专题07：阅读短文回答问题【考题猜想】-2023-2024学年八年级英语上学期期中考点大串讲（牛津译林版）

专题07：阅读短文回答问题 阅读表达  阅读下面的短文，根据短文内容回答问题。 It is very important for everyone to read. Reading helps Chinese people carry on the traditional spirit. It also helps Chinese people build their character of self-confidence (自信). President Xi Jinping said, “I hope our children have the good habit of reading. I wish that all of our people are busy reading and building an atmosphere where everyone loves reading, has good books to read and knows how to learn knowledge from reading.” World Book Day, falls on April 23 every year and ended on April 25. The national meeting on reading includes lots of activities. They show China’s development in Chinese people’s reading habits. People are increasingly adapting (适应) to new ways of “reading”. Three in four adults read on their phones and over 30% listened to audiobooks (有声读物) last year. At the same time, watching short videos is a good way, too. However, 45. 6% of people still liked to read paper books. In 2021, every Chinese adult reads about 21.05 minutes per day about one minute longer than in 2020. Please answer the following question with no more than 10 words. 1．Does reading bring Chinese people a lot? 2．What does President Xi Jinping hope our children do? 3．How long did the national meeting on reading last according to Paragraph 3? 4．How many ways of reading are talked about in this passage? 5．What does this passage mainly want to tell us? A long time ago, there lived a little boy in a small village. His father was so ill that he had to wake up early and cut wood to make a living. One day, the boy took his axe and went into the jungle as usual. He saw a big tree near a lake. He climbed up the tree and tried to cut some branches. Unluckily, his axe fell into the lake. The boy started crying because he had lost the only tool he had.