冀教版英语八年级阅读理解新题型专项训练(2015.07).docxVIP

enjoy, enjoy, report, tourist, spend, astronaut, send, cost, excite, comfortable, open 八年级阅读理解新题型专项训练(2015.07) Passage 1：用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空。 Traveling to space is no longer just a dream. But what about a space vacation? On Aug 16, 2011, a Russian company 1. __________ plans for a hotel in space. The hotel will 2. __________ in 2016. The four cabins (舱) in the hotel can house a total of seven guests. The most 3. __________ part will be the huge windows with views of Earth rotating (地球自转) below. Guests in the hotel will live a more 4. __________ life than astronauts in space. They’ll be able to take showers (洗澡) and 5. __________ good food and drink, such as beef, potato soup, iced tea and fruit juice. The company will prepare the food on Earth and 6. __________ it up by rocket. A five-day stay in the hotel will 7. __________ ￡100,000 (1 million yuan). Getting there will cost even more and will take two days by a Soyuz (联盟号) rocket. Guests will have to 8. __________ ￡500,000 in total for their space holiday. Space 9. __________ might also meet some unexpected (意想不到的) guests. If there is a problem at the International Space Station, 10. __________ will use the hotel for shelter (避难所). Passage 2：根据所给首字母的提示，填入适当的单词。 An 8-year-old child heard her parents talking about her little brother Andrew. All she knew was that he was very 1. s__________ and they had no money. Only a very 2. e__________ operation (手术) could save him. One morning, the girl 3. h__________ her father say to her mother: “Only a miracle (奇迹) can save Andrew now.” The girl went to her bedroom, collected all of her money and 4. c__________ it carefully. She 5. h__________ to a drugstore (药房). “How can I help you?” asked the salesman. “I want to buy a miracle,” the girl answered. “My brother has something bad growing inside his head. My daddy says only a miracle can 6. s__________ him. So how much does a miracle cost?” “We don’t sell miracles here, my dear. I’m so 7. s__________,” the salesman said, sadly. “Wh