初中英语阅读训练材料
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初中英语阅读理解【1】
Patrick Johnson，an artist for the Washington Post，found some treasure in his new house一一35，000 dollars in a place where no one could see it. Although he had car and house payments(贷款)in his head, he still decided to return all of the money to the previous(先前的)owner of the house, Mr. Williams. Would you have done the same?
Just hours after he had bought the house，Patrick came into the small house，where he was planning to lay out his tools and hang things up. He looked up and noticed a little hole in the wall. He didn't know what it was inside， so he walked towards the wall. It was very dark inside，but an old box caught his eye.
“I caught the thing，it was heavy. I thought it might be some pieces of wood，”he said. Actually it was not. It was filled with lots of dollar bills. But he and his wife knew they had to return the money to Mr. Williams.
“I've got two boys and we teach them to be honest and to do what is right. I knew this was a teachable moment that I would never get back again.”Patrick said to his wife.“So I thought we would do something honest with it. It's been a great thing for us and our kids.”
34. Patrick decided to return the money to .
A. his wife B. the bank C. their sons D. Mr. Williams
35.Patrick found the box
A. outside the small house B. in his wife's room
C. in the hole of the wall D. among his tools
36. Patrick thought there might be in the box when he found it.
A. 35,000 dollars B. some pieces of wood
C. many famous pictures D. some expensive treasures
37.Patrick and his wife returned the money at last because
A. they didn't need the money at all
B. their children liked money very much
C. they wanted to teach their children to be honest
D. the previous owner of the house asked them to do so
【考点】人物故事类阅读.
【分析】翻译：帕特里克.约翰逊，为华盛顿邮报的艺术家，他在他的新房子发现了一些宝藏一一35000美元在一个没有人能看到它的地方.虽然他有车，他还背负着房贷，他还是决定把所有的钱还给先前房子的主人Mr.Williams，你能做到吗?
就在他买下房子的几个小时后，帕特里克走进了小房子，在那里他打算把工具和一些东西挂起来，他抬头注意到墙上有一个小洞，他不知道里面是什么东西，于是他朝墙壁走去，里面很黑，但有一个旧箱子.
“我拿起那个箱子，它很重.我想这可能是几块木头，”他说.其实不是.这里面装了大量的钞票.但他和他的妻子知道他们要把钱归还Mr.Williams.
“我有两个男孩，我教他们要诚实，要做正确的事情.我知道这是一个教育机会，我不会错过.”帕特里克对他的妻子说.“所以我认为我们要做一些诚实的事.这对我们和我们的孩子都是一件伟大的事情.”
【解答】34.D. 由Although he had car and house payments(贷款)in his head，he still decided to return all of the money to the previous(先前的)owner of the house，Mr.Williams可知他决定把所有的钱还给Mr.Williams，故选：D.
35.C.由He looked up and noticed a little hole in the wall.He didn't know what it was inside，so he walked towards the wall.It was very dark inside，but an old box caught his eye.可知他在墙上的一个小洞里发现的箱子，故选：C.
36.B.由I thought it might be some pieces of wood，”he said.可知当他发现时他认为可能是几块木头，故选：B.
37.C. 由 knew this was a teachable moment that I would never get back again.”Patrick said to his wife.“So I thought we would do something honest with it.It's been a great thing for us and our kids.”可知他们想教孩子要诚实，故选：C.
【点评】首先理解问题，然后带着问题快速阅读短文，找出与问题有关的句子，并理解大意，最后仔细斟酌，选出答案，并核对.
初中英语阅读理解【2】
What can we learn from the special, very successful people in the world who make the impossible possible?
Lesson 1: Ways of creative thinking are needed
Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg both dropped out of college. They prefer to teach themselves because they like to develop their own ways of thinking. They think standard ways of teaching might stop people from being creative and having new ideas.
Lesson 2: The answer might not be what you expect
Find your answers from facts — not start with an expectation of what you will find. Stephen Jacobsen from Northwestern University believed what he was taught: that water on Earth came from icy comets(彗星) or planets which hit into Earth.
However, by studying a special rock, he discovered that it acts like a sponge(海绵). This suggests that Earth's water may have come from inside, driven to the surface to form the oceans, by geological activity.
“I had a pretty hard time making others believe it,” he said. “But thinking about the fact that you may the first person to see something for the first time doesn’t happen very often. When it does, it’s amazing.”
Lesson 3: A little luck goes a long way