初一英语趣味阅读.doc

一. 阅读短文, 完成文后各题。
（ A ）
Most cats like to catch mice and eat them. But this cat and this mouse got on well（相处得好）. I will tell you why they were friends.
One day, the cat ran into a net (网) and could not get out of it. He bit（咬） with his teeth, but it was no use. Then the cat heard a little voice: “I will help you. But you must promise （答应）not to hurt me when you get out.” The cat looked round and saw a mouse. “Please help me,” said the cat. “I will not hurt you.”
So the mouse bit at the net with her teeth and made a small hole, then the cat got out. “Thank you, said the cat. “I will do you a good turn （回报你）one day.”
Not long after this, the cat heard “Squeak（吱吱的叫声）! Squeak!” He looked about and saw the mouse in a corner. Her tail（尾巴） was in a trap（老鼠夹） and could not get out. The cat opened the trap and helped the mouse.
After this, the cat and the mouse became good friends.
1. Which of the following sentence is true?
A. Every cat likes to catch and eat mice.
B. No cat likes to catch and eat mice.
C. Most cats like to catch and eat mice.
D. Cat and mouse are always good friends.
2. Who can make a hole on the net?
A. The cat. B. The mouse.
C. Both of them. D. No one.
3. Which part of the mouse was in a trap?
A. Her leg. B. Her tail. C. Her hand. D. Her nose.
4. The cat and the mouse became good friends because __________.
A. the cat didn’t like to eat mouse
B. the mouse had helped the cat
C. they helped each other（彼此）
D. the cat had helped the mouse

( B )
A little boy didn’t say a word until he was three years old. His mother took him to every doctor, but there was no use. He was healthy and bright , so the doctors told his mother not to worry.
One morning the boy suddenly knocked on the table and cried out, “These eggs are terrible!” The mother was very glad at hearing her son speak, and asked, “Why didn’t you say anything before?”
“Well.” He answered, “up to now, the eggs have been very good.”
1. Why didn’t the little boy say a word?
A. He didn’t want to say.
B. He couldn’t say.
C. He was ill.
D. There was something wrong with his health.
2. The little boy didn’t say a word before he was ___________years old.
A. one B. two C. three D. four
3. What made the boy say his first word?

A. An apple. B. A banana. C. An egg. D. A pear.
4. The mother was very _________ after hearing her son speak.
A. anxious B. worried C. angry D. glad
5. The boy was ________ after seeing every doctor.
A. ill B. healthy and bright
C. foolish D. surprising

( C )
One afternoon Mary and her little brother Tom were playing hide-and-seek（捉迷藏） in the street just outside the pose office. Mary had closed her eyes when Tom found that the door of the letterbox had been opened. The postman had just taken all the letters out and gone into the post office. Tom climbed into the letterbox and closed the door from the outside. When he knew he couldn’t get out, he became very afraid and began to cry.
At the same time, Mary was looking for him everywhere, but she couldn’t find him. Then she came back to the letterbox, and heard her brother crying in it. She ran to tell the postman.
With the help of the postman, Tom got out of the letterbox. “Next time if you want to play hide-and-seek, don’t hide in the letterbox.”
1. Mary and Tom were playing __________.
A. near the post office B. at home
C. in the court D. at school
2. When playing, Tom hid himself ___________.
A. under a table B. in a room
C. in a letterbox D. behind a tree
3. Tom cried in the letterbox because ___________.
A. he was missing his mother
B. he was hungry
C. his leg was hurt
D. he couldn’t get out of it
4. Who helped Tom get out of the letterbox?
A. His mother. B. Mary. C. The postman. D. A neighbor.
5. Why the door of the letterbox was opened when Tom found it?
A. The postman forgot to lock it.
b. It was often opened.
C. Tom opened it.
D. The postman had no time to lock.

( D )
The crow （乌鸦）is an ordinary（普通的） bird. It is about twenty inches（英寸） long and black all over. Crows are dirty birds because they live on old bad food. Crows eat a lot of waste food. In this way they are more useful to us than any birds. They clean up the dirty things in our streets. Crows are always hungry. They look for food all day long, and in the evening you can see them in large numbers flying back to their nests（窝） in the trees. They sleep there at night.
Crows are much noisier than other birds. Very often a large number of crows will get together on one house and talk. Sometimes they talk together, and sometimes they do it by turns like human beings（人类）. It is easy to tell from（区别） crows’ sounds whether they are pleased or angry. Perhaps crows talk a lot because they are friendly birds. A pair of crows will live together all their lives, and if one of them dies, the other one becomes very sad and quiet for the rest of its life and sometimes it dies, too.
1. A crow is _________ inches long.
A. more than ten B. thirty C. ten D. less than twenty
2. Why are crows dirty?
A. They are black all over the body.
B. They like to eat dirty food.
C. They usually talk.
D. They don’t have baths.
3. Crows are usually _________.
A. hungry B. pleased C. sad D. kind
4. Why are crows more useful to us than any birds?
A. They are usually noisy.
B. They are usually dirty.
C. They are flying in large numbers.
D. They eat a lot of waste food.
5. You can tell from crows’ sounds _________.
A. whether they are hungry or full
B. whether they are pleased or hungry
C. whether they are ill or healthy
D. whether they are living or dead.
二． 阅读短文，判断正误。（正确的写T，错误的写）
( A )
Long ago in a quite village, there was a place named the House of 1,000Mirrors. A happy little dog heard of this place and decided to visit it. When he arrived, he jumped up and down and looked everywhere. To his surprise, he found himself looking at 1,000 other happy little dogs. He smiled a great smile, and saw 1,000 little dogs smiling in the mirrors.
As he left the house, he thought, “This is a wonderful place. I will come back often.
Another little dog decided to visit the house. He was not as happy as the first one. He slowly walked into the house and looked around. He was surprised to see 1,000 little unhappy dogs looking at him. He shouted angrily at them, and was very afraid to see them shouting back at him.
As he ran away from the house, he thought, “This is a terrible place. I will never come back again.”
All the faces in the world are mirrors. What do you see in the faces of the people when you meet them?”
1. The two little dogs visited the same house.
2. There lived 1,000 little dogs in the house.
3. The two little dogs saw themselves in the mirrors.
4. The second little dog enjoyed his stay in the house.
5. The story tells us that the world is like a mirror: you smile, and it smiles, too.
( B )
The police in a big city were looking for a thief. At last they caught him. But while they were taking photos of him, from the front, from the left, from the right, with a hat, without a hat, he suddenly hit the policemen and ran away. They tried to catch him, but he got away.
Then a week later, the telephone rang in the police, and somebody said,
“You are looking for Bill Cross, aren’t you?”
“Yes.”
“Well, he left here for Waterbridge an hour ago.”
Waterbridge was a small town about 100 kilometers away from the city. The city police at once sent for different photos of the thief to the police in Waterbridge.
Less than twelve hours later, they got a telephone call from the police in Waterbridge.
“We have caught three of the men,” they said proudly（骄傲地）, “and we think we will catch the fourth this evening.”
1. The police in the big city took five photos of the thief.
2. The police were told that the thief had gone to Waterbridge a week before.
3. Bill Cross was the name of a policeman.
4. The town police caught three people.
5. From this story we know that the police in Waterbridge did a good job.
( C )
Mr Ball is head of the office. He’s often busy and has no time to do the housework. His wife knows him well and does all at home.
Bad luck! Their daughter was hurt in a traffic accident last month and has to be in hospital now. Mrs Ball has to look after there and she can’t go home. Mr Ball often eats something in the restaurant. As he never did any tiding, the rooms were all in a mess（零乱）.
Yesterday morning, before Mr Ball got up, the telephone rang. He sat up to answer it. His friend told him to write down an important telephone number. But he could find neither a pen nor a piece of paper. He found there was much dust（灰尘） on the table and wrote the telephone number on it. But soon he forgot it and went to work. Two hours later his wife came back and looked for a sweater for her daughter. Her husband came in while she was tiding the rooms.
He couldn’t see the number and shouted, “Who let you tidy the room?”
1. Mr Ball does all the housework at home.
2. Mrs Ball has to stay with her daughter in the hospital.
3. Mr Ball wrote down the telephone number on a piece of paper.
4. Mr Ball came in while his wife was looking for a sweater.
5. Mr Ball didn’t want his wife to tidy the room.

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