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初二英语unit 5-6 配套阅读理解练习十篇华工附中初二英语备课组Paassage 1 My SchoolMy name is Ben. I was born in Hubei. I am twelve years old. I am about 1.5 metres tall. I have short black hair and brown eyes. I study in Changjiang Middle School. Our school is big and beautiful. Entering our school, you can see the water fountains between two small gardens. The office building is behind the fountains. The club building is on its left and the science building is on its right. We have a lot of out of class activities in the club building and do scientific experiments in the science building. There are four classroom building s in the middle of the school. We study in the wide and bright classrooms. Behind the classroom buildings there are four dormitory buildings. We live there during weekdays. Beside the dormitories is our sports ground. We can enjoy different sports and play games there. I like playing football, tennis and badminton. There are many green trees and flowers around our school. We read English and Chinese under the trees in the morning and have a walk under them in the evening. I have four classes in the morning and two in the afternoon. My favourite subject is Science. I am not good at Chinese. But I want to learn it well. I have a pen friend. We write to each other every week. I want to be a doctor. My hobby is playing games on my computer. My teachers are very friendly to us. I get on well with my classmates. We learn from each other and help each other. I like my school very much. IV. Choose the best answer. ( ) 1. In the school, we cant see _. A. flowers B. animals C. trees D. buildings ( ) 2. Ben lives in school _. A. every day B. in weekdays C. at weekends D. in the daytime( ) 3. We know from the text that Ben is probably _. A. ill often B. healthy C. in hospital D. good-looking( ) 4. Ben is good at _. A. scienceB. Chinese C. planting treesD. all subjects( ) 5. When Ben leaves school, he will probably _. A. get a job as a football player B. work at his schoolC. go to universityD. be a teacher Passage2 When I was at University I studied very hard. But a lot of my friends did very little work. Some did just enough to pass exams. Others didnt do quite enough. Fred Baines was one of them. He spent more time drinking in the Students Union than working in the library. Once at the end of the term, we had to take an important test in chemistry. The test had a hundred questions. Beside each question we had to write True or False. While I was studying in my room the night before the test, Fred was watching TV. Fred usually worried a lot the night before a test. But on that night he looked perfectly calm. Then he told me of his plan. Its very simple. There are a hundred questions and I have to get fifty correct to pass the test. Ill take a coin into the examination room. I havent studied a chemistry book for months, so Ill just toss the coin. That way, Im sure Ill get half the questions right. The next day, Fred came happily into the exam room. As he sat tossing a coin for half an hour, he marked down his answers. Then he left, half an hour before the rest of us. The next day, he saw the chemistry professor in the corridor. Oh, good, he said. Have you got the results of the test? The professor looked at him and smiled. Ah, its you, Baines. Just a minute. Then he reached into his pocket and took out a coin. He threw it into the air, caught it in his hand and looked at it. Im terribly sorry, Baines, he said, You failed!Choose the best answer.( ) 1. This passage is just a _.A. piece of newsB. reportC. funny storyD. fairy tale( ) 2. Fred Baines was one of those who _.A. hardly paid any attention to their studiesB. studied very hardC. did just enough to pass exam D. often cheated in exams( ) 3. What does that way refer to?A. Revising the lessons.B. Tossing the coin.C. Cheating in the exam. D. Getting ready to fail in the exam. ( ) 4. The rest of the class _.A. answered the questions in half an hourB. left half an hour earlierC. needed another hourD. worked for an hour( ) 5. The chemistry professor _. A. didnt mark the test papers correctlyB. tossed a coin when he marked test papersC. knew about Freds way of answering the paperD. thought Freds way was goodPassage 3. My School Days of WeekMy name is Luo Yang. I am 15 years old. I study at No. 1 Middle School. I live near my school. So I walk there every day. I have classes from Monday to Friday. The class begins at 8 and ends at 11:30 in the morning. Every morning I have four classes. They are Chinese, Math, Physics, Chemistry, Politics and so on. I have lunch at school. I can have nice food there. Sometimes I have rice, meat and vegetables. Sometimes I have dumplings. Classes begin at 2:10 and ends at 3:40 in the afternoon. We have Computer Science, History, Geography, Art, Music and P.E. After class, I have many things to do. On Monday and Wednesday afternoon I have sports on the playground of our school. I play table tennis and basketball with my classmates. On Tuesday afternoon, I have a singing class. I can sing many songs now. on Thursday afternoon, I have a drawing class. My parents and teachers all say that I can draw very nice pictures. On Friday afternoon, I practice speaking English with my American teacher. She is a young lady. I like English and my English teacher. Sometimes I teach her Chinese. In the evening, I watch tv for a while and then do my homework. I go to bed at 10 oclock.On Saturday and Sunday I dont go to school. I read books, go to the parks, talk with my friends and help my parents with the housework. I always have a good time at the weekends. I. Choose the best answer.( ) 1. How many days does Luo Yang have classes a week. A. Five. B. Six.C. Seven.D. Eight.( ) 2. From the passage we know Luo Yang _ after class. A. goes home at onceB. stays at school for some timeC. lives at schoolD. cleans the classroom( ) 3. Luo Yang is probably good at _.A. singing and drawingB. every school subjectC. cooking foodD. teaching( ) 4. In the afternoon, Luo Yang _.A. does her homeworkB. has two classesC. goes to the parkD. speaks English ( ) 5. Which of the following is TRUE?A. Luo Yang has no foreign teachers. B. It takes a long time for Luo Yang to get to school.C. English is one of Luo Yangs favourite subjects.D. Luo Yang misses her parents very much. _Passage 4 Hard but Happy LifeHow much pocket money do you get from your parents every month- 200 yuan? Some may need more to buy birthday presents, fast food lunches, ice creams and cartoon books. But for Li Beibei, 30 yuan each month is enough. The only thing she buys is lunch- 1.5 yuan each day. My favourite is fried potato slices and rice, said Li. But meat is too expensive for me.Li, 14, is a Junior 1 at Beijings Xingzhi Experimental School. Her parents are migrant workers. They first came to Beijing from a village in Luohe, Henan two years ago. Her father now works as a cleaner and gets 500 yuan every month. Her mother has no job. Li Beibei has 460 friends at Xingzhi. Every day, Li gets up at 5:30 a.m. and rides her bike for 20 minutes to get to school. She studies hard, and even reads books during breaks! Her favourite subject is Computer Science.Im learning typing now. I hope to be the fastest in my class, said Li. Like many teens, Li has a lot of homework- usually at least one hour every day. But that is not all her work. During the week she helps her mum cook. On weekends she helps wash clothes. I could cook when I was eight. Father said sometimes I cook better than Mum!Li said she wants to be a doctor when she grows up.I watched TV and found out there are many people with AIDS in Henan. Some are kids. They need my help, said Li.But she is afraid of having to leave school. Li didnt go to school at 12 for one year because her family had no money to send her. This year, the school didnt ask her to pay the 600 yuan fees because her family is too poor. I hope I will always be in school, said Li. Dad works hard to get money. I promised him I will study hard to be a good student and a good doctor in the future.Choose the best answer.( ) 1. Li doesnt often have meat because _.A. she wants to be friendly to animals B. she doesnt have enough money C. she prefers to have vegetablesD. she thinks its a waste of money( ) 2. What does Li likes to have for lunch?A. Meat. B. Fried potato slices.C. Noodles.D. Bread.( ) 3. The word migrant probably means _.A. moving from place to place B. working part-timeC. staying in one placeD. working day and night( ) 4. Which of the following statements about Li Beibei is NOT TRUE?A. She likes typing very much. B. She paid lots of money to study in Beijing.C. She has a lot of homework.D. She often helps her mother with housework.( ) 5. From the story, we can see Li Beibei is _.A. the best typist B. a migrant to HenanC. a clever girlD. a hard-working girlPassage 5 Once upon a time, there lived a rich man. He had a servant. He and the servant loved wine and good food very much. Each time the rich man left his home, the servant would drink the wine and eat up all the nice food in the house. The rich man knew what his servant did, but he had never caught his servant doing that.One morning, when he left home, he said to the servant, Here are two bottles of poison and some nice food in the huse. You mustnt take them. With these words, he went out.But the servant knew what the rich man had said was untrue. After the rich man was away from his home, he enjoyed a nice meal. Because he drank too much, he was drunk and fell to the ground. When the rich man came back, he couldnt find his food and his wine. He became very angry. He woke the servant up. Bt the servant told his story very well. He said a cat had eaten up everything. He was afraid to be punished, so he drank the poison to kill himself.I. Choose the best answer.( ) 1. Most of the people in Europe _. A. The rich man. B. The servant. C. Both A and B.D. Neither A nor B. ( ) 2. The rich man knew that it was _ that drank the wine and ate up all the nice food.A. the cat B. he himselfC. nobodyD. the servant ( ) 3. The rich man told the servant that there was poison in the two bottles, because _. A. there was in fact poison in the bottles B. he did not want the servant to drink his wine C. he wanted to kill the catD. he wanted to kill the servant( ) 4. In fact, who ate all the nice food and drank the wine?A. The servant. B. A cat. C. The rich man.D. Nobody. ( ) 5. From the story, we know that the servant is very _.A. lazy B. bad C. cleverD. kind Passage 6If you have no special plans for your holidays, why not spend your time helping others?Dont listen to people who say that young people today often think only of themselves. Its not true at all. More and more young people in the USA volunteer to spend their school holidays working for others. And they dont do it for money. Here are some of their stories.Alice Hamilton, 17Im going to help the Forest Centre build new hiking paths in the mountains. Its gong to be terrific. Ill spend the whole summer living in a tent and breathing the clean mountain air. Im going to sleep under the stars. It will be a nice sport, and Ill be able to do something good at the same time.Jason Moore, 18This summer, Im going to volunteer with Special House Program. They build good, low-cost houses and sell them to families that are not very rich. Theyll teach me what to do, so Ill help people and also have a chance to learn how to build houses.Trish Anderson, 16Im going to teach kids who have trouble in reading. Ill work for a program called Reading For Life. Every day, Im going to help kids choose and read books that they like. I want to be a teacher, and I love children and reading, so this is going to be a great experience for me.III. Choose the best answer.( ) 1. Yong people in the USA volunteer to spend _.A. school holidays helping others B. weekdays building houses for poor familiesC. school holidays working for their parentsD. weekends staying with those who have no special plan( ) 2. What does Alice volunteer to do in summer?A. To sleep under the stars. B. To breathe the clean mountain air. C. To spend the whole summer living in a tent.D. To help build new hiking paths in the mountains.( ) 3. From the passage, we know that Jason Moore _.A. likes reading B. is 18 years old C. isnt very richD. is good at sport( ) 4. Who wants to be a teacher?A. Alice Hamilton. B. Jason Moore. C. Trish Anderson.D. The writer of this passage. ( ) 5. Which is the most possible title for this passage?A. Reading for Life. B. A Special House Program. C. The Forest Centre.D. Young American Volunteers.Passage 7 Want to find a job? Now read the following advertisements.FAIREMONT HOTELFive Waiters and Ten Waitresses:Aged under 22.At least high school graduates.Good-looking men at least 1.72 metres tall and women at least 1.65.Those knowing foreign languages favoured.Paid 1600-2200 dollars per month.One secretary:Aged under 30. Females favoured.Good at writing and skilled at computers.Paid 1800-2300 dollars per month.If interested, call 465-4768 or write to: Mr. Jack Hundris Room 0825m Fairemont Hotel567 Wood Street, San Marers, 78003Fax: 6954828WILSON BOOKSTOREAccountant:Aged between 25 and 40.With an experience of at least two years.With a degree and an accountant certificate.Paid 3000-4000 dollars monthly.With a practical knowledge of computer.Computer Salesclerk:Aged 25 or less.Basic education of 12 years or more.Good at computer.Paid 1800-2200 dollars monthly.Tel: 447-4398Fax: 3485269I. Choose the best answer.( ) 1. Which job of the four jobs will be paid best monthly from the passage?A. Computer Salesclerk. B. Accountant. C. Secretary.D. Not mentioned in the text.( ) 2. If you dont know how to use a computer, you can just apply for the position as _. A. a secretary B. a waiter or waitress C. an accountantD. a salesclerk ( ) 3. If you want to get the position of accountant in Wilson Bookstore, you have to satisfy the following except _.A. being a woman B. knowing well how to use a computer C. having been an accountantD. having an accountant certificate ( ) 4. If you want to be a waiter or waitress in Fairemont Hotel, you _.A. have to be a woman and know foreign languages B. have to have received high school education C. have to be taller than 1.72 metersD. should be younger than 30 ( ) 5. If you want to be a waiter or waitress, you must be _. A. under 30 B. at the age of 22 C. fortyD. under 2Passage 8 Are you a TV lover? Can you think of living without TV? Well, you can give it a try this week.A group of Americans from TV-Turnoff Network have an idea. They ask children all over the world to turn off their TVs for a week, from April 19 to 25. they want children to watch less TV. TV-Turnoff Network says watching TV too much can give children big problems with school, health and family. Some American scientists began a study of 1,300 children several years ago. It shows that if children watch too much TV, they dont do well in school. More of the children are getting overweight and become ill more easily. And, too much TV is also bad for their eyes.Many American families watch TV at dinner time. So they dont talk much when they eat together. Its bad for their family life. Also, there is lots of fighting on TV. After watching these programs, some children become violent in real life.Today, lots of people already know too much TV is bad for them. Since 1995, about 24 million people in America have taken part in TV-Turnoff Week. If you turn off your TV for a week, maybe you can find something fun to do. Maybe you can read some books, or learn to swim, or draw a picture.If you want to learn more about this unusual week, you can go to this web site, III. Choose the best answer.( ) 1. TV-Turnoff Network is a group of Americans _.A. who never watch TV B. who work at a TV station C. who teach childrenD. who want children to watch less TV ( ) 2. The study shows that watching too much TV makes children _. A. unhealthy B. eat more healthy food C. do well with their studiesD. learn better at school ( ) 3. Some children become violent in real life because they _.A. do some sports at school B. are tired of school life C. see too much fighting on TVD. see a colourful world on TV ( ) 4. TV is bad for family life mainly because _.A. it is bad for childrens studies B. it is bad for childrens eyes C. it makes children overweightD. it makes the family talk less with each other( ) 5. According to the passage, we know that _.A. children should never watch TV B. children shouldnt watch TV too much C.TV is of no good for childrenD. TV makes children do better in schoolPassage 9One day, I happened to talk to a stranger on the bus. When he found out that I was from Chicago, he told me that one of his friends lived there and he wondered if I happened to know him. At first I wanted say that it was foolish to think that, out of all the millions of people in Chicago, I could possibly meet his friend. But instead, I just smiled and said that