八年级英语上册阅读理解练习题（一）

阅读理解

（A）

Look at the picture. This is a flying fish , isn’t is? Flying fish fly. You know that, don’t you? Some squid(鱿鱼) also fly.

We have got some pictures of squid. The squid can really fly. They look like little planes.

Flying squid fly about two meters high. They fly for only a few seconds(秒).

I know another interesting thing about squid , and it is their size. Some of them are very small, but some are very large. Small ones are about two centimeters(厘米) long. Large ones are over fifteen meters long. Fifteen!

1、From the passage, we know that                .

A. flying fish are squid     B. all squid can fly

C. the squid can fly       D. only some squid can fly

2、The picture above is               .

A. a photo of a plane      B. a photo of the squid

C. a picture of the sea     D. a picture of a flying fish

3、The passage tells us that             .

A. flying squid can only fly for a short time

B. flying squid can fly at least two meters high

C. flying squid can fly for a long time

D. flying squid can not fly at all

4、The size of the squid is an interesting thing. It means that               .

A. they are quite different in size    B. they are very short

C. they are very long             D. they are very small

5、You think the largest squid may be            .

A. as long as a car         B. as long as a big bike

C. 2 metres               D. more than 15 metres

（B）

One day Bob took two of his friends into the mountains. They put up their tents(帐篷)and then rode off to a forest to see how the trees were growing.

In the afternoon when they were about ten kilometers from their camp(营地), it started to snow. More and more snow fell. Soon Bob could hardly see his hand before his face. He could not find the road! Bob knew there were two roads. One road went to the camp, and the other went to his house, But all was white now. Everything was the same. How could he take his friends back to the camp?

Bob had an idea. The horses! Let the horses take them back! But what would happen if the horses took the road to his house? That would be a trip(行程) of thirty-five kilometers in such cold weather!

It was getting late. They rode on and on. At last the horses stopped.

Where were they? None of them could tell. John looked around. What was that under the tree? It was one of their tents!

1、John and his two friends went to the forest               .

A. to find their way home      B. to build their camp

C. to see the trees             D. to see the mountains in the snow

2、They could hardly find their way back because                .

A. there was not any road in the mountains

B. everything was covered by snow

C. they couldn’t decide which of the two roads went to their tents

D. there was only on road to their camp

3、It is clear that they wanted the horses to take them to              .

A. the forests   B. the mountains    C. the camp   D. John’s house

4、The horses stopped because               .

A. they were tired after running for a long time

B. it was getting late

C. they saw the trees

D. they knew that they had got to the camp

5、The story happened                 .

A. at night when nothing could be seen

B. in a cold camp

C. on a dark evening

D. on a cold winter day

Key:

（1）1－5：D  D  A  A  D 

（2）1－5：C  B  C  D  D