阅读理解 A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said, ...

题型：阅读选择题类：常考题难易度：普通

2015-2016学年浙江杭州萧山区临浦片初二下期末联考英语卷

阅读理解

A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said, "I am blind, please help."

There were only a few coins in the hat. A man was walking by. He took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by would see the new words.

Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy heard his footsteps and asked, "Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?" The man said, "I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a different way."

What he had written was, "Today is a beautiful day but I cannot see it." Do you think the first sign and the second sign were saying the same thing?

Of course, both signs told people the boy was blind. But the first sign simply told people to help by putting some money in the hat. The second sign told people that they were able to enjoy the beauty of the day, but the boy could not enjoy it because he was blind.

The first sign simply said the boy was blind. The second sign told people they were so lucky that they were not blind.

（1）、A blind boy sat on the steps of a building in order to______.

A、wait for some people B、get money from others C、make the writer help him D、hold up a sign

（2）、The man ______when he saw the blind boy.

A、gave the boy a new hat B、brought the boy a sign C、took away the blind boy's money and wrote some words on the sign D、gave the boy some money and wrote some words on the sign

（3）、What happened to the blind boy after the man wrote the words on the sign?

A、The boy was taken away by the police B、Nobody gave the blind boy money any more C、More people dropped money into the boy's hat D、The blind boy could see the beautiful day

（4）、What do you think of the sign written by the man?

A、It has the different meaning to the first sign B、It has the same meaning to the first sign and is expressed (表达) in another better way. C、The man's sign tells people it is a beautiful day D、People know the boy is blind after reading the man's sign

（5）、What can we learn from this passage?

A、It's helpful of us to help people in need B、There are many poor people in the world like the blind boy C、It's a good way to make money by holding a sign D、We should learn to speak to others in a suitable way

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阅读理解

Maybe everyone likes dogs, and almost everyone likes to read stories about dogs.
　 I have a friend. He has a large police dog named Jack. Police dogs are very clever. Every Sunday afternoon my friend takes Jack for a long walk in the park. Jack likes these long walks very much.
　 One Sunday afternoon a young man came to visit my friend. He stayed a long time. He talked and talked. Soon it was time for my friend to take Jack for his walk. But the visitor still stayed. Jack became very worried. He walked around the room several times and then sat down in front of the visitor and looked at him. But the visitor paid no attention to Jack. He went on talking. At last Jack got angry. He went out of the room and came back a few minutes later. He sat down again in front of the visitor, but this time he took the visitor's hat in his mouth. The visitor saw it and was surprised. He laughed and left.

      Mr Evans works in Sydney. Last week he had a two-week holiday, but he didn't know where to go. He said to his friend Robert, "I hate the hot weather here, but I can't think of a cool place in Australia. Where shall I take my holiday?"
    "That's easy," said Robert, "You can go to Moscow. Snow and ice are covering the ground there now." Mr Evans agreed with his friend. He bought a plane ticket and soon arrived in Moscow. He was having a good time there, but one day he got into trouble（麻烦）. After lunch, he went to a park outside the city. He noticed a dog following him when he was walking past a house. It was hungry and wanted some food to eat. But Mr Evans had no food in his pockets. He tried to shoo （以嘘声吓走） it away, but it began to bark at him. Just at that moment, he saw a stone on the ground. He tried to pick it up, but he couldn't.
    "How strange these Russians are!" Mr Evans said to himself, "They do not tie up （栓住） their dogs, but firmly（牢牢地）tie down the stones!"

      One windy spring day, I noticed young people having fun using the wind to fly their kites. Colorful creations of different shapes and sizes filled the skies like beautiful birds flying and dancing. As the strong winds blew against the kites, a string kept them in control.
       Instead of blowing away with the wind, they rose against it to achieve great heights. They shook and pulled, but the restraining (控制的) string and the cumbersome (笨重的) tail kept them in control, facing upward and against the wind. As the kites struggled against the string, they seemed to say, “Let me go! Let me go! I want to be free!” They rose beautifully even when they fought the restriction of the string. Finally, one of the kites succeeded in breaking loose(松散的). “Free at last,” it seemed to say. “Free to fly with the wind.”
Yet freedom(自由) simply put it in the control of an unkind wind. It fell down to the ground and landed in a mass of weeds and string against a dead bush. “Free at last”, free to lie powerlessly in the dirt, to be blown helplessly along the ground, and to stop lifelessly against the first obstacle (障碍物).
       How much like kites we sometimes are. The Heaven gives us adversity (逆境) and rules, rules to follow from which we can grow and get strength. Some of us break away from the rules so hard that we never reach the heights we might get to. We keep part of the rules and never rise high enough to get our tails off the ground.
     Let us each rise to the great heights, knowing that some of the rules that we may be angry about are in fact the strong force that helps us achieve.

根据短文内容判断正误。

There are many people on the bus. Some have seats, but some have to stand. At a bus stop, a woman gets on the bus. An old man hears the door and tries to stand up.

"Oh, no, thank you," the woman forces(强迫)him back to the seat. "Please don't do that. I can stand.''

"But, madam, let me……" says the man.

"I ask you to keep your seat." the woman says. She put s her hands on the old man's shoulder.

But the man still tries to stand up, "Madam, will you please let me……" "Oh, no." says the woman. She again forces the man back.

At last the old man shouts(喊), "I want to get off the bus!"

阅读理解

   After that, we went on down the river. It was very dark that night and it wasn't easy to see where we were going. Suddenly, a big steamboat came at us very fast, and the next minute it was right over us. Jim and I jumped off the raft (木筏) into the water. The boat hit the raft and went on up the river.
   When I came up out of the water, I couldn't see Jim anywhere. I called out his name again and again, but there was no answer. “He's dead!” I thought. Slowly, I swam to the side of the river and got out. I saw that I was near a big old wooden house. Suddenly a lot of very angry dogs jumped out at me. They made a terrible noise and someone called from the house, “Who's there?”
   “George Jackson,” I answered quickly. “I've fallen off a river boat.”
   Well, the people who lived in that house were very kind, and they took me in and gave me some new clothes and a good meal. I told them that my family were all dead, so they said I could stay with them as long as I wanted. It was a beautiful house and the food was good there, so I stayed.
   A few days later one of the slaves in the house came to me and said, “Come with me!” Together, we went down to some trees by the river. “In there!” he said and went away.
   On the ground, I found a man, asleep. It was Jim! I was really pleased to see him. When the steamboat hit the raft, Jim told me, the raft didn't break up. Jim swam after it and caught it. Then he began to look for me.
   We decided to leave at once. It's all right living in a house for a little while, but you feel more free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

阅读理解

Do you like to know how other people see the world? Listed below are of the best books for kids.

The little prince is a child from another planet. One day, the little prince decides to leave the planet and he visits seven planets. After that, the little prince wants to return to the home he dreams of, so he goes back to the Sahara Desert (沙漠). The book shows the importance of truth

and purity(纯洁).

This is a young girl's story about how she wants to become a ballerina(芭蕾舞演员). She lives in a poor place and life is not easy. The young girl fights through the hard life, and she never gives up. This story comes from the true life of the first African-American ballerina, Janet Collins.

Alfie is not very tall or Smart. He isn't good at sports or art, either. Because of this, he feels like he can't do anything. Then he meets Calista, his new babysitter(保姆). Calista helps Alfie see all of the good things he can do. Alfie learns to feel good about himself. This story is full of feelings and laughter.

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