Unit 5 What were you doing when the rainstorm came 任务型阅读（含解析） 人教新目标(Go for it)版 八年级下册英语题型专项集训

Unit 5 What were you doing when the rainstorm came 任务型阅读（含解析） 人教新目标（Go for it）版 八年级下册英语题型专项集训 阅读短文，回答问题。 Marco Polo was born in Venice in 1254. He was the most famous westerner to visit Asia during the middle Ages. He wrote a book about his travels. In his book he wrote all the things he saw and heard. Many people read the book but few believed what Marco Polo said. He spoke of strange people and places that nobody knew about at that time. As a young man, Marco Polo decided to travel together with his father. It took them more than three years to travel to China. He became the Chinese emperor’s friend. He learned the Chinese language when he traveled around and talked to many people. Before he reached the age of thirty he was made a Chinese official(官员). After nearly seventeen years in the east, Marco and his father prepared to return home. When they finally arrived in Venice, their family and friends were surprised to see them again. They had been away for almost 25 years. 1．When was Marco Polo born 2．What did Marco Polo write about in his book 3．How long did it take Marco Polo and his father travel to China 4．When did Marco Polo work as a Chinese official 5．How long did Marco Polo and his father stay in the east If you live in Tornado (龙卷风) area, you keep a close eye on the sky. This part of the mid-western United States has as many as 300 tornadoes blowing through it every year. Local people know that a “twister” (旋风) maybe only a hop, skip, and a jump away. Twisters are tornadoes, and tornadoes are trouble for people living there. A tornado is wind caused by a thunderstorm (雷雨). Tornadoes are the most terrible winds on Earth. They can travel up to 300 miles an hour. At that high speed, they damage almost everything. As they move, tornadoes turn round quickly in a twisting movement. They change direction without warning. Once you’ve seen a tornado, you’re not likely to forget it. It has a unique (独特的) appearance. Take an ice cream cone, turn it upside down, and you’ve got a model for a tornado. The sound is also hard to be mistaken. Everything becomes completely silent. Even the insects stop buzzing. It seems the tornado take in all of the sound from the air. Suddenly it shouts it all back out in a roar, like a train running out of control. But sometimes the result can’t be predicted. Have you ever seen the film The wizard of Oz (绿野仙踪) Remember the scene when Dorothy’s house flies A tornado once carried a house through the air for two miles. Another twister lifted a china cabinet (橱柜) and dropped it back to Earth some miles away. No disk was broken. Once, a tornado swept a child and her pony into the air. Her mother found her half a mile away, still sitting on the pony. Luckily, neither the girl nor her pony was seriously hurt. These stories ended happily. Most tornado stories don’t. These terrible windstorms usually bring sadness, death and even disasters. In 1955, a tor ... ...