八年级英语阅读竞赛题
八年级英语阅读理解竞赛考试试题
八年级英语阅读理解竞赛试题阅读理解满分（100分）。
AMrs Green lives in a small village．Her husband is dead（死）．But she has a son．He is twenty-one and his name is Jack．He gets work in a town and lives there．Its name is Greensea．It is quite a long way from his mother's village，and she is not happy about this，but Jack says，“There isn't any good work for me in the village，mother，and I can get a lot of money in Greensea and give you some every week．One day Mrs Green is very angry．She gets on a train and goes to her son's house in Greensea．Then she says to him，“Jack，why do you never give me a ring？Jack laughs and says，“But，mother，you don't have a telephone．“No，she says，“I don't have one，but you have one．按要求完成下列各题。
（共20分，每题4分）（）1．Where does Mrs Green live？a．In a big city．b．In a small village．c．In a town with his son．d．We don't know．（）2．How old is Mrs Green's son？a．Twelve．b．Twenty．c．Twenty-one．d．Thirty-one．（）3．Which of these is not wrong？a．Greensea is the name of a factory．b．Jack works in a town and his mother is happy about this．c．In the village there is no good work for Jack．d．He can get less money in the town than in the village．（）4．How does the woman go to Greensea one day？a．On a bike．b．On foot．c．By train．d．By bus．（）5．Why does Jack never telephone his mother？a．Because he is too busy．b．Because he lives far from his mother's village．c．Because he doesn't have a telephone．d．Because his mother has no telephone．B阅读短文，根据短文内容，从文后的五个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，选项中有一项为多余选项。
八年级英语阅读竞赛试卷及答案
八年级英语阅读竞赛试卷及答案The boy。
wanting to help。
took a pair of XXX。
but something was wrong。
Its body was9and its wings were small and wrinkled (皱的).XXX continued to watch the butterfly。
XXX to support the body。
It XXX。
XXX its life crawling around with a swollen (肿胀的) body and shriveled (干瘪的) wings。
It never was able to fly.What the boy in his kindness and haste did not understandwas that the restricting (限制性的) cocoon and the XXX to get through the tiny opening were God's way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its XXX.XXX what we need in our life。
If we were to go through our life without any obstacles (障碍)。
we would be crippled (残疾的)。
We would not be as strong as what we could have been。
Give every opportunity a chance。
leave no room for regrets (后悔)。
八年级英语阅读竞赛试题试卷
八年级英语阅读竞赛试卷满分：100分时间：50分钟提示：1.试卷共6页；2.请把答案涂在答题卡上。
一.完形填空（共15题，2分一题，共30分）We know saving money is hard! But it’s not __1__, especially if you set goals(目标) for yourself.When you set goals, think about the two matters: what you want to spend your money on now, and what you want to __2__ it for later. Then divide your goalsinto two kinds according to the __3__ you need the money. One is a short-term goal. It takes a shorter time, like a few__4__ or even shorter. If you have a short-term saving goal, it means you ___5__ to have enough money for the thing you want within that time. The other is a long-term goal. It takes longer, perhaps several months or ___6__ years, because the thing you want is more___7__. For example, you may want to buy a car when you are finally old enoughto drive, or you may plan a family __8__ to Disneyland or Hawaii or other places of interest.So how can you ___9___ your saving goals? The following __10__can help you. First, save some money __11___ you get paid. That doesn’t mean putting all your money in the bank to save it. If you want to save more money, you can reduce (make sth smaller in amount(数量)) the cost of junk food like hamburgers. Soon you’ll have an amazing amount of change! Also you should keep records of your income(收入) and your cost. That way you can __12___ how long it will take to save for things you really want. Lastly, only buy what you can ___13___ and what is really worth buying. It’s much __14__ to have money in the bank than a lotof expensive jeans you don't ___15__ need.Then you have known how to manage (管理) your own money. When looking at the money you save, you will feel proud and have a sense of achievement.1. A. reusable B. available C. believable D.impossible2. A. control B. waste C. collect D.save3. A. energy B. time C. order D.work4. A. hours B. weeks C. months D.years5. A. lead B. promise C. hope D.fail6. A. even B. already C. stillD. almost7. A. important B. necessary C. expensive D. popular8. A. game B. party C. meal D.trip9. A. reach B. make C. understand D.keep10.A. stories B. signs C. suggestions D.questions11.A. before B. when C. where D.since12.A. think of B. find out C. watch out D.dream about13.A. afford B. enjoy C. value D.own14.A. easier B. funnier C. better D.luckier15.A. luckily B. nearly C. gradually D.truly二、阅读理解（共20题，每题3.5分，共70分）A篇Camping has a long history in Australia. Most Australians love camping inthe holiday. The country has a long history about it, which is a way of life for people in that country. Although that way of life has mostly died out in the modern country, we must take care to remember it.There is a long tradition. When gold was first discovered and people came from around the world to find their fortune(运气), many could not afford to stay in a hotel. Even if they wanted to, there weren't enough hotels. So they all brought tents and set them up next to their little goldfield. Many people alivein Australia today are born from those people who spent large parts of theirlives in tents. And it seems to have stayed with us all the way to modern Australia.In summer, the nation’s camping grounds are covered with families on holiday. It is a great experience for a kid to stay in a tent. He or she canhear all the sounds of nature in the tent. It’s a place where kids can learn skills like making a fire, cooking and swimming in the water. These experiences can be used for their whole lives. So, you can see it’s always the whole family to go out to the camping grounds and stay in a tent.Of course, things have changed a lot from the early days of camping, whenyou would carry everything needed on your back. Now there are all kinds of tools to take with you, from solar panels(太阳能板) for your electric products to an outdoor shower. They make the camping life more colorful. In fact, many camping grounds you see around the country are so decorated(装饰的）that you have to wonder why those Australians aren't bored to leave the house at all.16. The second paragraph mainly tells us about_____.A. the history of camping in AustraliaB. what the first visitors did in AustraliaC. the hotel situations in AustraliaD. Australian’s modern way of life17. What do Australians prefer to do when summer comes?A. To go fishing.B. To make tents by themselves.C. To go camping.D. To listen to nature.18. We can learn from the passage that_____.A. solar panels are necessary for campingB. things have changed a lot about campingC. there are lots of goldfields in AustraliaD. camping has already died out nowadays19. What is the best title for the passage?A. The history of Australia.B. The tradition of Australia.C. Traveling in Australia.D. Camping in Australia.B篇Saalumrada Thimmakka, an uneducated woman who, along with her late husband, planted and cared for 384 banyan trees(榕树) in her hometown of HUlikal village, Inida. Now she is 104 years old. And she lives on to tell the story.When Thimmakka was a young girl, she married a farmer named CHikkaiah and together they made a living by farming. The couple remained childless for many years. But instead of losing themselves in self-pity, they decided to make the best of their situation. “One day, we thought why not plant trees and take care of them like our children,” Thimmakka said.They started by grafting(嫁接) 10 saplings(树苗) from the banyan trees that grew in their village. They planted those saplings on an empty land about four kilometers from the village. There wasn't any water in the area, so they carried water all the way to water the trees every single day. They protected the saplings from bad weather and animals, until they took root(根). The next year, they planted 15 more saplings, 20 the year after that, and kept going until they planted a total of 384 trees, which are worth about 1.5 million dollars now.Today, the trees have grown up into a forest. The forest is between the villages of Hulikal and Kudoor, about 80 kilometers away from the state capital of Bangalore. Unluckily, her husband died in 1991, but Thimmakka has won several state and national prizes, including the National Citizen’s Award in 1995 and the Godfrey Phillips Bravery Award in 2006. She has been highly spoken of(赞扬) by governments and environmental organizations. However, she still lives a very poor life. She owns a simple three-room house.Though she is old, Thimmakka is still active in making a difference. “I have been hoping to start a hospital, but no one seems interested,” she said. “Although it is hard for me, I will keep trying. I do believe my dream will be realized if I stick to（坚持） it.”20. How did Thimmakka and her husband make a living after they married?A. By farming.B. By selling saplings.C. By running a hospital.D. By planting vegetables.21. The couple decided to plant trees because they ______.A. wanted to change their poor condition and live a rich lifeB. found there were so many empty lands in their villageC. found the land in their village was suitable for planting treesD. wanted to take care of the trees like raising children22. What is Thimmakka’s next dream?A. To raise money for her village.B. To open a hospital.C. To plant more trees in her village.D. To encourage more people to plant trees.23. What can we learn from the passage?A. Thimmakka has made a lot of money by planting trees.B. Thimmakka planted saplings along the river.C. Thimmakka is a great woman with a strong mind.D. Thimmakka’s husband has been dead for fifteen years.C篇Seat belts(安全带) are placed in a car for the safety of the driver as well as the passengers. When a person is traveling in a car, he moves with the same speed as the car. Therefore, if the car meets with an accident, the driver and the passengers will be thrown forward or to the sides with great force, which may result in hurts or even death. Seat belts are meant to prevent deaths from accidents because of car accidents.The most important reason for wearing a safety belt while driving is that itreduces(降低) the chances of being hurt by 50%, if one meets with an accident. Seat belts provide maximum(最大限度的)safety. They will prevent you fromgetting jerked to the sides or in the front if an accident happens.If the driver makes a sudden brake(刹车) , he and the passengers are thrownforward. Wearing a seat belt will prevent it greatly.After meeting with an accident, if it is found that the person has sufferedhurts because of not wearing a seat belt, he should be responsible for his hurts.Many people complain that they would prefer being out of the car if in anaccident instead of being inside. While, it is safer for a person to be inside the car as one cannot be sure how he would land, if thrown out of the car. There may even be cases that the passengers knock into each other if the carstops suddenly. Wearing a seat belt will avoid this situation.One has to be very careful about child seat belt safety. If children are not old enough to wear a seat belt, they should be seated in a child car seat. It is also suggested that one wear a seat belt when traveling in a taxi. Sometimes, a person can legally(合法地) not wear a seat belt if advised by the doctor for health reasons.24. Why does the underlined word “jerked” mean in the passage?A. hurt seriouslyB. pushed suddenlyC. killed accidentally.D. hit slowly25. When a traffic accident happens, a person had better ______.A. be thrown out of the carB. let go of the seat belt immediatelyC. stop the car as soon as possibleD. be inside the car26. We can learn from the passage that________.A. wearing a seat belt can reduce the chances of injury by 60% in an accidentB. wearing a seat belt can prevent people from being thrown forward or to the sides completely（完全地）C. it is illegal(非法的) for people not to wear a seat belts in the writer’s countryD. it is OK for children to wear a seat belt no matter how old they are27. Which is the best title for the passage?A. Reasons for wearing your seat beltB. How to wear a seat belt correctlyC. Seat belts and traffic accidentsD. How to avoid（避免）injuries in car accidentsD篇A couple of parents still believe that it is not alright to let theirchildren ride a bike to school. Maybe parents have some safety concerns(忧虑). However, if done safely, biking for children can be a wonderful and enjoyable experience.If you are not balanced(平衡的) as an adult, it can cause problems for you. You would fall and hurt yourself seriously. You must prevent your children from being unbalanced. By allowing your children to ride a bike, you’re teachingthem to keep their balance from a young age. If you use a balance bike, it can help to teach your children how to balance themselves quickly.One of the biggest concerns for parents is the increasing weight problems of children in the United Kingdom. Children are eating more and exercising less. If parents don't start encouraging their children to love exercise from a young age, children won’t enjoy it when they’re older. By using a balance bike parentscan improve not only the fitness of their children but also for themselves.There is a great tool to encourage your children to regard exercise as fun. Itis really helpful to both of you.Children catch on to new things very quickly. If you always praise them and they realize the potential(潜能)within themselves, their self-confidence(自信) will grow. If you spend time in the park or some public places, your childrenwill be able to see that other children are not riding their bikes as easily as they are. This confidence can help them later in life when they start dealingwith difficult situations.So many children try to ride a bike simply because they can't center on where they’re going, because they look at their feet the whole time. With a balance bike they don't need to consider these problems. They simply lift their feet off the ground and go.28. Biking from a young age can teach kids to ______.A. avoid falling off their bikesB. protect themselves from dangerC. balance themselvesD. ride bikes easily and quickly29. What causes British kid’s weight problem?A. More meat and fewer vegetables.B. More food and less exercise.C. Too much TV time.D. Too much homework.30. Praise from parents can help kids______.A. build up their confidenceB. catch on to new things fastC. deal with difficult situationsD. work hard to improve31. What does this passage mainly tell us about?A. The advantage of biking for kids.B. Different ideas about biking to school.C. How to keep one’s balance on your bike.D. Enjoyable experiences on bikes.E篇The hope for happiness can be a lifelong search for some people, but researchers believe they may have found the most important reason for feeling a greater sense of happiness.Researchers from Nottingham Trent University found that the more someone was identified(认同) by a certain group, such as family, in their local community or through a hobby, the happier he was with his life.“Our findings suggest that thinking more about one’s group life could have important advantages of the sense of happiness,” said Dr Juliet Wakefield, a psychologist(心理学家) at Nottingham Trent University. “We would like to identify with groups that share our values, interests and those that support（支持） us in difficult times. And we can see how this would be connected(连接) with happiness. We often forget the sense of happiness because the speed of modern life is always fast and the center of modern life is achievement. And we always forget, to be the best ourselves, we need the support of others.”They studied how 4,000 volunteers felt connected to certain groups, and then checked the influence this had upon their levels of happiness. She added, “It’s important to note that identifying with a group isn't the same as membership. You can be a member of a group with which you feel no connection at all. It’s that personal sense of belongings that’s the key to happiness.Healthcare professionals encourage people to join groups that they are interested in. They advise people to keep connection with groups they already belong to. Simple social behaviors like this could in turn help to prevent future ill health.”Another study found that intelligent(聪明的) people could be more easily distracted(思想不集中的) at work. So if you have trouble paying all your attention to your work, it’s probably because of all those amazing ideas you have running through your head.32. What does the researchers’ finding suggest?A. To feel happiness, one should share values and interests with others.B. To feel happiness, one should think more about his group life.C. One should forget modern life’s fast speed and center.D. One should be identified by others through a hobby.33. According to Juliet, people would like to forget that_______.A. they need others’ supportB. they live a competitive lifeC. happiness is as important as workD. they should have friends34. According to the 4,000 volunteers, how people felt connected to certain groups has an influence on _______.A. their life choicesB. their work abilityC. their levels of happinessD. their social relationship35. According to the passage, who are much probably happier?A. People who have a big family and friends.B. People who have a lot of hobbies and interests.C. People who gain membership of a good social group.D. People who feel a sense of belonging to social groups.完形填空答案：DDBBC ACDAC BBACD阅读理解答案：ACBD ADBC BDCA CBAA BACD。
初二英语竞赛试题及答案
初二英语竞赛试题及答案一、听力理解（共20分）1. What is the weather like today?A. SunnyB. RainyC. CloudyD. Windy2. How much is the blue T-shirt?A. $15B. $25C. $35D. $453. What does the woman want to do?A. Go to the cinemaB. Go to the libraryC. Go shoppingD. Go to the park4. Who is the man talking to?A. His teacherB. His friendC. His motherD. His father5. What time does the train leave?A. At 6:00 amB. At 6:30 amC. At 7:00 amD. At 7:30 am二、单项选择（共20分）6. There are many _______ in the park.A. childB. childrenC. childsD. childrens7. She usually _______ to school by bike.A. goB. goesC. goingD. to go8. The boy is too young _______ a job.A. doB. to doC. doingD. does9. _______ is your favorite subject?A. WhatB. WhichC. HowD. Where10. The teacher asked us _______ late for school.A. not beB. don't beC. not to beD. to not be三、完形填空（共20分）Once upon a time, there was a little boy named Tom. He wasvery curious and always wanted to explore new things. One day, he found a map in his grandfather's old books. The map showed a hidden treasure in a mysterious island. Tom decided to goon an adventure to find the treasure.He packed his backpack with some food, a flashlight, and a compass. He also took a small boat to reach the island. Onthe way, he met a friendly dolphin who helped him to navigate the waters. After a long journey, Tom finally arrived at the island.The island was full of beautiful flowers and tall trees. Tom followed the map and started to look for the treasure. He climbed a hill and found a cave. Inside the cave, there was a chest with a big lock. Tom used a key he found earlier toopen the chest. To his surprise, the chest was full of gold coins and precious stones.Tom was very happy and decided to share the treasure with his family and friends. He learned that the most important thingin life is not the treasure itself, but the journey and the people you meet along the way.四、阅读理解（共20分）APassage 1Do you know what a robot is? A robot is a machine that can move and do things on its own. Some robots can talk andlisten, while others can clean the house or help in a factory. Robots are very useful and can do many things that people can do.11. What is a robot?A. A machine that can move and do things on its own.B. A machine that can only clean the house.C. A machine that can only work in a factory.D. A machine that cannot move.12. What can some robots do?A. Talk and listenB. Only clean the houseC. Only work in a factoryD. Cannot moveBPassage 2Alice's family went on a trip to the beach last summer. They played in the sand, swam in the ocean, and had a picnic under the sun. Alice's favorite part of the trip was building sandcastles with her little brother. They built the tallest sandcastle they had ever seen and it was a great memory forthe whole family.13. Where did Alice's family go for their trip?A. The beachB. The mountainsC. The cityD. The countryside14. What did Alice and her brother do at the beach?A. Played in the sandB. Built sandcastlesC. Swam in the oceanD. Had a picnic五、书面表达（共20分）15. Write a short passage about your dream job. (不少于60词)参考答案：一、听力理解1-5 ABBCA二、单项选择6-10 BCBCC三、完形填空根据文章内容填空四、阅读理解A11-12 A AB13-14 A B五、书面表达略。
初二年级英语阅读与写作争霸赛40题
初二年级英语阅读与写作争霸赛40题1. My family went on a trip last week. We visited a beautiful beach. The sand there was ______ and the sea was very blue.A. whiteB. blackC. redD. green答案：A。
解析：根据常识，海滩的沙子通常是白色的，文中描述是美丽的海滩，白色的沙子比较符合对美丽海滩的描述，而黑色、红色和绿色的沙子不是常见的海滩沙子颜色。
2. Tom is a new student in our school. He is very friendly and always ______ others when they need help.A. helpsB. helps toC. helpD. helping答案：A。
解析：句子的主语是He，是第三人称单数，根据一般现在时的语法规则，动词要用第三人称单数形式，help sb是固定用法，不需要加to，所以选A。
3. There are three people in my family, my father, my mother and ______.A. meB. IC. myD. mine答案：A。
解析：这里需要一个宾格形式，在句子中作宾语，me 是I的宾格，I是主格，my是形容词性物主代词，mine是名词性物主代词，所以选A。
4. In the school library, we should keep ______.A. noisyB. cleanC. dirtyD. loud答案：B。
解析：在学校图书馆应该保持安静、整洁，noisy是吵闹的，dirty是脏的，loud是大声的，都不符合图书馆的要求，clean表示干净、整洁，所以选B。
5. Mary likes reading books. She often goes to the library ______ Saturday afternoons.A. inB. onC. atD. for答案：B。
八年级英语阅读竞赛试题试卷
八年级英语阅读竞赛试卷满分：100分时间：50分钟提示：1.试卷共6页；2.请把答案涂在答题卡上。
一.完形填空（共15题，2分一题，共30分）We know saving money is hard! But it’s not __1__, especially if you set goals(目标) for yourself.When you set goals, think about the two matters: what you want to spend your money on now, and what you want to __2__ it for later. Then divide your goalsinto two kinds according to the __3__ you need the money. One is a short-term goal. It takes a shorter time, like a few__4__ or even shorter. If you have a short-term saving goal, it means you ___5__ to have enough money for the thing you want within that time. The other is a long-term goal. It takes longer, perhaps several months or ___6__ years, because the thing you want is more___7__. For example, you may want to buy a car when you are finally old enoughto drive, or you may plan a family __8__ to Disneyland or Hawaii or other places of interest.So how can you ___9___ your saving goals? The following __10__can help you. First, save some money __11___ you get paid. That doesn’t mean putting all your money in the bank to save it. If you want to save more money, you can reduce (make sth smaller in amount(数量)) the cost of junk food like hamburgers. Soon you’ll have an amazing amount of change! Also you should keep records of your income(收入) and your cost. That way you can __12___ how long it will take to save for things you really want. Lastly, only buy what you can ___13___ and what is really worth buying. It’s much __14__ to have money in the bank than a lotof expensive jeans you don't ___15__ need.Then you have known how to manage (管理) your own money. When looking at the money you save, you will feel proud and have a sense of achievement.1. A. reusable B. available C. believable D.impossible2. A. control B. waste C. collect D.save3. A. energy B. time C. order D.work4. A. hours B. weeks C. months D.years5. A. lead B. promise C. hope D.fail6. A. even B. already C. stillD. almost7. A. important B. necessary C. expensive D. popular8. A. game B. party C. meal D.trip9. A. reach B. make C. understand D.keep10.A. stories B. signs C. suggestions D.questions11.A. before B. when C. where D.since12.A. think of B. find out C. watch out D.dream about13.A. afford B. enjoy C. value D.own14.A. easier B. funnier C. better D.luckier15.A. luckily B. nearly C. gradually D.truly二、阅读理解（共20题，每题3.5分，共70分）A篇Camping has a long history in Australia. Most Australians love camping inthe holiday. The country has a long history about it, which is a way of life for people in that country. Although that way of life has mostly died out in the modern country, we must take care to remember it.There is a long tradition. When gold was first discovered and people came from around the world to find their fortune(运气), many could not afford to stay in a hotel. Even if they wanted to, there weren't enough hotels. So they all brought tents and set them up next to their little goldfield. Many people alivein Australia today are born from those people who spent large parts of theirlives in tents. And it seems to have stayed with us all the way to modern Australia.In summer, the nation’s camping grounds are covered with families on holiday. It is a great experience for a kid to stay in a tent. He or she canhear all the sounds of nature in the tent. It’s a place where kids can learn skills like making a fire, cooking and swimming in the water. These experiences can be used for their whole lives. So, you can see it’s always the whole family to go out to the camping grounds and stay in a tent.Of course, things have changed a lot from the early days of camping, whenyou would carry everything needed on your back. Now there are all kinds of tools to take with you, from solar panels(太阳能板) for your electric products to an outdoor shower. They make the camping life more colorful. In fact, many camping grounds you see around the country are so decorated(装饰的）that you have to wonder why those Australians aren't bored to leave the house at all.16. The second paragraph mainly tells us about_____.A. the history of camping in AustraliaB. what the first visitors did in AustraliaC. the hotel situations in AustraliaD. Australian’s modern way of life17. What do Australians prefer to do when summer comes?A. To go fishing.B. To make tents by themselves.C. To go camping.D. To listen to nature.18. We can learn from the passage that_____.A. solar panels are necessary for campingB. things have changed a lot about campingC. there are lots of goldfields in AustraliaD. camping has already died out nowadays19. What is the best title for the passage?A. The history of Australia.B. The tradition of Australia.C. Traveling in Australia.D. Camping in Australia.B篇Saalumrada Thimmakka, an uneducated woman who, along with her late husband, planted and cared for 384 banyan trees(榕树) in her hometown of HUlikal village, Inida. Now she is 104 years old. And she lives on to tell the story.When Thimmakka was a young girl, she married a farmer named CHikkaiah and together they made a living by farming. The couple remained childless for many years. But instead of losing themselves in self-pity, they decided to make the best of their situation. “One day, we thought why not plant trees and take care of them like our children,” Thimmakka said.They started by grafting(嫁接) 10 saplings(树苗) from the banyan trees that grew in their village. They planted those saplings on an empty land about four kilometers from the village. There wasn't any water in the area, so they carried water all the way to water the trees every single day. They protected the saplings from bad weather and animals, until they took root(根). The next year, they planted 15 more saplings, 20 the year after that, and kept going until they planted a total of 384 trees, which are worth about 1.5 million dollars now.Today, the trees have grown up into a forest. The forest is between the villages of Hulikal and Kudoor, about 80 kilometers away from the state capital of Bangalore. Unluckily, her husband died in 1991, but Thimmakka has won several state and national prizes, including the National Citizen’s Award in 1995 and the Godfrey Phillips Bravery Award in 2006. She has been highly spoken of(赞扬) by governments and environmental organizations. However, she still lives a very poor life. She owns a simple three-room house.Though she is old, Thimmakka is still active in making a difference. “I have been hoping to start a hospital, but no one seems interested,” she said. “Although it is hard for me, I will keep trying. I do believe my dream will be realized if I stick to（坚持） it.”20. How did Thimmakka and her husband make a living after they married?A. By farming.。
初中英语八年级阅读竞赛试题
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Good luck！第一部分：阅读理解（共15题，每题2分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
AThere are many popular American words and expressions. Some of them are very old. Some are new. Together, they form the living speech of the American people.Today we tell about the expression “down to earth”. Down to earth means being open and honest. It is easy to deal with someone who is down to earth. Down-to-earth people could be important members of society. But they do not consider themselves to be better than others who are less important. They do not let their importance “go to their heads”.A person who is filled with his own importance and pride is said to be “with his nose in the air”. Often the person who holds his nose in the open air has no reason to feel better than others. He surely is the opposite of someone who is down to earth.Americans use another expression that is similar in some ways to down to earth.The expression is “both feet on the ground”. Someone with both feet on the ground is a person with a good understanding of reality. She has what is called “common sense”. She may have dreams. But she does not allow them to block her understanding of what is real.The opposite kind of person is one who has his “head in the clouds”. Someone with his head in the clouds is a person whose mind is not on what is happening in real life. Such a person may be called a “daydreamer”.The person who is down to earth usually has both feet on the ground. But the opposite is not always true. Someone with both feet on the ground may not be as open and easy to deal with as someone who is down to earth.When we have both our feet firmly on the ground, and when we are down to earth we do not hold our noses in the air. We act honestly and openly to others. Our lives are like the ground below us solid —and strong.1. The passage is mainly about _____________.A. the expression “down to earth”B. the differences of American expressionsC. the kinds of person in societyD. the meanings of “down to earth2. Those who let their importance go to their heads probably___________.A. have a better performance at workB. consider themselves less importantC. feel they are better than othersD.are important members of society3. Which of the following can be the typical character of down-to-earth people?A. PowerfulB. EasygoingC. ProudD. Serious4. The following are the opposite to “down to earth” in meaning EXCEPT “__________”.A. go to one’s headB. both feet on the groundC. head in the cloudsD. with one’s nose in the air5.The underlined part in the passage probably means___________.A. the person who is down to earth is openB. the person who is down to earth understands the reality wellC. the person with both feet on the ground is open with real dreamsD. the person with both feet on the ground is perhaps hard to deal withBI am a girl who doesn’t look like the rest of my family. When people see us together, it is clear that I am adopted(收养). I am happy to have such a loving and caring family, but sometimes I wish I knew who my birth parents are.My friends and teachers often ask,“Are you sad that you don’t know your real parents?”I know that they are just curious and care for me—I’m fine, for the most part—but I feel like there’s something missing in my life, like a big hole in my heart. My mother listens when I tell her about my feelings, and she feels that it is important for me to be in touch with my culture. Because of this, through my teacher’s recommendation, she and I go to Chinese Heritage Camp each year in Snow Mountain Ranch.Chinese Heritage Camp is a two-day camp where hundreds of adopted kids like me spend time with each other. We talk about how it feels to be adopted, and we participate in fun outdoor activities. It’s great because we can talk about our feelings without having the conversation get too nervous. It makes me feel like I am not alone, and that there is someone out there going through the exact same feelings.Whether we’re talking, laughing, crying, or dancing, Chinese Heritage Camp is always an experience to remember.Chinese Heritage Camp has changed the way I look at things. Now when people ask me,“Are you sad you don’t know your real parents?”I can safely answer,“Maybe I don’t know who my birth parents are, and that makes me a little sad. But I do know that I live with my real parents in a real house, with a real family, and I love my life just the way it is.”6. It can be inferred from Paragraphs I and 2 that the author_______.A. doesn’t like her present familyB. is probably adopted from ChinaC. is adopted by a teacherD. has never been to Chinese Heritage Camp7. Who takes the author to Chinese Heritage Camp each year?A. Her friend.B. Her teacher.C. Her mother.D. The leader of the Camp.8. In Chinese Heritage Camp, the author does the following things EXCEPT_______.A. seeing her real parentsB. meeting hundreds of other adopted kidsC. taking part in outdoor activitiesD. sharing her feelings with other kids9. After participating in Chinese Heritage Camp, the author_________.A. gave up the try to look for her real parentsB. became disappointed about lifeC. changed the way she looked at the world around herD. felt happy because she found her real parents10. In this passage, the author mainly tells us_______.A. her thanks to her adoptive parentsB. her thought of her real parentsC. her sad feelings about life in a new familyD. the Chinese Heritage Camp’s effect on herCGrown-ups are often surprised by how well they remember something they learned as children but have never practiced ever since. A man who has not had a chance to go swimming for years can still swim as well as ever when he gets back in the water. He can get on a bicycle after many years and still ride away. He can play catch and hit a ball as well as his son. A mother who has not thought about the words for years can teach her daughter the poem that begins“Twinkle, twinkle, little star”or remember the story of Cinderella or Goldilocks and the Three Bears.One explanation is the law of overlearning, which can be started as follows: Once we have learned something, additional learning trials(尝试)increase the length of time we will remember it.In childhood we usually continue to practice such skills as swimming, bicycle riding, and playing baseball long after we have learned them. We continue to listen to and remind ourselves of words such as“Twinkle, twinkle, little star”and childhood tales such as Cinderella and Goldilocks. We not only learn but overlearn.The multiplication tables(乘法口诀表)are an exception to the general rule that we forget rather quickly the things that we learn in school, because they are another of the things we overlearn in childhood.The law of overlearning explains why cramming(突击学习)for an examination, though it may result in a passing grade, is not a satisfactory way to learn a college course. By cramming, a student may learn the subject well enough to get by on the examination, but he is likely soon to forget almost eyerything he learned. A little overlearning, on the other hand, is really necessary for one’s future development.11. What is the main idea of Paragraph 1 ?A. People remember well what they learned in childhood.B. Children have a better memory than grown-ups.C. Poem reading is a good way to learn words.D. Stories for children are easy to remember.12. The author explains the law of overlearning by_____.A. presenting research findingsB. setting down general rulesC. making a comparisonD. using examples13. According to the author, being able to use multiplication tables is_______.A. a result of overlearningB. a special case of crammingC. a skill to deal with math problemsD. a basic step towards advanced studies14. What does the word “they” in Paragraph 4 refer to?A. Commonly accepted rules.B. The multiplication tables.C. Things easily forgotten.D. School subjects.15. What is the author’s opinion on cramming?A. It leads to failure in college exams.B. It’s helpful only in a limited way.C. It’s possible to result in poor memory.D. It increases students’ learning interest.第二部分：完形填空（共20题，每题1.5分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
初二英语阅读单项竞赛
泰兴市黄桥初中初二英语阅读竞赛试卷班级姓名成绩一、完形填空(每小题2分,共20分)New standards(标准) for computer gamesWant an 'OK' from your parents when you start to miss your favourite online game? It's 1 but possible now.Last week, the China Youth Internet Association(协会) said it would find more games for teens. It has made standards for computer games for 2 kinds of age groups. These standards are the first in China.'We hope the standards can tell students what 3 they can play,' said Shao Dehai, head of the association. 'Students can keep away from bad games.'Which games are OK? Many people made the standards. They were the 4 , game-makers and top game players.The standards tell people which games are for juniors, seniors and grown-ups.There are 11 standards. Some are for players and some are for game-makers.The standards say games for juniors should be about good things. Junior games may teach players 5 than those for grown-ups. It's better for makers to tell us stories from history and geography in their games. This makes juniors 6 more. Junior games have rules for players as well. If you use bad words too many times, you may be stopped for 7 the game.You can t spend too much time on games. The computer will 8 the game when your time is up. Great, right? Your mum may even be 9 than you. You can also tell other 10 how you feel about some games. Let's go to www. game315. com/yxfj.( )1. A. difficult B. pleasant C. wonderful D. useless( )2. A same B. different C. wide D. more( )3. A. places B. matches C. levels D. games( )4. A. boys B. girls C. police D. friends( )5. A less B. more C. more carefully D. more differently( )6. A play B. learn C. chat D. help( )7. A teaching B. playing C. rolling D. fighting( )8. A. stop B. cut C. keep D. store( )9. A sadder B. angrier C. happier D. calmer( )10. A players B. friends C. teachers D. classmates二、阅读理解(每小题3分,共60分)AThe Internet has become a part of teenage(十几岁的) life. A new report on 3,375 students aged from 10 to 18 in seven Chinese cities shows that 38 per cent of them believe they use the Internet often.While most of them get useful information and use the Internet to help in their studies, some are not using it in a good way. Many are playing online games too much. A few even visit websites they should not look at. Li Ying, a teacher from Beijing Yingcai Middle School warns(警告) that bad things can happen if young people spend too much time on the Internet. She had a student who used to be good at school. But then he started visiting sex websites. He went mad, cheated(欺骗) a girl and was taken away by the police.In order to help young people use the Internet in a good way, a textbook on good Internet behaviour(举止,行为) has started to be used in some Shanghai middle schools this term. The book uses real examples to teach students all about good ways of using the Internet. The book gives useful advice such as it's good to read news or to find helpful information to study.Some students also make online friends. But if you are meeting a friend online, make sureyour parents know. Teachers and parents all think the book is a very good idea.Li said the book would be a guide for teens using the Internet. She believes it will keep students away from bad sites.'Many students are using the Internet without guidance(指导) from their parents,' she said. 'The book will teach students how to be a good person in the online world. ,( )1. How many among the 3,375 students believe they use the Internet very often?A. 10.B. 18.C. 38.D. About l,282.( )2. _______ children are using the computer in a good way.A. AllB. Not allC. Each of theD. Every( )3. A textbook on good Internet behaviour has begun to be used in_______.A Beijing B. Wuhan C. Shenyang D. Shanghai( )4. The aim(目的) of the book is to_______.A. teach students how to go online in a good wayB. tell children how to make online friendsC. tell a lot of stories about the harm of the InternetD. teach students how to play computer games( )5. The student who was caught by the police was_______.A. crazyB. too interested in the bad thingsC. lateD. too excitedBWhen you are feeling unhappy or forget how great you are, there are six ways to make you feel good about yourself.(1) Look in the mirror and say to yourself, 'I am a special person and there's no one in the world like me. I can do anything!' It may not sound so good, but it really works!(2) Do something nice for someone. Helping others always makes you feel good.(3) Smile! Be friendly to people you meet. Look for the good things in your friends and family.(4) Learn something new! Have you always wanted to decorate your own room or learn how to swim? Go for it! New challenges(挑战) are fun and give you a sense of accomplishment (成就感) when you have finished.(5) Read and start a diary. Turn off the TV and let your imagination fly! Write down your thoughts, dreams or anything you want! Writing always helps to express your feelings.(6) Stay with your family. We all need our family time. Talk with your mum or dad or maybe even your cousin.( )6. This passage may be taken from_______.A. a science bookB. a storybookC. a magazineD. school rules( )7. According to the passage, when you are helping others, you will_______.A. be specialB. be sureC. feel niceD. be remembered ( )8. In the passage, new challenges are_______ when you have finished.A. funB. the things that make you feel confidentC. a dreamD. A and B( )9. Which of the following should you say 'NO' to when you are unhappy?A. You should always look for the good things of others.B. Stay alone at home as much as possible.C. Learn something new and go for it!D. Keep a diary to express your feelings. ( )10. The best title for the passage is '_______'.A. Do your bestB. Six ways to feel good about yourselfC. It's never too late to learnD. Always smile to your lifeCWho wants to carry a bulky bag to school? No children．Nobody wants one shoulder to belower than the other．In India，most of US would look at few textbooks．This is a way out．But in a country like America，there are always more choices．A company called goReader has created a“school bag”which is the size of a laptop computer(笔记本电脑)，weighing about 2．5 kg．The goReader has a color screen and can“hold”all the textbooks that a student may need，says a report in…The Asian Age‟newspaper．The company plans to work closely with the publishers(出版商)of textbooks so that the internet can supply these textbooks。
八年级下英语阅读能力竞赛试题
八年级下英语阅读能力竞赛试题A完形填空（共15小题，计15分）Although it was autumn, the snow was already beginning to fall in Tibet (西藏).Our legs were so heavy and cold that 1 felt like big pieces of ice. Have you 2 seen snowmen ride bicycles? That’s what we looked like! Along the way children who were 3 long wool coats stopped to look at us. In the late 4 we found it was so cold that our water bottles froze (结冰).However, the lakes shone like glass in the setting(落,下沉) sun and 5 wonderful.Wang Wei rode in front of me as usual. She was in high spirit and I knew I didn’t need to6 her. To climb the mountains was hard work but as we7 us, we were surprised by the view. We seemed to be able to see for miles, and we were so high that we found ourselves cycling through clouds. After a while, we began going8 the mountains. It was great fun especially as it slowly became much9 .At the foot of the mountains, colorful butterflies flew around us and we saw many sheep eating green grass. Then we had to 10 our caps, gloves and trousers for T-shirts and shorts.In the early evening we stopped to 11 .We put up our tent and then we ate. After supper Wang Wei went to sleep but I stayed 12 . At midnight the sky became 13and the stars grew brighter. As I 14 below the stars I thought about how far we had already traveled.We will reach Dali in Yunan Province soon, where our cousins will join us. We 14 hardly wait to see them!( ) 1. A. we B. you C. they D. it( ) 2. A. never B. ever C. even D. yet( ) 3. A. dressed in B. put on C. taken off D. dressed up( ) 4. A. morning B. afternoon C. evening D. night( ) 5. A. felt B. tasted C. sounded D. looked( ) 6. A. follow B. encourage C. remind D. discover( ) 7. A. looked at B. looked after C. looked for D. looked around ( ) 8. A. up B. down C. around D. into( ) 9. A. colder B. drier C. warmer D. wetter( ) 10. A. turn B. check C. make D. change( ) 11. A. make beds B. make friends C. make camp D. make money( ) 12. A. alive B. alone C. away D. awake( ) 13. A. heavier B. bigger C. quieter D. clearer( ) 14. A. lie B. lied C. lay D. laid( ) 15. A. may B. can C. must D. shall二、阅读理解（每小题2分，共60分）AEvery day when I enter the classroom, I will take a look at the wall beside my seat. You will find nothing special about this old wall if you just look at it. But for the students in my class, it is a special wall. Take a good look at it, and you will get to know the real feelings and thoughts of us, the 9th graders.In the middle of the wall, there is a big “VICTORY”. It was written in pencil. I guess it must have been written by someone who got a good mark in an exam.A little higher above the formulas, there is a poem. It only has two sentences. It reads: All those sweet memories have disappeared. Like tears dropping in the heavy rain.Oh! It must have been written at the end of the last term in middle school. Classmates had to leave school and good friends had to part. What a sad poem!If you “explore” the wall more carefully, you will find many other interesting things, like a crying face, or a happy face, and other patterns(图案). There are still some patterns and letters that I can’t understand, but they all show the feeling of the students who drew them.For years, the wall has witnessed(目睹) all the things that have happened in the classroom. I don’t know how it will be next year, two years from now, or even ten years from now. But I hope more smiling faces will be drawn on it.（）1. There is ____ special on this wall.A. somethingB. anythingC. nothingD. everything（）2. What was the “VICTORY” written in?A. ChalkB. PencilC. PenD. Brush（）3. When has the poem been written?A. At the beginning of the last semester.B. At the end of the year.C. At the end of the last semester.D. At the beginning of the last month. （）4. What’s the meaning of the underlined word?A. 部分B. 分离C. 和好D. 聚集（）5. What’s the title of the passage?A. The Pictures of the WallB. The Feelings of the StudentsC. The Patterns of the ClassroomD. The Hope of the WriterBThe film Forever Enthralled was directed by the director Chen Kaige, and famous stars acted in it, such as Li Ming and Zhang Ziyi and Chen Hong. This film shows Mei Lanfang’s life as a master of Beijing opera.Mei grew up in a family of Beijing opera performers. He began to perform on the stage in1904 when he was 10 years old. He learnt his acting skills and playedfemale roles. Singing, dancing, and acting are the three main parts of thetraditional Chinese opera. Mei Lanfang became highly good at all of them.He turned himself into a performer of almost all types of the “Dan”female roles. After many years of effort he enabled(使得) the Dan to havean important place in Beijing opera, with a clear-cut form for new comers to follow and develop. In his 50-year stage life, he used new acting skills and made lots of good operas.In July 1937, the Japanese army occupied(占领) Beijing. The officer of the army told Mei to perform for them and promised to give him a reward. Mei refused at the risk(风险) of his life and from then on he did not appear on stage during the war. His decision to give up made him poor until the war ended in 1945.Mei Lanfang was the first artist to introduce Beijing opera to foreign countries. He had his opera tours abroad, and people in other countries started to understand this kind of play. After1949, he became the symbol of Beijing opera through making a great contribution to the development of Beijing opera.（）6. Forever Enthralled shows the life of .A. a famous actressB. a film directorC. an unknown film starD. a master of Beijing opera（）7. Mei Lanfang learnt his acting skills and played roles.A. grown-upB. femaleC. childD. male（）8. After many years of effort he that the Dan had an important place in Beijing opera.A. made it possibleB. suggestedC. put it forwardD. thought（）9. During the war, Mei refused to appear on stage because he .A. had a lot of other things to doB. did not like to perform Beijing operaC. had enough money to live a good lifeD. hated performing before the Japanese army （）10. Mei made tours outside China in order to .A. practise his new acting skillsB. learn Western operas from foreign artistsC. let other peoples understand Beijing operaD. go around and see the whole worldCApril 27 is a special day in Britain. It’s called Take Our Daughter to Work Day. It was brought to Britain in 1994 from America. On that day thousands of girls take a day off school and go with one of their parents to their work places. By doing this, it can teach girls more about the society where they live.Now the girls can have a close look at what their parents are doing. This may help them to be calmer when they have to choose a job. Mary experienced a day of work at her mother’s office. This helped her understand her mother’s work better. She said that this made her feel more confident about her future.Schools and many companies support the activity, too. Some schools even make the day a necessary part of school life.Experts think that girls with more self-confidence are more likely(可能的)to be successful than common girls. If parents can set good examples both at work and at home for them, they will do better than others. Take Our Daughter to Work Day is surely a step in the right direction.（）11.Where was Take Our Daughter to Work Day brought?A. From America.B. From China. C From Canada. D. From Australia.（）12. On Take Our Daughter to Work Day, thousands of girls_______.A. go on a journey with their parentsB. have a party with their friends at homeC. go to the work places of one of their parentsD. take part in a school activity freely （）13. What’s NOT the advantage by doing such an activity?A. It can help girls understand their parents’ work better.B. It can teach girls more about the society.C. It can make girls feel more confident about their future.D. It can help girls improve their study.（）14. Which of the following is NOT true about Take Our Daughter to Work Day?A. It is a special activity on April 27 in Britain.B. Schools and many companies support this activityC. Many girls like this day because they won’t go to school.D. Some schools even make the day a necessary part of school life.（）15. According to the experts, being______ is the most important to girls in their future.A. smart and carefulB. confidentC. hard-workingD. friendlyDIt was the last day of the final examination in a college. On the steps of building, a group of engineering students were waiting for the last exam. On their faces was confidence.They knew the exam would be easy. The professor (a teacher at a college) had said they could bring any books or notes during the test.Right after they came into the classroom. The professor handed out the papers. There were only five questions on it.Three hours passed. Then the professor began to collect the papers. The students no longer looked confident. On their faces was nervous expression. The professor watched the worried faces before him, and then asked, “How many of you have completed all five questions?” No hand was raised. “How many of you have answered four?” Still no hands. “Three? Two?” The students moved restlessly in their seats. “One, then? Certainly somebody has finished one.” But the class kept silent. The professor said, “That is exactly what I expected. I just want to make you know clearly that even though you have completed four years of engineering. There are still many things about the subject you don't know. These questions you could not answer are common in everyday practice.” Then, smiling, he added, “You will all pass this course, your education has just begun.”The years have obscured the name of this professor, but not the lesson he taught.（）16. Why did the students think the exam was easy at first?A. Because it was their last exam in the college.B. Because they knew there were only five questions.C. Because they thought they were clever and talented.D. Because they were allowed to bring any books and notes during the text.（）17. What does the underlined word “obscured” mean in the last p aragraph?A. 模糊B. 回忆C. 提醒D. 改变（）18. What could the students learn from the last exam?A. He laughs best who laughs last.B. A good beginning is half done.C. One is never too old to learn.D. The early bird catches the worm.（）19. How did the professor feel when he found his students were not able to complete these five questions?A. Sorry.B. Angry.C. Unexpected.D. Unsurprised.（）20. What’s the best title for the article?A. Some Confident Students.B. An Engineering Exam.C. An Interesting Professor.D. An Unforgettable Lesson.EToday, people are paying more and more attention to improving their health through sports and exercise. But some of them have some wrong ideas about it.A plate of chicken is a good meal before games because it has much energy.In fact, the best meal before games should have carbohydrates(碳水化合物). Foods like potatoes, bread, bananas are rich in it, but chicken and meat are not. Carbohydrates are the best and most easily used form of energy. The energy that you get for today's game is from what you ate yesterday!The best time to exercise is early in the morning.No. Morning is a good time to exercise, but it may not be suitable for you. If an afternoon or evening period suits you, and you enjoy the feeling of getting healthier, you can choose any time to exercise. There is no fixed time for you to exercise.If you drink water when you exercise, you'll get headaches and feel tired.The fact is that you must have some water during breaks when you exercise. And after exercising, you must have enough water. If you don't drink enough water, then you'll probably get headaches and feel tired.Exercising the same body part every day is the fastest way to improve strength.False. Exercising the same body part every day is the fastest way to cause problems. Toimprovestrength, you want to work your muscles(肌肉) hard, but then you need to give those muscles a day of rest. Too much exercise can cause serious problems to muscles.Girls who do strength training will make their muscles big.Wrong. We usually connect those big muscles with bodybuilders(健美运动员)but girls don't have enough of male hormone(雄性激素) to make their muscles big like men. Strength training is a good way to make their muscles strong for girls.（）21. You had better eat _____ before games.A. bananasB. chickenC. meatD. beef（）22. What does the underlined word "fixed" mean in the article?A. importantB. regularC. simpleD. difficult（）23. Which of the following statements is true?A. Strength training might make girls become silly.B. Evening is the best time to exercise as it's always cool.C. You should eat food full of energy today for tomorrow's games.D. Exercising the same body part every day is the fastest way to improve strength.（）24. The writer advises you to _____.A. take exercise only in the morningB. make your muscles small through exerciseC. drink enough water after exercisingD. become a bodybuilder by strength training（）25 Which of the following would be the best title for the article?A. Results of sports and exercise.B. Proper time for sports and exercise.C. Reasons for sports and exercise.D. False ideas about sports and exercise.FAs space science develops, man has learned more and more about space. Space is not only amazing but also dangerous. While working in space, spacemen are facing danger as well as success.Scientists have found out that the radiation（辐射）is the greatest danger to spacemen in space. When spacemen are working in space, they are in danger of the radiation from the sun and other stars, which is bad for their health. The harm of the radiation won’t be found until their children even grandchildren are born. Some special medicine may work a little, but no really effective medicine has been found so far.Space rubbish is also thought to be a great danger to spacemen. It’s reported that there were 9,000 man-made things flying in space. About 30% of these are satellites, 10% are spaceships, and the rest are space rubbish. An explosion（爆炸）in space in 1999 made a cloud of 300,000 fragments,each at least 4mm in size. A small piece of these even knocked a spaceship window and caused some damage（损坏）.Scientists are watching and reporting any possible danger all the time. They are working to deal with space rubbish. Although space is really dangerous, it interests many people on the earth. In the near future, it may become possible for people to spend a few days in a space hotel. We may even choose to leave the earth and live in space in a few years. So we should do something to help improve the space environment.（）26. ______ shows the man-made things in space in the correct way.A. B. C. D.（）27. The radiation from the sun and other stars is ______ to spacemen.A. goodB. helpfulC. usefulD. harmful（）28. The underlined word “fragments” means “______”.A. 碎片B. 泡沫C. 烟雾D. 飞碟（）29. The passage talks about _________ kinds of danger in space.A. twoB. threeC. fourD. five（）30. Which of the following is TRUE?A. Scientists have found out ways to solve any problem in space.B. Every one of us can have a travel to space in ten years.C. The harm of the radiation may be found in the spacemen’s children.D. Space is really dangerous, so it doesn’t interest anyone on the earth.三、单词拼写（每小题1分，共15分）根据文章内容和首字母提示，写出单词正确形式Happiness is for everyone. You don't n________ (1)to care about those people who have beautiful houses with large gardens and swimming pools or those who have nice cars and a lot of money and so on. Why? Because those who have big houses may often feel l_______(2) and those who have cars may want to walk on the country roads at their free time.In f_____(3), happiness is always around you if you put your heart into it. When you are int________(4) at school, your friends will help you; when you study hard at your lessons, your parents are a_________(5) taking good care of your life and your health; when you gets_________(6), your friends will say congratulations to you; when you do something w______(7), people around you will help you to correct it. And when you do something good to o________(8), you will feel happy, too. All these are your happiness. If you n__________(9) them, you can see that happiness is always around you.Happiness is not the same as money. It is a feeling of your h________(10). When you are poor, you can also say you are very happy, b_______(11) you have something else that can't be bought with money. When you meet w_______(12) difficulties, you can say loudly you are very happy, because you have more chances to challenge y________(13). So you cannot always say you are poor and you have bad luck. As the saying g_______(14), life is like a revolving(旋转) door. When it closes, it also ________(15). If you take every chance you get, you can be a happy and lucky person.。
八年级英语阅读竞赛试卷及答案
八年级英语阅读竞赛试卷一、根据句意及所给首字母，写出完整正确的单词(共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分)Food is very important. Everyone needs to (1) e_________ well if he or she wants to have a strong body. Our minds also need a kind of food. This kind of food is knowledge (知识). We begin to get knowledge even (2) w__________ we are very young. Small children are (3) i__________ in everything around them. They learn (4) w_________ while they are watching and listening. When they are getting older, they begin to read story books, science books…, anything th ey like. When they find something new, they love to ask questions and (5) t_________ to find out the answers.二、完形填空(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
One day, a boy found the cocoon (茧) of a butterfly and brought it home. A few days later, the boy saw a small 6 in the cocoon. He sat and watched for several hours as a butterfly struggled to make 7 body through that little hole. Suddenly it stopped.So the boy 8 to help the butterfly, thinking the butterfly might be 9 . He took a pair of scissors (剪刀) and cut the hole 10 . The butterfly came out of the cocoon, but it 11 a little different. It had a weak body and small, thin 12 . The butterfly didn’t start to fly. In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling (爬行) around with a weak body and thin wings. It was never able to fly.The boy acted with 13 but he didn’t understand why it could be like this. When a butterfly crawl out of the cocoon, it must struggle. The hard work of 14 out of the cocoon makes the fluid (液体) from the butterfly’s body into its wings. It helps the butterfly be 15 to fly. If the butterfly never has to squeeze (挤压) itself out of the cocoon, its wings will never get the fluid and it can never fly.16 struggles are what we need in our lives. If we lived our lives without any problems, we would never learn or grow. We would not be 17 we could have been and we would never fly.In our lives, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, and sometimes even 18 growth, without it, there’s no way of life. We can’t avoid 19 or problems. So, next time you are 20 a problem or difficulty, remember the butterfly. Struggle a little–then fly!6. A. hole B. worm C. tail D. snake7. A. it B. it’s C. itself D. its8. A. decided B. asked C. showed D. ordered9. A. afraid B. interested C. surprised D. grateful10. A. slimmer B. bigger C. shorter D. smaller11. A. touched B. sounded C. looked D. smelt12. A. wings B. feet C. eyes D. head13. A. success B. excitement C. kindness D. humour14. A. get B. getting C. to get D. got15. A. ready B. quiet C. glad D. used16. A. Somewhere B. Something C. Some time D. Sometimes17. A. as helpful as B. as weak as C. as strong as D. as creative as18. A. repeats B. recommends C. requires(需要) D. represents(代表)19. A. happiness B. difficulties C. pleasure D. hope20. A. served with B. growing into C. bringing in D. faced with三、阅读理解(共20小题；每小题3分，满分60分)阅读下文, 从所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。
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）AIn 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. streets2. A. small B. big C. computer D. sports3. A. people B. boys C. women D. girls4. A. take B. win C. costD. 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. oursC. hisD. herBWe 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. forⅡ.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密 封 线 内 不 要 答 题lie”? Mrs. James: Certainly. Now I just give you some cakes. In fact you don’t like it, but you don’t want to let me know it. Instead you say, “No, thanks. I’m not hungry.” That’s a white lie. Mary: It sounds very interesting. Thanks very much. Mrs. James: You are welcome. Colors are meaningful. I think you will meet more sentences like these in the future. Please come to me if you have any questions.1.Blue sometimes means sad and is _____ English.A. goodB. spokenC. poorD. useful2.I don’t have a green thumb, so all my plants ______.A.die offB. grow wellC. look niceD. are good3. Tom is ____ to climb the tree. He’s yellow.A. happyB. cleverC. sadD. afraid4. He didn’t like me to know ____ of the accident. He told me a white lie.A. the reasonB. the meaningC. the answerD. the true story5. He is ______ today. His father is ill.A. blueB. yellowC. greenD. whiteBIn 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.6.________were asked to dinner that day.A. Jack and IB. Some of my friendsC.14 peopleD. Some of Jack’s friends7.Jack began to count the people________.A. before dinnerB. at dinner timeC. after dinnerD. when they came in8.My friend Jack ________the number 13.A. likesB. doesn’t likeC. has gotD. wants9.Why did their faces turned white when Jack said there were 13 people?Because_____.A. the table was too smallB. they needed another personC. they thought 13 was a lucky numberD. they thought 13 was an unlucky number10.All the people became happy again________.A. when I went inB. because they had a good timeC. because the food was deliciousD. because they heard they had one more person thereCThe world itself is becoming much smaller by using modern traffic and modern communication means(通讯设备).Life today is much easier than it was hundreds of years ago, but it has brought new problems. One of the biggest problems is pollution. To pollute means to make things dirty. Pollution comes in many ways. We see it, smell it, drink it and even hear it.Man has been polluting the earth. The more people, the more pollution. Many years ago, the problem was not so serious because there were not so many people, When the land was used up or the river was dirty in one place, man moved to another place. But this is no longer true. Man is now slowly polluting the whole world.Air pollution is still the most serious. It’s bad for all living things in the world, but it is not the only one kind of pollution. Water pollution kills our fish and pollutes our drinking water. Noise pollution makes us angry more easily.Many countries are making rules(法规)to fight pollution. They stop people from burning coal in houses and factories in the city, and from putting dirty smoke into the air. Pollution by SO2 in now the most dangerous kind of air pollution. It is caused(引起)by heavy traffic. We are sure that if there are fewer people driving, there will be less air pollution.The earth is our home. We must take care of it. That means keeping the land, water and air clean. And we must take care of the rise in pollution at the same time.11.________,our world is becoming much smaller.A. Because of the rise in pollutionB. Thanks to science developmentC. Because the earth is being polluted day and nightD. Because the earth is blown away by the wind every year12.Hundreds of years ago, life was ________it is today.A. much easier thanB. as easy asC. much harder thanD. as hard as13. Pollution comes in many ways. We can even hear it.Here “it”means________.A. rubbishB. noise pollutionC. air pollutionD. water pollution14.Air pollution is the most serious kind of pollution because________.A. it makes much noiseB. it makes us angry more easilyC. it makes our rivers and lakes dirtyD. it’s bad for all living things in the world15.Which of the following is NOT true?A. Many countries are making rules to fight pollution.B. The pollution of the earth grows as fast as the world population does.C. The problem of the pollution is not so serious because there are not so many peopleliving on the earth.D. If people could go to work by bus or bike instead of car or motorbike, it would behelpful in fighting against the problem of SO2.DIf you look at the sky one night and see something moving and shining that you have never seen before, it might be a comet (彗星).A comet sometimes looks like a star. Like a planet, a comet has no light of its own. It shines from the sunlight it reflects (反射). Like the earth, a comet goes round the sun, but on a much longer path (轨道) than the earth travels.If a comet isn’t a star, what is it the n?Some scientists think that a large part of a comet is water frozen into pieces of ice and mixed with iron and rock dust and perhaps a few big pieces of rock. When sunshine melts the ice in the comet, great clouds of gas go trailing after it. These clouds, together with the dust, form a long tail.Many people perhaps have seen a comet. However no one knows how many comets there are. There may be millions of comets, but only a few come close enough for us to see.An Englishman named Edmund Halley, who lived from 1656 to 1742, found out a lot about the paths that comets take through the sky. Some comets move out of our sight and never come back. Others keep coming back at regular times. A big comet that keeps coming back was named after Halley because he was the one who worked out when it would come back again. Maybe you have ever seen Halley’s Comets because the last time it came close to the sun and the earth was in the year 1986. Then people all over the world were outside at night to look at it. You will probably be able to see Halley’s Comets when it comes near the earth again.16.A comet is like ________.A. sunB. moonC. sunlightD. the earth17.A large part of a comet is ______.A.water and rockB. water frozen into pieces of ice and mixed with ironC. ice, iron and rock dustD. only a few big pieces of rock18.Maybe many people _______.A. haven’t seen any cometsB. have seen all cometsC. have seen a comet at daytimeD. have seen a comet19.Some comets keep coming back ________.A. at any timeB. at noonC. at regular timesD. at daytime20.Halley’s Comets came back _____.A. in 1990B. in 1980C. in 1986D. in 1989EA farmer had a cow. He took very good care of this cow and one day when it was ill, he was very worried. He telephoned the vet.“What’s the problem?”The vet asked him when he arrived.“My cow's ill,”the farmer said. “I don’t know what's the matter with her. She’s lying down and won’t eat. She's making a strange noise.”The vet looked over the cow. "She's certainly ill," he said, "and she needs to take some very strong medicine."He took a bottle out of his box, put two pills into his hand and said, "Give her these. The pills should make her better."“How should I give them to her?”the farmer asked.The vet gave him a tube (管子)and said, "Put this tube in her mouth, then put the pills in the tube and blow. That'll make it."The next day the vet came to the farm again. The farmer was sitting outside his house and looked more worried.“How's your cow?”the vet asked.“No change,”the farmer said, “and I’m feeling very strange myself.”“Oh?”the vet said, "Why?"“I did what you said,”the farmer answered. “I put the tube in the cow's mouth and then put two pills down it.”“And?”the vet asked.“The cow blew first,”the farmer said.21.In the story, the vet must be _________.A. the farmer's friendB. a milk factoryC. a hospital for cowsD. a doctor for animals22.The farmer asked the vet for help when his cow _______A. couldn't lie downB. didn't eat the pillsC. couldn't make any noiseD. was ill23.What medicine did the vet give the farmer?A. Bottle of pills.B. A long tube.C. Two pills.D. A small box.24.The vet taught the farmer how _________.A. to blow the tubeB. to make the cow take the pillsC. to take the medicineD. to put the tube in his mouth25.Which of the following is true?A. The farmer ate the pills himself.B. The cow got better after taking the medicine.C. The vet came to help farmer change the cow the next day.D. The farmer waited for the vet outside his house the next day. Passage 2FOn November 18th, 1908, three men went up in a balloon. They started early in London. The headman was Auguste Gaudron, and the other two men were Tannar and Maitland. They had a big balloon, and they were ready for a long way.Soon they heard the sea below them. They were carrying the usual rope , and it was hanging down from the basket of the balloon. At the end of the rope they had tied a metal box. This could hold water. Or it could be empty. So they were able to change its weight. They were also carrying some bags of sand.After the sun rose, the balloon went higher. It went up to 3,000 meters, and the air was very cold. The water in the balloon became ice. Snow fell past the men’s basket, and they could see more snow on the ground. There was also some snow on the balloon, and that made it very heavy. It began to go down towards the ground. The men tried to throw out some more sand; but it was hard. They tried to break the icy sand with their knives, but it was not easy. The work was slow and they were still falling; so they had to drop some whole bags of sand. One of them fell on an icy lake below and made a black hole in the ice.At last they pulled the box into the basket. It was still snowing; so they climbed to get away from the snow. They rose to 5,100 meters! Everything became icy. They were so cold that they decided to land. They came down in Poland heavily but safely. They had traveled 1,797 kilometers from London!26hree men flew in a balloon _________.A. more than a century agoB. to visit PolandC. for nearly 1,800 kilometersD. to another city27.The metal box was used for _______.A. changing weightB. carrying ropes of the basketC. keeping drinking waterD. carrying the bags of sand28.When the balloon went up higher, ________.A.they saw the sun go downB. the temperature of the balloon began to fallC. they could see a black hole on the groundD. they made a hole in the basket with their knives29.The balloon landed __________.A. in a foreign countryB. on a lakeC. in LondonD. on the sea30.The three men had to land because _______.A.they were very hungryB. they had not enough sandC. they pulled the box into the basketD. they felt too coldGIf you get into the forest with your friends, stay with them always. If you don’t, you may get lost. If you really get lost, this is what you should do. Sit down and stay where you are. Don’t try to find your friends—let them find you by staying in one place.There is another way to help your friends or other nearby people to find you. Give them a signal (信号) by shouting or whistling (吹口哨) three times. Any signal given three times is a call for help.Keep up shouting or whistling always three times together. When people hear you, they will know that you are not just making noise for fun. They will let you know that they have heard your signal. They give you two shouts, two whistles, or two gun-shots (枪声). When someone gives you a signal, it is an answer to a call for help.If you don’t think that you will get help before night comes, try to make a little house---cover up to the holes with branches with lots of leaves. Make yourself a soft bed with leaves and grass.What should you do if you get hungry or need drinking water? You would have to leave your little house to look for a river. Don’t just walk away. Pick off small branches and drop them as you walk so that you can find your way back. The most important thing to do when you are lost is—stay in one place.根据短文内容判断正（T）误（F）31.If you lost in the forest, you should stay where you are and give signals three times.32.If you want to let people believe that you are not just making noise for fun, you shouldshout or whistle three times33.When you hear two shouts, or whistles, or gunshots, you should try to run to them.34.When you want to leave your place to get drinking water, you should make a fire so thatyou can have some tea.35.This passage mainly tells you what you should do if you get lost in a forest .。
初中英语八年级阅读竞赛试题
初中英语八年级阅读竞赛试题XXX discusses popular American words and ns。
both oldand new。
that make up the living speech of the American people。
One such n is "down to earth," which refers to being open and honest。
People who are down to earth are easy to deal with andcan be XXX。
they do not XXX to be better than others who are less important and do not let their importance go to their heads。
On the other hand。
a person who is filled with their own importance and pride is said to have their "nose in the air." This person often has no reason to feel better than others and is the opposite of someone who is down to XXX.BIn the United States。
people often use the n "get a kick out of something." This n means that someone enjoys something very much。
It can be used to describe any activity that brings pleasure。
初二英语竞赛试题及答案
初二英语竞赛试题及答案一、单项选择题（每题1分，共20分）1. Which of the following words is spelled incorrectly?A. beautifulB. impossibleC. impossilbeD. wonderful Answer: C2. What is the opposite word of "large"?A. smallB. bigC. tallD. shortAnswer: A3. How do you say "在...的左边" in English?A. on the left ofB. to the left ofC. at the left ofD. in the left of Answer: B4. Which of the following sentences is grammatically correct?A. She don't like apples.B. She doesn't like apples.C. She don't likes apples.D. She doesn't likes apples. Answer: B5. Fill in the blank with the correct preposition: The library is________ the school and the supermarket.A. betweenB. amongC. inD. atAnswer: A6. Choose the correct word to complete the sentence: He is very________ in his new job.A. excitedB. excitingC. exciteD. excitementAnswer: A7. Which of the following is the correct way to ask about someone's age?A. How old are you?B. What's your age?C. How many years do you have?D. How many years old are you?Answer: A8. Fill in the blank with the correct comparative form: My sister is ________ than me.A. tallB. tallerC. more tallD. most tallAnswer: B9. Which of the following is the correct way to express "我每天乘坐公交车去学校" in English?A. I go to school by bus every day.B. I go to school on bus every day.C. I take a bus to school every day.D. I take the bus to school every day.Answer: D10. Choose the correct word to complete the sentence: The________ of the meeting is to discuss the new project.A. reasonB. purposeC. causeD. effectAnswer: B11. Fill in the blank with the correct word: She is a ________ student and always gets good grades.A. excellentB. excellentlyC. excellenceD. excellencyAnswer: A12. Which of the following is the correct way to express "他正在学习英语" in English?A. He is learning English.B. He is studying English.C. He is learning Englishs.D. He is studying Englishs.Answer: A13. Choose the correct word to complete the sentence: The weather is getting ________ every day.A. hotB. hotterC. hottestD. hotnessAnswer: B14. Which of the following is the correct way to express "我需要一杯水" in English?A. I need a cup of water.B. I need a cup water.C. I need a water.D. I need water.Answer: A15. Fill in the blank with the correct word: She is ________ to the cinema with her friends.A. goB. goesC. goingD. wentAnswer: C16. Choose the correct word to complete the sentence: The________ of the book is very interesting.A. coverB. titleC. pageD. chapterAnswer: B17. Which of the following is the correct way to express "他正在打篮球" in English?A. He is playing basketball.B. He is playing the basketball.C. He is playing basketballs.D. He is playing the basketballs.Answer: A18. Fill in the blank with the correct word: She is a ________ teacher and all the students like her.A. patientB. impatientC. patienceD. impatientlyAnswer: A19. Choose the correct word to complete the sentence: The________ of the house is very beautiful.A. gardenB. parkC. yardD. fieldAnswer: C20. Which of the following is the correct way to express "我正在看电视" in English?A. I am watching TV.B. I am seeing TV.C. I am looking TV.D. I am looking at TV.Answer: A二、完形填空题（每题1分，共10分）阅读下面的短文，从A、B、C、D四个选项中选择一个最佳答案填空。
人教英语八年级竞赛试题
人教英语八年级竞赛试题人教版英语八年级竞赛试题通常包含听力、语法、阅读理解、完形填空、写作等多个部分。
以下是一套模拟竞赛试题的内容示例：Part 1 Listening Comprehension（听力理解）Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 4 questions that follow each conversation. The conversations and questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and a question, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer.1. What does the man want to do?a) Go to the cinema.b) Visit his grandparents.c) Play basketball.d) Do his homework.2. When will the woman probably go to the library?a) At 9:00 am.b) At 10:00 am.c) At 11:00 am.d) At 12:00 pm.[... 6 more questions and answers]Section BDirections: Listen to the passage and choose the best answer from the four choices.Passage 1: [A short passage about a school trip will be played]1. What is the main purpose of the passage?a) To describe a school trip.b) To invite students to a party.c) To announce a school event.d) To give a history lesson.2. Where will the students go for the trip?a) The museum.b) The beach.c) The zoo.d) The amusement park.[... 2 more questions and answers]Part 2 Vocabulary and Grammar（词汇和语法）Section ADirections: After reading the sentences, choose the best answer from the four choices.1. The little girl was so frightened that she couldn't speaka word. The correct word to fill in the blank is:a) terrifiedb) surprisedc) excitedd) bored2. The teacher asked us to ______ the homework before handing it in.a) reviewb) receivec) refused) achieve[... 8 more questions]Section BDirections: Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the word given in the brackets.1. The ______ (science) made a great discovery in his laboratory last week.2. She is one of the ______ (lead) in the research project.[... 6 more fill-in-the-blank questions]Part 3 Reading Comprehension（阅读理解）Passage 1[A passage about the importance of environmental protection]Questions:1. What is the main idea of the passage?2. Why is it important to protect the environment according to the passage?3. What can individuals do to help protect the environment?[... 5 more questions]Passage 2[A passage about a historical event]Questions:1. When did the event take place?2. What was the significance of the event?3. How did the event change the course of history?[... 5 more questions]Part 4 Cloze Test（完形填空）Directions: For each blank in the following passage, choose the best answer from the four choices.[A passage about a personal experience or a story]1. A) althoughB) becauseC) ifD) unless2. A) happilyB) angrilyC) sadlyD) nervously[... 10 more cloze test questions]Part 5 Writing（写作）Task 1Directions: Write a short passage about your favorite hobby. Use at least 50 words.Task 2Directions: Suppose you are planning a trip. Write an email to your friend, telling him/her about your travel plan. Use at least 60 words.请注意，以上内容仅为示例，实际的竞赛试题会根据具体要求和难度进行调整。
八年级阅读竞赛初赛试题
连云港市八年级学生英语听读竞赛初赛试题时间：60分钟满分：100分第一部分听力理解（共30分）一、听对话，根据问题选择正确答案（每小题1分，共15小题）。
( ) 1. A. B. C..( ) 2. A. B. C.( ) 3. A. B. C.( ) 4. A. B. C.( ) 5. A. B. C.( ) 6. A. B. C.( )7. A. B. C.( ) 8. A. B. C.( ) 9. A. Once a year. B. Twice a year. C. Every two years.( ) 10. A. Ice cream. B. Cola. C. Fruit.( ) 11. A. Go along with her to enjoy the film.B. Find someone else to go with him.C. Try to sell the ticket before the film starts.( ) 12. A. 300 meters away. B. 3,000 meters away. C. 30 minutes’ walk.( ) 13. A. She wants to eat some more fish.B. She doesn’t want to eat any more.C. She is still hungry.( ) 14. A. At seven. B. Before seven. C. After seven.( ) 15. A. 25 dollars. B. 20 dollars. C. 40 dollars.二、听短文，根据问题选择正确答案（每小题1分，共15小题）。
听第一篇短文，完成16-20小题。
( ) 16. They always left ________ at home when they went out.A. their dogB. their catC. their daughter( ) 17. How did they go to the cinema every evening?A. By bike.B. On foot.C. By car.( ) 18. The woman was very angry because_________.A. the dog was missingB. her husband didn’t catch the robberC. she didn’t think the dog looked after the house well( ) 19. What happened to the robber?A. He was locked in the room.B. He was caught in the garden.C. He was bitten by the dog.( ) 20. From the story, we can see that the dog is_________.A. clever and braveB. strong and friendlyC. lucky and honest听第二篇短文，完成21-25小题。
最新八年级英语阅读竞赛题
八年级阅读素养竞赛满分：100分时间：120分钟一语法选择（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）Have you ever felt uncomfortable? Many of __1___ feel uneasy when someone stands too close __2__ us, talks to us too __3__ or makes eye contact with us for too long. But have you ever wondered why those things make you uncomfortable?It’s all about personal peace, which means not only __4__ imaginary space around the body, but also the space around all the ___5___. People feel that their space is being violated(侵犯) when they meet with an unwelcome sound, smell or look. This is probably why a man on a crowded bus shouting into his mobile phone or a woman next to you putting on strong perfume(香水) makes you feel __6___.___7___ people have had a stronger wish to protect their personal space or not in recent times is hard to say. Yet studies of airlines show that people have a strong desire(渴望) to have space to ___8___. In a survey by TripAdvisor, a travel website, people said that if they ___9___ pay more for some extra service, they would rather have larger seats than extra food.Although people may need their personal space, some hardly realize it. For example, people on a bus who hold newspapers __10__their faces to read in fact keep a distance from strangers.Go and watch a library table. You will notice __11__ one of the corner seats will usually __12__ first, because they are the farthest way. What if someone __13__ opposite to you? Maybe you will pile up books as if to make a wall.Preference(偏好) for personal space are different from culture to culture. Scientists have found that Americans generally prefer more personal space than people from __14__ cultures. In Latin(拉丁人的) cultures, __15__, people are more comfortable standing near each other.1. A. we B. us C. our D. ours2. A. with B. in C. to D. at3. A. loudness B. louder C. loudly D. loudest4. A. a B. an C. the D. /5. A. sense B. senses C. sensing D. sensings6. A. anger B. angry C. angers D. angrily7. A. Whether B. What C. That D. Which8. A. them B. their C. themselves D. they9. A. has to B. have to C. had to D. having to10. A. in the front B. in frontC. in the front ofD. in front of11. A. that B. what C. where D. if12. A. be taken B. be taking C. take D. takes13. A. sat B. sit C. sits D. will sit14. A. another B. others C. other D.the others15. A. but B. however C. either D. although二、完形填空（共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分）阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的A、B、C、和D项中，选出最佳选项。
八年级英语阅读能力竞赛试题.doc
八年级英语阅读能力竞赛试题（时量：40 分钟总分：120 分）Name: Class: Score:阅读理解 1 Mr. and Mrs. Turner live outside a small town. They have a big farmand they are always busy working on it. Their son, Peter, studied at a middle school. The young man studied hard and did well in his lessons. It made them happy.Last month Peter finished middle school and passed the entrance examination ( 升学考试). Mrs. Turner was very happy and told the farmers about it.Yesterday morning the woman went to the town to buy something for her son. Onthe bus she told one of her friends how clever and able her son was. She spoke very loudly. All the people in the bus began to listen to her.“Which university ( 大学) will your son study in? ”a woman n ext to her asked.“In the most famous university in our country! ”Mrs. Turner said happily.“The most famous university? ”“Oxford University ( 牛津). ”Most of the passengers ( 乘客) looked at her carefully. Someof them said to her, “Congratulations! ”A woman said, “I'm sure he'll know Fred Smith. ”“Who's Fred Smith? ”“He's my son. ”“Does he study in the university, too? ”“No, ”said the woman. “He is one of the professors. ”（）l. The story happened in ________.A. AmericaB. FranceC. GermanyD. England（）2. Mr. and Mrs. Turner were happy because ________.A. their son did well in his lessonsB. they have a big farmC. they have a good harvestD. their son studied at a middle school（）3. Mrs. Turner wanted everyone to know ________.A. her son finished middle schoolB. her son was handsomeC. her son was going to study in a universityD. her son was very friendly to others（）4. Mrs. Turner spoke so loudly in the bus that __________.A. her friend could hear herB. all the people could hear herC. she hoped to make all the people happyD. she hoped they would say congratulations to her（）5. Which of the following is true? __________.A. The woman wasn't interested in Mrs. Turner's wordsB. Mrs. Turner knew nothing about the famous universityC. The woman wanted to stop Mrs. Turner from showing off ( 炫耀)D. The woman next to Mrs. Turner wanted to show off her son, too阅读理解2“Cool”is a word with many meanings. Its old meaning is used to express a temperature that is a little bit cold. As the world has changed, the word has had many different meanings.“Cool”can be used to express feelings of interest in almost anything. Whenyou see a famous car in the street, maybe you will say “It's cool. ”You may think, “He's so cool, ”when you see your favourite footballer.Weall maximize ( 扩大) the meaning of “cool ”. You can use it instead of many words such as “new”or “surprising ”. Here's an interesting story we can use to show the way the word is used. A teacher asked her students to write about thewaterfall (瀑布) they had visited. On o ne student's paper was just the one sentence,“It's so cool ”. Maybe he thought it was the best way to show what he saw and felt.But the story also shows a scarcity ( 缺乏) of words. Without “cool ”, somepeople have no words to show the same meaning. So it is quite important to keep somecredibility ( 可信性). Can you think of many other words that make your life ascolourful as the word “cool ”? I can. And I think they are also very cool.（）1. We know that the word “cool ”has ________.A. only one meaningB. no meaningsC. many different meaningsD. the same meaning（）2. In the passage, the word “express ”means“________”.A. seeB. showC. knowD. feel（）3. If you are ________ something, you may say, “It's cool. ”A. interested inB. angry aboutC. afraid ofD. unhappy with（）4. The writer takes an example to show he is _________ the way the wordis used.A. pleased withB. strange toC. worried aboutD. careful with（）5. In the passage, the writer suggests (暗示) that the word “cool”_________.A. can be used instead of many wordsB. usually means something interestingC. can make your life colourfulD. may not be as cool as it seems阅读理解3 A meteorite ( 陨石) almost hit an 80-year-old man named Arthur Pettifer in Britain when he was working in his garden. The meteorite was the biggestin the past 26 years in Britain.The meteorite weighed ( 重量) one kilo, and might be over four thousand million ( 百万) years old.“I hear the big noise in the air. I looked up and saw the tops of the treescoming and going, ”he said. “I didn't know what it was. ”Meteorites are small things from the small planets in space. About 3,500meteorites may f all on earth every year, but only very few are found. Mr. Pettifer's meteorite is the fifth to fall in Britain since the Second World War.Mr. Pettifer is glad. “Whenyou think about it coming from so far away, it really is something strange. ”（）1. The meteorite was ______ Mr Pettifer when it fell down.A. close toB. far fromC. hittingD. coming to（）2. The meteorite was already ______ years old.A. 40,000,000,000B. 40,000,000C. 400,000,000D. 4,000,000,000（）3. Mr. Pettifer found the tops of the trees coming and going because ______.A. the trees were afraidB. the fast falling meteorite kept the tree tops movingC. it was going to rainD. the moving was made by wind（）4. ______ people see a meteorite fall although they visit the earth often each year.A. Quite a fewB. someC. FewD. Many（）5. Mr. Pettifer was ______ to see the falling of the meteorite.A. happyB. afraidC. sorryD. angry阅读理解4Mrs. Weeks was reading a newspaper story to her class. The storysaid ：Were you ever in a hospital when you were small? Howdid you feel? The doctorsin Children ’s Hospital are asking for moneyfor children ’s toys( 玩具). Somechildrenin the hospital must stay in bed for manyweeks. Toys are needed to keep these sick( 生病的)children happy and quiet. Money for them can be sent to the hospital.After Mrs. Weeks read the story ，she said ，“This story gave me an idea. ”“You want us to bring some money for the toys. ”“We could bring some of ourown t oys for the children in the hospital. ”said the boys and girls one after another.“Well ，your ideas would be nice ，”Mrs Weeks said ，“but mine is different. ”“We could make some toys. ”shouted one of them.Mrs. Weeks smiled. “Do you think you could make toys? ”she asked.“Yes, yes. ”the whole class answered.“Great! Let ’s begin to make toys tomorrow. ”said Mrs. Weeks.On Saturday afternoon ，Mrs. Weeks took children to the hospital with the toysmade by her students. The children in the class felt happy ，too.A few days later ，Mrs. Weeks read another newspaper story to the class:Someschool pupils brought toys to Children ’s Hospital last week. The toys were made by the pupils of Grade Three in Green Street School. The doctor said ，“Wehave never had so many wonderful toys. Our children are very happy with them. They say ，‘THANK YOU，GRADE THREE’.”（）1. What was the first newspaper story mainly( 主要)about?A. Sick children in Children ’s HospitalB. Doctors in Children ’s Hospital.C. Mrs. Weeks and her students.D. Toys made by the boys and girls.（）2. What “idea ”did Mrs. Weeks have in mind?A. Ask the class to give some money to the children in the hospital.B. Ask the class to send some of their own toys to the children in the hospital.C. Let the class make some toys themselves and give them to the children in thehospital.D. Tell the class to go to see the children in the hospital.（）3. Doctors in Children ’s Hospital didn ’t have ____ to keep the children happy and quiet.A. enough timeB. enough boys and girlsC. get money to buy toys forD. enough doctors（）4. At first ，the doctors in Children ’s Hospital wanted to ____ the sick children.A. give some money toB. make some toys forC. get money to buy toys forD. borrow some toys for（）5. What Mrs Weeks really wanted to do is to ____.A. let everyone know her classB. save some money for toysC. make herselffamous D. teach the pupils to do things themselves and be helpful to others阅读理解5Once there lived an old man in a town. He always forgot a lot ofthings. So his wife always had to say to him ，“Don't forget this. ”One day he went on a long way alone. Before he left home ，his wife said ，“Now you have all these things. You need them on your way. Take care of your things onthe way. ”He went to the station. He bought a ticket and got on the train with it.About an hour later ，the conductor began to see the tickets. He came to the old manand said ，“Will you please show m e y our ticket? ”The old manlooked for his ticketin all his pockets but he could not find it. He was very worried. “I can't findmy ticket. I really bought a ticket before I got on the train ，”said the old man.“I think you are right. I believe you bought a ticket. All right ，you don't have to buy another ticket ，”said the conductor kindly. But the old man still( 仍然) looked worried and said sadly ，“You don't know why I'm worried. If I don't find my ticket ，I can't remember my station. Where am I going? ”（）1. The old man bought a ticket _______.A. after he got on the trainB. before he got on the trainC. when the conductor told him to buy oneD. when he found he had no ticket with him（）2. About an hour later ，the conductor began _______.A. to buy the ticketsB. to look for the ticketsC. to check( 检查) the ticketsD. to show the tickets（）3. The conductor told the old manthat he didn't need to buy another ticket because _________.A. the man was very oldB. he thought the old man had no money with himC. the old man showed him the ticketD. he believed the old man（）4. The old man still looked worried because _________.A. he couldn't get on the train.B. he lost his ticket and a lot of moneyC. he thought his wife would get angry with himD. he forgot where he was going（）5. Which of the following is right?A. The old man went on the trip with his wifeB. The old man didn't find his ticketC. The conductor was also an old manD. The old man had to buy another ticket阅读理解6The best way of learning a language is using it. The best way oflearning English is talking in English as much as possible. Sometimes you'll getyour words mixed up( 混合) and people will not understand you. Sometimes people will say things too quickly and you can' t understand them. But if you keep your senseof humor( 幽默感) ，you can always have a good laugh at the mistakes you make. Don't be unhappy if people seem to be laughing at your mistakes. It's better for peopleto laugh at your mistakes than to be angry with you，because they don't understand what you are saying. The most important thing for learning English is ：“Don't be afraid of making mistakes because everyone makes mistakes. ”（）1. The writer thinks that the best way for you to learn a language is____. A. writing B. listening C. using it D. learning grammar（）2. What should you do in learning English?A. Be careful not to make any mistake.B. Write as quickly as you can.C. Laugh more often.D. Speak English as much as you can.（）3. When people laugh at your mistakes ，you should ____.A. not careB. be happyC. feel worriedD. be unhappy（）4. When you make a mistake ，you should ____.。
2023年八年级英语阅读竞赛训练试题
八年级英语阅读竞赛训练试题5完形填空I moved to a new neighborhood two months ago. In the house with a large 1 across the road lived a taxi driver, a single parent with two school-aged children. At the end of the day, he would 2 his taxi on the road. I 3 why he did not park it in the garage.Then one day I learnt that he had another car in his garage. In the afternoon he would come home 4 work, leave his taxi and go out for his 5 affairs in his other car, not in his taxi. I felt it was 6 .I was curious to see his personal car but did not make it until I 7 to be outside one evening two weeks 8 , when the garage door was 9 and he drove out in his “own” car: a Rolls-Royce（劳斯莱斯）! It shook me completely 10 I realized what that meant. You see, he was a taxi driver. But 11 inside, he saw himself as something else: a Rolls-Royce owner and a （n）12 . He drove others in his taxi but himself and his children in his Rolls-Royce. The world looked at his taxi and 13 him a taxi driver. But for him, a taxi was just something he drove for a living. Rolls-Royce was something he drove for a (n）14 .We go to bed every night and 15 every morning as parents or children, not as bankers, CEOs or professors. We go for a 16 as close friends or go for a vacation as a 17 . We love life as it is. Yet often, we base our entire happiness and success on how high we 18 the social ladder—how much bigger and better a 19 we have. And we ignore our Rolls-Royce, by keeping it dusty in our garage. We should focus more on 20 we are than what we do!1. A. window B. garage C. door D. yard2. A. park B. stop C. check D. repair3. A. knew B. understood C. asked D. wondered4. A. for B. out of C. without D. from5. A. business B. national C. personal D. public6. A. wasteful B. useful C. wonderful D. plentiful7. A. appeared B. intended C. expected D. happened8. A. later B. more C. ago D. before9. A. broken B. fine C. shut D. open10. A. once B. before C. when D. until11. A. far B. deep C. long D. little12. A. driver B. engineer C. father D. son13. A. called B. made C. elected D. turned14. A. experience B. earning C. life D. position15. A. stay up B. wake up C. stay home D. go home16. A. competition B. performance C. debate D. party17. A. family B. company C. team D. whole18. A. build B. climb C. stand D. lay19. A. garden B. garage C. car D. taxi20. A. who B. what C. which D. where阅读理解 AI'm writing this letter slowly because I know you can't read fast. We don't live where we did when you left home. Your dad read in the newspaper that most accidents happened within 20 miles from your home, so we moved.I won't be able to send you the address because the last family that lived here took the house numbers when they moved so that they wouldn't have to change their address. This place is really nice. It even has a washing machine. I'm not sure it works so well though: last week I put a load in and pulled the chain (拉链) and haven't seen them since. The weather isn't bad here. It only rained twice last week; the first time for three days and the second time for four days. About that coat you wanted me to send you, your uncle Stanley said it would be too heavy to send in the mail with the buttons on so we cut them off and put them in the pockets.John locked his keys in the car yesterday. We were really worried because it took him two hours to get me and your father out. Your sister had a baby this morning, but I haven't found out what it is yet. The baby looks just like your brother.Uncle Ted fell in a whiskey vat（桶）last week. Some men tried to pull him out, but he fought them off playfully and drowned. We had him cremated（焚化）and he burned for three days.Three of your friends went off a bridge in a pick-up trunk. Ralph was driving. He rolled down the window and swam to safety. You other two friends were in back. They drowned because they couldn't get the tail gate down.There isn't much more news at this time. Nothing much has happened.Love, Mom P.S. I was going to send you some money but the envelope was already sealed.21. From the passage, we can infer that _____.A. here is the letter by a son for his fatherB. here is the letter by a mother for her sonC. the family moved to a new and nice place because it is really good thereD. the writer's daughter has got a male baby22. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?A. The number of the family is four, including the new-born baby.B. The son can't send his parents a letter because the address was taken by the other family.C. The son will receive a coat with the buttons detached (拆下).D. None is true.23. The underlined word "it"(Para.3) refers to _____.A. the thing that the baby was bornB. the babyC. the son's fatherD. the son's mother24. What is the reason why the family moved to a new place?A. The son asked them to do so .B. The place is really nice and the climate there is not bad, too.C. His dad read in the newspaper most accidents happened within 20 miles from their home.D. His sister had a baby, so they wanted to find a fine place.BWhen a friend is sad about a tragedy(悲剧)，it’s hard to know how to comfort(安慰) him/ her. But the worst thing you can do is say nothing. It could mean that you don’t care. You don’t have to say much.. A single supportive phrase doesn’t require absolutely perfect words to break the ice. Here are some conversation starters when life difficult situations have your tongue tied.1. A friend loses his baby.Don’t say: “Don’t worry. You’re so young. You’ll have another baby.” Do say: “ I’m so sorry. I can’t begin to imagine what you a re going through, but if you want to talk about it, call me anytime.”2. A guy deserts（抛弃）your friend.Don’t say: “I never liked that rat bastard (坏蛋) anyway!” ( If the couple winds up reconciling (和解)，you could end up losing your friend.) Do say: “Breaki ng up is always hard to deal with, but I’m here for you, whatever you need.”3. A friend has a death in the family.Don’t say: “It’s God’s will.” or “I know exactly how you feel.” Do say: “I’m sorry about your loss. What can I do to help?”4. A friend loses a job suddenly.Don’t say: “Work is always boring. Those bosses didn’t suit you!” Do say: “I’m sorry for that, but I know there’s an even better job waiting for you there. Let’s think about possibilities.”5. Someone’s pet dies.Don’t say: “Gee! It was only a cat!” or “My roommate doesn’t like her dog and she is getting rid of her dog. Do you want it?” Do say: “I’m sorry, she was such a great cat. How long did you have it?”25. Which of the following has the same meaning as the underlined part “have your tongue tied”?A. make your tongue shutB. tie your tongue in order not to say.C. have no suitable words to say.D. say what you want freely.26. As a whole, what’s the suitable way to comfort your friend troubled with a tragedy?A. To show your sorrow and offer your help.B. To try to make the tragedy less serious.C. To tell your friend not to think about it any more.D. To do your best to make him/her cheerful again.27. Though your friend is deserted, you’d better not say dirty words about her/ his friend because _______________________ .A. they might get along well again and you might be desertedB. your friend might not like you to say that against her / his friendC. it may be a sign that you don’t care for your friendD. your friend might hate you in the future28. Which of the following might be suitable words when your friend’s dog dies?A. Don’t worry too much. I’ll give you a good one.B. I’m sorry to hear that. It was such a good dog.C. I’ m sorry you lost your dog. But it wa s at its ripe age.D. You must be sad about it. That’s enough.阅读填空从短文后所给旳A—G七个选项中选出能填入空白处旳五个最佳选项，选项中有两项多出选项。
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八年级英语阅读竞赛题八年级阅读素养竞赛满分：100分时间：120分钟一语法选择（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）Have you ever felt uncomfortable? Many of __1___ feel uneasy when someone stands too close __2__ us, talks to us too __3__ or makes eye contact with us for too long. But have you ever wondered why those things make you uncomfortable?It’s all about personal peace, which means not only __4__ imaginary space around the body, but also the space around all the ___5___. People feel that their space is being violated(侵犯) when they meet with an unwelcome sound, smell or look. This is probably why a man on a crowded bus shouting into his mobile phone or a woman next to you putting on strong perfume(香水) makes you feel __6___.___7___ people have had a stronger wish to protect their personal space or not in recent times is hard to say. Yet studies of airlines show that people have a strong desire(渴望) to have space to ___8___. In a survey by TripAdvisor, a travel website, people said that if they ___9___ pay more for some extra service, they would rather have larger seats than extra food.Although people may need their personal space, some hardly realize it. For example, people on a bus who hold newspapers __10__their faces to read in fact keep a distance from strangers.Go and watch a library table. You will notice __11__ one of the corner seats will usually __12__ first, because they are the farthest way. What if someone __13__ opposite to you? Maybe you will pile up books as if to make a wall.Preference(偏好) for personal space are different from culture to culture. Scientists have found that Americans generally prefer more personal space than people from __14__ cultures. In Latin(拉丁人的) cultures, __15__, people are more comfortable standing near each other.1. A. we B. us C. our D. ours2. A. with B. in C. to D. at3. A. loudness B. louder C. loudly D. loudest4. A. a B. an C. the D. /5. A. sense B. senses C. sensing D. sensings6. A. anger B. angry C. angers D. angrily7. A. Whether B. What C. That D. Which8. A. them B. their C. themselves D. they9. A. has to B. have to C. had to D. having to10. A. in the front B. in frontC. in the front ofD. in front of11. A. that B. what C. where D. if12. A. be taken B. be taking C. take D. takes13. A. sat B. sit C. sits D. will sit14. A. another B. others C. other D.the others15. A. but B. however C. either D. although二、完形填空（共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分）阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的A、B、C、和D项中，选出最佳选项。
Last summer I was a volunteer at a shelter for the homeless, a place for homeless people to sleep at night. I wasn’t working that summer and was 16 only two classes in summer school, so I had some free time.Three nights a week, I 17 in the kitchen of the shelter along with other four volunteers. We planned and 18 hot meals of vegetables, chicken, fish and fruit for 45 people. The homeless people 19 this good food because many of them usually don’t eat well. They were very grateful.I 20 this volunteer work very much and made 21 with the four volunteers in the kitchen. One was a very nice elderly housewife, one a movie actor, another a young teacher, and the other a college student, like me.I talked to a lot of the homeless people at the shelter. Their life stories22 me with sympathy. Some of them had 23 with alcohol or drugs while others only had bad luck. One woman worked for almost 30 years for a small company, and then she lost her 24 . She looked for a 25 job, but couldn’t find one, as she was too 26 . She could do nothing but sell her furniture —sofas, chairs, and tables so that she could pay for her 27 .The woman 28 on job hunting, but she still c ouldn’t find one. She had no money for her 29 and had to sleep in her car. Then she had to sell her car. Alone, 30 , and homeless, she finally came to the shelter. 16. A. studying B. planning C. holding D. taking17. A. helped B. waited C. appeared D. washed18. A. ordered B. bought C. cooked D. finished19. A. hated B. needed C. collected D. bought20. A. wanted B. had C. owned D. enjoyed21. A. decisions B. wishes C. friends D. changes22. A. struck B. filled C. seized D. provided23. A. habits B. worries C. fears D.problems24. A. bag B. job C. home D. money25. A. good B. fresh C. skilled D. new26. A. old B. poor C. sick D. dull27. A. company B. friends C. food D. furniture28. A. went B. moved C. came D. worked29. A. block B. cottage C. building D. flat30. A. afraid B. shy C. shocked D. mad三阅读理解（30题，每题2分，总共60分）(A)People often say that the Englishman’s home is his castle. They mean that the home is very important and personal to him. Most people in Britain live in houses rather than flats, and many people own their homes. This means that they can make them individual(个体的),they can paint them, change them in any way they like. Most houses have a garden, even if it is a very small one, and the private(私人的) space of individual.People usually like to mark their space. Are you sitting now in your home or on a train? Have you marked the space around yourself as yours? If you are on the train you may put your coat or small bag on the seat beside you. If you share a flat you may have one corner or chair which is your own.Once I was travelling on a train to London. I was in a section for four people and there was a table between us. The man on the opposite side to me had his briefcase on the table. There was no space on my side of the table at all. I was angry. Maybe he thought that he owned the whole table. I had read a book about non-verbal communication, so I took various papers out of my bags and put them on his briefcase!When I did this he stiffened and his eyes nearly popped out of his head, I had invaded (侵犯) his space! A few minutes later I took my papers off hiscase in order to read them. He immediately moved his case to his side of the table. Of course, it is impossible that he just wanted to be helpful to me!If you are visiting another country you may feel that you don’t have any private space. Hotel rooms look much the same in every country in the world. All day long, you share public spaces with other people. You see the local people in their private spaces and you feel lonely and “outside”. Local people can create their private spaces by talking about things you don’t know about. And you even feel that they like you to be outside them so that they will enjoy being a traveler! But if you understand it then it helps you. Haven’t you enjoyed being part of a group and “owning” a bit of space? ( ) 31. The write was angry as he was travelling on a train to London because__________.A. he had no place to sitB. someone had invaded his “space”C. too many people shared a section with him.D. some other people talked about things he didn’t know about_________ ( ) 32 .“... you feel lonely and outside” in Paragraph 4 means that __________.A. you are alone outside the houseB. you feel lonely because you travel on your ownC. you are alone and therefore you go outside to have some funD. you feel lonely and don’t belong to that place or that group of people ( )33.In Paragragh 4,the pronoun “them” refers to(所指)“__________”.A. public spacesB. private spacesC. local peopleD. other countries( )34.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?A. British people dislike marking their spaces.B. You always feel at home in another country.C .Most British people prefer living in houses to flats.D. You can’t mark your private space in a foreign country.（）35.The main purpose of the passage is to tell readers to __________.A. own private spaces by living in housesB. have one corner of their own in public placesC. realize the importance of “space” in communicationD. create their private spaces by talking with local people(B)I loved my mother’s desk since I was just tall enough to see above the top of it when mother sat doing letters. Looking at the ink bottle, pens and white paper, I decided that the act of writing must be the most wonderful thing in the world.Years later, during her final illness, mother kept different things for my sister and brother, “But the desk,” she said again, “is for Elizabeth.”I never saw her get angry, and never saw her cry. I knew she loved me, and she showed it in action. But as a young girl, I wanted heart-to-heart talks between mother and daughter.They never happened and a gulf opened between us. I was “too emotional (易动感情的)”,but she lived “on the surface”.As years went by and I had my own family. I loved my mother and thanked her for our happy family. I wrote to her in careful words and asked her to let me know in any way that she did forgive (原谅) me.I posted the letter and waited for her answer. It didn’t come.It seemed that nothing happened. I couldn’t be sure that the letter had even got to her.I only knew that I had written it, and I could stop trying to make her into someone she was not.Now the present of her desk told me that she was pleased that writing was my chosen work, though she had never been able to. I cleaned the desk carefully and found some papers inside—a photo of my father and a one-paper letter. Folded (折叠) and refolded many times.Give me an answer, my letter asks, in any way you choose. Mother, you always chose the act that speaks louder than words.（）36.The writer began to love her mother’s desk __________.A. after mother diedB. when she was a childC. before she became a writerD. when mother gave it to her（）37.The passage shows that mother ____.A. was too serious about everything her daughter had doneB. was cold on the surface but kind in her heart to her daughterC. cared much about her daughter in wordsD. wrote to her daughter in careful words（）38.The word “gulf” in the 4th paragraph means __________.A. deep understanding between the old and the youngB. part of the sea going far in landC. free talks between mother and daughterD. different ideas between mother and daughter（）39.What did mother do with her daughter’s letter asking for forgiveness？A. She read the letter again and again till she died.B. For years,she often talked about the letter.C. She didn’t forgive her daughter at all in her life.D. She had never received the letter.（）40.What’s the best title of the passage？A. My Letter to MotherB. Mother and ChildrenC. My Mother’s DeskD. Talks Between Mother and Me（C）Zheng He, the Columbus of the East, was an amazing man.He was born in 1371 and, 11 years later, was caught by the army of a rich young man called Zhu Di and made to work for him. Over time the rich man saw that Zheng He was very clever and strong and they became close friends. In 1403 Zhu Di was made the King of China and he asked Zheng He to join his new government.The King wanted to learn more about the world and show other countries his power. He ordered many new ships to be built and made Zheng He their leader. Between 1405 and 1433, Zheng He led seven sea trips to different parts of the world. He certainly travelled to India, Africa and the Middle East. A few people think his ships may have even reached South America and Australia.Each trip lasted between two and four years and it is believed he sailed more than 50 000 kms during the years of his travels. With 28 000 men and over 300 ships, such as boats for food, water and even soldiers' horses, Zheng He led a fleet (舰队) whose size would not be equalled by Europeans for over 500 yearsOn these trips he brought with him many Chinese goods like silk and medicine to give to foreign kings or to sell for local goods. He returnedfrom each trip with boats filled with expensive things such as gold and jewellery, foreign guests and strange animals like a giraffe.It is a pity that we may never learn everything about Zheng He' s travels. After he died in 1433, the new king, who believed these trips were unlucky and too expensive, had them stopped and he burned almost all the books about Zheng He’s travels. It is only in the last 50 years that historians have begun to carefully study the adventures of the great Zheng He.（）41. Why did the Chinese King want Zheng He to sail to many different countries?A. To bring new countries under the control of China.B. To show the world how strong the King was.C. To receive gifts from the kings of other countries.D. To discover unusual animals.（）42. What do we know about Zheng He from the passage?A. He sailed to all seven continents.B. Each of his trips lasted one year.C. He died at the age of 62.D. He was a successful businessman.（）43. Which of the following did Zheng He NOT bring with him from China?A. Medicine.B. Gold.C. Animals.D. Silk. （）44. What happened after Zheng He died?A. He was forgotten for ever.B. His ships were all burned.C. The new king wrote a book about him.D. Sea trips to other countries were stopped.（）45. In what order did the following happen?a. Zhu Di became the King.b. Zheng He was caught by soldiers.c. The books about Zheng He were all burned.d. Foreigners were brought to China.e. Zheng He visited India.f. New ships were built.A. e, b, a, f, d, cB. b, a, e, d, c, fC. f, a, b, d, c, eD. b, a, f, e, d, c（D）By the year 2050 it is estimated that the world’s population will reach nine billion. An interesting question: what happens when people in poorer countries raise their living standard and demand more meat in their diet? Imagine trying to feed nine billion people with enough meat. In short, it’s simply impossible.Australian journalist and science writer, Julian Cribb, explains the challenges the world faces in feeding nine billion people by the year 2050. Cribb says there is a major problem in the current food system in the developed world, at least. As more and more people move towards city centers, the less and less they know about where their food comes from. Most think food simply grow on supermarket shelves, and they don’t consider the environmental effects of food production.Food has many hidden cost: huge volumes of water, energy use and land degradation（退化）. Consumers add their own costs by simply throwing away a lot of food. The figures for food waste in West are staggering.To solve this problem of public ignorance（无知）about food. Cribb suggests that food should be taught as a subject at primary school. This would help to create a future generation that could better deal with the world’s coming food challenges. This powerful measure can help to raise a generation of educated consumers, more productive farmers, and so on.Cribb offers other solutions and suggestions as well. One is to increase the funding（资金）for agriculture science, which has been falling by the wayside in recent years. He suggested organic（有机的）farming should be understood on a scientific basis, changing people’s thinking to one of a new form of “environmental agriculture”to get the very best out of organic farming systems. He says we should stop wasting food and learn how to grow food more cheaply. We should use less water, as water is one of the main inputs into food production. Cribb also suggests eating more fruit and vegetables.（）46. In the second paragraph, one problem of the food system in developed countries is ___.A. increasing ignorance about the ways of food productionB. an increasing number of people moving to city centersC. food production doing harm to the environmentD. the cost of food production is increasing（）47. What is the meaning of the underlined word in the thirdparagraph?A. Confusing.B. SurprisingC. PuzzlingD. Pleasing.（）48. According to Julian Cribb, what is the aim of making food a subject at school?A. To educate students about the food problem.B. To help students understand how to grow food.C. To develop agricultural science.D. To train more productive farmers.（）49. Which of the following may the writer disagree with?A. The public should save food and save water.B. Organic agriculture costs a lot of resources.C. More money should be used for agricultural science.D. People should eat less meat but more fruit and vegetables.（）50. The text is mainly about _______.A. The effects of agriculture on the environment on agricultureB. the effect of the world’s population on agricultureC. food problems in the future and some solutionsD. the development of agriculture in the future（E）Did you know that 7 out of 10 students have cheated at least once in the past year? Did you know that 50 percent of those students have cheated more than twice? This shocking data is from a recent survey of 9,000 U.S. high school students.Incredibly, teachers may even be encouraging their students to cheat! Last year at a school in Detroit, some teachers were found to have provided their students with answers to statewide standard tests. Students at the school told police that they were promised pizza and money if they cheated on the test. Similar reports at several schools in San Diego county have prompted an investigation by the Education Department. A student at a local high school says she sees students cheating on almost every test, and the teachers don’t do anything about it. In response to the claims of school-assisted cheating, the head of the National Association of School Principals said that while cheating should never be accepted, it showed the pressure that schools were under. “Because school funding is now decided by students' test performance, there is incredible pressure on school toraise marks in any way they can.”But schools are not the main problem. Many students claim that they’re tempted to cheat because of peer pressure and intens e competition to get top grades. Many kids also say that their parents are setting a bad example by cheating on income taxes, lying about age to pay lower admission prices, or cheating their way out of speeding tickets. They are sending a message to their kids that it is okay to cheat and lie.So, what can be done? In our school’s math classes, each student has different problems on their test papers, so it is useless to look at someone else’s answers. Teachers could also randomly mix the problems throughou t the page. Another solution is for adults to lower their expectations. Chances are that students believe cheating is the only way to meet unreasonably high expectations. Perhaps it is time for parents and teachers to seriously examine whether higher test results are important enough to encourage cheating.（）51. What does the writer think of the levels of cheating in American schools?A. It is an extremely serious problem.B. It is no worse than other countries.C. He expresses no clear opinion.D. It is mainly the fault of local school.（）52. Which of the following causes of cheating is NOT mentioned?A. Pressure from others.B. Too much work.C. Strong competition.D. School funding.（）53. Why are some schools ignoring their students cheating in America, according to the passage?A. Because schools will get better students.B. Because teachers will then receive a higher salary.C. Because schools will get more government money.D. Because schools fear parents will be very angry.（）54. According to the 3rd paragraph , how are parents encouraging their children to cheat?A. By putting too much pressure on their children to succeed.B. By criticising their children too much when they fail.C. By urging them directly to be dishonest.D. By failing to behave honestly themselves.（）55. In the last paragraph the writer _________.A. offers possible solutions to the problemB. describes the causes of the problemB.outlines the results of the student cheatingD. suggests some of the reasons for cheating（F）How should you begin and finish an email message to someone you don't know? Find out here.Starting and finishing emailsHere are some important points to consider when starting and finishing an email.Formal or informal?We write a formal email when we want to be polite, or when we do not know the reader very well. A lot of work emails are formal. We write informal emails when we want to be friendly, or when we know the reader well. A lot of social emails are informal. Here are some examples of formal and informal messages:Formal InformalAn email to a customerA job applicationAn email to your managerA complaint to a shopAn email from one company toanother companyA birthday greeting to a colleagueAn email to a colleague who is also agood friendA social invitation to a friend at yourworkplaceAn email with a link to a funnyYouTube clipA message to a friend on a socialnetworking siteemail or an informal one.Layout and punctuationStarting an email: We normally write a comma after the opening phrase. We start a new line after the name of the person we’re writing to.Finishing an email: We normally write a comma after the closing phrase. We start a new line to write our name at the end.Formal InformalDear Mr Piper,I am writing to thank you for all your help.I look forward to seeing you next week.With best wishes,John Smith Hi Tim,Many thanks for your help.See you next week. Cheers,JohnHere are some phrase which we use for starting and finishing emails. We use these in formal and informal emails:Starting phrases Dear Tim,Good morning Tim,Ending phrases Regards,With best wishes,With many thanks and best wishes,A.From a school magazine.B. From a newspaper.C. From a textbook.D. From a website.（）57 What is the passage mainly about?A.Writing email address.B. Starting and finishing emails.C. Writing messages to strangers.D. Reading different emails.（）58 Which one of the following emails belongs to informal one?A. An email to invite your classmates to your birthday party.B. An email to an online shop asking for the return of money.C. An email to your boss asking for a leave for a few days.D. An email to an ad company telling you’re right for the job.（）59 After writing the opening and closing phrase, we both need a ___________.A. “,”B. “.”C. “!”D. “?”（）60. When we say “With many thanks and best wishes”, we mean to________.A. start our emailB. change our topicC. end our emailD. expressing our opinion 四．阅读填空（共5小题，每题2分，共10分）根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。