阅读理解 It was a sunny night. Jim was having a drink with his friend. He drank too much, and he had to leav...

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广东深圳北环中学2015-2016学年八年级上学期英语期中试卷

阅读理解

It was a sunny night. Jim was having a drink with his friend. He drank too much, and he had to leave at half past eight because he had a ticket for a music festival, which would start at nine o'clock.

It was half past an hour's walk from the pub to the theatre. Jim knew a shortcut that would only take ten minutes, but it meant crossing rails(铁轨), and was dangerous. He took the shorter way, however, and when he reached the rails, he tripped(绊倒) and fell over. Then he fell asleep with his face down. After a while, a train came. When the driver saw a body lying on the track, he tried hard to stop the train. When it finally stopped, it was several meters before the body. The driver quickly got off and checked. Luckily, he found the man was still alive, but sleeping. Though the driver tried hard to wake him, Jim just kept sleeping. The driver took Jim to the hospital, where he woke up at last.

When Jim was told what had happened, he decided to give up drinking. “I'm so lucky that I have a chance to turn my life around,' he said.

（1）、Where did Jim and his friends have a drink?

A、In a hospital. B、In a pub. C、At a theatre. D、In a hotel.

（2）、Jim wanted to _________ after drinking with his friends.

A、go to bed B、see a movie C、go to the hospital D、take part in a musical festival

（3）、The underlined word “shortcut” means__________.

A、a special car to go somewhere B、a subway to go somewhere C、a quicker way of getting somewhere D、a longer way of getting somewhere

（4）、Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A、Jim was dead when the train passed him. B、The train driver didn't see anything special when the train passed Jim. C、The train stopped before reaching Jim. D、The train driver successfully woke Jim up.

（5）、What did Jim learn from the experience?

A、Not to take shortcuts. B、Not to go out late at night. C、To pay attention while crossing rails. D、To stop drinking.

举一反三

When Mr. David retired, he bought a small house in a village near the sea. He liked it and hoped to live a quiet life in it.But to his great surprise, many tourists came to see his house in summer holidays, for it was the most interesting building in the village. From morning to night there were tourists outside the house. They kept looking into the rooms through the windows and many of them even went into Mr. David's garden. This was too much for Mr. David. He decided to drive the visitors away. So he put a notice on the window. The notice said: “If you want to satisfy your curiosity（好奇心）, come in and look round. Price: twenty dollars.”Mr. David was sure that the visitors would stop coming, but he was wrong. More and more visitors came and Mr. David had to spend every day showing them around his house. “I came here to retire, not to work as a guide” he said angrily. In the end, he sold the house and moved away.

阅读下面语篇并根据语篇内容回答问题
A train stopped at a small station. A man on the train looked out of the window and saw a woman. The woman was selling cakes, and the people from the strain bought them. The man wanted to buy a cake, but the woman was far away from him. It was raining, and he didn't want to go out. Suddenly he saw a boy. The boy was walking on the flatform（月台）not far from him. “Come here.” He said to the boy, “Do you know how much each of the cakes is?” “Five cents（分）.” The boy answered. The man gave the boy ten cents and asked him to buy two cakes. “One is for me and the other is for you” he told the boy. Some minutes later, the boy came back. He was eating a cake. He gave the man five cents and said, “There was only one cake left（剩下的）.”

   “Everything happens for the best,” my mother said whenever things weren't going my way. “Don't worry, one day your luck will change.” Mother was right, as I discovered after I had finished my college education. I had decided to find a job in radio. One day, I wanted to host(主持) a sports program. I went to Chicago and knocked on the door of every station. But I got turned down every time.
     In one station, a kind lady said my problem was that I hadn't got enough experience. “ Get some work with a small station and work your way up,” she said.
     I went back home. I couldn't get a job there, either. Then my dad told me a businessman had opened a store and needed someone to help him. But again, I didn't get the job.
     I felt really down. “ Your luck will change,” Mom said to me. Dad lent me the car to help me to look for my job. I tried another radio station in Iowa. But the owner, a nice man, told me he had already had someone.
     As I left his office, I asked, “How can someone be a sports announcer(播音员) if he can't get a job in a radio station?”
I was waiting for the lift when I heard the man call. “ What did you mean? Do you know anything about football?” He put me in front of a microphone and asked me to try to imagine that I was giving my opinion on a football game, I succeeded.
     On my way home, Mom's words came back to me, “One day your luck will change, Son. And when it happens, it'll feel doubly(加倍的) good because of all the hard work you've had.” At that moment I knew what just what she meant.

根据短文内容，选择正确答案。
B
   A young man and an old man were waiting for a train at a station. They sat next to each other.
    "What's in your bag?” as ked the young man. “Gold,” answered the old man,“nothing but gold."
   The young man could hardly believe his ears. “What?” he said to himself in surprise. Then he began to think how to get the gold from the old man.
   The old man looked tired and sleepy and it seemed that he could hardly keep his eyes open. So the old man lay down and before long he fell asleep.
  The young man ran away with the old man's bag as quickly as he could. Then he stopped and quickly opened the bag. There was nothing but a lot of small stones in the bag!

根据短文理解，选择正确答案。

There was once a little orphan(孤儿的)girl who had no family and no one to love her. She felt sad and lonely(孤独的).

One day, while she was walking in a garden, she noticed a small butterfly caught in a bush. The more the butterfly tried to free itself, the deeper the thorn(刺)cut into its body. The girl carefully helped the butterfly out. Instead of flying away, the little butterfly changed into a beautiful fairy(仙女).

"For your wonderful kindness," said the fairy, "I will grant(保证)you any wish you like."

The little girl thought for a while and answered, "I want to be happy!"

"Very well!" The fairy leaned toward her and whispered in her ear. Then the good fairy disappeared.

As the little girl grew up, she stayed happy. Everyone asked her the secret(秘密)of her happiness. She would only smile and answer, "The secret of happiness is that I listened to a good fairy when I was a little girl."

When she was very old and on her death bed, her neighbors were afraid that her secret of happiness would die with her. "Tell us, please," they asked. "Tell us what the good fairy said."

The lovely old woman simply smiled and said, "She told me that everyone, no matter how secure(安稳的)they seemed, how old or young, how rich or poor, had need of me."

Everyone has need of you.

阅读理解

When the American were getting ready to send their first men to the moon, an old Australia was watching TV in a restaurant(饭店). There was an Englishman in the restaurant, too, and he said to the Australian, "The Americans are clever, aren't they? They are going to send some men to the moon. It is a very long way from our world(世界) . " Oh, that's nothing." The Australian answered quickly. " Our country is going to send some people to the sun in a few months. That's much farther(更远) away than the moon, you know."

"Oh, yes, it is," the Englishman said, " but the sun is too hot for people to go to ." The Australian laughed and said, "We won't go to the sun in the day, of course. We will go there at night."

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