八年级英语阅读竞赛试卷

永康中学八年级英语阅读竞赛试卷
一、完形填空(共30题，30分)
A
Althouth it was autumn, the snow was already beginning to fall in Tibet（西
藏）. Our legs were so heavy and cold that 1 felt like big pieces of ice. Have you 2 seen snowmen ride bicycles? That’s what we looked like! Along the way children who were 3 long wool coats stopped to look at us. In the late 4 we found it was so cold that our water bottles froze（结冰）.However, the lakes 5 like glass in the setting sun and looked wonderful.
Wang Wei rode in front of me as usual. She was in high spirit and I knew I didn’t need to 6 her. To climb the mountains was hard work but as we 7 us. We were surprised by the view. We seemed to be able to see for miles, and we were so high that we found ourselves cycling through clouds. After a while, we began going 8 the mountains. It was great fun especially as it slowly became much 9 . At the foot of the mountains, colourful butterflies flew around us and we saw many sheep eating green grass. Then we had to 10 our caps, gloves and trousers for T-shirts and shorts.
In the early evening we stopped to 11 . We put up our tent and then we ate. After supper Wang Wei went to sleep but I stayed 12 . At midnight the sky became clearer and the stars grew brighter. It got very
13 . As I 14 below the stars I thought about how far we had already travelled.
We will reach Dali in Yunnan Province soon, where our cousins will join us. We
15 hardly wait to see them!
B
In the deep parts of my memory, many things I did with my father still live. I can’t forget them 16 many years have passed.
I don’t remember my father ever getting into a swimming pool. But to tell the truth, he 17 the water. Any kind of 18 ride seemed to give him pleasure. And he loved to fish; sometimes he took me along.
But I never really liked being on the water. The way my father did.
I liked being
19 the water, Moving through it, Having it all around me. I was not
a strong swimmer 20 one who learned to swim early, for I had fears. But I loved being in the swimming pool close to my father’s office
and 21 those summer days with my father, who would come by on a break. I needed him to see 22 I could do. My father would stand there in his suit, the 23 person not in swimsuit.
After 24 . I would go inside his office and sit on the wooden chair in front of his big desk. Where he let me 25 anything I found in his top desk drawer. Sometimes I was left alone at his desk while he 26 in the lab. One afternoon an assistant came in and told me not to be playing with my father’s 27 . Just then my father returned. He stopped the assistant and said easily. “Oh, no. 28 .” And sometimes when my fahter wasn’t out, he would hand me coins and tell me to get 29
a cup of ice cream.
A poet once said, “We look at lift once, in childhood; the rest is
30 .” And I think it is not only what we “look at once, in
childhood ” that decides out memories. But who. in that childhood, look at us.
二、阅读理解（共15题，30分）
A
The age for drinking alcohol by law in the United States is twenty-one. A younger person will be punished if he drinks alcohol. However, many students drink alcohol in colleges and universities and they think it is a common part of college social life. Let’s see some numbers from
a report, more then seventeen million students get higher education in the United States. Each year, one thousand seven hundred of them die
from alcohol-related road accidents. More than six hundred thousand are hurt badly after drinking. And almost seven hundred thousand students
are attacked by students who have been drinking.
At the University of Oklahoma（俄克拉何马，美国的一个州）, new policies went into effect after a nineteen-year-old student died in 2004. He had been drinking heavily at a party. Now, drinking is not allowed in many situations. Student organizations can sell alcohol only on Friday and Saturday. The first-year students must take an alcohol education program online.。