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1、Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more.-author-date新目标英语八年级英语下册阅读理解训练AASome people learn a language easily. Others may not. How can you help yourself learn English? I think there are two ways to make learning English a little easier and
2、 more interesting. First, you should build up confidence. If you believe that you can learn, you will learn. When you read or listen to something, you may not be able to understand it all. Dont worry. You can use a dictionary to help you. You can ask your teacher or friends to help you. Do not be af
3、raid of making mistakes. You can learn from mistakes. Second, practice using English. For example, write a diary in English every day, and youll be able to write better. Speak English whenever you can. You may practice with your friends after class. Then youll be able to speak better.Remember the fa
4、mous saying, “Practice makes perfect.”( ) 16. Not_ people learn a foreign language easily.A. all B. both C. some D. others( ) 17. People can use _to help understand what they listen to or read.A. a dictionary B. a friend C. a teacher D. a teacher and a friend( ) 18. You should build up confidence me
5、ans“_” A. You shouldnt make any mistakes B. You should speak more C. You should believe yourselves D. You should ask others for help.( ) 19. If you want to speak English better, please_. A. speak English as much as possible B. speak English to foreigners, if possible C. read English every day D. All
6、 above.( ) 20. Practice makes perfect means“_”A. The more you practice your English, the less youll enjoy itB. The more you practice your English, the more mistakes youll makeC. The more you practice your English, the better youll learn itD. The more you practice your English, the better youll write
7、BOne day, a farmer was walking along a road with his son Thomas. The father said, “ Look, theres a horseshoe. Pick it up and put it in your bag.” Thomas said,“Its too trouble.”His father said nothing but he picked it up himself. When they got to a town nearby, they had a rest. There the farmer sold
8、the horseshoe and with the money he bought some cherries (樱桃). The farmer and the son continued their way. The sun was well up in the sky, and there wasnt a house or even a tree to have a rest. Thomas felt too thirsty to walk on. At this time his father dropped a cherry on the ground and Thomas pick
9、ed it up quickly and ate it. After a while, his father dropped another cherry and once again, his son picked it up and put it in his mouth, and so they went on. The old farmer kept dropping the cherries and the son picked them up. When Thomas ate up all the cherries, his father said to him, “ My dea
10、r son, if you bent (弯腰) down earlier to pick up that horseshoe, it would not have been necessary for you to bend so many times for the cherries. Always remember the lesson that if a man does not worry about the little things, he will find that he cant do the great things.”1. Who picked up the horses
11、hoe at last?A. The son. B. The father C. Both the father and the son. D. Neither the father nor the son.2. The farmer bought _ with the money after he sold the horseshoe.A. some bread B. some water C. some cherries D. some pennies3. When the son didnt agree to pick up the horseshoe, the father _.A.
12、beat the son B. said nothing C. felt very happy D. became very angry4. The father dropped the cherries one by one, because _. A. he wanted to teach his son a lesson B. he wanted his son to do more exerciseC. he wanted his son to eat them all D. he wanted to laugh at his son5. From the story, we can
13、learn that _.A. cherries are so delicious that most of us like to eat themB. a horseshoe is so expensive that it can bring us a lot of moneyC. if we want to eat cherries, we must pick up a horseshoeD. if we dont worry about the little things, we cant do the great thingsCWhen tea and coffee were firs
14、t introduced to Europe in the 18th century(世纪), people had different ideas about their use. Some said that tea and coffee were harmful(有害) to humans and they could make people die.In Sweden（瑞典）, King Gustaf decided to find out whether（是否） or not this was true. It happened that there were two brother
15、s in prison at that time. They were twins and were almost exactly alike in every way. They had both been sentenced to death（判处死刑）. The King decided to let them live if one of the men agreed to drink several cups of tea each day and the other several cups of coffee.Both brothers lived many years with
16、out problems of any kind. At last, the brother who had drunk tea every day died at the age of 83, the other died a few years later.Because of the experiment, tea and coffee got accepted（接受） and became popular as drink in Sweden, and it is one of the many countries of the world where much tea and cof
17、fee is drunk today.()Tea and coffee were first introduced to Europe in _.A. the eighteenth centuryB. the eighteen centuryC. eighteenth centuriesD. eighteen centuries（ ）2 King Gustaf decided to find out _.A if tea and coffee were harmful to people B if the twin brothers should be sentenced to deathC
18、if tea and coffee did harm to peoples health and caused them to dieD whether tea and coffee were useful or not( ) 3 The King decided to let the brothers live _.A if they wanted to obey his rules B if they agreed to drink tea and coffee every dayC if one of them drink several cups of tea each day whi
19、le the other had several cups of coffeeD if they agreed to have several cups of tea every day( ) 4 The brother who had drunk tea every day lived _. A until he was over 83 B until he was 83 C until the other had been dead for several yearsD until he had drunk tea for a few years( ) 5 Today the Swedis
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