After that they eat some other things, like bananas, apples or oranges. But not all English people eat like that. Some of them have their dinner in the middle of the day. Their meals are breakfast, dinner, tea and supper and these meals are very simple.28 Li Ping and I are in the same school. He is a Young Pioneer . We are good friends. This is Li Ping’s room. It’s not big but new. There is a black desk in the room. On the desk there are some E nglish books. Li Ping’s schoolbag is on it, too. The schoolbag is yellow but old.What’s this under the red chair? There is a white cat under it. It’s a Chinese cat. Its name is Mimi.Li Ping’s father is near the desk. He’s about fifty. He is a policeman. Where is his mother? She is near the desk, too. She is 40. She is a teacher of No. 16 Middle School.29. The food in America is different from our Chinese food. For example, they eat a lot of potatoes. They like to eat them every day. They eat bread for breakfast. They eat their bread with butter，cheese or jam(果酱).Cheese and butter are made from milk. They drink a lot of milk, too. They drink hot or cold milk , and they put it intheir tea. And they like meat or fish with potatoes and other vegetables. After the meal they always eat something sweet. They call that dessert(甜点).30. I’m an English boy.My name is Jim Green. I’m twelve.I have a Chinesename--Tang Lin. I have two good friends at school. They are Li Lei and Han Mei. Han Mei is a Chinese girl. She is eleven. Han Mei and I are in the same class. Li Lei is ten. He is not in my class. Miss Gao is our English teacher. Miss Wei is our Chinese teacher. Mr. Li is our P. E. Teacher. He is very strict with us. But he likes us . Sometimes he goes to the movieswith us. He doesn’t like Beijing Ope ra because he thinks it is boring. But he likes comedies because they are exciting . I think all our teachers are good, so I like them very much.11。

九年级英语阅读理解20篇(含答案)（一）Little Tom down the street calls our dog "The keep dog".Zip is a sheep dog. But when Tom tries to say" Seep", it comes out "keep". And in a way Tom is right. Zip is always bringing things hoem for us to keep! I'll tell you about some of them.Zip's first present was a shoe. It was made of green silk.We didn't know how Zip found the shoe. But after a moment Mary, my big sister, told me the shoe had a strange smell. I nodded(点头)and held my nose. "What do you think it is?""It smells like something for cleaning. I think someone tried to clean a spot (污点) off the shoe. Then he put it at the door to dry.""Along came Zip. And good-bye shoe!" I said."We should take it back.""We can't ".said my sistter."Maybe little Tom is right," Mary said. "Maybe Zip is a keep dog!"1.The writer and Mary didn't know______.A. what Zip's first present wasB. how Zip carried its first present homeC. who owned Zip's first presentD. what Zip's first present was made of2.Tom calls Zip "the keep dog" because ______.A. the dog likes keeping thingsB. the dog likes playing with shoesC. he doesn't know the dog's nameD. he can't pronounce the word " sheep" well3.What made the shoe strange was ______.A. its colourB. its smellC. its sizeD. that it was a silk one4.The word "keep"in the last sentence means "_____"A. keeping things for itselfB. bringing things for other to keepC. not letting it run aboutD. taking care of a small child5.We can know from the reading that the dog _____.A. likes to give presents to peopleB. has been kept in at the writer's homeC. has brought some troubleD. likes to be called "the keep dog" Key: 1.C 2.D 3.B 4.B 5.C（二）An old lady in a plane had a blanket（毯子）over her head and she did not want to take it off . The air hostess spoke to her, but the old lady said, “I have never been in a plane before , and I am frightened. I am goin g to keep this blanket over my head until we are back on the ground again !”Then the captain came. He said, “Madam, I am the captain of this plane. The weather is fine, there are no clouds in the sky, and everything is going very well. ”But she continued to hide.So the captain turned and started to go back. Then the old lady looked out from under the blanket with one eye and said, “I am sorry, young man, but I don’t like planes and I am never going to fly again. But I’ll say one thing, ”She continued kindly, “You and your wife keep your plane very clean!”1. An old lady had _________ .A. glassesB. a blanket over her headC. a coatD. a basket2. A. She didn’t want to ________ .A. take it offB. turn it offC. get onD. talk about it3. _________ spoke to her .A. The air hostessB. The man next to herC. her husbandD. one of her friends4. The old lady had never been _________ before .A. abroadB. homeC. in a planeD. in hospital5. T he woman didn’t like planes and she was never going ________ .A. to fly againB. to travelC. to go abroadD. to go homeKey: 1－5 BAACA（三）Dick lived in England. One day in January he said to his wife, "I'm going to fly to New York next week because I've got some work there." "Where are you going to stay there?" his wife asked. "I don't know yet." Dick answered. "Please send me your address from there in a telegram (电报)," his wife said. "All right," Dick answered.He flew to New York on January 31st and found a nice hotel in the center of the city. He put his things in his room and then he sent his wife a telegram. He put the address of his hotel in it.In the evening he didn't have any work, so he went to a cinema. He came out at nine o'clock and said, "Now I'm going back to my hotel and have a nice dinner."He found a taxi (出租车) and the driver said, "Where do you want to go?" But Dick didn't remember the name and address of his hotel."Which hotel are my things in?" he said, "And what am I going to do tonight?" But the driver of the taxi did not know. So Dick got out and went into a post office. There he sent his wife another telegram, and in it he wrote, "Please send me my address at this post office."Choose the right answer1. Dick flew to New York because ___.A. he went there for a holidayB. he had work thereC. he went there for sightseeing (观光)D. his home was there2. Why did his wife want a telegram from him?A. Because she didn't know his address yetB. Because she wanted to go to New York, tooC. Because she might send him another telegramD. Because she couldn't leave her husband by himself in New York3. Where did Dick stay in New York?A. In the center of the city.B. In a hotel.C. In a restaurant.D. At his friend's house.4. Who would send him the name and address of his hotel?A. The manager (经理) of his hotel.B. The police office.C. The taxi driver.D. His wife.5. Which of the following is not true?A. Dick stayed at a nice hotel in the center of the city.B. Dick didn't work on the first night of his arrival.C. Dick forgot to send his wife a telegram.D. Dick wanted to go back to his hotel in a taxi.Key: 1-5 B A B D C（四）Bob and Jim once worked in the same factory. One day, Bob lent Jim ten dollars, but then Jim left his work and went to work in another town without paying back the money.Bob didn't see Jim for a year, and then he knew from another friend that Jim was in another town and staying at a hotel. So he went there to see him late in the evening.When he got to Jim's room, he saw his shoes near the door. "Well, he must be in," he thought, and knocked again, and said, "I know you are in, Jim. Your shoes are out here.""I've gone out in my boots," answered Jim.True or False1. Bob and Jim once worked in different factories.2. One day Jim borrowed ten dollars from Bob.3. Jim paid back the money to Bob and went to work in another town later.4. Bob hadn't seen Jim for a year when he learned that Jim was in another town.Key: 1-4 F T F T（五）I think the most terrible thing in life for my little brother is getting up in the morning. He is almost sick when my mother calls, "Herbert! It's seven o'clock! Get up!"Herbert answers, "I'm coming!" and goes right back to sleep. I'm not at all like my brother. I don't like to go to bed at night but I don't mind getting up in the morning. I usually wake up before my mother calls me. I jump out of bed and go into the bathroom to take a shower. I get dressed, brush my teeth, comb my hair, and get ready to go downstairs for breakfast as soon as my mother calls. But not Herbert. He just sleeps. A military band (军乐队) in our bedroom could not wake him up.I call him and say, "Get up! Mum will be up here to pull you out of bed if you don't get up immediately!"But he just sleeps. After calling a few more times my mother has to come upstairs and pull Herbert out of bed. It's that way every day with my little brother. Perhaps some day he'll learn to get up on time, but I really don't think so.True or False1. The most terrible thing in life for my little brother is going to school.2. I'm not like my brother because I like to go to bed early at night and get up early in the morning.3. I usually jump out of bed and go into the bathroom for a shower before my mother calls.4. When mother calls, Herbert doesn't answer and remains in bed.5. My mother often has to go upstairs and pull Herbert out of bed as he refuses to get up.6. Sometimes we have to send for a military band to wake Herbert up.7. The writer thinks some day Herbert will learn to get up on time.Key: 1-7. F T T F T F F（六)In England, people often talk about the weather because they can experience (经历) four seasons in one day. In the morning the weather is warm just like in spring. An hour later black clouds come and then it rains hard. The weather gets a little cold. In the late afternoon the sky will be sunny, the sun will begin to shine, and it will be summer at this time of a day.In England, people can also have summer in winter, or have winter in summer. So in winter they can swim sometimes, and in summer sometimes they should take warm clothes.When you go to England, you will see that some English people usually take an umbrella (伞)or a raincoat with them in the sunny morning, but you should not laugh at them.If you don't take an umbrella or a raincoat, you will regret (后悔) later in the day.1. Why do people in England often talk about the weather?A. Because they may have four seasons in one dayB. Because they often have very good weatherC. Because the weather is warm just like in springD. Because the sky is sunny all day2. From the story we know that when _________come, there is a heavy rain.A. sunshine and snowB. black cloudsC. summer and winterD. spring and autumn3. "People can also have summer in winter." Means "it is sometimes too ______in winter."A. warmB. coolC. coldD. rainy4. In the sunny morning some English people usually take a raincoat or an umbrella with them because ________.A. their friends ask them to do soB. it often rains in EnglandC. they are going to sell themD. they are their favourite things5. The best title (标题)for this passage is ________.A. Bad SeasonsB. Summer or WinterC. The Weather in EnglandD. Strange English PeopleKEY: ABABC（七）Mr Brown was going away for a week. Before he left, he said to his son, "if anyone asks for me, you can tell him that your father has been out for doing something, and will be back in a week, then be sure to ask him to sit down for a cup of tea.""OK, Dad," said his son. But he was afraid his son couldn't remember this, he wrote these words down on a piece of paper and gave it to him. His son put it into his small pocket, took it out and looked at it every now and then.Four days passed, but no one came to see his father. The boy thought that there was no man to come and that the piece of paper was of no more use for him, so he burnt it that evening.The next afternoon, someone knocked at the door. The boy opened it. A man was standing at the door and said, "Where is your father?" The boy put his hand into his pocket at once and looked for the piece of paper. He could not find it. He suddenly remembered he had burnt it, so he shouted, "No more."The man was very surprised. He asked, "No more? I met your father last week. When did it happen?""Burnt yesterday evening."1. Mr Brown told his son that _____.A. he would be away from home for four daysB. he would be back in seven daysC. he would be back in a monthD. he liked a cup of tea2. Mr Brown wrote the words down on ________.A. the wallB. the doorC. a piece of paperD. his son's pocket3. A man came to visit the boy's father on ________.A. the second dayB. the third dayC. the fourth dayD. the fifth day4. The man was very surprised because _________.A. he thought the child's father was deadB. the child didn't ask him to sit downC. the child gave him a cup of teaD. he couldn't find that piece of paper5. What was burnt? ___________.A. The piece of paperB. Mr SmithC. The visitorD. The boyKEY: BCDAA（八）One of the things to be learnt in a foreign language is guessing all the time what kind of thing to come when listening to someone talking. People do this all the time in their own language, so it is necessary (必要的) to do this in a foreign language, too. Here are some examples.1. "What's the matter？" "I went to a party last night, so I…"2. "I feel so tired these days."" I think you'd better…"3."Of course, she never stops talking. She is one of the most…"You can see from the above three examples that the context (上下文) helps a lot in understanding what is being talked about. So "guessing "is very important in understanding English, especially (尤其)spoken English.1.This passage tells us mainly about _________.A. the importance of "guessing " in learning a foreign languageB. how to guess what one is going to talk aboutC. some examples of right guessingD. how important it is to guess all the time2.from the context, we can see maybe the finished answer in EXAMPLE I is _________.A. "… so I didn't have a good time."B. "…so I went to bed very late."C. "…. So I felt unhappy."D. "… so I got up very early."3. Maybe the finished answer in EXAMPLE 2 is ________.A. "I think you'd better have a good rest and take good care of yourself."B. "I think you'd better have something to drink."C. "I think you'd better get some help from your friends."D. "I think you'd better be more careful."4. Maybe the finished answer in EXAMPLE 3 is ______.A. "… she is one of the most famous film stars."B. "…she is one of the most beautiful women."C. "… she is one of the most famous speakers."D. " .. she is one of the most talkative women."5. From the passage we can infer (推断) that guessing is _______in learning a foreign language.A. the only wayB. more important in spoken English than in written EnglishC. more important than any other wayD. more important in written English than in spoken EnglishKEY: ABADB（九）Uncle Li and Uncle Wang are good friends. They live next to each other and their farms are both at the foot of the mountain. So they can help each other. But neither of them likes to use his head. They're both poor though they work hard. Most villagers have built new houses, but they still live in the low and broken houses. They never find out why.Once Uncle Li went to town to buy some medicine for his wife. In the town he heard the apples in a city were expensive. He told Uncle Wang about it as soon as he went back. They decided to carry some apples to the city. They borrowed some money from their friends and bought nearly 1,000 kilograms of apples in the villages and carried them to the city on a tractor. Bad luck! A lot of apples has already been carried there when they arrived. A few days later they had to sell them at a low price (价格)。

（1）A Clever BirdA man has a bird.It is very clever.Every day the man speaks to the bird.“Hello!”he says.“Hello!”the bird answers.“What are you doing?”says the man.“What are you doing?”says the bird.The man is not at home one day.A thief comes in.He is taking many things.“Hello!”The thief hears the bird's words.“What are you doing?”The thief is very afraid，so he does not take any things and runs out of the house.1.The man teaches the bird________.A.how to say somethingB.how to sing songsC.how to eat somethingD.how to dance2.The bird is________.A.very niceB.very cleverC.very beautifulD.very silly(傻的)3.The man speaks to the bird________.A.sometimesB.once a weekC.every weekD.every day4.The thief is taking________things from the house.A.a fewB.a littleC.a lot ofD.some5.The thief________out of the room.A.walksesC.runsD.goes(2)What Are Stars Like?Have you ever wondered about the stars?In some ways，stars are like people.They are born. They grow old.And they die.A star is born from dust and gas.Slowly the dust and gas make a ball.The ball gets very hot. Then it starts to give off light.The young star grows into a giant.Many years go by.The older star begins to get small again.At last its light goes out.The star's life is over.1.Dust and_________make a star.A.gasB.snowC.rain2.This story tells about_________.A.old peopleB.the life of a starC.the number of stars in the sky3.In the first part of the story，what does the word“wondered”mean?A.movedB.looked atC.asked yourself4.Stars give off light because they are very_________.A.smallB.hotC.old5.You can guess from the story that most stars are around for a_________time.A.longB.shortC.nice(4)阅读理解We spent a day in the country and picked a lot of flowers.Our car was full of flowers inside! On the way home we had to stop at traffic lights,and there my wife saw the bookshelf.It stood outside a furniture(家具)shop."Buy it,"she said at once."We'll carry it home on the roof-rack(车顶架).I've always wanted one like that."What could I do?Ten minutes later I was twenty dollars poorer,and the bookshelf was tied on to the roof-rack.It was tall and narrow,quite heavy too.As it was getting darker,I drove slowly.Other drivers seemed more polite than usual that evening.The police even stopped traffic to let us through.Carrying furniture was a good idea.After a time my wife said,"There's a long line of cars behind.Why don't they overtake(超车)?"Just at that time a police car did overtake.The two officers(警官)inside looked at us seriously when they went past.But then,with a kind smile they asked us to follow their car through the busy traffic.The police car stopped at our village church(教堂).One of the offices came to me."Right,sir,"he said."Do you need any more help now?"I didn't quite understand."Thanks,officer,"I said."You've been very kind.I lived just down the road."He was looking at our things:first at the flowers,then at the bookshelf."Well,Well,"he said and laughed."It's a bookshelf you've got there!We thought it was-er,something else."My wife began to laugh.Suddenly I understood why the police drove here.I smiled at the officer."Yes,it's a bookshelf,but thanks again."I drove home as fast as I could.1.From the story we know that___________.A.the writer was poor and didn't buy the bookshelf for his wifeB.the writer's wife didn't like the bookshelf at allC.the writer was always glad to buy something for his wifeD.the writer was not very dad to buy the bookshelf for his wife2.What made the writer think that carrying furniture was"a good idea"?A.He could drive slowly and it was safe.B.Other drivers would let him go first.C.His wife could use a new bookshelf.D.He could save a lot of money and time.3.Why were the police and other drivers so kind to the writer?A.Because they thought the writer liked studying very much and needed a bookshelf.B.Because they didn't think it was polite to overtake a car with a bookshelf on it.C.Because they thought somebody in the writer's family had died and he needed help.D.Because they thought it was dangerous to carry a bookshelf on a car.4.Why did the writer's wife begin to laugh?A.Because now she knew what mistake the police had made.B.Because at last her husband understood why the police had driven to the church.C.Because the officer was always looking at the flowers and the bookshelf.D.Because the police had helped them a lot.5.When did the officers begin to realize(意识到)they had made a mistake?A.Before they arrived at the church.B.Before they overtook the writer's carC.After one of them looked at the flowers and the bookshelf carefully at the church.D.After the writer's family left the church.(7)阅读理解Mr.Smith is our Chinese teacher.He always asks the same student to answer his questions because he doesn't look at the students at all.Yesterday he questioned Dick three times.Dick was very angry.After class Dick asked me,"What shall I do?"I told him a good idea.Now we are having a Chinese class.Mr Smith wants one of us to read the text."Dick,please read the text." "Dick isn't here today."Dick stands up and says."Oh,I see.you read it,please."1.Mr.Smith teaches us___.A.EnglishB.MathsC.PhysicsD.Chinese2.He always asks the same student to___.A.translate the textB.read the textC.tell a storyD.answer his questions3.Yesterday he questioned Dick___.A.onceB.twiceC.three timesD.four times4.___told Dick a good idea.A.TimB.Mr.SmithC.The writerD."I"5.Is the idea really good?___.A.yes,it isB.No,it isn'tC.Yes,it doesD.No,it doesn't(8)阅读理解Most people who work in the office have a boss(老板).So do I(我也是).But my boss is a little unusual.What's unusual about him?It's a big dig.Many men have dogs,but few men bring their dogs to the office every day.My boss's dog.Robinson,is big and brown.My boss brings him to work every day.He takes the dog to meetings and he takes the dog to lunch.When there is telephone call for my boss,I always know if he is in the office.I only look under his desk.If I see something brown and hairy(毛绒绒的)under it,I know my boss is somewhere in the office.If there is no dog,I know my boss is out.1.People_________bring dogs to the office.uallyB.oftenC.seldom(几乎不)D.sometimes2.My boss is Robinson's________.A.bossB.masterC.classmateD.teacher3.Robinson goes to meetings_________my boss.A.forB.withoutC.instead of(代替)D.with4.Robinson is always under the desk if the boss is_________.A.in the officeB.at meetingsC.out of the officeD.out of work5.The passage tells us the boss_________the dog very much.A.looks likeB.hates(恨)C.likesD.trust(信任)（12)阅读理解判断正误。