八年级的英语阅读题

(1)
Korean culture is really exciting right now. The Korean Wave is sweeping Asian countries including China. Young people are going crazy about Korean TV dramas, Korean pop songs, taekwondo and the Korean language.
The Korean Wave started a few years ago with the TV series “Winter Sonata”. This love story is still popular. People, especially girls, like the beautiful story and handsome actors like Bae Yong Jun (裴勇俊).
In the music world, Korean girls are making themselves heard in China. You can often find big Korean names like Baby Vox, S. E. S and Finkle at the top of the Chinese music charts (排行榜).
The Korean Wave has also made young people want to try the clothes and hairstyles of pop stars, too. Not only that. Now some girls in China are having plastic surgery (整容) to change the way they look. People say some beautiful Korean stars have had plastic surgery. These stars don’t make plastic surgery look shameful (丢面子的).
Are all the faces of beautiful Korean girls not real? Find out for yourself when you next visit South Korea.
根据短文，选择最佳答案：
1. What does the Korea Wave refer to? It refers to ____.
2. A. Korean TV dramas
3. B. Korean culture
4. C. Korean language
5. D. Korean actors
6. When did the Korean Wave start? It started with ____.
7. A. the Korean pop songs
8. B. Taekwondo
9. C. the TV series “Winter Sonata”
10. D. the Korean food
11. Who is the famous actor in Korean dramas?
12. A. Bae Yong Jun
13. B. Baby Vox
14. C. S. E. S
15. D. Finkle
16. Korean stars often change their looks by ____.
17. A. singing pop songs
18. B. acting in TV dramas
19. C. trying different food
20. D. having plastic surgery
21. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
22. A. Winter Sonata tells a very famous love story.
23. B. Young people like Korean pop stars’ clothes and hairstyles.
24. C. Chinese girls also want to try plastic surgery.
25. D. Korean pop stars think plastic surgery is shameful.

(2)
完形填空：
The Taj Mahal is India’s most famous building. It is known 1 the eighth wonder of the world. It also 2 a great love story.
In the year 1607, Emperor Shah Jahan of India 3 a girl in a market. She was so beautiful 4 he fell in love with her at once. The girl’s name was Mumtaz Mahal.
Five years later, Mumtaz and Shah Jehan got married. They had 14 children. 5 Mumtaz died in 1630. Shah Jahan missed his wife so much that in 1638, he ordered the building of 6 beautiful mausoleum (陵墓) on earth for her, the Taj Mahal.
It 7 22,000 workmen 22 years to finish. The beautiful white marble (大理石) building stands beside the Yamuna River. It has expensive stones 8 its walls. By the way, to visit the Taj Mahal, you’ll have to take off your shoes and leave them at the front door.

1. A. as B. for C. to D. at
2. A. speaks B. tells C. says D. talks
3. A. sees B. seeing C. saw D. seen
4. A. if B. that C. as D. while
5. A. And B. But C. Or D. So
6. A. the more B. the most C. much D. quite
7. A. took B. takes C. taking D. take
8. A. in B. on C. with D. at

We drink tea every day. But more than three hundred years ago most of the people in Europe (欧洲) did not know anything about tea. Some people heard about it，but very few of them know what to do with it.

　　There is a story about an English sailor (水手) who went to countries in the east，the west and the south. He went to India and China. One day he came home and brought some tea as a present for his mother. She told her friends about the present and asked them to a "tea party". When her friends came to the "tea party"，the old woman offered (给) them brown tea-leaves (茶叶). The old woman's friends began to eat them. Of course， nobody liked the tea-leaves.

　　At that time the sailor came in. He looked at the table and said，"Mother，what have you done with the tea?"

　　"I boiled (煮) it，as you said."

　　"And what did you do with the water?"

　　"I threw it away，of course." answered the old woman.

　　"Now you may throw away the leaves，too，" said her son.

　　6. Most of the people in Europe ________.
　　　a. drank tea every day 300 years ago
　　　b. drink tea every day
　　　c. know nothing about tea
　　　d. like to eat the tea-leaves

　　7. One day the English sailor brought his mother some tea from ________.
　　　a. countries in the west
　　　b. countries in the south
　　　c. India or China
　　　d. a tea shop in England

　　8. The sailor's mother asked her friends to her house，because ________.
　　　a. the sailor told her to
　　　b. she wanted to ask her friends what to do with the tea
　　　c. she liked to show off (炫耀)
　　　d. she wanted to sample (品尝) the tea together with her friends

　　9. At the "tea party"，________.
　　　a. all the woman's friends spoke highly of the tea
　　　b. nobody knew what to do with the tea
　　　c. the woman offered her friends some dried (干的) tea
　　　d. the woman gave her friends each a glass of tea water

　　10. What mistake did the old woman make? She ________.
　　　a. boiled the tea
　　　b. did as the sailor said
　　　c. poured away the water
　　　d. didn't throw away the tea-leaves

Key:B C D B C