七年级上英语阅读练习(一)

Do you know the history of bowling（保龄球）? Scientists think that a game like bowling was __ 1 in Egypt thousands of years ago. Things look like the balls and bowling pins were found buried(埋葬) with a child who __2 around 5,200 B. C.

People who study history know that the game was popular in Germany around 200-300 A.D. It was played in some churches in order to __3__ that they were very good Christians. When people bowled poorly, they had to go to church more ___4__ than the others.

The first bowling place was built inside a very big building and __5__ in England in 1455. Then the game was taken to the United States where most people played it outside just for fun.

During the 1800s, many people in the United States began to bowl for ___6__, so several cities made the game illegal（违法的. And later, a group ___7__ the American Bowling Congress (ABC) began around 1900. The job of this group was to clean up bowling and make it a gentlem an’s game again. At that time, the game was mostly played by men. If women played, they ____8__a curtain up so that the men were not able to see them.

Then, in 1916, a woman’s ___9___ named the Women’s International Bowling Congress (WIBC) made a point of showing that the game was fine for ___10___ men and women.

1. A. done B. played C. seen D. watched

2. A. died B. was dying C. dead D. death

3. A. tell B. show C. look D. say

4. A. possible B. often C. time D. chance

5. A. closed B. built C. opened D. stopped

6. A. fun B. pleasure C. money D. health

7. A. calling B. calls C. naming D. named

8. A. hanged B. hang C. hung D. hunged

9. A. party B. group C. class D. kind

10. A. between B. both C. all D. whole

ANSWER: BABBC CDCBB

Do you remember your first day at a new school or in a new area? How about the life

when your family _ 1 _ to a new state? Ugh! What about the 2 of being a stranger?

Then, with time, you find someone who likes 3 you like. Friends are great gifts in life. I have some good friends, too, but not because they are clever. Sometimes they

talk 4 ; sometimes they need me a lot. I know I ask too much of them. I hope my

friends, like my father, 5 about me a lot.

I once told my friends to give me all their love and be generous and gentle 慷慨和友善

. I told my friends, in other words, to love me 6 I loved them.

They didn't 7 me at first, but then they became kinder. My love for them slowly made them learn to 8 friends. They learned to love others and 9 the idea that

LOVE is part of life.

If we listen to and try to understand each other, love must 10 , even if it's hard at first. A true friend loves us all times.

1. A. came B. moved C. lived D. liked

2. A. ideas B. thoughts C. points D. feelings

3. A. what B. how C. when D. who

4. A. too much B. too many C. much too D. many too

5. A. worries B. care C. talks D. complains

6. A. because B. so C. when D. if

7. A. believe B. tell C. understand D. listen

8. A. hate B. love C. meet D. think

9. A. took B. brought C. finished D. got

10. A. flie B. come C. stop D. go

ANSWER: BDAAB ACBDB