/ 让学习更有效 新课备课备考 | 英语学科 / 让学习更有效 新课备课备考 | 英语学科 2025-2026学年八年级英语上册单元复习考点培优译林版（2024）Unit 8 Safe and sound 专题12 阅读理解 学校:_____姓名：_____班级：_____考号：_____ Most of us know about fires, earthquakes, droughts and floods. But from time to time, Mother Nature surprises us, and brings a terrible weather event. Here are some examples of unusual weather. Strange rain: One day in 2005, people in a small town in Serbia looked out of their windows and saw an unusual sight. It was raining frogs . Without any warning, they found the streets full of small animals jumping about. “There were thousands of them,” someone said. “I thought maybe a plane carrying frogs exploded (爆炸),” said another. Scientists believe the tornado passed over a lake, lifted the frogs into the air, and then dropped them in a remote Serbian town. Fire tornadoes: Tornadoes don’t seem to be dangerous enough, but some of them can be made of fire. When a wildfire reaches very high temperatures, it causes the air to become hot and to rise. Cooler air rushes in to replace hot air. This causes strong winds. These winds suck away (吸走) burning plants and even the fire itself. When this happens, a fire tornado is produced. This tornado can be up to 15 metres wide and up to 122 metres high. Great balls of ice: In 1942, many skeletons (骨骼) were found under the ice of Roopkund Lake. Many had holes in their skulls (头盖骨). But they weren’t hurt in any other way. Scientists thought the people must have been hit from above. But for years, they haven’t found out the cause of their deaths. Today, scientists think these people were killed by giant hailstones — balls of ice. The blocks of ice grew bigger and bigger and turned into hailstones, until the wind couldn’t lift them and the hailstones fell to the ground. Unlucky people at Roopkund Lake had nowhere to run away, so they were all killed by the hailstones. 1．Which one is true about the frogs raining down in Serbia according to scientists A．They fell out of a plane that exploded. B．They grew in the clouds and then fell down to the ground. C．A heavy rain brought the frogs from a town far away. D．A tornado took them from a lake and dropped them over the town. 2．We can put the sentence “This makes it very dangerous.” at the end of _____. A．Paragraph 1 B．Paragraph 2 C．Paragraph 3 D．Paragraph 4 3．What happened when little pieces of ice moved around in the wind A．They became bigger. B．They became higher. C．They fell to the ground as snow. D．They became raindrops. 4．What can we know according to the passage A．People’s activities have caused these three weather events. B．People in Serbia knew there might be strange rain. C．High temperatures cause hotter air to replace cool air. D．People at Roopkund Lake might be killed by great balls of ice from the sky. 5．What is the best title for the passage A．Unusual weather B．Mother Nature C．Humans vs Nature D．Unusual ... ...
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