初中英语阅读表达试题

Have you heard about paper-cutting? Paper-cutting is an important art form in China. Paper-cuts were used for many purposes, and everything can become the theme (主题) of paper-cuts, from people to the things that can be found in everyday life such as birds, flowers and animals.
Each paper-cut brings out the personal ideas of the author (作者). People express traditional culture or their own feelings with different styles of paper-cuts. For example, when someone marries, we put up some red paper-cuts on the wall, dressing table or other furniture to express our best wishes.
It is easy to learn paper-cutting but very difficult to make it perfect. We need a long-time practice to learn how to use the scissors and how to paint. More over, we need to learn some cutting skills.
At present, in many parts of China, paper-cutting skill has become a must for women and a symbol of a clever mind.
根据短文内容，判断下列句子的正误。正确的填“T”，错误的填“F”，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）
Not everything can become the theme of paper-cuts.
People express traditional culture or their own feelings with the same paper-cut.
It is not easy to make a perfect paper-cut.
When we learn paper-cutting, we don’t need to learn cutting skills.
Women must learn paper-cutting skills in many places of China.

Alexander Graham Bell was a British man who was a teacher to people who could not hear. He was born in Edinburgh ， Scotland in 1847 and went to school in Edinburgh and London. People who cannot hear any sounds at all are called deaf people， and Alexander became interested in helping them to learn to speak. He taught people how to use their mouths to make the sounds needed for talking.
Bell’s family moved to Canada in 1870 and to the USA in 1871. For several years he taught the people who could not speak in Boston( 波士顿). But at the same time he was developing a way to use electricity to send the sounds of talking along a wire(电线)， and he made the first telephone in June， 1875. He worked hard in his workshop for six months with his helper Tom Watson. Finally ， he spoke these famous words slowly into the telephone， “Mr. Watson， come here. I want to see you.” And Watson came to him.
The telephone developed quickly in the USA over the next few years. The Bell Telephone Company started in 1877， and in 1878 the first telephone centre was built in New York. More than 150， 000 people had telephones in their homes ten years later. Alexander Graham Bell was a kind man and spent much of his money and time during the rest of his life helping deaf people . In 1922 he died in Canada.
Was Alexander Graham Bell born in Scotland?
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What was he interested in doing when he was in Britain?
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Where was Bell’s family in 1870?
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When was the first telephone invented?
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What do you think of the great inventor?
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My name is Frank. I have a key, a map, a pen, a ruler and a jacket. The key is white. I use it in the evening. The map is blue, red and orange. I use it in the afternoon. The pen is yellow. The ruler is white. And I use them in the morning. The jacket is black. It is good and it is“夹克衫” in Chinese.
阅读上面这篇文章，完成下面这份表格.

Things	Colour	Time to use
The key	_______	In the ________
The _____	Blue, _____ and ______	In the _______
The pen	__________	In the _____
The ______	_______

 

An elephant and a monkey lived together in the forest. They were good friends, but one day they quarreled with each other. The elephant was very proud because he was very strong; however, the monkey was also proud because he was very quick — he could climb up very quickly.
The elephant said, “It is better to be strong than to be quick.”
“No,” the monkey said, “it is better to be quick than to be strong.”
So they went to a clever owl (猫头鹰) and asked, “Which is better, to be strong or to be quick?”
The owl said, “Do you see that tall tree with the golden fruit on the other side of the river? You must go and pick the fruit and bring it to me, and then I will tell you.”
So the elephant and the monkey set out. Soon they came to the river. The monkey was afraid of the deep water, and he had to climb up on the elephant’s back. After a while they found the tree. It was very tall and its golden fruit hung high over their heads. The elephant twisted (扭动) his long trunk (象鼻) around the tree and tried to pull it down, but he failed. Then the monkey climbed quickly up the tree. He picked the big golden fruit and threw it down to the ground. The elephant picked up the fruit.
Can you tell, then, which is better, to be strong or to be quick? It took both the elephant’s strength and the monkey’s quickness to get the fruit.
Where did the monkey and the elephant live?
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Why did the monkey and the elephant quarrel with each other?
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Who did the monkey and the elephant go to ask?
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Did the monkey and elephant help each other to get the big golden fruit?
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What can you learn from the passage?
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We are all called upon to make a speech at some point in life, but most of us don’t do a very good job. This article gives some suggestions on how to give a successful speech.
So, you have to give a speech and you’re frightened. You get nervous, you forget what you want to say, you stumble(结巴)over words, you talk too long and your listeners feel tired of your speech. Later you think,   “Thank goodness, it’s over. I’m just no good at public speaking. I hope I never have to do that again.”
Cheer up! It doesn’t have to be that bad. You can do the following things to take the pain out of speech making. Ask yourself the purpose of your speech. What is the occasion(场合)? Why are you speaking? Then, collect as many facts as you can on your subject. Spend plenty of time doing your research. Then spend plenty of time putting your material in good order so that your speech is clear and easy to follow. Use as many examples as possible and use pictures, charts and graphs if they help you make your points clearer. Never forget your listeners. Don’t talk over their heads and don’t talk down to them. Respect your listeners. They will enjoy your thoughtfulness.
Just remember: Be prepared. Know your subject, your listeners and the occasion. Be brief. Say what you have to say and then stop. And be yourself. Let your personality come through so that you make person-to-person contact with your listeners.
If you follow the simple things, you’ll see that you don’t have to be afraid of public speaking. In fact, you may find the experience so enjoyable that you volunteer to make more speeches! You’re not confident yet. Give it a try and see what happens.

Suggestions on making a speech
Problems	You feel nervous and don’t remember the content you will say. You talk too much, making the listeners        .
______ to take	Knowing why you have to give the speech. Spending much time researching and having your material _____to make your speech smooth. Neither using too difficult words nor looking down upon your listeners but remembering to      them with respect.
Conclusion	Be well prepared. Don’t mention something ______. It is your personality that will help you communicate with your listeners well.

Recently the students in our school all take part in sports. They fall into three groups.
The students who put much more stress on their study go to the playground. They just want to go back to their classrooms with a clearer and quicker mind. Most of them choose long-distance running. So they can be well regarded as study-oriented (倾向的) sports participants (参加者).
The students in the second group are real sports lovers. They put aside their studies for a match. They join in the sport that interests them most. They may be called fun-oriented sports participants.
The students in the third group want beauty from sports. Boys want to become strong; girls want to be slim and graceful. They are very careful in choosing the kind of exercise they do, and are afraid that certain sports may influence their body shapes. They may be beauty-oriented sports participants.
Now, if you look around the school yard, you can’t find the bookworms (书呆子) any more, and instead, there are healthy, strong, clever and modernized students everywhere.
阅读上面短文，根据短文内容，完成表格中的信息。

Participants in our school
Groups	Which sport to choose	Why to do sports
Study-oriented sports participants	_________	They want to have a clearer and quicker mind.
__________	Interesting sports	They want to put aside their studies for a match.
Beauty-oriented sports participants	The exercise that doesn’t influence their body shapes	Boys want to become strong; girls want to          .
Result	The healthy, strong, clever and modernized students are everywhere, and the bookworms           .

The famous scientist and thinker， Charles Darwin， was born on February 12， 1809. His family lived not far from the River Severn， England.
Charles’ father was a well-known doctor and the son of a still greater doctor and scientist. Charles’ father hoped that his son would  also become a doctor.
As a boy Charles liked to go for walks in the fields and forests. He watched nature and compared what he saw with everything he had read in science books. He also liked collecting very much. He collected many things： eggs， stones， and leaves. His father did not like this， as Charles was not studying very well at school.
At the age of sixteen， Darwin was sent to Cambridge University in order to become a doctor. But he was interested in the history of nature.
Then he studied at Cambridge University until 1831.
Some time later， he heard that the ship Beagle was going on a trip to South America and wanted a scientist. His professor advised him to go. He said the trip would be just for Darwin. So when the ship left England in December 1831， Darwin was on it. The research lasted almost five years. The Beagle studied the waters in the sea near South America. It also visited New Zealand， Australia and islands in the Pacific. Darwin saw many new plants and animals. He collected all kinds of plants， which he sent home from the places he visited.
When he returned home， Darwin was warmly greeted by his families and many friends.
In 1842， Darwin went to live in Kent(肯特)， where he continued his studies of the changes in nature. Darwin understood that plants and animals are not always the same， and that they really change.
By 1859， Darwin had finished his famous book The Origin of Species（《物种起源》）. It made a great hit in the world of science. He was opposed(反对) by the church and even by some scientists. But later， more and more scientists agreed with him.
Darwin continued his studies in science until he died in 1882.

根据短文内容完成句子填空（每空限填一个单词）。
From the first paragraph of the passage， we know not only Darwin but also his ________ was a famous and great _________.
根据短文内容完成句子填空（每空限填一个单词）。
According to the passage， Darwin ___________ studying the changes in nature and had great ___________ of plants and animals.
把短文中画底线的句子译成汉语：
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根据短文内容回答问题。
According to the passage， what’s the influence of Darwin’s famous book The Origin of Species? ____________________________________________________________________________
根据短文内容用一个完整的英文句子(限12个词以内)回答问题。
What is the main idea of the passage?
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Two years ago, a small town in Changhua started to grow healthy rice. The healthy rice was not grown by farmers but by the students from a small primary school of only about fifty people.
The idea of growing rice came from the school teachers. When making teaching plans, the teachers decided to teach students how to grow healthy rice on school land. They wanted the students to get closer to the land when doing the rice farming outside the classroom.
What’s better, the school made money from selling the rice and giving farming classes to the public. With the money, the school could help the students who wished to go to foreign countries some day. Today the dream is becoming real — the students are flying to Japan to share their special farming experiences, and have fun over there, of course! “We all feel very proud that even students from a small town can make themselves seen in the world,” said one of the teachers.
When did the students begin to grow rice? (No more than 3 words)
Who decided to grow rice? (No more than 2 words)
Why was the decision made? (No more than 10 words)
Where was the rice grown? (No more than 3 words)
What did the students do with the money from selling the rice? (No more than 4 words)

Have you ever ridden a Ferris wheel lately? Can you imagine the flying feeling as you are pulled up to the top and then moved down to the bottom quickly again?

Today a Ferris wheel is usually 40 to 60 feet tall. That seems very high when you are on the top looking down. But the first Ferris wheel was 264 feet high – taller than a twenty-story building! Can you imagine the view from the top of that?

The first Ferris wheel was built for the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago. The people who planned the fair were looking for an attraction that would bring people to Chicago. George Ferris handed a drawing of a giant wheel that people could ride on. At first everyone laughed at his strange idea. But Mr. Ferris did not give up， and finally the idea was accepted. The ride opened in June of 1893.

Today’s Ferris wheels have 12 to 16 seats， which each carry 2 or 3 people. But that first one had 36 enclosed cars， each holding 60 passengers. When filled， it carried 2，160 people. During that summer in Chicago， about 1.5 million people rode the Ferris wheel.
After the fair the ride was moved to a nearby amusement park built especially to show off the wheel. In 1904， it was moved again – to St. Louis for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. After the fair there， the wheel stood unused. In 1906 it was finally sold to a company for scrap metal (废铁).
Luckily a Chicago bridge builder， W.E. Sullivan， figured out how to make a smaller Ferris wheel that could easily be taken apart and put together. In 1906 he started the company that still makes many of the Ferris wheels used today.
But， whenever you ride one， remember that it all began with George Ferris’s strange idea!
How tall is a Ferris wheel today?
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What was the first Ferris wheel built for?
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What did people think of Ferris’s idea at first?
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How many people rode the first Ferris wheel during the summer in 1893?
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Compared with today’s Ferris wheels， what was the first Ferris wheel like?
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John is a young（年轻的） man. He works in a factory（工厂） in a new town(城镇). But he lives far from his factory. Every day he gets up very early. He eats breakfast at home. Then he goes to a bus station by bike. There he takes a bus to get to the River Stop from the bus station. There is no bridge across（横穿）the river. He takes a boat or ship to get across the river. He gets off the boat and then walks to his factory. He does the same thing every weekday.
Where does John work?
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Is John’s home far from his factory?
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How does he get across the river?
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Does he get to his factory by boat or on foot at last(最后)?
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阅读短文，阅读短文后在图表中空格里填入恰当的单词。（每空填一个单词）
Alice is my pen friend. She is a 16-year-old 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 doesn’t like, such as PE. She enjoys playing sports. She thinks sports are interesting and exciting. But she doesn’t like doing physical exercises in PE classes. She feels that they are boring! Her favourite 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. She’s getting better at understanding boys, but she hates listening to hours of talk about football. “It’s not interesting at all!” she once said to me.
That is my penfriend Alice.
Information about Alice

Basic information	Name: Alice              Age: sixteen         old. Birth place: in the UK      Living now: in China
	What	Why /For what
Likes	Playing sports.	Interesting and
Going to the	Sitting around and       to friends.
Favourite subject: Science	and useful.
Dislikes	Having       classes.	Physical exercises are
talks about football.	Not interesting at all.
Wishes	To be a scientist.	Be        in Science.
To invent things.	Make the world        beautiful.

Eating habbits are different in different countries.The Chinese have a saying “Eat good things for breakfast ，eat a big meal for lunch，but eat less at dinner.”Many Americans agree that one should start the day with a good breakfast，but their ideas about lunch and dinner are different.
Most Americans only give themselves a short time for lunch.So they eat a small lunch.After work they have more time to eat a big dinner.Also a quie dinner at home with all the family talking about their day is a way to take a good rest after a long and hard of work.
Eating at restaurants is also different.In China，people like to talk and laugh while eating.Very often you can hear people talking and laughing loudly，and they are having a good time.In America it is not like this.They want a quiet place，so they can eat a good meal far away from the noise of the outside world.If someone is talking too loudly，the manager（经理）of the restaurant will look at him or her angrily.If some people are talking too loudly，the manager of the restaurant may come out and ask them to be quiet.

The title（标题） of the text
Chinese	Americans
for breakfast	Start the day with a good breakfast.
Eat a big meal for lunch	Have                    .
at dinner	Prefer a big meal at home or restaurant.
while eating	Like to eat far away from the noises.

Children all over the world like to celebrate their birthdays. American children are of no difference. They usually celebrate with a party. They invite friends to their birthday parties. The party may not be held on the right date of their birthday if it comes on a school day. It may be held on the weekend instead.
Today two kinds of parties are the most popular. One is held at home. Parents decorate the house with beautiful balloons and colored paper. They prepare a special birthday meal. The children play games. The other kind is held away from home. Some are at a special restaurant. The children eat pizza and ice cream. The waiters, who serve the food, also sing and tell jokes to the children. Other parties may be held at a park, or at a movie theater, or in some other places.
Every birthday party has a cake with candles. There is one candle for each year of a birthday boy’s or girl’s age. When the candles are lighted, everyone sings the special birthday song： Happy Birthday to You.
As Americans grow older, their birthday parties change. In fact, many people stop having them. They say they would like to forget how old they are. Yet they do like to keep the happy birthday parties of their childhood in mind.
Fill in the blanks according to the passage. Only one word for each blank. （每空一词）
Children in the world like having a birthday party at the time of their birthdays. American children are the ______________ as others. At that time, their friends are ________________ to the parties and the birthday parties are usually held ____________ at home or away from home, _______________ as at a special restaurant, at a park, or at a movie theater, or in some other places. There are candles for every party. _______________ of them stands for one year of the children’s age. But with the children growing, many people want to forget the birthdays.

Travelling is one of the most important activities and people have been interested in it for many years. Modern traffic develops fast, so travelling to different places has become much faster than before. Staying healthy while travelling can make your trip happier. But do you know how to keep healthy during a trip? The following information may be useful to you.
Before leaving
Wear comfortable shoes, a hat and sunglasses.
Take some necessary medicine with you. They can be used when you get sick or have other problems.
Do some exercise for weeks or months before you leave if you plan to do lots of walking or climbing during your trip.
Prepare proper food. Before you prepare the food, the first thing you need to think about is how long you will travel with the food. If you take a long trip, you should bring food such as bread, biscuits and some fruit. They don’t go bad quickly. The nearer people can bring meat, fish, eggs, milk and even salads and vegetables.
While travelling
Be sure not to eat dirty food or bad fruit.
Have enough time to take a rest during your trip.
Tap water is not safe, so drink bottled water and always clean the cover of the bottle.
Keep food in good condition. If you take hot food, you should try to keep it hot. For example, you can put it in heavy towels. If you need to keep cold food cold, you can put cold food in a box with ice. When you arrive, put cold food in the fridge. Remember: If you travel with food, keep hot food hot and cold food cold.

How to keep________ during a trip
Before leaving	● Wear comfortable shoes, a hat and________.
● ________ some necessary medicine with you.
● Exercise for weeks or months ________ you leave.
● Prepare proper food. Take bread, biscuits and some fruit for a _______ trip or bring meat, fish, eggs, milk and even salads and vegetables for a nearer one.
While _____	●_______ eat dirty food or bad fruit.
● Have enough ________ to take a rest during your trip.
● Drink ______ water and always clean the cover.
● Keep food in good condition. _______ to keep hot food hot and cold food cold.

Playing is serious business for children. In fact, it’s what they do best! Ask them why they do it, and kids will probably say, “Because it’s fun!” But it’s much more than that. It’s also good for them.
Studies show that from birth babies begin learning through play. They use their five senses to get to know their new world. Touching allows them to discover how different things feel. Brightly coloured toys and clothing help develop a baby’s sense of sight (视觉). When small children choose which toy to play with, they begin developing their abilities in making decisions.
Children love toys that allow them to use their imagination (想象力). Sometimes an empty box is more fun than a high-tech (高科技) toy. That’s because a box can become anything to a child.
Crayons, paints and Play-Doh (彩色塑泥) are also good because they allow children to create. Traditional building blocks teach important pre-math skills.
Playing doesn’t become any less important once children start school. Many valuable lessons about life are learned on the school playground. Kids learn how to share, take turns and play by the rules.

Children’s_______________	The _______________ of playing
Playing with brightly coloured toys	It is good for _______________ a baby’s sense of sight.
______________ which toy to play with	Children can learn how to make _______________.
Playing with an _______________ box	Children can use their_______________.
Playing with crayons, paints and Play-Doh	Children can be _______________ to create.
Playing on the playground	Children can learn many_______________ lessons about life, such as how to share, _______________ turns and play by the rules.