阅读专练1.doc

初二英语阅读专项训练一
一、短文填空
One day a snake was looking for food. She f 1 a hole and went into it. ‘Hooray! It’s a house for mice,’ she said to h 2 happily. There, she saw some little baby mice. ‘I’ll have fun eating a big m 3 !’
She came up to them and asked, ‘Where are your parents?’ The babies answered, ‘They have gone out for food.’ ‘Good!’ said the snake. ‘Listen, I come here to see your parents and t 4 them not to steal (偷) people’s grain any m 5 , or I’ll kill you all.’ The little mice worried about their own safety. ‘Don’t be a 6 . My body is like the hole. It is a safe place. When I open m 7 , you can come into it one by one. Then we will wait for your parents to come back. Are you clear?’ The little mice came into the snake from her mouth one by one.
A moment l 8 , the mice’s parents came back with some grain. Just then they found a snake in their room and they asked, ‘Who are you? Why do you come into our house? Where are our babies?’ The snake answered in a loud v 9 , “Your babies are in my body. Don’t you want to see them?’ W 10 these words, the snake jumped at the mice.
1___________ 2. ____________ 3. ____________ 4._____________ 5._____________
6.___________ 7. ____________ 8. ____________9._____________ 10._____________
二、完形填空
Our dog Zip is always bringing things home for us to keep! Many of them were toy bears, lambs and ducks. We could never 1 the owners.
One day, Dad was 2 the paper. ‘Listen to this, everybody,’ he said. ‘To the person who took a teddy bear from a child’s wagon(手推车)---please bring back the toy bear. Our two-year-old son is very 3 .
‘Zip has been 4 again.’ said Anita.
‘Yes,’ said Dad. ‘The paper gives the 5 . This time I can take back Zip’s 6 .’
‘Do you think it 7 to do that?’ Mom asked. ‘If you tell about Zip, who will believe you?’
‘I will 8 until dark. Then I’ll just put the teddy bear at the front door and walk away. 9 will see me.’
Dad’s idea 10 worked. He put Teddy at the gate. He turned to walk away and knocked into a chair!
Dad started to 11 . But he didn’t get very far. The gate lights came on. A man opened the door. ‘ 12 is going on here?’ he called out.
Dad didn’t even try to 13 . He just wanted to get away. Then the man saw 14 .
He shouted after Dad. ‘How 15 you can get!’ he said. ‘Taking toys from babies!’
( )1. A. pay B. agree C. find D. choose
( )2. A. buying B. reading C. writing D. sending
( )3. A. sad B. surprised C. happy D. afraid
( )4. A. busy B. lazy C. sorry D. worried
( )5. A. picture B. story C. address D. time
( )6. A. food B. name C. idea D. present
( )7. A. wrong B. clever C. dangerous D. free
( )8. A. speak B. wait C. watch D. think
( )9. A. Someone B. Everyone C. No one D. Anyone
( )10. A. never B. always C. already D. almost
( )11. A. speak B. drive C. run D. cry
( )12. A. What B. Who C. How D. Which
( )13. A. help B. answer C. listen D. knock
( )14. A. the bear B. Zip C. my father D. the baby
( )15. A. angry B. kind C. bad D. sorry
三、阅读理解
English words don’t stay the same. People need new words for new ideas and new inventions. Different words come into use, or older words are used in a new way.
English can change by borrowing words from other languages. The word ‘tomato’ was borrowed from Mexio, and ‘tea’ came from China and so on. Now new space and science words are being borrowed from other countries, too. Sometimes new words are formed by adding two words together. ‘Weekend’ and ‘cookbook’ are made up of two parts. Sometimes new words are shorter forms of older words. The word ‘photo’ was made from ‘photograph’ by cutting off the end of the longer word. ‘Plane’ was made by cutting off the front part of ‘airplane’. The names of people and products(产品) can become new words. Our ‘sandwich’ was named after a man name Sandwich and ‘sello’(透明胶带) was a name given by the company that first made the product.
( ) 1. Which of the following words was taken to English from another country?
A. Plane. B. Sandwich. C. Tomato. D. Weekend.
( ) 2. We know from the passage that _______________________.
A. new science words are shorter than the old ones
B. the best way to make a new word is adding words together
C. some new English words come from company names
D. most new English words are borrowed from other languages
( ) 3. How many ways of developing English words does the passage tell us?
A. Three. B. Four. C. Five. D. Six.
( ) 4. The main idea of the passage is _________________________.
A. that the English language is always changing
B. that there are new ideas in England today
C. how people name new products and inventions
D. how the change of languages goes on in the world
四、任务型阅读
Each year, many Chinese people go abroad(出国) because of all kinds of reasons. They are becoming younger and younger year by year. Even some Chinese parents send their children to foreign countries when they are only in a middle school. They think their children can get a wider view, less academic(学业) competition or family honor. But life can be bad for young people there. At first, they have to face the culture difference and language problems. However, these are not always the most difficult things to overcome(克服). To most children, controlling(管理) themselves well is a big challenge(挑战) when studying alone in a strange country.
Yu Yang, a 15-year-old student from Guangdong Province studies in a high school in Toronto, Canada. To his surprise, his teachers there seldom push students to study abroad. And usually there isn’t too much homework. Students have lots of free time to do the activities. Some of his friends spend their whole year’s money in the first two months of the new term. So they have to ask their parents for some more money.
On one hand, studying abroad can help students learn foreign languages quickly and broaden their horizons. But on the other hand, some children may feel lonely, become bad and lose themselves, etc. Many problems may happen to them. These are different from their original thoughts. So parents should think them over before their children go abroad.
1. Why do Chinese parents send their children abroad?
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2. What are the first difficult things for the young people who go abroad?
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3. What is a big challenge to most of the children when they study abroad by themselves?
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4. What do you think of studying abroad? (请自拟一句话作答)
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