初二英语综合阅读训练.doc

任务型阅读/ 综合阅读 一． My son Joe started dating a young lady whose father worked in a police station.Joe was interested in working there.And he came home one day and he said, “I’m taking the police test.”When he graduated ,they assigned（分配）him to East New York where I started my career. (1)However,Joe’s brother,John wanted nothingto do with police or firefighters.He wanted to be the “next Donald Trump”,a millionaire（富翁）well-known in America.But in 1984,I came down with throat cancer.He noticed how the guys I worked with in the fire department（消防队）took care of us.He decided to be a firefighter. Both the boys would call we when they were working.John would always call around four o’clock ,and that particular（特别的）night ,September 10,we spoke for a few minutes.And I said, “I love you.”and he said, “I love you.”Joe called me in the morning and told me to turn on the television ,that a plane just hit the Trade Center（世贸大厦）.(2)I just said, “Be careful.I love you ”He said, “I love you ,too.”That was it. We had the boys for John for 36 years,Joe for 34 years .It’s not many people that the last words they said to their son or daughter were “I love you,”and the last words that they heard were “I love you.”So,that makes me sleep at night. 1.将（1）处翻译成汉语。 ________________________________________________________ 2.根据短文内容，完成下面的句子。（每空一词） Joe was a _________,while his brother,John,was a firefighter.The two brothers were both_________when the Trade Center was destroyed. 3.根据（2）处完成下面的句子。（每空一词） I just _________him _________be careful and I loved him. 二． Some countries are better than others at looking after the environment.In Europe,Germany（德国）and northem European countries work very hard to improve the environment.The people in Germany put their rubbish into different bags-paper in one bag,plastic in laws that do not allow people to burn too much coal. In the 1970s ,as people learned more about environmental problems,the “Green”movement（运动）began and soon spread all over Europe.The “Green ”