diff --git a/aio/content/guide/user-input.md b/aio/content/guide/user-input.md
index c7b275afac425..42f42bcda6004 100644
--- a/aio/content/guide/user-input.md
+++ b/aio/content/guide/user-input.md
@@ -298,7 +298,23 @@ Following is all the code discussed in this page.
 </code-tabs>
 
 
+Angular also supports passive event listeners. For example, you can use the following steps to make the scroll event passive.
 
+1. Create a file `zone-flags.ts` under `src` directory.
+2. Add the following line into this file.
+
+```
+(window as any)['__zone_symbol__PASSIVE_EVENTS'] = ['scroll'];
+```
+
+3. In the `src/polyfills.ts` file, before importing zone.js, import the newly created `zone-flags`.
+
+```
+import './zone-flags';
+import 'zone.js/dist/zone';  // Included with Angular CLI.
+```
+
+After those steps, if you add event listeners for the `scroll` event, the listeners will be `passive`.
 
 ## Summary
 
diff --git a/packages/zone.js/lib/common/events.ts b/packages/zone.js/lib/common/events.ts
index 85818b4d1207e..81530d650fa0c 100644
--- a/packages/zone.js/lib/common/events.ts
+++ b/packages/zone.js/lib/common/events.ts
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ if (typeof window !== 'undefined') {
   try {
     const options =
         Object.defineProperty({}, 'passive', {get: function() { passiveSupported = true; }});
-
     window.addEventListener('test', options, options);
     window.removeEventListener('test', options, options);
   } catch (err) {
@@ -245,16 +244,30 @@ export function patchEventTarget(
           proto[patchOptions.prepend];
     }
 
-    function checkIsPassive(task: Task) {
-      if (!passiveSupported && typeof taskData.options !== 'boolean' &&
-          typeof taskData.options !== 'undefined' && taskData.options !== null) {
-        // options is a non-null non-undefined object
-        // passive is not supported
-        // don't pass options as object
-        // just pass capture as a boolean
-        (task as any).options = !!taskData.options.capture;
-        taskData.options = (task as any).options;
+    /**
+     * This util function will build an option object with passive option
+     * to handle all possible input from the user.
+     */
+    function buildEventListenerOptions(options: any, passive: boolean) {
+      if (!passiveSupported && typeof options === 'object' && options) {
+        // doesn't support passive but user want to pass an object as options.
+        // this will not work on some old browser, so we just pass a boolean
+        // as useCapture parameter
+        return !!options.capture;
+      }
+      if (!passiveSupported || !passive) {
+        return options;
+      }
+      if (typeof options === 'boolean') {
+        return {capture: options, passive: true};
       }
+      if (!options) {
+        return {passive: true};
+      }
+      if (typeof options === 'object' && options.passive !== false) {
+        return {...options, passive: true};
+      }
+      return options;
     }
 
     const customScheduleGlobal = function(task: Task) {
@@ -263,7 +276,6 @@ export function patchEventTarget(
       if (taskData.isExisting) {
         return;
       }
-      checkIsPassive(task);
       return nativeAddEventListener.call(
           taskData.target, taskData.eventName,
           taskData.capture ? globalZoneAwareCaptureCallback : globalZoneAwareCallback,
@@ -311,7 +323,6 @@ export function patchEventTarget(
     };
 
     const customScheduleNonGlobal = function(task: Task) {
-      checkIsPassive(task);
       return nativeAddEventListener.call(
           taskData.target, taskData.eventName, task.invoke, taskData.options);
     };
@@ -338,6 +349,7 @@ export function patchEventTarget(
         (patchOptions && patchOptions.diff) ? patchOptions.diff : compareTaskCallbackVsDelegate;
 
     const blackListedEvents: string[] = (Zone as any)[zoneSymbol('BLACK_LISTED_EVENTS')];
+    const passiveEvents: string[] = _global[zoneSymbol('PASSIVE_EVENTS')];
 
     const makeAddListener = function(
         nativeListener: any, addSource: string, customScheduleFn: any, customCancelFn: any,
@@ -372,29 +384,25 @@ export function patchEventTarget(
           return;
         }
 
-        const options = arguments[2];
+        const passive =
+            passiveSupported && !!passiveEvents && passiveEvents.indexOf(eventName) !== -1;
+        const options = buildEventListenerOptions(arguments[2], passive);
 
         if (blackListedEvents) {
           // check black list
           for (let i = 0; i < blackListedEvents.length; i++) {
             if (eventName === blackListedEvents[i]) {
-              return nativeListener.apply(this, arguments);
+              if (passive) {
+                return nativeListener.call(target, eventName, delegate, options);
+              } else {
+                return nativeListener.apply(this, arguments);
+              }
             }
           }
         }
 
-        let capture;
-        let once = false;
-        if (options === undefined) {
-          capture = false;
-        } else if (options === true) {
-          capture = true;
-        } else if (options === false) {
-          capture = false;
-        } else {
-          capture = options ? !!options.capture : false;
-          once = options ? !!options.once : false;
-        }
+        const capture = !options ? false : typeof options === 'boolean' ? true : options.capture;
+        const once = options && typeof options === 'object' ? options.once : false;
 
         const zone = Zone.current;
         let symbolEventNames = zoneSymbolEventNames[eventName];
@@ -508,17 +516,7 @@ export function patchEventTarget(
       }
       const options = arguments[2];
 
-      let capture;
-      if (options === undefined) {
-        capture = false;
-      } else if (options === true) {
-        capture = true;
-      } else if (options === false) {
-        capture = false;
-      } else {
-        capture = options ? !!options.capture : false;
-      }
-
+      const capture = !options ? false : typeof options === 'boolean' ? true : options.capture;
       const delegate = arguments[1];
       if (!delegate) {
         return nativeRemoveEventListener.apply(this, arguments);
diff --git a/packages/zone.js/test/browser/browser.spec.ts b/packages/zone.js/test/browser/browser.spec.ts
index 71263adbbd112..6c2b77a6c90c1 100644
--- a/packages/zone.js/test/browser/browser.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/zone.js/test/browser/browser.spec.ts
@@ -222,6 +222,7 @@ describe('Zone', function() {
             });
 
             zone.run(() => { document.dispatchEvent(scrollEvent); });
+            (document as any).removeAllListeners('scroll');
           });
 
           it('should be able to clear on handler added before load zone.js', function() {
@@ -799,6 +800,7 @@ describe('Zone', function() {
 
               button.dispatchEvent(clickEvent);
               expect(logs).toEqual([]);
+              (document as any).removeAllListeners('click');
             });
           }));
 
@@ -1035,6 +1037,42 @@ describe('Zone', function() {
            button.removeEventListener('click', listener);
          }));
 
+      describe('passiveEvents by global settings', () => {
+        let logs: string[] = [];
+        const listener = (e: Event) => {
+          logs.push(e.defaultPrevented ? 'defaultPrevented' : 'default will run');
+          e.preventDefault();
+          logs.push(e.defaultPrevented ? 'defaultPrevented' : 'default will run');
+        };
+        const testPassive = function(eventName: string, expectedPassiveLog: string, options: any) {
+          (button as any).addEventListener(eventName, listener, options);
+          const evt = document.createEvent('Event');
+          evt.initEvent(eventName, true, true);
+          button.dispatchEvent(evt);
+          expect(logs).toEqual(['default will run', expectedPassiveLog]);
+          (button as any).removeAllListeners(eventName);
+        };
+        beforeEach(() => { logs = []; });
+        it('should be passive with global variable defined',
+           () => { testPassive('touchstart', 'default will run', {passive: true}); });
+        it('should not be passive without global variable defined',
+           () => { testPassive('touchend', 'defaultPrevented', undefined); });
+        it('should be passive with global variable defined even without passive options',
+           () => { testPassive('touchstart', 'default will run', undefined); });
+        it('should be passive with global variable defined even without passive options and with capture',
+           () => { testPassive('touchstart', 'default will run', {capture: true}); });
+        it('should be passive with global variable defined with capture option',
+           () => { testPassive('touchstart', 'default will run', true); });
+        it('should not be passive with global variable defined with passive false option',
+           () => { testPassive('touchstart', 'defaultPrevented', {passive: false}); });
+        it('should be passive with global variable defined and also blacklisted', () => {
+          (document as any).removeAllListeners('scroll');
+          testPassive('scroll', 'default will run', undefined);
+        });
+        it('should not be passive without global variable defined and also blacklisted',
+           () => { testPassive('wheel', 'defaultPrevented', undefined); });
+      });
+
       it('should support Event.stopImmediatePropagation',
          ifEnvSupports(supportEventListenerOptions, function() {
            const hookSpy = jasmine.createSpy('hook');
diff --git a/packages/zone.js/test/test_fake_polyfill.ts b/packages/zone.js/test/test_fake_polyfill.ts
index a0787692bd2ce..3d5a712044346 100644
--- a/packages/zone.js/test/test_fake_polyfill.ts
+++ b/packages/zone.js/test/test_fake_polyfill.ts
@@ -78,5 +78,8 @@
   global['__Zone_ignore_on_properties'] =
       [{target: TestTarget.prototype, ignoreProperties: ['prop1']}];
   global[zoneSymbolPrefix + 'FakeAsyncTestMacroTask'] = [{source: 'TestClass.myTimeout'}];
-  global[zoneSymbolPrefix + 'UNPATCHED_EVENTS'] = ['scroll'];
+  // will not monkey patch scroll and wheel event.
+  global[zoneSymbolPrefix + 'UNPATCHED_EVENTS'] = ['scroll', 'wheel'];
+  // touchstart and scroll will be passive by default.
+  global[zoneSymbolPrefix + 'PASSIVE_EVENTS'] = ['touchstart', 'scroll'];
 })(typeof window === 'object' && window || typeof self === 'object' && self || global);