初二英語(yǔ)閱讀理解2

1、英語(yǔ)閱讀aa young man asked alberteinstein,the greatgerman scientist, what the secret of success is. the scientist told him that the secret of success is hard work. afew days later the young man asked the same question again . einstein was veryannoyed he did not say anything ,but wrote a few words on a p

2、iece of paper . on it was written: a=x+y+z.“ what does this mean .” asked the young man .“ a means “ success ”explainedthe old scientist.“ x standsforhard work ,y for good method 方法 and zz means stop talking and get down to work.”1. the young man .a. wanted to meet einsteinb. wanted to be a great sc

3、ientist like einsteinc. was eager 希望 to know the secret of successd. wanted to be a student of einstein2. in einstein s opinion the secret of success was .a. to work with great energy 精力，活力b. to study hard day and nightc. to learn from great scientistsd. to raise 提出 questions as many as you could3.

4、“ y” stands for .a. hard workb. great energyc. great successd. good manner方法 4. the word“annoyed ” means .a. angryb. sadc. lovelyd. glad5. einstein was a man who a. liked to talk with young peopleb. liked to help othersc. liked to make friends with young peopled. liked to work , but didn t like to t

5、alkbbritish newspapers are much smaller than they used to be and their readers are often in a hurry ,so newspapermen write as few words as possible .they tell theirreadersat once what happened ,where ,when and how ithappened and what was the result: how many peoplewere killed,whatchange was done and

6、 so on .readerswant the fact事實(shí) setoutas fullyand accuratelyas possible.readersare alsointerestedinthepeople who have seen the accident. so a newspaperman always likes to get someinformation 信息 from someone who was there, which can be given in the person s own words .becausehe can use onlya few words

7、 ,thenewspaperman must choose those words carefully ,every one must be effective有效 . instead of“ he called out ina loud voice ”, he writes” he shouted ”; insteadof “ the loosestonesrollednoisilydown the sideof the mountain ”, he willwrite”theythundereddown the mountainside”. because many of the read

8、ers aren t very clever, and most of them are in a hurry.1. from the text,we learnthatnewspapermen writeas few words as possible,because readers .a. want to know more about the newsb. take no interest in what has happened- 1 -英語(yǔ)閱讀c. have no time to read the news carefullyd. pay much attention to the

9、result2. the underlined word” one” in the text refers to .a. wordb.newspapermanc.readerd.perso n3. which of the following would best complete the text .a. he will keep his writing shortb. he won t care about his writingc. he will give nothing but informationd. he won t make his writing good enough.4

10、. in what way do you think british newspapers have become smaller.a. in a page size.b. in number of readers.c. in number of pages.d. in number of copies5. which of the following is true.a. readers are not satisfied with the short news.b. not many people have time to read the long articles in newspap

11、ers.c. readers find the language of the newspapers exciting.d. newspapermen try to report as fully as possible.cthe story happened during the second world war（戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)） an old man lived in a small town of germany. he had three sons and they all worked in the same factorywhere he had worked. after the war

12、had begun , his sons were all made to join thearmy one afteranotherand theyalldiedinthefrights.the oldman was verysad . he didn t have enough food and was oftenhungry. and nobody helpedhim and he didn t know how to go in living .it was a very cold winter night . the old man couldn t go to sleep . he

13、 hadbeen hungry for two days and it was so cold in his room that ice could be seen .he had to get up and begun to run in the room until he lay down on the ground. the next morning he had to beg from door to door. he had been to a lot of cities and knew a lot.once he came to a village , but the villa

14、ges were all poor and couldn t givehim anything. he was too hungrytogo toanothervillage.he thoughthard and found a way . he came to a police station and called out ,“ hitler is a foolish pig 希特勒是蠢豬 ！out came an old policeman at once . he took the old man into a room , gave himsome bread and a cup of

15、 tea . then he said ,“ don t say in our village , sir .” “ i m sorry, sir. ” said the old man . “ i dont know it s hitler s hometown . ” “ no, no , sir. ” the policeman said in a hurry.“ it s pig s hometown . ”1. the old man was .a. a germanb. a frenchc. an australiand. an englishman2. the old man w

16、as sad because .a. his three sons all died during the warb. his three sons had to join the armyc. he had no food or clothes- 2 -英語(yǔ)閱讀d. he lived in the small town alone3. the old man got up and ran in his room to .a. keep healthyb. forget he was sad and hungryc. make him warmd. find a way to forget h

17、e was hungry4. the old man shouted outside the police station because a. he hated hitler very muchb. he hoped the policeman could help himc. he wanted to make the policemen angryd. he thought the he would be given some food in prison 監(jiān)獄 5. which statement is true.a. the old policeman hated hitler ,

18、toob. the old policeman found that the old man his best friendc. the old policeman would send the old man in prisond. the old policeman liked hitler better than pigsdmiss gorgers taught physices in a new york school. last month she explained to one of her classes about sound, and she decided to test

19、 them to see how successfulshe had been in her explanation. she said to them,“ now i have a brother in losangeles. if i was calling him on the phone and at the same time you were 75 feet away, listening to me from across the street, which of you would hear what i said earlier, my brother or you and

20、for what reason.”tom at once answered,“ your brother. because electricity travels faster thansound waves.” “ that s very good,” miss gorgers answered; but then one of the girls raised her hand, and miss gorgers said,“ yes, kate.”“ i disagree,” kate said.“ your brother would hear you earlier because

21、when it s 11 o clock here it s only 8 o clock in los angeles.”1. miss gorgers was teaching her class .a. how to telephoneb. about electricityc. about time zone （ 時(shí) 區(qū) ） d. about sound2. miss gorgers asked this question because she wanted to know whether .a. it was easy to phone to los angelesb. her s

22、tudent could hear her from 75 feet awayc. her students had grasped（懂得） her lessond. sound waves were slower than electricity3. tom thought that electricity was .a. slower than sound wavesb. faster than sound wavesc. not so fast as sound wavesd. as fast as sound waves4. kate thought tom was wrong bec

23、ause .a. clocks in los angeles showed a different time from those in new yorkb. electricity was slower than sound wavesc. tom was not good at physics at alld. tom s answer had nothing to do with sound waves5. whose answer do you think is correct acoording to the law of physics.- 3 -英語(yǔ)閱讀a. tom sb. ka

24、te sc. both a and bd. neither a nor beit was mondy. mrs smith s dog was hungry, but there was not any meat in the house.considering that there was no better way. mrs smith took a piece of paper, andwrotethe followingwords on it:“ give my dog halfa pound of meat. ” then she gave the paper to her dog

25、and said gently:“ take this to the butcher person whose jobis selling meat, and he s going to give you your lunch today.”holding the piece of paper in its mouth,the dog ran to the butcher s. it gave the paper to the butcher.the butcherread itcarefully,recognizedthatitwas really the lady s handwritin

26、g and soon did it as he was asked to. the dog was very happy,and ate the meat up at once.at noon, the dog came to the shop again. it gave the butcher a piece of paper again. after reading it, he gave it half a pound of meat once more.the next day, the dog came again exactly at noon. and as usual, it

27、 brought a piece of paper in the mouth. this time, the butcher did not take a look at paper, and gave the dog its meat, for he had regarded the dog as one of his customers * people who buy something from a shop.but,the dog came againat fouro clock.and the same thinghappened once again.to the butcher

28、s more surprise, it came for the third time at six o clock, and brought with it a third piece of paper. the butcher felt a bit puzzled. he said tohimself,“ this isa smalldog. whydoes mrs smith giveitso much meat to eat today. ”looking at the piece of paper, he found that there were not any words on

29、it.6. mrs smith treated her little dog quite.a. cruellyb. fairlyc. kindlyd.unfriendly7. it seemed that the dog knew well that the paper mrs smith gave it.a. might do it much harm.b. could do it much goodc. would help the butcherd. was worth many pounds8. the butcher did not give any meat to the dog.

30、a. before he felt sure that the words were really written by mrs smithb. when he found that the words on the paper were not clearc. because he had sold out all the meat in his shopd. until he was paid enough by mrs smith9. from its experence, the dog found that.a. only the paper with mrs smith s wor

31、ds on it could bring it meatb. the butcher would give the meat to it whenever he saw itc. mrs smith would pay for the meat it got from the butcherd. a piece of paper could bring it half a pound of meat10. at the end of the story, you ll find that.a. the dog was clever enough to write on the paperb.

32、the dog dared not go to the butcher s any morec. the butcher was told not to give any meat to the dogd. the butcherfound himselfcheated*actin a way thatis not honestby the clever animalf- 4 -英語(yǔ)閱讀mr. king isa talland strongman. he teachesp. e. ina middleschool.he wears a long beard（胡子）and takes good

33、care of it.it was sunday yesterday. there was a big football match of the year on theplaygroundinthe centreof the city.mr. king likesthe game verymuch and ofcourse he was going to watch it. with his friends help he got a ticket a few days ago.after breakfast he hurried to the bus stop, but a lot of

34、people were waiting there. a bus came and he hardly got on. there were plenty of people in it and it was difficult for them to put their feet. he had to grip（抓?。?the back of a chair. at the nextstop a boy got on the bus. he looked around and saw mr. king s beard and grip it.the man found it at once

35、and called out,“ let go of（松開(kāi)） my beard, boy.” “ are you going to get off, sir.” asked to boy.11. mr. king is a.a. playerb. runnerc. teacherd. driver12. mr. king was going to watch the match because.a. he teaches p. e. in a middle schoolb. he likes football very muchc. he had already got a ticketd.

36、he didn t go to work yesterday13. it was difficult for mr. king to stand because.a. he had drunk too much b. the bus was too smallc. he got on the bus too lated. it was very crowded in the bus14. the boy gripped mr. kings beard because.a. he was afraid to fall againb. he wanted to make the man angry

37、c. he hoped the man to find a seat for himd. he hoped the man to get off soon15. mr. king was afraid, so he shouted at him.a. the boy would pull him downb. the boy would hurt his beardc. the boy could be hurt againd. the boy would borrow his ticketgmy friend is a taxi drives. he has been a taxi driv

38、er for ten years. it s a nice job most of the time. he can meet a lot of people. he always works at nightbecause there is too much traffic during the day. he usually goes home between two oclock in the morning. there are some very strange things, which often happen atnight. one day my friend was tak

39、ing a woman back home from a party at three oclock in the morning. she had her little dog with her. when they got to her house, she found she had lost her key. so my friend waited in the car with the dog while she climbed in through the window. my friend waited and waited. after half an hour of honk

40、ing he decided to find out what was going on. he tied the dog to a tree and started to climb in through the window.at thatmoment some policemencame. they thoughtmy friendwas a thief.luckily, thewomancame downstairs.she must have gone tosleepand forgottenaboutmy friend and the dog.16. the driver alwa

41、ys works at night because it is easier to.a. driveb. climb in through windowc. make moneyd. meet a lot of people17. the woman climbed in through the window because.a. she wanted to have a sleepb. her husband didn t open the door for herc. she didn t want to pay the moneyd. she couldn t find her key-

42、 5 -英語(yǔ)閱讀18. the story happened.a. early in the morningb. late at nightc. outside the cityd. near the bus station19. which of the following is not true.a. the driver worked until 2 or 3 o clock in the morning.b. the policemen made a mistake.c. the woman had no money to pay.d. the woman had forgotten

43、about the driver and the dog.20. the driver climbed in through the window to.a. get money from the womanb. phone the policec. return the dog to the womand. see what happened in the househon nov.18th,1908,three men went up in a balloon（氣球） .they started early in london. the headman was augusta gaudro

44、n, and the other two men were tannar and maitland. they had a big balloon and they were ready for a long way.soon they heard the sea. they were carrying the usual rope（繩子） ,and it washanging down from the basket of the balloon. at the end of the rope they had tieda metalbox.thiscouldholdwater,or itc

45、ouldbe empty.so theywere abletochange its weight（重量） .it was for use over the sea. they were also carrying some bagsof sand.after the sun rose, the balloon went higher. it went up to 3,000 metres, andtheairwas verycold.the waterinthe balloonbecame ice.snow fellpastthe men's basket, and they coul

46、d see more snow on the ground. the men tried to throw out somemore sand; but it was hard. they tried to break the icy sand with their knives, but it was not easy. the work was slow and they were still falling, so they had to dropsome whole bags of sand. one of them fell on an icy lake and made a bla

47、ck hole in the ice.at lasttheypulledthe box intothe basket.itwas stillsnowing;so theyclimbed to get away from the snow. they rose to 5,100 metres. everything became icy. theywere so coldthattheydecidedto land.they came down inpolandheavilybutsafely.they had travelled 1,797 kilometers from london.1.

48、three men flew in balloon .a. for nearly 1,800 kilometersb. to another cityc. to visit polandd. more than a century ago2. the metal box was used for .a. carrying the bags of sandb. keeping drinking-waterc. carrying ropes of the basketd. changing weight3. when the balloon went up higher, .a. the temp

49、erature of the balloon began to fallb. they saw the sun go downc. they made a hole in the basket with their knivesd. they could see a black hole on the ground4. the balloon landed .a. in londonb. on the seac. on a laked. in a foreign country5. which of the following is not true. a. the three men sta

50、rted their journey before the sun rose.b. the balloon began to go up when they threw bags of sand out of the basket.- 6 -英語(yǔ)閱讀c. when they pulled the box into the basket, the balloon began to climb up.d. the three men had to land because they felt cold.iamericans with small families own a small car o

51、r a large one. if both parentsare working, they usually have two cars. when the family is large, one of the cars is sold and they will buy a van住房汽車 a smallcarcan hold 容 納 fourpersonsand a largecarcan holdsixpersonsbut itisvery crowded 擁 擠 .a van holdseven personseasily,so a familythreechildren coul

52、dask theirgrandparentsto go on a holidaytravelthey couldalltraveltogether.mr. hagen and hiswifehad a thirdchildlastyear.thismade them sella secondcar and bus a van. theirchildrensixthand seventhseat are used to put otherthings, for a family of five must carry many suitcases衣箱 when they travel. when

53、they arrive at their grandparents home, the suitcases are brought into the two seatscan then carry the grandparents.americanscallvans motor homes. a motorhome isalwaysused forholidays.when a family are traveling to the mountains or to the seaside, they can live in theirmotor home for a few days or t

54、o the seaside, they can live in their motor home for a few days or weeks. all the members of a big family can enjoy a happier life when they are traveling together. that is why motor homes have become very popular. in america there are many parks for motor homes.6. from the passage, a van is also ca

55、lled .a. a motor car b. a motor home c. a motorbike d. a big truck7. before mr. hagen and his wife bought a van, they .a. sold their old house b. moved to their grandparents housec. built a new place for a van d. sold their second car8. a motor home is usually owned by a family with .a. a baby b. much money c. more than two children d. interest in vans9. americans usually use motor homer .a. to travel with all the family members of holidayb. to do some shopping with all the family