【正文】 .C.Listening to music.D.D.At five.t eat his. Just then, the telephone rang and Bill ran to answer it. Bill39。different kinds of panies6．閱讀理解 It has no books about traveling.（4）The passage mainly talks about ______. A.s pany? A.it was the first travel book in the worldC.s attention to his familyD. Tony and Maureen started a pany called Lonely Planet. They went on traveling. They wrote books for each place they visited. Today, 800 people work for Lonely Planet. The pany has over 650 books. Tony Wheeler, the great traveler, still writes about travels to many places and will bring us more surprises.（1）Tony Wheeler wrote the book Across Asia on the Cheap to ______. A.s book also talked about places most tourists didn39。 In the early 1970s, Tony met a young woman named Maureen. Soon they got married. Before getting jobs, Tony and Maureen wanted to travel. They took a yearlong trip from England, through Asia, to Australia. On the trip, they visited places like Iran, India and so on.Why Weibo is so popular.C.Microblog appeared in China only one year ago but it is so popular now.C.It can help us learn the latest news.C.People who seldom use Weibo.C. Microblog started in the USA. It came to China in 2009 and it grows very fast. In 2011, the number of Chinese microbloggers grew to 300 million. People write microblogs for many reasons. For many microblog users, it is a great way of learning the freshest news, talking with friends and sharing different kinds of information, including news, everyday life, pictures, music, videos and so on.The students around the world do something different in their free time.D.He always falls asleep in class.D.D.50% Who is the most distracted? You may feel interested in students in other countries. Do they have so much homework? What do they do in their free time? Do they often go to parties? People did a survey in China, Japan, South Korea and the US last year. Here are the results.If you can39。Hard carrots turn soft in boiling water.B.The hardboiled egg used to be hard inside.C.B.Having a lot of money.B.how sad her school life wasIts rich smell brought a smile to her face. s father took her to the kitchen. He filled three pots with water and put each on a big fire. Soon the pots started to boil（沸騰）. In one he put carrots, in the second he put eggs, and in the last he put coffee powder. He watched them boil, without saying a word. t know how to make it and wanted to give up. Because her parents asked her to do the chores strictly.2．閱讀理解 s mother.（3）Why did Grace start to do the chores? A.B.s home? A.Taking out the rubbish.B. Some students are talking about doing chores in their families蘭州市八年級(jí)英語(yǔ)下冊(cè)期末閱讀理解匯編一、八年級(jí)英語(yǔ)下冊(cè)閱讀理解專(zhuān)項(xiàng)訓(xùn)練1．閱讀下面材料，從每題所給的A、B、C、D四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中選出最佳選項(xiàng)。 My father is strict with us. He thinks everyone in the family should help out with the chores. My sister and I are our parents great helpers. My sister helps to do the dishes and sweep the floor. My job is to take out the rubbish and clean the living room.Jennyt do much chores. I only make my bed and my brother folds his clothes. In fact, my mum does most of the chores although she is busy Many people say we are spoiled （寵壞的）. But my mum thinks children should spend a lot of time studying instead of doing choreAllans sister do at home? A.Cleaning the kitchen.（2）Who does most of the chores in Allan39。s father.Allan39。Because she thought doing chores was interesting.D. Mary plained to her father about how hard she thought life was. She didn39。 Mary39。 Mary waited, wondering what he was doing. In about twenty minutes he turned off the fire. He took the carrots and eggs out and put them on different plates. Then he poured the coffee in a cup. He asked, Mary, what do you see?He then asked her to take an egg and break it. She saw a hardboiled egg after taking off the shell. Finally, he asked her to taste the coffee. Each of them had the same trouble, but each reacted differently. The carrot was strong and hard at first, but it became soft and weak. The egg was weak, too. But after going through the boiling water, its inside became hard. The coffee powder changed the water, and created something new. Which one is you? he asked Mary. When trouble es to you, are you a carrot, an egg, or the coffee powder?（1）Mary plained to her father about . A.s the meaning of the underlined word rich in Paragraph 4? A.The coffee powder changed the water into coffee.B.s father want to tell her the most? A.t know what to do.D. Who studies the hardest? just want to improve themselves, or they do that just because of the school and their parents. American students are the most active in class, but also the most distracted. % of them talk to friends in class. % of them eat in class, and % of them send s or read other books in class.45%C.He keeps quiet and does his homework.C.Chinese students work much harder than those from other countries.C. It is easy and fast to send a message on a microblog. However, this can also bring problems and even panic （恐慌）. For example, when the big earthquake and tsunami （海嘯） hit Japan in March, 2011, messages like Salt can help people fight radiation （輻射） were hot on microblogs. Then a crazy buying of salt followed. Later people knew it was just a rumor （謠言）.People who are crazy about Weibo.B.It is short but carries many meanings.B.Writing a microblog needs much time.B.How to use Weibo.B. When Tony and Maureen arrived in Australia, people asked many questions about t