2023-2024学年人教版英语八年级上册期末阅读选择模拟练习

2023-2024学年度上初二期末复习 阅读选择 （一） People often talk about jobs. But when I tell others what I do for a living, they can hardly believe this job exists (存). But I’m not joking at all. I spend my days eating chocolate! I taste chocolate to make sure that people can get excellent chocolate from our factory. Every week, I receive chocolate from our factory. I have to check it for taste and smell. I also have to taste raw materials (原材料) we usually use. I spend days choosing the best ones to go into the chocolate. Just beside my office, I have a kitchen. I test and taste chocolate I make there. My kitchen is full of machines. It’s wonderful to work there during the day. No two days are the same in this job. Sometimes I am in the kitchen. Sometimes I’m out of the country buying the raw materials we need, that can be difficult because I have a young family. But I love this job. Many people ask me if I get bored of chocolate. I’ve worked with it for a long time, but I’ve never felt I didn’t want to eat it. In fact, I often eat some more in the morning at home! 根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。 1. Which of the following does the writer do in his work? ① selling chocolate machines ② testing and tasting chocolate ③ buying chocolate of different tastes ④ choosing raw materials of chocolate A. ①③ B. ②③ C. ②④ 2. The underlined word “that” in Paragraph 4 refers to (指代) ________. A. eating too much chocolate B. going to a different country C. living a different life every day 3. What does the writer think of his job? A. Boring. B. Enjoyable. C. Worrying. 4. What’s the best title of the passage? A. My Job B. Making Chocolate C. Loving Chocolate 答案：CBBA （二） People like eating fruit, and it’s hard to turn down a tasty banana. Because they taste good and you don’t have to wash them before eating them. However, British scientists say that the fruit may die out by 2050. One reason for this is weather change. Scientists at the University of Exeter collected information from 27 countries. They found that w