《2025年阳光计划八年级英语下册人教版》

(2022江西中考) 阅读理解。
　　Why is the sea salty? Long before we discovered scientific ways of thinking about it, we explained it in a story. Even though the answer isn't scientific, it holds some other truth in it − especially about the human heart.
　　Long ago, a poor old couple lived on the coast. One day, an old storyteller came to their village. The old couple gave him a meal. In return, he gave them a coffee mill(磨粉机) and said, “Say ‘Mill, please grind(磨粉)’, and it'll make whatever you want, to stop it, say ‘Mill, please cease(停止) grinding’.” Soon the old couple had a much better life. They'd been happy people, and they didn't need much more. But the young couple next door were never satisfied. When they saw the old couple wearing good clothes and buying good food, they burnt with envy(羡慕). So one day, the young husband went to the old couple's house secretly and heard, “Mill, please grind hot chocolate!” He was surprised to see it coming out.
　　Then the young couple stole the mill from the old couple. With it, they rode a horse and set off down the coast, where no one would know them. Along the way, the husband showed proudly and asked, “What do you want it to make?” “Oh, I don't know. Why not salt?” the wife said. “Mill, please grind salt!” he said. “It works!” the wife shouted. But then they noticed the salt went everywhere. “Make it stop,” the wife said. But the husband didn't know how. “Mill, please stop grinding! Please, no more!” His words didn't work. The mill kept grinding. Finally, the young husband threw the mill into the sea as far as he could.
　　And there it's been, for hundreds of years, endlessly grinding salt. That's why the sea is salty.
21. The passage is probably a(n) ______.
A. folk story
B. instruction
C. science fiction
D. science report
22. 新考法 Put the things that happened to the mill in correct order. ______
　a. It began to produce salt.
　b. The young husband threw it.
　c. The young couple stole it.
　d. The old couple got it.
A. b−d−a−c
B. b−a−d−c
C. d−a−c−b
D. d−c−a−b
23. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 4 refer to? ______
A. The coffee.
B. The horse.
C. The mill.
D. The chocolate.
24. 新考法 How did the young husband's feelings change? ______
A. sorry−sad−excited
B. thirsty−excited−afraid
C. happy−nervous−proud
D. surprised−thankful−happy
25. What does the word “truth” in Paragraph 1 imply (暗指)? ______
A. Being patient.
B. Working properly.
C. Being satisfied.
D. Listening carefully.

答案： 21. A解析:推理判断题。通读全文可以判断本文是一个民间故事。
22. D解析:细节排序题。通读全文可知事情发展的顺序为:老夫妇得到了磨粉机→年轻夫妇偷走磨粉机→磨粉机开始生产盐→年轻的丈夫把磨粉机扔进大海(d - c - a - b)。
[新考法]该考法可以考查学生对文章脉络的理解，把握语篇的整体意义，培养其思维能力。
23. C解析:代词指代题。磨粉机不断地生产盐，盐流得到处都是，妻子想让磨粉机停止工作，故在“Make it stop”中，it指的是磨粉机。
24. B解析:推理判断题。年轻的丈夫开始是渴望得到有魔力的磨粉机，得到后感到很激动，磨粉机不停地产生盐而他不知道如何阻止，这时候他感到害怕，故他的情感线索应该是thirsty - excited - afraid。
[新考法]该考法不仅可以考查学生对文章的整体把握能力，还可以考查学生的推理能力和把握段落大意的能力。
25. C解析:词义猜测题。根据第三段中“Soon the old... were never satisfied.”可知，故事中老夫妻知足，所以生活幸福，而年轻夫妻不知足偷了磨粉机后也没能如愿，由此推出truth暗指文中的哲理，即“要知足”。