期中题型专练-阅读理解 2023-2024学年外研版英语八年级下册

期中题型专练-阅读理解- 2023-2024学年 八年级英语下册 外研版 When you hear “give me five”, don’t look for five yuan in your pocket! It will make others laugh! The person’s not asking for your money, but your fingers. In the US, “give me five” or “give me the high five” is a popular gesture (动作). You can see it often in films or on TV. It means the slapping (拍) of each other’s raised right hands together. People do it when they meet for the first time or something happy happens. For example, a student has good marks in exams or wins a lottery ticket (彩票). If a football team wins a game, the players will give high fives to everyone around to celebrate. This gesture may come from the old Roman gesture of raising the right arm for the king. This showed that the person raising his arm did not have a sword (刀) in his hand.     Why not try to give the high five to your friends? 1．“Give me five” is a gesture to ________. A．celebrate success B．ask for money C．make people laugh 2．Which picture shows the gesture of “give me five”? A． B． C． 3．When you ________, you’ll give your friends high fives. A．lose your money B．do badly in exams C．win a football game 4．The gesture started in _______ according to the story. A．Rome B．America C．China 5．Why did the Romans raise the right arm for the king? Because ________. A．they were proud of their king B．they were happy to see the king C．they wanted to show there were no swords in their hands Not all fat is created the same, according to several new studies. We all know there’s good cholesterol and bad cholesterol. It turns out there’s good and bad fat, too. Good fat is medically known as “brown fat”. Brown fat, mainly found in the neck and shoulders of newborns, has the ability to burn lots of calories, which can keep them warm. It makes up about 5 percent of a baby’s total weight. We lose most of our brown fat as we grow up. By the age of six, we have less than 5 percent of the brown fat we were born with; the fat we get over time is almost all white fa