Have you ever heard of Jinjiang Hotel? It is ...

Have you ever heard of Jinjiang Hotel? It is on our busiest street. It’s the best place to live in if you travel here. The hotel is only 0.5 kilometer from the biggest supermarket and the subway.

It has three kinds of rooms for different people to use. The first kind is standard room, that is two beds with a bathroom. It offers you the air conditioner, the television and the telephone. Second is the single room, that has only one bed. Though it has only one bed, you can enjoy yourself, for the bed is really comfortable and the environment is really good. The last one we call commercial room. That is served for businessmen. The commercial room has the best quality. It also provides 24-hour hot water. You can have free tea in the afternoon. Imagine how nice as you drink tea as talking about your business with your partners. If you want to eat something, please just call 123, the food will arrive in ten minutes.

One great thing is that it is very safe here because we have a few strong guards working day and night, so I’m sure you will have a great time living here.

1.If you live in Jinjiang Hotel, you can _______ easily.

A. go to a movie　 　 　　 　 B. go shopping

C. see a doctor　　　　 　　 D. have fast food

2.What kind of room is used for business?

A. Single room　　 　　 B. Standard room

C. Commercial room　　 　 D. Dining room.

3.Standard room doesn’t offer ______.

A. the telephone　　　 　　 B. the television

C. the air conditioner　 D. free tea

4.Another reason why travelers like to live in the hotel is that _______.

A. it has a safe living environment

B. you can go to the dining room to order food

C. it is the biggest hotel on the busiest street

D. you can work like the guards day and night.

5.Which of the following is TRUE?

A. There are four kinds of rooms for different uses.

B. Commercial room offers free tea in the morning.

C. If you want to eat something, you can call 123.

D. The standard room is the best of all.

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Have you ever heard of Jinjiang Hotel? It is on our busiest street. It’s the best place to live in if you　 travel here. The hotel is only 0.5 kilometer from the biggest supermarket and the subway.

It has three kinds of rooms　 for different people to use. The first kind is standard room, that is two beds with a bathroom. It offers you the air conditioner, the television and the telephone. Second is the single room, that has only one bed. Though it has only one bed, you can enjoy yourself, for the bed is really comfortable and the environment is really good. The last one we call commercial room. That is　 served for businessmen. The commercial room has the best quality. It also provides 24-hour hot water. You can have free tea in the afternoon. Imagine how nice as you drink tea as talking about your business with your partners. If you want to eat something, please just call 123, the food will arrive in ten minutes.

One great thing is that it is very safe here because we have a few strong guards working day and night, so I’m sure you will have a great time living here.

1.If you live in Jinjiang Hotel, you can _______ easily.

A. go to a movie　　　 B. go shopping

C. see a doctor　　　　 D. have fast food

2.What kind of room is used for business?

A. Single room　　 　　 B. Standard room

C. Commercial room　　 D. Dining room.

3.Standard room doesn’t offer ______.

A. the telephone　　 　　　 B. the television

C. the air conditioner　　 D. free tea

4.Another reason why travelers like to live in the hotel is that _______.

A. it has a safe living environment

B. you can go to the dining room to order food

C. it is the biggest

D. you can work like the guards day and night.

5.Which of the following is TRUE?

A.There are four kinds of rooms for different uses.

B.Commercial room offers free tea in the morning.

C.If you want to eat something, you can call 123.

D.The standard ro om is the best.

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---Have you ever_____Peter?

---Of course. He is a top student in our school.

A picked up      B heard about     C written down  D thought of

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Have you ever heard of a rattlesnake? It is a poisonous (有毒的) American snake. When it is angry or afraid, it makes a noise like a rattle with its tail. It’s very scary. But Heather Ramirez and her husband, from California, in the United States, make a living in an unusual way. They are self-employed (自雇的) snake catchers! They catch snakes, especially rattlesnakes which have gone indoors, and return them to the wild.

Heather describes her work as “protecting people from rattlesnakes — and protecting rattlesnakes from people!” In the area where they live, rattlesnakes often come face to face with people. They are found in stores, offices, houses and gardens. Heather explains that it’s not the snakes that are moving into places where people live, but it’s the other way round. The snakes lived in these places first and then the people built houses.

Most people who see a rattlesnake are feared. If you keep your distance, however, the snake won’t bite (咬) you. In twelve years as a snake catcher, Heather has never touched a snake. She doesn’t take the risk. She picks up the snakes with a special tool. This doesn’t hurtthem, but it keeps them at a safe distance so that they can’t bite her.

Heather and her husband are very busy because they are never off duty. Catching snakes is a full-time job and they don’t often have a day off. People can get to them at any time of the day or night. Not everyone can do this job, but Heather doesn’t want to do anything else. “I just love my job,” she says.

1.The Ramirezs make a living in an unusual way by _____.

A.catching and selling snakes B.catching snakes as a part-time job

C.protecting snakes in the wild D.being self-employed snake catchers

2.In Paragraph 2, Heather explains why the rattlesnakes _____.

A.never bite people B.are afraid of people

C.are found where people live D.lived with people at first

3.The underlined word “them” in Paragraph 3 refers to _____.

A.rattlesnakes B.special tools

C.people around D.the Ramirezs

4.Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A.Heather catches snakes only at night.

B.Heather is always ready to do her job.

C.Heather risks touching snakes sometimes.

D.Heather has been a snake catcher for 20 years.

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Have you ever heard of the Watoto Children’s Choir(合唱团）？It is a music group from Africa. It works to improve the way of life for children in Africa. The choir is traveling all over the world with a team of adults. Their performances mix native African music and dance with modern style.

The choir was started in Kampala, Uganda. Watoto means “children” in Swahili(斯瓦希里语）. The choir is made up of people who have lost one or both of their parents.

The Watoto Child Care Ministries(部门）provide care for orphans(孤儿）in Uganda. The Watoto Village is a collection of houses built especially for the orphans. Each house has a woman who takes care of about eight children. At present the Watoto Village is looking after 1,600 children by placing them in families. The children will be looked after with health care and food and get the love that every child needs.

Dennis Kiima is the team leader of the Watoto Children’s Choir. He said,“Our goal is to raise the future leaders of Uganda. We hope they will change the country for the better. We can’t tell what will happen. It’s either good or bad, and we’re hoping for the best. ”

根据短文内容，回答下列问题。

1.What is the Watoto Children’s Choir? _____________________________________________

2.What does the Watoto Children’s Choir work for?

_____________________________________________

3.What do the Watoto Children’s Choir’s performances mix?

_____________________________________________

4.What people is the Watoto Children’s Choir made up of?

_____________________________________________

5.What’s the woman’s job in each house in the Watoto Village?

_____________________________________________

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"What's the name of our neighbor? I can't remember right now. " Have you ever heard your grandparents ask questions like this sometimes? Usually, we think that older people's memory becomes bad because their brains get weak. But now a team of scientists at the University of Tubingen in Germany has a new idea.[

"The human brain works slower in old age，" says Michael Ramscar, the lead scientist. "But only because they have stored more information overtime. "

The findings are based on a series of computer simulations(模拟)of learning and memory. Scientists let the computers read a certain amount of words and learn new things each day. When the computer "reads" only so much, its performance on cognitive(认知)tests is similar of a young adult. But if the computer learns the experiences we might encounter over a lifetime, its performance is similar to that of an older adult.

Often it is slower, but not because its processing capacity has declined. Rather, increased "experience" has caused the computer's database to grow, giving it more data(数据)to process-which takes time. This is similar to old people. Imagine a person knows two people's birthdays. Another person knows the birthdays of 2000 people, but can only match the right person to the right birthday nine times out of 10. Can you say the first person has a better memory than the second person?

1.The writer uses a question at the beginning of the passage to 　　　　　 .

A. invite the readers to answer the question

B. attract the readers' attention to the topic

C. show how weak older people's brains are

D. tell the readers the latest findings about brains

2.According to the research, why do old people forget people's names easily?

A. Because they have a very poor memory.

B. Because they are too old to remember things.

C. Because their brains become weaker than before.

D. Because they have stored too much information.

3.Where would this passage most probably appear?

A. In a magazine.　　 B. In a story book.

C. In an ad.　　　　　 D. In a guidebook.

4.What would be the best title for the passage?

A. Do old people have a bad memory?

B. Scientists' new findings on brains

C. Human brain's processing capacity

D. Which is better, the old or the young?

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“What's the name of our neighbor? I can't remember right now.”Have you ever heard your grandparents ask questions like this? Usually, we think older people's memories become bad because their brains get weak. But a team of scientists at the University of Tubingen in Germany has a different idea.

“The human brain works slower in old age,” said lead scientist Michael Ramscar, “but only because they have stored more information over time.”

The findings are based on a series of computer simulations（模拟） of learning and memory.

Scientist let the computers read a certain amount of words and learn new things each day. When the computer “reads”only so much, its performance on cognitive（ 认知） tests is similar of a young adult. But if the computer learned the experiences we might encounter（经历） over a lifetime, its perfection is similar to that of an older adult.

Often it was slower because increased“experience” had caused the computer 's database（数据库） to grow, giving it more data to process - which takes time. This is similar to old people.

Imagine a person knows two people's birthdays. Another person knows the birthdays of 2,000 people, but can only match the right person to the right birthday nine times out of 10. Can you say the first person has a better memory than the second person? The basic idea is that“The larger the library you have in your head, the longer it usually takes to find a particular word,” Benedict Carey, a science reporter for The New York Times, wrote in an article about the study.

1.The writer uses a question at the beginning to________.

A.encourage readers to think of their neighbors

B.make readers interested in the topic

C.prove that older people have bad memories

D.explain why older people like asking questions

2.How did the scientists do their research?

A.They interviewed old people

B.They asked both young and old people the same questions

C.They used computers to simulate human learning and memory

D.They followed the experiences of a group of old people

3.According to the research, why do old people forget other people's names easily?

A.Because they have a very poor memory

B.Because they are too old to remember things

C.Because their brains become weaker over time

D.Because there is too much information in their brains

4.What does the underlined word“similar”in the passage mean in Chinese?

A.协调的 B.相似的 C.奇怪的 D.迥异的

5.What would be the best title for the story?

A.Why do old people have poor memories?

B.Why do old people's brains sore more information?

C.What is the human brain's processing ability?

D.Is it better to be old or young?

八年级英语阅读单选困难题查看答案及解析

Maybe you know floods, droughts, earthquakes, sandstorms and so on. But have you ever heard of typhoons(台风)?

Typhoons are some of the worst storms, usually around the Pacific Ocean and the South China Sea. Most happen in July, August and September.

How does a typhoon happen? When lots of sea water gets hot in the summer sun, it　 evaporates(蒸发) into the air. This makes the air hotter. When the air gets warm enough, it starts to move higher up into the sky. Then, cooler air rushes in. It fills the space that is left. After the air gets warmer, it starts to move quickly, making wind. The wind goes in circles, and it keeps moving higher in the sky. The warmer the air gets, the quicker the wind moves. And when the wind moves faster than 30 meters a second, a typhoon begins.

A typhoon has two parts, One is called the “eye”. In the eye, the wind does not move so fast.

The other part is the wall of clouds around the eye. This is where the strongest winds and hardest rains are.

Typhoons are very dangerous. In 2004, Typhoon Yunna killed 164 people in Zhejiang, and 24 people were missing. In May 2006, Typhoon Pearl hit Guangdong and Fujian, and thousands of houses were damaged(毁坏).

What to do when a typhoon hits:

• Stay inside, Close all the windows and stay away from them.

• Try to bring all of your things inside. Strong winds could even blow away your bikes!

• Listen to the radio or TV for important information.

• If you’re told to go to a safer place, do so right away.

1.Typhoons often happen　　 .

A.in the hot season B.in the cold season C.only in China D.under the sea

2.When a typhoon comes, we cannot　　 .

A.close all the windows B.listen to typhoon news

C.stay outside with our bikes D.stay inside the strong house

3.This passage is mainly about　　 .

A.the knowledge of typhoon B.the eye of a typhoon

C.the most dangerous typhoon Yunna D.the names of typhoon

4.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A.The warmer the air gets, the slower the wind moves.

B.In 2006, Typhoon Peal killed 164 people in Zhejiang.

C.The strongest winds and hardest rains are in the eye of typhoon.

D.A typhoon will happen when the wind goes faster than 30 meters a second.

八年级英语阅读单选困难题查看答案及解析

Have you ever heard of “flash mob(快闪族)”？

On July 12th,2009,at 5 pm, a lot of fans gathered at People’s Square I Shanhai to complete Michael Jackson’s unfinished dance in one minute.For a total of 60 seconds,they sang and did the moon walk to remember Michael Jackson.

This kind of phenomenon(现象)is called “flash mob”. “flash mob” is a group of people who gather in a public place to perform a strange activity for a short time.Sometimes, all these people are friends,but usually they are strangers who find each other through the Internet or sending short messages using mobile phones.

It’s interesting how “flash mob” activities are planned.Without technology–the Internet or mobile phones,it would be impossible to organize so many people in such a short time.

“flash mob” is very surprising and strange.One of the popular“flash mob” activities was in Manhattan,New York City.Several hundred people gathered in a department store and each of the them told the salesperson that they would buy the style of carpet(地毯)，and the salesperson didn’t know what to do.

1.What is “flash mob”?

2.What did a lot of fans do at People’s Square in Shanghai on July 12th, 2009?

3.Do the members of “flash mob” usually know each other very well?

4. How are so many people organized in such a short time?

5. What does the writer think of “flash mob”?

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Have you ever heard of the ancient Chinese story about Boya and Zhong Ziqi? On a rainy day, the famous guqin player, Boya, is sitting by the river. 1.（quiet). Suddenly he sees a woodcutter 2. (call) Zhong Ziqi in the forest. Boya warmly invites Zhong Ziqi to come and listen3. his music.

4. Boya plays his guqin and imagines tall mountains, Zhong Ziqi sees Mountain Tai reaching into 5. sky. When Boya thinks of rushing water, Zhong Ziqi says, "Your music sounds like 6. (run) rivers!" Whatever Boya thinks about, Zhong Ziqi hears in his music. They are 7.（surprise) to realize that they know each other well. They hope they 8.　 (be) friends forever.

Some time later, Zhong Ziqi 9. (pass) away. When Boya visits his 10.（friend) tomb（坟墓）, he is so sad that he breaks his gugin in half. He never plays it again.

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