湖南省长沙麓山外国语实验中学2023-2024学年八年级上学期第三次月考英语试卷

麓山外国语—2023-2024-1学年度初二上第三次月考试卷 第二部分 阅读(共三节,计40分) 第一节 (共10小题,每小题2分,满分20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 The farming TV program Believe in the Land is very popular with Chinese young people. It has got 8.9 points out of 10 on Douban. In the show, 10 young people get together as a team. They work hard for 190 days on a large farm to grow 25,000 kilograms of crops (庄稼). This is China’s first show about farming. Before this, the British farming show Clarkson’s Farm was popular with Chinese people. Clarkson, a rich man with no farming experience (经验), ran his farm with funny and changing ideas. It made people laugh and showed the challenges of farming. Believe in the land shares something similar by showing the farming experiences of the 10 young people. Some other “slow TV programs” also show famous people living in the countryside. But Believe in the Land becomes popular because it shows not only the beauty of life in the countryside, but also the hard work behind it. The young people started from making their own tools and furniture. They lived in a small old house, wore dirty clothes and worked from morning to night. “Watching their hard work makes me understand the words “you reap what you sow” more than ever. It shows that only through hard work could we get the fruit of life,” a user wrote on Douban. ( ) 21. What might Believe in the Land and Clarkson’s Farm have in common? A. They are popular with people from all over the world. B. The people in the two programs have rich farming experience. C. They show the farming experiences. ( ) 22. What does the underlined sentence “you reap what you sow” mean in Chinese? A. 一分耕耘,一分收获。 B. 谁知盘中餐,粒粒皆辛苦。 C. 有志者,事竟成。 ( ) 23. What can we know about Believe in the Land? A. The ten young people worked for about five months on a farm in it. B. The ten young people always ran the farm with funny and changing ideas in it. C. It is popular because it shows both the beautiful country life and the hard work behind it. ( ) 24. What’s