初二英语阅读理解

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第一篇（答案：BDCBB）
No one knows how man learned to make words. Perhaps he began by making sounds like those made by animals. Perhaps he grunted（发出呼噜声）like a pig when he lifted something heavy. Perhaps he made sounds like those he heard all round him----water splashing（飞溅）, bees humming（嗡嗡作响声）, a stone falling to the ground. Somehow he learned to make words. As the centuries went by, he made more and more new words. This is what we mean by language.

People living in different countries made different kinds of words. Today there are about fifteen hundred different languages in the world. Each contains four or five hundred thousand words. But we do not need all these. Only a few thousand words are used in everyday life.

The words you know are called your vocabulary. You should try to make your vocabulary bigger. Read as many books as you can. There are plenty of books written in easy language. Your dictionary is your most useful book.

1．What do we mean by language? [ ]

A．Sounds made by man.

B．All the words made by man.

C．Different kinds of sound.

D．The way man learns.

2．From the passage we know that long long ago ______. [ ]

A．no one learned how to make sounds or words

B．animals taught to learn the language

C．Man learned the language by lifting heavy things, falling to the ground, and so on

D．Man followed a lot of things in nature to make sounds and words

3．What is the number of language spoken in the world today? [ ]

A．500

B．5, 000

C．1, 500

D．15, 000

4．In which sentence can the word “contain (s)” be put so that it is a right one? [ ]

A．I ______several dictionary

B．Sea water______ salt.

C．A dog ______four legs

D．Mr Smith ______glasses on his nose

5．Which of the following is the best if we want to make our vocabulary larger? [ ]

A．To use the words in every day life

B．To read more books

C．To read easy books

D．To look up new words in the dictionary

第二篇（答案：BBCDA）
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.

第三篇（答案：BCADC）
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