人教版八年级英语下册阅读理解题专练(附答案)

人教版八年级英语下册阅读理解题专练(附答案).doc阅读理解练习：（一）Hi, Louis!I’m writing to tell you something about the customs and festivals.Everyone loves holidays since one doesn’t need to go to school or work. Although all holidays mean no school and work, but not all of them are the same. On some of them you go out with friends; on others you stay home to eat, talk, and have fun with your family. For example in the U.S., everyone thinks New Year’s Eve and New Year are both for partying with friends. Christmas is the time to stay home and exchange gifts with family members. The opposite is true in Japan though. For example, in Japan, New Year is forspending time with the family to eat, talk, have fun, and go to the temples. But Christmas is for boy and girl friends to go out and exchange gifts. Originally Christmas should be to celebrate the birth of Christ.I have been interested in foreign customs since I was little. If you learn these different holiday customs, you will learn about different histories and cultures. This is much more interesting than learning them at the library from morning to evening.Love,Sue 根据短文内容，判断正误。

正确的用“T”表示，错误的用“F”表示。

1. Usually, nobody goes to school or works during holidays.2. Christmas is the time to stay home to eat, talk and have fun with the family.3. All the countries have the same way to celebrate theholidays.4. Being interested in foreign customs means being interested in different histories and cultures.5. This passage is about the customs and holidays in Japan.（二）Can dolphins talk? Maybe they can’t talk with words, but they talk with sounds. They show their feelings with sounds.Dolphins travel in a group. We call a group of fish a “school”. They don’t study, but they travel together.Dolphins talk to the other dolphins in the school. They give information. They tell when they are happy or sad or afraid. They say “welcome”when a dolphin comes back to the school. They talk when they play.They make a few sounds above water. They make many more sounds under water. People cannot hearthese sounds because they are very, very high. Scientists make tapes of the sounds and study them.Sometimes people catch a dolphin for a large aquarium（水族馆）. People can watch the dolphins in a show. Dolphins don’t like to be away from their school in an aquarium. They are sad and lonely（孤独的）.There are many stories about dolphins. They help people. Sometimes they save somebody’s life. Dolphin meat is good, but people don’t like to kill them. They say that dolphins bring good luck. Many people believe this.1. Dolphins show their feelings with ___________ .A. picturesB. wordsC. waterD. sounds2. People can’t hear the dolphin’s sounds because ________ .A. they are above the waterB. they are under the waterC. they are very highD. they are very low3. Which one is true according to the passage?A. Dolphins swim together in a school because they want to studyB. They don’t study, but they travel in a groupC. Dolphins like to be away from their school on an island.D. Dolphins like to kill people（三）Driver Wanted①Clean driving licence.②Must be of smart appearance.③Aged over 25.Apply to: Capes Taxi, 17Palace Road, RostonAir Hostess for International Flights Wanted①Applicants must be between 20 and 33 years old.②Height: 1.6 m to 1.75m.③Education to GGSE standard④Two languages, must be able to swim.Apply to: Recruitment Office, SouthernAirlines, Heathrow Airport West,HR 37KK.Teachers NeededFor private language school teaching, experience unnecessary.Apply to: The Director of Studies, Instant Languages Ltd., 279 CanalStreet, Roston1. You are 26 years old and want to be a teacher. You should apply to ________ .A. Capes Taxi, 17 Palace Road, RostonB. Recruitment Office, Southern Airlines, Heathrow Airport West, HR 37KKC. the Director of Studies, Instant Languages Ltd., 279 Canal Street. Roston.D. a private language school.2. What stops Jack, an experienced taxi driver, working for Capes Taxis.A. Fond of beer and wine.B. Punished（处罚）for driving too fast and wrong parking.C. Unable to speak a foreign language.D. Not having college education.3. Ben, aged 22, fond of swimming and driving, has just finished college. Which job might be given to him?A. Driving for Capes TaxiB. Working for Southern AirlinesC. Teaching at Instant Languages Ltd.D. Working for Northern Airlines.4. What prevents（阻止）Mary, aged 25, from becoming an air hostessA. She once broke a traffic law and was finedB. She can’t speak Japanese very well.C. She has never worked as an air hostess beforeD. She doesn’t feel like working long hours flying abroad.5. Which of the following is NOT talked about in thethree advertisements?A. Whether he or she is marriedB. Whether they are men or womenC. Their educationD. The ages（四）All my friends at school smoked. My dad smoked; he didn’t want me to smoke but my friends kept saying I was stupid. They asked when I was going to grow up. So I started when I was sixteen and after a month I couldn’t stop. But two years later I could feel what smoking was doing to me. I couldn’t run far, and I coughed every morning. I got very ill and decided to stop. It wasn’t easy, but now I’ve done it, and I feel better. Now I have money for other things.If you smoke, you are twice as likely to die from a heart attack. And the more you smoke, the earlier theheart attack is likely to be. For example, a 50-year-old who smokes more than 20 cigarettes a day, is four times more likely to have heart disease than a non-smoker of the same age.What does smoking do to the heart? First of all, it makes the heart beat faster and increases the blood pressure. The cigarette smoke also reduces the amount of oxygen in the blood. Consequently, the heart has to work harder, with less oxygen. Finally, your arteries will narrow faster if you smoke.So if you want to reduce your chances of getting heart disease, the answer is easy ––not to smoke. Don’t copy your friends and other people who smoke. If you smoke, find out how to stop. Stopping isn’t easy, but you’ll be healthier, and ....1. Who is more likely to have heart disease?A. A smokerB. A non-smokerC. A 50-year-old person2. What does the writer think of smoking?A. It is good for his healthB. Smoking is bad for himC. Is it neither good nor bad for his heath3. What happens after the writer stopped smoking?A. He becomes richB. He has more friendsC. He becomes healthier and has money to do other things.（五）New York is one of the most exciting cities in the world.You might want to do some shopping in New York. Fifth Avenue is probably New York’s most famous shopping street, but if you go, be prepared to “window shop”only. This is shopping for the rich. There are other,less expensive shopping areas nearby, and you’ll soon come across famous stores such as Bloomingdales, Macy’s and FAO Schwartz.And if you’ve brought your rollerblades, then a visit to Central Park is a must. This is a large, open park right in the middle of Manhattan, but if you thought that people came here to relax, sit down for a few minutes and get away from the rush of New York life, then you’d be wrong. Nobody sits in Central Park: they run, jog（慢跑）, and most of all they rollerblade.When you leave New York, you might be tired, even poor and overweight, but the one thing you won’t be is bored!根据短文内容，回答问题。