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单位：湖北省荆门市　姓名：李国　E-mail： liguo829@163.com 迎元旦八年级英语阅读竞赛 （时间：45分钟 满分：100分） Class ________ Name _______________ 一、下列短文均只是一些片段，你能找出它们所对应的标题吗？(10分) （ ）1. Learning English （ ）2. I Want to Be a Cleaner （ ）3. A Girl or A Boy, A Woman or A man? （ ）4. The sun, the moon and the earth （ ）5. Counting on dolphins (A) Tom was ten years old, and he was a very lazy boy, He didn't like doing any work. He had to go to school of course, but he didn't study hard there and tried to do as little work as possible. His father and mother were both doctors and they hoped that their son would become one, too, when he grew up. But one day Tom said to his mother, "When I finish school, I want to be a cleaner." "A cleaner?" his mother asked, she was very surprised. "That's not a very pleasant job, why do you want to become a cleaner?" "Because then I would only have to work one day a week." … ( B ) …The math classes are part of a new study about dolphins. The researchers (研究员)hope that the study can show that dolphins can think. The researchers teach the dolphins to learn the numbers on blackboards…. (C) A long time ago people thought that the sun went round the earth. In some countries people even said that the sun was a god(神). They thought the god drove across the sky each day on a golden horse. Now we know the earth goes round the sun. … The sun is really a star. It is much bigger than the earth and it is very hot. Some people have been to the moon but we know that no one can ever go to the sun. It is far too hot for people to live anywhere near it. …(D) … "Excuse me," the old man said to the person next to him on the bench, "Do you see the person with the red trousers and long hair? Is it a boy or a girl?" "A girl," said his neighbour, "She is my daughter." "Oh," the old said quickly, "I am sorry, but I didn't know that you were her mother." "I'm not," said the other person. "I'm her father." (E)…Some learn at school, others