专题03 阅读理解之说明文20篇（期末真题+名校模拟） -2023-2024学年八年级英语上学期期末复习查缺补漏冲刺满分（仁爱科普版）

2023-2024学年八年级英语上学期期末复习查缺补漏冲刺满分（仁爱版） 专题03 阅读理解之说明文20篇 期末真题+名校模拟 （2023上·福建泉州·八年级福建省泉州市培元中学校考期末）At night, you fall asleep while listening to beautiful music. In the morning, you wake up because of the singing of birds outside. You can enjoy all of these things because of one important organ—the ears. You may think: how do the ears work? The ear has three different parts: the outer ear, the middle ear, and the inner(内部的) ear. The outer ear is the part you can see. It collects sound around you. The sound then travels down to the middle ear, the inner ear and then to your brain(大脑). Your ears never stop working, even when you are asleep! Your ears hear sounds all the time, but your brain just ignores(忽略) them. That’s why you might sometimes wake up suddenly in the middle of the night—your brain heard something, but you don’t know what it was, since you were asleep. But ears do more than hear. They help you keep your balance(平衡), too. In the inner ear, there are organs that are filled with liquid(液体) and covered in small hairs. When you move your head, the liquid and hairs move, too. They send messages to your brain about the position (位置) of your head. More surprisingly, ears even help with tasting food. Of course, you don’t actually taste food with your ears. But there are nerves(神经) running through the middle ear that connect the tongue to the brain. If something happens to your ears, you might have a hard time telling different flavors(味道) apart, according to People’s Daily. The ears are truly important organs with many functions(功能). Everyone should make sure to protect their ears as well as they can. 1．What does the underlined word “organ” in Paragraph 1 mean? A．细胞 B．组织 C．器官 D．系统 2．What does the second paragraph mainly talk about? A．How the ear works. B．The three parts of the ear. C．The outer ear collects sound. D．The sound travels around the ear. 3．What can we know from the passage? A．Ears never rest. B．Ears are not so important as eyes. C．The middle