2017-2018学年度第一学期期末测试卷八年级英语阅读理解(一)（本题共19小题，每小题2分，共38分）A．阅读下列短文，从各题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

Passage 1More and more people are using cars in many places in Africa today. However, things are different in Malawi( 马拉维).Bikes are the most popular in this African country.Bike riding is a way of life in Malawi. People use them to carry heavy things. They also use bikes to carry people, especially tourists. These years, taking a “bicycle taxi” to travel around Malawi has become quite popular among tourists from all over the world.If you go to Malawi, you will find a lot of bike taxis waiting on the sides of the roads. The riders make the bikes comfortable for passengers to sit on. You can jump on a bike taxi and get around at a very low cost.Alice is a 21-year-old student from Canada. She enjoys the special bike riding a lot. “I really like the bike taxi,” she says. “It’s easy and cheap.” Alice usually pays just $1 for going shopping in town.28-year-old Panjira Khombe began to ride a bike taxi two years ago. The young man enjoys this job. “I used to make boats for a living, but that’s a hard job. Being a bike taxi rider is easy for me and I don’t mind carrying heavy people,” he says.27. Bikes are the most popular way for people to get somewhere in __________.A. AfricaB. AsiaC. MalawiD. Hawaii28. From the passage we learn that people there don’t use bikes to carry __________.A. heavy thingsB. local peopleC. animalsD. tourists29. Alice enjoys the bike taxi because it’s __________.A. always waiting on the sides of the roadsB. popular all over the worldC. safe and interestingD. easy and cheap30. Panjira Khombe thinks that __________.A. traveling is comfortableB. making boats is difficultC. riding a bike taxi is cheapD. carrying heavy people is enjoyable31. What’s the best title for this passage?A. Bike RidersB. A Strange CountryC. Bike TaxisD. A Cheap JourneyPassage 2More Than A ZooPopcorn Park is a very special place. Workers at the zoo care forhurt or sick （生病的）animals.At first this unusual place was not a zoo. It was called the Forked River Animal Care Center. The workers there took care of lost or unwanted cats and dogs.The change began in 1977 when a raccoon (浣熊)needed help. The workers cared for the animal. Finally it was better, but it could not care for itself. So people had to allow the raccoon to live at the center.After that, people began taking all kinds of hurt or homeless animals there. So many animals were living at the center that it became more like a zoo. It was time for a new name.Popcorn Park Zoo got its funny name because many of the animals there like to eat popcorn (爆米花). Also workers at the zoo sell the popcorn to help make money to care for the animals. People buy the popcorn to feed the animals as well.Popcorn Park Zoo now takes care of more than 200 kinds of animals. All the animals at the zoo get lots of care and love.32. Workers at the zoo look after __________.A. only homeless cats and dogsB. hurt or sick animalsC. all the unwanted cats and dogsD. young or old animals33. Which animal was the first to live at the zoo?A. An unwanted dog.B. An unwanted cat.C. A raccoon.D. A tiger.34. The zoo got its name because __________.A. the popcorn at the zoo tastes bestB. workers at the zoo like to eat popcornC. many animals there like to eat popcornD. visitors can make popcorn themselves there35. From the text we can know that __________.A. the zoo was a very famous park in the pastB. people look after the animals well at the zooC. the zoo spends much money feeding the animalsD. animals at the zoo don’t want to go back to their natural homes36. This passage probably comes from __________.A. a science bookB. a travel magazineC. a weather reportD. a history bookPassage 3The Story of the Two FrogsA group of frogs were traveling through the forests, and two of them fell into adeep hole. When the other frogs saw how deep the hole was, they told the pairthat they were as good as dead. The two frogs ignored（忽视）what they said andtried to jump up and out of the hole. The other frogs kept telling them to stop, that they were as good as dead. Finally, one of the frogs followed what the other frogs were saying and gave up. He fell down and died. The other frog continued to jump as hard as he could. Once again, the other frogs shouted at him to stop the pain and just wait to die. He jumped even harder until finally he made it out. The other frogs were astonished（吃惊）and said, "Didn’t you hear us?" The frog told them that he was deaf and that he thought they were encouraging（鼓励）him all the time.The story teaches us a lesson:There is the power（力量）of life and death in the language we use, and in what we say, and in how we say it.So be careful of what you say.37. What happened to the frogs in the forests?A. They lost their way.B. They had a terrible accident.C. Two of them fell into a deep hole.D. Two of them beat the others.38. What does they were as good as dead probably mean in English?A. they were going to dieB. they would be best friends after they diedC. they were good enough to get out of the holeD. they would get help if they were good to each other39. A frog in the hole stopped jumping because __________.A. it was not strongB. it was waiting to some helpC. it was in a bad situationD. it followed the other frog s’ words40. The other frog made himself out of the hole because __________.A. he could not hear wellB. he kept trying without giving upC. he was good at jumpingD. he accepted help from the other frogs41. From the passage we can learn that __________.A. some frogs are really very badB. a bad beginning makes a bad endingC. we should practice jumping sometimesD. we should learn to encourage peoplePassage 4B ．阅读短文，根据短文内容，从所给的六个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，使短文意思完整，连贯。