八级上册任务型阅读.doc

此文档收集于网络，仅供学习与交流，如有侵权请联系网站删除1In America, boys and girls like watching TV. Some children spend six hours a day at school and four to six hours a day in front of the TV sets. Some children even watch TV for eight hours or more on Saturday.Television is like books and films. A child can learn both good things and bad things from it. (1)Some TV programs help children to understand the news, the people and places in other countries. With TV, children do not have to go to the movies. They can listen to interesting music or watch a game at home. (2)But some programs are bad for children, so parents sometimes should help them to find other interesting and useful things to do.1. How many hours a day do some children at school?_2. How many hours a day do some children watch TV on Saturday?_3. 将（1）句译成汉语_.4. 将（2）句译成汉语_.5. The parents had better not let their children watch _on TV.A. good programs B. bad programs C. news D. weather report3你的好朋友要去英国，他想了解在英国如何去看病，读下面的短文，比较两国的差异。There is a National Health Service in Britain. People usually call it “the NHS”. When people are ill, they can get free treatment （治疗）. The government pays for the treatment. In Britain everyone has a local doctor. The local doctor is a general practitioner (全科医生)(GP). A GP is a doctor who treats patients with all kinds of illness. He may not have specialists (专家) usually work in hospitals.If a man is ill and wants to see his doctor, he calls to make an appointment first. If he is too ill and he cant go out, his doctor will come to his house. If the patient has to take medicine, the doctor gives him a prescription(处方). The patient has to pay some money for the prescription. He goes to the chemists shop and buys the medicine there. The price is the same as any kind of medicine. But children, students, old people or people without work dont have to pay for their medicine.任务一：从文中找出下列各词：medical _(名词); different _(反义词)任务二：把文中画线改为一般疑问句。_ the government _ for the treatment?任务三：把文中画线处译成汉语。 _ _4Holidays in the United States usually happen at least once a month. Most months have a national(国家的) holiday on Mondays. Then the workers may have 3-day weekends, that is, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. On these days people can rest or go to interesting places or do things with their families. Greater holidays in the United States are New Years Day, Chrisman Day and Thanksgiving Day. In these holidays most businesses (工商企业) close and the workers stay at home and celebrate with their families.Holidays can be from 2 weeks a year. This usually depends on (取决于) how long youve been working for a place, or what kind of work you do. Usually the more time you spend working for a place, the more time you may get for a holiday.任务一：写出美国三个重要节日的汉语名字： New Years Day_;Christmas Day_; Thanksgiving Day_任务二：将划线部分译成汉语： _. _任务三：下列解释是那个单词，从文中找出。 Saturday and Monday_ The second day of the week_ Vacation_任务四：判断正误，正确写T，错的写F。 Holidays in the USA usually happen at least once a week. The more time you spend working for a place, the more time you may get for a holiday.5ATom is from London. Hes now in Beijing with his parents. His father and mother teach in a school. He studies in a middle school. The school is four miles from his home. He usually walks to school. He says, “It takes a bus. Hes never late, and hes always the first one to get school. Hes good at all his subjects, and he often helps us with our English. We all love him very much.B In America there is a new sport called “Earthball”. This kind of ball is very big. It was thought by Stuart Frand. He was once a hippy (嬉皮士). The idea of the game is to keep the ball in the air for as long as possible. As the ball is very big, logs of people love to play. There are no winners or losers in the game. The idea is simply to enjoy yourself as much as you can. Earthball is just of the games in a “New Games Festival”. The festival took place in the country near San Francisco, USA. Perhaps other countries can follow the example of American people and have festivals to test new games. It sounds like a good idea.任务一：根据A篇，填写句中所缺的单词。 Tom is _, not Chinese. His _ are both teachers. He usually goes to school on _. He sometimes goes to school _bus. He does _ in all his subjects.任务二：句型转换。 画线的反意疑问句部分是：_ _? 画线的同义句是：There _ any winners _ losers in the game.任务三：下列解释是哪个单词或短语，从文中一一找出。 sometimes _ happened _ have a good time_6Toto was a baby elephant. Her trunk was only one meter long. When she heard her father making a noise, Toto raised her trunk, too. The only noise that she could make was very little, like a toy whistle(哨声). Toto saw her mother pulling leaves from the top of a tree to eat them. She tried to reach the lowest branch, but she couldnt. So her father and mother had to help her to break the branch and it fell down to the ground. Toto was happy that she could eat the leaves.As it was a hot day, flies (苍蝇) sat in the corners of her eyes. She saw her mother pulling some grass with her trunk to drive off the flies.Toto 发觉这一点后不难。When the elephant walked to a river, her father would help her have a bath, He put the water in his trunk and poured it onto Totos back. She was very happy and cool.根据短文内容回答下列各题： How long is the baby elephants trunk?_ 将译成汉语：_ 猜测的词义：_ 将译成英语：_ How did the father help the baby elephant to have a bath?_.9先阅读短文，然后把方框中的句子填入问中空格内：December 23, 2005Dear Rose, How are you? I like your programs every much. Theyre very interesting and _1_. I like traveling and I have won a free four-week trip to England, but I know little about the British way of life. Would you please write to tell me something about the British meals? Thank you. Yours, Wang LinJanuary 1st, 2006Dear Wang Lin, Its very helpful to know something about the British meals before traveling. In many English houses, _2_. They are breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner. Breakfast takes place at any time from 7:00 to 9:00 in the morning. They usually have eggs, bread with butter, cheese and so on. English people drink tea or coffee at breakfast. _3_. It can be a hamburger or a three-course （三道菜）meal. Afternoon tea is between 4:00 pm and 5:00 pm. Dinner begins at about half past seven. The first course is soup. _4_.Then come fruits of different kinds: apples, pears, bananas and so on. But not all English people eat like that. _5_.Their meals are breakfast, dinner, tea and supper. And all these meals are usually simple.Wish you a good time in England! Yours, RoseA. The next is often meat or fish with vegetablesB. People eat four meals a dayC. I can learn a lot from themD. Lunch comes at one oclockE. Some of them have their dinner in the middle of the day11When George was thirty-five, he bought a small plane and learned to fly it. He soon became very good at it and made his plane do all kinds of tricks.George had a friend. His name was Mark. One day George wanted to take Mark up in his plane. Mark thought, “Ive traveled in a big plane several times, but Ive never been in a small one. So Ill do.”They went up, and George flew around for half an hour and did all kinds of tricks in the air. When they came down again, Mark was very glad to be back safely, and he said to his friend in a shaking （颤抖的）voice, “Well, George, thank you very much for those two trips in your plane.”George was very surprised and said, “Two trips?”“Yes, my first and my last,” answered Mark.根据短文内容完成下列各题。1. The best title of the passage should be _.2. How long was Marks trip in the small plane?3. 把划线的句子译成汉语：_4. 写出的形容词形式：_5. 写出的同义词组：_12In 1826, a Frenchman named Niepce needed pictures for his business. But he was not a good artist. So he invented a very simple camera. He put it in a window of his house and took a picture of his garden. That was the first photo.The next important date in the history of photography was in 1837. That year, Daguerre, another Frenchman, took a picture of his reading room. He used a new kind of camera in a different way. In his pictures you could see everything very clearly, even the smaller things. This kind of photo was called a Daguerretpye.Soon, other people began to use Daguerres way. Travelers brought back back wonderful photos from all around the world. People took pictures of people and moving things. That was not simple. The photographers had to carry a lot of films and other machines. But this did not stop them. For example, some in the United States worked so hard.Mathew Brady was a famous American photographer. He took many pictures of great people. The pictures were unusual because they were very lifelike (栩栩如生的).Photography also became one kind of art at the end of the 19th century. Some photos were not just copies of the real world. They showed ideas and feelings （情感）, like other kinds of art.根据短文内容完成下列各题：1. The first photo taken by Niepce was a picture of _.2. The Daguerreotype was _.3. If a photographer wanted to take pictures of moving things in the year of 1840, he had to _.4. Mathew Brady was famous for _.5. This passage mainly (主要的) tells us _.13In the future, life will be much better. Maybe there will be vision phones （可视电话）in every family. People can have a medical examination without a doctor or nurse in the room. If people want to do some shopping, they do not need to leave their homes. And what about education(教育)？There will be more educational programs on the radio or on TV, even on the Internet. So many children who live in faraway (遥远的) villages dont need to go to school every day. They can study at home. Each family will have a robot. Robots will help people with their housework.Maybe some people will go to the moon for a holiday and some people can live under the sea in hot summer.根据短文完成下列各题：1. If you are ill, you can see the doctor _ in the future.2. In the future, _ can help people do the housework.3. In the future, students can study on _.4. Some people can live under the sea _.5. People can go to the moon _.14Some people say human being (人类) are not the only animals that have languages. Other animals also “talk” to each other in different ways.For many years scientists have been making experim