七年级下学期英语阅读理解专项训练

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GB8878185555334563BT9125XW

创作者：凤呜大王*

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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 father about the school's rule. His father thought it would be too bad if the teacher beat his son in public（当众）, so he agreed to give him five dollars. But before 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 gives us some interesting phrases （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.

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

D

In some foreign countries, some people don't like the number 13. They don't think 13 is a lucky number. For example, they don't like to live on the thirteenth floor.

My friend Jack has got the same idea. He doesn't like the number 13, either. One day, he asked some friends to dinner. When all of his friends arrived, he asked them to sit around the dinner table. He began to count the people in his mind while they were having the delicious food. Suddenly, he cried out, "Oh, there are thirteen people here!" Everybody's face turned white except Mr Brown. He said slowly with a smile on his face, "Don't worry, my dear friends! We have fourteen people here. My wife Mrs Brown will have a baby in a few weeks. She's in the family way now. "All of them became happy again.

"Congratulations!" they said to Mrs and Mr Brown. They enjoyed the nice food and had a good time that evening.