专题16 阅读回答问题精选20篇-2022-2023学年八年级英语上学期期末考点大串讲（牛津上海版）

专题16 阅读回答问题精选20篇（解析版）（解析版） 一、阅读回答问题 阅读短文，根据短文内容，回答下列问题。 Now people around the world celebrate（庆祝）Friendship Day. Do you know the stories behind it? An American woman, Joyce Hall, sold cards. In 1930, she got the idea of Friendship Day. She thought if people had a new day to celebrate, they would buy more cards. Many Americans gave cards and other gifts to their friends on the day. However, they stopped doing it because they didn’t want to see it become commercialized（商业化的）. In1935, the US Congress（国会）decided to make it the first Sunday of August. It became a day to honor（尊重）true friends. The story behind Friendship Day is different in Paraguay. In 1958, a group of friends in Puerto Pinasco, Paraguay decided to celebrate friendship on July 30 every year. One man in the group, Ramon Artemio Bracho, wanted to do more. He worked hard to start celebrations in other countries. Thanks to（多亏了）Ramon’s work, more countries took up the idea. Friendship Day was growing. In 2011, the United Nations declared（联合国宣布）July 30 the International Day of Friendship. On that day, there are activities in different countries, like fun runs and friendly games. But not all countries celebrate Friendship Day July 30. Argentina and Brazil celebrate it on July 20. In India, they celebrate it on the first Sunday of August. 根据短文内容，回答下列问题。 1．Why did Joyce Hall get the idea of Friendship Day? _______________________________________ 2．Who came up with（提出）the idea of celebrating friendship in Paraguay? _______________________________________ 3．Who made more countries take up the idea of Friendship Day? _______________________________________ 4．When is the International Day of Friendship? _______________________________________ 5．Do all the countries celebrate Friendship Day on the same day? _______________________________________ 【答案】1．To sell more cards.    2．A group of friends.    3．Ramon Artemio Bracho.    4．July 30.    5．No, they don’t. 【导语】本文主要讲述了世界上一些国家友谊日背后的故事。 1．根据第二段第二句“She thought if peopl