2023年八年级暑期话题阅读天天练：科普知识与现代技术（含解析）

2023年八年级暑期话题阅读天天练：科普知识与现代技术 （共6题） 一、阅读理解题（共6题） In the universe, as we know, there is the sun, the moon, the earth and a good many stars. Through our geography lessons, we know the earth goes around the sun, and the moon goes around the earth. We have day and night because the earth keeps turning all the time. When our part of the earth turns to the sun, it is day. When our part of the earth turns away from the sun, it is night. Just because the moon is closer to the earth than the sun, it looks much bigger than the sun. Big things will look smaller when they are farther, and small things also look bigger when they are nearer. The sun is bright enough to give out very strong light. The moon can't give out any light at all, but it looks quite bright, too. Why In fact, the light from the moon comes from the sun. The moon looks much bigger and brighter than the stars. But actually (事实上) the stars are much bigger and brighter than the moon. They look smaller than the moon also because they are farther away from the earth. There are still many other planets in the universe. But of all these planets, only on the earth there are living things and people can only live on the earth, too. But at 9:00 am on October 15th, 2003, Chinese pilot Yang Liwei was sent up to space. He stayed there for 21 hours. It was the first time for Chinese to get into space. (1) We find the sun _____ than the moon because it is _____ to us. A．bigger; farther B．smaller; closer C．bigger; closer D．smaller; farther (2) When our part of the earth turns away from the sun, the other part of the earth is _____. A．night B．day C．evening D．Sunday (3) People and living things can live on the _____. A．earth B．Mars C．moon D．sun (4) When did Yang Liwei return to the earth A．On November 15th, 2002. B．On October 16th, 2003. C．On May 5th, 2004. D．On October 15th, 2003. (5) Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage A．The moon goes around the earth, and it can't give out any light at all. B．The moon goes around the sun, and its light is from the sun. C．The earth moves around the moon, and people can live only on the earth. D．Of all the planets, only the earth moves around the sun. Try to imagine a life without a memory. It would be impossible. You couldn't use a language, because you wouldn't remember the words. You couldn't understand a film, because you need to hold the first part of the story in your mind in order to understand the later parts. You wouldn't be able to recognize anyone—even members of your own family. You would live in a present forever. You would have no past and you wouldn't be able to imagine a future. Human beings have amazing memories. Besides all our memories about our own lives, we can recall (回忆) between 20,000 and 100,000 words in our own language as well as possibly thousands more in a foreign language. We have all kinds of information about different subjects such as history, science, and geo ... ...