【期中备考】专题04：阅读理解记叙文20篇（广州专用）-2023-2024学年八年级英语下学期期中真题分类汇编(沪教牛津版)

专题04：阅读理解记叙文20篇（原卷版） （22-23八年级下·广东广州·期中） David and Lily have two children, Lucy and Jack. Lucy is six years old and she is twice as old as Jack. One day, David and Lily had to go to Canada on business, so they had to find a babysitter to look after their children for a week. Seven days later, when they got to their hometown in their car, they found much smoke, so they went to see what was happening. A house was on fire! Lily said, “It’s very dangerous and the house isn’t ours. It’s none of our business. Let’s go home quickly. I miss my children so much.” But David disagreed and he kept driving there, “The house belongs to Tom. I should help him.” When they got close to the house, they saw a woman crying in the street. She was Tom’s wife, Mary. Her children were in the house and her husband was at work. David asked her to show him where her children were. She told them her children were in the bathroom. Although Lily didn’t agree, David hurried to the bathroom which was full of smoke and heat. He soon found two children. As he left, he could hear some other sound like crying. He quickly saved the two children out of house. However, he was told two more children were still inside the house. Lily was afraid and shouted, “Don’t go back! It is dangerous! The house will fall down at any second!” David went back inside the house by feeling his way down into the room. It seemed a million years had passed before he found both the children in the bedroom and the way out of the house. As he was holding the children, he felt strangely familiar with the little bodies. At last, when he managed to get out of the house, he found that he had just saved his own children! The babysitter had left them at this house while she was doing her shopping. 1．By saying “It’s none of our business”, Lily wanted to ________. A．stop their business quickly B．go back home by herself C．ask her husband to leave together D．work together to help 2．Where did David find Lucy and Jack according to the p