初一英语阅读理解

阅读理解专项练习 （一） Mrs Black was a poor old woman and she lived in a small village. Her husband died ten years ago. But she had a 24—year—old daughter. Her name was Alice. She worked in New York and lived there. It was far away from her mother’s village, and she was not happy about this. One day Alice said to her mother, “I’ve found a good job in Boston, and I can make a lot of money there, so I will go to work in Boston next week. But don’t worry, Mum, I’ll send you some money every week,’’ A month later, Mrs Black was very angry. She decided（决定） to go to see her daughter in Boston on a train. When she saw her daughter , she said ,“Alice , why do you never call me ?” Alice laughed , “But mother ,” she said , “you haven’t got a telephone .” “No”, she answered , “I haven’t , but you have got one .” 1. Mrs Black lived ___________. A. in Canada B. in Australia C. in England D. in America 2. Mrs Black lived ____________. A.alone (单独) B.with her husband C.with her daughter D.with her mother 3. Alice didn’t go to work in Boston because ________. A. New York was too far from her mother’s village B. Boston was near her mother’s village C. she had found a good job there D. she thought Boston was a quiet and nice place 4. A month later , Mrs Black went to see her daughter in Boston ________. A. by air B. by train C. by bus D. by sea 5. Alice had never telephoned her mother because _______. A.she didn’t have time to do so B.her mother didn’t have a telephone C.she didn’t want to spend money on calling D.her mother didn’t know how to make a telephone call （二） Ben is a writer. He is very busy. 6 On Monday he visits his grandmother at the nursing home（养老院）. They often have a good time. On Tuesday he coaches（训练） his son’s soccer team. He thinks it’s fun to be with the children. Ben likes music a lot. 8 On Thursday he works at the gym. On Saturday he volunteers（志愿） at the hospital. He brings books and toys to the children. He usually makes the children happy. 9 On Sunday he plays tennis. He is a good player. Ben always says, “ 11 ” A. I like to keep busy. B. The children like him. C. He has a lot of things to do every week. D. On Wednesday he takes violin lessons. （三） Bruno and his wife, Liz, live in a nice house, but it isn’t big enough. The kitchen and the living room are small. There are only two bedrooms, and they need three. They have a son and two daughters. Their son Carlos, wants to have his own bedroom. And they also want a yard for the children to play in. They want to buy a big house with a beautiful garden. There will be a pond in the garden. But it is just a dream, because it needs lots of money. Their bookstore isn’t going well, so they can’t buy a new house now. What is Bruno’s house like? A. It’s too big. B. It’s too clean. C. It’s not big enough. How many daughters do Bruno and Liz have? A. One B. Two C. Three Who wants to have his own room? A. Carlos. B. Liz C. Bruno How many bedrooms do they need? A. Two B. Three C. Four What are Bruno and Liz? A. Writers B. Shopkeepers C. Doctors （四） This is our classroom. It's very big. The walls are white and the windows are bright(明亮的).The blackboard is on the wall. It’s big, too. There is also a big desk in the front of the classroom. It is for our teachers. There are forty small desks and chairs in the room. They are for students. Look! There are some beautiful flowers(花)on the big desk. They are for our teachers, too. Our English teacher is Miss Brown. She is a good teacher .We like her very much. ( ) 1. Our classroom is not very big. ( ) 2. The big blackboard is on the wall. ( ) 3. There are fifty desks and chairs for the students and teachers. ( ) 4. Their English teacher is Mr Brown. ( ) 5. The beautiful flowers are for the teachers. （五） Look at the picture of Lily and Lucy's bedroom. The walls are white and the windows are big. You can see a picture of their family on the wall. The desk is near the window. You can see some books and flowers on it. A clock is on it, too. There are two baseball bats under the bed. Lily's sweater is on her bed, but Lucy's sweater is behind her chair. Where are their hats? They are on the sofa. Oh, no, they are on the floor. What's on the sofa? They are cats. They look like hats. ( ) 1. This is a picture of __________. A. Lucy's bedroom B. Lily's bedroom C. Lucy and Lily's bedroom ( ) 2. There are________ on the desk. A. some books B. some flowers and books C. some flowers, books and a clock ( ) 3. The baseball bats are _________. A. on the bed B. under the bed C. near the bed ( ) 4. We can see two sweaters in this picture . One is on _____ bed, the other is behind _____ chair. A. Lily, Lucy B. Lucy's, Lily's C. Lily's, Lucy's ( ) 5. _______ are on the sofa. A. Their hats B. Their cats C. Their hats and cats （六） Lucy and Kate are English girls. They are twins. They are studying Chinese in Beijing now. They are in Miss Gao's class. In their class, there are fifty-two students. There are twenty-eight boys and twenty-four girls. Where are the twins? Look, they are sitting near the door of the classroom. Lucy is wearing a red coat. Kate is wearing a yellow sweater. They are having a Chinese class. They like Chinese. 根据短文内容判断正误。对的在括号里打“√”，错的打“×”。 ( )1、The two girls are twins. They are in a school of China. ( )2、Lucy and Kate are in the same class. ( )3、Lucy is in a yellow sweater. ( )4、Now they are studying Chinese in the classroom. ( )5、There are twenty-eight girls in their class. （七） Jim's Family It's nine o'clock in the evening. The family are at home. Jim's father is sitting in a chair. He's watching TV. His mother is standing near the window. She's giving some food to Polly. Polly says, "Thanks! Thanks!" Where's Jim? Oh, he's behind the door. Kate is looking for him. They are playing games. They is no homework on Sunday evening. （ ）1、There are people in the family. A、three B、four C、five D、six （ ）2、Who is watching TV in a chair? . A、Jim is B、It’s Jim C、Jim’s father is D、It’s Jim’s father （ ）3、Jim and Kate are . A、good friends B、two girls C、two boys D、brothers and sisters （ ）4、The children doing their homework. A、aren’t B、isn’t C、don’t D、not （ ）5、What’s Kate doing? A、She’s doing her homework. B、She’s standing near the window. C、She’s looking for a pen. D、She’s playing games. （八） Jim and Jack like sports. They are going to skate on Sunday. It's 7:30 now and they are listening to the radio, "Friday is going to be cold. It is going to snow. Friday night and Saturday morning, Saturday afternoon and Sunday are going to be cold and fine." Jim and Jack are very glad. The weather is going to be good for skating. They are going to get up early and they are certainly going to skate well. 根据短文判断正误。（正确用T表示，错误用F表示） ( ) 1. Jim likes sport but Jack doesn't. ( ) 2. Jim is going to skate with Jack. ( ) 3. It's 7:30 now. They are skating. ( ) 4. The radio says it's going to snow on Sunday. ( ) 5. They are going to get up early. （九） Fast food restaurants are popular with many kinds of people around the world, but they are especially popular with children. One reason is that many fast food restaurants now give customers a toy with every child's meal. Most fast food restaurants make a series of toys, usually about six, for customers to collect. The collectors are not only children-many adults also enjoy collecting the toys. Some people collect the toys over many years. The toys range from dolls and soft toys like teddy bears, to model cars, trucks and electronic toys such as Tamagochis. Some of the older toy collections are worth a lot of money today. There are now several web sites where collectors can buy and sell the toys, or chat about their collections online with other collectors. ( ) 1. What is the main idea of the passage? A. Many people today enjoy collecting toys from fast food restaurants. B. People can buy and sell toys over internet. C. People around the world love to eat fast food. D. Fast food restaurants are popular because they give toys to all their customers. ( ) 2. How do many collectors buy and sell their toys? A. at meetings B. in fast food restaurants C. over the Internet D. at children's parties ( ) 3. Which kind of toy is NOT in the reading? A. electronic toys B. toy boats C. dolls D. teddy bears ( ) 4. Which of the following is true, according to the passage? A. Many fast food restaurants now give away free meals. B. Some restaurants give away electronic gifts like CD players and TVs. C. Some of the toys from fast food restaurants are worth lots of money. D. Six types of fast food restaurants give away toys. ( ) 5. Do you have any toys from fast food restaurants? Do you like it? ___________________________________________________________ （十） A man is going to the house of a friend. It is quite far away and so he takes some sandwiches along for his lunch. As he goes along, he says to himself, " My friend is sure to give me a very nice meal. He is going to give me good wine（酒）to drink. So what’s the use of these dry sandwiches.” As he says this, he throws them onto the ground. He goes on and comes to a river. The river has become very big because of the rain in the past few days. He cannot cross the river. He hopes there is a boat to take him over. So he waits and waits. He waits for a long time. Then the sun begins to set. The man says to himself, " I cannot go to my friend's house today. I must go home. Then he starts for (出发) home. Soon he feels very hungry. He wants very much to have something to eat. But he doesn't have anything. Suddenly he sees some dry, dirty, hard sandwiches on the road . he is very happy. He picks them up and eats them all. Do not throw good things away. You may need them later on 1.It will take the man _______ to walk to his friend's house. A. a few days B. a few hours C. a whole night D. one hour or two 2. He throws the sandwiches to the ground because ______. A. he doesn't like them B. the sandwiches are dirty C. he thinks his friend will not like them D. he is sure to have a nice meal at his friend's house 3.In " the sun begins to set", " set" here means ______in Chinese. A. 落下 B.升起 C. 变暗 D. 照耀 4. The story tells us that we _______. A. mustn't walk a long way to visit a friend B. mustn't throw dry sandwiches away C. must throw things away when we don't need them D. must always keep good things 5. He has to go back home because ________ . A. it is late B. he hasn't got sandwiches C. it rains hard D. he is hungry （十一） Jim, Kate and Li Ming are doing the homework together(一起). Jim’s spelling of “Moday” is wrong (错误). Kate tells him about it. Li Ming wants to borrow (借) an eraser from Jim or Kate. Jim says he has one and gives it to Li Ming. Li Ming thanks Jim for his help. Jim says, "You're welcome". Now Jim says "Thanks very much" to Kate for her help. Kate says "That's all right". The three children are students in a school in Beijing. Jim is from London. Kate is from New York. Li Ming is a Chinese girl. They are good friends. They often do homework and play games together. They often help each other (互相). 根据短文内容，选择正确答案。 ( ) 1.Jim is ________ . A. an English girl B. an American girl C. an English boy D. an American boy ( )2. Kate helps Jim with ________. A. his spelling B. an eraser C. a ruler D. a pencil ( )3. Li Ming borrows ________ . A. an eraser from Kate B. an eraser from Jim C. a ruler from Kate D. a ruler from Jim ( )4. The three students are ________ . A. not in the same class B. in U.K. C. in Beijing D. in USA ( ) 5. They are ________ . A. doing homework B. playing games C. reading D. cleaning the room （十二） It's Sunday morning. My parents, my uncle, my sisters and I are all at home. My father is sitting near the window. What's he doing? He's reading a newspaper. He likes reading newspapers. He wants to know what happens all over the world(了解世界发生了何事). My mother is watering the flowers in the small garden. There are some beautiful flowers in the garden. Some are red, others are yellow. They look nice. My uncle is my mother's brother. He is a worker. What's he doing now? He's watching TV. He's a basketball fan. And he is good at playing basketball. Now he is watching NBA on TV. Where are my twin sisters? Oh, look. Lily is over there. She is listening to the radio. She likes music very much. She likes popular music very much. Lucy is in her room. She has a computer in her bedroom. She is surfing the Internet(上网). She is writing an e-mail to her friend. What am I doing? I am doing my homework. ( ) 1. There are ______ people in the family. A. five B. six C. seven D. eight ( ) 2. What is the father doing? A. He's watching TV. B. He is doing housework. C. He's reading a newspaper. D. He is sleeping. ( ) 3. The uncle is _______. A. watching CBA now B. a teacher C. the father's brother D. a basketball fan ( ) 4. What are the twin sisters doing? They are listening to the radio. B. They are searching the Internet. C. Lily is listening to the radio and Lucy is searching the Internet. D. Lucy is listening to the radio and Lily is searching the Internet. ( ) 5. Which is NOT right? The writer is doing his homework. There are some red and yellow flowers in the garden. The uncle is good at playing basketball. Lucy likes popular music very much. （十三） Mr Smith was old, so it was often difficult for him to remember things. However（可是）,he still liked traveling very much, so he and his wife went to Spain（西班牙） every year. One summer when they were there, they went to visit their friends, the Tarners. They had two young daughters. One afternoon Mr Smith was talking to one of the girls in the garden after lunch. "You and your sister were ill when my wife and I were here last year, weren't you?" he said to her. "Yes, we were," answered the girl. "We were very ill." The old man said nothing for a moment, because he was thinking. Then at last he said, “Oh, yes, I remember now! One of you died（死）.Which one of you was it, you or your sister?" The girl answered, "It was me." "Oh? I'm very sorry to hear it," said the old man. ( ) 1. The old man had a good memory. ( ) 2. What the old man said was true. ( ) 3. The girl was very ill and died. ( ) 4. The girl didn't die last year. ( ) 5. The girl and her sister were both very ill （十四） Everyone has his own birthday. People in different countries celebrate （庆祝）their birthdays in different ways. Here are four people from different countries. They will tell us how they celebrate their birthdays in their countries. Sandy Morrison comes from Madrid(马德里). He says happily, “My twenty-first birthday is on a Saturday, and I’m going to go out with some friends. To wish me a happy birthday, they are going to pull（拉，扯） on my ear twenty-one times, once for each year. It is an old custom（风俗）. Some people pull on the ear just once, but my friends are very traditional.” Mr. and Mrs. Sato are from Tokyo. Mr. Sato is going to be sixty tomorrow. In Japan, the sixtieth birthday is called Kanreki---it’s the beginning of a new life. The colour red is for a new life, so they always give something red for a sixtieth birthday. Mrs Sato says, “What am I going to give my husband? I can’t say. It’s a surprise（惊喜）.” Li Xiaomei from Beijing feels very excited and tells us. “Tomorrow is my sixteenth birthday. It’s a special birthday. So we’re going to have a family party. I’m probably going to get some money in ‘lucky’ envelopes（信封） from my relatives. My mother is going to cook noodles --- noodles are for a long life.” Phillip Evans, from Paris, smiles to us, “I’m going to be thirty next week, so I’m going to invite three very good friends out to dinner. In France, when you have birthday, you often invite people out. In some countries, I know it’s the opposite---- people take you out.” Do people in different countries celebrate their birthdays in the same way? Is Mr. Sato going to receive something red on his birthday? What is Li Xiaomei going to do on her birthday? How old is Phillip Evans going to be? Who is going to take his friends out to dinner on his birthday/ （十五） Jane went to Scotland（苏格兰） for her holiday. Two days ago, she sent a letter and a postcard to her family. Jane said in her letter, “ I visited a lot of places. How are you all? I miss you very much. I went to Edinburgh（爱丁堡） by train. I stayed there for three days and then I went to the mountains. I met a lot of young people there and now they are my friends. I also saw many famous lakes. I find that Scotland is more beautiful than England（英格兰）. And the restaurant is very nice. I’m having a wonderful time here now.” ( )1. Jane sent ___ to her family. A. a letter B. a postcard C. a letter and a postcard ( )2. In her letter Jane said ___. she met many young people in the mountains she was in the mountains for three days she went to the mountains three days ago ( )3. Jane said that she ___. A. visited many lakes B. visiting some lakes C. didn’t visit any lakes ( )4. Jane thought that ___. England was more beautiful than Scotland Scotland was more beautiful than England England was smaller than Scotland ( )5. From Jane’s letter we know that___. A. she didn’t like England B. She didn’t make any friends C. she enjoyed herself very much （十六） What’s the world’s favorite game? In American, people call it soccer, but in other parts of the world it is called football. Football is an old game in Europe and South America. Countries like Italy, Spain, and Argentina have long football histories and thousands of（成千上万的）fans. For many fans their football club is part of their lives. They wear their club’s colors and sing their club’s songs and watch every game their team plays. Do you know the history of women’s football in China is longer than football in Europe and South America? There are pictures of women playing football at the time of the Eastern Han Dynasty.（东汉） One of the oldest football competitions（竞赛）in the world is the FA Cup in England. Teams from 600 clubs play in it. Big clubs in this competition are Manchester United（曼联队）, Liverpool （利物浦队）and Arsenal（阿森纳队）. These clubs have fans in China and in countries all over the world. Manchester United even has a TV station called MUTV. “For many fans, their football club is part of their lives.” What does the sentence mean? Many football fans love their football club very much. Many football fans help their club. The football club needs fans’ help. Which is the oldest, the football in China, the football in Europe or the football in South America? A. The football in Europe. B. The football in China. C. The football in South America. What is MUTV? The Manchester United Team. The TV station of Manchester United. The TV station of United States. What’s the best title of the passage? The world’s favourite football teams. The world’s football fans are excited(兴奋激动的) The World’s favourite game. Which of the following is NOT right? Football fans like to wear their team’s colors and sing their club’s song. There are many football fans of English clubs in China. Liverpool and Arsenal are American football teams. （十七） In Britain, some peop