《2025年基础训练大象出版社八年级英语上册人教版》

二、阅读理解(20小题,每小题2分,共40分)
阅读下面四篇语言材料,然后按文后要求做题。
A
Many kinds of animals are in danger now. Here is a report. Let’s have a look.

Most pandas live in the forests in China. Outside China, they are only in the zoos. ▲ Keeping a panda in the zoo is difficult, because people have to offer them lots of bamboo.

Asian elephants have much smaller ears than African elephants. They live in the forests. There are only a few Ceylon elephants (a kind of Asian elephant) in the world now.

Tigers belong to the cat family. They kill small animals for food. In the past, there were many tigers in Asia, but now the number of tigers is dropping. Tigers are in great danger because people cut down the forests and hunt them for their fur.

The European otter (水獭) lives in Europe. It has dark brown fur. It can be up to 90 centimetres long. Its tail is about half as long as its body. It has small and round ears. Today people still hunt the animals for their fur.
根据材料内容选择最佳答案。
( ) 21. Where should you go if you want to see pandas in the USA?
A. To the zoos.
B. To the parks.
C. To the forests.
D. To the mountains.
( ) 22. Which sentence can be put in “ ▲ ”?
A. They like eating fish.
B. They like eating meat.
C. They like eating bamboo.
D. They like eating small animals.
( ) 23. Why are there fewer and fewer tigers in Asia?
A. Because the weather is not good.
B. Because people cut down the forests.
C. Because they can’t have their babies.
D. Because they don’t have enough food.
( ) 24. What can we know from the text?
A. It’s easy to keep pandas in the zoo.
B. Tigers belong to the bear family.
C. The European otter has large and long ears.
D. African elephants’ ears are bigger than Asian elephants.
( ) 25. Where can we probably read this text?
A. In a travel guide.
B. In a novel.
C. In an animal magazine.
D. In a health report.

答案： 21. A
22. C
23. B
24. D
25. C