1、初一英语阅读理解试题(科技类)初一年阅读竞赛班级：座号：姓名：成绩：一、完型填空 20%Are you bored with learning about insects in books Why not find a few and take a close look by yourself Its easy. Insects are everywhere: not just at home or around lights at night, but also in flowers and vegetable gardens, near lakes, parks and in forest
2、s.To have fun watching insects, you need:Start by reading books about the insects youre after. Where can you 1 them Do they live beside a lake or in trees When you go out to watch insects, bring along an insect guide 2 pictures with you. A good choice would be “Souvenirs Entomologiques(昆虫记) by Jean
3、Henri Fabre.Dress properly because some insects bite! 3 trousers and shirts with long sleeves(袖子). Bring a first-aid box. Once youre ready, an early morning and a nearby park would be a good 4 to start. Insects like to hide in 5 and humid places. Try moving stones and checking flowers, leaves and th
4、e soil. You may use a magnifier(放大镜) to 6 what insects do. Or, you can put them on a piece of clean paper to look 7 at them. How many legs do they have What color are theyAn important 8 is to try not to disturb insects. You may want to shake the tree or pick them up, but if youre not careful, you ma
5、y hurt them. You can collect insects 9 using a piece of card to pick them up. After watching, remember to put insects back 10 you found them.( )1. A. find B. invent C. discover( )2. A. for B. by C. with( )3. A. Take B. Bring C. Wear( )4. A. time or place B. place or time C. time and place( )5. A. ho
6、t B. cool C. warm( )6. A. watch B. look C. read( )7. A. easily B. happily C. closely( )8. A. lesson B. way C. class( )9. A. at B. for C. by( )10. A. when B. where C. in二、阅读理解 50%AWarm water freezes more quickly than cold water. Sir Francis Bacon said that almost four hundred years ago. But few peopl
7、e believed him until 1970. In that year a Canadian scientist George Kill proved the English professor was right. Dr Kill filled an open oil pail(桶) with cold water. He filled another with warm water. He put both in the same low temperature. The warm water froze first. The lack of covers on the pails
8、 is the secret. Some of the warm water changed into vapor. This meant that less of the warm water was left to be frozen. And so the warm water froze faster than the cold water even though it had a greater temperature drop to make.( )1. Sir Francis Bacon was _A. an American experimenter B. a Canadian
9、 scientist C. an English professor( )2. Hundreds of years ago, Sir Francis Bacon found _.A. the temperature of warm water drops faster than that of cold water- 1 -warm water is heavier than cold waterwarm water has the same temperature as cold water( )3. What Sir Francis Bacon said was right, but pe
10、ople didnt believe him until _.A. late in the 20th century B. early in the 20th century C. late in the 19th century( )4. Leave a pail with warm water and another pail with cold water in the same low temperature, youll find that _.cold water freezes firstwarm water turns into ice before cold waterwar
11、m water and cold water freeze at the same time( )5. Why does warm water freeze first in the same freezing weatherA. Because some of the warm water turns to vapor, the amount(数量) becomes less than that of cold water. B. Because warm water is lighter than cold water.C. Because the temperature of warm
12、water is lower than that of cold water.BIf you do not use your arm 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 ha
13、s 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 t
14、ells 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 cant read or write but usually they have better memories This is because they cannot read or write and they have to remember thin
15、gs; they cannot write 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: Practice remembering.( )6. The main reason for ones poor memory is that _.A. his father or mother may have a poor memory B. He does not use his name or legs for some time C. his memory is not often used( )7. If you do not use your arms or legs for some time _.A. you cant use them any more B. they will become strongerC. they become weak and wont become strong until you use th