八年级英语阅读理解试题(卷)与答案解析讲解

八年级英语阅读理解试题及答案讲解01

A meteorite (陨石) almost hit an 80-year-old man named Arthur Pettife r in Britain when he was working in his garden. The meteorite was the bi ggest in the past 26 years in Britain.

The meteorite weighed (重量) one kilo, and might be over four thousa nd million (百万) years old.

“I hear the big noise in the air. I looked up and saw the tops of the t rees coming and going,”he said. “I didn't know what it was.”

Meteorites are small things from the small planets in space. About 3,5 00 meteorites may fall on earth every year, but only very few are found. Mr. Pettifer's meteorite is the fifth to fall in Britain since the Second Worl d War.

Mr. Pettifer is glad. “When you think about it coming from so far awa y, it really is something strange.”

1. The meteorite was ______ Mr Pettifer when it fell down.

A. close to

B. far from

C. hitting

D. coming to

2. The meteorite was already ______ years old.

A. 40,000,000,000

B. 40,000,000

C. 400,000,000

D. 4,000,000,000

3. Mr. Pettifer found the tops of the trees coming and going beca use ______.

A. the trees were afraid

B. the fast falling meteorite kept the tree tops moving

C. it was going to rain

D. the moving was made by wind

4. ______ people see a meteorite fall although they visit the earth o ften each year.

A. Quite a few

B. some

C. Few

D. Many

5. Mr. Pettifer was ______ to see the falling of the meteorite.

A. happy

B. afraid

C. sorry

D. angry

参考答案

1. 从短文第1句看出陨石落下时几乎砸着Mr Pettifer，故答案应选A。

2. 由短文第2段中“…，and might be over four thousand million”4000百万即40亿，故答案应是D。

3. Mr Pettifer发现树梢来回摇摆是因为下落的陨石使它来回动，故答案选B。

4. 由短文第4段“About 3,500 meteorites may fall on earth every year, b ut only very few are found.”一句可推断，答案选C。

5. 由短文最后一段第1句“Mr Pettifer is glad ”可以看出，且happy与glad意思相近，故答案应选A。

八年级英语阅读理解试题及答案讲解02

One of the things I always believe is that no matter how bad somethi ng is, you can take something positive out of it. The one time I wasn’t su re of that was on September 11.

I usually wake up a 6:30 or 7:00 in the morning. That day, I happene d to wake up earlier. I turned on the TV and I saw that a plane had cras hed (撞击) into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. My first reacti on (反应) was that it was a terrible accident. Then I saw another plane fly into the South Tower and I realized that I was witnessing (目击) an act of terrorism.

My wife and I spent the day watching the terrible pictures over again. When I watched family members looking for their loved ones, the pain i n their eyes was something I would never forget. I couldn’t understand h ow something this terrible could have happened.

It wasn’t until a few weeks after September 11 that I began to see th at perhaps some good did come from this tragedy (悲剧). People seem dif ferent now, more understanding, more tolerant(宽容的). Little things that s eemed to be such a trouble before are no longer big things. Personally, I am more tolerant than I was. I realize life is too short, and too precious (珍贵的), to let myself get worried over small things. I’ve learned also that you can’t take things for granted. Things change in the blink of an eye. People go to work and don’t come back. One moment they’re living and the next minute they’re not. And, it doesn’t matter who you are, there is