Unit 1 What's the matter-2023-2024八年级下册英语阅读（人教版）

> Page Passage 1 阅读短文， 根据短文内容选择一个最佳答案。 It is not easy for people to sail around the world in quite small boats. Sometimes the weather gets bad. Accidents can happen easily and quickly. One family once had an accident. A big fish swam under their boat and bit holes in it. Seawater came in and the boat soon went down. Luckily these people had another small boat — a lifeboat, so they all got into the lifeboat. They lived in the boat for many days. They ate and slept, and always prayed. At last people in a ship saved them. How do people live in a very small lifeboat for a long time? They must be strong in every way. They must have a hope, and they must have a strong desire to live. People cannot drink seawater. If they drink a lot of seawater, they will quickly die. They must catch rainwater and drink it. They must also catch fish and birds for food. Lifeboats do not often carry cookers. So people cannot cook their food in the lifeboat. Raw fish and birds are not very nice but they are their only food. They must eat raw food, or they will die. Newwords bit v. （ bite 的过去式） 咬 lifeboat n. 救生船 desire n. 欲望 raw adj. 生的 （ ） 1. When the boat sank, the lifeboat gave the people . A. food B. beds C. rainwater D. hope Unit1 Unit1 1 > Page （ ） 2. One family once had an accident at sea, because . A. their boat met bad weather B. their boat hit a big rock and it was broken C. none of them knew how to sail D. a fish bit holes in their boat （ ） 3. People can catch for food and drink at sea in the lifeboat. A. fish and birds B. rainwater C. both seawater and rainwater D. Both A and B. （ ） 4. Lifeboats do not often carry cookers. The word “ cookers ” here means . A. 厨师 B. 食物 C. 炊具 D. 盘子 （ ） 5. From the article we can know that . A. it蒺s not interesting to sail around the world B. fish in the sea are so dangerous C. we must have a strong desire to live when we are in danger D. nobody knows when we will die Passage 2 阅读短文， 根据短文内容选择一个最佳答案。 The most common disease in the world is the co