初二英语阅读理解及其答案
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阅读理解
1
Jack
is
a
twenty-year-
old
young
man.
Two
years
ago,
when
he
finished
middle school, he found work in a shop.
Usually he works until ten o'clock in
the evening. He is very tired when he
gets home. After a quick supper he goes
to bed and soon falls asleep. His
grandma who lives downstairs is satisfied with
(
满意
) him.
One day, on his
way home, he met Mary. They were both happy. He
asked
the girl to his house, she agreed
happily. He bought some fruit and drinks for
her.
And
they
talked
about
their
school,
teachers,
classmates
and
their
future
(
未来
). They talked
for a long time.
“Have a look at your watch,
please,”
said the girl.
“What time is it now?”
“Sorry, something is wrong
with my watch,”
said Jack.
“Where's yours?”
“I left it at
home.”
Jack thought for a moment and found a
way. He began to stamp his foot
on the
floor, “Bang! Bang! Bang!”
The sound woke his grandma
up. The old woman shouted downstairs, “It's
twelve o'clock in the night, Jack. Why
are you still jumping
upst
airs?”
1. Jack was ________ when
he finished middle school.
A. sixteen
B. eighteen
C.
twenty
D. fifteen
2.
The old woman is satisfied with Jack because
________.
A. he's her grandson
C. he can keep
quiet
B. he's clever
D. he gets
home on time
3. From the story, we can know that
Mary is Jack's ________.
A. classmate
C. aunt
B.
colleague (
同事
)
D.
wife
4. The
word “stamp”
in the story means ______
in Chinese.
A.
盖印
B.
跺
C.
贴邮票
D.
承认
5. Jack stamped his foot on
the floor in order (
为了
)
________.
A. to wake his grandma up
B. to make his grandma angry
C. that his grandma was going to tell
him the time
D. that his grandma was
going to buy him a watch
参考答案
：
1
．
B
2
．
C
3
．
A
4
．
B
5
．
C
讲解：
1
．第一
句介绍杰克今年
20
岁，
2
年前中学毕业，故选
B
。
2
．结合
前后文意，前面讲他吃完饭就去睡觉，并且很快就睡着了，
文章最后介绍他用脚跺楼，发
出声音，奶奶阻止他，说明他奶奶怕吵，综
合判断选
C
。
3
．由第二段倒数第二句判断。
4
．根据
文意，他奶奶住他楼下，倒数第二句又讲他用脚在地板上发
出
“
Bang...”
的声音，故应是用脚跺楼。
5
．因他表坏了，
Mary
又没带，他们想知道时间
阅读理解
2
We
are
all
busy
talking
about
and
using
the
Internet
(
互联网
),
but
how
many of
us know the history of the Internet?
Many people are surprised
when they find that the Internet was set up in
the
1960s.
At
that
time,
computers
were
large
and
expensive.
Computer
networks (
网络
)
didn't work well. If one computer in the network
broke down,
then the whole network
stopped. So a new network system had to be set up.
It
should be good enough to be used by
many different computers. If part of the
network was not working, information
could be sent through another part. In
this way computer network system would
keep on working all the time.
At
first
the
Internet
was
only
used
by
the
government,
but,
in
the
early
1970s, universities,
hospitals and banks were allowed to use it too.
However,
computers were still very
expensive and the Internet was difficult to use.
By the
start of the 1990s, computers
became cheaper and easier to use. Scientists had
also developed software that made
'surfing' (
浏览
) the Internet
more convenient.
Today it is easy to get on-line
(
上网
) and it is said that
millions of people
use
the
Internet
everyday.
Sending
e-mail
is
more
and
more
popular
among
students.
The Internet has now become one of the
most important parts of people's
life.
判断下列句子是否符合短文内容，
符合的用
“T”
表示，
不符合的用
“F”
表示。
l. The Internet has a history of less
than thirty years.
T
F
2. In the 1960s computer
networks went wrong easily.
T
F
3.
Computers
become
cheaper
so
that
many
hospitals
and
banks
were
allowed to use them.
T
F
4. People
didn't have enough software to get on-line
conveniently until the
early 1990s.
T
F
参考答案：
1
．
F
2
．
T
3
．
F
4
．
T
讲解：
1
．第二
段开头讲互联网是在
60
年代建立的，故至今历史已超过
30
年。
2
．文中第二段阐明计算机网络工作
状况不好
(didn't work
well)
。
3
．第三段中说明大学、医院等都被
允许使用电脑，然而，计算机仍
然很贵，并且网络很难使用。
4
．由第
三段最后几句介绍可知，到
90
年代，计算机便宜且好用。科<
/p>
学家也发展了软件使网上浏览更方便。而本题干用了
not…un
til
句型，译
为
“
< br>直到
90
年代早期人们才有足够的软件上网
”
。
阅读理解
3
Mr. and Mrs.
Turner live outside a small town. They have a big
farm and
they are always busy working
on it. Their son, Peter, studied at a middle
school.
The young man studied hard and
did well in his lessons. It made them happy.
Last
month
Peter
finished
middle
school
and
passed
the
entrance
examination
(
升学考试
).
Mrs.
Turner
was
very
happy
and
told
the
farmers
about it.
Yesterday morning the woman went to the
town to buy something for her
son. On
the bus she told one of her friends how clever and
able her son was.
She spoke very
loudly. All the people in the bus began to listen
to her.
“Which
university (
大学
) will your
son study in?”
a woman next to her
asked.
“In the most famous university in our
country!”
Mrs. Turner said happily.
“The most
famous university?”
“Oxford University
(
牛津
).”
Most of the
passengers (
乘客
) looked at
her carefully. Some of them said
to
her, “Congratulations!”
A woman said, “I'm sure
he'll know Fred Smith.”
“Who's Fred
Smith?”
“He's my son.”
“Does he study in the
university, too?”
“No, ”said the
woman. “He is one of the professors.”
l. The story
happened in ________.
A. America
B. France
C.
Germany
D. England
2. Mr. and Mrs.
Turner were happy because ________.
A.
their son did well in his lessons
B.
they have a big farm
C.
they have a good harvest
D. their son
studied at a middle school
3. Mrs. Turner wanted everyone to know
________.
A. her son finished middle
school
B. her son was handsome
C. her son was going to study in a
university
D. her son was very friendly
to others
4.
Mrs. Turner spoke so loudly in the bus that
__________.
A. her friend could hear
her
B. all the people could hear her
C. she hoped to make all the people
happy
D. she hoped they would say
congratulations to her
5. Which of the following is true?
__________.
A. The woman
wasn't interested in Mrs. Turner's words
B. Mrs. Turner knew nothing about the
famous university
C. The woman wanted
to stop Mrs. Turner from showing off
(
炫耀
)
D. The woman
next to Mrs. Turner wanted to show off her son,
too
参考答案
：
1
．
D
2
．
A
3
．
C
4
．
B
5
．
C
讲解：
1
．因为牛津大学是英国的著名大学。
2
．第一
段最后一句讲
“
这使他们高兴
”
。
“It”
指代前一句讲的情况，即
他们的儿子功课很好。
3
．根据第三段文意判断。
4
．第三
段最后一句讲
“
所有人都开始听她讲。
”
故
A
不对；她这样做
只是想炫耀一下而已。
C
、
D
描述的意思都不确切。
5
．文章前面做了铺垫，讲
Mrs
．
Turner
如何炫耀她儿子考上大学，
结尾讲那个妇女说自己的儿子是教授不论真假，
她是在阻止
Mrs.
Turner
的
炫耀。
阅读理解
4
“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 meanings.
“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.
1. We know that the word
“cool”
has ________.
A. only one
meaning
C. many
different meanings
B. no meanings
D. the same meaning
2. In the passage, the word
“express”
means“________”.
A.
see
B. show
C. know
D. feel
3.
If you are ________ something, you may say, “It's
cool.”
A. interested in
C. afraid of
B. angry about
D. unhappy
with
4. The writer takes an example to show
he is _________ the way the word
is
used.
A.
pleased with
C. worried about
B. strange to
D.
careful with
5.
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
参考答案
：
1
．
C
2
．
B
3
．
A
4
．
C
5
．
D
讲解：
1
．见首句。
2
．
由
“express”
前后词义关系可推断
出是
“
表达
”
的意思，
与
“show”
同义。
3
．由第二段首句可知。
4
．由例子中的学生用
cool
一词概括出他的所有感受，知
cool
词义
的
扩大会导致语言中词汇的缺乏，是令人担忧的。
5
．结合
第
4
题的答案可做出选择。
参考答案
：
1.
A
2.
D
3.
A
4.
D
5. C
讲解：
1.
由短文最后一句
“They had travelled
1,797 kilometres from
London”
可知，最接近
“for nearly
1,800 kilometres”
，因此选
A
。
2.
由短文第
2
段倒数第
3
句
“So they
were able to change its weight”
可
知答案为
D
。
3.
从
第
3
段可以看出，越往上温度越低，因此应选
< br>A
。
4.
由短文最后一段倒数第
2
句
“They came down in
Poland...”
可知答案
为
D<
/p>
。
5.
纵观全文可以看出答案
C
不正确。
阅读理解
6
If you do not use your arms
or your legs for some time, they become weak;
when you start using them
again, they slowly become strong again. Everybody
knows that. Yet many people do not seem
to know that memory works in the
same
way.
When someone says that he has a good
memory, he really means that he
keeps
his
memory
in
practice
by
using
it.
When
someone
else
says
that
his
memory
is
poor,
he
really
means
that
he
does
not
give
it
enough
chance
to
become strong.
If a friend
says that his arms and legs are weak, we know that
it is his own
fault. But if he tells us
that he has a poor memory, many of us think that
his
parents are to blame, and few of us
know that it is just his own fault.
Have you ever found that
some people can' t read or write but usually they
have better memories? This is because
they cannot read or write and they have
to
remember
things;
they
cannot
write
them
down
in
a
little
notebook.
They
have to remember days,
names, songs and stories; so their memory is the
whole
time being exercised.
So
if
you
want
to
have
a
good
memory,
learn
from
the
people:
practise
remembering.
1. The main
reason for one's poor memory is that his parents
have poor
memories.
T
F
2.
If
you
don't
use
your
arms
or
legs
for
some
time,
they
will
become
strong.
T
F
3. A good memory comes from more
practice.
T
F
4. Some people
can't read or write, but they have better
memories, because
they have saved
trouble.
T
F
5. The best
title of this passage is “How to Have a Good
Memory”.
参考答案：
1. F
2. F
3. T
4. F
5. T
讲解：
1.
文中没有此说法。
2.
从第一段可判断。
3.
第二段开头已说明。
4.
第四段开头已说明。
5.
最后一段点题。
阅读理解
7
A meteorite
(
陨石
) almost hit an 80-year-
old man named Arthur Pettifer in
Britain when he was working in his
garden. The meteorite was the biggest in
the past 26 years in Britain.
The meteorite
weighed (
重量
) one kilo, and
might be over four thousand
million
(
百万
) years old.
“I hear the big noise in
the air. I looked up and saw the tops of the trees
coming and going,”
he said. “I didn't know what it
was.”
Meteorites are small things from the
small planets in space. About 3,500
meteorites
may
fall
on
earth
every
year,
but
only
very
few
are
found.
Mr.
Pettifer's meteorite is the fifth to
fall in Britain since the Second World War.
Mr. Pettifer is
glad.
“When you think about it coming
from so far away, it
really is
something strange.”
1. The meteorite was ______
Mr Pettifer when it fell down.
A. close
to
B. far
from
C.
hitting
D.
coming to
2.
The meteorite was already ______ years old.
A.
40,000,000,000
C. 400,000,000
B. 40,000,000
D. 4,000,000,000
3.
Mr.
Pettifer
found
the
tops
of
the
trees
coming
and
going
because
______.
A. the trees
were afraid
B. the fast falling meteorite kept the
tree tops moving
C. it was going to
rain
D. the moving was made by wind
4. ______
people
see
a
meteorite
fall
although they
visit the
earth often
each year.
A. Quite a few
B. some
C. Few
D. Many
5. Mr. Pettifer
was ______ to see the falling of the meteorite.
A.
happy
B. afraid
C. sorry
D. angry
参考答案
1.
从
短文第
1
句看出陨石落下时几乎砸着
M
r Pettifer
，
故答案应选
A
。
2.
由短文第
2
段中
“…
，
and might be over four thousand million”4000
百万即
40
亿，故答案应是
D
。
3.
Mr
Pettifer
发现树梢来回摇摆是因为下落的陨石使它来回动，故答
案选
B
。
4.
由短文第
4
段
“About
3,500
meteorites
may
fall
on
earth
every
year,
but
only very few are found.”
一句可推断，答案选
C
。
5.
由短文最后一段第
1
句
“Mr Pettifer is glad
”
可以看出，且
happy
与
glad
意思相近，故答案应选
A
。
阅读理解
8
One of the things I always
believe is that no matter how bad something is,
you can take something positive out of
it. The one time I wasn’t sure of that
was on September 11.
I usually wake up a 6:30 or
7:00 in the morning. That day, I happened to
wake up earlier. I turned on the TV and
I saw that a plane had crashed
(
撞击
)
into the
North Tower of the World Trade Center. My first
reaction (
反应
) was
that
it
was
a
terrible
accident.
Then
I
saw
another
plane
fly
into
the
South
Tower and I realized
that I was witnessing (
目击
)
an act of terrorism.
My
wife
and
I
spent
the
day
watching
the
terrible
pictures
over
again.
When
I watched family members looking for their loved
ones, the pain in their
eyes was
something I would never forget. I couldn’t
understand how something
this terrible
could have happened.
It
wasn’t
until
a
few
weeks
after
September
11
that
I
began
to
see
that
perhaps
some good did come from this tragedy
(
悲剧
). People seem different
now, more understanding, more
tolerant(
宽容的
). Little things
that seemed to
be such a trouble before
are no longer big things. Personally, I am more
tolerant
than I was. I realize life is
too short, and too
precious(
珍贵的
), to let myself
get
worried
over
small
things.
I’ve
learned
also
that
you
can’t
take
things
for
granted.
Things
change
in
the
blink
of
an
eye.
Peopl
e
go
to
work
and
don’t
come
back. One moment they’re living and the next
minute they’re not. And, it
doesn’t
matter
who
you
are,
there
is
nothing
you
can
do
about
it.
We
never
know
when our time here
will be over, so we all need to make
the most of
every minute we have.
You try to
learn from what happened. You can’t be used up by
it. You can’t
live by it. All you can
do is just live.
1. The word “positive” in the passage
probably means ______.
A.
terrible
B.
bad
C.
good
D. real
2. What did the
writer see after he turned on the TV that morning?
A. A fire
starting
C. A terrible
accident
B. A plane flying
D. An act
of terrorism.
3. From September 11, the writer had
realized that___________.
A.
people should make the most of every minute they
have
B. he has become less tolerant
towards others
C. he should get worried
about little things
D. life is too
short to care about others.
4. What’s the best title of this
passage?
A. A Report
about September 11
B. The Tragedy of
September 11
C. September 11 and My
Family
D. September 11 and My Turn.
参考答案
讲解：
1. C
见第一行，不管（
no
matter
）事情多糟，总能发现有益的东西。
2. D
见第六行。
3. A
见倒数第三行。
So we all need to
make the most of every minute we
have.
4. D
阅读理解
9
阅读下列短文，并根据短文内容选
出能完成短文题目的最佳答案。
Mrs. Weeks was reading a newspaper
story to her class. The story
said
：
Were
you
ever
in
a
hospital
when
you
were
small?
How
did
you
feel?
The
doctors in Children’s
Hospital are asking for money for children’s
toys(
玩具
).
Some
children
in
the
hospital
must
stay
in
bed
for
many
weeks.
Toys
are
needed
to keep these
sick(
生病的
)children
happy
and
quiet. Money
for
them
can be
sent to the hospital.
After Mrs. Weeks read the
story
，
she
said
，
“This story gave me an
idea.”
“You want us to bring some money for
the toys.” “We could bring some of
our
own toys for the children in the hospital.” said
the boys and girls one after
another.
“Well
，
your
ideas
would
be
nice
，
”
Mrs
Weeks
said
，
“but
mine
is
different.”
“We could make some toys.”
shouted one of them.
Mrs.
Weeks
smiled. “Do you think you could make toys?” she
asked.
“Yes, yes.” the whole class
answered.
“Great! Let’s begin to make toys
tomorrow.” said Mrs
. Weeks.
On Saturday
afternoon
，
Mrs. Weeks took
children to the hospital with the
toys
made by her students. The children in the class
felt happy
，
too.
A few days
later
，
Mrs. Weeks read
another newspaper story to the class:
Some
school
pupils
brought
toys
to
Children’s
Hospi
tal
last
week.
The
toys
were
made
by
the
pupils
of
Grade
Three
in
Green
Street
School.
The
doctor said
，
“We
have never had so many wonderful toys. Our
children are very
happy with them. They
say
，
‘THANK
YOU
，
GRADE
THREE.’”
1. What was the first newspaper story
mainly(
主要
)about?
A.
Sick children in Children’s Hospital
B. Doctors in Children’s
Hospital.
C. Mrs. Weeks and
her students.
D. Toys made by the boys
and girls.
2. What “idea” did Mrs
.
Weeks have in mind?
hospital.
C.
Let
the
class
make
some
toys
themselves
and
give
them
to
the
A. Ask the class to give
some money to the children in the hospital.
B. Ask the class to send some of their
own toys to the children in the
children in the hospital.
D. Tell the
class to go to see the children in the hospital.
3.
Doctors
in
Children’s
Hospital
didn’t
have
____
to
keep
the
children
happy and quiet.
A. enough time
B. enough boys
and girls
D. enough doctors
C. get money to buy toys for
4.
At
first
，
the
doctors
in
Children’s
Hospital
wanted
to
____
the
sick
children.
A. give some money to
B. make some toys for
D. borrow some toys for
C. get money to buy toys for
5. What Mrs Weeks really
wanted to do is to ____.
A. let everyone
know her class
B. save some
money for toys
C. make
herself famous
D. teach the
pupils to do things themselves and be helpful to
others
参考答案：
1. A
2. C
3. C
4. C
5. D
讲解：
1.
根据第
1
段
newspaper story
的内容得知，
文章主要讲的是在儿童医
院生病住院的孩子，故
答案为
A
。
2.
从文中孩子们建议用钱买玩具
或带自己的玩具去医院，而
“Mrs
Weeks
said
，
‘but mine is
different.’”
到有人提议
“make some
toys”
时她微笑，
可判断答案为
C
。
3.
纵观整个新闻内容可知没有足够的玩具供生病的孩子们玩
，
故答案
为
C
。
4.
由文中说医生
“ask for money for
children’s toys”
得知玩具不够，
因此
本题答案选
C
。
5.
从文章中可以看出
Mrs
Weeks
的本意就是教学生学会关心爱护别
人，故答案
< br>D
是正确的。
阅读理解
10
Once there lived an old man
in a town. He always forgot a lot of things. So
his wife always had to say to
him
，
“Don't forget
this.”
One day he went on a long way alone.
Before he left home
，
his wife
said
，
“Now you have all these
things. You need them on your way. Take care of
your
things on the way.”He went to the
station. He bought
a ticket and got on
the
train with it.
About an hour
later
，
the conductor began to
see the tickets. He came to the
old man
and said
，
“Will you please
show me your ticket?”The old man looked
for his ticket in all his pockets but
he could not find it. He wa
s very
worried. “I
can't find my
ticket. I really bought a ticket before I got on
the train
，
”said the
old man.
“I think you are right. I believe you
bought a ticket. All
right
，
you don't
have to buy another
ticket
，
”said the conductor
kindly. But the old m
an
still(
仍
然
) looked
worried and said sadly
，
“You
don't know why I'm worried. If I don't
find my ticket
，
I
can't remember my station. Where am I going?
”
1.
The old man bought a ticket _______.
A. after he got on the train
B. before he got on the train
C. when the conductor told him to buy
one
D. when he found he had no ticket
with him
2. About an hour
later
，
the conductor began
_______.
A. to buy the
tickets
B. to look for
the tickets
C. to
check(
检查
) the
tickets
D. to show the tickets
3. The
conductor told the old man that he didn't need to
buy another ticket
because _________.
A. the man was very old
B.
he thought the old man had no money with him
C. the old man showed him the ticket
D. he believed the old man
4.
The old man still looked worried because
_________.
A. he couldn't get on the
train.
B. he lost his
ticket and a lot of money
C. he thought
his wife would get angry with him
D. he
forgot where he was going
5. Which of the
following(
下列
) is right?
A. The old man went on the trip with
his wife
B. The old man didn't find his
ticket
C. The conductor was also an old
man
D. The old man had to buy another
ticket
参考答案
1.
B
第二段最后一句话表明。
2. C
第三段第一句话表明。
3. D
第四段第一行。
4. D
最后一句话。
5. B
阅读理解
11
The best way of learning a
language is using it. The best way of learning
English
is talking in
English
as
much
as
possible.
Sometimes
you'll get
your
words mixed
up(
混合
) and people will not
understand you. Sometimes people
will
say
things
too
quickly
and
you
can'
t
understand
them.
But
if
you
keep
your
sense
of
humor(
幽默感
)
，
you
can
always
have
a
good
laugh
at
the
mistakes
you
make.
Don't
be unhappy
if
people seem
to
be
laughing
at
your
mistakes. It's better for people to
laugh at your mistakes than to be angry with