江苏省南京地区2019-2020学年上学期八年级英语期中试卷分类汇编：阅读理解（含答案）
南京地区2019-2020年上学期八年级英语期中试卷分类汇编
阅读理解
江宁区
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My class will put on a short play in English at the end of the year. Yesterday our English teacher gave us copies of the play.
“Choose a character in the play whom you’d like to be, ”she told us. “This afternoon learn a few lines of this part for homework. Then tomorrow you can say those lines in front of the class. I’ll decide who play each part.”
I wanted to have one of the bigger parts in the play, so I choose the part of the king. He has a lot of lines to say. I learned them by heart.
This morning in our English lesson we had to say our lines. I acted the part of the king. When I said my lines, I put a lot of expression into my acting. I thought I acted really well.
Everyone in the class read a part and then the teacher who would play each part.
Many of the students in my class couldn’t act at all. They couldn’t even read without making lots of mistakes. I was sure that I would get a big part in the play.
However, the teacher gave me the part of a soldier. He has only one line. It is, “Yes, sir!”
I was very disappointed. At the end of the lesson I went up to her and asked her why I had such a small part.
“You put too much expression in your acting,” she said. “Good acting is not big acting. It is acting the audience can believe in.”
I think I know what she means.
1. What did the boy want to do in the play?
A. To get an important part B. To organize the play
C. To get a large acting part. D. To work the lights.
2. How did the boy feel when the teacher told the class they would put on a play?
A. Bored. B. Sad. C. Excited. D. Unhappy.
3. Why didn’t the teacher give him the part of the kings?
A. He did not act correctly. B. He did not know the lines.
C. He was not handsome. D. He was too short.
4. What does the underlined word “expression” in the passage mean?
A. 表情 B.建议 C. 模仿 D. 服饰
B
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In almost every big university(大学)in the United States, football is a favourite sport. American football is different. Players sometimes kick the ball, but they also throw the ball and run with it. They try to take it to the other end of the field. They have four chances(机会)to move the ball ten yards(码). They can carry it or they can throw it. If they move the ball ten yards, they can try to move it another ten yards. If they move it to the end of the field, they receive six points(点).
It is difficult to move the ball. Eleven men on the other team try to stop the man with the ball. If he does not move the ball ten yards, his team kicks the ball the other team.
Each university wants its own team to win. Many thousands of people come to watch. They all shout for their favourite team.
Young men and women come on the field to help the people shout more. They dance and jump while they shout.
Each team plays ten or eleven games each season.
The season begins in September and ends in November. If a team is very good, it may play another game after the season ends. The best teams play again on January 1, the first day of the New Year. Many people go to see these games and many others watch them on TV.
5. The passage talks about ___________.
A. football B. how to play football C. American sports D. American football
6. We can _______ the football in both American football and Chinese football.
A. kick B. throw C. run with D. catch
7. Why is it difficult to move the ball? Because ___________.
A. ten yards is a long way
B. many men on the other team try not to let the ball come near
C. the playing field is very large
D. eleven men have to catch the ball one by one
8. If they _________, the teams will play on January 1.
A. receive six points B. play eleven games in the season
C. are the best teams D. move the ball to the end of the field
9. Many people come to watch football and they want their team to win. Which of the following is
not their act?
A. Jumping B. Dancing C. Crying D. Shouting
C
"Who has more questions, a teacher or a student?" About this question a great learned man told his student that nobody does but a teacher.
The student got puzzled. With a smile, the teacher drew two circles(圆). Within(在……里面)the larger one is my knowledge of things, and within the smaller one is yours. Out of thecircles
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is still unknown to both of us. Since mine is larger, as you can see, the line that marks out the circle is longer. That makes it clear that who has more chances(机会)to face something still unknown.
10. The great learned man believed that ________.
A. a teacher has more questions
B. a student has more questions
C. both a teacher and a student have questions
D. everyone, except a teacher, has more questions
11. The student thought that ________.
A. a student's knowledge is less than his teacher's because it comes from the teacher
B. a teacher can not necessarily answer all the questions his students ask
C. those who have less knowledge have more questions
D. anyone who learns more has more questions
12. At the end of the story, the great learned man concluded(推断)that ________.
A. a student should learn from his teacher
B. a teacher does not have so many questions as his student
C. a student knows more than his teacher
D. a teacher has more chances to face what he doesn't know
13. Which of the following topics can NOT express the idea of the story?
A. You Will Never Learn Enough B. A Teacher and His Student
C. There Is No Limit to Knowledge D. One Is Never Too Old to Learn
14. We can often find such an article in ________.
A. the Palace Museum B. any book
C. a newspaper of magazine D. An encyclopedia(百科全书)
A) CCAA B) DABCC C) ACDBC
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