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题型:阅读选择 题类:常考题 难易度:普通

重庆市开州集团2019-2020学年八年级上学期英语期中考试试卷

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I had been unhappy since (自从) my new neighbor moved in. Every time when I began writing, I could hear a girl singing next door. She didn't sing well, and even out of tune (调). So it is really a noise pollution (噪音污染) for me.

One day, soon after I sat down behind the computer, I heard the girl singing again. I felt it was too noisy, so I had my husband go to next door and complained (抱怨) about the noise. Ten minutes later, my husband came back with a sad look, saying, "That girl is only 17 but she had bone (骨头) cancer. Her mother said that the more painful (痛的) it is, the louder (更大声地) her daughter sings." I know now the singing helped reduce (减少) her pains.

I said to my husband, "Please tell her mother that the girl can sing as she likes. We don't mind it at all."

From that day on, I no longer thought the girl did anything wrong and even got used to her singing. I felt as if (好像) it were like the smell of sunbeams and watching the flowers and plants. The next year I left home on business. My husband phoned me that the girl died.

I returned home in late summer or early autumn. Sitting at home I couldn't help feeling something wanting. Suddenly I understood that I could no longer hear the next-door girl sing.

(1)、How did the writer feel when she heard the girl singing at first?
A、Unhappy. B、Thankful. C、Lucky. D、Surprised.
(2)、When did the girl often sing next to the door?
A、When she was free. B、When she felt tired after work. C、When she missed her mother. D、When she felt the pain.
(3)、The girl died at the age of         .
A、16 B、17 C、18 D、20
(4)、We can learn from the passage that         .
A、the writer was a reporter B、the writer worked together with her husband C、the girl likes singing very much D、the girl sang loudly to relax her illness
举一反三
Answer the questions (根据短文内容回答下列问题)

    Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in 1835,in the state of Missouri. When he was four, his family moved to the town ofHannibal, Missouri. Hannibal was a port on the Missippi River, and Clemensloved to watch the big steamboats going up and down the river. He said that allthe boys in his school had one ambition in life: to work on a steamboat!

    His father died when he was just 12 yearsold, and Clemens then went to work for a printer to help support his family. Hetravelled around, and worked in many different cities. But when he was 22, heachieved his ambition—he got a job working on a steamboat. He sailed up anddown the wide Missippi River until the American Civil War began.

    He then moved around America, and triedseveral jobs. He was a soldier, and a silver miner. Then he started working asa writer for a newspaper. It was at that time that he decided to use a pen namefor his stories, and he chose the name "Mark Twain".

    The name is interesting. It comes from hisdays on the steamboats. He used to throw a piece of rope into the river. Therewas a heavy weight on the end of the rope, and the rope had some marks on it.He used the rope to find how deep the river was. Then he shouted out, "MarkOne" or "Mark Twain", meaning "Mark Two". Each markwas about two metres, so when he shouted "Mark Twain", it meant thatthe river was deep enough for the big boat.

    In 1865 Clemens wrote a story about ajumping frog. The story and the writer became famous. In 1867 he toured Europe.He married when he returned, and lived for most of the rest of his in Harfort,Connecticut. He wrote many books, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, whichhe wrote in 1876. He also gave many lectures, and became a very famous andpopular man.

    Once two of his friends decided to write tohim, but they had lost his address. So on the envelope they just wrote "MarkTwain, God knows where". Several weeks later, they received a replay fromthe writer. It just said, "He does!"

    Samuel Clemens died in 1910. He isconsidered to be one of America's most important writers.

 阅读下面短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。

It was the final(决赛) of the national high school basketball game. For the first time in their history,a team from a small town faced last year's best team. The players thought they couldn't win and wanted to give up. Seeing this,the coach told them a story. 

Peter was a woodcutter. He was afraid he would fall ill and die. His wife told him that as long as his hands and feet were warm,he wasn't dead. 

One day,Peter went out to cut down trees. It was snowy and cold. After finishing his work,he noticed that his hands and feet were completely frozen. He thought he was dead,so he stopped working and lay down on the ground. 

After Peter had been lying for a while, some wolves came over. They ate all the food in Peter's food bag. The wolves then noticed Peter lying quietly on the ground. They were getting closer to Peter. Peter thought, "If I weren't dead,I would kill you all. " When the wolves saw Peter doing nothing,they ate him. 

As the coach finished the story,the players talked about how silly Peter was. At the same time,they realized what their coach wanted them to understand:the opposing(竞争的) team was like the wolves,and they were like the woodcutter. They should fight till the end,whether they were "alive" or "dead". 

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