初三英语阅读理解专项训练(1)

初三英语阅读理解专项训练(1) 阅读理解专项训练(1) A There are students from all over the world at the United World School. In this school these students study and spend their free time together. The school believes this will help them grow up to be caring and friendly. Once a year, there is a special “United Nations” show. Students are allowed to show everything. But the things must come from their traditional cultures. To get ready for the festival, they have to teach each other. And the school believes this will help them understand and enjoy other cultures better. This school also believes that students should be allowed to make some decisions themselves. For example, the older students are allowed to wear what they want and the younger students are allowed to choose their favorite kind of uniforms. But all students are asked not to wear expensive necklace or something else liked that, and not to wear clothes that will make other students unhappy. It is never possible to make everybody happy, but if we want to have a much more wonderful world, it is important for students to understand and enjoy other cultures as well as to be proud of their own. 1.Where do the students at the United World School come from? A.China B. America C. All over the world 2.What are the students allowed to do at the United World School? A. To do everything they want B. To wear anything they want C. To decide something themselves 3.Which of the following is NOT right according to the passage? A.The school can help the students grow up to be friendly. B.The school allows the students to make some decisions. C.We can make everybody happy by understanding each other. 4.What can Li Lei, a Chinese boy, show on the festival according to the passage? A.Play the piano B. Act Beijing Opera C. Sing an English song 5.What does “this” in the passage? A.The “United Nations” show B. The traditional culture C. The school B When you are learning English, you find it not clever to put an English sentence, word for word, into your own language. Take the sentence "How do you do?" as an example. If you look up each word in the dictionary, one at a time, what is your translation?It must be a wrong sentence in your own language. Languages do not just have different sounds, they are different in many ways. It's important to learn the rules for word order in the study of English, too. If the speaker puts words in a wrong order, the listener can't understand the speaker's sentence easily.Sometimes when the order of words in an English sentence is changed, the meaning of the sentence changes. But sometimes the order is changed, the meaning of the sentence doesn't change. Let's see the difference between the two pairs of sentences. "She only likes apples." "Only she likes apples." "I have seen the film already." "I have already seen the film." When you are learning English, you must do your best to get the spirit of the language and use it as the English speaker does. 6. From the passage we know thatwhen we are learning English. A. we shouldn't put every word into our own language B. we should look up every word in the dictionary C. we need to put every word into our own language 7. The writer thinks it isin learning English. A. difficult to understand different sounds B. possible to remember the word order C. important to master the rules in different ways 8. We can learn from the passage that_______. A. the meaning of an English sentence always changes with the order of the words B. the order of words can never change the meaning of an English sentence C. sometimes different order of words has a different meaning D. if the order of words is different, the meaning of the sentence must be different 9. "She only likes apples. " A. is the same as "Only she likes apples." B. is different from "Only she likes apples." C. means "She likes fruit except apples." 10. Which is the best title for this passage? A. Different Orders, Different Meanings B. How to Speak English C. How to Learn English C Have you ever seen a horse with toes? (脚趾) Millions of years ago ,house had many toes.They had four toes on each front foot.They had three toes on each back foot.The horses were no bigger than cats. These small horses lived in the forest.Their many toes helped the horses run over the soft wet ground. It was very hot in the forest.But the weather changed.It became cold.Many trees could not live in cold weather.The trees died and fell.Open fields took the place (代替) of forests.The sun made ground dry and hard.(坚硬) Horses began to change,too.They began to get bigger.This took a long time.On the dryhard land,horses needed only their middle toes for running.Their middle toes became hard.After a long while,horses had only one hard toe on each foot.We call this hard toe a hoof(马蹄). 11. Long ago, the horse had four toes on each of its. A.back feet B. front feet C.right feet 12. The cats werethe horses at that time. A. much bigger B.smaller than C. bigger than 13. Which of the three sentences is true? A. The weather stays the same the whole year all over the world. B. When the weather changed, animals began to change too. C. Cats were bigger in the past than they are today. 14. On the dry hard land. A. horses needed a lot of room for running. B. a horse needed more than four toes for running C. horses needed only their middle toes for running 15. Now each horse hason its feet. A. one toe B. three toes C. four toes D Hundreds of years ago, life was much harder than it is today.People didn’t have modern machines.There was no modern medicine, either. Life today has brought new problems. One of the biggest is pollution. (污染) Water pollution has made our rivers and lakes dirty.It kills our fish and pollutes our drinking water.Noise pollution makes us talk louder and become angry more easily.Air pollution is the most serious kind of pollution.It’s bad to all living things in the world. Cars, planes and factories all pollute our air every day.Sometimes the polluted air is so thick that it is like a quilt over a city.This kind of quilt is called smog.(烟雾) Many countries are making rules to flight pollution.Factories must now clean their water before it is thrown away and they mustn’t blow dirty smoke into the air We need to do many other things.We can put waste things in the dustbin and do not throw them on the ground. We can go to work by bus or with our friends in the same car. If there are fewer people driving, there will be less pollution. Rules are not enough. Every person must help to fight pollution. 16.Hundreds of years ago, life was much harder than it is today because. A.there were not any modern machines B.there was no modern medicine C.both A and B 17.The most serious kind of pollution is. A.Water pollution B.Air pollution C.Pollution 18.The most serious kind of pollution is. A.noise pollution B. air pollution C. water pollution 19. Factories must clean their water. A. before they are thrown away B. when they are thrown away C.before it is thrown away 20. From the passage we know that. A.a few years ago, there was no smog at all B. people are making rules in order to fight pollution 阅读理解专项训练(2) A “You'll have to take care of the baby today,”a woman told her husband. “I'm not feeling well.” “Then you must stay in bed and rest, dear.” her husband said.“I'll be pleased to look after our baby.”“By the way, shall I do the shopping for you as well? ” her husband asked. The woman was very pleased and said,“That will help me very much. I'll give you a list of things to buy.” She wrote out the list and gave it to him. The man took the baby to the supermarket and put him in the shopping cart. Then he pushed the shopping cart along the rows of things to buy and looked for those that were on his list. At first everything was OK, but then the baby began to cry. Then he started to scream. And scream! And SCREAM! “Keep calm, George,” the man said. “Don't get excited. Don't shout, George. Don't lose your temper, George. ” A woman in the supermarket heard him saying so. She walked up to him. “I think you are wonderful,” she said.“You are so patient with your little George.” “Madam,” the man said, “I'm George. He's Edward.” 42. The man take care of the baby instead because his wife was. A.ill B.busy C.angry 43. The baby cried so hard. A.at home B.in the supermarket C.in the street 44. When the baby was crying, the father kept talking tofor relaxing. A.his baby B.the woman C.himself 44. The underlined sentence“Don't lose your temper.”in this passage means“”. A.clam down B. shut up C.walk on 46. The baby's name is. A.George B.Edward C.Scream B In the last few years, some researchers decided to study why kids lie(撒谎).So they made up a spacial team of 12 students, all under the age of 21. Each student was given 36 cards, and each card listed a topic that teens sometimes lie about to their parents. The researchers worked through the cards with the teens, learning what things the kid was lying to his parents about, and why. By the end of the interviews, the kids saw for the first time how much they were lying and how many of family's rules they hand broken. It was reported that 98% of the teens had lied to their parents. Out of the 36 topics, the average(平均) teen was lying to his parents about 12 of them. The teens lied about what movie they went to, and whom they went with. They lied about how they spent their afternoons while their parents were at work, and something like that. Most parents hear their child lie and think he's too young to understand what lies are or that lying's wrong. They believe their child will stop when he gets older. Many books also advise parents to just let lies go ---- they'll grow out of it. But the truth is that kids grow into it. In studies where children are observed(观察) in their natural environment, a 4-year-old child will lie once every two hours, while a 6-year-old child will lie about once every hour and a half. 47. The researchers started the project by. A.playing card s B.free talking C.doing a survey 48. The topic on 36 cards are mostly between kids and. A.parents B.teachers C.researchers 49. From this passage, the teen lied on aboutof the 36 topics as an average. A.12% B.33% C.98% 50. On this topic, the advice from many books for the parents is that they. A.needn't worry about it too much B.should take it serious enough C.had better do something to stop it 51.According to the studies, children telllies as they get older. A.less B.more C.no C There are many TV programs on Chinese cuisines(烹饪、美食), but few are like A Bite of China. It tries to bring something new by introducing more cultural features related to dishes, such as eating habits and wonderful stories about food. It’s said that more than 100 million Chinese people are watching the program. Most Chinese people see this program as more than just the regular food shows. They see it as an amazing documentary providing a special view of Chinese as well as the relations between people and food and between people and society. On the other hand, the documentary also stimulates(刺激) Chinese people’s consumption. Taobao, one of China’s biggest online shopping sites, reports that the search(搜索) on food items that were introduced by the documentary has increased to 4 million times within one week, and sales have increased to 5.82 million, or 20%. To get enough good stories, the production team spent three months doing research and interviews in about 60 cities before they started making the documentary last July. Filming lasted about nine months. Liu Wen, the director, says “As CCTV-9 serves as a window allowing the world to better understand China, the documentary aims to help the world not only appreciate the beauty of Chinese cuisines, but also learn Chinese customs.” 52. A Bite of China is a . A. film B. TV show C. book 53. This program is quite different from other food shows because it has more features of . A.culture. B. cuisine C. news rd54. The main idea of the 3 paragraph is that the program brings a new opportunity on . A.Internet communication B. film making C. food business 55. It took the production team about to complete the whole program. A. 3 months B. six months C. a year 56. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to this passage? A. Most people watch the program because they want to learn how to cook. B. There’re many wonderful stories about Chinese cuisines in “A Bite of China”. C. You can buy some food that’s more delicious and cheaper through the program. D There was an American writer who often told such a story to his friends and readers: It was an exhibition of the artists’ works organized by the Red Cross. I was invited as a special guest to take part in the exhibition. During this period, two cute girls of 16 or 17 years old came to me and asked for my signature(签名). “I haven’t brought my pen. Is the pencil okay?”I asked. In fact I knew they wouldn't refuse. I just wanted to show a well-known writer’s good manners to the common readers. “Certainly,” the young girls readily agreed. I could see they were very excited. Of course, their excitement also made me more pleased with myself. One of the girls handed her notebook to me. I took out my pencil, wrote a few words of encouragement, and signed my name. The girl read my signature, frowned(皱眉), looked at me carefully and asked, “Aren't you Robert Charboss?” “No,”I told her proudly, “I’m the author of Alice Adams, the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes.” The young girl turned to another one, and said, “Mary, lend your eraser to me.” At that moment, all my pride turned into a bubble immediately. Since then, I always warn(告诫) myself: Don’t think too highly of yourself even though you are so outstanding. 57. The writer went to the exhibition because he . A. would put out his new book B. got a special invitation C. wanted to meet his fans 58. The writer the girl. A. signed his name for B. borrowed a pen from C. lent the pencil to 59. We can infer that the two girls were the fans of . A. the writer B. Alice Adams C. Robert Charboss 60. The underlined sentence “All my pride turned into a bubble immediately” means that the writer . A. had realized that he was too proud of himself B. felt very angry when he heard the girl’s words C. was so polite to the girls and helped them a lot 61. This story teaches us to be a(an) person. A. careful B. outstanding C. modest E Writers can be creative. To do this, they can use figures of speech(修饰). There are many of these. Here we learn some of them, such as similes, metaphors, hyperbole, and personification. Similes and metaphors are both comparisons(比较) between two unlike things. But they are not the same. Similes use “as” or “like” to compare two things. For example, “hard as stone”“spend money like water” are similes. Metaphors are comparisons between two unlike things that seem to have nothing in common. “Life is a book” and “A policeman took me out of the snake of traffic” are metaphors. Hyperbole is also a figure of speech. It is a form of exaggeration(夸张). People often exaggerate when they speak or write. For example, “There were a million people in the store” is hyperbole. “You are the whole world to me” is, too. Finally, people often give things and animals human characteristics. This is personification. “The wind is whispering” is one example, so is “My dog is speaking to me”. The wind and a dog are not humans, but they have human characteristics here. So they are examples of personification. 62. This passage introduces kinds of figures of speech to us. A. 3 B. 4 C. 5 63. “” shows the use of simile. A. My love is like a red rose. B. She is as tall as me C. He likes games 64. Picture gives us an example of metaphor. A. B. C. 65. “The bird is singing in the tree.”is an example of . A. metaphor B. hyperbole C. personification 66. It must be helpful for your study after reading this passage. A. history B. language C. science (1)1-5CCCBB 6-10 ACCBA 11-15 BCBCA 16-20 BCBCB (2)42-45 ABCA 46-50 BCABA 51-55 BBACC 56-60 BBACA 61-65 CBACC 66 B