八年级英语阅读竞赛训练试题5

八年级英语阅读竞赛训练试题5

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I moved to a new neighborhood two months ago. In the house with a large across the road lived a taxi driver, a single parent with two school-aged children. At the end of the day, he would why he did not park it in the garage.

Then one day I learnt that he had another car in his garage. In the afternoon he would come affairs in his other car, not in his taxi. I felt it was

I was curious to see his personal car but did not make it until I to be outside one evening two weeks and he drove out in his “own” car: a Rolls-Royce（劳斯莱斯）! It shook me completely I realized what that meant. You see, he was a taxi driver. But inside, he saw himself as something else: a Rolls-Royce owner and a（n） 12 . He drove others in his taxi but himself and his children in his Rolls-Royce. The world looked at his taxi and him a taxi driver. But for him, a taxi was just something he drove for a living. Rolls-Royce was something he drove for a (n）.

We go to bed every night and every morning as parents or children, not as bankers, CEOs or professors. We go for a . We love life as it is. Yet often, we base our entire happiness and success on how high we the social ladder—how much bigger and better a we have. And we ignore our Rolls-Royce, by keeping it dusty in our garage. We should focus more on we are than what we do!

1. A. window B. garage C. door D. yard

2. A. park B. stop C. check D. repair

3. A. knew B. understood C. asked D. wondered

4. A. for B. out of C. without D. from

5. A. business B. national C. personal D. public

6. A. wasteful B. useful C. wonderful D. plentiful

7. A. appeared B. intended C. expected D. happened

8. A. later B. more C. ago D. before

9. A. broken B. fine C. shut D. open

10. A. once B. before C. when D. until

11. A. far B. deep C. long D. little

12. A. driver B. engineer C. father D. son

13. A. called B. made C. elected D. turned

14. A. experience B. earning C. life D. position

15. A. stay up B. wake up C. stay home D. go home

16. A. competition B. performance C. debate D. party

17. A. family B. company C. team D. whole

18. A. build B. climb C. stand D. lay

19. A. garden B. garage C. car D. taxi

20. A. who B. what C. which D. where

阅读理解 A

I'm writing this letter slowly because I know you can't read fast. We don't live where we did when you left home. Your dad read in the newspaper that most accidents happened within 20 miles from your home, so we moved.