10篇初二英语阅读训练
(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
(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
(3)
.In the old days, in London, the smog (烟雾) was very thick. Car and bus drivers___________ to drive very slowly: they could ___________ see the road in front of them even during the daytime. People did not like going out in the smog. If they had to go out, they _____________“smogmask (防雾面具)” over their faces.
In December 1952, a very ________ dark cloud came down over London. It was the ________ smog Londoners had ever had. _________ of it was bad factory smoke. Nearly fifty people died in road accidents. But many more people became unhealthy (not healthy). The smog was very _________ for old people and children. One man said, “The streets were almost ____________
because people stayed at home as much as __________. The air was very thick, and you could almost cut it with a knife.”
After three weeks, the smog began to ___________. But in the following weeks and months over 4,000 people died as a result of the smog.(h ad, hardly, wore, thick, worst, Most/Much, dangerous, empty, possible, lift)
(4)
.There are a few different r_____(1) why people use small talk.The first,and most obvious,is to break an uncomfortable s____(2).Another reason,however,is simply to kill t____(3).That is why it is so common to make small talk when you are w____(4) for something.Some people make small talk in order to be p____(5).You may not feel l_____(6) chatting with anyone at a party,but it is r____(7) to just sit in a corner by yourself.After someone i____(8) you to another person,you do not know anything about them,so in order to show a polite i____(9) in getting to know them better,you have to start with some small talk.And remember in an English-speaking environment it is often b____(10) to make a few mistakes than to say nothing at all!( reasons; silence;time;waiting;polite; like; rude; introduce;intention; better)
(5)
One cold winter morning,an oldwoman had to (see) her doctor.She told the doctor that her right leg hurt,and sometimes she (could not )walk.Sheasked him what was (wrong),as she never (had) such feeling.The docter looked her over carefully,then he said ,
(6)
Today is April Fools' Day,so we could cheat our English teacher-Miss Zhang.We erasered the lessons' names,and c_____ English into physics. When Miss Zhang came into the c_____,all of us pretended to be taken by a big s_____,and said to her.“Miss Zhang,please look at the school time table. It's time for physics,not for English.” After h_____ these words,she really b_____ us. Shesaid,“I'm sorry,boys and girls. It's my fault.” And she was g_____ out of the classroom. When we saw this,we all l_____. Oh,Miss Zhang knew what had happened.She came back and laughed,too.
Then she took a lot of p_____ of paper out of her bag and said ,“Today,let's have an exam.”“ We were all shocked. But Miss Zhang b_____ to laugh again. “Ladies and gentlemen,it's April Fools' Day” (changed classroom secret hearing belived gone laughed
pages began)
(7)
I was born in New York,but I grew up in San Francisco.I began to live in London 25 years ago.If I am asked now w____(76) I want to live forever,I would say London.But I wil a____(77) be
American.
San Francisco,like London,has many parks.Everyday my sister and I were t____(78)to play in the parks as children.I didn't go to school. I only had three hours of formal education when I was five. I was sent to school in the morning but came home at noon on the first day.I said I didn’t e____(79) it and hadn’t learned anything.My parents thought that school was unsuirable for me. They a____(80) with me,so I never went back to school.
Then my mother taught me and my two sisters at home.In the w____(81) of an Englishi lady who had good education.We learned languages and reading more sciences and maths.Sometimes she taught h____(82) ,but we also had other teachers.They asked us to take lessons every day.About once a week we went to Golden Gate Park. While we were w_____(83) ,my mother taught me to read music.One day I saw a little toy train in the window of a shop and I remember now I’d like to have it.I c_____(84) say “r” when I was small. My mother said if I could say an “r” well,I would have the toy train.I practiced and practiced.Then one morning I woke everybody up with my “r”.I got the toy train,I usually got thing I wanted in life,but I work h___(85) for them.
(8)
Australia has a lot of lovely animals . You cannot find them anywhere else in the world . The most famous ones are kangaroos and koalas.
The kangaroo is the symbol of Australia.They have large eyes and eats . They don't walk, they jump.They use their strong back legs . They can jump at 74 kilometres per hour . They can go over nine metres in one jump . Kangaroo mothers have pouches to carry their babies. The babies stay inside to get milk and keep warm.
Kangaroos are everywhere in Australia . They are on TV, in books and in the shops . But do you know that millions of kangaroos are killed every year?There are too many of them . There are about 20 to 25 million kangaroos in Australia. That's more than the number of people in the counery. Some kangaroos go humgry because there is not enough food to eat . They break into farms for food Farmers are very angry with them.
The koala is another famous Australian animal . They look like bears , and have small eyes and big noses. They eat leaves from gum trees.Koalas have a.They use it to mark their home----
A.China B.France C.Australia
（ ）2.What does a kangaroo look like?
A.It looks like a bear. B.It has big eyes and ers. C.It has small eyes and big noses.
（ ）3.The work
A.育儿袋 B。肌肉 C。尾巴
（ ）4.Which is NOT TRUE?____________
A.The kangaroos can go over nine metres in one jump.
B.Koalas like eating leaves from gum trees.
C.Koalas use their voices to mark their homes
（ ）5.What's the best title of this passage?________.
A.Kangaroos and koalas.
B.Beautiful Australia
C.How to protect kangaroos and koalas.
(9)
A person, like a commodity （商品）, needs packaging. But going too far is absolutely undesirable. A little exaggeration, however, does no harm when it shows the person’s unique qualities to their advantages. To show personal attractiveness in a casual and natural way, it is important for one to have a clear knowledge of oneself. A skilled packager knows how to add art to nature without any signs of embellishment（装饰）, so that the person so packaged is not a commodity but a human being, lively and lovely.
A young person, especially a female, shining with beauty and full of life, has all the favor granted by God. Any attempt to make up would be self-defeating. Youth, however, comes and goes in a flash. Packaging for the middle-aged is primarily to hide the marks made by years. If you still enjoy life enough to keep self-confidence and work at pioneering work you are unique in through plains mountains and jungles, running its course as it should. You have really lived your life, which now arrives at a self-satisfied stage of quietness and calmness with no interest in fame or wealth . There is no need to make us of hair dyeing. The snow-capped mountain is itself a beautiful scene of fairyland. Let your looks change from young to old in step with the natural ageing process so as to keep in harmony （和谐）with nature, for harmony itself is beauty, while the other way round will only end in unpleasantness. To be in the elder’s company is like reading a thick book of deluxe （better quality）edition that attracts one so much as to be unwilling to part with.
As long as one find where on stands, one knows how to package oneself, just as a commodity sets up its brand by the right packaging.
1．It can be concluded from the text that________.
A. people should be packed at all ages
B. people should be packed in a special way
C. elderly people also care about packing
D. proper packing makes people attractive
2．For the middle-aged, attractiveness________.
A. hardly exists
B. is the strongest
C. comes from the inside
D. comes from the appearance
3．The underlined sentence means that elderly people ________.
A. are usually packed like a finely - made book
B. experience a lot and have rich knowledge of life
C. do a lot of traveling and can give you much information
D. enjoy reading thick books of beautiful nature and fairylands
(10)
An artist (画家) went to a beautiful part of the country for a holiday and stayed with a farmer. Every day he went out with his paints and brushes(颜料和画笔)and painted till evening. When it got dark he went back to the farm and had a good dinner before he went to bed.
At the end of his holiday he wanted to pay the farmer, but the farmer said,
The artists was very pleased and thanked the farmer for saying such kind things about his pictures. The farmer smiled and answered ,
61.The artist went to the countryside to ________.
A. visit his old friend B. spend his holiday
C. visit the farmer D. Thank the farmer
62. Every day ,the artist _______.
A. went out to help the farmer to do some farming
B. went out to visit his friends
C. painted pictures
D. enjoyed the beautiful scenery
63. The artist wanted to pay the farmer, but the farmer ____.
A. wanted much more money
B. wanted nothing
C. didn`t want any money at all
D. wanted one of his pictures instead of money
64. The artist thought the farmer wanted a picture of his because _______.
A. the farmer was an artist too
B. the farmer liked his pictures very much
C. the farmer wanted to give it to his son as a present
D. the farmer was rich
65. After hearing the farmer`s words ,perhaps the artist would be ______.
A.very worried B.very happy C.very thankful D. very disappointed
10篇初二英语阅读训练
(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
(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
(3)
.In the old days, in London, the smog (烟雾) was very thick. Car and bus drivers___________ to drive very slowly: they could ___________ see the road in front of them even during the daytime. People did not like going out in the smog. If they had to go out, they _____________“smogmask (防雾面具)” over their faces.
In December 1952, a very ________ dark cloud came down over London. It was the ________ smog Londoners had ever had. _________ of it was bad factory smoke. Nearly fifty people died in road accidents. But many more people became unhealthy (not healthy). The smog was very _________ for old people and children. One man said, “The streets were almost ____________
because people stayed at home as much as __________. The air was very thick, and you could almost cut it with a knife.”
After three weeks, the smog began to ___________. But in the following weeks and months over 4,000 people died as a result of the smog.(h ad, hardly, wore, thick, worst, Most/Much, dangerous, empty, possible, lift)
(4)
.There are a few different r_____(1) why people use small talk.The first,and most obvious,is to break an uncomfortable s____(2).Another reason,however,is simply to kill t____(3).That is why it is so common to make small talk when you are w____(4) for something.Some people make small talk in order to be p____(5).You may not feel l_____(6) chatting with anyone at a party,but it is r____(7) to just sit in a corner by yourself.After someone i____(8) you to another person,you do not know anything about them,so in order to show a polite i____(9) in getting to know them better,you have to start with some small talk.And remember in an English-speaking environment it is often b____(10) to make a few mistakes than to say nothing at all!( reasons; silence;time;waiting;polite; like; rude; introduce;intention; better)
(5)
One cold winter morning,an oldwoman had to (see) her doctor.She told the doctor that her right leg hurt,and sometimes she (could not )walk.Sheasked him what was (wrong),as she never (had) such feeling.The docter looked her over carefully,then he said ,
(6)
Today is April Fools' Day,so we could cheat our English teacher-Miss Zhang.We erasered the lessons' names,and c_____ English into physics. When Miss Zhang came into the c_____,all of us pretended to be taken by a big s_____,and said to her.“Miss Zhang,please look at the school time table. It's time for physics,not for English.” After h_____ these words,she really b_____ us. Shesaid,“I'm sorry,boys and girls. It's my fault.” And she was g_____ out of the classroom. When we saw this,we all l_____. Oh,Miss Zhang knew what had happened.She came back and laughed,too.
Then she took a lot of p_____ of paper out of her bag and said ,“Today,let's have an exam.”“ We were all shocked. But Miss Zhang b_____ to laugh again. “Ladies and gentlemen,it's April Fools' Day” (changed classroom secret hearing belived gone laughed
pages began)
(7)
I was born in New York,but I grew up in San Francisco.I began to live in London 25 years ago.If I am asked now w____(76) I want to live forever,I would say London.But I wil a____(77) be
American.
San Francisco,like London,has many parks.Everyday my sister and I were t____(78)to play in the parks as children.I didn't go to school. I only had three hours of formal education when I was five. I was sent to school in the morning but came home at noon on the first day.I said I didn’t e____(79) it and hadn’t learned anything.My parents thought that school was unsuirable for me. They a____(80) with me,so I never went back to school.
Then my mother taught me and my two sisters at home.In the w____(81) of an Englishi lady who had good education.We learned languages and reading more sciences and maths.Sometimes she taught h____(82) ,but we also had other teachers.They asked us to take lessons every day.About once a week we went to Golden Gate Park. While we were w_____(83) ,my mother taught me to read music.One day I saw a little toy train in the window of a shop and I remember now I’d like to have it.I c_____(84) say “r” when I was small. My mother said if I could say an “r” well,I would have the toy train.I practiced and practiced.Then one morning I woke everybody up with my “r”.I got the toy train,I usually got thing I wanted in life,but I work h___(85) for them.
(8)
Australia has a lot of lovely animals . You cannot find them anywhere else in the world . The most famous ones are kangaroos and koalas.
The kangaroo is the symbol of Australia.They have large eyes and eats . They don't walk, they jump.They use their strong back legs . They can jump at 74 kilometres per hour . They can go over nine metres in one jump . Kangaroo mothers have pouches to carry their babies. The babies stay inside to get milk and keep warm.
Kangaroos are everywhere in Australia . They are on TV, in books and in the shops . But do you know that millions of kangaroos are killed every year?There are too many of them . There are about 20 to 25 million kangaroos in Australia. That's more than the number of people in the counery. Some kangaroos go humgry because there is not enough food to eat . They break into farms for food Farmers are very angry with them.
The koala is another famous Australian animal . They look like bears , and have small eyes and big noses. They eat leaves from gum trees.Koalas have a.They use it to mark their home----
A.China B.France C.Australia
（ ）2.What does a kangaroo look like?
A.It looks like a bear. B.It has big eyes and ers. C.It has small eyes and big noses.
（ ）3.The work
A.育儿袋 B。肌肉 C。尾巴
（ ）4.Which is NOT TRUE?____________
A.The kangaroos can go over nine metres in one jump.
B.Koalas like eating leaves from gum trees.
C.Koalas use their voices to mark their homes
（ ）5.What's the best title of this passage?________.
A.Kangaroos and koalas.
B.Beautiful Australia
C.How to protect kangaroos and koalas.
(9)
A person, like a commodity （商品）, needs packaging. But going too far is absolutely undesirable. A little exaggeration, however, does no harm when it shows the person’s unique qualities to their advantages. To show personal attractiveness in a casual and natural way, it is important for one to have a clear knowledge of oneself. A skilled packager knows how to add art to nature without any signs of embellishment（装饰）, so that the person so packaged is not a commodity but a human being, lively and lovely.
A young person, especially a female, shining with beauty and full of life, has all the favor granted by God. Any attempt to make up would be self-defeating. Youth, however, comes and goes in a flash. Packaging for the middle-aged is primarily to hide the marks made by years. If you still enjoy life enough to keep self-confidence and work at pioneering work you are unique in through plains mountains and jungles, running its course as it should. You have really lived your life, which now arrives at a self-satisfied stage of quietness and calmness with no interest in fame or wealth . There is no need to make us of hair dyeing. The snow-capped mountain is itself a beautiful scene of fairyland. Let your looks change from young to old in step with the natural ageing process so as to keep in harmony （和谐）with nature, for harmony itself is beauty, while the other way round will only end in unpleasantness. To be in the elder’s company is like reading a thick book of deluxe （better quality）edition that attracts one so much as to be unwilling to part with.
As long as one find where on stands, one knows how to package oneself, just as a commodity sets up its brand by the right packaging.
1．It can be concluded from the text that________.
A. people should be packed at all ages
B. people should be packed in a special way
C. elderly people also care about packing
D. proper packing makes people attractive
2．For the middle-aged, attractiveness________.
A. hardly exists
B. is the strongest
C. comes from the inside
D. comes from the appearance
3．The underlined sentence means that elderly people ________.
A. are usually packed like a finely - made book
B. experience a lot and have rich knowledge of life
C. do a lot of traveling and can give you much information
D. enjoy reading thick books of beautiful nature and fairylands
(10)
An artist (画家) went to a beautiful part of the country for a holiday and stayed with a farmer. Every day he went out with his paints and brushes(颜料和画笔)and painted till evening. When it got dark he went back to the farm and had a good dinner before he went to bed.
At the end of his holiday he wanted to pay the farmer, but the farmer said,
The artists was very pleased and thanked the farmer for saying such kind things about his pictures. The farmer smiled and answered ,
61.The artist went to the countryside to ________.
A. visit his old friend B. spend his holiday
C. visit the farmer D. Thank the farmer
62. Every day ,the artist _______.
A. went out to help the farmer to do some farming
B. went out to visit his friends
C. painted pictures
D. enjoyed the beautiful scenery
63. The artist wanted to pay the farmer, but the farmer ____.
A. wanted much more money
B. wanted nothing
C. didn`t want any money at all
D. wanted one of his pictures instead of money
64. The artist thought the farmer wanted a picture of his because _______.
A. the farmer was an artist too
B. the farmer liked his pictures very much
C. the farmer wanted to give it to his son as a present
D. the farmer was rich
65. After hearing the farmer`s words ,perhaps the artist would be ______.
A.very worried B.very happy C.very thankful D. very disappointed