外研版八上英语任务型阅读（含答案解析）

任务型阅读：阅读下面短文，并用英语回答问题。 （一） When John moved to America, he could speak little English. He worked hard, and his English improved a lot when he was in Grade 9. But people could still hardly understand him because of his accent（口音）. One day, he was playing a guessing game. When he said something, some people laughed（笑. He felt sad. He couldn't pronounce the word "purple" right. When the summer programme was about to start, he was afraid to take part in it. Later, one of his friends cheered him up and told him to practise English pronunciation more often and do what he wanted to do. Then, he decided to give it a try. After weeks of hard work, his pronunciation improved a bit. At the programme, he sill didn't speak too much. He knew it was difficult for others to understand him because his pronunciation was still poor. He said sorry to the teachers and students in the programme, because he didn't want them to think that he was unfriendly. But they were all very friendly to him! Slowly, with the help of teachers and students, his pronunciation improved a lot. For John, he wouldn't let that stop him from improving. Why was it difficult for people to understand John’s English？ What did John fail to do in the guessing game Who cheered John up to take part in the summer programme How was John’s pronunciation in the end What is the main, purpose of this passage （二） The 21-year-old shadow puppetry（皮影戏） lover Hanna Lewis showed two hundred videos of shadow plays on the Internet in 2023. More than twenty thousand people liked these videos. Hanna came to China from Armenia five years ago. She liked different traditional things in different countries. She once watched a wonderful shadow puppetry show in Beijing, and then she knew this was what she wanted to do. Then, Hanna started her way of leaning to make shadow puppets. At first, Hanna spent her weekends watching he shadow puppetry shows, and she recorded these wonderful shows in short videos. To understand the stories and Chinese culture（文化) better, she learned about traditional Chinese culture carefully in history museums. After that, she waited some old actors and leaned to make shadow puppets. Hanna wanted to make her film more interesting so that people could love it shadow puppetry after seeing. The actors helped Hanna make her learning experience(经历) into short videos. Her videos won many fans from Armenia and all over the world. 1. How many videos did Hanna show in 2023 When did Hanna fall in love with shadow puppetry How did Hanna understand traditional Chinese culture What does the underlined word “it”refer to What kind of traditional Chinese play do you like Why （三） When you are learning English, reading can be important and helpful.When you read, you can not only learn some new words,but also learn, how to use these English words. When you read, the sentences in the reading materials（素材）can give you good examples of writing. Here are some good ... ...