专题04 阅读与表达-2021-2022学年八年级英语下学期期末考试试题分项汇编（北京专用）

专题04 阅读与表达 （解析版） 目录 一、海淀区 二、西城区 三、东城区 四、朝阳区 五、丰台区 六、石景山区 七、通州区 八、门头沟区 九、延庆区 十、昌平区 海淀区2020-2021学年八年级下学期期末考试 阅读短文，根据短文内容回答问题。 Many children ride a school bus to and from school and don’t think much about it. But for 12-year-old Jonny Cohen, the smell of waste gases (废气) from school buses got him thinking about if there was a way to save more energy for the buses. The main problem with school buses, Jonny realized, was their boxy shape. It takes more energy for a boxy bus to move forward through the air. He thought that improving is shape would reduce the energy needed to move a bus. His first idea was to add a clear windshield (挡风玻璃) to the front of the bus. In this way, this windshield would let air go up and over the bus. Then, with the help of his sister and friends, Jonny started his project, which he called GreenShields. The GreenShields team needed money to design and test his idea. Jonny entered his idea in a contest in 2010. He tried all his best to get people’s support online for his idea—he spoke with town councils, talked to customers at stores, and used social media to ask for people’s support. Luckily, his hard work paid of, and his team won $25,000 to develop the idea. After several years of researching and testing, a new design called the V4 was created. Instead of sitting on the front of the bus, the V4 sits on the roof of the bus like a hat. Its sloped (倾斜的) design allows air to flow over and around the bus more easily. In tests, buses using the V4 went farther on a tank of gasoline (一箱油). According to the Greenshields team, the V4 can possibly save $600 every year for every bus. With all the school buses on the road in the United States, that could save millions of dollars every year. Although it still takes time for the V4 to come into use, Jonny and his team believe they will succeed. So if the next school bus you take looks a little different, you may be witnessing (见证) Jonny’s idea in action. 55. What got Jonny Cohen thinking about saving more e