《2025年通城学典全程测评卷八年级英语上册译林版》

七、阅读理解。(每小题 3 分,共 15 分)
Some animals can easily find their way home after a long journey. How do they make it? Scientific research shows that they are born with the unusual ability to orient(确定方向)themselves.
Some ants, for example, can count their steps to avoid getting lost. They can go a long distance and bring food home. These ants live in the open desert, so they have nothing to guide them along the way. It's like someone walking six kilometres through a dark forest.
Some fish have an unbelievable sense of smell. They can even smell a single drop of water of their home in a large sea area. Some sea-birds have the similar ability. They are able to make a smell map of their flying area.
Some animals can sense the earth's magnetic field(磁场), while humans can't. This magnetic field guides some fish when they swim a long way to a place and then swim back. How can these fish do that? It is still a mystery. Scientists haven't had good answers yet.
However, animals with the unusual ability still have difficulty dealing with environmental changes caused by human activities. For example, many birds depend on stars for direction, but they get lost easily at night when city lights are kept on all night. To solve this problem, we can simply turn off some lights at night. Clearly, one small act of humans may mean a lot to animals.
( D )1. Where is this passage probably from?
A. A storybook. B. An art magazine.
C. A guidebook. D. A science magazine.
( B )2. How can some ants find their way according to Paragraph 2?
A. By imagining the way.
B. By counting their steps.
C. By bringing food together.
D. By walking through a forest.
( A )3. What does the underlined word “mystery” in Paragraph 4 probably mean?
A. Secret. B. Choice. C. Reason. D. Feeling.
( A )4. What are people advised to do according to the last paragraph?
A. To help animals.
B. To travel at night.
C. To keep city lights on.
D. To develop the unusual ability.
( C )5. Which can be the best title for the passage?
A. Birds' sense of light
B. Fish's sense of smell
C. Animals' sense of direction
D. Animals' sense of the earth's magnetic field

答案： 1. D 2. B 3. A 4. A 5. C