(完整版)八年级英语下学期阅读理解20篇

新目标英语八年下阅读理解20篇

阅读理解1

Jack is a twenty-year-old young man. Two years ago, when he finished middle school, he found work in a shop. Usually he works until ten o'clock in the evening. He is very tired when he gets home. After a quick supper he goes to bed and soon falls asleep. His grandma who lives downstairs is satisfied with (满意) him.

One day, on his way home, he met Mary. They were both happy. He asked the girl to his house, she agreed happily. He bought some fruit and drinks for her. And they talked about their school, teachers, classmates and their future (未来). They talked for a long time.

“Have a look at your watch, please,”said the girl. “What time is it now?”

“Sorry, something is wrong with my watch,”said Jack. “Where's yours?”

“I left it at home.”

Jack thought for a moment and found a way. He began to stamp his foot on the floor, “Bang! Bang! Bang!”

The sound woke his grandma up. The old woman shouted downstairs, “It's twelve o'clock in the night, Jack. Why are you still jumping upstai rs?”

1. Jack was ________ when he finished middle school.

A. sixteen

B. eighteen

C. twenty

D. fifteen

2. The old woman is satisfied with Jack because ________.

A. he's her grandson

B. he's clever

C. he can keep quiet

D. he gets home on time

3. From the story, we can know that Mary is Jack's ________.

A. classmate

B. colleague (同事)

C. aunt

D. wife

4. The word “stamp” in the story means ______ in Chinese.

A. 盖印

B. 跺

C. 贴邮票

D. 承认

5. Jack stamped his foot on the floor in order (为了) ________.

A. to wake his grandma up

B. to make his grandma angry

C. that his grandma was going to tell him the time

D. that his grandma was going to buy him a watch

参考答案：1．B2．C3．A4．B5．C 讲解：

1．第一句介绍杰克今年20岁，2年前中学毕业，故选B。

2．结合前后文意，前面讲他吃完饭就去睡觉，并且很快就睡着了，文章最后介绍他用脚跺楼，发出声音，奶奶阻止他，说明他奶奶怕吵，综合判断选C。

3．由第二段倒数第二句判断。

4．根据文意，他奶奶住他楼下，倒数第二句又讲他用脚在地板上发出“Bang...”的声音，故应是用脚跺楼。

5．因他表坏了，Mary 又没带，他们想知道时间

阅读理解2

We are all busy talking about and using the Internet (互联网), but how many of us know the history of the Internet?

Many people are surprised when they find that the Internet was set up in the 1960s. At that time, computers were large and expensive. Computer networks (网络) didn't work well. If one computer in the network broke down, then the whole network stopped. So a new network system had to be set up. It should be good enough to be used by many different computers. If part of the network was not working, information could be sent through another part. In this way computer network system would keep on working all the time.

At first the Internet was only used by the government, but, in the early 1970s, universities, hospitals and banks were allowed to use it too. However, computers were still very expensive and the Internet was difficult to use. By the start of the 1990s, computers became cheaper and easier to use. Scientists had also developed software that made 'surfing' (浏览) the Internet more convenient.

Today it is easy to get on-line (上网) and it is said that millions of people use the Internet everyday. Sending e-mail is more and more popular among students.

The Internet has now become one of the most important parts of people's life.

判断下列句子是否符合短文内容，符合的用“T”表示，不符合的用“F”

表示。

l. The Internet has a history of less than thirty years.

T F

2. In the 1960s computer networks went wrong easily.

T F

3. Computers become cheaper so that many hospitals and banks were allowed to use them.

T F

4. People didn't have enough software to get on-line conveniently until the early 1990s.

T F

参考答案：1．F2．T3．F4．T

讲解：

1．第二段开头讲互联网是在60年代建立的，故至今历史已超过30年。

2．文中第二段阐明计算机网络工作状况不好(didn't work well)。

3．第三段中说明大学、医院等都被允许使用电脑，然而，计算机仍然很贵，并且网络很难使用。

4．由第三段最后几句介绍可知，到90年代，计算机便宜且好用。科学家也发展了软件使网上浏览更方便。而本题干用了not…until句型，译为“直到90年代早期人们才有足够的软件上网”。

阅读理解3

Mr. and Mrs. Turner live outside a small town. They have a big farm and they are always busy working on it. Their son, Peter, studied at a middle school. The young man studied hard and did well in his lessons. It made them happy.

Last month Peter finished middle school and passed the entrance examination (升学考试). Mrs. Turner was very happy and told the farmers about it.

Yesterday morning the woman went to the town to buy something for her son. On the bus she told one of her friends how clever and able her son was. She spoke very loudly. All the people in the bus began to listen to her.

“Which university (大学) will your son study in?” a woman next to her asked.

“In the most famous university in our country!” Mrs. Turner said happily.

“The most famous university?”

“Oxford University (牛津).”

Most of the passengers (乘客) looked at her carefully. Some of them said to her, “Congratulations!”

A woman said, “I'm sure he'll know Fred Smith.”

“Who's Fred Smith?”

“He's my son.”

“Does he study in the university, too?”

“No, ”said the woman. “He is one of the professors.”

l. The story happened in ________.

A. America

B. France

C. Germany

D. England

2. Mr. and Mrs. Turner were happy because ________.

A. their son did well in his lessons

B. they have a big farm

C. they have a good harvest

D. their son studied at a middle school

3. Mrs. Turner wanted everyone to know ________.

A. her son finished middle school

B. her son was handsome

C. her son was going to study in a university

D. her son was very friendly to others

4. Mrs. Turner spoke so loudly in the bus that __________.

A. her friend could hear her

B. all the people could hear her

C. she hoped to make all the people happy

D. she hoped they would say congratulations to her

5. Which of the following is true? __________.

A. The woman wasn't interested in Mrs. Turner's words

B. Mrs. Turner knew nothing about the famous university

C. The woman wanted to stop Mrs. Turner from showing off (炫耀)

D. The woman next to Mrs. Turner wanted to show off her son, too

参考答案：1．D2．A3．C4．B5．C 讲解：

1．因为牛津大学是英国的著名大学。

2．第一段最后一句讲“这使他们高兴”。“It”指代前一句讲的情况，即他们的儿子功课很好。

3．根据第三段文意判断。

4．第三段最后一句讲“所有人都开始听她讲。”故A不对；她这样做只是想炫耀一下而已。C、D描述的意思都不确切。

5．文章前面做了铺垫，讲Mrs．Turner 如何炫耀她儿子考上大学，结尾讲那个妇女说自己的儿子是教授不论真假，她是在阻止Mrs. Turner的炫耀。

阅读理解4

“Cool” is a word with many meanings. Its old meaning is used to express a temperature that is a little bit cold. As the world has changed, the word has had many different meanings.

“Cool”can be used to express feelings of interest in almost anything. When you see a famous car in the street, maybe you will say “It's cool.”You may think, “He's so cool,” when you see your favourite footballer.

We all maximize (扩大) the meaning of “cool”. You can use it instead of many words such as “new”or “surprising”. Here's an interesting story we can

use to show the way the word is used. A teacher asked her students to write about the waterfall (瀑布) they had visited. On one student's paper was just the one sentence, “It's so cool”. Maybe he thought it was the best way to show what he saw and felt.

But the story also shows a scarcity (缺乏) of words. Without “cool”, some people have no words to show the same meaning. So it is quite important to keep some credibility (可信性). Can you think of many other words that make your life as colourful as the word “cool”? I can. And I think they are also very cool.

1. We know that the word “cool” has ________.

A. only one meaning

B. no meanings

C. many different meanings

D. the same meaning

2. In the passage, the word “express”means“________”.

A. see

B. show

C. know

D. feel

3. If you are ________ something, you may say, “It's cool.”

A. interested in

B. angry about

C. afraid of

D. unhappy with

4. The writer takes an example to show he is _________ the way the word is used.

A. pleased with

B. strange to

C. worried about

D. careful with

5. In the passage, the writer suggests (暗示) that the word

“cool”_________.

A. can be used instead of many words

B. usually means something interesting

C. can make your life colourful

D. may not be as cool as it seems

参考答案：1．C2．B3．A4．C5．D 讲解：

1．见首句。

2．由“express”前后词义关系可推断出是“表达”的意思，与“show”同义。

3．由第二段首句可知。

4．由例子中的学生用cool 一词概括出他的所有感受，知cool词义的扩大会导致语言中词汇的缺乏，是令人担忧的。

5．结合第4题的答案可做出选择。

参考答案： 1. A 2. D 3. A 4. D 5. C

讲解：

1. 由短文最后一句“They had travelled 1,797 kilometres from London”

可知，最接近“for nearly 1,800 kilometres”，因此选A。

2. 由短文第2段倒数第3句“So they were able to change its weight”可

知答案为D。

3. 从第3段可以看出，越往上温度越低，因此应选A。

4. 由短文最后一段倒数第2句“They came down in Poland...”可知答案

为D。

5. 纵观全文可以看出答案C不正确。

阅读理解6

If you do not use your arms or your legs for some time, they become weak;

when you start using them again, they slowly become strong again. Everybody knows that. Yet many people do not seem to know that memory works in the same way.

When someone says that he has a good memory, he really means that he keeps his memory in practice by using it. When someone else says that his memory is poor, he really means that he does not give it enough chance to become strong.

If a friend says that his arms and legs are weak, we know that it is his own fault. But if he tells us that he has a poor memory, many of us think that his parents are to blame, and few of us know that it is just his own fault.

Have you ever found that some people can' t read or write but usually they have better memories? This is because they cannot read or write and they have to remember things; they cannot write them down in a little notebook. They have to remember days, names, songs and stories; so their memory is the whole time being exercised.

So if you want to have a good memory, learn from the people: practise remembering.

1. The main reason for one's poor memory is that his parents have poor memories.

T F

2. If you don't use your arms or legs for some time, they will become strong.

T F

3. A good memory comes from more practice.

T F

4. Some people can't read or write, but they have better memories, because they have saved trouble.

T F

5. The best title of this passage is “How to Have a Good Memory”.

参考答案： 1. F 2. F 3. T 4. F 5. T

讲解：

1. 文中没有此说法。

2. 从第一段可判断。

3. 第二段开头已说明。

4. 第四段开头已说明。

5. 最后一段点题。

阅读理解7

A meteorite (陨石) almost hit an 80-year-old man named Arthur Pettifer in Britain when he was working in his garden. The meteorite was the biggest in the past 26 years in Britain.

The meteorite weighed (重量) one kilo, and might be over four thousand million (百万) years old.

“I hear the big noise in the air. I looked up and saw the tops of the trees coming and going,”he said. “I didn't know what it was.”

Meteorites are small things from the small planets in space. About 3,500

meteorites may fall on earth every year, but only very few are found. Mr. Pettifer's meteorite is the fifth to fall in Britain since the Second World War.

Mr. Pettifer is glad. “When you think about it coming from so far away, it really is something strange.”

1. The meteorite was ______ Mr Pettifer when it fell down.

A. close to

B. far from

C. hitting

D. coming to

2. The meteorite was already ______ years old.

A. 40,000,000,000

B. 40,000,000

C. 400,000,000

D. 4,000,000,000

3. Mr. Pettifer found the tops of the trees coming and going because ______.

A. the trees were afraid

B. the fast falling meteorite kept the tree tops moving

C. it was going to rain

D. the moving was made by wind

4. ______ people see a meteorite fall although they visit the earth often each year.

A. Quite a few

B. some

C. Few

D. Many

5. Mr. Pettifer was ______ to see the falling of the meteorite.

A. happy

B. afraid

C. sorry

D. angry 参考答案

1. 从短文第1句看出陨石落下时几乎砸着Mr Pettifer，故答案应选A。

2. 由短文第2段中“…，and might be over four thousand million”4000百万即40亿，故答案应是D。

3. Mr Pettifer发现树梢来回摇摆是因为下落的陨石使它来回动，故答案选B。

4. 由短文第4段“About 3,500 meteorites may fall on earth every year, but only very few are found.”一句可推断，答案选C。

5. 由短文最后一段第1句“Mr Pettifer is glad ”可以看出，且happy与glad意思相近，故答案应选A。

阅读理解8

One of the things I always believe is that no matter how bad something is, you can take something positive out of it. The one time I wasn’t sure of that was on September 11.

I usually wake up a 6:30 or 7:00 in the morning. That day, I happened to wake up earlier. I turned on the TV and I saw that a plane had crashed (撞击) into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. My first reaction (反应) was that it was a terrible accident. Then I saw another plane fly into the South Tower and I realized that I was witnessing (目击) an act of terrorism.

My wife and I spent the day watching the terrible pictures over again. When I watched family members looking for their loved ones, the pain in their eyes was something I would never forget. I couldn’t understand how something this terrible could have happened.

I t wasn’t until a few weeks after September 11 that I began to see that perhaps some good did come from this tragedy (悲剧). People seem different now, more understanding, more tolerant(宽容的). Little things that seemed to be such a trouble before are no longer big things. Personally, I am more tolerant than I was. I realize life is too short, and too precious(珍贵的), to let myself get worried over small things. I’ve learned also that you can’t take things for granted. Things change in the blink of an eye. People go to work and don’t come back. One moment they’re living and the next minute they’re not. And, it doesn’t matter who you are, there is nothing you can do about it. We never know when our time here will be over, so we all need to make the most of every minute we have.

You try to learn from what happened. You can’t be used up by it. You can’t live by it. All you can do is just live.

1. The word “positive” in the passage probably means ______.

A. terrible

B. bad

C. good

D. real

2. What did the writer see after he turned on the TV that morning?

A. A fire starting

B. A plane flying

C. A terrible accident

D. An act of terrorism.

3. From September 11, the writer had realized that___________.

A. people should make the most of every minute they have

B. he has become less tolerant towards others

C. he should get worried about little things

D. life is too short to care about others.

4. What’s the best title of this passage?

A. A Report about September 11

B. The Tragedy of September 11

C. September 11 and My Family

D. September 11 and My Turn.

参考答案

讲解：

1. C 见第一行，不管（no matter）事情多糟，总能发现有益的东西。

2. D 见第六行。

3. A 见倒数第三行。So we all need to make the most of every minute we have.

4. D

阅读理解9

阅读下列短文，并根据短文内容选出能完成短文题目的最佳答案。

Mrs. Weeks was reading a newspaper story to her class. The story said：Were you ever in a hospital when you were small? How did you feel? The doctors in Children’s Hospital are asking for money for children’s toys(玩具). Some children in the hospital must stay in bed for many weeks. Toys are needed to keep these sick(生病的)children happy and quiet. Money for them can be sent to the hospital.

After Mrs. Weeks read the story，she said，“This story gave me an idea.”

“You want us to bring some money for the toys.” “We could bring some of our own toys for the children in the hospital.” said the boys and girls one after another.

“Well，your ideas would be nice，” Mrs Weeks said，“but m ine is different.”

“We could make some toys.” shouted one of them.

Mrs. Weeks smiled. “Do you think you could make toys?” she asked.

“Yes, yes.” the whole class answered.

“Great! Let’s begin to make toys tomorrow.” said Mrs. Weeks.

On Saturday afternoon，Mrs. Weeks took children to the hospital with the toys made by her students. The children in the class felt happy，too.

A few days later，Mrs. Weeks read another newspaper story to the class:

Some school pupils brought toys to Children’s Hospita l last week. The toys were made by the pupils of Grade Three in Green Street School. The doctor said，“We have never had so many wonderful toys. Our children are very happy with them. They say，‘THANK YOU，GRADE THREE.’”

1. What was the first newspaper story mainly(主要)about?

A. Sick children in Children’s Hospital

B. Doctors in Children’s Hospital.

C. Mrs. Weeks and her students.

D. Toys made by the boys and girls.

2. What “idea” did Mrs. Weeks have in mind?

A. Ask the class to give some money to the children in the hospital.

B. Ask the class to send some of their own toys to the children in the hospital.

C. Let the class make some toys themselves and give them to the children in the hospital.

D. Tell the class to go to see the children in the hospital.

3. Doctors in Children’s Hospital didn’t have ____ to keep the children happy and quiet.

A. enough time

B. enough boys and girls

C. get money to buy toys for

D. enough doctors

4. At first，the doctors in Children’s Hospital wanted to ____ the sick children.

A. give some money to

B. make some toys for

C. get money to buy toys for

D. borrow some toys for

5. What Mrs Weeks really wanted to do is to ____.

A. let everyone know her class

B. save some money for toys

C. make herself famous

D. teach the pupils to do things themselves and be helpful to others

参考答案： 1. A 2. C 3. C 4. C 5. D

讲解：

1. 根据第1段newspaper story的内容得知，文章主要讲的是在儿童医院生病住院的孩子，故答案为A。

2. 从文中孩子们建议用钱买玩具或带自己的玩具去医院，而“Mrs Weeks said，‘but mine is different.’”到有人提议“make some toys”时她微笑，可判断答案为C。

3. 纵观整个新闻内容可知没有足够的玩具供生病的孩子们玩，故答案为C。

4. 由文中说医生“ask for money for children’s toys”得知玩具不够，因此本题答案选C。

5. 从文章中可以看出Mrs Weeks的本意就是教学生学会关心爱护别人，故答案D是正确的。

阅读理解10

Once there lived an old man in a town. He always forgot a lot of things. So his wife always had to say to him，“Don't forget this.”

One day he went on a long way alone. Before he left home，his wife said，“Now you have all these things. You need them on your way. Take care of your things on the way.”He went to the station. He bought a ticket and got on the train with it.

About an hour later，the conductor began to see the tickets. He came to the old man and said，“Will you please show me your ticket?”The old man looked for his ticket in all his pockets but he could not find it. He was very worried. “I

can't find my ticket. I really bought a ticket before I got on the train，”said the old man.

“I think you are right. I believe you bought a ticket. All right，you don't have to buy another ticket，”said the conductor kindly. But the old man still(仍然) looked worried and said sadly，“You don't know why I'm worried. If I don't find my ticket，I can't remember my station. Where am I going? ”

1. The old man bought a ticket _______.

A. after he got on the train

B. before he got on the train

C. when the conductor told him to buy one

D. when he found he had no ticket with him

2. About an hour later，the conductor began _______.

A. to buy the tickets

B. to look for the tickets

C. to check(检查) the tickets

D. to show the tickets

3. The conductor told the old man that he didn't need to buy another ticket because _________.

A. the man was very old

B. he thought the old man had no money with him

C. the old man showed him the ticket

D. he believed the old man

4. The old man still looked worried because _________.

A. he couldn't get on the train.

B. he lost his ticket and a lot of money

C. he thought his wife would get angry with him

D. he forgot where he was going

5. Which of the following(下列) is right?

A. The old man went on the trip with his wife

B. The old man didn't find his ticket

C. The conductor was also an old man

D. The old man had to buy another ticket

参考答案

1. B 第二段最后一句话表明。

2. C 第三段第一句话表明。

3. D 第四段第一行。

4. D 最后一句话。

5. B

阅读理解11

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