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1、八年级阅读练习(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”. Thi
2、s 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 c
3、harts (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 dont make
4、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 _. A. Korean TV dramas B. Korean culture C. Korean language D. Korean actors2. When did the
5、Korean Wave start? It started with _. A. the Korean pop songs B. Taekwondo C. the TV series “Winter Sonata” D. the Korean food3. Who is the famous actor in Korean dramas? A. Bae Yong Jun B. Baby Vox C. S. E. S D. Finkle4. Korean stars often change their looks by _. A. singing pop songs B. acting in
6、TV dramas C. trying different food D. having plastic surgery5. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?A. Winter Sonata tells a very famous love story.B. Young people like Korean pop stars clothes and hairstyles.C. Chinese girls also want to try plastic surgery.D. Korean pop star
7、s think plastic surgery is shameful.(2)Australia has a lot of lovely animals. The most famous ones are kangaroos and koalas.The kangaroo is the symbol of Australia. They have large eyes and ears. They dont walk, they jump. They use their strong back legs. They can jump at up to 74 kilometres per hou
8、r. They can go over nine metres in one jump!Kangaroo mothers have pouches (育儿袋) to carry their babies. The babies stay inside to get milk and keep warm. Kangaroos are everywhere in Australia. They are on TV, in books and in the shops. The government even wants to put them on passports (护照).There are
9、 about 20 to 25 million kangaroos in Australia. Thats more than the number of people in the country! Some kangaroos go hungry because there is not enough to eat. They break into farms for food. Farmers are very angry with them. To help the farmers, the Australian Government kills some kangaroos each
10、 year.The koala is another famous Australian animal. They look like bears, and have small eyes and big noses. They eat leaves from gum trees, where they spend most of their time.Koalas have a special smell. They use it to mark (标识) their home “this is my place, you cant come in!”Like kangaroos, a ko
11、ala baby lives in its mothers pouch.But koalas have fewer places to live. There are about 100,000 koalas in Australia. There is a law to keep them safe.根据文章所提供的袋鼠和考拉的生活状况，用简洁的句子完成下列表格： Kangaroos KoalasLooks 1. _ 2. _Food Not enough to eat 3. _Numbers 4. _ 5. _Life Some kangaroos are killed. 6. _ (3)
12、Venice（威尼斯） is in the northeast of Italy. It wasnt built on land, like Beijing or Shanghai, but on more than 110 islands. Seawater is everywhere around the city.Even so, travel isnt that difficult. The waterways have always been the best way to get around. There are 117 waterways and more than 400 b
13、ridges that can lead you where you want to go. People in Venice move from place to place by boat. They like to enjoy cool summer nights while taking boat trips. They can talk to other people as they go along.Venice grew out of small islands in saltwater lakes when some Italians escaped (逃跑) from a w
14、ar more than 1,500 years ago, and built homes there.选择恰当的短语填空： Venice is a city of _1_. People built it on more than 110 _2_. Although _3_ is around the city, it is not difficult for people to _4_. Because there are many _5_ and _6_, and people can move by _7_. They enjoy taking boat trips on _8_ an
15、d talking to others as they _9_. The history of Venice is very long. More than 1,500 years ago, some Italians _10_ from a great war and they built homes there. (4)Do you remember when your grandma told you the story of Snow White? Ah, the happy days of childhood!But did you know that Snow White comes from Germany? Its just one story from the 209 in Grimms Fairy Tales (格林童话). The Grimm brothers started to collect fairy tales in 1806. Their first book came out in 1812.Why are German fairy tales so interesting? Mayb
