八年级英语阅读竞赛试题[1]

1 八年级英语阅读竞赛试题八年级英语阅读竞赛试题 总分 100 分 Passage 1 阅读短文 选择最佳答案 阅读短文 选择最佳答案 10 分 分 The Spring Festival is the biggest festival for Chinese people all around the world The celebration usually lasts for 15 days There is a lot to do On the eve of the Spring Festival family members get together and have big meals Their favourite dish on this day is dumplings Days before the Spring Festival families will clean their homes People think cleaning sweeps away bad luck It makes the house ready for good luck The colour red is everywhere during the Spring Festival People think red is a happy colour and will bring them a bright future People wear red too They decorate 装饰 their homes with pieces of red paper Kids get a lot of hong bao It is a red paper bag with money in it Usually older people give younger ones hong bao They think it brings good luck The Spring Festival is the time to make everybody happy So don t say any bad words or do anything that will bring unhappiness to other people For instance you d better not say any bad words like death Don t break anything People think that it means your luck is running out Also don t borrow or lend money on these days If you have borrowed money return it before the Spring Festival 1 What do most people do on the eve of the Spring Festival A Family members gather for a big meal B Friends eat dumplings together C They borrow money from friends D They give each other hong bao 2 Why do people clean their houses days before the Spring Festival A Because they enjoy being clean B Because it is believed that cleaning will sweep away bad luck C Because they think it will bring happiness to others D Because it is thought that cleaning brings in money 3 Which of the following things is not supposed to happen during the Spring Festival A Returning money before the Spring Festival B Saying words that have to do with death C Wearing red clothes D Decorating houses with red paper 4 The underlined phrase running out probably means A 跑出去 B 打碎 C 耗尽 D 离开 5 We can tell from the story that the Spring Festival is A a time of harvest and fun 2 B celebrated for one whole month C only celebrated in China D a time for families to get together Passage 2 根据短文内容 回答问题 根据短文内容 回答问题 10 分 分 Americans love sports they love to play them to watch them on television and to talk about them But this hobby sometimes has serious results at least to the players For example when people play tennis sometimes they hurt their elbow 肘部 and in this way they develop tennis elbow Also it is easy to hurt a knee in a football game These injuries 损伤 happen while the player is having fun but they still hurt A few months ago Kathleen Simmons who loves playing volleyball hurt her knee in a volleyball game Her doctor told her that she needed a very difficult operation 手术 or she might not be able to play again She felt very sad and didn t know what to do Then Simmons learned about video operation With the help of this new science in medicine doctors can now repair many injuries and get people back on the playing field and back to their jobs much faster Simmons found a hospital that was using this new science and went to see the doctor there The doctors told her the operation could help For this operation her doctor didn t have to open her knee Instead he put a very small camera lens 镜头 inside her knee The lens sent back pictures which appeared on a television screen As he worked he could see the inside of her knee on the TV With the help of the large pictures on the screen the doctor knew exactly what to do when he was making the repairs Simmons started walking five days after her operation My knee hurt a lot the first few days she said But I felt better very quickly Now six months after her operation Simmons can do everything she did before her injury It feels like a new knee she said I can even play volleyball again 6 Do Americans love sports 7 What sport is Simmons interested in 8 What did the doctor put inside Simmons knee 9 What problem may people have when they play sports 10 What s the advantage 优点 of the new science Passage 3 任务型阅读 任务型阅读 10 分 分 1 Now more and more in the world are getting which troubles them a lot In the past 25 years the number of the people with obesity 肥胖症 in 3 Europe has doubled 增加一倍 Experts say that it has a lot to do with our eating habits Our eating habits are very important for good health and a strong body Most of us like eating sweets and ice cream better than meat and rice Sweets and ice cream are not bad for us if we eat them at the end of a meal If we eat them before a meal they may take away our appetite 食欲 It s important for us to have meals at the same time every day When we feel worried or excited we may not want to eat A long time ago in England 2 some judges 法官 often decided whether a man was telling the truth by giving him some dry bread If the man could not swallow 吞 the bread it meant that he wasn t telling the truth A man who is worrying something has difficulty in swallowing anything dry because he loses his appetite 11 在 1 句的空白处填入适当的词使句意完整 上下文通顺 12 When are Sweets and ice cream are not bad for us 13 将 2 句译成中文 14 在文中找出与下列句子意思相近的句子 Most people prefer sweets and ice cream to meat and rice 15 找出文中或写出最能表达该短文主题的句子 Passage 4 完形填空 完形填空 20 分 分 The Sea What do you know about the sea Some people often see it 1 the others don t The sea looks 2 on a fine sunny day Millions of people hope to take their 3 by the sea They can swim in it or lie on the beaches in the sun They 4 themselves there But it can be very rough when there is a strong wind What other things do we know about it Of course the sea is very large Looking at a 5 of the world you can see it is much bigger than land There are a lot of 6 in the sea Some of them are big and the others are 7 Did you swim in the sea If you answer Yes you may know that the water is salty Rivers carry 8 from the land to the sea Some places of the sea are more salty than other places Do you know the Dead Sea Fish 9 live in it And people can easily swim in it Nobody is afraid to 10 in the water Notes 1 rough 粗野的 2 island 岛屿 16 A and B so C but D or 17 A useful B beautiful C terrible D weak 18 A classes B sports C meetings D holidays 19 A enjoy B like C stop D begin 20 A book B map C newspaper D picture 4 21 A roads B shops C houses D islands 22 A small B young C little D good 23 A sugar B butter C salt D oil 24 A can B must C can t D mustn t 25 A lift B sink C walk D sleep Psaaage 5 根据首字母提示完成短文 根据首字母提示完成短文 20 分 分 Four Seasons There re four seasons in a year They re spring summer autumn and winter Spring is the b 26 season in a year It lasts from February to April The d 27 get longer the nights get shorter and the weather gets warmer Everything begins to g 28 Grass and trees begin to turn green Flowers begin to come out Children begin to f 29 kites outdoors Summer comes after spring It is the h 30 season in a year It lasts from May to July People try to find a cool place then They always go s 31 in pools lakes and rivers Autumn is the harvest season It gets cool F 32 begin to get in rice and corn They are busy from August to October They are so happy to have a good harvest The coldest season of the year is winter It s from about November to January The days are short and the nights are long It s 33 sometimes and that makes children happy They m 34 a snowman and dance round it They go skating as well They need to wear w 35 clothes of course Passage 6 用方框中所给词的正确形式填空 用方框中所给词的正确形式填空 30 分 分 how much sa