初二英语阅读理解(含答案)
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A
A
young
man
asked
Albert
Einstein
,
the
great
German
scientist
,
what
the
secret
of
success is. The scientist told him that the secret
of success is hard work. A
few days
later the young man asked the same question again
. Einstein was very
annoyed
．
He did not say anything
,but wrote a few words on a piece of paper .
On it was written: A=X+Y+Z.
“
What does this mean
?
”
asked the young man .
“
A
means
“
success
”
”
explained
the
old
scientist
.
“
X
stands
for
hard
work
,Y
for good method
(
方法
)
and Z Z
means stop talking and get down to
work.
”
1.
The young man
_________.
A. wanted to meet Einstein
B. wanted to be a great scientist like
Einstein
C. was eager
(
渴望
) to know the secret of
success
D. wanted to be a student of
Einstein
2.
In
Einstein
’
s opinion the
secret of success was ________.
A. to
work with great energy
(
精力，活力
)
B. to
study hard day and night
C. to learn
from great scientists
D. to raise
(
提出
)
questions as
many as you could
3.
“
Y
”
stands for _______.
A. hard work B.
great energy C. great success D. good
manner(
方法
)
4.
The word
“
annoyed
”
means ________.
A. angry B. sad
C. lovely D. glad
5.
Einstein was a
man who ______
A. liked to talk with
young people
B. liked to help others
C. liked to make friends with young
people
D. liked to work , but
didn
’
t like to talk
B
British newspapers are
much smaller than they used to be and their
readers are
often in a hurry ,so
newspapermen write as few words as possible .They
tell their
readers
at
once
what
happened
,where
,when
and
how
it
happened
and
what
was
the
result
:
how
many
people
were
killed
,what
change
was
done
and
so
on
.Readers
want
the
fact(
事
实
)
set
out
as
fully
and
accurately
as
possible
.Readers
are
also
interested
in
the
people who have seen the accident. So a
newspaperman always likes to get some
information
(
信息
)from someone who was
there, which can be given in the
person
’
s
own
words
.Because
he
can
use
only
a
few
words
,the
newspaperman
must
choose
those
words carefully ,every one must be
effective(
有效
). Instead of
“
he called out in
a
loud
voice
”
,
he
writes
”
he
shouted
”
;
instead
of
“
the
loose
stones
rolled
noisily
down
the
side
of
the
mountain
”
,
he
will
write
”
they
thundered
down
the
mountainside
”
.
Because many of the readers
aren
’
t very clever, and most
of them are in a hurry.
1.
From
the
text,
we
learn
that
newspapermen
write
as
few
words
as
possible
,because
readers___.
A.
want to know more about
the news
B. take no interest in what
has happened
C. have no
time to read the news carefully
D. pay much attention to the result
2.
The underlined
word
”
one
”
< br> in the text refers to ______.
perman
n
3.
Which of the
following would best complete the text ?
A. he will keep his writing short
B. he
won
’
t care about his writing
C. he will give nothing but
information
D. he
won
’
t make his writing good
enough.
4.
In what way do you think British
newspapers have become smaller?
A. In
a page size.
B. In number of
readers.
C. In number of pages.
D. In number of copies
5.
Which of the
following is true?
A.
Readers are not satisfied with the
short news.
B.
Not many people have time to read the
long articles in newspapers.
C.
Readers find the language of the
newspapers exciting.
D.
Newspapermen try to report as fully as
possible.
C
The story
happened during the Second World
War
（战争）
．
An old
man lived in a
small town of Germany.
He had three sons and they all worked in the same
factory
where he had worked. After the
war had begun , his sons were all made to join the
army
one
after
another
and
they
all
died
in
the
frights
.
The
old
man
was
very
sad
.
he
didn
’
t
have
enough
food
and
was
often
hungry
.
And
nobody
helped
him
and
he
didn
’
t know how
to go in living .
It was a very cold
winter night . The old man
couldn
’
t go to sleep . He
had
been hungry for two days and it was
so cold in his room that ice could be seen .
He had to get up and begun to run in
the room until he lay down on the ground. The
next morning he had to beg from door to
door. He had been to a lot of cities and
knew a lot.
Once he came to
a village , but the villages were all poor and
couldn
’
t give
him
anything
.
He
was
too
hungry
to
go
to
another
village
.
He
thought
hard
and
found
a way .
He came to a police station and called out ,
“
Hitler is a foolish pig (
希
特勒是蠢猪
)
！
＂
Out came an old policeman
at once . He took the old man into a room , gave
him
some bread and a cup of tea . Then
he said ,
“
Don
’
t
say in our village , sir !
”
“
I
’
m
sorry,
sir.
”
Said
the
old
man
.
“
I
don
’
t
know
it
’
s
Hitler
’
s
hometown
.
”
“
No, no ,
sir.
”
The policeman said in
a hurry.
“
It
’
s
pig
’
s hometown
!
”
1.
The old man was ___________.
A. a German B. a French
C. an Australian D. an Englishman
2.
The old man
was sad because ________.
A. his three
sons all died during the war
B. His
three sons had to join the army
C. He
had no food or clothes
D. He lived in
the small town alone
3.
The old man got up and ran in his room
to ________.
A. keep healthy
B. Forget he was sad and hungry
C. Make him warm
D. Find a
way to forget he was hungry
4.
The old man
shouted outside the police station because______
A. he hated Hitler very much
B. he hoped the policeman could help
him
C. he wanted to make the policemen
angry
D. he thought the he would be
given some food in prison
(
监狱
)
5.
Which
statement is true?
A. The old policeman
hated Hitler , too
B. The old policeman
found that the old man his best friend
C. The old policeman would send the old
man in prison
D. The old policeman
liked Hitler better than pigs
D
Miss Gorgers taught physices in a New
York school. Last month she explained to
one of her classes about sound, and she
decided to test them to see how successful
she had been in her explanation. She
said to them,
“
Now I have a
brother in Los
Angeles. If I was
calling him on the phone and at the same time you
were 75 feet
away, listening to me from
across the street, which of you would hear what I
said
earlier, my brother or you and for
what reason?
”
Tom
at once answered,
“
Your
brother. Because electricity travels faster than
sound waves.
”
“
That
’
s
very good,
”
Miss Gorgers
answered; but then one of the
girls
raised her hand, and Miss Gorgers said,
“
Yes,
Kate?
”
“
I
disagree,
”
Kate said.
“
Your brother would hear you
earlier because when
it
’
s 11
o
’
clock here
it
’
s only 8
o
’
clock in Los
Angeles.
”
1.
Miss Gorgers was teaching her class
.
A. how to telephone
B. about electricity
D.
about sound
C. about time
zone
（时区）
2.
Miss Gorgers asked this question
because she wanted to know whether .
A. it was easy to phone to Los Angeles
B. her student could hear her from 75
feet away
C. her students had
grasped
（理解）
her lesson
D. sound waves were slower than
electricity
3.
Tom thought
that electricity was .
A.
slower than sound waves
B. faster than
sound waves
C. not so fast as sound
waves
D. as fast as sound waves
4.
Kate thought Tom was
wrong because .
A. clocks in
Los Angeles showed a different time from those in
New York
B. electricity was slower than
sound waves
C. Tom was not good at
physics at all
D.
Tom
’
s answer had nothing to
do with sound waves
5.
Whose
answer do you think is correct acoording to the
law of physics?
A.
Tom
’
s
B.
Kate
’
s
C. Both A
and B
D. Neither A nor B
E
It was Mondy. Mrs
Smith
’
s dog was hungry, but
there was not any meat in the
house.
Considering that there was no better
way. Mrs Smith took a piece of paper, and
wrote
the
following
words
on
it:
“
Give
my
dog
half
a
pound
of
meat.
”
Then
she
gave
the
paper to her dog and said gently:
“
Take this to the butcher
(person whose job
is selling meat), and
he
’
s going to give you your
lunch today.
”
Holding the piece of paper in its
mouth,
the dog ran to the
butcher
’
s. It gave
the
paper
to
the
butcher.
The
butcher
read
it
carefully,
recognized
that
it
was
really
the
lady
’
s handwriting and soon
did it as he was asked to. The dog was very happy,
and ate the meat up at once.
At noon, the dog came to the shop
again. It gave the butcher a piece of paper
again. After reading it, he gave it
half a pound of meat once more.
The
next day, the dog came again exactly at noon. And
as usual, it brought a
piece of paper
in the mouth. This time, the butcher did not take
a look at paper,
and gave the dog its
meat, for he had regarded the dog as one of his
customers (*
people who buy something
from a shop).
But,
the
dog
came
again
at
four
o
’
clock.
And
the
same
thing
happened
once
again.
To
the butcher
’
s more surprise,
it came for the third time at six
o
’
clock, and
brought with it a third piece of paper.
The butcher felt a bit puzzled. He said to
himself,
“
This
is
a
small
dog.
Why
does
Mrs
Smith
give
it
so
much
meat
to
eat
today?
”
Looking at the piece of paper, he found
that there were not any words on it!
6.
Mrs Smith treated her little dog quite
.
A. cruelly
B. fairly
C. kindly
ndly
7.
It seemed that the dog knew well that
the paper Mrs Smith gave it .
A. might do it much harm.
B
. could do it much good
C. would help the butcher
D
. was worth many pounds
8.
The butcher did not give
any meat to the dog .
A. before
he felt sure that the words were really written by
Mrs Smith
B. when he found that the
words on the paper were not clear
C.
because he had sold out all the meat in his shop
D. until he was paid enough by Mrs
Smith
9.
From its experence,
the dog found that .
A. only
the paper with Mrs Smith
’
s
words on it could bring it meat
B. the
butcher would give the meat to it whenever he saw
it
C. Mrs Smith would pay for the meat
it got from the butcher
D. a piece of
paper could bring it half a pound of meat
10. At the end of the story,
you
’
ll find that .
A. the dog was clever enough to write
on the paper
B. the dog dared not go to
the butcher
’
s any more
C. the butcher was told not to give any
meat to the dog
D.
the
butcher
found
himself
cheated
(*
act
in
a
way
that
is
not
honest)
by
the
clever
animal
F
Mr.
King
is
a
tall and
strong
man.
He
teaches
P.
E.
in
a
middle
school.
He
wears
a long
beard
（胡子）
and takes good
care of it.
It was Sunday yesterday.
There was a big football match of the year on the
playground
in
the
centre
of
the
city.
Mr.
King
likes
the
game
very
much
and
of
course
he was
going to watch it. With his
friends
’
help he got a
ticket a few days ago.
After breakfast
he
hurried to the bus
stop,
but a
lot
of people
were waiting there.
A
bus
came
and
he
hardly
got
on.
There
were
plenty
of
people
in
it
and
it
was
difficult
for them to put
their feet. He had to
grip
（抓住）
the back of a chair.
At the next
stop a boy got on the bus.
He looked around and saw Mr.
King
’
s beard and grip it.
The man found it at once and called
out,
“
Let go
of
（松开）
my beard,
boy!
”
“
Are you going to get off,
sir?
”
asked to boy.
11. Mr. King is a .
A. player
B. runner
C. teacher
D. driver
B. he likes football very much
12. Mr. King was going to watch the
match because .
A. he teaches
P. E. in a middle school
C. he had
already got a ticket
D. he
didn
’
t go to work yesterday
13. It was difficult for Mr. King to
stand because .
A. he had drunk
too much B. the bus was too small
C. he
got on the bus too late
D. it was very
crowded in the bus
14. The boy gripped
Mr. King
’
s beard because
.
A. he was afraid to fall again
B. he wanted to make the man angry
D. he hoped the man to get off soon
C. he hoped the man to find a seat for
him
A. the boy would pull him down
C. the boy could be hurt again
15. Mr. King was afraid , so he
shouted at him.
B. the boy would hurt
his beard
D. the boy would borrow his
ticket
G
My friend is a taxi
drives. He has been a taxi driver for ten years.
It
’
s a
nice job
most of the time. He can meet a lot of people. He
always works at night
because there is
too much traffic during the day. He usually goes
home between two
o
’
clock in the
morning. There are some very strange things, which
often happen at
night. One day my
friend was taking a woman back home from a party
at three o
’
clock in the
morning. She had her little dog with her. When
they got to her house,
she found she
had lost her key. So my friend waited in the car
with the dog while
she climbed in
through the window. My friend waited and waited.
After half an hour
of honking he
decided to find out what was going on. He tied the
dog to a tree and
started to climb in
through the window.
At
that
moment
some
policemen
came.
They
thought
my
friend
was
a
thief.
Luckily,
the
woman
came
downstairs.
She
must
have
gone
to
sleep
and
forgotten
about
my
friend
and the
dog.
16. The driver always works at
night because it is easier to .
A. drive
B.
climb in through window
D.
meet a lot of people
C. make money
17. The woman climbed in through the
window because .
A. she wanted
to have a sleep
B. her husband
didn
’
t open the door for her
C. she didn
’
t
want to pay the money
D. she
couldn
’
t find her key