牛津译林版八年级上册英语8A期末复习--阅读理解(含答案)

牛津英语 8A 期末复习--阅读理解

（1）

Fall is here again. And it’s that time of year when it gets a little colder, the days get

a little shorter, and the bears get much, much fatter.

Every year at this time, there is a competition for bears in Alaska’s Katmai National

Park to look for the fattest bear in the park. Online voters( 网上投票者) around the

world will choose the winner. The competition goes on for a week, so it is called Fat

Bear Week. This year’s competition ended on October 8. The winner was a bear

named Holly. Between July 12 and September 22, she grew from a thin bear into a

giant beast(巨兽).

Bears have to get fat so that they can hibernate(冬眠). By the time they go into

hibernation, male brown bears weigh from 600 pounds(272 kg)to 900 pounds(408 kg).

Adult females usually weigh about a third less. Hibernation can last for half a year

and a bear can lose up to one third of its weight during this time. So it’s healthy for

the bears to get fat. If the hears don’t get fat enough, they could die during

hibernation.

1. can choose which bear is the fattest and wins the competition.

A. Workers in the park

C. Scientists in Alaska B. People around the world

D. The bears themselves

2. According to the passage, a 600-pound bear will weigh about after

hibernation.

A. 200 pounds B. 250 pounds C.300 pounds

. D. 400 pounds

3. Paragraph 2 mainly tells us about

A. Fat Bear Week B. Alaska’s Katmai National Park

D. Holly, the fattest bear C. the hibernation of bears

4. We can infer from the passage that the competition began on .

A. September 22

C. October 2 B. September 26

D. October 8

5. What can we learn about Holly from the passage?

A. Holly won the competition on September 22.

B. Holly will hibernate for about a year and may die during that time.

C. Holly was a thin bear before July 12 and then became fat very fast.

D. The aim of the competition was to get ready for hibernation.

（2） I live with my grandmother in a Beijing yard house. One day last year, I was

surprised to see a big foreigner coming out of the house next door to ours. He was

very tall with short brown hair and a pair of glasses.

The first time I saw him, I was too shy to speak to him. “My English is too bad!” I

thought. My grandmother told me that he had just moved into our yard. “I don’t like

it!” she said, “Foreigners aren’t like us. Maybe he’ll play loud music and parties every

night! I’m sure he’s going to cause trouble.”

Several days later, I met the foreigner as I was walking home after work. “Hello!”

he said (in Chinese！). “My name’s Tony. I’ve just moved into the house next door to

yours.” While I was wondering what to say, he continued, “ There’s a nice bar( 酒吧)

down the road. Why don’t you and your family come and have dinner with me?”

“Bars are bad places,” said my grandmother when I told her, but we decided to go.

The bar was not at all what I had expected. It was in a beautiful little yard house,

with several large bookshelves and pictures of Tibet on the walls. Several Chinese

people and foreigners were sitting drinking or reading books. I noticed that some of

the foreigners were speaking Chinese in a low voice to each other! “Oh, what a

civilizepdlace!” my grandmother exclaimed.

The bar served(提供) special “hutong pizzas”. As we ate, Tony told us about

himself-he is an English expert( 专家) in environment ( 环境). He always likes to be

quiet. My grandmother said to me, “He really seems like a very nice young man.”

1. When the writer first saw the foreigners, she______.

A. was frightened to him B. wanted to practice English with him

D. hoped to invite the foreigner to the bar C. felt too shy to speak to him

2. From the sentence “Bars are bad places”, we can know that the

grandmother______.

A. was very excited

C. didn’t like bars B. didn’t go to the bar

D. was angry with Tony

3. What’s the meaning of the word “civilized” in the passage?

A.文明的 B.喧闹的 C.野蛮的 D.讨厌的

4. Which of the following sentence is NOT true?

A. Tony made a lot of noise every night.

B. Tony was an English expert in environment.

C. There were some foreigners speaking Chinese in the bar.

D. The grandmother thought Tony caused some trouble.

5. The best title for this story is______.

A. A Bar in Tibet B. A Foreigner in Beijing C. Bars are bad places D. Foreigners like bars

（3）

Jose Condori is a Peruvian( 秘鲁的)boy. When he was just seven years old,

he started the Bartselana Student Bank. The bank is very unusual. It not only

helps students save money, but also helps them save the earth.

He thought of the idea after seeing his classmates spend all their pocket

money on toys. They even threw away many old toys every year. Condori