人教版八年级下册英语期末复习：阅读理解 练习题1(Word版,含答案)

人教版八年级下册英语期末复习：阅读理解练习题1
Computers can injure you. Most other injuries happen suddenly. For example, if you fall off a bicycle and break your arm, it happens very quickly. But computer injuries happen slowly.
Your eyes
Too much light can injure your eyes, so never sit too close to a computer screen. Your eyes should be at least 50 centimeters from the screen. Remember to look away from it sometimes. This gives your eyes a rest.
When you use a computer, the window should be on your left or your right. If it is behind you, the light will reflect（反射）on the screen. If the windows are in front of you, the sun and the screen will both shine into your eyes.
Your hands and wrists（手腕）
Hand and wrist injuries can happen because the hands and wrists are moved in the same way hundreds of times. If you use a keyboard for a long time, follow these three rules：1）Rest your wrists on something. 2）Keep your elbows at the same height as the keyboard. 3）Stop sometimes and exercise your hands, wrists and fingers in a different way.
Your back
Some people sit for many hours in front of a computer. If you sit in a wrong way, you can injure your back or your neck. So you should sit with your back straight. The top part of the screen should be in front of your eyes. Your forearms（前臂）, wrists and hands should all be parallel to （与……平衡）the floor. If you are sitting for a long time, get up every 30 minutes and exercise your arms, legs and neck.
Enjoy your computer, but use it safely.
1．The underlined word “injure” means “________”.
A．保护B．影响C．伤害D．帮助
2．To protect your hands and wrists, you should ________.
A．keep your elbows above the height of the keyboard
B．keep your wrists hanging without touching anything
C．keep your elbows below the height of the keyboard
D．stop playing computer sometimes and exercise
3．Which of the following is true?
A．Sitting wrongly is only bad for your wrists and fingers.
B．Your eyes should be at the same height as the top part of the screen.
C．You should have a rest every two hours.
D．You should sit in front of a screen and play computer for a long time.
4．Which is the best title of this passage?
A．How to Use a computer Safely B．How to Play Computer Games
C．How to Protect Your Eyes D．Computers Are very Harmful
I love my mother, but when it comes to shopping for clothes, my mother and I have always disagreed on what fits me well.
Perhaps it’s because of our age difference, but to me, if it zips（用拉锁拉上）, it fits. My mum, however, usually tells me I need a bigger size.
When I was a teenager, I wanted to dress like my friends, but my body size made it impossible. When my mom told me that something didn’t suit me, or I needed a bigger size, all I heard was that my body was wrong.
To avoid arguments（争吵）, we stopped going shopping together. This continued until I got engaged（订婚）last year and needed to find a wedding dress and some clothes for my honeymoon.
As I came out of the fitting room, my mother looked at the top（上衣）I was trying on, and I knew what was coming, “You need a bigger size,” she said.
There was no bigger size. I put the top back and tried to hold back my tears. If we couldn’t agree on this, how were we going to survive shopping for a wedding dress?
Maybe I should just buy it alone, but my mom is my role model and my favourite person to go out with. This idea of looking for a wedding dress without her seemed as scary（可怕的）as taking her with me.
And so the day came. As I tried on a simple white dress, I saw tears in my mom’s eyes. “You look beautiful”, she told me. Nothing could have surprised me more.
This one didn’t zip up at the back and I did actually need a bigger size, but my mother didn’t say that. She just told me how beautiful I looked. At that moment, all those arguments we’d had while shopping in the past disappeared. We didn’t buy a dress that day. We decided to see more.
A few weeks and many shopping trips later, we found the perfect dress. We both loved it as soon as I put it on, and I couldn’t wait to wear it at my wedding.
And during those few weeks, mom and I also found the perfect fit for our shopping
relationship.
5．After the writer tried on the top, she ________.
A．knew she could find the perfect wedding dress
B．was surprised by what her mother said to her
C．argued with her mother over the size of the clothes
D．became worried about the next shopping trips with her mother
6．For the writer, in a perfect shopping relationship, ________.
A．she always wins praise B．she feels she is needed C．she feels she is supported D．there are no disagreements at all 7．The writer wrote this article mainly to ________.
A．give advice on how to get along with parents
B．stress（强调）the importance of wearing suitable clothes
C．describe the advantage（优点）of shopping with other people
D．show how she and her mother found a way to shop together
8．“The Plaza” here is the name of ________.
A．a restaurant B．a hotel C．an airport D．a shop 9．How much do you have to pay if you buy a book of $10 in New York? A．$10.8B．$10.08C．$18D．$10 10．From the passage, we can learn that ________.
A．people can visit many places of interest in New York on foot
B．New York is not a good place for shopping
C．people must travel by public transport in New York
D．people have to eat only one kind of food in New York
11．If you want to know something about Yao Ming, the best program for you is _____.
A．Talk Show B．Sports C．Sports player D．TV play
12．You’ll know something about ________ at 19:00 on Channel 2.
A．animals B．news C．foreign D．Asia
13．If you want to watch NBA, the best program for you would be ________.
A．Sports B．Around the world C．foreign arts D．English news
14．If you like music very much, the best program is ________.
A．at 21:45 on Channel 2B．at 21:55 on Channel 1
C．at 21:00 on Channel 2D．at 21:15 on Channel 1
15．“Modern English” is a program of ________.
A．letting you know English news B．making foreign friends
C．teaching you English.D．telling you something about English classroom
For thousands of years, people have lived with dogs. Ancient paintings on the walls of caves show people living with dogs. In each county, dogs come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes.
The largest dog in the world was Zorba, a huge mastiff (獒，大驯犬) that passed away in 1990. When Zorba was seven years old in 1989, he was 94 centimeters (37 inches) tall. In other words, Zorba was more than half as tall as an adult man. At his largest, Zorba weighed more than a heavyweight boxer at 156 kilograms (343 pounds).
In comparison, the smallest dog ever was a Yorkshire terrier named Sylvia from England. This dog only the size of a matchbox, measuring just over six centimeters (2.5 inches) tall and just under nine centimeters (3.5 inches) from nose to tail. The dog weighed about half as much as this book, and even a young child could easily pick it up with one hand. It died in 1945 when it was only two
Some dogs are remarkable, not for their size, but for their brain. One incredible dog is Endal, the companion of a man named Allen Parton, who has used a wheelchair since a car accident in 1991.
In 2001, Parson was hit by a car, while crossing a road with Endal, and thrown out of his chair. Endal quickly moved Parton into the recovery position, covered him with a blanket, and pushed his mobile phone close enough for him to reach. Then, once he saw that Parton was all right, Endal ran back and forth to a nearby hotel, barking until people came out to help.
Endal was rewarded for his bravery by being awarded a medal, and he has been the subject of a number of TV documentaries.
16．Which sentence about Zorba is true?
A．He was taller and heavier than an adult man B．He was heavier, but not taller than an adult man C．He was taller, but not heavier than an adult man D．He was neither heavier nor taller than an adult man
17．According to the passage, the world’s smallest dog weighed as much as________.
A．a child’s hand B．a matchbox C．half this book D．Zorba
18．What does the underlined word “incredible” mean in this passage?
A．wonderful B．awful C．excited D．unbelievable
When Tom brought his lunch to her table, Cindy was unhappy. “Your friends are over there,” she said, pointing to the other side of the dining hall.
“I would sit here today,” Tom replied. He cut a piece of pizza, took a bite out of it and looked around the dining hall.
“So, what’s new?” Tom asked. Cindy picked at her food, said nothing, pretending (假装) that she hadn’t heard him. “Look. Cindy. I’m sorry.” Tom said, “I was just joking about your shoes.”
“I can’t believe you said that in front of everyone,” Cindy said. Anger rose inside her, but she kept control of herself. “My mom bought me those shoes because she thought I would like them. Now everyone’s going to call me ‘Sparkle Toes’ forever.” She put her schoolbag on her feet. She tried her best to hide her new white shoes with their shining pink laces (鞋带). “I thought we were friends,” she said, looking down.
“We are friends.” Tom said, “I was just trying to be funny. What can I do to stop you being
Finally Cindy realized that Tom meant what he said. She had an idea. She began unlacing her shoes. “Give me your laces. You wear mine for the rest of the day,” she said. Then she took a look at the second piece of pizza on Tom’s plate. “And give me your other piece of pizza. Then we’ll be even.”
Tom smiled. “That seems fair.” he said, pushing his plate towards Cindy and reaching down. 19．Anger rose inside Cindy because ________.
A．Tom was interested in her shoes B．Tom didn’t say sorry to her
C．Tom wasn’t her friends any more D．Tom made fun of her new shoes 20．What’s the underlined word “even” mean in Chinese?
A．扯平的B．清楚的C．均等的D．平衡的
21．What can we infer from the story?
A．Cindy pretended to be angry at first.B．Cindy’s new shoes would be popular. C．Tom would give his laces to Cindy.D．Tom sat at Cindy’s table to make friends.
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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, not pizza. But there was still something special about it for me. The tower got its name because it really leans 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 because it is 600 years old. Why should anything happen to it now? And, if you ask me, like what it looks like. To me it is a very human kind of leaning. Nothing is perfect. And who cares? Why do people want
things to be perfect? Imperfect things may be more interesting. Let’s take the tower in Pisa for example. 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.
26．This 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
27．The writer used to think Pisa was ________.
A．in Spain B．not very famous C．not the same as pizza D．the same as pizza 28．The Leaning Tower of Pisa is ________.
A．modern B．falling down C．600 years old D．60 years old
29．The writer ________.
A．doesn’t like what the tower looks like B．likes what the tower looks like
C．thinks it’s one of the most beautiful towers in Italy D．doesn’t like towers
My mother is a teacher, and I grew up with the challenges a teacher faces. I often asked her, “Why do you teach? What keeps you teaching?” The answer was always the same. “There is always that one child, that one moment that is worth.
Now, I am a teacher, too. But different from my mother, I teach students challenging activities outdoors. And when my mother asked me the similar questions, my answer was “it’s that one child, that one special moment.”
One of those moments happened recently. I was working with a group of girls in a four-week programme. Everything went on well through the “Team” events and we were moving on to a “High” one called the Wire(钢索)walk.
In the Wire Walk, each girl had to climb up the pegs(木桩)in a tree to a wire, 8 meters high, and then walk across it. Of course, everything was safe for sure.
When I asked who would try, a few girls raised their hands, and they finished the Wire Walk with little difficulty.
But when it was Susie’s turn, it seemed that she didn’t really want to. I asked Susie if she was ready. She answered softly, “I suppose.”
Now, Susie was at the foot of the tree. She started to make the long reach for the first peg. The other girls cheered for her. Then I found Susie was becoming nervous with every step. I realized she
would not go much further.
Susie was halfway up. Then she stopped and held the tree tight, looking very afraid. Her eyes were closed. With her face against the tree, she cried, “I can’t.”
The other girls sat in silence. I talked quietly to Susie, trying to relax her. I talked for a long time till I ran out of words.
“I will still be your friend no matter what, Susie!” Mary broke the silence.
To my surprise, Susie lifted her head and looked up to the wire. Then she turned to look down at Mary and smiled. Mary smiled back.
Finally, Susie made it all the way across that wire. When she returned to the ground, the first hug she looked for was from ________.
We all cheered.
Moments like this keep me doing what I do. The young hearts continue to fill me with courage. 30．Susie stopped halfway up to the wire because ________.
A．the teacher asked her to do it B．something was wrong with it
C．she was too afraid to move on D．it was too high for her to reach
31．From the story of Susie and Mary, we can learn that ________.
A．helping others is helping ourselves B．a word of encouragement can help a lot C．outdoor activities bring people closer than ever D．a good teacher plays an important role in teaching
32．Which is the most possible answer on the line?
A．my mother B．me C．Mary D．her mother 33．Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?
A．That One Moment B．The Wire Walk C．Love and Courage D．The Young Hearts
参考答案
1．C 2．D 3．B 4．A
5．D 6．C 7．D
8．B 9．A 10．A
11．C 12．A 13．A 14．D 15．C
16．B 17．C 18．D
19．D 20．A 21．C
22．A
23．B
24．D
25．C
26．D
27．D
28．C
29．B
30．C
31．B
32．C
33．A
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