初一英语下学期期中复习《阅读理解》提高训练(含答案)

Is a self-driving car safe? A recent( 最近的 ) study shows that robots make safer drivers than people. If only 10% of cars on the street are self-driving, they will save 1,000 lives every year. If 90% of vehicles ( 交通工具 ) are self-driving, 21,700 lives will be saved a year. But a self-driving car is expensive and each costs about $100,000. So it is impossible to be very popular in the near future.
( ) 1. The writer always refuses to give people directions because
.
A. she is a stranger to the city
B. she doesn't know the people
C. she has no time to help others
D. she's afraid of giving wrong direction
( ) 2. A man stopped the writer on the way to
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A. sell her something
B. ask her the time
C. make friends with her
A. 尴尬
B.困惑
C.激动
( ) 5. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. The writer is too shy to give others directions.
. D. teaches
”“． D.拮据
B. The writer has a very poor sense of direction. C. The writer never got lost when she was young.
( ) 1. What does the underlined word
“ them ” refer to?
A. Animals on the farm ．
B. Louis Black's family ．
C. People outside the farm ．
D. The pictures of farm animals ．
C. The Chinese self-driving car made a trip from Changsha to Wuhan.
D. The man was quite nervous when he saw the writer.
（ 3）
What will the car be like in the future? Maybe the car can drive itself.
About 40 years ago, scientists from the United States started to make self-driving cars . The most famous one was made by Google in 2009. There are cameras and radars ( 雷达 ) on the top of the car. They let the computer in the car draw a 3D map of the environment( 环境 ). Chinese scientists have also successfully made a self-driving car. The car made a trip from Changsha to Wuhan.
( ) 2. What does the underlined part
“ passed away ” mean in Chinese?
A. 受伤
B. 逝世
C. 跌倒 D. 导致
( ) 3. Which is TRUE according to this passage?
A. Louis Black was a farmer ．
When I just got to my office, the secretary( 秘书 ) showed in the man who had asked me for directions. Imagine how embarrassed I was and how surprised he was when we saw each other at the first sight.
D. ask for the direction
( ) 3. The Friendship Building is the place where the writer
A. lives
B. studies
C. works
( ) 4. The words "embarrassed" in the paragraph means
A. $100,000
B. $1,000
C. $21,700
D. $10,000
( ) 5. Which of the following is TRUE?
A. The most famous self-driving car was made 40 years ago.
B. The self-driving car can draw 3D pictures.
When I was a little girl, I never dared to ask strangers the way. And so I used to walk around in circles and hope that by chance I would get to the place I was going to.
7B 期中复习《阅读理解》提高训练
（ 1）
Chicken can talk? Cows can dance? They are all in Louis Black's comic books ．
Louis Black was born on a farm ．The quiet young man spent most of his life helping his parents on the farm．When he was nine ．he started to draw the animals on the farm ．Later, he put them into his comic books in his own funny way ． His family enjoyed his comic books very much but never showed them to people outside the farm ．
B. Louis Black drew the animals outside the farm ．
C. The Blacks didn't enjoy Louis' comic来自books very much ．
D. Louis Black's comic books became famous when he was nine ．
( ) 1. What’tshe passage about?
A. A kind of new bicycle. B. New trains.
C. self-driving cars
D. Some robots
( ) 2. When was the most famous self-driving car made?
Now, I am no longer too shy to ask people for directions, but I often receive helpless or even wrong information. So I try to avoid giving people wrong directions. If anyone ever asks me the way somewhere, I would say, "Sorry, I am a stranger here."
Once on my way to work I was stopped by a man. He asked me if I could tell him the way to the Friendship Building. I gave him my usual reply. But just as I walked on only a few steps. I realized that he had asked the way to my office building. However, I had no time to turn back and look for him. I was rushing to meet with someone at my office and I didn't want to keep him waiting.
( ) 4. What is this passage for?
A. Planning a trip to visit a farm ．
B. Telling people about an art show ．
C. Celebrating the opening of a museum ．
D. Sharing ideas about how to draw comic books ．
A. About 40 years ago. B. In 2009
C. About 30 years ago. D. In 2016
( ) 3. What’ s on the ptoof the self-driving car?
A. Radios
B. Cameras
C. Radars
D. B&C
( ) 4. How much does a self-driving car cost?
( ) 5. Where can you read this passage?
A. In a newspaper. B. In a comic book. C. In a magazine. D. In a storybook.
（ 2）
Some people have a very poor sense of direction. Unluckily, I am one of them. I have visited a place many times but I may still get lost there the next time.
The farmer's comic books became famous only after he passed away in a fire ．When the fire happened，he was only 35 ．To remember him ，his family showed his comic books in the town museum and people liked them very much． Now people can see the original ( 原稿 ) pictures of Louis Black's farm animals at the City Art Centre for one month ． Come and visit the beautiful world of Louis Black!