Unit 2 Travelling 单元话题阅读理解练习-2023-2024学年八年级英语下册单元重难点易错题精练（牛津译林版）

Unit 2 Travelling 单元话题阅读理解练习 （2022上·江苏淮安·八年级统考期末）I remember once we went on a trip to Australia and we toured in the desert (沙漠). It was a sunny day. The weather forecast (天气预报) predicted (预测) a storm. We couldn’t feel the wind so we thought the weatherman was wrong. ▲ As time went by, the temperature rose and by noon it was much hotter. Then all of a sudden, it started to rain cats and dogs. The nearby river ran everywhere and we had to stop by the road. We were terribly afraid. There was a sudden drop of temperature, so we felt very cold. It made us very unhappy. We thought it would keep for days, but we were wrong again. In the next hour, the sky started to clear up and the rain stopped. We didn’t want to go farther in the desert and we decided to go back to the nearest town. There, we didn’t mind feeling the wet weather after all. Once there, we started to think about our home back in Canada and there we have cold weather in winter as well. We learned that we should take the weather carefully. It’s in the wild and we don’t know how it changes. The only thing we can do is to make ourselves adapt (适应) to it instead of changing it or keep complaining about it. 1．According to the weather forecast, it would be a ________. A．sunny day B．stormy day C．rainy day D．hot day 2．Which sentence should be put in____▲____? A．However, we stopped and waited for the coming weather. B．However, we got on the car and set out to the nearest town. C．So we got on the car and set out towards the deep desert. D．So we got out of the car and went back to the nearest town. 3．What do the underlined words “cats and dogs” mean? A．猫狗大战 B．低值的股票 C．瓢泼大雨 D．水火不容 4．What is the correct order of the weather changes? A．Sunny—Rainy—Sunny B．Sunny—Stormy—Rainy C．Stormy—Rainy—Sunny D．Stormy—Sunny—Rainy （2022上·江苏泰州·八年级统考期中）This year, Andy’s class visited Guangming Junior High School in Shaanxi and had an exchange visit. They learned a lot about Chinese culture and visited many places. Visiting the Terra