期末阅读理解专项练习(含答案)牛津译林版英语八年级下册

期末阅读理解专项练习
（1）
Neist Point is one of the most famous lighthouses in Scotland. It can be found on the western tip(尖端)of Skye not far from the town of Glendale. Off the point, whales(鲸鱼)can be seen during the summer months. There is only one safe route, so this walk uses the same path both ways down and back. It covers a distance of 2.2 km, with the average time to complete the walk being 45 minutes (with no stops).
Weather
This walk is not suitable in all weather conditions. It will take you near high cliffs(峭壁), so it can't be recommended in windy conditions or if it's foggy.
Parking
The parking lot is located at very end of a single-track road 10.5 miles from Dunvegan (takes 31.minutes to drive there). If traveling from Portree, it is 31 miles and will take about 1 hour to drive there.
( )1. Neist Point is on the western tip of .
A. Wales
B. Skye
C. Glendale
D. England ( )2. How long is the walk?
A. 2 km
B. 2.2 km
C. 10. 5 miles
D. 31 miles ( )3. Which of the following is NOT mentioned?
A. The lighthouse is near a cliff.
B. The lighthouse has an indoor parking area
C. The lighthouse is in Scotland.
D. Visitors may see whales from the lighthouse
【答案】1. B 2. B 3. B
（2）
Garden Tour & Cooking Class
9119 North Cumbre Road. Santa Barara, CA
9:30 a.m.—1:00 p.m. Saturday, October 26, 2019
Cook with Suzzane
Traditionally, American Indians' dishes were made with corn, beans, potatoes and pumpkins.
Take a tour around Trinity Garden, pick some of these foods and return to the kitchen. There you can watch Suzzane prepare delicious dishes with them. It is surely a new experience!
Suzzane will make an introduction of three traditional foods and tell you what they meant to the American Indians hundreds of years ago. At the same time, you can learn how to cook with these autumn harvest vegetables.
The menu includes the following:
Hot Potato Pie with Cornbread Topping
Thanksgiving Soup
Fresh Vegetable Salad
Trinity Fruit Ice-cream
★$35 per person, including printed recipes(菜谱), the four dishes above and a book by Suzzane. Children under 8 can come for free
★Booking by email by Oct 17; ndry@
About Suzzane Landry: She is the writer of Healthy Eating and Fresh Food Matters. To look for new ideas to add to her cooking, she traveled a lot, working in kitchen all over the world. This brought her the idea of "Fresh food cooking". Then she set up the website below to get people's attention to health eating. She is excited to share her knowledge through cooking classes, cookbooks and DVDs. Her teaching is popular with people from different countries.
Learn More:
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Follow Suzzane on FACEBOOK and TWITTER.
( )1. In this class, you can watch Suzzane cook dishes with the foods .
A. brought from home
B. picked in Trinity Garden
C. bought from the market
D. ordered from the Internet
( )2. If Mr. Green goes to the class with his parents and his 6-year-old son, he should pay .
A. $ 35
B. $ 70
C. $ 105
D. $140 ( )3. According to the advertisement, we know that .
A. we can book the cooking class on the phone
B. only American Indians enjoy Suzzane's teaching
C. Suzzane got her cooking ideas from different DVDs
D. Suzzane landry wrote two books about eating and food
【答案】BCD
（3）
When was the last time you gave or received a hug? Do your parents hug you before you go to school? In Western countries, it is quite common to greet close friends or relatives with a hug.
You might hug your teammates after winning a basketball game. If one of your Friends is having a bad day, you can hug them to cheer them up. Friends who haven't seen each other for a long time will usually hug each other when meeting.
Of course, people in different countries have different ideas when it comes to hugging. After coming to China, I've noticed that people are generally more reluctant(不情愿的)to hug than they are in my home country, the US.
My Chinese friends told me that hugging is considered to be very intimate(亲密的) in their culture . It usually only happens between people who are really close to each other, like couples. Chinese people don't usually hug in public, either.
But people's attitudes(态度)toward hugging can also change.
I remember watching a video story about a "hugging party" that is held in Shanghai. A local artist held the party, inviting strangers and asking them to hug each other.
The Chinese participants(参与者)clearly looked uncomfortable. However, after the party, several of them changed their minds. They decided that hugging doesn't have to be awkward(尴尬的)and can actually be quite nice. So next time you see your mom or dad, give them a hug—see how it makes you feel.
( )1. What does the underlined word "hug" mean?
A. To shake hands.
B. To express love
C. To care for others.
D. To put your arms around somebody ( )2. what is the main idea of the second paragraph?
A. How to celebrate a basketball match
B. Situations in which you can hug somebody else.
C. Why friends need to hug each other.
D. How to cheer your friends up
( )3. In Chinese culture, hug usually happen between .
A. friends
B. relatives
C. couples
D. teammates
( )4. The author wrote the last paragraph to .
A. show how people can change their minds about hugging
B. explain why people feel uncomfortablc while hugging
C. encourage people to hold more hugging parties
D. encourage people to be nice to strangers
【答案】DBCA
（4）
Boys and girls, do you like your eyes? And do you know that there are many phrases(短语)in English about eyes? We all know people's eyes can be a window into their hearts. Today we'll enjoy the following eye phrases by a story. It's about a man and a woman who are Loth teachers at the same school.
Let's suppose(假设)that the man asked the woman out on a date(约会).She was so happy because this man was the apple of her eye, a very special man. On their date, they might eat a meal. During their dinner, they might discuss many things. They might discover that they see eye to eye, or agree on many things. For example, they might agree that every crime(罪行)should be punished. That is to say they believed in the idea of an eye for an eye.
The next day, the woman asked the man to keep an eye on the young students in her class while she was out. This might he hard to do when the teacher was writing on the blackboard. To do so, a teacher would need to have eyes in the back of his head. In other words, he could know what the students were doing even when he was not watching them.
Boys and girls, are you interested in these phrases? Maybe there are many phrases about other parts of the body in English. Try to find them!
( )1. According to the passage, how can we know a boy without talking to him?
A. By looking at his hair.
B. By looking at his eyes.
C. By looking at his ears
D. By looking at his heart.
( )2. What does the phrase "see eye to eye" in the second paragraph mean?
A. Be friendly.
B. Have different opinions.
C. Be interested
D. Have the same idea.
( )3. "Your mum loves you very much" is another saying of " ".
A. You are the apple of her eye
B. She keeps an eye on you
C. She believes in an eye for an eye
D. She has eyes in the back of her head ( )4. We can infer from the last paragraph that .
A. maybe we can see without our eyes one day
B. people like their eyes best
C. maybe there are some phrases about nose in English
D. English phrases have a long history
( )5. What is the main idea of the passage?
A. A story about two teachers.
B. The importance of eyes.
C. Ways to protect our eyes.
D. Different eye phrases.
【答案】1. B 2. D 3. A 4. C 5. D
（5）
Mike Myers is a teacher at Chauncey Rose High School in Terre Haute, Indiana. Last year, he taught his students about the world's rain forests. They learned that rain forests are important because the plants and animals of the rain forest give us food, wood, and medicine.
Destruction of the world's rain forests is a serious problem. Unluckily, rain forests are disappearing at a rate of 80 acres per minute! As part of a class project, Myers' students bought three acres of rain forest in Central America. They paid $ 25 per acre. The students hope that the land they bought will be protected and not destroyed. The students became so interested in rain forests that they decided to get a closer look at a real rain forest.
So last June, Myers and four of his students went on a seven-day trip to visit the rain forests of Costa Rica. "The trip was wonderful. It was a very exciting experience." said Myers.
At the beginning of the week, the group took a boat ride down a river. They saw alligators and crocodiles. In the middle of the week, a guide took Myers and his students into the rain forest. "The monkeys were not happy that we were in their forest. They broke small branches off the trees and threw them at us, " one of the students said. "It was a great learning experience for all of us, " said Myers.
Each student chose something specific about Costa Rica to study involving the plants, animals,
food, and culture. During the last few days the group had time to do fun activities. They went whitewater rafting and horseback riding, and visited Costa Rica's active volcano.
Myers hopes to make the trip every year with a different group of kids.
( )1. How much did Myers' students pay for the rain forest they bought?
A. $25.
B. $75.
C. $80.
D. $2000.
( )2. What did Myers and his students do at the beginning of the trip?
A. They went into the rain forest.
B. They bought acres of rain forest.
C. They took a boat ride down a river.
D. They visited Costa Rica's active volcano.
( )3. The word "Destruction" in Paragraph 2 probably means "the process of being______". A. destroyed B. developed C. described D. discovered
( )4. When the monkeys saw Myers and his students, they_______.
A. felt excited
B. felt angry
C. jumped off the trees
D. left the rain forest
( )5. The passage mainly shows that Myers and his students_______.
A. did something to protect rain forests
B. wanted to buy the rain forest in Costa Rica
C. were interested in the culture of Costa Rica
D. went to the rain forest for various fun activities
【答案】BCABA
（6）
At one time or another we have all stopped to think about weather. Some days the weather is good. Some days the weather is bad. Still, there are days when the weather seems to change from hour to hour. A day that starts out fine might not stay that way. Sometimes a day that seems bad turns out better than you thought it would. There are ways of understanding the weather. One way is to study the clouds.
No two clouds are ever alike. But it is still possible to group clouds and to give them names. We can recognize the different kinds of clouds and watch them for signs of changing weather.
As a rule, the higher the clouds, the better the weather. And the lower the clouds, the worse the
weather is likely to be. To predict the weather, there are three things about clouds you should look for: movement. color, and change.
Clouds can tell you if storm is on the way. For example, small feathery cirrus clouds(卷云) can become thick and move lower. This means rain is on the way. If there is a sudden, cool breeze（微风）and a dark thunder(雷声) clouds appears, then a storm is about to break out.
( )1. According to the first paragraph, we can say that_______.
A. the weather always remains the same in a day
B. a fine day can't last for long
C. we rarely think about the weather
D. the weather-changes a lot
( )2. The importance of studying clouds is to_______.
A. learn about the change of weather
B. group them and give them names
C. tell the differences in clouds
D. find the likeness of clouds
( )3. Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A. If clouds are high, there will be bad weather.
B. The color of clouds is a factor to help predict the weather.
C. If the weather is good, the clouds must be very low.
D. To study clouds is the only way. to understand the weather.
( )4. Which of the following is the sign of a storm?
A. A sudden and warm wind.
B. Thick and lower clouds.
C. Small and feathery cirrus clouds.
D. Dark and thunder clouds.
( )5. This passage is mainly about
A. the relation between the weather and clouds
B. the ways of grouping and naming clouds
C. the causes of differences in weather
D. the sign of the rain and storm
【答案】DABDA
（7）
My teenage son Karl became withdrawn after his father died. As a single parent, I tried to do my best to talk to him. But the more I tried, the more he pulled away. When his report card arrived during his junior year, it said that he had been absent 95 times from classes and had six falling grades for the year. In this case he would never graduate. I sent him to the school adviser, and I even begged（乞求）him. Nothing worked.
One night I felt so powerless that l got down on my knees and begged for help. "Please God, I can't do anything more for my son. I'm at the end of my rope. I'm giving the whole thing up to you."
I was at work when I got a phone call. A man introduced himself as the headmaster. "I want to talk to you about Karl's absences." Before he could say another word, I choked（哽咽）up and all my disappointment（失望）and sadness over Karl came pouring out into the ears of this stranger. "I love my son but I just don't know what to do. I've tried everything to get Karl to go back to school and nothing has worked. It's out of my hands." For a moment there was silence on the other end of the line. The headmaster seriously said, "Thank you for your time." and hung up.
Karl's next report card showed a marked improvement in his grades. Finally, he was even on the list of the best students at school. In his fourth year, I attended a parent-teacher meeting with Karl.
I noticed that his teachers were surprised at the way he had turned himself around.
After the meeting, Karl said, "Mum, remember that call from the headmaster last year?" I nodded. "That was me. I thought I'd play a joke but when I heard what you said, it really hit me how much I was hurting you. That's when I knew I had to make you proud."
( )1. By saying "Karl became withdrawn", the writer means the boy changed completely and
_______.
A. preferred to stay alone at home
B. lost interest in his studies
C. refused to talk to others
D. began to dislike his mother
( )2. There was silence on the other end of the line because the speaker _______.
A. was too moved to say anything to the mother
B. waited for the mother to finish speaking
C. didn't want the mother to know who he was
D. didn't want to say to his mother
( )3. The phrase "at the end of my rope" means _______ in Chinese.
A. 心如刀割
B. 心意冷
C. 失魂落魄
D. 山穷水尽( )4. What does this passage mainly tell us?
A. Being understood by parents is very important to teenagers.
B. Mother's love plays an important part in teenagers' life.
C. School education doesn't work without full support from parents.
D. Children in single-parent families often have problems with their mind. ( )5. The best title for the passage is _______.
A. A lonely boy
B. How to get on with a teenager
C. A student who turned himself around
D. A joking phone call
【答案】CADBD
（8）
( )1. Students can borrow more than two books at a time___________.
A. for sending exams
B. to do school research
C. for after-school activities
D. to read together with their parents
( )2. _________must be paid when a student loses the book he borrows.
A. Three dollars
B. Half the price of the book
C. Full price of the book
D. Twice the price of the book
( )3. This library guide is for_________________
A. teachers from Wildwood
B. workers in Wildwood School Library .
C. visitors to Wildwood School
D. parents of the Wildwood School students.
【答案】BCD
（9）
People use their mouths for many things. In the English language, there are many expressions using the word “mouth”. But some of them are not so nice.
Sometimes, people say something to a friend or a family member. Later they regret because it hurts that person’s feelings.Or they tell the person something they didn’t mean to tell. The speaker might say: “I really put my foot in my mouth this time.”
Sometimes when one person is speaking, he says the same thing that his friend is going to say. When this happens, the friend might say: “You took the words right out of my mouth!” Sometimes a person has a bad or sad experience with another person. He might say that experience “left a bad taste in my mouth.” Or the person possibly has a very frightening(可怕的）experience, like having an angry dog running after him. He might say: “I had my heart in my mouth.”
Some people have lots of money because they were born into a very rich family. You might say the person “was born with a silver spoon (银勺) in his mouth”. He is the opposite of a person living from “hand to mouth”. This person is very poor and only has enough money for the most important things in life, like food.
( )1. The underlined word “regret” may mean _____________.
A. feel sorry
B. feel excited
C. feel proud
D. feel surprised
( )2. When a man says “I had my heart in my mouth”, usually he means he was
_____________.。