1、【八年級(jí)下英語(yǔ)閱讀回答問題】 英語(yǔ)閱讀回答問題技巧閱讀回答問題（一）Do you have friends? Yes, of course. The need of a friend is unquestionable in these days. International Friendship Day is a day for celepating friendship. And it is very popular in western countries. The day has been celepated in several southern South American cou

2、ntries for many years. Friendship Day comes on different dates in different countries. In 2011 the General Assembly of the United Nations （聯(lián)合國(guó)大 會(huì)） stated 30 July as official International Friendship Day.On a Friendship Day, not only teenagers but people in all age groups have different ways to make

3、this day special for their friends. Someb elieve to give a surprise party to their very dear friends, while some believe to go for an outing and talk to each other will make their life special. Those who live far away from each other and can t make to meet personally on Friendship Day prefer to send

4、 flowers and greeting cards online. There are different kinds of gifts in these days on Friendship Day.Some believe to give expensive gifts like a watch, a mobile phone, a music player to their friends. There is no exact way how to celepate a Friendship Day, and it depends on each and every one s fe

5、elings and standard of living. So people should think of the cost while celepating Friendship Day. If you want to leave a memorable Friendship Day in the mind of your friends, the best way is to pay attention to what your friends like most. Prepare in such a way and they will feel you are the specia

6、l one in their life. 1. Is Friendship Day very popular in western countries?2. When is International Friendship Day?3. Howd o people offer Friendship Day greetings if they are far away from each other?4. What should people do to make a memorable Friendship Day?5. What does the writer mainly tell us

7、about Friendship Day?閱讀回答問題（二）Harvard University is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. It celepated its 350th birthday in 1986. Since its birth hundreds of years ago, the university has grown from nine students with a single teacher to more than 18,000 degree candidates.

8、 Over 14,000 people work at Harvard, including more than 2,000 teachers and professors. Seven presidents of the United States were graduates of Harvard, and it has produced 40 Nobel Prize winners.Harvard College was built in 1636 and was named for John Harvard, its first benefactor（ 捐助人） . John Harv

9、ard was a young priest .He died in 1638 and left his lipary and half his money to the new institution. Nowadays, Harvard is one of the richest university in the world.Who is a typical Harvard student? The answer is that there is no such person. They come from all over the United States and more than

10、 100 other countries. In 1997, Mary Fasano became the oldest person to get a Harvard degree when she graduated at theage of 89.The John Harvard Statue （雕像） , located in front of University Hall, was completed in 1984 and is now known as ?The Statue of Three Lies （謊言）. Although the writing on the sta

11、tue reads ?John Harvard, Founder, 1938 , none of the writing is true. The statue is not really John Harvard, since no pictures of Mr Harvard has ever been found; John Harvard was not the founder （創(chuàng)建者） of Harvard College; and the College started in 1636. However, the statue is very popular with touri

12、sts, and each year, thousands of visitors touch John Harvard s shoe for luck.1. Is Harvard University the oldest institution of higher learning in the USA?2. How many people work at Harvard?3.What did John Harvard leave to the new institution after he died?4. Why is the John Harvard Statue also call

13、ed?The Statue of Three Lies ? 5. Whatdoes the writer think of Harvard University?閱讀回答問題（三）Winners ClubWinners Club is a bank account （賬戶 ） specially for teenagers. It has been sep upto help you better manage your money. The club is a bank account where you receive a key-card, so you can enjoy dealin

14、g with your money 24/7 that s 24 hours a day,7 days a week!Here are the features （特點(diǎn) ） of the club.No account keeping fees （ 費(fèi)用 ）!Youre not a rich man, so we dont expect you to pay large fees. In fact, it sfree for all the service!Excellent interest rates （利率 ）!You want your money to grow, right? If

15、 you put money into the club without taking it out for a year, the club will give you a good rate of interest.Convenient （ 方便 ） ！Teenagers are busy we get that. You may never need to come to a bank at all. With the club you can choose to use handy tellers and to bank from home using the phone and th

16、e Internet. This could be your pocket money or your pay from your part-time job!A free magazine included ！Besides your account report, you will receive a free magazine full of good ideas about making more money. There are also other fantastic offers only for the club members.Easy to be a member ！It

17、is so easy to join. Simply fill in an application form （申請(qǐng)表 ）. By the way, oneof your parents must agree on it. Then you can become a member of the club.Now you see the club is a great choice for teenagers. We can t wait to have youas a Winners Club member. 1. Is Winners Club specially for teenagers

18、? 2.How many features of Winners Club are mentioned in the passage? 3.How do you make your money in Winners Club grow? 4.What ideas can the club members read on the magazine? 5.What does the writer mainly tell teenagers?閱讀回答問題（四）One morning it took me an hour to watch a small ant carry a huge feathe

19、r across my back porch （ 走廊 ）.Several times it met objects on its path and after a short time it would go around them.At one point the ant had to deal with a crack （裂縫） about 10mm wide. After a shorttime of thought, the ant laid the feather over the crack, walked across it and picked it up on the ot

20、her side then continued on its way.I was attracted by the cleverness of this ant, one of God s smallest creatures （生物 ）. It was an example of the wonder of creation. Here was an insect, tiny, yet given a pain （ 大腦 ） to think, explore, discover and beat difficulties. But this ant, just like people, a

21、lso shares human weaknesses.After some time the ant finally reached its home a flower bed at the end of theporch and a small hole that was the entrance to its underground home. And it was here that the ant finally faced the problem. How could that large feather possibly fit down the small hole?Of co

22、urse it couldn t. So the ant, after all this trouble and using much creativity, beating difficulties all along the way, just left the feather behind and went home.The ant had not thought the problem through before it began its pave journey andin the end the feather was nothing more than a heavy weig

23、ht.Isn t our life like that?We worry about how much money we have, we worry about work, about where we live, about all kinds of things. These worries are heavy things, and they make an already difficult life even more difficult. Worrying will do nothing good for us. When we get to where we want to b

24、e in life, we will understand that worrying can only ping us down. 1. Did the writer show a great interest in the ant at first? 2. How did the ant cross the crack? 3. Did the ant take the feather into the hole or give it up? 4. What do you think of the ant? 5. What does the writer want to tell us?閱讀

25、回答問題（五）Alexander Graham Bell was a British man who was a teacher to people who could not hear. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1847 and went to school in Edinburgh and London. People who can not hear any sounds at all are called deaf people, and Alexander became interested in helping them to l

26、earn to speak. He taught people how to use their mouths to make the sounds needed for talking.Bell s family moved to Canada in 1870 and to the USA in 1871. For several years he taught the people who could not speak in Boston. But at the same time he was developing a way to use electricity to send th

27、e sounds of talking along a wire, and he made the first telephone in June, 1875. He worked hard in his workshop for six months with his helper Tom Watson. Finally, he spoke these famous words slowly into the telephone, Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you. and Watson came to him. The telephone d

28、eveloped quickly in the USAo ver the next few years. The Bell Telephone Companys tarted in 1877, and in 1878 the first telephone centre was built in NewY ork. More than 150,000 people had telephones in their homes ten years later. Alexander Graham Bell was a kind man and spent much of his money and

29、time during the rest of his life helping deaf people. In 1922 he died in Canada.1Where was Alexander Graham Bell born, in England or Scotland?2What was he interested in doing when he was in Britain?3. When was the first telephone invented?4Did he stop helping the disabled when he became famous?5What

30、 do you think of the great inventor?閱讀回答問題（六）Around the world more and more people are taking part in dangerous sports and activities. Of course, there have always been people who have looked for adventure（ 冒 險(xiǎn)）-those who have climbed the highest mountains, traveled into unknown parts of the world o

31、r sailed in small boats across the greatest oceans. Now, however, there are people who look for an immediate excitement from a risky（冒險(xiǎn)的） activity whichmay only last a few minutes or even seconds. I would consider bungee（蹦極） jumpingto be a good example of such an activity. You jump from a high place

32、（perhaps a pidge or a hot-air balloon） 200 meters above the ground with an elastic（ 有彈性的 ） rope tied to your ankles. You fall at up to 150 kilometers an hour until the rope stops you from hitting the ground. It is said that about 2 million people around world have now tried bungee jumping. Other act

33、ivities which most people would say are as risky as bungee jumping include jumping from tall buildings and diving into the sea from the top of high cliff（懸崖）.For the reasons, some psychologists explain that many people think their life in modern societies has become safe and boring. Not very long ag

34、o, people s lives were constantly（ 持續(xù)的） in danger. They had to go out and hunt for food, diseases could not easily be cured, and life was a continuous battle （戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)）for survival.Nowadays, according to many people, life offers little excitement. They live and work in comparatively safe conditions; they

35、buy food in shops; and there are doctors and hospitals to look after them if they become ill. The answer for some of thesepeople is to look for danger in activities such as bungee jumping.1. Are there many people who are taking part in the dangerous sports?2. How many kinds of dangerous sports does

36、the writer refer to?3. How long does a bungee jumping usually last?4. What do many people think of their life nowadays?5. What does the writer tell us in the last two paragraphs? 閱 讀 回答問題（七）Frank W. Woolworth was born in Rodman, New York, in 1852. His family was very poor, and there was never enough

37、 to eat. Frank decided he did not want to be a farmer. He took a short business course, and went to work as a salesman in a large city.Frank realized he had a natural skill for displaying goods to arouse people s interest, but he soon learned something more important. One day his boss told him to se

38、ll some odds and ends（ 小商品 ）for as much as he could get. Frank put all these things on one table with a sign which said: FIVE CENTS EACH. People fought and pushed to buy the things and the table was soon cleared.Soon afterwards, Frank opened his own store, selling goods at five and ten cents.But he

39、had another lesson to learn before he became successful. That is, if you want to make money by selling low-price goods, you have to buy them in large quantities directly from the factories. Once, for example, Frank went to Germany and placed an order for knives. The order was so large that the facto

40、ry had to keep running 24 hours a day for a whole year. In this way, the price of the knives was cut down by half.By 1919, Frank had over 1,000 stores in the USA and Canada, and opened his firststore in London. He madem any millions and his nameb ecamef amous throughout the world.He always worked ha

41、rd and ran his business according to strict rules, of which the most important was:1Were Frank s parents rich?2 Why did Frank take a short business course?3 Where did Frank once place an order for knives?4 How many stores did Frank have in the USA and Canada by 1919?5 How did Frank make his business

42、 successful?閱讀回答問題（八）AUTUMN is harvest （ 收獲 ） time for the 27 eighth-graders at Heritage Middle School in Painesville, Ohio. They couldn t wait to pick ripe vegetables from the schoolgarden behind the school s lipary. There were tomatoes, beans, peppers and poccoli. The 27 students took part in the

43、school s garden project. The program teaches aboutenvironmental issues （ 環(huán)保事宜 ） water, soil and energy as well as leadershipand team-building skills.I hope it helped to get the kids outside to start their own garden at home, said Colleen Royer, coordinator （協(xié)調(diào)人 ） of the program.Several gardening exp

44、erts helped the students build two garden beds and plant some vegetables in May. For some students, it s their first taste of the garden s fresh vegetables. Others have been working through the hot summer months to keep the plants alive.Eighth-grader Christopher DiPierro and his family pulled weeds,

45、 watered and even took home some ripe vegetables.His mother, Laura, said her other children also took part and it was a great learning experience for the whole family.We went to work one day a week in the summer, she said.The kids learned how to be patient. Chris paid extra attention and it was real

46、ly exciting for him. Hes not a tomato fan, but he agreed to try.At the end of September, the school made pepperoni （意大利香辣腸 ） and jalapeno （ 墨西哥胡椒 ） pizza with the peppers and tomatoes from the garden. All the students enjoyed the delicious food the fruits of their labor together. 240 w1. Is autumn h

47、arvest time for some eighth graders at Heritage Middle School?2. Where is their vegetable garden, behind the school or behind the school s lipary?3. How many students took part in the schools garden project?4. Who else took part in the project in Christophers family?5. What are the purposes of the s

48、chools garden project according to the passage?Have you ever been in a rainforest? There arent any in Europe but there are somein Africa, Asia and South America. I was in a rainforest once. It was hot and dark.It was also very wet. Water was falling from the leaves of the trees like rain. The ground

49、 was covered with dead leaves but there were thousands of new plants growing.The most exciting plants were the large trees. Somew ere 50 meters high. I could only see little pieces of blue sky through the leaves. All the trees had small plants growing on them, and some of these had beautiful, pightl

50、y colored flowers. It was very noisy. I could hear lots of birds. They were hard to see but I saw one green and red parrot flying high above me. It was beautiful. The insects（昆蟲） also madea lot of noise and I could feel them on my arms and legs. I didnt see any monkeys.They were probably sleeping high up in the treetops. I did see a small snake on the ground. I hate snakes so I walked quickly but carefully out of the forest. I wouldn t like to live in a rainforest but I am happy that I could see one before they all disappear from Earth.64. Has the writer been to a real rainforest?65. Were th