初三英语阅读理解

初三英语阅读理解 初三英语阅读理解 Passage 1 Renting a color television makes more sense than buying. Here’s why: 1. The longer you rent (租), the less you pay. Each year the monthly rate is reduced. You can reach a low rate of not much more than $12 a week. 2. Service is fast and free. We can have your set installed (安装) in two days. If anything goes wrong, we’ll have it fixed the same day or lend you another set while we’re mending it. And don’t forget: service and spare parts are free! 3. If you don’t have an aerial (天线), we’ll install one for you, and that will be free, too. All you have to pay is the installation charge (安装费)! 4. You can choose from all kinds of models, and what’s more, if after a certain period of time, and you would like a new model, you can change. How’s that for service? 5. No deposit (押金) is needed. You pay only the monthly rental fee. But if you pay in advance, you can save money. Pay twelve months’ fees when you begin to hire, and we’ll give you a month’s hire without charge. 6. If you decide that you want to stop renting and buy the set you have on hire, this can be arranged—with a generous allowance (折扣) for the fees already paid. 1. From the passage we know _______________________. A. the more you rent, the less you pay B. the lowest weekly rental fee is much more than $12 C. the longer you rent, the less you pay D. if you rent a TV set for a long time, service and spare parts will be free 2. What is the good of paying twelve months’ fees when you begin to hire? A. One and a half months’ hire free of charge. B. One month’s hire free of charge. C. Half a month’s hire free of charge. D. One-fourth of a month’s hire free of charge. 3. What does “pay in advance” mean? A. You pay the rent for a period of time before you actually get the television. B. You go ahead and pay the rent. C. You pay the rent in front of anyone. D. You will be the first to pay the rent. 4. If you want to rent a color television, ____________________. A. leasing company (租赁公司) can have your set installed the same day B. you can have a choice of sets to rent C. leasing company will install an aerial for you free of charge D. you must have an aerial 5. This passage is a (an) _______________________. A. book B. report C. advertisement D. picture   Key: 1-5 CBABC   Passage 2 We have known for a long time that flowers of different plants open and close at different time of day. This is so familiar that there seems to be no need to ask the reason for it. Yet no one really understands why flowers open and close like this at particular times. The process (过程) is not as simple as we might think, as recent experiments have shown. In one study, flowers were kept in constant (连续的) darkness. We might expect that the flowers, without any information about the time of day, did not open as they normally do. In fact, they continued to open at their usual time. This suggests that they have some mysterious (神秘的) way of knowing the time. Their sense of time does not depend on information from the outside world; it is, so to speak, inside them, a kind of “inner clock”. This discovery (发现) may not seem to be very important. However, it was later found that not just plants but also animals —including man —have this “inner clock” which controls the working of their bodies and influences (影响) their activities. Men, then, are also influenced by this mysterious power. Whether we wish it or not, it affects such things in our life as our need for sleep, our need for food. In the past, this did not matter very much because people lived in natural condition. In the modern world, things are different; now there are spacemen, airplane pilots and, in ordinary life, a lot of people who have to work at night. It would be very useful, then, to know more about the “inner clock”. Such ordinary things as flowers might help us understand more about ourselves. 1. A recent experiment showed that ________________. A. different flowers open and close at different times of day B. for their opening and closing, flowers do not need information from the outside world C. flowers are influenced by weak light even when they are in a dark room D. flowers can be used for telling the time 2. The “inner clock” _________________________. A. is an unimportant discovery B. is only found in animals C. has not been understood by far D. has an effect on human life 3. Further study of the “inner clock” will be useful because ________________. A. it might help us in some way B. we do not yet understand plants and animals well enough C. the number of spacemen and airplane pilots is fast increasing D. we should try to live more naturally than we do now 4. Kept in constant darkness, flowers ________________________. A. will not open or close as usual B. will not open any longer C. will open as they do in natural conditions D. will always remain in full blossom (开花) 5. ________________ have a mysterious power of knowing time without information from the outside world. A. Animals including man as well as plants B. All living things except man C. Flowers are the only things in the world that D. Neither animals nor plants Key: 1-5 BDACA Passage 3   (A) For Sale Chinese-made bicycle Good condition(状况) Zhang Ying 306, dormitory(寝室)4   (B) Needed 25-year-old woman 900 yuan a month speak good English Lan Fleming 422-389506   (C) Roommate Wanted Male(男)---English native(本地的) speaker wanted to share(共有) A 2-bedroom apartment(公寓) near campus(校园) washer, dryer, kitchen Call Li, 228-940605 Any evening after 5   (D) Lost Black briefcase (公文包) with 3 books on physics Call: John Smith 843-316065   (E)Wanted to Rent (租用) One-bedroom apartment from Feb.1 through June better near campus Call Robert Waller 843-429065   (F) Found Brown briefcase with some money See: Joseph Hofman in Chemistry Dept (系) 1. You can call Zhang Ying if you want to _________________ . A. buy a bike B. sell a bike C. have your bike repaired D. borrow a bike 2. If you want to find work , and you can speak English, you can _____________ . A. telephone 843-429065 B. call 228-940605 C. call Hofman D. call Lan Fleming 3. One of the reasons why Li wants someone to share his room is that __________. A. he wants to live near the campus B. he wants to improve his English C. he wants his washer, dryer and kitchen to be used D. he wants someone to use his kitchen 4. Robert Waller wishes to rent a room__________________ . A. near the school B. far away from the school C. inside the school D. outside the city 5. Joseph Hofman_____________ . A. found John Smith’s briefcase B. was a teacher C. found the briefcase with many books D. found the brown briefcase with some money   Key : 1-5 CDBAB