初三英语阅读理解 - B篇精选 (含答案)
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B 2
Linda and David have
traveled by air from London to Sydney
,
Australia
．
Linda has
promised
（答应）
her
mother
that
she
will
ring
her
to
let
her
know
that
they
have
arrived
safely
．
This
is
something
she
had
done
ever
since
she
was
a
child.
David
thinks it is not a good idea to ring so
far, to spend too much, and to say so
little
．
were an accident
．
soon
enough
．
Bad
news
travels
fast
．
But Linda has promised that she would
ring
．
much when
you just think that it's the other side of the
world
．
It‟s only
six pence per
second (
每秒六便士<
/p>
)
。
you're on that telephone
for
less
than one
minute, I'll eat
my
hat,
David says,
<
/p>
英镑
)
．
a new
hat,
．
She
has
asked
the
man
at
the
hotel
(
旅馆
)
desk
to
get
her
the
number.
The
telephone rings. Linda
picks it up
．
．
提醒
)
her
．
“Hello, love
．
It
is Mrs. Lee, Lin
da‟s mother, speaking
from London.” I can hear you
very
clearly just like you are in the next room. It„s a
better line than when you called
me
from
your
office
．
Do
you
remember?
I
shouted
at
that
time,
and
still
you
couldn‟t hear me
sometimes
．
．
．
a little
girl
．
And then
when you …
．
．
Linda tries to tell her mother that it
is time to say goodbye
．
es, all
right,
you will
write, won„t you, as
you did when
you were at work …
Once again, Mrs. Lee talks about the
pass, and there is no stopping her
．
．
At last, Linda cuts her mother short,
promises to write, and rings
off
．
．
．
arrived
．
1
．
Linda is
telephoning home to
________
．
A. tell her mother some bad news
B.
say that she and David have arrived safely
C. report an accident to
her mother
D.
say that she and David have left London
2
．
Linda does not
think it expensive to ring, because _____.
A
．
it
only costs four pounds and ninety pence
B
．
it
is even more expensive to buy a new hat
C
．
she
had telephoned home since she was a child
D
．
she
will speak from one side of the word to the other
3
．
David says,
A
．
he
wants to remind Linda of the cost of the cost of
the call
B
．
he wants to buy
himself a new hat
C
．
Linda has not
told her mother they have arrived
D
．
he wants Mrs.
Lee to know how much the call costs
4
．
Mrs. Lee goes
on talking for so long because _______.
A
．
she
likes to hear all about the
past
．
B
．
she likes
talking
C
．
Linda
had
not
told
her
that
she
has
arrived
D
．
she
is
going
to
pay
for
the
telephone call
5
．
Linda tries to
stop her mother by ________.
A
．
telling her how
much the call is costing
B
．
writing a
letter as she has promised
to do
C
．
telling her
that they have arrived safely
D
．
promising to
write, and ringing off
B 5
I
often
dreamed
about
Pisa
when
I
was
a
boy
.
I
read
about
the
famous
building
called
the
Leaning Tower of Pisa.
But
when I read
the
word Pisa, I
was thinking of
pizza .I thought
this
tower was a place
to buy
pizza .It
must be the best place
to buy
pizza in the world, I
thought.
Many years later I
finally saw the Leaning Tower. I knew then that it
was Pisa and
no
pizza.
But
there
was
still
something
special
about
it
for
me .The
tower
got
its
name
because
it really
did
lean
to one side. Some
people want to try to
fix
it. They
are afraid it may
fall over and they don‟t like it leans over the
city
.
I do not think it‟s a good idea to try
to fix it.
The tower probably will not
fall down.
It is 600 years old. Why
should anything happen to it now? And, if you ask
me, I like
what
it
looks
like.
To
me
it
is
a
very
human
kind
of
leaning.
Nothing
is
perfect.
It
seems
to say
.
And who
cares? Why do people want
things to be
perfect? Imperfect
things
may
be
more
interesting.
Let‟s
take
the
tower
in
Pisa.
Why
is
it
so
famous?
There
are
many other older,
more
beautiful towers
in
Italy.
But Pisa
tower
is the
most
famous.
People come from all over the world to
see it.
passage is about_______.
A. Italian pizza
B. Italy‟s
problems
C. How the Leaning
Tower of Pisa got its name
D. Why the writer likes Pisa
writer used to think Pisa______.
A.
in
Spain
B.
not
very
famous
C.
not
the
same
as
pizza
D.
the
same
as
pizza
Leaning Tower of Pisa is _______.
A. modern
B. falling down
C.
600 years old
D. 60 years old-
writer________.
A. doesn‟t like what
the tower looks like
B.
likes what the tower looks like
C. thinks it‟s the most beautiful tower
in Italy
D. doesn‟t like
towers
5. The writer likes
the Leaning Tower of Pisa because________.
A. it‟s old
B. it‟s perfect
C.
it sells pizza
D. it‟s imperfect
B8
“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 s
treet, maybe you will say,
“It‟s cool.”
Y
ou
may think,
“He‟s so cool,” when you see
your favorite footballer.
We all maximize(
扩大
)
the meaning of “cool”. Y
ou
can use it instead of many words such
as “new” or “surprising”. Here is an
interesting stor
y 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 for us to keep some credibility
(
可信性
).
Can you
think of many other words that make your life as
colorful
as the word “cool”? I can. And
I
think they are also very cool.
1. We know that
the word “cool” has had _____.
A. only one meaning
B. no
meanings
C. many different
meanings
D. the same meaning
2. In
the passage, the word
“
express
” means “ _____
”.
A. see
B. show
C.
know
3. If you are _____
something, you may say, “It‟s cool.”
D. feel
A.
interested in
B. angry about
C. afraid of
D. unhappy with
4. The writer takes an example to show
he is _______the way the word is used.
A. pleased with
B. strange to
C. worried about
D. careful
with
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 colorful
B10
Tom Dyson
tried to find out what his new machine could do.
One day he put the small box
to a
flowering plant that was growing in a big pot. He
didn‟t say anything at all, but he began to
think something bad about the flowers.
“I‟m going to cut off these flowers.
They‟re getting old and no longer beautiful. So
I‟ll cut
them off…”
The
needle
（指针）
on
the
machine
climbed
quickly
from
zero
to
8,
then
10,
12,
15. It
stopped at 17. The plant was in
trouble! Something was w
orrying it. Was
it afraid or sad? The
thought of being
cut? The flowers
bent
（弯下）
their heads. They
suddenly looked old and tired,
and Tom
felt sorry for them.
“No, no!” he
cried. “I won‟t cut you. Y
ou‟re my
friends. I just want you grow and be more
beautifu
l. I‟ll take you
outside, into the sunshine. Y
ou‟ll like
that, won‟t you?”
The
flowers raised their heads slowly and seemed to
smile at him. The needle returned to
zero. Tom put away the machine, picked
up the plant and walked outside. It was very nice
in
the
garden that morning.
All plants enjoy their owner‟s love and
kindness. They know the sound of their voice. They
also seem to understand people‟s
thinking. So if you have flowers of your own,
think about them
with love. They will
return your kindness in the only way they can:
they will grow strong and
beautiful.
1. Which is the right order of the
things happening in the passage?
a.
Tom felt sorry
for the flowers.
b.
T
he needle climbed to 17.
c.
Tom put a
machine to a flower plant.
d.
T
he
flowers bent their heads.
e.
Tom thought of cutting off the flowers.
A. a, c, e, b, d
B. c, e, d, b,
a
C. a, c, e, d, b
D. c, e, b, d,
a
2. The needle turned back to zero
when Tom ________.
A. took the flowers
into the sunshine
B. put
away the machine
D. may not be
as cool as it seems
C. said
something nice to the flowers
D. thought about the flowers
3. If you show love to your plants,
they will give you their love in return by
_______.
A. raise their heads and
smiling
B. growing nice and
beautiful
C. turning the needle to zero
D. enjoying your kindness
4.
We can infer from the passage that ________.
A. the flowers didn‟t like what Tom
said and did
B.
the flowers could understand what Tom was thinking
about
C. the machine didn‟t
work well and should never be used
again
D. Tom
should go to see and talk to the flowers very
often
B11
Can
you think if a sentence in which two word “and”
appears five times, without any words
in between ? There is one of the end of
this story.
There
are
once
a
restaurant which was called
“The
Horse
and
Cart(
马车
)”.
It
had
a sign
which had a picture of a horse and cart
on it, but the sign was getting very old, the
owner of the
restaurant decided to have
a new one made. He went to a painter and asked him
to paint one, and
to write “The Horse
and Cart” on it in large letters.
A
few days later, he went to
see how the painter was getting on. He liked the
picture of the
horse and cart very
much, but he didn‟t like the writing. He said to
the painter, “ No, no! There‟s
too much
space between HORSE and AND and AND and
CART!”
1. “The Horse
and
Cart” was
_______.
A. a place to eat
in
B. a small
hotel
C. a sign
of an office
D. a horse -pulled cart
2. The painter was asked to write
_______.
A. large letters to “The Horse
and Cart”
B. “The Horse and
Cart “ as large as possible
C. a large letter to the people in the
newspaper
D.
“The Horse and Cart” in big
characters(
文字
)
3.
The owner dislike the writing because _______.
A. between HORSE and AND there was too
much space
B. the painter didn‟t write
in large letters
C. between
THE and HORSE there was too much space
D. There was too much space
between HORSE, AND and CART
4. From the
passage we know ____________.
A. he
didn‟t like the picture on the old
sign.
B. the old sign was too old to be
mended.
C. he
wanted to made a sentence with five ands
D. the old sign
was beautiful
B12
New Y
ork, London, Paris and
other big cities are exciting places to live in.
There
are many interesting
things to see and to do. Y
ou can go to
different kinds of museums, parks and
cinemas. Y
ou can also go
shopping to buy things from all over the world.
But
there
are
some
problems
in
big
cities
too.
The cost
of
living
is
high,
and
there
are too
many
people
in
some
places
of
big
cities.
Every
year
many
people
move
to
the
cities
because
there
are
some chances
（机会）
to
find
good
jobs,
to study
at
good schools,
and
to
see
good
doctors. But sometimes these people
cannot find work or a good place to live in. Also,
too many
people in a small place make
it hard to keep the cities safe and clean.
Some people enjoy
living
in big cities, but others do not.
Before people move to big cities,
they
should think about the problems of living there.
1. Which is the best title for this
passage?
A. Big Cities
B.
New Y
ork, London, and Paris
C. Exciting
Places to Live in
D. Problems in Big Cities
2. In big cities people can ______.
A.
go to
different kinds of museums
B.
see all kinds of plays and films
C.
buy things
from all over the world
D.
A, B, and C
3. Which of the
following is true?
A.
Big cities are
not safe and clean enough.
B.
People can
easily find a good place to live in big cities.
C.
Living in big
cities doesn‟t cost a lot.
D.
All people
like to live in big cities.
4. In the
passage the writer advises people _______.
A.
to move to a
big city
B.
not to move to a big city
C.
not to move to
a big city without thinking about the problems
there
D.
not to
think too much about the problems before they move
to a big city
5. Which is not talked
about in the passage?
A.
New Y
ork and London are big
cities, and so is Paris.
B.
Big cities are better than small
cities.
C.
Big
cities are exciting places to live in.
D.
Big cities
have a lot of problems.
B13
Al
Brown was very good at
fixing things around the house when they broke.
One day he
went
to
another
city
to
do some work
there,
and
his wife was
alone
in
the
house.
While
Mr
Brown was
away,
one
of
the
faucets
（自来水龙头）
on
the
bathtub
broke.
Mrs
Brown
didn‟t
know much about
fixing broken faucets, so she telephoned a
plumber
（管子工）
.
The
plumber came to the house that afternoon and fixed
the faucet in a few minutes. When
he
finished, he gave Mrs Brown his bill for the work.
She looked at it for several seconds
and then said, “Y
our prices are very
high, aren‟t they?
Do y
ou
know, the doctor costs less than this when he
comes to the house?”
“Y
es, I know,” answered the
plumber, “I know that very well, because I was a
doctor until I
was lucky enough t find
this job a few months ago.”
1. As one of her faucets broke, Mrs
Brown _______.
A. had to fix it by herself
B. phoned to her husband
C. asked a plumber to fix
it
D. sent for a doctor
2.
It took the plumber only a few minutes to finish
the work because _____.
A. Mrs Brown
helped the plumber to do it
B. the plumber was very
good at fixing faucets
C. the plumber
didn‟t do it carefully, but very
quickly
D. the job of fixing
faucets was not very difficult
3. In
fact, the plumber‟s prices were
_______.
A.
not so high as a doctor‟s
B.
even higher
than a doctor‟s
C.
as high as a
doctor‟s
D.
much lower than a doctor‟s
4. The plumber knew that very well
because _____.
A.
he had been Mrs Brown‟s doctor for a
few months
B.
he had been a doctor several months
before
C.
he went
to see a doctor a few months ago
D.
he was the
doctor who came to Mrs Brown‟s hous
e
5. The plumber thought he was lucky
because _____.
A.
he could get more money than before
B.
he could fix
faucets
C.
he
became a doctor
D.
his new job was much easier
B14
Mr Grey liked hunting very
much. He did not get much practice at hunting wild
animals, but
he was quite good at
shooting
（射击）
. One of his
troubles was that his eyes were not very good
and he had to wear glasses. When it
rained and his glasses got wet, Mr Grey could not
see very
well.
One day he was invited to
go out shooting bears in the mountains. It was
rather a rainy day,
and by mistake Mr
Grey shot at the other hunter and hit him in the
leg.
Then he was taken before a
judge
（法官）
and the
judge said, “Why did you shoot at Mr
Robinson?” Mr Grey answered, “I thought
that he was a bear.”
“When did you realize that
you were wrong, then?” the judge asked.
“When „the
bear‟ began to shoot at me!” Mr Grey answered in
an unhappy voice.
1. From
the story we know that Mr Grey ______.
A.
could shoot well in rainy days
B.
enjoyed
shooting and was quite good at it
C.
knew how to
hunt animals very well
D.
was rather bad at shooting
2. Which of the following is wrong?
A.
Mr
Grey couldn‟t see very well in rainy
days.
B.
Mr Grey had to wear glasses when he was
shooting.
C.
Mr
Grey often took hunters for bears by mistake.
D.
Mr Grey‟s eyes
were not very good.
3. Mr
Grey hit a hunter in the leg because ______.
A.
he
thought the hunter was a bear
B.
the hunter
shot at him
C.
he
was invited to shoot
D.
he was good at shooting
4.
Mr Robinson was a ________.
A.
soldier
B. hunter
C. judge
D. bear
5. The
writer wants to tell us that _____.
A.
Mr Grey should not hunt wild animals
B.
Mr Grey was
not wrong to shoot at another hunter
C.
Mr Robinson
should shoot back at Mr Grey
D. Mr
Robinson was even wrong to shoot back at Mr Grey
B15
Mr
Turner
works
in
a
factory.
There
he
drives
a
truck.
He
often
feels
tired
and
likes
watching TV at home. His wife is a
conductor and likes dancing. She often goes
dancing when
she isn‟t on
du
ty. He tells her to do some
housework, but she doesn‟t
listen to him. Old Mrs
Turner has to do all for them.
One day the old woman was ill and had
to be in hospital. Her daughter went to look after
her
there. Two months later Old Mrs
Turner came back. All their rooms were in a
terrible mess. She
was weak
and couldn't
clean them . So she told her son to do
it . The young man didn‟t answer
her.
She said nothing and had to
stay in bed .
It was a Friday
evening . Mrs Turner was
free . She wanted to go to dance . She began to
look for her new sweater , but she
couldn‟t find it. She saw Mr Turner watching TV
and asked
him to help her . The young
man didn‟t do it.
“
Our
sheet
（床单）
isn‟t
clean,” said the woman . “Y
ou‟d better
wash it tomorrow.”
“
I‟ll be busy,” said the young man . “ Turn it over
!”
“ How lazy
you are!” said the woman . “ I turned
it over one and a half months ago!”
1. Mr Turner is a ___________ .
A. doctor
B. conductor
C. farmer
D.
driver
2. The
old woman has to do all the housework
because______.
A. she‟s strong
B. she‟s free
C. her son is
very lazy
D. she likes to clean the rooms
3. The rooms were in a terrible mess 2
months later because Mr and Mrs Turner
_______.
A. didn‟t clean
them
B. were very busy with
their work
C. had no time
D. had to look after their
mother
4. Old Mrs Turner said nothing
and stayed in bed because ____.
A.
she didn‟t want to help her
son
B.
she needed a good rest
C.
her son was
going to clean the rooms
D.
her daughter was coming to help her
5. From the story we know the writer
wants to tell us that ____.
A.
Mrs Turner is
not so lazy as Mr Turner
B.
Mrs Turner is as lazy as Mr Turner
C.
Mrs Turner is much lazier than Mr
Turner
D.
Mr
Turner is the laziest in his family
B16
Can
we
live
without
salt?
No,
salt
is
very
important
to
us,
we
need
salt
in
our
food.
Animals
need
it, too.
Most
of
the salt
in
our
country
comes
from the sea.
People
dig
very
big
pools and let sea water in. When the
sun dries up the water, people can get salt from
ground. The
salt is white, clean and
beautiful.
There are a lot
of salt wells in Sichuan. A
salt well
is much like a water well. People bring
the well water up to the ground and
then dry it in big
jars
（罐子）
over fire. In this
way, they get
salt.
We can
also get salt from salt
mines
（矿）
. People find salt
mines under the ground. Some
years ago,
people in Jiangxi found a big salt mine and soon
opened it. People there don‟t need
salt
from other places any more.
In
northwest of our country, there are many salt
lakes. Some of these lakes are very big. The
salt only in a big lake will be enough
for all Chinese people for hundreds of years.
1. We get most of the salt from _____.
A. salt lakes
B. sea water
C. salt wells
D
. salt mines
2. People in Sichuan get salt from
_____.
A. jars
B. fire
C.
salt wells
D. water wells
3. In Chinese the underlined word “dig”
means _____.
A.
跳进
B.
环绕
C.
修理
4.
This passage mainly tells us about ______.
A. salt
B. salt wells
D.
挖掘
D. salt lakes
C. salt mines
B17
One afternoon, Kate and
her brother Bob went out to play. Kate was eight,
and Bob was ten.
“Let‟s go to the
bridge and we can see fish in the river,” said
Kate.
“I
don‟t
know…,”
Bob
said.
“Mum
told
us,
„don‟t
go
on
the
bridge.‟
She
said
it‟s
dangerous.”
Kate
said, “I am not afraid. Are you?”
They walked onto the bridge and began
looking for fish in the river. The bridge was a
train
bridge. Trains went over the
bridge three times a day.
The children
were standing in the middle of the bridge when
they heard a loud noise. “A
train is
coming!” Bob shouted. “Run!” He ran to the end of
the bridge. He was safe.
Kate ran, too, but she fell. The train
was coming fast. Kate ran towards Bob. She fell
again
right
on
the
train
tracks(
轨道
). There
was
no time
to
leave.
She
had
to
lie
down
between
the
tracks. A
few seconds later,
the train went over the girl, but she was not hurt
at all. She stood up
and said
t
o Bob, “Don‟t tell Mum! Don‟t tell
Mum!”
At
last
their
mother
found
out
about
the story.
She
was
angry
because
they went
on
the
bridge. But she was happy that Kate was
all right.
1.
Bob
and Kate were ______ .
A. trains
B. brothers
C. sisters
D. brother and
sister
2.
One
afternoon they went to the bridge to see ________.
A. their mother
B. fish
C. the train
3.
When the train
came, the children were ________.
A.
in the middle
of the bridge
B.
at the end of the bridge
C.
on their way
to the bridge
D.
away from the bridge
4.
When their
mother knew about the story, she was _______.
A. happy
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Before you go to another
country it is a great help if you know the
language and some of
the customs of the
country
.
When people
meet each other for the first time in
Britain, they say “How do you do?” and
shake
hands.
Usually
they
do
not shake
hands when
they
just
meet
or
say
goodbye.
But
they
shake
hands after they haven‟t met for a long time or
when they will be away from each o
ther
for
a long time.
Last year a
group of German students went to England for a
holiday. Their teacher told
them that
the English people hardly shake hands. So when
they met their English friends at the
B. angry
C.
sorry
D. bother angry and
happy
D. the river