仁爱八年级英语阅读理解练习

Passage 7
A man was walking through a had a few caps in his the forest there were a lot of was hot, so he decided to have a rest under a put a cap on his head and lay down to sleep.
When he woke up,he couldn't find his caps, "Where are my caps"he cried and looked saw some monkeys in the had a cap on its head.
"Give back my caps! "shouted the man to the the monkeys didn't understand only jumped, danced and laughed.
"How can I get back my caps"he thought last he had an took off his cap and threw it on the little monkeys did the same
the man picked up all the caps and went on his way.
判断正误（T或F）：
（ ) 1. One day a man was going through a forest.
（ ) 2. The man decided to have a rest because he was ill.
（ ) 3. When the man woke up, he found his caps were gone.
（ ) 4. The man saw a lot of birds in the tree.
（ ) 5. The man was angry when he got all his caps back.
Passage 8
An owl（猫头鹰） is a bird with very big eyes make the owl look clever. The owl can not move its eyes freely(自由地) as we can only look straight(笔直地) ahead (向前).If it wants to look at both sides,it must turn its see better at night than during the night they look for eat mice (老鼠) and insects (昆虫).
Owls make a strange(奇怪的) the owls sleep most of the day,they usually give their cries at cry sounds like "Whooo! Whooo".This strange sound sometimes frightens (使…害怕) people at night.
( ) 1. An owl looks clever because
A. it has a beautiful body
B. it has big eyes
C. it can look straight ahead
D. it can turn its neck ( ) 2. An owl looks for food at night because
A. it has large eyes
B. it can't move its eyes freely as we can
C. it sees better at night than during the day
D. it can't see anything at all during the day
( ) 3. An owl lives on
A. small birds
B. all kinds of birds
C. all kinds of small animals
D. none of the above
( ) 4. The cry of an owl is
A. frightening B, good to listen to
C. like a song
D. like the sound of a cow
( ) 5. Man must not kill owls because
A. they don't do anything wrong
B. they are good-looking and have two big eyes
C. they cry only at night
D. they are helpful to us
Passage 9
Jimmy lives in the country, and he loves playing in the river near his house. But his father gets a job in a big city, and he goes there with his family.
Their new house has a garden,but the garden is very isn't happy."Is there a fiver near here"he is asking his mother on the first morning. His mother is answering: "No,there isn't,but there's a nice park near here, Jimmy, and there's a pool" in 're going there this afternoon."Jimmy is happy now.
After lunch, Jimmy and his mother go to the park, Jimmy wants to walk near the pool,but there is a sign before mother reads it to him: "This pool is people have fallen in it."Jimmy looks into the pool he says:"But I can't see them."
判断正误（T或F）：
( ) l. There is a garden near Jimmy's old house:
( ) 2. Jimmy moves to a big city because his father gets a job in the big
city.
( ) becomes happy because he's going to play with some new friends. ( ) 4. The sign tells people not to walk near the pool.
( ) 5. 367 people have fallen into the river.
Passage 10
was a taught in a big school in lived a long way from the school, so he was usually quite tired when he got nine o'clock one evening when he was in bed,the telephone bell rang in the hall,so he went downstairs,picked up the telephone and said: "Hello! Who's speaking,please"
"Watt"a man answered.
"What's your name,please "said .
"Watt's my name."was the answer.
"Yes,I asked you that what's your name" said again.
"I told 's my name."said the other man, "Are you Jack Smith"
"No, I' m Knott."answered ..
Both and put their telephones down angrily and thought:"What a rude（粗鲁的）, foolish（愚蠢的，傻的） man！"
( ) 1. was usually tired in the evening because ________.
A. he was a teacher
B. he worked very hard in a school
C. he lived a long way from school
D. he taught too many students
（ ) 2. went downstairs at nine one evening ________.
A. to telephone
B. to meet
C. when someone rang him up
D. when the door bell rang （ ) 3. wanted to speak to ________.
A. his wife
B.
C. Jack Smith
D.
（ ) 4. "Watt's my name"means________.
A. What's my name
B. My name is What
C. Are you asking my name
D. My name is Watt
（ ) 5. didn't understand what said because________.
A. he was a foolish teacher
B. he had bad ears
C. didn't speak loudly enough
D. The “a”in “watt”is pronounced (发音) as the "a" in "what"
Passaoe 11
On Saturday,Ann came home from school a little felt wanted to get ready for her party.
"Mother,can we cook the food now,please"she said, "I'm worried about my party."
"The sandwiches are all ready." said Ann, "not everyone likes about my birthday cake"
"I made your birthday cake last night when you were in bed. answered, "we only need to put the candles on it,now."
"Oh,good! "said Ann, "may I put them on"
Ann began to put candles on her she counted them."There aren't
enough candles."said Ann.
"There are only need one more."
"I '11 get another one now."said her mother, "don't worry."
判断正误（T或F）：
（ ) 1. Ann was worried about the party.
（ ) 2. Ann have a birthday cake for her birthday.
（ ) 3. Ann was twelve years old.
（ ) 4. They put the candles on the birthday cake.
（ ) 5. They had twelve candles.
Passage 12
lived in a small town, but he got a job in a big city, so he moved there with his wife and his two children last Tuesday.
The next day took his new car out of the garage and was washing
it when a neighbor neighbor stopped and looked at the new car for a turned and saw him.
The neighbor said: "That's a new it yours"
"Sometimes." answered.
The neighbor was surprised."Sometimes" he said, "what do you mean"
"Well."answered slowly, "when there's a party in town, it belongs to my daughter, there's a football game,it belongs to my son, Joe. When
I have washed it and it looks really nice and clean,it belongs to my wife, when it needs gas,it's mine."
( ) 1. There are __________people in the story.
A. three
B. four
C. six
D. five
( ) 2. worked in__________.
A. a small town
B. a big city
C. the garage
D. the gas station
( ) 3. When was washing the new car,his neighbor came to ask
him__________.
A. if the car was new
B. what car it was
C. if the car was ' s
D. whose car it was
( ) there was a football match, the car belonged to__________.
A. B. the neighbor C. Jean's brother D. Jean
( ) 5. “Sometimes”in the story means that__________.
A. when there was a party in town,the car belonged to his daughter
B. when there was a football game,it was his son's
C. when the car looked nice and clean,it was his wife's
D. when the ear wanted gas,it belonged to him
Passage 13
When Jimmy was a boy,he liked watches and clocks very he was eighteen years old,he went into the after a year,he began to teach himself to mend lot of friends brought him broken watches,and he mended them for his captain heard about this,and one day he brought him a watch too and said: "My watch has stopped,can you mend it for me , please "Jimmy said："Yes, can."
After a few days,he brought the watch back to the captain."How much do I owe（欠…钱） you " the officer asked.
"One pound,sir."Jimmy he took a small bag out of his pocket and gave it to the captain, saying:
"Here are three wheels from your didn't find a place for them when I put everything back."
判断正误（T或F）：
( ) 1. After Jimmy joined the army, he began to learn how to mend watches.
( ) 2. His friends sometimes brought him new watches.
( ) 3. One day the captain asked Jimmy to mend his watch.
( )4. The officer wanted to know how many wheels were in his watch. ( ) 5. At last Jimmy made the watch worse.
Passage 14
July 20th, 1969 was an important Americans landed on the
names were Armstrong and went there in a name was Apollo 11.
Apollo 11 left Cape Kennedy on July 16th and went three hundred and eighty-five thousand took the two Americans three days to get July 20th the spaceship landed in the Sea of Tranquility（宁静）.Armstrong first stepped onto the picked up some rocks and put them in the jumped up and were tired after their moonwalk,so they rested.
On July 21st Apollo 11 left the moon and returned to the days later, it came down in the Pacific ship took the men to America.
( ) 1. The moon is ________ kilometers away from the earth.
A. 385
B. 3850
C. 385000
( ) 2. The two Americans stayed on the moon for about________.
A. three days
B. six days
C. one day
D. four days
( ) 3. "The Sea of Tranquility'here means________.
A. the earth
B. the moon
C. the world
( ) 4. July 20th, 1969 was an important day because________.
A. Apollo 11 landed on the moon
B. man could not get to the moon by spaceship
C. it was the first time for human beings to land on the moon
D. Americans were the first men to get to the moon
（ ) 5. The best title for this passage is________.
A. Two Americans on the Moon
B. An important day
C. On the Moon
D. The First Men on the Moon
Passage 15
It is good to keep animals in are places for people to see many different kinds of animals from all over the zoos,most people would never see a real tiger or ,zoos look after the animals very animals are always given food and cleaned on the wild, it is not always possible for an animal to find food, so sometimes it goes , zoos protect the offer them safe place to live the wild, some kinds of animals are in danger of becoming extinct （灭绝).But zoos give these animals a chance to zoos, there would be fewer kinds of animals in the world.
However,some people think it is unnatural (非自然的) and unfair （不公平的） to keep wild（野生的） animals in animals are kept in cages that are too small for them. The animals such as bears and tigers always look sad in animals should look for their own would not feel happy if he isn't allowed (允许) to go outside his home and animals don't like it either.
判断正误（T或F）：
( ) 1. If you don't go to a zoo, you can't see dogs.
( ) 2. In the zoos, all animals are happy.
( ) 3. In the wild, animals look for their own food.
( ) 4. According to（根据) the last sentence,we can say animals like to
stay in the cages.
( ) 5. The writer is not sure whether it is better for animals to
stay in
Zoos.
Passage 16
Big Ben is not the name of a 's the name of a huge clock in London. London is the capital of dock has four ,no matter where you stand, you can read the time on the face of Big face is the size of a double decker hands are about four meters is about the size of two people standing on the top of each you go to London, you may want to Visit the Houses of Parliament(国会大厦).In that place,you will find Big Ben sits at the top of the clock tower in the Houses of will probably hear it as well as see giant clock makes such a loud noise: "Ding dong, ding dong."It goes every quarter of a hour.
The clock was named after a big was Sir Benjamin man did much building work in London many years ago.
（ ) 1. Big Ben is______.
A. a double decker bus
B. a huge clock
C. a building
D. the name of Ben
( ) 2. The clock strikes every, ______ of an hour.
A. ten minutes
B. fifteen minutes
C. twenty minutes
D. thirty minutes
（ ) 3. Which two words mean the same as large
A. Giant and small.
B. Gig and double.
C. Giant and huge.
D. Huge and loud.
（ ) 4. You can read the time of Big Ben
A. on the faces of the clock
B. at the top of the clock tower
C. on the hands of the huge clock
D. in the Houses of Parliament （ ) 5. The title of this passage is
A. The capital of England
B. A clock
C. Sir Benjamin Hall
D. Big Ben
Passage 17
A businessman had worked too found that he couldn't sleep at night, but often fell asleep during the became very worried, so he went to see his doctor.
"Can you help me,doetor"he asked, "I slept so well,but now I sleep less than two hours at night."
The doctor looked him over carefully,gave him some tests,asked him to work less hard,and told him to take some medicine to help said he was sure that he was not seriously ill, and that he would soon be better. But the businessman grew worse instead of slept even less than before at night and was still falling asleep in his visited the doctor again and again and it took the doctor a long time to find out the reason :the businessman's wife was giving him the sleeping medicine in the morning and the ones to keep him awake at night.
判断正误：
( ) 1. The businessman couldn't fall asleep because he was worried about
his business.
( ) 2. The businessman worked at night and slept during the day. ( ) 3. The businessman visited the doctor again and again because he still
couldn't sleep at all.
( ) doctor told the man he wasn't seriously ill and would soon be well. ( ) 5. The businessman grew worse because the doctor gave him the wrong medicine.
Passaoe 18
Australia is the greatest island in the is a little smaller than is to the south of the equator (赤道).So when it is summer in our country,it is winter
in Australia.
Australia is big,but the population there is population of Australia is the same as that of Shanghai, a city in China.
Australia is famous for its sheep and kangaroos (袋鼠).After a short drive from any town, you will find yourself in the middle of white are you seen a kangaroo It has a "bag" below its breast (胸).The mother kangaroo keeps its baby kangaroo in the"bag".It is very strange, isn't it
（ ) 1. China is（）than Australia,
A. larger BI large C. small D. smaller
( ) 2. It is（）in Australia when it is summer in our country.
A. autumn
B. spring
C. winter
D. summer
( ) 3. The population of Australia is the same as that of（）in China.
A. Beijing
B. Tianjin
C. Nanjing
D. Shanghai
（ ) 4. Australia is famous for its（）
A. kangaroos
B. deer
C. elephants
D. birds
（ ) 5. Austalia is to the south of the equator. So（）
A. it is the greatest land in the world
B. it is hot summer in December
C. it is cold winter in December
D. its population is thin
Passage 19
Mary is six years often goes to the shop and goes to the church
with her likes following her mother.
One day,when they are in the church,the pastor asks:"Who wants
to go to the heavenPlease put up your hand."
All the people except Mary put up their hands. "Where do you want
to go, my girl"asks the pastor.
"I want to go home with my mother."answers Mary.
When they get home ,it is mother begins to do is very washes
some cleans the table and the she wants to sweep the the broom isn't
in the house.
"Could you help me ,Mary Would you like to go out and bring the
broom for me"
"I'd love to,but it's too dark I feel fear."
"Never can help you."
Mary opens the door and says:"Oh, my dear God,please pass the broom
to me." She puts her hand out of the door.
判断正误：
（ ) 1: Mary is a girl.
（ ) 2. Mary thinks God is a teacher.
（ ) 3. Her mother does the housework in the morning.
（ ) 4. Her mother wants Mary to help her.
（ ) 5. Mary's mother needs a knife.
Passage 20
A frog is born in a small it is young,the river is his doesn't
know his parents ,but he has hundreds of brothers and swims about and
plays all day with that time ,he doesn't look like his has no legs but
he has a long he looks like a fish.
Then his tail gets shorter and he has four legs and a very short
looks like his parents he's going to eat a lot of insects——a lot of
bad insects.
( ) 1. Where is a frog born
A. In a hole.
B. In the land.
C. In a river.
D. In a sea. ( ) 2. Which of the following is fight
A. A baby frog stays at home and knows only his parents.
B. A baby frog looks like a bird and he doesn't know his parents.
C. A baby frog looks like his parents, but he doesn't know them.
D. A baby frog looks like a fish and has lots of brothers and sisters. ( ) 3. Who does a frog play with all day
A. His parents.
B. His brothers and sisters.
C. Fish.
D. Insects.
（ ) 4. What does a frog look like
A. He looks like a fish.
B. He has four legs and a very short tail.
C. He looks like an insect.
D. He has four legs and a long tail.（ ) 5. A baby frog
A. can swim
B. cannot swim
C. cannot eat
D. can eat insects
Passage 21
Mike was a small boy,and he didn't like washing his ,cery day his mother said to him: "Mike,your hands are very dirty and wash them."But Mike never washed them only put them in the water for a minute and tookthem out again.
Mike's aunt lived in ahother day,she came to stay with Mike's parents,and she came with her small son, was a year younger than Mike,and he didn't like washing his hands,either .First the boys were with their parents,then they went to they were sitting,Mike looked at Ted's hands and said: "My hands are dirtier than yours.""Certainly they are." Ted answered,"you are a year older than I am."
判断正误：
（ ) 1. Mike always washed his hands carefully.
（ ) 2. Mike was older than Ted.
（ ) 3. Ted's hands were a little cleaner than Mike's.
（ ) 4. Mike's aunt lived in the street next to his house.
（ ) 5. Mike's hands were dirtier than Ted's because he was older.
Passage 23
Kate is an English lives in a tall building in the city of are sixteen floors in the building,and she lives on the tenth uses a lift to go up and down.
Kate studies in a middle school near her house and she works goes
to school day she leaves her home at half past walks to the lift, and it takes her down to the first floor.
There is a bus stop near the she takes bus to her school,
but sometimes she goes on is only four kilometers to her school from the gets to school at about seven begin at eight. She goes to
play games at three gets home at a quarter past begins to do her homework at eight and finishes it at half past nine.
( ) 1. Kate lives in a tall building（）London.
A, near B. in C. outside D. far from ( ) 2. She goes up and down the building（）
A. in lift
B. by a lift
C. by lift
D. with lift ( ) 3. She leaves（）at six thirty.
A. her home
B. the building
C. the lift
D. the bus st~;p
（ ) 4. She goes to school（）
A. by bus
B. by bike
C. on foot
D. A and C
（ ) 5. It takes her（）to do her homework.
A. about an hour
B. about one hour and half
C. one hour and a half
D. eighty minutes
Passage 24
Sandy,Billy and Sue are in the are now standing near the monkeys'cage.
"That's a nice monkey."Sandy says, "he's like Billy." "No,he's not! " Billy answers,
"He's like 's good at running and jumping." "You see he wants some nuts."Sue
says,"give him some nuts,Sandy."Sandy is throwing some nuts into the cage."Give him some sweets , Billy." "He likes nuts, but he doesn't like sweets."Sue says."Look! "Sandy says "the monkey is pointing at Billy's can see the bananas in him a banana, wants it.""No! "Billy says, "I can't give my bananas to want to eat
them." "Please give it to him."Sue says."No! "Billy shouts, "he can eat nuts,but he
can't eat my bananas! "
（ ) 1. The monkeys in the zoo are in the open air.
（ ) 2. Sandy is good at sports.
（ ) 3. The monkey can reach the nuts in Sandy's bag.
（ ) 4. Billy likes bananas better than nuts.
（ ) 5. Sandy and Sue want Billy to give the monkey some bananas.
Passage 25
A good way to pass an exam is to work hard every may not pass an exam if
you don't work hard for most time and then work hard only a few days before the exam.
If you are taking an English exam, do not only learn rules of to read stories in English and speak English whenever you can.
Before you start the exam,read carefully over the to understand the exact meaning of each question before you pick up your pen to write. When you have at last finished your exam,read over your the mistakes if there are any and make sure that you have not missed anything out. ( ) 1. How can you do well in an exam
A. Work hard every day.
B. Read stories in English.
C. Be careful in doing the questions.
D. Read over your answer before you hand in your paper.（ ) 2. Learning rules of grammar to pass an English exam.
A. is enough
B. is not enough
C. is not necessary
D. is of no use
（ ) 3. It is not a good way.
A. to read English stories
B. to learn rules of grammar
C. to speak English as much as possible
D. to work hard only a few days before the exam
（ ) 4. The word "whenever'means
A. every time
B. what time
C. at any time
D. for ever
（ ) 5. "Miss...out"means
A. think hard
B. not have enough time to do
C. not put in
D. give the wrong answer
Passage 26
Luck likes English very works reads English every likes speaking often listens to the likes watching she only watches it on Saturday evening.
She doesn't like she likes sings very likes
driving a car, parents like all the teachers like her, too.
( ) 1. Luck reads English every morning.
( ) 2. She watches TV every evening.
( ) 3. She likes singing and dancing.
( ) 4. Her classmates likes her.
( ) 5. From the story,we know Luck is a good driver.
Passage 27
In the morning comes into the garden at the back of his sees much snow in the wants to take his car out,so he asks a man to clean the road from his garage (车库)to the says to the man:"Don't throw any snow on that will damage(损坏) the flowers in the street, or the policeman will come."Then he goes out.
When he comes back, the road is is no snow on the flowers,on the wall or in the when he open garage ,he sees the garage is full of snow, the snow
from the road,and his car is under the snow!
( ) 1. In the morning Mr. Smith finds there is a lot of snow in （）
A. his garden
B. his garage
C. his house
D. his ear
( ) 2. He tells a man to'clean the road,because he（）
A. doesn't like snow
B. wants to keep the road clean
C. wants to take his car out of the garage
D. often tell the man to do something
（ ) does Mr,Smith ask the man to throw the snow
A. On the flowers
B. Into the street
C. On the wall
D. We don't know （ ) 4. He opens the garage and（）
A. takes his car out
B. finds it is full of snow
CI finds the car isn't in it D. takes the snow out
（ ) 's 's car
A. Under the snow
B. In the street
C. Near the road
D. In front of his house
Passage 28
Have you ever heard your own voice "Of eourse."you say.
Has anyone else ever heard your voice Again you say :"Of course."
But that's not quite else has ever heard your voice the way you hear you talk,you set up sound waves (声波）.The air outside your head carries the sound waves to your outer , of course, the sound of your voice begins inside your bones(骨头) of your head pick up the sound waves, carry the sound waves straight to your inner (内部) get the sound from the outside and the
inside people get just the sound waves from the 's why they don't hear your voice th6 way you do.
判断正误：
( ) 1. Sound travels in the form of waves.
( ) 2. The sound of your voice begins outside your head.
( ) 3. When you talk, other poeple hear your voice from the outside. ( ) 4. The phrase"pick" up"here means"to choose".
( ) 5. The passage is mainly about the different ways you and others hear
your voice.
Passage 29
Miss Rose taught physics in a London week she was explaining (解释)to one of her classes about sound, and she decided to test them to see how successful she had been in her said to them."Now, I have a sister in I was calling her on the telephone, and at the same time you were 20 meters away ,and listened to me from the other side of the street,who would hear what I said earlier, my sister or you, and why"
The cleverest boy at once answered."Your sister,Miss Rose,because electricity(电) travels faster than sound waves(波)."
"That's very good."Miss Rose then one of the girls put up her hand, and Miss Rose said."Yes, Betty.""I don't agree."Betty said, "your sister would hear you earlier because when it's eleven o'clock here,it's only six o'clock in Washington."
( ) 1. Miss Rose was teaching her students about
A. telephone
B. time
C. sound
D. electricity
( ) 2. She wanted her students to know
A. which were faster, sound waves or electricity
B. whether Betty was cleverer than the boy
C. whether she could call her sister in Washington
D. whether her students could hear her from 20 meters away （ ) 3. The boy thought that
A. sound waves were faster than electricity
B. sound waves were slower than electricity
C. the students would hear Miss Rose earlier
D. the students would hear her sister earlier
（ ) 4. From the passage,we know Miss Rose
A. was pleased with the boy's answer
B. was not pleased with what the boy had said
C. thought Betty's answer was much better
D. thought both of the answers were right
（ ) 5. Betty thought the boy was wrong because
A. electricity was slower than sound waves
B. electricity was faster than sound waves
C. electricity traveled as fast as sound waves
D. clocks in Washington showed a different time from those in London
Passage 30
My name is Qing 'm a middleschool am studying in Middle
school isn't big,but I like it very much.
In my school there are eighteen are about fifty students in every have twenty-seven 'm in Class 4, Grade my classroom there are twenty-six desks and fifty-two chairs. There's a map of China and a map of the world on the classroom is big and clean.
There are twenty-eight boys and twenty-four girls in my have English, Chinese ,math and five other morning some of us come to school by get to school by bike ,but sometimes I come to school on English teacher often says : "Please be careful when you come to school by bike."He is a good like him very much.
I love my school, because our teachers are very friendly to must study hard for people.
( ) 1. I like my school because it's No. 1 Middle School.
（ ) 2. There are fifty-two students in Class 4, Grade 2.
（ ) 3. There are two maps on the wall of Class 4, Grade 2.
（ ) 4. I have ten subjects at school.
（ ) 5. All the students walk to school.
Passage 31
When tea and coffee were first introduced to Europe in the 18th century, people
had different ideas about their said that tea and coffee were harmful to humans and they could cause people to die.
In Sweden（瑞典）, King Gustaf Ⅲ decided to find out whether or。