重庆八年级上任务型阅读专练

1In America, boys and girls like watching TV. Some children spend six hours a day at school and four to six hours a day in front of the TV sets. Some children even watch TV for eight hours or more on Saturday.Television is like books and films. A child can learn both good things and bad things from it. (1)Some TV programs help children to understand the news, the people and places in other countries. With TV, children do not have to go to the movies. They can listen to interesting music or watch a game at home. (2)But some programs are bad for children, so parents sometimes should help them to find other interesting and useful things to do.1.How many hours a day do some children at school?___________________2.How many hours a day do some children watch TV on Saturday?________3.将（1）句译成汉语___________________________________________.4.将（2）句译成汉语___________________________________________.5.The parents had better not let their children watch ________on TV.A. good programsB. bad programsC. newsD. weather report2Holidays in the United States usually happen at least once a month. Most months have a national(国家的) holiday on Mondays. Then the workers may have 3-day weekends, that is, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. On these days people can rest or go to interesting places or do things with their families. Greater holidays in the United States are New Year’s Day, Chrisman Day and Thanksgiving Day. ①In these holidays most businesses (工商企业) close and the workers stay at home and celebrate with their families.Holidays can be from 2 weeks a year. This usually depends on (取决于) how long you’ve been working for a place, or what kind of work you do. Usually the more time you spend working for a place, the more time you may get for a holiday.1.将划线部分译成汉语：________________________________________________________________2.How often do holidays usually happen at least in the USA ?3. What are greater holidays in the United States ?3Toto was a baby elephant. Her trunk was only one meter long. When she heard her father making a noise, Toto raised her trunk, too. The only noise that she could make was very little, like a toy whistle(哨声).①Toto saw her mother pulling leaves from the top of a tree to eat them. She tried to reach the lowest ②branch, but she couldn’t. So her father and mother had to help her to break the branch and it fell down to the ground. Toto was happy that she could eat the leaves.As it was a hot day, flies (苍蝇) sat in the corners of her eyes. She saw her mother pulling some grass with her trunk to drive off the flies.③Toto 发觉这一点后不难。

When the elephant walked to a river, her father would help her have a bath, He put the water in his trunk and poured it onto Toto’s back. She was very happy and cool.根据短文内容回答下列各题：①How long is the baby elephant’s trunk?________________________________②将①译成汉语：_________________________________________________③猜测②的词义：_____________________________④将③译成英语：_________________________________________________⑤How did the father help the baby elephant to have a bath?________________________________________________________________.4Sam lives in the USA. His father has a shop there. His mother is a doctor and she works in a hospital. He’s seven years old now and begins to go to school this autumn. It’s a little far from school and his father drives a car to take him to school every day. So he’s never late for class and his teachers like him.It’s Monday today. Miss Hunt is teaching him to count from one to ten. Sam is studying hard. Soon he can count them. Miss Hunt is happy and asks, “How many people are there in your family, Sam?”Sam stands up and says,” Two, Miss Hunt.”“Who are they?”“MY father and my mother.”“Oh?” Miss Hunt is surprised. She says, “There are three people in your family.”“But now I’m not at home. I am at school, you know!”根据短文内容回答下列问题：①Who is Sam? He is a ______ boy. He lives in the ________.②What do Sam’s parents do? His father ________ in a shop and his mother is a _______.③How does Sam go to school every day?He _________ his father’s __________.④What is Sam going to learn on Monday? He is ________ to count the ______ from one to ten.⑤Is Sam’s answer right? _________, he ________. In fact (事实上), there are three people in his family.根据短文内容回答下列各题：①Where can your children enjoy interesting stories, funny games and exciting dances?__________________________________________________________________②When can you see the Red Birds this year?__________________________________________________________________③What can you eat in the Central Park?___________________________________________________________________④What does “The Zoo” mean?___________________________________________________________________⑤Mr Turner can both listen to a concert and watch a ball game on Saturday, can’t he?___________________________________________________________________6When George was thirty-five, he bought a small plane and learned to fly it. He soon became very good at it and made his plane do ①all kinds of tricks.George had a friend. His name was Mark. One day George wanted to take Mark up in his plane. Mark thought, “I’ve traveled in a big plane several times, but I’ve never been in a small one. So I’ll do.”They went up, and George flew around for half an hour and did all kinds of tricks in the air.When they came down again, Mark was very glad to be back ②safely, and he said to his friend in a shaking （颤抖的）voice, “Well, George, thank you very much for those two trips in your plane.”George was very surprised and said, “Two trips?”“Yes, my first and my last,” answered Mark.根据短文内容完成下列各题。