《2025年畅响双优卷八年级英语下册人教版》

III. 阅读理解。(共10小题,计20分)
A
阅读下面短文,从所给的四个选项中选出能回答所提问题或完成所给句子的一个最佳答案。
Are you tired after studying hard? American country music will take you away for a while. The guitars and songs will take you to mountains and fields there.
Country music is simple music. It talks of everyday life and feelings. It's the spirit of America,easy to understand,slow and basic.
Country music is a traditional kind of music from the southern states of America. It was the folk music of the American countryside. Many of the songs tell about the lives of farmers. They talk about love,crops or death.
Rural life can be hard,so the words are often sad. At first,people played the music only at family parties. But it became more popular. In the 1920s,people played country songs on the radio,and they made them into records.
When people moved to towns and cities to look for work,they took their music with them. Country music continued to change and became popular across America.
John Denver was one of America's most famous country singers in the 1970s. His song Take Me Home,Country Roads is well known and people still play it today.
( )1. Which of the following is NOT true about country music?
A. It's fast and loud.
B. It's usually about everyday life.
C. It started in the southern states of the US.
D. The words about rural life are often sad.
( )2. The underlined word“rural”probably means ________.
A. the city B. about school
C. about work D. connected with the countryside
( )3. People often play country music with ________.
A. the guitar B. the piano C. the violin D. the drum
( )4. When did people begin to make records of country songs?
A. In the 1950s. B. In the 1930s. C. In the 1920s. D. In the 1940s.
( )5. Take Me Home,Country Roads is ________ music.
A. pop B. country C. jazz D. dance

答案： 1 - 5 ADACB 

B
根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余项。
Science fiction is a popular kind of writing. Many people think of Jules Verne as the father of science fiction. He was born in France in 1828. His father wanted him to become a lawyer.6. ________ At first he wrote plays for the theater. Then,in 1863,he wrote a story called Five Weeks in a Balloon. The success of this book encouraged him to write more stories,such as A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) and From the Earth to the Moon (1865).
In the 19th century,many people were interested in science and inventions. 7. ________ As a result,they were very popular. Verne's writing included many predictions (预言) for the 20th century and many of them came true. 8. ________ These books were very successful and they made Verne rich.
9. ________ 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was a successful movie for Walt Disney. It was the first Disney movie to use real actors instead of cartoon drawings. 10. ________ The main character is an Englishman called Phileas Fogg. For him,the most important thing is to be always on time!
A. Around the World in Eighty Days is another famous movie based on one of Verne's books.
B. But from his early twenties Verne decided to become a writer.
C. Jules Verne wrote about scientific subjects in his stories.
D. Jules Verne's books have been the subjects for many movies.
E. Jules Verne has been one of the most famous writers in the world.
F. He described space flights,movies and air conditioners a long time before they appeared.
G. He has been a hero.

答案： 6 - 10 DAECB