初一英语阅读练习

初一英语阅读练习

一．阅读理解

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Henry was an office worker in a big city. He worked very hard and enjo yed traveling in his holidays. He usually went to the seaside, but one year he saw an advertisement in a newspaper. ―Enjoy country life. Spend a few weeks at West Hill Farm. Good food. Fresh air. Horse riding. Walking. Fishing. Che ap and interesting.‖

―This sounds a good idea,‖ he thought. ―I’ll spend a month at West Hill F arm. I think I can enjoy horse riding, walking and fishing. They’ll make a cha nge from si tting by the seaside and swimming.‖

He wrote to the farmer. In the letter he said that he would like to spend all of July there. Then on the first of July, he left for West Hill Farm.

But four days later, he returned home.

―What was wrong with West Hill Farm?‖ his best friend, Ed, asked him. ―Didn’t you enjoy country life?‖

―Country life was very good,‖ Henry said. ―But there was another proble m.‖

―Oh. What?‖

―Well,‖ he said, ―the first day I was there a sheep died, and we had roas t mutton for dinner.‖

―What’s wrong with that?‖ Ed asked. ―Fresh meat is the best.‖

―I know, but on the second day a cow died, and we had roast beef for d inner.‖

―Lucky you!‖

―You don’t understand,‖ Henry said. ―on the third day a pig died and we had roast

pork for dinner.‖

―A different meat every day,‖ Ed said loudly, ―and you are complaining!‖―Let me finish,‖ Henry said. ―on the fourth day the farmer died, and I di dn’t dare (敢)stay for dinner!‖

50.How did Henry find out about the farm?

A.He saw it in a newspaper advertisement.

B.His best friend told him.

C. He wrote to the farmer.

D.Maybe he learned it from the radio.

51. Henry came back home several days later because _________.

A. he didn’t like the country life at all

B. the farmer wasn’t friendly to him

C. his holiday was over

D. he thought he might have to eat the farmer

52. Which is the best title for the passage?

A. What a beautiful farm!

B. Have a good time.

C. A short holiday

D. Henry and the farmer.

二．阅读短文还原句子

On the night of Nov 30, 1835, a boy named Samuel

Clemens was born in Florida, US. Many years later, the world

would know this boy as Mark Twain. 60 Some people

even call him the father of American literature.

Like many US writers of his day, Twain had little school

education. As a teenager, he worked as a printer. Later, he

worked as a riverboat pilot, miner and freelancer (自由撰稿人)

for newspapers. 61

Mark Twain is considered the greatest humorist of his age. His jokes go to the roots of human nature. In 1873, Twain released a book called The Gilded Age . 62 Besides humor, Twain developed a unique writing style that was very American. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885 in the US) describes the adventures of a boy, Huck Finn, and a black slave , Jim. Twain used dialects (方言) in the novel, making the character’s speech sound like real Americans: using local dialects, newly invented words, and regional accents .

Twain’s writing style has influenced many writers. ―All modern American

literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn,‖ 63 But his excellence keeps on shing to this day.

60. _____________

61. _____________62. _____________63. _____________

三．阅读短文回答问题

LOUSIA Bull, 15, often fights with her dad. She can

even lift him above her head. She must be very rebellious

(叛逆的) and strong, you may be thinking. But actually, Bull

looks like a normal girl. She fights with her dad as part of

her training. She’s the youngest female sumo wrestler (相扑

运动员) in the UK.

Bull got her first taste of sumo wrestling just at the age

of 6. Her dad is a sumo wrestler. She watched him training and fell in love with the sport. At 13, she started training at a local sumo gym. Now she trains there three times a week and eats a strict 2,000-calory diet with a lot of protein (蛋白质).

At first, many people didn’t believe that the girl had taken up sumo. ―I had a lot of boys saying I wasn’t going to get anywhere because I was a girl,‖ Bull told UK’s Daily Mail. ―But I took them on in the sumo ring and sometimes I beat them – so