國中，是向高階中學過渡的一個階段，英語是國中階段的必修科目。下面是小編整理的.國中英語閱讀理解題，希望能幫到大家!
光學與聲學
Light travels at a speed which is about a million times faster than the speed of sound. You can get some idea of this difference by watching the start of a race. If you stand some distance away from the starter, you can see smoke from his gun before the sound reaches your ears.
This great speed of light produces some strange facts. Sunlight takes about 8 minutes to reach us. If you look at the light of the moon tonight, remember that the light rays left the moon 1.3 seconds before they reached you. The nearest star is so far away that the light that you can see from it tonight started to travel towards you four years ago at a speed of nearly 2 million km. per minute. In some cases, the light from one of tonight’s stars had started on its journey to you before you were born.
Thus, if we want to be honest, we can’t say, “The stars are shining tonight.” We have to say instead, “The stars look pretty. They were shining four years ago, but their light has only just reached the earth.”
1. Light speed is ______ sound speed
A. as fast as B. a million times slower than
C. about millions of times faster than D. about a million times faster than
2. If you stand 200 metres away from a man who is firing a gun to start a race, you will find out that ______.
A. you can hear the sound before you see the smoke
B. the sound does not travel as fast as light
C. the sound will reach you before the man fires
D. sound travels about a million times faster than light
3. Sunlight obviously (明顯地) ______ than the light of the moon.
A. has to travel a greater distance B. moves less quickly
C. travels much more quickly D. is less powerful(有力的)
4. The scientific way of saying "The stars are shining tonight" should be ______.
A. the stars have been shining all the time
B. the stars seen tonight will shine four years later
C. the stars were shining long ago but seen tonight
D. the starlight seen today could be seen four years ago
參考答案與解析：
1. D 事實細節題。由第1段第1句可知。
2. B 推理判斷題。由第1段最後一句推出。
3. A 推理判斷題。由第2段的第2句(太陽光到達地球需要8分鐘) 和第3句(月光到達地球僅需1.3秒) 可推出(太陽光走過的距離明顯遠於月光)。
4. C 推理判斷題。由最後一段的最後一句They were shining four years ago, but their light has only just reached the earth可推出。
The law
The law says that women should have the chance of doing the same jobs as men and earn the same as them.
The reality is very different. Women lose because, 25 years after the Equal Pay Act, many of them still get paid less than men.
They lose because they do lower-paid jobs which men just won’t consider. And they lose they are the ones who interrupt a career to have children.
All this is reported in an independent study ordered by the Government’s women’s unite.
The biggest problem isn’t equal pay in work places such as factories. It is a sort of work women do.
Make a list of low-paid of jobs_ then consider who does them.
Try nurses, secretaries, cleaner, clerks, teachers in primary schools, dinner ladies, and child care helpers. Not a lot of men among that group, are there?
Yet some of those jobs are really important. Surely no one would deny that about nurses and teachers, for a start.
So why do we reward the people who do them so poorly? There can be only one answer--- because they are women.
This is not going to be put right overnight. But the Government, which employs a lot of them,, and other bosses have to make a start.
