八年级英语上册期末专题复习：阅读理解

八年级英语期末试卷：

阅读理解

三、阅读理解（本题共

4

个语篇，

15

小 题，每小题

2

分；共计

30

阅读下列短文，从

A

、

B

、

C< /p>

、

D

四个选项中选出能回答所提问题或完 成所给句子的最佳选

项。

（

A

）

How do other countries celebrate New Year's Day? Here are some of the special traditions for

the holidays.

Brazil

In Sao Paulo, Brazi’s largest city, New Year'

s Eve is all about lucky underpants. People wear red

ones if they're looking for love and yellow if they want to get some extra cash.

Finland

To celebrate the new year, some Finnish people throw molten

（融化的）

tin into boxes of water.

When they see the hard tin, people look at its shape to see how the coming year will go.

Panama

Panama gets a bit special with its celebration - burning pictures of famous people. The idea is that

the pictures means the old year; burning them leads the way into the new one.

Belarus

On New Year's Eve, unmarried women take part in a game in which lots of com is placed in front

of each woman. People set a rooster free and it will go to one of the young women's corn. It is

believed that this lucky young woman will be the first to marry in the coming year.

31. In Panama, people burn the pictures of

on holiday.

A. the old year

B. the famous people

C. the lucky woman

D. the strange model

32. We can probably find this passage in a book about _____________.

A. sports

B. music

C. culture

D. education

33. The author is trying to tell us __________________.

A. his favor to New Year's Day

B. some boring stories of New Year's Day

C. his plan to go to some special countries

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D. some special traditions for New Year's Day

（

B

）

Health

and

happiness

are

important

in

everyone's

life.

Here

are

some

ways

to

make

them

easy.

?

Eat a balanced diet

（

平衡饮食）

. Eat a lot of fruit and vegetables, some grains

（谷物）

and

a little meat.

?

Exercise twice or three times a week.

?

Get enough sleep. It is best to get eight hours5 sleep a day.

?

Keep

yourself

busy.

This

is

good

because

it

stops

you

from

having

bad

habits. To

keep

yourself

busy,

you

can

walk

around

the

house,

spend

time

with

your

pets,

do

a

sports,

or

do

a

hobby you enjoy.

?

Go out and make friends. Spend time and have fun with them. Talk with them, but you must

be sure not to talk about anything bad. You should stay with the people who are healthy ad happy.

34. How often should you exercise if you want to get health and happiness?

A. Every week.

B. Twice a day.

D. Three times a month.

C. Twice or three times a week.

35. How many hours do you need to sleep every day?

A. Seven.

B. Eight.

C. Nine.

D. Ten.

36. The underlined word

（指的是）

A. eating a balanced diet

C. keeping yourself busy

B. exercising more

D. making friends

37. Which of the following is NOT true?

A. We should eat a lot of meat to keep healthy.

B. We should exercise to keep healthy.

C. The people whom we make friends with must be healthy and happy.

D. We can spend our free time doing a sport or doing a hobby we enjoy.

（

C

）

Dad was walking around the house seriously. He walked here and there in a hurry. He needed

his glasses so he could read the newspaper. He likes reading. But he could not remember where he

had put his glasses.

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First, Dad looked in the bedroom. He looked on the bed and under the bed. Next, Dad opened

the closet. He looked in the pockets of his brown coat. He even looked inside his winter boots.

Then Dad went outside to the car. He looked on the seats of the car. He searched under the car

seats,

too.

Dad

came

back

inside.

He

walked

into

the

living

room

and

looked

around.

Then

he

sighed loudly.

Mom and Wendy were sitting there, and they heard Dad sigh.

Dad. Then they smiled at each other. Dad was . always losing his glasses, but this time they were

not lost. Mom and Wendy

knew just where they were.

you,

Wendy.

I don't know where else to look.

Now Mom and Wendy started to laugh. Dad looked surprised.

When Dad looked in the mirror, he laughed, too. His glasses were on top of his head.

38. What is Dad looking for?

A. His brown coat.

C. His newspaper.

B. His winter boots.

D. His glasses.

39. How does dad feel at the beginning of the story?

A. Angry.

B. Worried.

C. Happy.

D. Sad.

40. According to the story, what is the correct order of the pictures?

A. 1-2-3-4

B. 4-1-2-3

C. 4-2-1-3

D. 2-1-3-4

41. What is the theme of the story?

A. We make silly mistakes sometimes.

B. We must never ask others for help.

C. When the room is dirty, we should clean it up.

D. We shouldn't give up when meeting trouble.

（

D

）

3

As we know, all living things have to eat food. For a

man,

a

tiger,

a

fish,

a

bird,

or

even

a

worm,

food

is

needed. We know all living things are sure to die without

food.

In

every

part

of

the

world,

different

kinds

of

animals share living places and live in communities

（群落）

together. They are connected

（联系）

in a food chain.

In a food chain, some living things are producers and some are consumers. Plants are

producers because they use sunlight, soil and other things to make their own food. Animals are

consumers because they have to eat other animals or plants.

There are four different kinds of consumers in the animal world. A

carnivore

is an animal

that only eats other animals. An herbivore is an animal that only eats plants. An omnivore is an

animal that eats plants and animals. A scavenger is an animal that eats dead animal.

Here

is

a

picture

of

a

food

chain.

The

food

chain

shows

how

animal

eat

each

other

in

a

community. In the picture, you can see what animal or plant is food for another animal. See? The

grass is food for a rabbit

（兔子）

,which then becomes food for a hungry tiger. In this way, all of

these animals are connected.

42. What does the passage mainly talk about?

A. Different kinds of foods for animals.

B. Different kinds of consumers on the earth.

C. The differences between producers and consumers.

D. Food chain and how it connects animals and plants.

43. What does the underlined word

A.

腐蚀动物

B.

食草动物

C.

杂食动物

D.

食肉动物

44. Which of the following is TRUE?

A. All kinds of animals are connected in a food chain.

B. Some plants or animals can live without eating food.

C. Every consumer eats both plants and animals.

D. Snakes eat rabbits in the picture of the food chain.

45. Where might you read this passage?

A. Story Time

B. Science around Us

C. News Today

D. Travel Together

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答案：

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二、阅读理解

(

本题有

15

小题，每小题

2

分：共计

30

分

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阅读下面材料，从每题所给的

A

、

B

、

C

、

D

四个选项中选出最佳选项。

(A)

Read what three learners have to say about their lives.

message live of my best friends. Sometimes we chat tor more than an hour. When I

Saskia

wake up the next morning, I will have a hundred notices. Some of these notices arc

messages from my friends.

an argument(

争吵

)at the dinner table, because I check messages while we are eating. I

Rachel

don't

understand

why

they

get

so

angry

about

it.

They

spend

more

lime

watching

television every night.

little nervous when I don't

have my phone with

me because one of my friends may

Marco

need to contact me. Sometimes I feel my phone vibrant(

震动

),but when I check ,there

are no messages. It's a little strange.

31. What problem do they have in common?

A. About smartphones.

C. About family.

B. About friends.

D. About sleep.

D. Nobody.

32. Who needs to have a good talk with parents?

A. Saskia.

B. Rachel.

C. Marco.

33. From these notes, we learn that

__________________.

A. Saskia sleeps well every day

B. they don't need any help

D. Rachel gets along well with parents

(B)

C. Marco always takes his smartphone

From this July, people in Shanghai are being asked to sort (

分类

)their garbage (

垃圾

). They

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must put their garbage in different boxes to improve the city's environment.

Until now, a lot of garbage has been put into one place. The garbage is then taken to landfill

sites (

垃圾填满场

). These landfill sites, however, can be bad for the land and water.

The

new

plan

asks

people

to

put

their

garbage

into

different

boxes,

one

for

each

kind

of

garbage. The

brown

one

is

for

'

wet

garbage'

(such

as

food

waste).

The

red

one

is

for

harmful

waste (such as the medicine). The blue one is for recyclable waste (such as paper and clothes).

And finally, the black one is for

Each day, Shanghai produces 22,000 tons of household garbage. If you put it together, it will

be the same as a big building! Reducing that amount will surely help the environment. However, it

needs all the people to make it happen. Just as Shanghai's mayor, Ying Yong, has said, ”Garbage

sorting should become the most popular thing,

▲

, I hope everyone can take part in. ”

34. People in Shanghai began to sort their garbage in ___________

.

A. June

B. July

C. August

D. September

35. _____________can be put into the blue box.

A. Glue

B. Yogurt

C. Magazines

D. Umbrellas

36. Why do people in Shanghai put garbage in different boxes?

A. To make money.

B. To help the cleaners.

D. To improve the city's environment.

C. To follow the popularity.

37, Which sentence could be in ____________?

A. Although it is an easy thing

B. Although it is a difficult thing

D. Although it is an interesting thing

(C)

Culture TV programs have become more popular at the start of the Chinese New Year. Two

weeks

after

the

show

Chinese

Poetry

Conference

(

《中国访河大会》

)ended,

a

new

program,

Readers, has stepped into our life, Literature (

文学

)Reading becomes popular again in China.

The weekly talk show is produced and hosted by Dong Qing. And she often invites people to

read aloud parts of articles and books they like or write. People in the show also share stories from

their own life. They were also given different topics in each episode. The first episode was about

80 minutes long, and its topic was

遇见

)

Three days after the program was shown first on CCTV-1 on Saturday, Readers got 9.2 points

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C. Although it is an important thing

out

of

10

on

Douban,

one

of

China's

most

popular

review

sites.

Internet

users

have

called

it

breath

（呼吸）