初二英语阅读理解<一>

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  In the last fifty years, a lot of people have left Europe and gone to live in Australia. One of them was a Hungarian man. He lived in Australia for a long time, and he had a lot of good friends there He always said to them, “Australia is beautiful, but Hungary is beautiful, too. ”Then one year he said to his friends, “I'm going to go back to Hungary to visit my home town. ”All his friends said to him, “We want to go with you, because you often said Hungary had been a beautiful country, and we want to visit it. ” The Hungarian Australian(匈籍澳大利亚人) took his friends from Sydney to Rome(罗马) in a big plane, and then they went from Rome to Budapest(布达佩斯) in a train as they wanted to see the mountains, and the villages and the town.

  They stayed in Budapest nearly a week, and they liked it very much. One day they went to the zoo in Budapest and saw two kangaroos there.

  There Australian were very happy because kangaroos were from their home town. They said to them, “Come here, old friends! Come and see your Australian brothers!” But the kangaroos did not move.

  But then the Hungarian Australian spoke to them in Hungarian, “Come here!” he said, and both of the kangaroos ran to him.

  The other Australians laughed and said, “Look at that. They're Australian, but they only know Hungarian!”

  选择正确答案:

  1.The Hungarian moved to Australia ______. [ ]

  A.last year

  B.more than 50 years ago

  C.a few years ago

  D.50 years since then

  2.The Hungarian wanted to go back to Hungary to ______. [ ]

  A.see the kangaroos

  B.his home town

  C.visit his old friends there

  D.pay a visit to the zoo

  3.How did they get to Budapest from Sydney? [ ]

  A.By air and by train.

  B.By ship.

  C.By air.

  D.By train.

  4.Kangaroo is a kind of famous______ in Australia. [ ]

  A.animals

  B.trees

  C.languages

  D.plants

  <二>

  It was Sunday and Tom was staying home. After breakfast he went out into the garden and played quietly by himself. There were no kids around and he was used to(习惯于)playing alone quietly. He played with Bobby, the dog. He climbed up and down the trees. Sometimes a bird would come down to perch(停歇) on top of the doghouse. Then Tom would have the greatest fun (爱好) by throwing a stone or something at it. Though he never made it. He did like doing this kind of things.

  Now Tom had been in the garden for half an hour. Suddenly a crack(碎裂声) was heard and the little boy began crying.

  “What's the matter, Tom? ” his mother looked through the kitchen window.

  Tom ran into the kitchen.

  “Mum” he sobbed(抽泣),“I broke Bobby's plate. I didn't know it was so fragile (易碎的)”.

  His mother put her arms round him and said, “Don't feel too bad, Tom. We have other plates for Boddy. But how did you break that one? ”

  “I threw this at a bird but missed, and it went straight to the plate. ”

  In Tom's hand was his father's gold pocket watch(金怀表)!

  1.When did the story happen? [ ]

  A.On a Sunday afternoon.

  B.On a Sunday morning.

  C.At noon.

  D.In the evening.

  2.When a bird perched on top of the doghouse, Tom______ [ ]

  A.would like to play with it.

  B.was very interested in it by throwing a stone at it.

  C.would like to give it something to eat.

  D.would smile.

  3.There were no kids around and he was used to playing alone quietly. Here “kids ”means ______. [ ]

  A.men

  B.dogs

  C.children

  D.birds

  4.How long had Tom been in the garden when his mother heard him cry? [ ]

  A.An hour. B A day.

  C.Two hours

  D.Half an hour.

  5.“Though he never made it” means“______” [ ]

  A.Though he couldn't hit a bird with a stone or something.

  B.Though he couldn't catch the bird.

  C.Though he couldn't have fun from the bird.

  D.Though he couldn't eat the bird.

  <三>

  Thomas Edison was a famous American scientist. He was born in 1847. When he was a child, he liked to find out how things worked. He was in school for only three months. He asked his teacher a lot of strange questions. Most of them had nothing to do with his lessons The teacher thought the boy was not bright and was not worth(值) teaching. When he told this to Edison's mother, she took her son out of school. As she had been a teacher, she taught him herself. The boy read a lot. Soon he became very interested in science. At the age of ten, Edison had already built a chemistry lab for himself. Ever since then, he never stopped searching for new and better ways to do things.

  1.Edison was born in the______ century(世纪). [ ]

  A.eighteenth

  B.nineteenth

  C.nineteen

  D.eighteen

  2.While he was in school, Edison ______. [ ]

  A.studied his lessons very hard

  B.was often late for school

  C.liked to ask questions

  D.was not bright enough to study

  3.Edison learned more from ______. [ ]

  A.his mother

  B.his teacher

  C.other boys

  D.his father

  4.Young Edison was interested in ______. [ ]

  A.sports

  B.playing games

  C.making trouble

  D.science

  5.He was always searching for new and better ways to do things after he [ ]

  A.read books

  B.finished school

  C.built a lab

  D.was taken out of school