【正文】 北京老官地鄉(xiāng)中學(xué)初中英語(yǔ)閱讀理解閱讀專(zhuān)項(xiàng)練習(xí)試卷一、英語(yǔ)閱讀理解閱讀1．閱讀理解 For most people in the West, Valentine39。s Day（情人節(jié)） ends on February 15, but here in Japan it39。s not quite over until March 15. March 14exactly one month after Valentine39。s Dayis White Day in Japan. To really understand what White Day is all about, you have to understand what Valentine39。s Day in Japan is like. Japanese Valentine39。s Day is all about men getting presents. Japanese women are usually too shy to show their love, though it might not be true today. Valentine39。s Day is a great chance to let women show their feelings. Men should return gifts to women on White Day. On both days, chocolate is the gift of choice. More often, the colour of the chocolate is white because of the name of the day. You can also buy flowers, candy or cookies. Does it sound good to you? Don39。t get too excited when you get chocolate from Japanese girls! They give chocolate not only to their loved ones, but also to men such as bosses（ 老板） and male（男性的） friends. The Japanese first celebrated White Day in 1978. Now it is also celebrated in South Korea and Taiwan, China.（1）In Japan, Valentine39。s Day ends on ________________. A.February 14B.February 15C.March 14D.March 15（2）What39。s the most mon White Day gift? A.White chocolate.B.Flowers.C.Candy.D.Cookies.（3）What can we learn from the passage? A.White Day has a history of 100 years.B.White Day is all about women getting gifts.C.People all over the world celebrate White Day.D.On White Day girls only give gifts to their boyfriends.（4）What39。s the best title for the passage? A.The history of Valentine39。s DayB.Valentine39。s DayC.How to celebrate White DayD.White Day in Japan（5）The writer of this passage may be from ________________. A.JapanB.ChinaC.AmericaD.South Korea2．閱讀理解 On Miriam39。s 9th birthday two years ago, her aunt, who lives in Kenya（肯尼亞）, gave money to a group that cares for elephants to celebrate Miriam39。s birthday. Then Miriam and her mother visited Africa to learn how the group was helping elephants. Later, Miriam fell in love with the animals and wanted to help save them. A few months after visiting Africa, Miriam watched How I Became an Elephant, a film about the mistreatment of elephants in Thailand, and a young girl39。s effort to save them. Miriam decided she wanted to raise money to save elephants. Last year, Miriam created a program called They Deserve（應(yīng)得） to Be Free after seeing how young elephants are abused in Thailand. She learned how people take a baby elephant, don39。t give it food or water for days and beat it hard. It made me really sad. I need to do something useful. Miriam said. Miriam is working to make money for Elephant Nature Park in Thailand. She asked her friends to give money to the park rather than giving her birthday gifts. She recently joined about 12 other students in an art center. They made elephants from clay and decorated（裝飾） them. Then she created a plan to sell clay elephants. Kate, Miriam39。s art teacher, opened her art studio（工作室） to Miriam and her friends on weekends so they could make clay elephants. She even gave them the clay. It39。s great to see a young student wanting to spend her time on something meaningful. This is what we should all work towards, Kate said. Miriam says she has sold 180 clay elephants worth 2, 000 dollars, and all of that money has been sent to Elephant Nature Park in Thailand.（1）Miriam went to Africa to ________. A.join a groupB.visit her auntC.help save elephantsD.learn about the group（2）The underlined word abused in Paragraph 3 means . A.虐待B.殺害C.訓(xùn)練D.飼養(yǎng)（3）Which of the following is TRUE about Kate from the passage? A.She was probably very proud of Miriam.B.She taught Miriam to make clay elephants.C.She spent time selling clay elephants with Miriam.D.She was worried that Miriam39。s plan wouldn39。t work.（4）The best title for the passage is probably . A.Elephants Are in Great DangerB.Care for Animals, Care for EarthC.11yearold Fights to Save ElephantsD.Protect AnimalsDuty of Everyone3．閱讀理解 Need to buy something? Why go to a store? Buy it on the Internet! Need it now? Why wait? Ask to receive it the next day! Each day, more and more people try online shopping. In fact, online sales have doubled in the last ten years. But not everyone is excited. Some scientists now say that online shopping is bad for the environment. People are surprised to hear this. They think, I don39。t need to drive, and the business doesn39。t need to build a store, so there will be less pollution, says Nuria Prost, an environmental scientist. But it is not so simple. In fact, online shopping is wasteful. It also adds to air pollution. In truth, the Internet is not always as good a friend to the environment as it seems. For example, most people thought that the Internet would help offices use less paper and other materials. But paper use increased by33percent between 1986 and 1997.Online shopping could have similarly harmful results, says Nevil Cohen, a researcher of environmental science. Part of the problem is what people are buying these days. In the past, people bought things on the Internet