2023-2024学年人教版八年级英语上册阅读综合训练

1 How many eggs can you stack （叠放）？ For common people, it is very ___1___ to stack even two. However, a young man from Yemen has made it to stack four eggs on top of one another without falling down. He ___2___ his own egg stacking Guinness World Record. Actually, Muqbel set the first record when he stacked three eggs in 2020, __3__ he then beat his own record during an attempt（尝试）at the beginning of 2022. Muqbel said the __4__ was more difficult than it looked. “Many around the world don’t ___5___ the hard work connected with balancing（保持平衡）," he said. uI needed to be ___6___ and calm. The most difficult part from the attempt was finding the center of gravity（重心）for the eggs because of their __7__ shape.,, Muqbel found he had a __8___ for balancing at a young age. Since then, he has been __9__ it. Considering himself as an ambitious person, Muqbel dreams to show his skills to the whole world one day. With his hard work, the dream may soon ___10___ . 1. A. soft B. hard C. fast D. strict 2. A. broke B. forgot C. caught D. spent 3. A. because B. but C. or D. so 4. A. challenge B. promise C. talk D. study 5. A. look B. say C. hear D. understand 6. A. friendly B. careful C. helpful D. busy 7. A. large B. clear C. good D. special 8. A. feeling B. talent C. taste D. ticket 9. A. controlling B. pushing C. developing D. discussing 10. A. take off B. take over C. come true D. come up 2 On Februaiy 10, 2022, Chloe Kim proudly accepted a gold medal. She had won a halfpipe （U 型滑道）competition at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. She worked hard for it. Chloe Kim was born in California, the US, in 2000. Her parents had moved to the United States from South Korea before that. She took up snowboarding（单板滑雪）when she was only four years old and joined the US Snowboarding Team in 2013. Kim also won a gold at the 2018 Winter Olympics and became the youngest woman to get an Olympic gold medal in snowboarding history. However, that brought her the pressure of fame （名气）. Being a fam