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初三英语阅读理解练习题
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阅读理解
1
Mr. Lee was in bed and was
trying to go to sleep when he heard the bell ring.
He turned on
the light and looked at
his clock. It was twelve o'clock.
thought. He decided to go and find out.
So he got of bed, put on his dressing gown
(
浴袍
) and
went to
the door. When he opened the door, there was
nobody there.
he went back to his
bedroom, took off his dressing gown, got back into
bed ,turned off the light
and tried to
go to sleep.
A
few
minutes
later
he
heard
the
bell
again.
Mr.
Lee
jumped
out
of
bed
very
quickly
and
rushed to the door. He opened it, but
again he found no one there. He closed the door
and tried not
to feel angry. Then he
saw a piece of paper on the floor. He picked it
up. There were some words
on it :
午夜
), so it is April Fool's
Day (
禺人节
) . April fool to
you!
惊叫
) and almost
smiled. He
went back to bed and feel
asleep at once. The bell did not ring again.
1. When did Mr. Lee go to bed?
He went to bed _______.
A.
before twelve o'clock
C. when the
bell rang
B. after twelve
o'clock
D. when he saw the boy
2. Why did he rush to the door when he
heard the bell ring the second time?
A.
He wanted to open the door for the visitor
B. He wanted to find out who the
visitor was.
C. He was afraid of the
ring
D. He was waiting for someone.
3. From this passage, we learn that we
can _______ on April Fool's Day.
A. say
C. play jokes on each
other
B. dance and sing at night
D. send pressents to children
4. What did Mr. Lee think about the
English boy?
He thought he _________.
A. was a good boy
C. shouldn't ring the bell at midnight
答案及解析：
1
．
A
．此题是一道细节题，文章第一自然段的前三个句子就告诉了此题
的答案。
2
．
B
．
文
中有这样的句子
“Who can it be at this time of
night?”
，
此句说明
Mr.
Lee
很想知
道是谁在午夜时来敲门。
3
．
C
．此题是一道常识题，因为大家都知道在愚人节这天，人们可相互
开玩笑。
4
．
B
．英国男孩和
Mr. Lee
开玩笑，说明他把
Mr. Lee
看成朋友，所以答案是
B
。
B. was friendly with him
D. did a dangerous thing just now
阅读理解
2
Babies love
chocolate and sometimes they also eat the paper
around it. My cat enjoys a meal
of
good, thick paper, old letters, for example. She
does not like newspapers very much
Of
course,
the
best
paper
comes
from
wood.
Wood
comes
from
trees,
and
trees
are
plants.
Vegetables and fruit are plants, too,
and we eat a lot of them. So can we also eat wood
and paper?
Scientists
say,
food
comes
in
some
way
from
plants.
Well,
is
that
true?
Animals
eat
grass
and grow fat. Then we eat their meat. Little fish
eat little sea-plants, then bigger fish swim
along and eat the ……Chickens eat bits
of grass and give us…… Th
ink for a
minute. What food
does not come from
plants in some way?
Scientists can do wonderful things with
plants. They can make food just like meat and
cheese.
And they can make it without
the help of animals. It is very good food, too.
Now they have begun
to say,
very
difficult.
—
food from paper.
Scientists say,
paper into
food. It will be good, cheap food, too, cheaper
than meat or fish or eggs.
So please keep your old books and
letters. (Don't feed [
喂
]
your cat.) One day, they will be on
your plate, if what scientists say may
come true.
1. The writer asks us to
keep our old books and letters because _______.
A. they are useful for reading
B. They may be used to feed cats
C. We can make food from them soon
D. we can read them at breakfast
2. From the passage
(
段落
)
，
we can infer(
推断
)
that _______ do not come from plants in some
way.
A. few kinds of food
C. cheese and chicken
B.
meat and fish
D. wood and paper
答案及解析：
1
．
C
．本题是细节题，答案可在倒数第一自然段找到。
2
．
A
．
文中有这样的句子
“What food does not come from plants in
some way?”
。
说明作者
认为
，不管是什么样的食物，几乎都来自
“plants”
，所以答
案是
A
。
阅读理解
3
In
England
recently
three
foreign gentlemen
came
to
a
bus
stop
and
waited .
About
five
minutes
later,
the
bus
they
wanted
came
along.
They
were
just
going
to
get
on
when
suddenly
there was a loud
noise behind them. People rushed onto the bus and
tried to push them out of the
way .
Someone shouted at them. The bus conductor came
rushing down the stairs to see what all
the trouble was about. The three
foreigners seem all at sea and looked embarrassed
(
窘迫的
. No
one had told them about the British
custom (
习惯
)of lining up for
a bus that the first person who
arrives
at the bus stop is the first person to get on the
bus .
Learning
the language of a country isn't enough. If you
want to have a pleasant visit, find out
as much as possible about
the manners and customs of your host country. You
will probably be
surprised
just
how
different
they
can
be
from
your
own.
A
visitor
to
India
would
do
well
to
remember that people
there consider it impolite to use the left hand
for passing food at table. The
left
hand is supposed to be used for washing yourself.
Also in India, you might see a man shaking
his head at another to show that he
doesn't agree. But in many parts of India a shake
of the head
means agreement. Nodding
(
点头
) your head when you are
given a drink in Bulgaria will most
probably leave you thirsty .
In that
country, you shake your head to mean
'yes'
—
a nod means 'no' . At
a meal in countries
on the Arabic
Peninsula, you will find that your glass is
repeated refilled as soon as you drink up .
If you think that you have had enough ,
you should take the cup or glasses in your hand
and give it
a little shake from side to
side or place your hand over the top.
In Europe it quite usual to
cross your legs when you are sitting talking to
someone even at an
important meeting.
Doing this in Thailand, however, could bring about
trouble . Also, you should
try to avoid
(
避免
)touching the head of an
adult (
成人
)
——
it's just not done in
Thailand .
1.
The British people tried to push the three
gentlemen out of the way, because the gentlemen
_________ .
A. were foreigners
C. made a loud noise
B.
didn't have tickets
D. didn't line up
for the bus
2. According to the article, if you
want to have a pleasant journey in a foreign
country, you
should _________.
A. learn the language of the country
B. understand the manners and customs
of the country
C. have enough time and
money
D. make friends with the people
there
3. In India it is considered impolite
___________.
A. to use the right hand for passing
food at table.
B. to pass food with the
left hand.
C. to eat food with your hands.
D. to help yourself at table.
4. To cross one's legs at
an important meeting in Europe is _______.
A.
a common (
平常的
)
habit
B. an important
manner
C. a serious
(
严重的
) trouble
D. a bad manner
5. The best title
(
题目
) for this article is
________.
A. People's Everyday Life
B.
Mind Your Manners
C.
Shaking and Nodding Head
D. Taking a Bus in England
答案及解析：
1
．
D
。这是一道句子理解题，也可以看成细节题。在第一自然段的最后，有这样的句
子：
No one
had told them about the British custom of lining
up for a bus that the first person
who
arrives at a bus stop is the first person to get
on the bus
．
从此句可知那三位先生并不知道在
英国乘车的习惯，所以答案是
D
。
2.
B
。这是一道细节题。答案在第二自然段的第二个句子。
3
．
B
。同第二题一样，此题也是细节题。可在第二自然段直接找到答案
。
4<
/p>
．
A
。单句理解题。最后一个自然段中有
说：
In Europe it is quite usual to cross
your legs
When you are sitting talking
to someone even at an important meeting
．这个句子的意思是：在
欧洲，开会时翘二郎腿是很常见的。这说明许多人有这样的习惯
，所以答案应该是
A
。
5
．
B
。通读全文就会发现，只学习一门外语是不够的，还要多了解该国
的风俗习惯，
否则就会遇到麻烦，所以答案是
B
。
阅读理解
4
Tom walked into a shop . It bad a sign
outside :
旧的
) clothes bought
and
sold .
you give me for
these?
were
hanging
outside
your
shop. The
list
price
(
标价
)of
them
was
six
dollars
and a
half.
But
I
thought that was too much money, so I
wanted to find out how much they were really
worth.
Then
he
walked
out
of
the
shop
with
the
pair
of
trousers
and
disappeared
before
the
shop
owner
could think of anything to say .
1. At first the owner of
the shop thought that Tom __________ .
A.
wanted to steal the trousers
B. wanted to
sell the trousers
C. wanted to fool
him
D. wanted to buy the trousers
2.
The owner of the shop_______
for the old trousers .
A.
would give Tom two dollars
B. would pay three dollars
C. would pay five dollars
D.
would give Tom six dollars and a half
3. The shop
owner insisted that the trousers were worth only
two dollars because ____ .
A.
he wanted to sell them cheaply
(
廉价地
)
B. he
wanted to buy them cheaply
C. he didn't
like the trousers
D. they were
old and dirty
4. In fact, the trousers _________.
A. were hanging inside the
shop
B. were
stolen by Tom from the shop
C. had been
the shop owner's
D. had been
Tom's
5. From the story we know that
_________ cheaper than the list price.
答案及解析：
1
．
B
．
Tom
拿着一条裤子并且问：
“How much will you give me for these?”
店主所以认为
Tom
是来卖裤子的，故答案是
B
。
2
．
A
．此题是细节题，可在第一自然段的末尾找到答案。
3
．
B
．店主当然想便宜地把裤子买下来。
4
．
C
．从短文的倒数第二段可以了解到，裤子不是
Tom
的而是店主的。
5
．
D
．裤子的标价是
6.5
美元，而
Tom
只给了店主
2
美元
，所以答案应该是
D
。
A. the owner sold the
trousers two dollars
B. Tom sold the
trousers one dollar and a half
C. the
owner bought the trousers three dollars
D. Tom bought the trousers four dollars
and a half
阅读理解
5
Big Ben
Big Ben is not the name of
a man. It is the name of a
huge
（
庞大的）
clock in
London. London
is the capital of
England. This clock has four faces.
So
，
no matter where you
stand
，
you can read
the time on the face of Big Ben. Each
face is the size of a double
decker
（层）
bus. The hands are
about four metres long. It is about the
size of two people standing on top of each other.
If you go
to
London
，
you may want to visit
the Houses of
Parliament
（国会大厦）
. There you
will find Big
Ben sits at the top of
the clock tower
（塔）
in the
Houses of Parliament. Maybe you will hear it as
well as see it. The huge clock makes
such a loud noise. “Ding
dong
，
ding
dong
，
”it goes every
quarter of an hour.
The
clock
was
named
after
a
big
man.
He
was
Sir
Benjamin
Hall.
This
man
did
much
building work in London
many years ago.
1. Big Ben is ______________.
A. a double
decker bus
C. the name of Ben
B. a huge clock
D.
a building
2. The clock strikes every _______ of
an hour.
A.
ten minutes
C. thirty
minutes
B. fifteen
minutes
D. forty-five minutes
3.
You can read the time of Big Ben _________.
A. at the top of the clock
tower
B.
in the Houses of parliament
C. on the hands of the huge
clock
D. on the four
faces of the clock
答案及解析：
1
．选
B<
/p>
，根据第一行
Big Ben is not the name
of a man. It is the name of a
huge
（庞大的）
clock in
London.
可以判断
Big
Ben
是一个大钟的名字。
2
．
选
B
，
根据文中
“D
ing dong
，
ding
dong
，
” it goes every quarter
of an hour.
即可得知大
钟每
15
分钟敲一次。
3
．
选
D
，
This clock has
four faces. So
，
no matter
where you stand
，
you can read
the time on
the face of Big
Ben.
其他三项均不符合题意。
阅读理解
6
The police do
many things for us. They help keep our things and
us safe. They help keep cars
moving
safely. They take care of people who are hurt.
Then they see these people get to a doctor.
The police go
around town to see that everything is all right.
They get around town in many
ways. Some
of them walk or go by car. In some big
cities
，
some of the police
ride on horses. It is
strange to see
these animals in the street.
As they go around
town
，
the police help people.
Sometimes they find lost children. They take
the children home. If the police see a
fight
，
they put an end to it
right away. Sometimes people will
ask
the police how to get to a place in town. The
police can always tell the people which way to go.
They know all the streets and roads
well.
Some
police stand at crossings. They tell the cars when
to go and when to stop. They make
sure
that the cars do not go too fast. They help
children cross the street. They also help people
who
can't walk too well.
Without the
police
，
our streets would not
be safe. Cars might go too fast and hurt people.
Lost
people might never be found. The
police do a good job. We need them. And we should
thank them
for a job well done.
根据短文内容，选择正确答案。
1. The police do many
things for us. They help keep our things and us
_____.
A.
warm
C. quiet
B.
clean
D. safe
2.
How do some of the police get around in some big
cities?
A.
By taxi.
C. By bus.
B. On horses.
D. On bikes.
3. In the
text
，
“put an end to” means
“____”.
A. stop
C.
kill
B. cut
D.
fly
4. The text is mainly
talking about the _____ of the police.
答案及解析：
1
．选
D<
/p>
，根据第一段，
They help keep our
things and us safe.“
警察可以保障我们安全
”
，
因此选
safe
。
< br>2
．
选
B
，
Some of them walk or go by car. In
some big cities
，
some of the
police ride on horses.
在一些大城市里面，警察是骑马的，因
此选
B
。
3
．选
A<
/p>
，文中划线部分
If the police see a
fight
，
they put an end to it
right away.
根据句意
可以理解为
< br>stop
。
4
．选
C<
/p>
，本题是总结全文的
main idea
，总揽全文，可以知道是在说警察的职责，因此
选
job
。
A.
life
C.
job
B. road
D.
day
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7
Gadgets for Work and Play
It's 7: 45 in
the morning
，
and 26-year-old
Steve Clarkson is going to work. He puts on his
jacket
，
and picks
up his mobile phone and laptop. As he leaves the
house
，
he turns on his MP3
player and puts on his headphone. He is
ready to go.
Today
，
for
millions of people
，
gadgets
like Clarkson's are a normal part of life.
“I'm a reporter
for a
magazine
，
and I'm usually not
in the office. My mobile phone and laptop help me
to do my
work both on the road and at
home
，
”says Clarkson. Today
many people can check e
-mails, send
messages
，
or surf
the Web
，
using their mobile
phones.
Tina
Fang is studying photography in New York City.
“Some of these gadgets are
expensive
，
but they can save
your money in the long run. I have a digital
camera. I can use it to take eighty
pictures and shoot video (record an
image onto video) at the same time. I listen to
music on my
MP3
player
，
and I can download
and read books on it
，
too. I
use the camera and MP3 for both
learning and fun.”