Unit 1 单元拓展阅读训练 2023—2024学年 牛津译林版 英语八年级下册

Unit 1 单元拓展阅读训练 2023—2024学年 牛津译林版 英语八年级下册 一、阅读理解 How do you get to school? By bus or by bike? Every morning on school days, a lot of students take the school bus to school. It is nothing new to see those big yellow buses driving around. However, school buses were unusual in the past. In 1886, the first school transportation (交通工具) came into use, but it was called a “school hack”. It was a kind of horse-drawn carriage (四轮马车) and did not look like a bus. Between 1900 and 1930, the horse-drawn carriages became wooden (木质的) buses. Finally, in 1930, wooden buses became metal (金属的) ones. Now the school bus wears a special colour—yellow. Many people ask why it’s yellow. The answer is to make people notice the bus. People can easily see this colour on the road, especially on rainy days. By making the school buses the yellow colour, people can see these buses on the road more easily to make students much safer. Today, for many students, taking the school bus is their first choice of transportation. So it is safe to say that school buses are a popular and important way of school transportation. 1．According to the passage, how many kinds of school transportation were there in the past? A．Two. B．Three. C．Four. D．Five. 2．Why do the school buses wear the colour yellow? A．To make the buses beautiful. B．To make people love the buses. C．To make the buses different. D．To make students much safer. 3．How are the school buses now according to the writer? ①interesting   ②popular   ③important   ④different A．①② B．①③ C．②③ D．③④ 4．Which is the best title of the passage? A．How school buses develop (发展) B．How most students go to school C．How to take the school bus D．How to notice students on the road There are 55 students in my class. They come from different places. So they go to school in different ways. Twenty students go to school on foot because they live near the school. Ten students ride the bikes to school because they live not far from the school. Ten students go to school by bus b