八年级英语阅读理解及答案
初二英语阅读理解【1】
The best way of learning a language is using it. The best way of learning English is talking in English as much as possible. Sometimes you’ll get your words mixed up(混合) and people won’t understand you. Sometimes people will say things too quickly and you couldn’t understand them. But if you sense of humor (幽默感), you can always have a good laugh at the mistakes. It’s better for people to laugh at your mistakes than to be angry with you, because they don’t understand what you are saying. The most important thing for learning English is :” Don’t be afraid of making mistakes because everyone makes mistakes.”
( )1. The writer thinks that the best way for you to learn a language is _____
A. writing it B. using it C. listening D. learning grammar
( )2. What should you do in learning English?
A. Be careful not to make any mistakes B. Write as quickly as you can
C. Speak English as much as you can D. Laugh more often
( )3. When people laugh at your mistakes, you should _____
A. not care B. be happy C. feel worried D. be unhappy
( )4. When you make s mistake, you should ______
A. keep quiet B. get angry C. be kind D. keep your sense of humor
( )5. The story tells us :“______”.
Only foolish(愚蠢) people make mistakes
Few people make mistakes C.People never make mistakes
D.There is no one who doesn’t make mistakes
答案： B.C.A.D.D
初二英语阅读理解【2】
Look at the light and beautiful snowflakes(雪花)falling.Ever wanted to hold them in your hands?They are always lost when they meet your hands.
Well,this isn’t just a problem for you.It was a problem for Wilson Bentley,too.In the 1870s,Wilson Bentley was just a teenager.His family lived in a small town in northeast America.Winters there were long and hard.Bentley’s mother was once a school teacher. She taught him at home. Bentley didn’t go to school until he was
14. He was a quiet boy, and loved reading his mother’s books.But it was his mother’s microscope (显微镜) that interested him. When the other boys were playing with balls, little Bentley was studying things like drops of water, flowers and snowflakes. Bentley loved watching snowflakes. For the next two years young Bentley spent many winter days in a cold room watching these ice crystals (晶体) under his microscope.The boy thought they were so beautiful that he started to draw pictures of them. But there were so many snowflakes that he couldn’t draw them all. How could he keep their beauty forever? Bentley thought of buying a camera.
The boy and his mother asked his father to buy one. But, his father didn’t agree. He thought the whole thing was a bad idea. He thought the only thing a farmer should do was farming.
But finally Bentley did get a camera. For more than a year he tried to take pictures of snowflakes. On January 15, 1885, during a snowstorm, Bentley took the first ever photo of an ice crystal with his camera. “It was the greatest moment of my life,” Bentley said later.
For 13 years, Bentley worked quietly and took thousands of photos of ice crystals. Later he became known as “Snowflake” Bentley.
根据短文，选择最佳答案：
( )1. The best title for this passage is ____.
A. Snowflake Photos B. Snowflake Boy
C. Long and Hard Winters D. Teenage Photographer
( )2. We can tell from the story that Bentley’s father was ____.
A. a farmer B. a funny man C. an athletic man D. a school teacher
( )3. Which of the following statements about Bentley is true?
A. He didn’t get any kind of education as a child.
B. He was born into a rich family.
C. He was the first person to take photos of snowflakes.
D. He was fascinated by the beauty of snowflakes.
( )4. What kind of person do you think Bentley was?
A. He was outgoing. B. He was too serious.
C. He was interested in learning. D. He was very warm-hearted.
( )5. The “ice crystals” in the third paragraph refers to “____”.
A. water drops B. rain drops C. flowers D. snowflakes
答案 ：B A C C D
初二英语阅读理解【3】
The sun is always shining. But it can only shine on one side of the earth at one time. When the sun is shining on one side of the earth, it is night on the other side.
At night, you can see the stars(星星). The stars are in the sky all day. But the light from the sun is so bright that you can’t see them. When night come, there is no light, and the stars are bright enough to see. The stars look very small. But some of them are even bigger than the sun. They look small because they are so far away from you. Big things look much smaller when they are far away. The sun is closer(近)to the earth than other stars, so it looks bigger.
( )1.When it is night, the sun ________ .
A. doesn’t shine B. shines for a short time
C. disappears(消失) D. shines on the other side of the earth
( )2.We can’t see the stars in the sky at daytime(白天)because ________ .
A. there are no stars there
B. the stars are much smaller than the sun
C. the bright light from the sun makes them not seen(被看见)
D. the stars come out only at night
( )3.The stars look small because ________ .
A. they are far away B. they are small
C. they have no light D. they are in the sky
( )4.Small things may look ________ when they are close.
A. bigger B. small C. near D. far away
( )5.The sun looks bigger than other stars because ________ .
A. it’s bigger B. it’s far away in the sky
C. it gives much bright light D. it’s closer to the earth than other stars
答案： D.C.A.A.D
