八年级英语阅读竞赛试2

八年级英语阅读竞赛试题

考生注意：1.本试卷满分为90分，答题时间为60分钟。

2.答案全部写在答题卡上，考试结束只交第一页。

Ⅰ.完形填空 Ⅱ.阅读理解

Ⅰ.完形填空（共两大题，20小题，每小题1分）

A

In recent years, computer games have become more and more popular in many cities and towns. A lot of small shops and restaurants along busy 1 have changed into 2 game houses in order to get more money. These places are always crowded with 3 especially young boys.

In the computer game houses, people 4 a lot of money competing with the computerized machines. It’s 5 for one to win against a computer, but one can make 6 after trying again and again. People have a kind of gambling psychology （赌博心理）when they play computer games. The more they 7 lose the more they want to win, and at last they even cannot live without it. For school boys, they have no 8 for their lessons. When class is over, they rush to the nearby computer game houses. Some of them can get enough money from their parents. But some of them are not 9 enough to get the money. They begin to steal 10 students’ money and become thieves. 1. A. rivers B. cities C. markets D. streets

2. A. small B. big C. computer D. sports

3. A. people B. boys C. women D. girls

4. A. take B. win C. cost

D. spend 5. A. easy B. hard C. important D. wonderful 6. A. mistakes B. money C. progress D. rich 7. A. miss B. lose C. play D. make 8. A. different B. secret C. mind D. duty 9. A. bad B. angry C. difficult D. lucky 10. A. other B. ours

C. his

D. her

B

We can use many kinds of energy.

Most energy in the 1 today comes from 2 coal and oil. But this will not be so in the future. We will get much of our energy 3 water, the sun and the 4 . We will produce atomic （原子）energy, and leave coal and 5 as raw （原始）material for cloth, plastics and other things. Some 6 of the world are very dry. Very 7 people live there, 8 there is a lot of sunshine and wind. With 9 atomic energy and energy form the sun and wind, we will be able to bring fresh water from far away or change sea water 10 fresh water. 11. A. moon B. sun C. world D. space 12. A. burning B. buying C. boiling D. taking 13. A. in B. from C. on D. to 14. A. moon B. cloud C. wind D. snow 15. A. water B. paper C. glass D. oil 16. A. schools B. places C. hills D. ground 17. A. few B. little C. a few D. a little 18. A. and B. but C. then D. so 19. A. cheap B. expensive C. a little D. good 20. A. to B. into C. from D. for

Ⅱ.阅读理解（共七大题，35小题，每小题2分）

A Mary didn’t understand such sentences as “She is blue today”, “You are yellow”, “He has a green thumb”, “He has told a white lie” and so on. And she went to the teacher Mrs. James for help. Mary: Mrs. James, there is a color in each of the sentences. What do they mean? Mrs. James: In everyday English, Mary, blue sometimes means sad, yellow afraid. A person with a green thumb means he grows plants well and a white lie is not a bad one.” Mary: I’m afraid I don’t understand them all. Would you give me an example for “a white

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