《2025年知识与能力训练八年级英语上册沪教版》

Ⅱ Read the following passages and then choose the correct answers.
A
After the first day on the job, the bank’s new manager realized he would be busier than he had been led to believe. Not only was he assisting the bank tellers with their work, but his new boss had decided to inundate him with other tasks like creating security systems, managing the bank’s deposits and refunds, securing loans, and maintaining the daily operations. The new manager was exhausted as he locked the bank up for the night.
(A) What’s the meaning of the underlined word?
A. Overload. B. Provide. C. Underwhelm. D. Offer.
B
Moisture is collected from the atmosphere by the action of cold. During the day, the powerful heat of the sun causes water to evaporate from the earth, forming moist vapor, that condenses into dew after sunset as temperature drop. Dew is more copious in the spring and autumn than at any other season. It is also more common in warm countries than in cold ones because of the sudden changes of temperature. Egypt abounds in dew all summer long; for the air is too hot to condense the vapors in the day-time and the dew never gathers into clouds and forms rain.
(C) According to the passage above, dew is most likely ______.
A. large drops of rain falling from the sky
B. water vapor that condenses in the clouds
C. small droplets that form when water vapor condenses
D. the water that makes up the lakes and puddles on earth

答案： A篇：
1. 定位原文“inundate him with other tasks like...”，结合前文“busier than he had been led to believe”及后文“exhausted”，可知任务过多。
2. 选项A. Overload（使超载，使负担过重）符合语境。
3. 答案：A
B篇：
1. 原文提到“moist vapor, that condenses into dew after sunset as temperature drop”，即水汽遇冷凝结成露水。
2. 选项C“small droplets that form when water vapor condenses”（水汽凝结形成的小水滴）与原文描述一致。
3. 答案：C