（全国通用）八年级英语下册 第十周 阅读周周练（A、B卷） 人教新目标版.doc

阅读周周练a卷一、完形填空。通读下面短文，从a、b、c三个选项中选出可以填入空白处的正确答案。a mother planted many kinds of vegetables in her garden. one day, she said to her 1 , “betty, come here. look at all these little yellow marks on the 2 of the cabbages. they are eggs of a kind of insect (虫子). they are very beautiful but very bad for cabbages. this afternoon you must 3 all the eggs on the leaves and kill them. in this way, you will help us have 4 , greener and bigger cabbages.” betty didnt think she could do it 5 and in the end she forgot all about it. the mother fell ill for a few days and 6 work in her garden. when she was well, she took betty with her to the garden to see the cabbages. to 7 surprise, the insects had eaten every leaf. when betty saw this, she began to 8 . then her mother said to her, “we should never put off what we have to do today till 9 . and you must learn to deal with the bad things while they are small, 10 it will turn into a big problem. ” ( ) 1. a. son b. mother c. daughter ( ) 2. a. trees b. leaves c. grass ( ) 3. a. find b. eat c. fly ( ) 4. a. worse b. better c. thinner ( ) 5. a. at most b. at last c. at once ( ) 6. a. must b. couldnt c. need ( ) 7. a. my b. their c. his ( ) 8. a. cry b. wait c. run ( ) 9. a. yesterday b. today c. tomorrow ( ) 10. a. but b. or c. and二、阅读理解。阅读下面的短文，根据短文内容选择正确答案。aonce effendi (阿凡提) had a joke with the prime minister (宰相). he said that the minister would die the next day. the next day, the minister fell to the ground from the horse and really died. when the king learned this, he got angry and sent his men to catch effendi at once.when effendi was brought to him, the king shouted angrily, “effendi, since you knew when my minister would die, you must know the date of your own death. say it out, or youll die today.”effendi looked at the king for a while. then he answered, “but how can i know? ill die two days earlier than you.” the king was afraid that if he killed effendi, he himself would die after that. he thought he must keep effendi alive as long as possible, so he let effendi go. ( ) 1. this story tells us _. a. how effendi fooled the king b. when the king would die c. why the minister died ( ) 2. the prime minister died because _. a. effendi killed him b. effendi said he would die c. he fell off the horse ( ) 3. why did the king ask effendi to tell him the date of effendis own death? a. because the king wanted to know when he himself would die. b. because the king wanted to find an excuse to kill effendi. c. because he himself had known the date of effendis death. ( ) 4. the king let effendi go because _.a. he hoped to live a long lifeb. he was afraid of effendi c. he didnt believe effendis words ( ) 5. which of the following is not true? a. effendi played a joke on the minister. b. the king was afraid of death. c. if the king killed effendi, he himself would die two days later.bthe story of cinderella (灰姑娘) comes from france. it is about cinderella who wanted to go to a dance, but her stepmother wouldnt let her. then her godmother came to see her. she gave cinderella some beautiful clothes and told her to go to the dance. she also gave her shoes of glass. cinderella danced with a prince (王子). he thought she was very beautiful.at twelve oclock, cinderella had to come away from the dance. as she ran away, one of her shoes fell off and the prince found it. he knew the shoe was cinderellas. “i will look for the beautiful girl whose shoe this is and then i will marry her,” he said. after seeing many other women, the prince found cinderella and married her. this is the story of cinderella that everyone knows. however, there is one thing wrong with it. the shoe could not have been made of glass. no one could dance in shoes of glass! why does the story say that the shoes were made of glass?the answer is that the french word for fur (软毛) is vair and the french word for glass is verre玻璃 (法语). the two words have the same sound. people thought they heard the word for glass when they really heard the word for fur. cinderella had shoes of fur, not shoes of glass! ( ) 6. the story is about why _.a. the cinderella story talks about glass shoesb. a prince wanted to marry cinderellac. cinderella wanted to go to a dance ( ) 7. cinderellas clothes came from _. a. her stepmotherb. her godmotherc. a prince ( ) 8. the underlined word “stepmother” in paragraph 1 means “_”. a. working mother b. second motherc. grand mother ( ) 9. the prince wanted to marry cinderella because she _. a. was beautiful b. had a godmotherc. danced well ( ) 10. in the french language there are words that _. a. mean nothing b. sound like glassc. sound the same三、完形填空。通读下面短文，从a、b、c三个选项中选出可以填入空白处的正确答案。king akbar was in the habit of putting riddles and puzzles to his people. he often asked 1 which were strange. his people had to use words in a 2 way to answer these questions. once he asked a very strange question. he looked at his people. 3 he looked, one by one the heads began to hang low in search of an answer. it was at this moment that birbal entered the palace. birbal 4 the habit of the king. he understood the 5 at once and asked, “may i know the question so that i can 6 for an answer?”akbar said, “how many crows (乌鸦) are there in this city?” 7 even a moments thought, birbal replied, “there are fifty thousand five hundred and eighty-nine crows, my lord.”“how can you be so 8 ?” asked akbar.birbal said, “make your men 9 , my lord. if you find more crows it means some have come to visit their relatives (亲戚) here. if you find 10 crows it means some have gone to visit their relatives elsewhere.” akbar was pleased very much by birbals wise answer. ( ) 1. a. questions b. help c. promise ( ) 2. a. common b. friendly c. clever ( ) 3. a. asb. because c. though ( ) 4. a. knew b. developed c. hated ( ) 5. a. order b. information c. situation ( ) 6.a.ask b. wait c. try ( ) 7. a. before b. without c. through ( ) 8. a. sure b. brave c. fanny ( ) 9. a. catch b. discuss c. count ( ) 10. a. fewer b. larger c. faster四、阅读判断正误。阅读下面短文，根据短文内容判断句子的正误。正确的涂“a”,错误的涂“b”。tom has a strong and faithful dog, bruce. the dog likes playing with tom. sometimes he also follows toms father to work. one morning when toms father worked in the field, he took off his coat and put it on the ground under a big tree. he turned to the dog and said, “watch my coat, bruce!”bruce sat down on the coat. later toms father remembered he had to buy some food. so he hurried to the shop. after shopping, he went home directly and forgot all about his coat and the dog. late in the evening tom looked for his dog everywhere in the house, but he couldnt find him. at this time toms father suddenly remembered his coat and the dog. he went back to the tree at once. he found that bruce was still sitting on the coat! ( ) 1. bruce likes playing with tom. ( ) 2. one morning, toms father went to work in a factory with the dog. ( ) 3. toms father went home with the dog after shopping. ( ) 4. bruce watched the coat from morning to evening that day. ( ) 5. bruce was angry with toms father.b卷五、完成对话。在对话空格中填上适当的单词，使对话完整正确。一空一词（含缩写词）。a: good morning. what can i do for you?b: i want to 1 a book.a: whats the 2 of the book?b: i dont know. 3 i know what the book is about.a: what is it about?b: its about a girl 4 alice. she fell down a rabbit hole and went into a strange world.a: oh, i see. thats alices adventures in wonderland. ill get 5 for you.b: thanks a lot. how long may i 6 the book?a: you may keep it 7 two weeks.b: what 8 i cant finish it on time?a: you may come and 9 it.b: thank you for your help.a: youre 10 . goodbye.b: goodbye.六、短文填空。用下面方框中单词的适当形式填入短文空格内，使短文意思正确、通顺（每词限用一次）。it polite she if sorry laugh under at letter be hurry cryallen studied in a city far from her hometown. one day, she went to buy a blue umbrella for her mother as a birthday present, because 1 was old and broken. on her way back to school, allen felt thirsty and went into a tea house for a drink. there 2 so many people in it. she found a seat and sat 3 a table. she put the umbrella behind the chair. after she finished her cup of tea, she looked at her watch, _4_ was nearly the time for classes in the afternoon. she 5 out and back to school. suddenly, she found that she had left her umbrella in the tea house. she ran back to the tea house. but the umbrella was no longer there.she couldnt stop herself from 6 , and she told the people around about the blue umbrella, which was a birthday present for her mother. the people all felt 7 for her. then the owner of the tea house came and asked for her mothers address. he said 8 someone took it away by mistake and came to return the umbrella, he would send it to her mother. the girl told him her mothers address, thanked him _9_ and then left. a few days after her mothers birthday, allen got a 10 from her mother, which said, “dear allen, thank you for your good presents. but could you tell me why you sent me so many blue umbrellas from different places?”1._ 2. _ 3. _ 4. _ 5. _6._ 7. _ 8. _ 9. _ 10. _七、完成表格。 阅读下面短文，根据其内容，完成表格中所缺的信息。alice is my pen friend. she is a 16yearold girl from the uk, but now she lives in china. she is a middle school student in nanjing. she likes going to school, but there are some things she doesnt like, such as pe. she enjoys playing sports. she thinks sports are interesting and exciting. but she doesnt like doing physical exercises in pe classes. she feels that they are boring! her favorite subject is science. it seems that the amazing and useful science attracts (吸引) her. she thinks she is on the way to be a scientist. she wishes to invent things to make the world more and more beautiful. in her free time, she often goes to the beach. she loves just sitting around and talking to friends there. shes getting better at understanding boys, but she hates listening to hours of talking about football. “its not interesting at all!” she once said to me. that is my pen friend alice.information about alicebasicinformationname: alice age: sixteen years oldbirth place: in the uk living now: in chinalikeswhatwhy/for whatplaying sports 1 . 2 sitting around and talking to friends.favorite subject: scienceamazing and useful.dislikes 3 physical exercises are boring.never talks about football.not interesting at all.wishesto be 4 .be attracted by science.to invent things.make the world 5 .八、恢复原文。根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出适当的选项补全短文。i always thought i was brave until i started middle school. at my new school, we have a dance party every month. that means dancing with girls! 1 but the next time, it was different: a few of the boys started dancing with beautiful girls!_2_ how can i ask? what should i say to her?during the next few weeks, i began thinking abou