八年级英语阅读理解每日一练

them.\ \ \worry.\

判断正误（T或F）：

（ ) 1. Ann was worried about the party. （ ) 2. Ann have a birthday cake for her birthday. （ ) 3. Ann was twelve years old.

（ ) 4. They put the candles on the birthday cake. （ ) 5. They had twelve candles.

Passage 12

Mr.Brown lived in a small town, but he got a job in a big city, so he moved there with his wife and his two children last Tuesday.

The next day Mr.Brown took his new car out of the garage and was washing it when a neighbor came.The neighbor stopped and looked at the new car for a minute.Then Mr.Brown turned and saw him.

The neighbor said: \ \

The neighbor was surprised.\do you mean?\

\in town, it belongs to my daughter,Jean.When there's a football game,it belongs to my son, Joe. When I have washed it and it looks really nice and clean,it belongs to my wife, Mary.And when it needs gas,it's mine.\

( ) 1. There are __________people in the story.

A. three B. four C. six D. five

( ) 2. Mr.Brown worked in__________.

A. a small town B. a big city

C. the garage D. the gas station

( ) 3. When Mr.Brown was washing the new car,his neighbor came to ask him__________.

A. if the car was new B. what car it was

C. if the car was Mr.Brown' s D. whose

car it was

( ) 4.When there was a football match, the car belonged to__________.

A. Mr.Brown B. the neighbor C. Jean's brother D. Jean

( ) 5. “Sometimes”in the story means that__________.

A. when there was a party in town,the car belonged to his daughter

B. when there was a football game,it was his son's C. when the car looked nice and clean,it was his wife's

D. when the ear wanted gas,it belonged to him

Passage 13

When Jimmy was a boy,he liked watches and clocks very much.When he was eighteen years old,he went into the army.And after a year,he began to teach himself to mend watehes.A lot of friends brought him broken watches,and he mended them for them.Then his captain heard about this,and one day he brought him a watch too and said: \stopped,can you mend it for me , please? \：\

sir.I can.\

After a few days,he brought the watch back to the captain.\（欠…钱） you? \asked.

\bag out of his pocket and gave it to the captain, saying: \place for them when I put everything back.\判断正误（T或F）：

( ) 1. After Jimmy joined the army, he began to learn how to mend watches.

( ) 2. His friends sometimes brought him new watches. ( ) 3. One day the captain asked Jimmy to mend his watch. ( )4. The officer wanted to know how many wheels were in his watch.

( ) 5. At last Jimmy made the watch worse.

Passage 14

July 20th, 1969 was an important day.Two Americans landed