初中英语人物故事类阅读试题

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The students were having their chemistry（化学）class. Miss Li was telling the children what water was like. After that, she asked her students, “What’s water?” No one spoke for a few minutes. Miss Li asked again, “Why don’t you answer my question? Didn’t I tell you what water is like?”
Just then a boy put up his hand and said , “Miss Li, you told us that water has no colour and no smell. But where to find such kind of water? The water in the river behind my house is always black and it has a bad smell。” Most of the children agreed with him.
“I’m sorry, children.”, said the teacher, “Our water is getting dirtier and dirtier. That’s a problem.”
The students were having their __________class.

A．English

B．Chinese

C．chemistry

D．maths

Miss Li was telling the children what __________ was like.

A．water

B．air

C．earth

D．weather

A boy said, “The water in river behind my house is always __________”.

A．white

B．black

C．clean

D．clear

Most of the children __________ the boy.

A．agreed with	B．wrote to
C．heard from	D．sent for

The water in the river has colour and smell because it is getting _______

A．more and more	B．less and less
C．cleaner and cleaner	D．dirtier and dirtier

Mrs. Clark moved to the small village when she was twenty-four. And she has lived there for thirty-nine years. She has a poor farm. She works hard on it, but she is often hungry. Her son Henry joined the army(参军) eight years ago and then found a job at a post office in London after he left the army.
One day, he wrote to his poor mother and asked her to go to the capital. The old woman was very happy when she received the letter. The next morning she started. Because it was the first time, her daughter took her to a small station and bought a ticket for her. A train came and she hurried to get on. Before long, a conductor came up to her and said, ‘Ticket, please.’ The old woman showed her ticket to the conductor. The man looked at it and said, ‘You must take a train to London. But it is a train to Manchester. I am afraid you’ve taken a wrong train.’ ‘Is it possible?’ Mrs. Clark said angrily, ‘I am sure it’s your driver’s fault (过错).
Mrs. Clark is __________ years old now.

A．twenty-four
B．thirty-nine
C．sixty-three
D．eighty
The old woman took a wrong train because _______________

A．she had never taken a train before.

B．her daughter took her to a wrong train.

C．she never visited Manchester and she wanted to go there.

D．the driver is silly (愚蠢) and it was his fault.

A ‘conductor’ means _________

A．司机

B．售票员

C．检票员

D．乘警

Which of the following is NOT true?

A．Mrs. Clark took a wrong train.

B．The driver drove to a wrong place.

C．Mrs. Clark’s daughter bought a right ticket for her mother.

D．The conductor wanted to see Mrs. Clark’s ticket.