Unit 6 An old man tried to move the mountains 单元话题任务型阅读练习（原卷版＋解析版）八年级英语下册单元重难点易错题精练（人教版）

Unit 6 An old man tried to move the mountains. 单元话题任务型阅读练习 基础语篇巩固练 （23-24 八年级下·重庆忠县·期末）Two friends, Jim and Stew, joined a big sales company (公司) together. Both of them worked really hard. Three years passed and the company’s director promoted (提拔) Stew to sales executive (主管). Jim did not get any promotion. Jim thought it was unfair, so he asked his boss why he didn’t show thanks to the hard-working people like him in the company. The boss knew that Jim worked hard, and in order to show the difference between Jim and Stew, he said, “Go and find anyone selling apples in the market (市场).” When Jim returned, the boss asked, “How much per kilogram ” So Jim went back to the market and then returned to say the price—$12 per kg. Then the boss asked Stew the same thing. Stew went to the market, and when he returned, he said, “At the moment there is one person selling apples, $12 per kg, $100 for 10 kg. Now he has 340 apples in stock (有存货). On the table there are 48 apples, and each of them weighs about 0.2 kg. Apples were bought from the south two days ago, so they are fresh.” Hearing this, Jim realized the difference between him and Stew. He knew that he could learn a lot from his friend. Successful people are better at thinking than common people. They think and see the future, while common people only see the tomorrow. From then on, Jim _____. 1．Did Jim and Stew join a big sales company together 2．Who got promotion in this company after three years 3．What’s the difference between Stew and Jim 4．Please write a possible ending for the story. (about 30 words) （22-23 八年级下·安徽滁州·期末）阅读下面短文，并用英语回答问题 (请注意每个题后面的同数要求)。 Once there was a man in a village. He believed he could read the future through the stars and called himself an astrologer (占星家). He spent lots of his time at night looking at the sky. One evening he was walking along the open road outside the village. His eyes were, as usual, fixed on the stars. By stars he thought the end of the world was going to happen soon. Just at that moment, he felt himself falling. Down he went into a hole full of dirty water. There the astrologer stood up to his cars, in the dirty water, and tried his best to climb out. but he couldn’t. His shout for help soon brought the villagers out of their homes. One after another, they came running to this place. While palling the man out of the dirty water, one of them said, “You pretend (假装) to read the future through the stars, and yet you fail to see what’s at your feet! This may teach you to care about what’s just in front of you, and let the future take care of itself.” “What use is it to read the stars,” added another, “when you can’t see what’s right here on the Earth ” 1．What did the astrologer think he could do (不超过 10 个词) 2．How did the villagers know the astrologer in trouble (不超过 10 个词) 3．What can we learn from the story (不超过 15 个词) （22 ... ...