2018-2019八年级上英语进阶集训—阅读理解（一）
一、阅读理解
1.
Mr zhang is on business in France. Here is the hotel card for him. According to the information on he card. choose the right answers.
（1）Mr Zhang lives in ______.
A.Hotel Eiffel
B.Hotel Concorde
C.Hotel Mapol
D.Hotel Napoleon
（2）The hotel is ______.
A.on King Street near a bank
B.next to a museum
C.near a train station
D.on George Street
（3）______ buses can reach the hotel.
A.Two
B.Three
C.Four
D.Five
（4）If Mr Zhang gets lost, he can ______.
A.take Bus 507 to the hotel
B.wait until the light is green
C.go back to the hotel to search the Internet
D.call the hotel at the phone number on the card
（5）Which of the following is TRUE?
A.Open the door when the red light is on.
B.The card can be used to open the door.
C.The card can be used for shopping.
D.Mr Zhang can keep the card when he checks out.
2.
Woodblock printing（木版印刷）appeared between about the 4th and the 7th century in China. In 868 AD, there was the earliest printed book. It was in a cave in
Dunhuang. Woodblock printing took much time because every page in a book needed a new woodblock. By the 12th century there were printed books all over China. They included books of Confucius, dictionaries, and books on maths. In 1341 printed books had two colours, black and red.
Although the Chinese learned about printing so early, no one brought printing to other parts of the world for hundreds of years. It is thought that when the great Italian traveller Marco Polo visited China in the 13th century, he saw printed books. But printed books did not come to Europe until 1450 when a German named Johannes Gutenberg invented a printing machine. Twenty-six years later, in 1476, a British man named William Caxton made the first printed book in English. His second book was about the game of chess. Caxton printed about a hundred books and some are still in museum today.
（1）Woodblock printing was probably invented ______.
A.between the 4th century and the 7th century
B.in the year of 868 AD
C.in the 1lth century
D.in the 13th century
（2）Woodblock printing took long time, because ______.
A.every page needed a new woodblock
B.there were too many letters in one page
C.there were two colours in one page
D.there werent enough people to make wood-blocks
（3）We should have ______ if we had lived in the 12th century.
A.read books with red and black letters
B.read books of physics
C.read printed books in a European country
D.read printed books in many places of China
（4）A(n) ______ person printed the first printed English book.
A.Italian
B.German
C.British
D.Chinese
（5）What can we learn from the passage?
A.Printed books first appeared in Europe.
B.Johannes Gutenberg invented a printing machine.
C.Caxton only printed one book in his life.
D.The first printed book was English.
3.
A man made a nice talking machine. It could weigh people’s weight. The man wanted to try the machine before he could make a lot of machines. He put the machine into the waiting
