《2025年新课程新教材导航学八年级英语上册外研版》

一、阅读理解
第一节
阅读下面语言材料,从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出最佳选项。
A
Tea bag drinking is most Westerners' favourite way of drinking tea. Do you know how it came about?
The tea bag was invented in 1980 by Thomas Sullivan, an American tea seller. He was sending out free tea in silk bags for people to try. People put the bags together with the tea leaves into the cup and added hot water. The tea tasted good and people thought it was easy to clean the cup. They were not happy when Sullivan started sending them loose (散的) tea again.
Sullivan realised that he had a hot new thing in his hands, and he built a machine to pack the bags. As tea bags became popular they were changed from silk to gauze (薄纱) and later paper. In 1952, Lipton Tea made the tea bag even more popular with its invention of the four - sided tea bag. Tea bags were soon a hit in the UK, and today 85% of the tea in the UK is packed in paper bags.
However, many people still prefer loose - leaf tea. This is because some tea companies put not very good tea in their tea bags. But for most drinkers tea bags are still the easy tasty way to go.
1. Who invented the tea bag?
A. Lipton.
B. Thomas Sullivan.
C. An English tea seller.
D. A Chinese tea seller.
(B)
2. The underlined part "Tea bags were soon a hit in the UK" means "______ in the UK".
A. Tea bags soon became popular
B. Tea bags surprised everyone very much
C. Tea bags kicked (踢) the loose - leaf out of the market
D. Tea bags were only used
(A)
3. The material of the tea bag is usually ______ now.
A. silk
B. gauze
C. paper
D. plastic
(C)
4. What can be the best title for this passage?
A. The Invention of Tea
B. The History of Tea Bags
C. The Way of Drinking Tea
D. The Future of Tea Bags
(B)

答案： 1.B 2.A 3.C 4.B