湖南省长沙市师大附中芙蓉中学2023-2024学年八年级上册英语试卷

师大附中芙蓉—2023-2024-1学年度初二上期中考试卷 第二部分 阅读（共三节，计40分） 第一节 （共11小题，每小题2分，满分22分） 阅读下列材料，从每题所给的A、B、C三个选项中，选出最佳选项。 A Do you know how to cook, clean or grow plants? From this term, the students in my school start to have labor education (劳动教育) to learn these skills (技能). How do students feel about this new subject? Let's have a look. Tan Yuxi, 12, Class 11, Grade 7 At school, I learned how to cook egg noodles. I think cooking is fun. We’re very happy when we cook delicious food. We can also live better if we have these skills. Yu Rui, 13, Class 3 Grade 8 Our school teaches students to grow plants such as corn (玉米), tomatoes, cabbages and so on. It’s not easy because they have different needs. For example. Chinese cabbages need more water and we need to clear away the grass (草) for the corn. But we think that labor education is very interesting and relaxing. ( ) 21. What did Tan Yuxi learn to do at school in the labor education? A. Grow plants. B. Feed chickens. C. Cook egg noodles. ( ) 22. Why is it not easy to grow plants? A. Because there are not many people. B. Because different plants have different needs. C. Because the weather is not good. ( ) 23. Yu Rui thinks that growing plants makes . A. make subjects easy B. make students tired C. students relaxed B Traveling by train is a great way to go around China. It is more comfortable than taking a plane and faster than driving or taking a bus. It’s a;so more relaxing to take the train. On a train, you can sit and enjoy beautiful things along the way. You can use your phone freely. Also, trains can run even in the rain and snow. There is a very popular kind of train in China—high-speed (高速的) trains. Two of the top high - speed trains are Fuxing trains and Hexie trains. They can move far away in the blink of an eye. But do you know which one is faster? Fuxing trains are the fastest trains in China. They can go up to 400 km/h. Also, Fuxing trains are more comfortab