Unit 3 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（人教版）

Unit 3 Could you please clean your room? 单元话题阅读理解练习 （2024上·湖南张家界·八年级统考期末）My interest in cooking started when I was 11, partly thanks to my mother. She didn’t really like cooking and when she did cook, I didn’t like her food. Once I was watching something about cooking on TV and I thought I could do this, so I went to the bookstore and looked for the biggest cookbook I could find.     During a year, I had produced (制作) most of its recipes (食谱) and was ready for a bigger challenge (挑战). I wanted to create my own dishes and I started cooking for more people than just my family. To my joy, my parents allowed me to build a test kitchen. I did much cooking to test my dishes in it and my skill improved quickly. Later, my mom and I set up a dinner club that organized monthly events inside my home. Now as a teen chef (主厨), I have also cooked in top-class restaurants around the country. I am not doing it for the money, but because I love cooking.     Now I know that when you stop caring whether you’ll be famous or do well, your dream will come to you. 1．What made the writer begin to cook? A．His parents’ wish. B．His mother’s delicious food. C．The cooking information on TV. 2．What did the writer want to do after producing recipes in the cookbook? A．Take cooking lessons. B．Write his cookbook. C．Make new dishes of his own. 3．The underlined word “it” in Paragraph 2 refers to “________”. A．a restaurant B．the test kitchen C．a dinner club 4．What is the writer now? A．A chef. B．A news reporter. C．A bookseller. 5．What is important for the writer? A．Finding a good job. B．Doing what he loves. C．Making lots of money. （2024上·黑龙江鸡西·八年级统考期末）Your mom does a lot of housework, and you’d really like to help her out. How can you make things easier? Here’s some advice for you. Sharing some of your mom’s tasks Find out what tasks you could do. It depends on your age. Children can begin to wash the clothes from around the age of 8. Help out with making dinner. You may find you’re an excellent coo