Unit 8 Have you read Treasure Island yet? 阅读提升练（含答案）人教版八年级下册英语

中小学教育资源及组卷应用平台 八年级下册英语Unit8阅读提升练 一、完形填空。 Island Adventure is a book about a group of survivors(幸存者) on a desert island. The main character in the story is a 14-year-old boy called Robert Wilson. At the beginning of the story, he 1 in New Zealand with his family. But when his parents die in an accident, Robert is suddenly 2 .He decides to leave New Zealand and go to the USA,where his aunt lives. Robert finds a ship to the USA, but he doesn't have any 3 .So, he has to work with the crew （全体工作人员） on the ship in return for his ticket. It is a long and difficult 4 .There are storms and the ship gets lost. Finally,it is shipwrecked （船只失事） near an island in the middle of the ocean. When the ship sinks （沉没)，Robert swims to the island with five other people 5 .They are the only survivors. There aren't any 6 passing by, and there is no one who can find them and save them. The six people have to start a new 7 on the island. They find wood to make fires.They learn to 8 fish to eat. They cut down trees to build small wooden houses against the wind and rain. But winter is coming, and it is getting 9 .The survivors don't 10 if they can get through the cold winter. But they will do everything they can and fight to live! ( )1.A.waits B.lives C.hides D.rests ( )2.A.common B.angry C.alone D.hungry ( )3.A.food B.time C.money D.information ( )4.A.journey B.competition C.history D.discussion ( )5.A.normally B.carefully C.suddenly D.successfully ( )6.A.cars B.trains C.boats D.subways ( )7.A.job B.life C.group D.family ( )8.A.catch B.order C.protect D.borrow ( )9.A.hotter B.wetter C.warmer D.colder ( )10.A.know B.report C.explain D.promise 二、阅读理解。 A Virginia Woolf was one of the greatest English writers. Some of her most famous novels（小说）are Jacob's Room, Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse. She was born in London on January 25th,1882. Her father was a very educated man.Virginia Woolf had two brothers, one sister, two stepbrothers and two stepsisters. All eight children lived with their parents at Hyde Park Gate, Kensington. Virginia Woolf never went to school,but she could use her father's large library and she decided to become a writer. Her brothers Thoby and Adrian went to Cambridge. There they met many clever young men. Some of them later became Virginia's friends. After she married Lenard Woolf, they decided to make money by writing. Virginia finished her first novel in 1913.Its name was The Voyage Out. Unluckily, she and her husband moved to the country because of the Second World War. She lost her mother and a lot of friends, which made her very sad. On March 28, 1941, she filled her clothes with stones and walked into the water of the River Ouse. People found her body almost a month later. 阅读短文，判断句子正(T)误(F)。 ( )11. Virginia Woolf's father got a good education. ( )12. With her brothers' help, Virginia went to Cambridge and studied there. ( )13. Virginia decided to make money by writing ... ...