《2025年学霸题中题八年级英语上册译林版》

Ⅳ. 阅读与回答问题(每小题2分,共10分)
根据短文内容,回答下列问题。
More than 2,000 years ago, businessmen transported goods through the Silk Road. Today, 450 students from a Sichuan high school were taking a research trip along the route.
The students studied at the Golden Apple Jincheng No. 1 Secondary School in Chengdu. They travelled to 10 cities like Dunhuang and Xi’an to do research. They not only learned new things, but also challenged some of their own ideas.
Liu Zhiyan and her teammates studied characters at the Dunhuang frescoes(壁画). They looked at the figures(身材), expressions and gestures(手势) of the characters, which were created during the Tang Dynasty.
To take a close look at the frescoes, they visited 10 caverns(洞窟) at the Mogao Grottoes. When their tour guide talked, they quickly took notes and drew outlines of the characters. They found that most characters from the period looked like women. “They look plump(丰满的) and happy. They enjoy singing and dancing,” Liu said.
The trip offered students first-hand information for their research. It also encouraged them to question some of their past ideas. When Qu Rongrong saw plump women in frescoes and sculptures(雕塑) from the Tang Dynasty, a question came to her mind: Modern people think being slim is beautiful, but why did people at that time like fatter women? Was this true? She decided to find the answer.
They turned to old poems for help. Her team picked 635 poems from the Tang Dynasty, which had descriptions of women at the time. Through checking key words like “肥” and “细腰”, they found that most of the women in the poems were “slim” instead of “fat”.
“It shows that being plump was not popular during the Tang Dynasty. Perhaps only noblemen(贵族) liked large women, as shown in artworks,” Qu said. Although this topic still needed further research, Qu was happy that they could take their first step towards finding the answer.
1. What did the students from No. 1 Secondary School in Chengdu do along the Silk Road?
2. Where did they see the frescoes closely?
3. How did the trip help these students?
4. How many poems did Qu and her teammates pick?
5. 新考法 开放性试题 What can you learn from their trip?

答案： 1. They took a research trip.
2. At the 10 caverns of the Mogao Grottoes.
3. It offered students first - hand information for their research and encouraged them to question some of their past ideas.
4. 635./Six hundred and thirty - five.
5. Truth comes from asking questions and doing research.（言之有理即可）