八年级阅读周周练(七)--金山校区

八年级中等偏上阅读周周练(七）

---金山校区（吴海燕）

Reading comprehension.(阅读理解）

A.Choose the best answer (选择最恰当的答案) （12分）

Teenager Jake Denham was skiing with his family in the USA when he fell over and lost one of his skis(滑雪橇). His family didn’t know that he had a problem. They kept on skiing. When they got to the foot of the mountain, there was no sign of Jake.

It was now getting dark and Jake couldn’t work out the right way to go. He knew that he might die that night in the cold temperatures. But Jake kept calm. At home, Jack watched a lot of TV programmes and knew that he should build a hole in the snow. He made a hole and pointed it up the hill so the wind couldn’t blow into it. outside his hole, the temperature fell to a dangerous -15℃that night, but inside it Jake was safe from the cold.

But he had to get down the mountain. The TV programmes always said, “If you are lost, you should find someone else’s tracks through the snow and follow them.” “I wanted to live my life,” remembers Jake. “So I got up and I found some ski tracks and I followed those.” He walked and walked and finally he saw lights. Nine hours after he lost his ski, he found a team of workers who came to save him. He was safe!

His mum was very happy when she heard the news. Amazingly, Jake didn’t even have to go to hospital. He got through the terrible experience without any injuries.

So, the next time someone says that watching TV is a waste of time, think of Jake. Sometimes TV can save your life!

( ) 56 Jake’s parents didn’t know that he was missing until ________.

A they reached the foot of the mountain

B they began to ski down the mountain

C a team of workers found Jake

D Jake lost one of his skis

( ) 57 When was Jake Denham skiing most probably?

A In the morning.

B In the afternoon.

C At noon.

D At night.

( ) 58 What was the most important decision Jake made for his safety?

A To go skiing with his family in the USA

B To search for the ski that he had lost in the snow

C To take off his other ski and walk down the mountain

D To build a hole in the snow to keep himself warm

( ) 59 How did Jake get down the mountain the next morning?

A He followed his parents

B He followed the workers

C He followed some ski tracks

D He followed some lights

( ) 60 What is the correct order in which these events happened?

a Jake made a hole in the snow

b Jake lost one of his skis

c Jake finally saw lights

d Jak

e skied with his family

A d-b-a-c

B a-b-c-d

C b-a-d-c

D c-b-a-d

( ) 61 Facing the difficulties, Jake Denham was ________.

A quiet and hardworking

B calm and clever

C lovely and helpful

D warm and friendly

Keys:BDCABB

B．Choose the words or expressions and complete the passage. (选择最恰当的单词或短语，完成短文) （6分）

Most 20-year-olds are still trying to ___1____ out what they want to do in life. Not Boyan Slat. Ever since he was 16 years old, the Dutch (荷兰的) teenager has had one mission—to clean up the plastic waste that is polluting our oceans.

Five years ago, Slat took a diving trip in Greece. He was ____2____ to see that there was more plastic in the sea than fish. Upon completing high school, he started to ____3____ his dream of becoming an engineer. However, he could never erase the images of the plastic waste from his mind.

So in 2013, Slat ____4____ out of college and set up The Ocean Cleanup Foundation (海洋清理基金会). Its mission is to create an environmentally friendly way to ____5____ the plastic pollution from our oceans.

Within a year, the young man came up with the idea of a cleaning design. He wanted to build floating barriers in the ocean. With the help of the ocean’s natural waves, the barriers could collect plastic waste. He then led an international team of 100 scientists and engineers and started an experiment in the Pacific Ocean (太平洋). The experiment was a huge success, and it only____6____ a little money.

For now, Slat and his team are building a 2,000-meter-long floating barrier in the ocean between Japan