【英语】英语八年级英语下册阅读理解100及答案1.pdf

【英语】英语八年级英语下册阅读理解 100 及答案（ word ）1 一、八年级英语下册阅读理解专项练习（含答案解析） 1．阅读理解 Every morning my father buys a newspaper on his way to work. Every evening my mother looks through magazines at home. And every night, I look at the posters with photos of David Beckham and Yao Ming on my bedroom wall before I go to sleep. Can we imagine life without paper or print? Paper was first created about 2,000 years ago, and has been made from silk, cotton, bamboo, and, since the 19th century, from wood. People learned to write words on paper to make a book. But in those days, books could only be produced one at a time by hand. As a result, they were expensive and rare. And because there werent many books, few people learned to read. Then printing was invented in China. When printing was developed greatly at the beginning of the 11th century, books could be produced more quickly and cheaply. As a result, more people learned to read. After that, knowledge and ideas spread quickly. Today information can be received online, downloaded from the Internet rather than found in books, and information can be kept on CD-ROMs or machines such as MP3 players. Computers are already used in classrooms, and newspapers and magazines can already be read online. So will books be replaced by computers one day? No, I dont think the Yao Ming posters on my bedroom wall will ever be replaced by a two-metre-high computer! （1）What does the writer do before he goes to sleep? A. He reads books. B. He reads newspapers. C. He looks through magazines. D. He looks at the posters on the wall. （2 ）When was paper first created? A. About 2,000 years ago. B. In the 19th century. C. About 1,000 years ago. D. In the 11th century. （3 ）Why were books expensive and rare before the invention of printing? A. People could not read. B. People c