八年级英语阅读理解专项练习题

八年级英语阅读理解专项练习题

A

One day a rich man and a businessman met in a restaurant. For their lunch they both ordered soup. When it was brought, the rich man tasted it, but the soup was so hot that he burned his mouth and tears came into his eyes. The businessman asked him why he was crying. The rich man didn’t want to tell the truth and he told a lie,“Sir, I had a brother who was killed last year. I was thinking of his death, and that made me cry.”The businessman believed his story and began to eat his soup. He also burned his mouth so much that he had tears in his eyes. The rich man noticed it and asked the businessman,“Sir, why do you cry?”The businessman, who now saw that the rich man had cheated him, answered,“Oh, I’m crying because you were not killed together with your brother.

I) 根据短文内容判断正（Ｔ）误（Ｆ）（５分）

( )76.The rich man didn’t tell the truth.

( )77.Though the rich man burned the mouth, he shouldn’t have told the lie.

( )78.The rich man had a brother who was burned.

( )79.The businessman believed the rich man’s story at first.

( )80.The businessman’s answer showed that he was very happy.

II) 根据短文内容将下列句子排序．（５分）

81.They ordered the soup and the soup was so hot that the rich man burned his mouth first.

82.The businessman also burned his mouth and he was not happy.

83.A rich man and a businessman had lunch in the same restaurant.

84.The rich man told a lie about his brother’s death.

85.The businessman realized(意识到) that the rich man cheated him at last.

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B

School kids Say Goodbye to Their Flying Friends

Jin Jun and his classmates at Shanghai Nanyang Middle School are not very happy to be back from holiday.

Not because they hate studying, but because some of their best friends on campus（校园）are gone: pigeons.

More than 100 pigeons used to(过去常常) fly around campus every day, making students smile during break time.

But now, the birds are gone. Where? Now they’re all locked up in a bird cage. Bird flu(流感) has landed in Shanghai, and expert are afraid the pigeons might spread（传播）the disease if they keep flying around.

For safety, the school also asks students to stay away from the cage. “I feel sad for those birds. They’re my best friends,” said Jin, a Junior 3 student. “Last term I would bring corn to feed them, but I can’t do that any more. I hope bird flu will end soon so I can play with the pigeons again.”Nanyang Middle School is not the only one to take pigeons off campus.

Students in Beijjng Fengtai Experimental Primary School also gave their pigeons to the local health department （当地卫生部门）on February 3.

Their pigeons are special birds. In 1999, students found two injured pigeons and gave them a home. To get money for bird food, the kids sold rubbish paper They took good care of the birds,