(word完整版)七年级下学期英语阅读理解专项训练

七年级下学期英语阅读理解专项训练

A

Tom was not old, but he did not have much hair. His wife（妻子）, Grace, had thick, beautiful, black hair. They had one daughter. Her name was Jane, and she was four and a half years old. There was a photo of her father in the living-room, and a few days ago, Jane looked at it for a long time and then said to her mother, "Mummy, why had Dad got very little hair?"

Grace laughed and said, "He's got very little hair because he thinks a lot, Jane. He's a clever man."

Jane looked at her mother's thick, black hair for a few seconds（秒钟）, and then she asked, "Mum, why have you got a lot of hair?"

根据短文，判断正（T）误（F）。

1. There were three people in Tom's family.

2. Tom had some hair.

3. Grace had more hair than Tom.

4. There was a photo of Jane's mother in the living-room.

5. Jane wanted to know why her mother had black hair, too.

B

One day Mark Twain told a story about his first money.

Schoolboys in those days didn't respect（尊敬）their teachers. They didn't take care of school things, either. The school had a rule: If a student damaged（损坏）his desk, the teacher would beat him in front of the whole school, or the student had to pay five dollars.

Mark Twain once found his desk was damaged in some way, he had to tell his giving him the money, the father gave his son a good beating. The next day Mark Twain decided he would take another beating at school, so he could keep the five dollars. In this way, he got his first money.

6.In those days, if somebody damaged his desk, he would_________.

A. leave school

B. pay money

C. be beaten by his father

D. earn five dollars

7.When Mark Twain was______, he earned his first money.

A. ten years old

B. at school

C. beaten for the first time

D.working

8.Mark Twain was beaten （打）twice because he__________.

A. damaged two desks

B. damaged his desk twice

C.wanted to keep the money

D. didn't respect his teacher

9.Mark Twain's father gave him five dollars. He wanted his son to________.

A. keep the money

B. hand the money to the teacher

C. disgrace（给…带来耻辱）his family

D. take a beating

10.Which of the following is NOT true?

A.Mark Twain was a famous writer.

B. Mark Twain was a bad student in school.

C.The school was right to beat Mark Twain.

D.We should earn money as Mark Twain did.

C

A bag is useful and the word “bag” is useful, too. It g ives us some interesting phrase（短语）.One is “to let the cat out of the bag" It is the same as “to tell the secret”

There is an old interesting story about it.Long ago, when people sold things in big cloth（布）bags, a woman asked a man for a pig. The man held up his cloth bag. There seemed to be a little pig in it. The woman asked to see it. When the man opened the cloth bag, a big black cat ran out. Not a pig! The man's secret was out and everyone knew it.Now when someone lets out（泄漏）a secret, he "let's the cat out of the bag". And that is the story where the interesting phrase came from.

根据短文选择正确答案。

11. The phrase “to let the cat out of the bag” came from_______.

A. a woman and a pig

B. a man and a cat

C. a pig and and a cat

D.an interesting story

12.The woman wanted to buy_____.

A. a cloth bag

B. a little pig

C. a black cat

D. a bag and a pig

13.The man knew there was ___ in his cloth bag.

A. a bag

B. a pig

C. a cat

D. nothing

14.At the end of the second passage"……everyone knew it", it means______.

A. there was a pig in the man's bag

B. the woman bought a cat

C. the cloth bag

D. the man's cat

15.John "let the cat out of the bag" means he _____.

A .makes everyone know a secret B. puts the cats away from the bag

C. buys a cat in the bag

D.sells the cat in the bag