《2025年畅响双优卷八年级英语下册人教版》

IV. 任务型阅读。(共5小题,计15分)
阅读下面短文,根据短文内容完成下列各题。
Elizabeth lived with her six children in a small house. One winter, there was a big flood(洪水), and quite a few houses were washed away, but Elizabeth's house was high enough to escape it.
Elizabeth helped one of the families which had lost everything. She shared her home until the family could build a new house. Elizabeth's friends could not understand her since she already had so many children to take care of.
“Well,” Elizabeth explained to her friends, “at the end of World War II, there was a poor woman in a town in England. Her husband died in the war and she had a lot of children, just like me now. The day before Christmas, this woman said to her children, ‘We won't be able to have much for Christmas. I'm going to get just one present for us all. Now I'll go and get it.’ She came back with a little girl who had no parents. ‘Here's our present,’ she said to her own children. The children were excited to get such a present. They welcomed the little girl warmly, and she grew up as their sister. I was that Christmas present.”
1. How many children did Elizabeth have?
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2. What did Elizabeth do after the flood?
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3. The Christmas present was Elizabeth herself, wasn't it?
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4. Was Elizabeth's house washed away?
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5. What do you learn from the story?
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答案： 1. She had six children./Six.
2. She helped one of the families which had lost everything. (She shared her home until the family could build a new house. )
3. Yes, it was.
4. No, it wasn’t.
5. We should help each other. (合理即可)