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牛津版八年级下期中英语阅读训练10篇 1Joanne Rowling was born in Bristol in England. Joanne always wanted to write and she wrote her first story when she was only five or six. At school her favorite subject was English and she used to make up stories with her friends. When she left school, she went to a university and studied French. While there she studied in Paris for a year, and after leaving university, she had many different jobs. However, most of all, she wanted to write! One day, during a long train journey, she got the idea of writing about a boy who is a wizard(男巫), but doesnt know it. In 1992, she left England to go to Portugal to teach English. While she was there she got married to a Portuguese journalist and she had a daughter, Jessica. The marriage ended in divorce and Joanne went back to live in Edinburgh in Scotland. She had very little money and she lived in a very small house, which was often cold. She could not afford the heating(供热). It was there that she finished her first book about Harry Potter, a young boy who is a wizard. At first, no one wanted to publish(出版) it. Then, one day, in 1997, she found a publisher. She was very excited and happy! Much to her surprise, her book was a great success! It sold in millions! It won many prizes! It made Joanne very rich and it made her very famous. Everybody wanted to read about Harry Potter. Adults and children now read her books. Her stories have been put into many languages, and they can now be read all over the world. Her first several novels have been made into films. Joanne Rowling has written more books about Harry Potter and all of them have sold millions of copies. Some of these later books are also being made into films.1. When did Joanne study in Paris?2. Why was her house small and cold When Joanne lived in Edinburgh?3. When she finished her first book about Harry Potter, was the book published at once?4. Are her books about Harry Potter very popular all over the world?5. When did she write her first story? 2One day, I happened to meet an Englishman in the street and soon we began to talk. As I was talking about how I was studying English, the foreigner seemed to be very surprised, gently shaking his head and saying, You dont say! You dont say! I was puzzled (困惑的), and I thought, Perhaps this is not a right thing to talk about. So I said to him, Well, shall we talk about the Great Wall? Have you ever been there?Certainly, everyone back home will laugh at me if I leave here without seeing it. The Great Wall is wonderful! Yes, it is one of the wonders in the world. And people of many countries have come to visit it. As I went on telling him more about it, he stopped me again, You dont say!I couldnt help asking, Why do you ask me not to talk about it?Well, I didnt ask you to do so, he answered, greatly surprised.Didnt you say You dont say! ? I asked again. Hearing this, the foreigner laughed loudly. He began to explain, You dont say! means Really? . Perhaps you know little about English idioms (惯用语).Wow! How foolish I was! Since then I have been careful with English idioms. 1. What did the writer and the Englishman talk about at first?2. When did they begin to talk about the Great Wall?3. What made the foreigner laugh?4. When the foreigner used the idiom You dont say!, what did he mean?5. Why was the writer puzzled?3International Classmates, Hi there. Im Liu Wei. Im a Chinese teacher at an international school in Beijing. We have kids from all over the world here. In some ways our school is a little different from other schools in China. For example, the pupils dont wear uniforms. Let me tell you about my favorite junior high school students. Matt comes from New York. He loves rap music. When he walk between classes he always wears headphones. His c1assmates are afraid of him because hes big for his age and hes really noisy! In his free time he watches action films and practices Kung Fu. Today hes entering a Kung Fu competition. Good luck, Matt! Brad is one of Matts classmates. He is a very quiet boy. He was born in Sydney, but his parents are from Poland. He likes speaking Polish and English when hes at home. Brad gets very angry when people cant understand him! Brads favorite sport is swimming. He wakes up early and trains every day before school. Lucy is another of my favorite students. Shes a tall, beautiful girl from London. Shes a good student and shes always studying. Sometimes she cant sleep because she thinks too much about her lessons! Lucy loves Beijing, but she doesnt 1ike the summer. She says its too hot! She wants to study medicine when she leaves school. I hope shes successful! 1.How are Matt and Brad different in character(性格)? Matt is _, but Brad is _. 2. What problem does Lucy have? She cant _ and doesnt like the _. 3. Where are the four people mentioned in the passage from? Liu Wei is from _. Matt is from _. Brad is from _. And Lucy is from _. 4Mike: Hello, Mary! May I have a talk with you?Mary: Sure.Mike: Whats your fathers job?Mary: Hes a doctor.Mike: Where does he work?Mary: He works in a hospital.Mike: Can you tell me something about your fathers hospital?Mary: I dont know much about his work. I just know he is very busy every day. He works five days a week, from Monday to Friday. Sometimes he works on Saturday or Sundays. He gets up early in the morning. He cooks breakfast for my family. After breakfast he goes to work at 7:10. He has lunch at his workplace. He comes back home at about 6:30. My mother cooks dinner. After dinner my father does the washing. Then he goes out for a walk. Before he goes to bed, he often reads some newspaper or watches TV. He goes to sleep very late.Mike: Thank you, Mary. Id like to write something about your father, and I want to put it in our school newspaper. Do you think its OK?Mary: I think so.Fill in each blank with one word according to the passage: 1. Marys father is a _.2. Mary says her father works in a _.3. We know Marys father is very _ because he works five days a week and does some housework every day.4. Marys father has lunch at his _.5. Marys father often reads some newspapers or _ TV before he goes to bed. 5Fill in the blanks with the first given letters:In the United States, children start school when they are five years old. In some states they must stay in school u_1_ they are sixteen. Most students are seventeen or eighteen years old when they l_2_ secondary schools. There are two kinds of schools in the United States: public schools and private schools. Most children go to public schools. Their parents do not have to p_3_ for their education. Those schools get money from the g_4_. If a child goes to a private school, his parents have to get enough money for his schooling. Some parents still prefer private schools, though they are much more e_5_. Today about a half of the high school students go on to universities after they f_6_ the secondary school. A student at a state university does not have to pay very much if his parents l_7_ in that state.But many students look for p_8_ jobs while they are studying at universities. In this way they f_9_ good working habits and live by their o_10_ hands.Key:1. 1. When she left school. 2. Because she had very little money. 3. No, it wasnt. 4. Yes, they are. 5. When she was only five or six.2. 1. About how the writer was studying English. 2. When the Englishman said, “You dont say!” 3. When he heard the writers puzzle about “You dont say!”. 4. He meant “really”. 5. Because he thought the Englishman asked him not to say anything.3. 1. noisy, very quiet 2. sleep, the summer 3. Beijing, New York, Sydney, London4. 1. doctor 2. hospital 3. busy 4. workplace 5. watches5. 1. until/ unless 2. leave 3. pay 4. government 5. expensive6. finish 7. live 8. part-time 9. form 10. own 6 Last week, 169 Junior 1 students at No. 35 Middle School of Shenyang took their first no-teacher exam. After the teacher handed out the exam paper, he left the room and never came back. A student collected the papers when the exam ended. That test was not only a test of knowledge, but also a test of moral (道德). We wanted to show students how important honesty is, said Cai Wenguo , the schools headmaster. The school says no cheating(作弊) happened in the test. Next year, it wants 80% of its exams to be without teachers. But students have different ideas. I was happy and excited during the exam because my teachers trusted me, said Lang Yudan, a 13-year-old girl in Class 11. Schools must trust students a lot not to use invigilators (监考人). But I think it is too early. Some students will cheat if there are no invigilators. And the students will not be able to ask for help when needed.” 99 said Hua Sha. I don t like having invigilators in exams. When they walk around the classroom, they make me nervous. I would get higher marks without them in the room because I would feel more relaxed, Liu Qingxi said. I think its very important to have invigilators in exams. Many students want to check their answers with each other after they have finished papers. And they can also keep the classroom in order when something unusual happens. They may make me nervous, but I still think we need them, Shangguan Yuan said. Not using invigilators may be a good idea. But before using it, schools must tell students the importance of honesty and try to find ways to solve something unusual in exams. 1. What does the passage mainly talk about? 2. Why did No. 35 Middle School of Shenyang hold a no-teacher exam? 3. Does Liu Qingxi like to have invigilators in the classroom? Why?4. What does Hua Sha think about no-teacher exams? 5. In the sentence And they can also keep the classroom in order when something unusual happens, what does they refer to? 7Young people can have problems with their minds. Some students become worried because they have to study very hard. Others have trouble getting on well with people like their parents and classmates.Liu Wei, a Junior 2 student from Hefei, could not understand his teacher and wasdoing badly in his lessons. He became so worried about it that he started to cut his finger with a knife.Another student, 14-year-old Yan Fang from Guang zhou, was afraid of exams. She got very worried in one, and when she looked at the exam paper. She couldnt think of anything to write.A recent report from Jiefang Daily says about 18% of Shanghai teenagers have mental(心理的，精神的) problems. Their troubles include beingworried and very unhappy, and having problems in learning and getting on with people. Many students who have problems wont go for advice or help. Some think they will look stupid if they go to see a doctor. Others dont want to talk about their secret.Liang Yuezhu, an expert on teenagers from Beijing Anding Hospital has the following advice for teenagers:*Talk to your parents or teachers often* Take part in group activities and play sports*Go to see a doctor if you feel unhappy or unwellDecide the following statements are true or false:1. The students will have a headache if they often become worried or have trouble getting on with others. 2. Liu Wei is good at his lessons. 3. Yan Fangs problems happen when she takes an exam. 4. Students wont ask others for help because they dont want to look stupid. 5. One piece of advice from the expert is not to see the doctor if one feels unhappy. 8Television has taken the place of schools as the main educator(教育者) in America. There are several reasons for this. First, there is the number of hours. While Americans spend about 13,000 hours in schools, they spend 15,000 to 16,000 hours in front of a TV set. Second is the age at which viewers(观看者) start watching TV. People start watching and understanding TV at about the age of 3, which is several years before they start to do school work. Finally, there is the number of viewers. About 90,000,000 young people are attending school, but most of the Americans watch TV every day. It seems, then, that TV shows are taking the place of teachers and professors as the educators in America.1. The main idea of this passage is _. A.TV is more important than school B. fewer and fewer children go to school C. There is not a school which has no TV set in America D.TV plays a great part in American peoples life2. How many reasons why television has become the main educator are mentioned in the passage? A. Two B. Three C. Four D. Five3. The first reason shows _. A. now children go to school less often than their parents did B. in his life an American spends more time watching TV than at school C .a TV program usually gives lessons of 15,000-16,000 hours D. parents think 13,000 hours of school is not enough4. In American, a child starts going to school _. A. when he is 3 B. when he is about 6 or 7 C. when he is able to understand TV D. after he starts to do school work5. Every day in America _.A. teachers and professors watch TVB.90,000,000 young people watch TVC. not only young people watch TVD.15,000-16,000 people each hour watch TV9Fill in the blanks with the first given letters:In England, weather is a common s 1 of conversation. “Isnt it a nice day?” “Do you think it will rain?” “I think its going to snow.” People often b 2 a conversation with these words. Many people think they can t 3 what the weather is going to be. But they hardly ever a 4 with each other. Listen, there are two men talking about the weather. One man says, “Do you see it is cloudy in the east? Its going to rain tomorrow.” The other will say, “No, the weather is going to c 5 up very quickly. We are going to have a fine day tomorrow.” People often want the weather to be as what they like. When a farmer needs w 6 , he wishes somebody could tell him: “Its going to rain.” He wont b 7 anyone else. When friends have a trip, they are so s 8 the weather is going to be sunny so that they sit eating their lunch at an interesting place. Almost everyone hears what the w 9 will say. But he doesnt always tell us what we want and sometimes he makes mistakes. Still he usually comes closer to being c 10 than anyone else. 10The snow went on falling, and they could see only a few meters in front of them.“We should go back.” Said Judy. She was afraid.“But where is the path?”Everything was covered with snow. The sky was grey. “Whats the time?” asked Paul. Judy looked at her watch. “Nearly 5 oclock. It gets dark in an hour.”“We must start walking and hope we find the path. I think the snows stopping.” Said Paul. But it wasnt stopping. The wind was strong. It blew around them cold and wet.“Just keep going downhill.” Said Judy. “We cant go wrong.”Then Paul fell on some rocks. He shouted, “Judy! Ive hurt my leg.” He couldnt stand up. His leg hurt too much.“Ill have to phone for help.” Said Judy, “I hope the mobile phone works up here!”Luckily it did. They phoned the mountain service. “Dont move. Stay where you are. We are sending a team there.” Shouted the man on the phone.They were not far from the path, so the team found them easily. They were lucky! People often get into trouble when they climb the mountains. You must always tell someone where you are going, and take a mobile phone with you. Mountain is a dangerous place to be if things go wrong!Decide the following statements are true or false:1. It was rainy and windy that day.2. In the story, Judy and Paul were climbing the mountain.3. The man in the mountain service fell down and got hurt.4. The path was near the climbers.5. If you are in the mountain, the most important thing is to get in touch with the outside world.A 1. Exams without invigilators. 2. They wanted to show the students how important honesty is. 3. No, he doesnt. Because invigilators make him nervous when they walk around the classroom. 4. It is still too early to have this kind of exam. 5. “They” refer to the invigilators.6. 1. F 2. F 3. T 4. T 5. F7. 1. D 2. B 3. B 4. B 5. C8. 1. subject 2. begin 3. tell 4. agree 5. clear9. water 7. believe 8. sure 9. weatherman 10. correct10. 1. F 2. T 3. F 4. T 5. T
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