初一英语阅读理解试题科技类

初一年阅读竞赛

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一、完型填空20%

Are you bored with learning about insects in books? Why not find a few and take a close look by yourself? It’s easy. Insects are everywhere: not just at home or around lights at night, but also i n flowers and vegetable gardens, near lakes, parks and in forests.

To have fun watching insects, you need:

Start by reading books about the insects you’re after. Where can you 1 them? Do they live beside a lake or in trees? When you go out to watch insects, bring along an insect guide 2 pictures with you. A good choice would be “Souvenirs Entomologiques(《昆虫记》)” by Jean Henri Fabre.

Dress properly because some insects bite! 3 trousers and shirts with long sleeves(袖子). Bring a first-aid box. Once you’re ready, an early morning and a nearby park would be a good 4 to start. Insects like to hide in 5 and humid places. Try moving stones and checking flowers, leaves and the soil. You may use a magnifier(放大镜) to 6 what insects do. Or, you can put them on a piece of clean paper to look 7 at them. How many legs do they have? What color are they?

An important 8 is to try not to disturb insects. You may want to shake the tree or pick them up, but if you’re not careful, you may hurt them. You can collect insects 9 using a piece of card to pick them up. After watching, remember to put insects back 10 you found them.

( )1. A. find B. invent C. discover

( )2. A. for B. by C. with

( )3. A. Take B. Bring C. Wear

( )4. A. time or place B. place or time C. time and place

( )5. A. hot B. cool C. warm

( )6. A. watch B. look C. read

( )7. A. easily B. happily C. closely

( )8. A. lesson B. way C. class

( )9. A. at B. for C. by

( )10. A. when B. where C. in

二、阅读理解50%

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Warm water freezes more quickly than cold water. Sir Francis Bacon said that almost four hundred years ago. But few people believed him until 1970. In that year a Canadian scientist George Kill proved the English professor was right. Dr Kill filled an open oil pail(桶) with cold water. He filled another with warm water. He put both in the same low temperature. The warm water froze first. The lack of covers on the pails is the secret. Some of the warm water changed into vapor. This meant that less of the warm water was left to be frozen. And so the warm water froze faster than the cold water even though it had a greater temperature drop to make.

( )1. Sir Francis Bacon was _______

A. an American experimenter

B. a Canadian scientist

C. an English professor

( )2. Hundreds of years ago, Sir Francis Bacon found _______.

A. the temperature of warm water drops faster than that of cold water