牛津英语译林版八年级上册期末复习专项练习-阅读理解B卷(含答案)

1、You dont have much time for your diary、but you really want to remember your best or worst tmies in life. Nme Square Diary 步L宫格日 ic! is coming to help. This new kind of diary has nine squares They show nine different areas in life, such as plans, feelings and health. Writing this diary is very easy a

2、nd you can finish it in only a few minutes. That is why it is so popular nowHere is a page of Nine Square Diary from Sun Ning a middle school student.Happy thingsWent to my &leads birthday party.Enjoyed myself.Helping othersHelped my cousin get ready for the singing competition.PlanTo draw a picture

3、 for the school art festival of next termImprovementWent to the market with Mom and learned to pick tomatoes.July 31,2021 FridayFeelingMom and Dad told me about their jobs Glad they dont see me as a little kid any longer.NewsChina finished building BDS 北斗卫星导航系统.HealthFelt a little tired because of t

4、oo much summer vacation homeworkDreamTo have a meeting with our head teacher to discuss if we should rule our school by ourselves.1. Why is Nine Square Diary so popular?A. Because it is a new kind of diary.B. Because it shows nine areas in life.C. Because it can save us a lot of time D. Because it l

5、ooks clear and beautiful.2. Sun Ning feltthe talk with her parents.A. happy about B. tired ofC. angry with D. sorry for3. What did Sun Ning do on July 31?B. Ate a delicious tomato dish at home.D. Had a talk with the head teacher.A. Helped her cousin with a competition.C. Wrote a piece of news about

6、BDS.BIn many places, people build roads through animals habitats 栖息地 All day long, cars and trucks pass by. The animals cant always stay away from the road. They may need to cross it to get their food and water The road is dangerous. If a car hits an animaL the animal would be badly hurt or even kil

7、led The people in the car would get hurt, loo. Animals need a way to get around their habitat without having to walk across the road. But how?Some people have thought of a solution 方法 They build wildlife corridors 走廊that let animals cross roads safely. Some wildlife corridors are bridges that go ove

8、r roads People plant trees and grass on these bridges so they look like the natural habitat. Other wildlife corridors are tunnels 隧itt that go under the roads Animals can look through them and see the habitat on the other side.Different animals like to use different kinds of corridors. Some animals,

9、 such as moose and deer, like open spaces They like bridge conidors bette 匚 Other animals, like black bears .like the tunnel corridors Wildlife corridors help animals get around their habitats to find food. They also keep people from getting into dangerous accidents They are a great way for animals

10、and people to live in the same area safely.4. From Paragraph 1 we can learn roads through animals habitat.A. make many animals unable to find food B. make many animals leave their habitatsC. let animals walk around their habitats freely D. put both animals and people in danger5. People build wildlif

11、e corridors mainly to!A. help animals find more foodB. make animals stay in their habitatsC. provide more habitats for animalsD. protect animals from being hurt6. would like to cross the road through tunnel corridorsA. MonkeysB. Black bearsC. DeerD. MooseAfter Chinese government made a law on Febnia

12、ry 24 to stop the hunting of wild animals and peoples game meat consumption 野味i肖费，Shenzhen City, in soutliem China s Guangdong Province、became one of die first places across the country to act. It released a draft 发布草案the next day. People in Shenzhen were active in discussing it after the draft was

13、released.Some people said the draft would make a lot of restaurants get into trouble Wang Guohui, head of Rongji, a very popular restaurant in Shenzhen that sells snake meat, said the draft is bad news for the restaurants He said that Shenzhen has thousands of snake meat restaurants with over 100.00

14、0 workers.1 will be a serious problem if the draft is carried out 实施In order to learn about people s ideas, tliere was a survey i周査online According to Shenzhen Special Zone Daily, more than 10.000 people took part in the survey It talked about some aiiunals that were quite popular on Shenzhen people

15、s dnung tables. People needed to answer two questions: Which animals do you think people should be prevented from eating? Which animals do you think people can eat?In total Shenzhen government got more than 2.000 emails Zhang Xiya is a volunteer of an animal protection organization. She was in favor

16、 of the draft, because she thought it could be a useful way to protect wild animalsFollowing Shenzhen, Guangzhou. the capital city of Guangdong, also released a draft. Who will be the next?7. What did Wang Guohui mainly worry about?A. There will be less and less space for humans.C. The snakes may hu

17、rt the workers in his restaurant.8. What was the survey online about?A. The way of cooking game meat.C. The animals that people should or shouldnt eat.B. People cant eat nice game meat any more.D. Many people may lose their jobs because of the draft.B. The importance of protecting wild animalsD. The

18、 popular food on Sheiizlieii people s dining tables9. The imderlined plirase was ill fhvor of in Paragraph 4 means.A. disagreed B. dislikedC prevented D supported10. What does the writer want to tell in the last paragraph?A. Shenzhen is the first city to release a draft.B. Many cities in China are f

19、acing serious problemsC. More cities should take action to protect wild animals D Game meat consumption will end soon in Guangdong.DFm 10 years old and Fm 1. 45 metres tall. I study harder than other students in my class, so I often get A+ in exams. I can play the piano well But I have a bad eating

20、habit I eat too much ice-cream every day.KelvinIm a 7-year-old student. Fm 1. 30 metres tall Im an active boy and I like making friends .Im good at playing the piano. Im smart, but not very hard-working I always get B in exams.PeterFm 7 years old .Im 1. 36 metres tall. I can*t do well in my study, b

21、ut I can swim very well I always win first place in swimming competitions. To keep healthy, I have eggs, vegetables. milk and meat every day.BillThere is an 8-year-old kung fit 功夫star in Class 2. Thats me. Im 1. 40 metres tall. Im funny. I spend a lot of time on kunfi fiL so my grades are not very g

22、ood. My teacher is worrying about meNick11 Bill is taller thanA. KelvinB. Peter C. Nick D. Nicks teacher12. Both Kelvin and Peter canA. make friends easily B. swim fast C. teach kung fu wellD. play the piano well13. What is Nick like?A. SmartB. ActiveC. Funny.D. Hard-workingDavid Beckham was one of

23、the greatest football players in the UK and even in the world. He and his wife Victoria have three sons. Harper is their youngest child and the only daughter. She is the apple of eveiyones eves in this family.Harper celebrated her 9th birthday in 2021. To have a wonderful party, the whole family got

24、 ready for it carefully. All of them had a wondeiful day at their home in the Cotswolds, England Tliey wore special T-shirts with words Happy Birthday, HarperAfter stopping his football life. Beckham became interested in many things. He worked as an actor. He learned to keep bees. At Harpers birthda

25、y party, he showed a new skill to us.The superstar shared a video of himself and Harper on Sina Weibo. In the video. both of them dressed in red clothes The girl was practicing writing Chinese calligraphy 书去with the help of her falhc匚 Haipcr was slowly writing the Chinese word qi. It means seven in

26、English and it is also her middle name. Relaxing in their Cotswolds home, they looked happy with their work and showed it in front of the camera14. What does the underlined sentence mean?A. Harper likes eating apples best.C. Harpers family love her very much15. What new skill did Beckham show to us?

27、B. Harpers face is round like an appleD. Everyone likes to buy apples for Harper.A. Keeping beesB. Teaching football.16. What can we learn from the passage?A. Beckham has a big family of five peopleC. Acting in a movie.D. Writing Chinese callB. Beckham shared Chinese culture on the Internet.C. The n

28、ame of the birthday girl is Seven Harper Beckham.D. Victoria and Beckham wrote Chinese calligraphy in the video.FnWhafs the name of our neighbour? I can*t remember right now. Did you ever hear your grandparents ask questions like this? Usually, we think older peoples memories 记忆力become bad because t

29、heir brains get weak But a team of scientists in Germany has a different ideaHThe human brain 人类大脑works slower in old age, Hsaid lead scientist Michael Ramscar, but only because they have stored more information over timeThe findings are a result 结果of many computer simulations 模拟of learning and memo

30、ry.Scientists let the computers read some words and learn new things each day. When the computer nreadsHonly so much. its result in cognitive iA知tests is similar to that of a young person. But if the computer learns much more than that, its result is similar to that of an older personIt is slower be

31、cause more information makes the computers database 数据库grow, giving it more data to work with which takes time This is similar to old peopleThink about this A person knows two peoples birthdays Another person knows the birthdays of 2,000 people, but can only match the right person to the right birth

32、day nine times out of ten Can you say the first person has a better memory than the second person? Tlie basic idea is that HThe larger the library you have in your head. the longer it usually takes to find a wordBenedict Carey, a science reporter for the New York Times .wrote in an article about the

33、 study.17. The writer uses a question at the beginning toA. make readers think of their neighboursB. make readers interested in the topicC. say that older people have bad memoriesD show why older people like asking questions18. How did the scientists do their study?A. They asked old peopleB. They as

34、ked both young and old people the same questionsC. They used computers to simulate humans learning and memoryD. They followed the lives of a group of old people.19. What does the underlined word similar in the passage mean in Chinese?A. almost the same asB. different fromC. very strangeD. quite usua

35、l20. What would be the best title for the passage?A. Do old people have poor memories?B. What are scientists1 new findings on brains?C. What is the human brains ability?D. Is it better to be old or young?DREAM CAR ART COMPETITIONDo you have a creative 创意的idea for what the car of the future might loo

36、k like? Come to join the 2021 Dream Car Art Compctition. All you need is some paper and drawing materials, such as color pencils and paints.Children of the following ages can take part in the competition:Group 1: Under 8 years oldGroup 2: 8-11 years oldGroup 3: 12-15 years oldYou should draw your dr

37、cam car on a piece of paper no larger than A3 size. You should also describe how the car works and what makes it special. Then, send your picture to toyota-contestgg .The closing date is January 20.2021.The result will come out in a month. There will be three winners in each group They can get an iP

38、ad and a smartphone. The top three winners will also take a trip to Japan in 2021 We hope the activity lets the children not only have fun, but also get to know how important their dreams arc.21 Who can take part in the competition?A. All teenagersB. People of all agesC Children over 15 years oldD.

39、Children under 15 years old.22. The top three winners will be able to.A. take a trip to JapanB. get a model carC get some drawing materialsD. take a ride in their dream car23. Which of the following is TRUE1A. The paper must be in A3 size or large匚B. There will be one winner in each groupC. Everyone

40、 should describe how to make his dream car. D All he winners will get an iPad and a smartphoneHBorn in a small town with a population 人 口 of around 50,000. 32-year-old Lin Pciyuan embeds 什茨入his hometown Yanhong into his writing He describes what happens to people around him in his bookA Guide to Sma

41、ll Town Living.In the south of the small town, the elders still live in farm houses. People pass down the houses from the old to the young. Some have a history of more than a century. Every family in the town has the tea ritual 仪式called onghu cha They put tea bowls in their living room for daily use

42、 and to welcome visitorsThe tradition, however, clashes P 突with the modern way of life these years. Things common in big cities are getting popular in the town, like night markets and fast food. Some middle-aged people have to change with the city life when they help look after their grandchildren.F

43、or the first time in over 10 years Lin returned to the life in his hometown. He stayed with his family for six months during the COVID-19 pandemic Lin took the time to listen to his old friends. It was a chance for him to collect stories for his writing He hopes they will help readers know more abou

44、t the countryside 24A Guide to Small Tow n Living is mainly aboutA. Yanhong historyB. peoples life in YanhongC. a journey to Yanhong D. Yanhong*s population25. What do we know about Yanhong*s tradition?A. The big family live in a houseB. Families often visit each othe匚C. People like to drink tea at

45、homeD. Old people all live in the farm houses26Thc underlined word theyM refers to.A. Lins old friends B. Lins family C. the stories Lin collectedD. the traditions of Lins hometownIMany parts of China had heavy rains and serious foods this year. It made us think back to the time in 1998 when the wor

46、st floods happened.Hubei got better after the fight against COVID-19. Just weeks after that, Hubei tried its best to face up to the heavy floods. Many other places had the same problem. For example, the flood problem in Hubei, neighbouring provinces of Jiangxi and Anhui was also serious. Quite a lot

47、 of people came to the Yangtze River area to help build dikes 堤坝to fight the floods.The worrying fact is that heavy rains and floods are becoming so common 常见的，not only in Asia but also in other parts of the world. Heavy rains and floods arent the only serious natural disasters. Cyclones, serious dr

48、oughts 干旱，and quickly melting ice cover in the Arctic and Antarctic are all very common now.This madness of nature is called climate 气彳I矣change China is one of the first countries to get to know the bad results ofclimate change. It is doing a lot of things to fight it, such as cutting pollution and

49、creating a greener environment. However, one countrys power 力量is limited. It needs the whole world to work together.ICs up to us humans to decide how the world will develop in the future Lets play a part in the fight against climate changeby building a green world together27. The first two paragraph

50、s mainly tell usA. the floods this year were serious C. COVID-19 is more serious than floods28. What is the third paragraph mainly about?A. The most worrying natural disaster. C. The results of different kinds of disasters29. What does the underlined word limited mean?B. its important to think back

51、oftenD. we should do something to fight COVID-19B. Natural disasters around the worldD. Different kinds of ways to save the earthA. Magic. B. Friendly.C. Popular.30. The writer asks us toA. find out the reasons for floodsC. pay a visit to Hubei and Jiangxi more oftenD. Small.B. go green to fight cli

52、mate changeD. learn more about the bad results of COVID-19When we were afraid, sad and helpless, you gave us courage, warmth and hopesWhen we had to stay at home because of the disease 疾 病，you, workers .helped us buy things necessary for daily life;Leaving your children behind, you worked in the nei

53、ghbourhood every day and you never complained but smiled the whole day.When we needed all kinds of materials, you. drivers, drove them there without thinking twice;Running on the streets, between the cities, you made sure things went well as usual.31 We had to stay at home becauseA. we didnt want to

54、 go outC. we didnt want to work32. Which can be the best for When we felt unwell, you., tried your best tosave our lives;Looking after the patients in the hospital day and night, you never gave up until the sick got well.There are many people doing jobs in silence;There are many people giving hands

55、without telling their names Thanks for your hard work and selflessness.Youre the heroes of the timesYoure the most beautiful in our heartsWe love you!B. we had enough foodD.we wanted to stay away from the disease9A.scientistsB. officersC. doctors and nursesD. teachers33. What is the writers purpose

56、目的of writing this poem?A.lo show his thanksB.To show his sadnessC To show his worries. D.To show his wishes.KMy home town, Spring, is in Texas, the US. There are no beautiful beaches or high mountains, but it is a nice place to live or visit.Spring is about one-hour drive from Houston, Texas1 larges

57、t city. Compared to 与相比Houston Spring is verysmall Every time I go to the store, I usually see 2 someone I know and can always meet someone new. A perk for being so far from the city is that there isnt any traffic When you get up in the morning, you can hear birds singing in the treesThere are two parts of Spring: the modern Spring and the Old Town Spring. The Old Town Spring has everything that the modern Spring has and moreold buildings, restaurants, shops. and one of the towns museums