初中英语阅读理解合集【有答案】
-陆军步兵学院
初中英语阅读理解练习
(
一
)
Twenty years ago, I drove a taxi for a
living. One night I went to pick up a passenger at
2:30
AM. When I arrived to collect, I
found the building was dark except for a single
light in a ground
floor window.
I walked to the door and knocked, “Just
a minute,” answered a weak, elderly voice.
After a long pause, the
door opened. A small woman in her eighties stood
before me. By her
side was a small
suitcase.
I took the suitcase to the
car, and then returned to help the woman. She took
my arm and we
walked slowly toward the
car.
She
kept
thanking
me
for
my
kindness.
“It’s
nothing,”
I
told
her.
“I
just
try
to
treat
my
passengers the way I would want my
mother treated.”
“Oh, you’re
such a good man.” She said. When we got into the
taxi, she gave me an address,
and then
asked, “Could you drive through
downtown?”
“It’s not the
shortest way,” I answered quickly.
“Oh, I’m in no hurry,” she said. “I’m
on my way to a hospice
(
临终医院
). I
don’t
have any
family left. The doctor says I
don’t have very long.”
I
quietly
reached
over
and
shut
off
the
meter
(
计价器
).
For
the
next
two
hours,
we
drove
through
the
city.
She
showed
me
the
building
where
she
had
once
worked,
the
neighborhood
where she had
lived, and the furniture shop that had once been a
ballroom where she had gone
dancing as
a girl.
Sometimes she’d ask me to slow
down in front of a particular building and would
sit staring
into the darkness, saying
nothing.
At dawn, she suddenly said,”
I’m tired. Let’s go now.” We drove in silence to
the address she
had given me.
“How much do I owe you?” she
asked.
“Nothing.” I
said.
“You have to make a
living,” she answered. “Oh, there are other
passengers,” I answered.
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Almost without
thinking, I bent and gave her a hug. She held onto
me tightly. Our hug ended
with her
remark
, “You gave an old woman a little
moment of joy.”
1. The old
woman chose to ride through the city in order to
________.
A. show she was familiar with
the city
B. see some places
for the last time
C. let the driver
earn more money
D.
reach the destination(
目的地
)
on time
2. The taxi driver did not
charge(
收费
) the old woman
because he ________.
A. wanted to give
her a hand
B.
shut off the meter by mistake
C. had
received her payment ahead of time
D. was in a hurry to take other
passengers
3. According to the
underlined sentence, the old woman did so
because________.
A. she was tired
B. she may be lost in her memories
C. she was frightened
D. she was excited
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. What does the underlined
word “remark” mean?
A.
标记
B.
话语
C.
记号
D.
评论
5. What can we learn from the story?
A. Giving is always a pleasure.
B. People should respect each other.
C. An act of kindness can bring people
great joy.
D. People should learn to
appreciate(
感激
) others’
concern(
关心
).
(
二
)
Everyone has got two
personalities
（性格）
-the one
that is shown to the world and the other
that is secret and real. You won’t show
your secret personality when you’re awake because
you
can control your behavior, but when
you’re asleep, your sleeping position shows the
real you. In a
normal
night,
of
course,
people
frequently
change
their
positions.
The
important
position
is
the
one that you go to sleep in.
If you go to sleep on your
back, you’re a very open person. You normally
trust people and
you
are
easily
influenced
by
fashion
or
new
ideas.
You
don’t
like
to
displease
people.
So
you
never
express your real feelings. You’re quite shy and
you aren’t quite sure of yourself.
If you sleep on your stomach, you are a
rather secretive person. You worry a lot and
you’re
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always easily upset. Y
ou
always stick to your own opinions or judgment, but
you don’t raise your
hopes
too
much. You
usually
live
for
today
not
tomorrow.
This
means
that
you
enjoy
having
a
good time.
If
you
sleep
curled
up
（蜷缩）
,
you
are
probably
a
very
nervous
person.
You
have
a
low
opinion of
yourself and so you’re often
defensive
. You’re shy and
you don’t normally like meeting
people.
You prefer to be on your own. You’re easily hurt.
If you sleep on your side,
you have usually got a well
—
balanced
（平衡的）
personality. You
know
yo
ur
strengths
and
weakness.
You’re
usually
careful.
You
believe
in
yourself.
You
sometimes
feel
anxious,
but
you
don’t
often
get
sad.
You
always
say
what
you
think
even
if
it
makes people rather angry
1. You may find the passage in
.
A. a
science magazine
B
．
A guide book
C. a sports
newspaper
D. a story book
2. When does the sleeping position best
show your secret personality?
A. In the daytime
B. At the beginning
of sleep
C. At night
D. During the deep
sleep
3. Tina hardly tells her secrets
to her friends. She probably goes to sleep
.
A. on
curled up
B. on her
stomach
C. on her back
D. on her side
4. What does the underlined word
“defensive” mean in the
passage?
A.
易怒的
B.
攻击性的
C.
外向的
D.
有戒心的
5. What does the passage tell us?
A. Sleeping on your side
is the best way of sleeping
B. Changing positions will cause
sleeping problems.
C.
Sleeping positions show people’s secret
personalities.
D. Enough
sleep makes people look better and healthier.
(
三
)
NBA star Yao Ming has a restaurant in
the USA. The restaurant sells many famous dishes.
But one dish could never be made there
---shark fin soup(
鱼翅汤
). Yao
has given up shark fin soup
since he
joined a program for saving endangered
animals in 2006. “Animals are our
friends,” he
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said.
：
How much do
you know about these endangered animals?
Sharks, the king of the ocean, are in
danger. Each year about 75 million sharks are
killed for
their fins, 8 kinds of shark
have died out.
In some
Asian countries, people get
bile(
胆汁
) from Asian black
bears’ stomachs and use it
as
traditional
Chinese
medicine.
The
animal’s
population
has
decreased(
下降
)
by
30%
to
49%
during the past 30
years.
The
shahtoosh
shawl(
沙图什披肩
)
is
thought
to
be
the
softest
and
most
beautiful
in
the
world.
It
is
popular
in
Europe
and
the
US.
However,
one
has
to
kill
three
to
five
Tibetan
antelopes(
藏羚羊
)
to
make
just
one
shahtoosh.
About
20,000
antelopes
were
killed
every
year
during the 1980s.
One day,
if animals all disappeared, the world we live in
would come to an end. Saving them
now
means
saving
ourselves.
Maybe
you
think
that
only
scientists
or
famous
people
can
save
animals.
In fact, everyone can do something. Here are some
useful tips for students.
Don’t
eat
foods
that
are
made
of
endangered
animals,
such
as
shark
fin
soup.
Ask
your
parents
and friends to do so, too.
Don’t
buy
or
use
something
that
is
made
out
of
endangered
animals,
like
clothes
with
antelope fur or necklaces made of
ivory(
象牙
). You should also
tell your parents not to buy these
things, either.
You can become a volunteer to help
build the habitats(
栖息地
) of
endangered animals. There
is a lot of
information on the Internet about these volunteer
jobs.
You can hold a photo
show at your school to tell people the situation
of endangered animals
and what people
can do to help save them.
1
. In Yao Ming’s restaurant,
shark fin soup couldn’t be made
because_________________.
A. many sharks died, and that makes it
difficult to find shark fins
B. he wants to save endangered animals
C. shark fin soup is not
popular now
D. shark fin soup is not a traditional
Chinese food
2
. The
underlined word “
endangered
”
means ____
_____________in Chinese.
A.
危险的
B.
濒临灭绝的
C.
有害的
D.
凶猛的
3. Students
can help save the endangered animals in many ways
EXCEPT________.
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A. asking their parents and friends not
to eat foods made of endangered animals
B. becoming a volunteer
to help build the habitats
C. holding a photo show at school to
tell people what they can do
D. using something that is made out of
endangered animals
4. The best title of
this article may be_______________.
A. Help Save Endangered Animals
B. What Can Students Do
C. Yao Ming’s Restaurant
D. Animals Are Our Friends
(
四
)
“How many common English words were
invented by Shakespeare?”
How long did it take people to find the
answer to this question 15 years ago? And now! You
can google it and find the answer
immediately!
Google is the
most popular Internet search
engine
（搜索引擎）
in the world. It
was invented
by
two
students,
Larry
Page
and
Sergey
Brin.
They
met
in
1993,
when
they
were
studying
computer science at
Stanford University, USA. They dreamed of
producing something that could
also
answer any question in seconds.
Internet search engines at that time
were slow and gave many websites that weren’t
useful. In
January 1996, Page and Brin
decided to make a better and faster search engine.
They thought the
results should be
based on the most popular websites.
Nobody would give them money for their
project, so they used their own money. They also
borrowed money from family and friends.
Then, in 1998, they were given a cheque for
$$100,000,
and they started their own
company(
公司
). Their first
office was in a friend’s
garage(
车库
).The
company
name
is
Google,
a
word
which
comes
from
mathematics.
A
“google”
is
a
very
high
number
—
1 followed by a hundred
zeros.
The Google search
engine was soon used by thousands of people
worldwide because it was
fast,
easy
and
correct.
By
2002
it
was
the
biggest
search
engine
on
the
Internet.
Now,
more
questions have been answered by Google
than any other Internet service, from sport to
science,
and from music to medicine.
Google hopes that in the future all the world’s
information will be
put on the
Internet, so that everybody can find everything.
1. Why did the writer begin
this passage by asking you a question?
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A.
Because he or she liked to begin this passage by
asking readers a question.
B. Because he or she was afraid that
the readers didn’
t know this question.
C. Because he or she wanted
to make the readers interested in this passage.
D. Because Shakespeare is
one of the most famous people in the world.
2. The underlined word “cheque” in the
fifth paragraph means _______.
A.
楼房
B.
账单
C.
订单
D.
支票
3. From the
passage we know that at the beginning of their
project, _______.
A. there
was not any search engine on the Internet
B. nobody supported them except their
family and friends
C. Larry Page and
Sergey Brin dreamed to answer any question
D. one of the most popular websites
gave them a cheque for $$100,000
4.
Which statement is NOT true according to the
passage?
A. Now the Google
search engine is widely used in the world.
B. The Google search engine was not the
biggest one before 2002.
C. Larry Page
and Sergey Brin named google after a hundred
zeros.
D. The service of
the Google search engine is very popular.
5. The passage mainly tells us _______.
A. the development of the
Google search engine
B. about Larry Page and
Sergey Brin
C. how to find information
on the Internet
D.
how to use the Google search engine
(
五
)
Mrs. Thompson, a school teacher, told the children
on the first day that she loved them all
the same. But that was a lie. There in
the front row was a little boy named Teddy
Stoddard. He
didn’t get along well with
the other children and he always needed a bath.
She did not like him.
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