初中英语阅读理解练习题1
五一晚会-假期打工
Passage 1
When Christopher Columbus
landed on the then unnamed Costa Rica in 1502, he
saw many Indians wearing
gold earrings. So he
thought the land must be rich in gold. He named
the place Costa Rica, which means “rich
coast”
in Spanish.
Though little gold was found,
Costa Rica today is indeed rich with coffee and
bananas. Coffee is the most
important product
in Costa Rica and most of it is exported (出口) to
other countries like America and West
Germany.
Bananas are the country’s second most important
export.
Costa Ricans also grow many other
crops such as fruits, corn and beans for their own
use. Costa Ricans love
colors and their houses
are painted in bright colors.
Education
is very important to the Costa Ricans. Almost
every village has a school and education is a must
for children between seven and fourteen years
of age. Boys and girls go to separate (单独的)
schools. Classes
begin in March and end in
November. The other three months of the year are
harvest time and the children have to
help
their parents to pick coffee beans.
1. What’s
the main idea of the first paragraph?
A. How
Columbus found Costa Rica. B. How Costa Rica
got its name.
C. What the Costa Ricans wore.
D. What language the Costa Ricans spoke.
2.
The Costa Ricans may NOT paint their houses
______.
A. pink and red B. grey and
black C. blue and green D. yellow and
orange
3. In Costa Rica, boys and girls
between seven and fourteen ______.
A. must go
to school B. study in the same
school
C. do not have to go to school at all
D. can choose to stop schooling at any time
4.
From December to February, school children in
Costa Rica ______.
A. have lessons every day
B. have their examinations
C. help their
parents pick coffee beans D. help their
parents decorate their houses
5. This passage
is mainly about ______.
A. Christopher
Columbus B. Costa Rica
C. some
products from Costa Rica D. the education of
Costa Rica
答案1-5 BBACB
Passage 2
Christian Eijkman, a Dutch doctor, left the
Netherlands for the island of Java. Many people on
the island had a
disease called beri?鄄beri. He
was going there to try and find a cure.
At
first, Eijkman thought some kind of germ (细菌)
caused beri-beri. He raised some chickens. He
didn’t eat
them, but made experiments on them.
The local people were quite surprised at that. One
day he noticed that his
chickens became sick
when they were fed the food most Javanese ate —
refined white rice (精炼米). When he
fed them
with unrefined rice, also known as brown rice,
they recovered. Eijkman realized that he had made
an
important discovery — that some things in
food could prevent disease. These things were
named vitamins (维生
素). The Javanese were not
getting enough vitamins because they had actually
removed the part that contains
vitamins.
Later, other diseases were also found to be caused
by the lack of vitamins in a person’s food.
Today many people know the importance of vitamins
and they make sure they have enough vitamins from
the
food they eat. If they don’t, they can
also take vitamin pills.
6. The underlined
word “cure” in Paragragh 1 probably means ______.
A. a medical treatment B. a kind of vitamin
C. a kind of germ D. a kind of rice
7.
Christian Eijkman went to the island of Java to
______.
A. spend his holiday
B. find ways to grow better crops
C. do some
research about the island D. h8lp the Javanese
with their illness
8. Why did Christian
Eijkman raise some chickens?
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A.
To eat them. B. To carry out his
experiments.
C. To give the Javanese a
surprise. D. To make money by selling them.
9. If a person doesn’t get enough vitamins in
his diet, he’d better ______.
A. eat more rice
B. eat more meat C. eat some chicken D.
eat vitamin pills
10. We can learn from the
passage that ______.
A. beri-beri was caused
by chickens B. the Javanese didn’t
like vitamins
C. Christian Eijkman’s
experiment was successful D. the Javanese’s
disease was caused by a kind of germ
6-10
ADBDC
Passage 3
America is a mobile
society. Friendships between Americans can be
close and real, yet disappear soon if
situations change. Neither side feels hurt by
this. Both may exchange Christmas greetings for a
year or two,
perhaps a few letters for a while
— then no more. If the same two people meet again
by chance, even years later,
they pick up the
friendship. This can be quite difficult for us
Chinese to understand, because friendships between
us flower more slowly but then may become
lifelong feelings, extending (延伸) sometimes deeply
into both
families.
Americans are ready
to receive us foreigners at their homes, share
their holidays, and their home life. They
will
enjoy welcoming us and be pleased if we accept
their hospitality (好客) easily.
Another
difficult point for us Chinese to understand
Americans is that although they include us warmly
in their
personal everyday lives, they don’t
show their politeness to us if it requires a great
deal of time. This is usually the
opposite of
the practice in our country where we may be
generous with our time. Sometimes, we, as hosts,
will
appear at airports even in the middle of
the night to meet a friend. We may take days off
to act as guides to our
foreign friends. The
Americans, however, express their welcome usually
at homes, but truly can not manage the
time to
do a great deal with a visitor outside their daily
routine. They will probably expect us to get
ourselves from
the airport to our own hotel by
bus. And they expect that we will phone them from
there. Once we arrive at their
homes, the
welcome will be full, warm and real. We will find
ourselves treated hospitably.
For the
Americans, it is often considered more friendly to
invite a friend to their homes than to go to
restaurants, except for purely business
matters. So accept their hospitality at home!
11. The writer of this passage must be ______.
A. an American B. a Chinese C. a
professor D. a student
12. Which of the
following statements is TRUE according to the
passage?
A. Friendships between Americans
usually extend deeply into their families.
B.
Friendships between Americans usually last for all
their lives.
C. Americans always show their
warmth even if they are very busy.
D.
Americans will continue their friendships again
even after a long break.
13. From the last two
paragraphs we can learn that when we arrive in
America to visit an American friend, we will
probably be ______.
A. warmly welcomed at
the airport B. offered a ride to his home
C. treated hospitably at his home D.
treated to dinner in a restaurant
14. The
underlined words “generous with our time” in
Paragraph 3 probably mean ______.
A. strict
with time B. serious with time C. careful
with time D. willing to spend time
15. A
suitable title for this passage would probably be
“______”.
A. Friendships between Chinese
B. Friendships between Americans
C. Americans’
hospitality D. Americans’ and
Chinese’s views of friendships
11-15 BDCDD
Passage 4
The other day I heard a few
local musicians talking:
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“I
hate all the terrible pianos in this town. I hate
that rubbish they play on the radio. They can’t
even
understand a bit of music.”
“I’m
never playing in that club again. Too many drunks
and nobody listens to us.”
But, one
younger musician said, “There are a few clubs that
book my band a few nights a month, and I’m
trying to find other places to play. I’m also
looking to book a few summer festivals this year.”
I’ve heard that you are the average of the
five people whom you spend the most time with, or
to put it
another way, you are who your
friends are.
Attitudes are important.
Whether they’re positive or negative, they’re
rubbing off on you. If you’re around
people
who complain about lack of work and about other
musicians, or blame (责怪) others, and you play the
role
of victim (受害者), chances are you will
start to as well. So it’s time to take a look at
the people you call
“friends”.
This is
an easy exercise: Make a list of the people who
you hang out with, and simply stop spending time
with the negative people on your list. Set a
new standard (标准) for yourself and don’t become
friends with
people who fall below that
standard.
Keep successful people around
you and your own chances for success will be much
better. Ask them how
they do it. Ask if they
will help you get the work you’re looking for, or
maybe give you some advice to help you
on your
career path.
16. Which of the following would
be the best title for this passage?
A. A
friend in need is a friend indeed B. How to make
friendship last for ever
C. You are who your
friends are D. Friends are the most
important in one’s success
17. The underlined
sentence “they’re rubbing off on you” in Paragraph
6 means ______.
A. they’ll push you ahead
B. they’ll influence you
C. they’ll cover
your shortcomings D. they’ll help you achieve
your goal
18. The musicians’ words at the
beginning are written mainly to show ______.
A. the musicians’ living conditions are quite
poor B. people have poor taste in music
C. people have different attitudes towards the
same thing
D. young people have greater
chances of succeeding
19. By taking the
exercise mentioned in Paragraph 7, you can ______.
A. improve a lot in making more friends
B. come to the right way of making friends
C.
develop a better relationship with your friends
D. arrange the time with your friends properly
20. The passage is mainly written for ______.
A. musicians B. managers C. negative
people D. people wanting to succeed
16-20 CBCBD
Passage 5
Norm
Pethrick, a 36-year-old man in Australia’s
northern city Darwin, was praised on Thursday for
jumping
onto a crocodile’s back to save his
wife Wendy at Litchfield National Park, a popular
tourist spot southwest of
Darwin, a local
newspaper reported.
Ms Pethrick was
standing on a river bank Wednesday afternoon when
the saltwater crocodile lunged (扑),
locking
its jaws on both her legs as it tried to drag her
underwater.
Norm Pethrick, who with his wife
had been collecting water, immediately went to
help her. He jumped onto the
back, poked (戳)
the eyes of the crocodile and finally got his wife
free.
Ms Pethrick was later taken to Royal
Darwin Hospital for a medical treatment. The
doctors said she was
suffering eight puncture
wounds (伤口) in her right leg, a puncture wound in
her left leg and a serious cut to one
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of her fingers.
“This could have
been a fatal and tragic situation,” said the
general manager of Royal Darwin Hospital (RDH),
Dr Len Notaras, according to a local report.
He said Ms Pethrick was saved by her
husband’s “quick and diligent actions”.
Dr
Notaras also said she would remain in hospital for
three to four days and have an operation to clean
the
wounds, which are easy to get infected
because of bacteria (细菌) on the teeth of the
crocodile.
21. This passage is most likely to
be found in _____.
A. a travel guide B. a
newspaper C. a textbook D. a novel
22. The crocodile attacked Ms Pethrick when
she was ______.
A. swimming in the river B.
standing on the river bank C. watching the
crocodile D. fishing in the water
23. Which
of the following statements is TRUE about Ms
Pethrick?
A. Her eyes were badly poked.
B. She had eight wounds altogether.
C. One of
her fingers also got hurt. D. One of the
crocodile’s teeth was found in her leg.
24.
According to the passage, Norm Pethrick can be
described as following EXCEPT ______.
A. brave
B. diligent C. quick D. humorous
25.
Which of the following would be the best title for
this passage?
A. The husband should save the
wife B. A man saves wife’s life
from crocodile’s jaws
C. A crocodile is not so
dangerous as people imagine D. Human beings can
beat crocodiles sometimes
Key: 21-25 BBCDB
Passage 6
There are many ways to find a
job. It can be as easy as walking into a
neighborhood store to look at its
announcement
board. Local stores often have areas where people
can put small signs telling what kind of service
they need or can provide. Such services
include caring for children or cleaning houses.
Or, job searchers can look in the newspaper.
Local newspapers have employment announcements
placed by
companies seeking workers.
Another popular tool for finding jobs is the
Internet. For example, people in four hundred and
fifty cities around
the world can use the
Craigslist Web site to buy objects, meet people or
find a job. Craigslist says that it receives
two million new job listings each month.
Another useful way to find a job is through a
college or university. For example, students at
the University of
Texas in Austin can go to
the Career Exploration Center to get help in
finding a job. Of course, looking for a job
requires knowing what kind of work you want to
do. For example, there is a book called “What
Color is Your
Parachute (降落伞)?” by Richard
Bolles. This book has been helping people choose a
career (职业) since it was
first published in
nineteen seventy.
Some experts also help
people find jobs. Susan W. Miller owns a company
called California Career Services in
Los
Angeles. She says her company helps people find
jobs by first helping them understand their
strengths, goals
and interests. Then she
provides them with methods and resources to help
them find the right job.
26. What is the
passage mainly about?
A. Finding a job.
B. College students’ part-time jobs.
C.
Craigslist Web site. D. The relation between
study and work.
27. By logging on the
Craigslist Web site, you can ______.
A. sell
your old things B. do some
shopping online
C. create your own
announcement board D. get useful information
about 450 cities
28. “What Color is Your
Parachute?” is a book which gives tips to those
who want to _____.
A. work on the airplane
B. buy a parachute C. publish a book D.
find a suitable job
29. It can be learned from
the passage that ______.
A. companies often
put job information in local shops
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B. the Internet is the most popular
tool for job hunters in the USA
C. Susan W.
Miller’s company is helping people choose careers
D. California Career Services mainly serves
university students
30. How many ways of
finding a job are mentioned in the passage?
A.
Three. B. Four. C. Five. D. Six.
Key
26-30 ABDCC
Passage 7
Teaching materials
for learning Chinese are provided here. There are
sites where you may find interesting
instructions suitable for you. Here are some
sites to begin your surfing.
You may start
with these pages from this website — just to get a
little taste of it without working too hard.
● A Is For Love
Flash cards for learning a few
Chinese words
● Listening to the sound of
Chinese
Play a few words of Chinese on your
computer.
● A few Chinese words
Each
word is enlarged for easy study.
If you are
studying Chinese, these tools can help.
●
Zhongwen site
More than a dictionary!
●
Clavis Sinica
Excellent program by Professor
David Porter. It displays a whole document in
Chinese [GB] or [BIG5], and
gives individual
word’s definition, pronunciation as well as much
more information when you click on that word.
If you are studying Chinese, this is a very
useful tool.
● Chinese Character Visual
Dictionary
If you like to know more, go to
the following sites on the Internet.
● The
Chinese Outpost
Pronunciation, Character and
Grammer By Mark Andrew Baker. The best. A must-
visit site.
● Learn Cantonese Mandarin
Online
● Internet Based Chinese Teaching and
Learning
● Rainland Kids discover Chinese —
Site is in Germany
If you want to have a
better understanding of China, go to this one.
● Wanfang Data
As an affiliate (分支) of
Chinese Ministry of Science && Technology, Wanfang
Data has been the leading
information provider
in China since 1950s. With a wide range of
database resources and value-added services,
Wanfang Data has become a gateway to
understanding Chinese culture, medicine, business,
science, etc.
31. The underlined lines are
probably some ______.
A. books B. websites
C. tips for learning Chinese D. dictionaries for
learning Chinese
32. This passage is most
probably from ______.
A. a TV programme B. a
teacher’s lecture C. a newspaper D. the
Internet
33. If you want to know each Chinese
character’s definition, pronunciation and much
more information, you’d
better surf ______.
A. Zhongwen site B. A Is For Love C.
Clavis Sinica D. A few Chinese words
34. If
you want to know China about its culture,
medicine, business, science, you’d better surf
______.
A. Learn Mandarin online B. Wanfang
Data C. Rainland kids discover Chinese D. The
Chinese Outpost
35. The underlined word
“gateway” in the last paragraph probably refers to
______.
A. an opening in a wall that can be
closed by a gate B. a place through which you
can go to another place
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C.
the space when a door is open D.
a means of getting or achieving something
Key
31-35 BDCBD
Passage 8
English is the
most widely used language in the history of our
planet. One in every seven human beings can
speak it. More than half of the world’s books
and three quarters of international mail are in
English. Of all
languages, English has the
largest vocabulary — perhaps as many as two
million words.
However, let’s face it:
English is a crazy language. There is no egg in an
eggplant, neither pine nor apple in
a
pineapple and no ham in a hamburger. Sweet-meats
are candy, while sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet,
are meat.
We take English for granted.
But when we explore its paradoxes (探讨它的矛盾), we
find that quicksand
can work slowly, boxing
rings are square, public bathrooms have no baths
in them.
And why is it that a writer
writes, but fingers don’t fing, grocers don’t
groce, and hammers don’t ham? If
the plural of
tooth is teeth, shouldn’t the plural of booth be
beeth? One goose, two geese — so one moose, two
meese?
How can a slim chance and a
fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a
wise guy are opposites? How
can overlook and
oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite
a few are alike? How can the weather be hot as
hell one day and cold as hell the next?
English was invented by people, not computers, and
it reflects (反映) the creativity of human beings.
That’s why, when stars are out, they are
visible (能看见的); but when the lights are out, they
are invisible. And
why, when I wind up my
watch, I start it; but when I wind up this essay,
I end it.
36. According to the passage ______.
A. sweet-meats and sweetbreads are different
things B. there should be egg in an eggplant
C. pineapples are the apples on the pine tree
D. boxing rings should be round
37. Which of
the following is the correct plural?
A. Beeth.
B. Geese. C. Meese. D. Tooth.
38. Which
of the following includes two items which have the
similar meaning?
A. A wise man and a wise guy.
B. Overlook and oversee.
C. Quite a lot and
quite a few. D. Hot as hell and cold as hell.
39. The underlined words “wind up” in the last
paragraph probably mean “______”.
A. blow B.
roll up C. get hurt D. finish
40. Through the
many paradoxes in the English language, the writer
wants to show that human beings are ______.
A.
clever B. crazy C. lazy D. dull
36-40ABCDA
Passage 9
A friend of
mine named Paul received an expensive car from his
brother as a Christmas present.On
Christmas
Eve when Paul came out of his office,a street
urchin was walking around the shining car.“Is this
your
car,Paul?”he asked.
Paul
answered,“Yes,my brother gave it to me for
Christmas.” The boy was surprised.“You mean your
brother gave it to you and it didn't cost you
nothing?Boy,I wish„” He hesitated.
Of course
Paul knew what he was going to wish for.He was
going to wish he had a brother like that. But what
the
boy said surprised Paul greatly.
“I
wish,” the boy went on,“that I could be a brother
like that.” Paul looked at the boy in surprise,
then he
said again, “Would you like to take a
ride in my car?”
“Oh yes,I'd love that.”
After a short ride,the boy turned and with his
eyes shining,said,“Paul,would you mind driving in
front of
my house?”
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Paul
smiled a little.He thought he knew what the boy
wanted.He wanted to show his neighbours that he
could ride home in a big car. But Paul was
wrong again. “Will you stop where those two steps
are?” the boy
asked.
He ran up to the
steps. Then in a short while Paul heard him coming
back, but he was not coming fast. He
was
carrying his little crippled brother. He sat him
down on the step and pointed to the car.
“There she is, Buddy, just like I told you
upstairs. His brother gave it to him for Christmas
and it didn't cost
him a cent. And some day
I'm going to give you one just like it…then you
can see for yourself all the nice things
in
the Christmas windows that I've been trying to
tell you about.”
Paul got out and lifted the
boy to the front seat of his car. The shining-eyed
older brother climbed in beside
him and the
three of them began an unforgettable holiday ride.
注:urchin 顽童 hesitate 犹豫 neighbour 邻居 crippled
残疾 cent 美分
41.The street urchin was very
surprised when ________.
A.Paul received an
expensive car B.Paul told him about the car
C.he saw the shining car D.he was
walking around the car
42.From the story we
can see the urchin ________.
A.wished to give
his brother a car B.wanted Paul’s
brother to give him a car
C.wished he could
have a brother like Paul's D.wished Paul could
be a brother like that
43.The urchin asked
Paul to stop his car in front of his house
________.
A.to show his neighbours the big car
B.to show he had a rich friend
C.to let his
brother ride in the car D.to tell his
brother about his wish
44.We can infer(推断)from
the story that ________.
A.Paul couldn't
understand the urchin B.the urchin had a
deep love for his brother
C.the urchin wished
to have a rich brother D.the urchin's wish came
true in the end
45.The best name of the name
story is _________.
A.A Christmas Present
B.A Street Urchin C.A Brother Like That D.An
Unforgettable Holiday Ride
KEY: 41.B 42.A
43.D 44.B 45.C
Passage 10
Cool”is
a word with many meanings.Its old meaning is used
to express a temperature that is a little bit
cold.As the world has changed,the word has had
many different meaning.
“Cool”can be used to
express feelings of interest in almost anything.
When you see a famous car in the street,maybe
you will say,“It's cool.”You may think,“He's so
cool,”when
you see your favourite footballer.
We all maximize(扩大) the meaning
of“cool”.You can use it instead of many words such
as “new” or
“surprising”.Here's an interesting
story we can use to show the way the word is
used.A teacher asked her
students to write
about the waterfall(瀑布)they had visited.On one
student's paper was Just the one
sentence,
“It's so cool.Maybe he thought it was
the best way to show what he saw and felt.
But
the story also shows a scarcity(缺乏)of
words.Without “cool”,some people have no words to
show
the same meaning.So it is quite important
to keep some credibility(可信性).Can you think of
many other words
that make your life as
colourful as the word “cool”? I can.And I think
they are also very cool.
46.We know that the
word
A.only one meaning B.no meanings
C.many different meanings D.the same meaning
47.In the passage,the
word“express”means“________”.
A.see B.show
C.know D.feel
48.If you are _______
something,you may say,“It’s cool.”
A.interested in B.angry about C.afraid
of D.unhappy with
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49.The
writer takes an example to show he is ________ the
way the word is used.
A.pleased with
B.strange to C.worried about D.careful with
50.In the passage,the writer suggests(暗示)that
the word “cool”________.
A.can be used instead
of many words B.usually means something
interesting
C.can make your life colourful
D.may not be as cool as it seems
KEY: 46.C
47.B 48.A 49.C 50.D
Passage 11
The students were having their
chemistry(化学)class. Miss Li was telling the
children what water was like.
After that, she
asked her students, “What's water?”No one spoke
for a few minutes.Miss Li asked again,“Why
don't you answer my question?Didn't I tell you
what water is like?”
Just then a boy put up
his hand and said,“Miss Li,you told us that water
has no colour and no smell.But
where to find
such kind of water?The water in the river behind
my house is always black and it has a bad
smell.”Most of the children agreed With him.
“I'm sorry,children.”said the teacher,“Our
water is getting dirtier and dirtier.That's a
problem.
51.The students were having their
_______ class.
A.English B.Chinese
C.chemistry D.maths
52.Miss Li was telling
the children what ______ was like.
A.water
B.air C.earth D.weather
53.A boy
said,“The water in the river behind my house is
always _______.”
A.white B.black C.clean
D.clear
54.Most of the children _______ the
boy.
A.agreed with B.wrote to C.heard
from D.sent for
55.The water in the river
has colour and smell because it is getting
_______.
A.more and more B.less and less
C.cleaner and cleaner D.dirtier and dirtier
KEY: 51.C 52.A 53.B 54.A 55.D
Passage 12
In 1620, about half the USA was
covered by forests. Today the forests have almost
gone. A lot of good
land has gone with them,
leaving only sand. China doesn't want to copy the
USA's example. We're planting
more and more
trees. We've built the .The Great
Green Wall
is 7,000 kilometres long, and between 400 and
1,700 kilometres wide. It will stop the wind from
blowing the earth away. It will stop the sand
from moving towards the rich farmland in the
south. More
Green Walls. Trees must be grown
all over the world. Great Green Walls will make
the world
better.
56.In 1620, about ______
the USA was covered by forests.
A.a third
B.half C.two thirds D.a fourth
57.A lot of
good land has gone with ______.
A.sand
B.water C.wind D.forests
58.The Great
Green Wall in China is ______ long.
A.7,000
kilometers B.1,700 kilometers C.7,000 meters
D.400 kilometers
59.Trees must be grown in
______.
A.China B.the USA C.some
countries D.every part of the world
60.______ will make the world better.
A.The Great Wall B.Tall buildings C.Great
Green Walls D.Flowers and grass
KEY: 56.B
57.D 58.A 59.D 60.C
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