中考英语阅读练习题(二)

中考英语阅读练习题（二）

I. Reading comprehension （阅读理解）：

(A)

You may have heard about a pet dog flown to its new ho me, or a lion to a zoo. Anything—from fish to elephants—can be flown up in the air.

In a plane, each kind of animal needs special care. Crocodil es can go nearly a week without food. But their bodies must be watered daily. Some snakes will die unless they are kept warm. Birds will not eat in the dark. They will starve（饿死）if kept in a dark place. Penguins（企鹅）and seals（海豹）must be fed （喂养）by hand. They w on’t eat anything that has fallen to the ground.

Elephants from Africa eat hay. But those from South Asia want sugar cane（甘蔗）. Once, a plane carrying three elephant s from India ran out of sugar cane. The pilot called ahead to a city in Turkey（土耳其）. “Have two tons of sugar cane ready,”he said. When the plane landed, two tons of sugar cane were waiting at the airport!

Monkeys are flown in large numbers as scientists in many countries want to study them. Before each flight, the troublema kers among them should be put into separate cages（分开的笼子）.

Monkeys are very good at opening cage doors. During one flight, a pilot had to radio to the control tower on the ground, “Need to land immediately. Monkeys loose on plane.” When the

plane was on the runway, there was a monkey at each windo w peeping（窥探）out!

True or False （判断下列句子是否符合短文，符合的用“T”表示，不符合的用“F”表示）：

( ) 1. A pet dog can fly as well as a plane.

( ) 2. Each kind of animal has different habits.

( ) 3. Crocodiles in a plane need some water to drink every day.

( ) 4. Some snakes will die if they are not kept warm enoug h.

( ) 5. This passage tells us we must take special care of the animals carried in planes.

( ) 6. Monkeys are clever enough to open the doors of their cage.

(B)

Dick was a clever boy, but his parents were poor, so he ha d to work after school and during his holidays to pay for his e ducation. He managed to get to the university, but it was so ex pensive to study there that during the holidays he found it nece ssary to get two jobs at the same time so as to get enough mo ney to pay for his studies.

One summer he managed to get a job in a butcher’s shop （肉店）during the daytime, and another in a hospital at night. In the shop he learned to cut meat up quite well, so the butch er often let him sell the meat while he went into a room behin d the shop to do other things. In the hospital, of course, he co uld only do the easier jobs, like helping to lift people and to ca

rry them from one part of the hospital to another. Both at the butcher’s and at the hospital, Dick had to wear white clothes.

One evening at the hospital, Dick had to help to carry a wo man from her bed to a room. She was to have an operation th ere. The woman was very much frightened when she thought a bout the operation. Suddenly she saw Dick. He came to get her and car ried her to the room. She cried out, “No! No! Not my butcher! I won’t be operated on by my butcher!” She fainted （昏死）away.

Choose the best answer （根据短文内容，选择最恰当的答案）：( ) 1. Dick’s family was _______.

A. big

B. small

C. poor

D. rich ( ) 2. He decided to find two jobs during the holidays because he wanted to get enough money _______.

A. to pay for his studies in the university

B. to buy some fine clothes

C. to help his parents

D. to change the living conditions of the family

( ) 3. One summer Dick worked in a butcher’s shop _______.

A. when he was free

B. in the daytime

C. three times a week

D. at night

( ) 4. During the summer holidays Dick worked in a hospital _______.

A. in the morning

B. in the afternoon

C. three times a week

D. at night

( ) 5. When Dick got to the butcher’s shop and the hospital h

e must first put on ______ and then began to work.

A. his cap

B. white clothes

C. black clothes

D. w

hite trousers

( ) 6. A woman fainted away because she _______.

A. thought she was badly ill

B. knew Dick was a butcher

C. hated Dick

D. thought she would be operated on by Dick

(C)

When man began to see the skies, he saw a lot of things. In the universe, the earth seemed to be just a small bit of dust. I t is only a small planet, and travels around the sun. The sun t ogether with its planets, travels in the Milky Way, our galaxy (星系). The Milky Way has about thirty billion stars like our s un, and is one of about a hundred million galaxies in the unive rse.

Because the space is so great, it is difficult to work out how far away a star is. Instead of kilometers, we have light-years.

A light year means the distance light travels in one year. Our nearest neighbour galaxy is more than 900,000 light-years away from the earth.

Answer the questions （根据短文内容回答下列问题，每题所填内容不超过五个单词）：

1. How does the earth travel?

___________________________________________________________ _________.

2. Where and what does the sun travel with?

Together with ________, the sun travels in the______________ ___________.

3. What was the earth like in the universe?

It was like ______________________________________________ _________.

4. What do we use to work out how far away a star is from t he earth?

___________________________________________________________ _______.

5. How many stars are there in the Milky Way?

_________________________________________________________ _______.

6. What does “Milky Way” mean in Chinese?

_________________________________________________________ ______.

II. Choose the words or expressions and complete the passage （选择最恰当的单词或词语，完成短文）：

In the United States, children start school when they are fiv e years old. In some states they must stay in school (1) they are sixteen. Most students are seventeen or eighteen years old w hen they (2) secondary（中等的）schools. There are two kinds of schools in the United States: public schools and private schoo ls. Most children go to public schools. Their parents do not hav e to (3) their education(教育) because the schools (4) mone y from the government(政府). If a child goes to a private schoo l, his parents have to get enough money for his schooling. Some

parents still (5) private schools, though they are much more expensive.

Today about half of the high school students (6) universiti es(大学) after they finish the secondary school. A student at a s tate university does not have to pay very much if his parents li ve in that state.

But many students work while they are studying at universit ies. In this way they (7) good working habits(习惯) and live by their own hands.

( ) 1. A. and B. though C. until D. since ( ) 2. A. leave B. begin C. study at D. pa ss

( ) 3. A. worry about B. pay for C. ask for D. make sure

( ) 4. A. take B. spend C. receive D. cost ( ) 5. A. wish B. hate C. prefer D. mind ( ) 6. A. follow B. miss C. change D. go on to

( ) 7. A. develop B. produce C. build D. grow

III. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words （在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给）：

Ask people to name a safe place and m ost will say “Hom e”. But every year the British Government’s survey（调查）sho ws that home can be a d________ place. Last year 7 British cit izens died while putting up their Christmas decorations（装饰）. Over 1,600 needed m_________ help after falling off their chai

rs. And 70 people had fatal accidents while lying in bed. It is s afe to say that n_________ activity（活动）is without danger.

Some of these accidents are just the risks (冒险)of modern li ving. We prefer to risk having a washing machine that might h urt us rather than be safe spending hours cleaning our clothes by h_________. But most fatal accidents are not the result of m echanical failure. The two most common are falling down the st airs and going to s_________ in the bath. This s__________ that we are in a more dangerous situation when we feel s_________ _.

IV. Complete the following dialogues with proper sentences in t he box （选出适当的句子，完成下列对话）：

(A)

A: Hello, Tom.

B: (1)

A: Oh good! This is Robert Wilson.

B: (2) What can I do for you?

A: Are you doing anything particular this weekend?

B: (3)

A: Well, I wanted to know if you would like to visit my parent s with me.

(4)

B: Really?

A: Yes. They live in the country. My father is a headmaster of a middle school.

B: I’d certainly like to get out of town for a while. (5)

A: Good! I’ll come and pick you up on Friday evening. What t ime could you be ready?

B: (6)

A: All right. See you tomorrow.

B: Bye-bye.

(B)

A: We’re looking for an apartment.

B: (7) We have a two-room apartment for $300 a month.

A: (8)

B: Well, there’s another apar tment on the fifth floor for only $200. (9)

A: (10)

B: Wait a minute. (11) I know you are clean and quiet, so I could put you up high on the list.

A: You mean if we give you “key money” you could rent(租) u s the apartment?

B: (12)

参考答案：

I. (A) FTFTTT （B）CABDBD (C) 1.It travels around the su n 2. its planets…Milky Way 3. a small bit of dust 4. Lig ht-years 5. about thirty billion stars 6. 银河

II. CABCC DA

III. dangerous, medical, no, hand, sleep, shows, safe

IV. 1—6 FCB GDA 7—12 DCG EAB