《2025年学霸甘肃少年儿童出版社八年级英语下册人教版》

Ⅰ. 音乐盛会 来自埃及的音乐爱好者Steve带着他的吉他来参加艺术文化周，给我们讲解了吉他的历史故事，让我们一起来了解一下吧。
The guitar is one of the most popular musical instruments in the world. Many different cultures have played instruments like the guitar for over 3,000 years. The oldest instrument that we can see today comes from Ancient Egypt. You can see this guitar in a museum in Cairo. It belonged to a singer who sang for the Egyptian queen Hatshepsut. This type of guitar had a long neck and only three strings(弦).
The lute is also an ancient instrument similar to a guitar, but it has a short neck and a body like half a pear. It usually had more strings than a guitar and they were in pairs. From 1100 to 1500, traveling singers and story tellers played the lute to go with their songs.
Guitars sometimes had pairs of strings like the lute, but the guitar changed over time to use single strings. People used guitars with six single strings for the first time in the 1600s in Italy, but the most important change happened in the 1850s. The Spanish guitar maker Antonio Torres Jurado made the guitar’s body bigger. His idea made the sound of the guitar louder and better. Most of today’s classical guitars follow his design.
The first electric guitars appeared in the 1930s. The electric guitars have a solid body and can make many different sounds. We also find them in many different shapes and sizes. Some electric guitars don’t look like guitars at all!
1. Which of the following is a lute?
A.    B.   C.    D.
2. What does the underlined word “them” in Paragraph 4 refer to?
A. Guitars. B. Sounds. C. Shapes. D. Sizes.
3. In which order did the following happen?
a. The first electric guitars appeared.
b. People used guitars with six single strings in Italy.
c. Antonio Torres Jurado made the guitar’s body bigger.
d. Traveling singers played the lute to go with their songs.
A. d－b－c－a B. a－c－d－b C. d－a－c－b D. c－d－a－b
4. Why does the writer write the passage?
A. To discuss the invention of the guitar. B. To introduce the shapes of the guitar.
C. To compare the players of the guitar. D. To show the development of the guitar.

答案： 1-4 BAAD