八年级英语下学期阅读理解

2. 由短文第2段中“…，and might be over four thousand million”4000百万即40亿，故答案应是D。

3. Mr Pettifer发现树梢来回摇摆是因为下落的陨石使它来回动，故答案选B。

4. 由短文第4段“About 3,500 meteorites may fall on earth every year, but only very few are found.”一句可推断，答案选C。

5. 由短文最后一段第1句“Mr Pettifer is glad ”可以看出，且happy与glad意思相近，故答案应选A。

阅读理解8

One of the things I always believe is that no matter how bad something is, you can take something positive out of it. The one time I wasn t sure of that was on September 11.

I usually wake up a 6:30 or 7:00 in the morning. That day, I happened to wake up earlier. I turned on the TV and I saw that a plane had crashed (撞击) into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. My first reaction (反应) was that it was a terrible accident. Then I saw another plane fly into the South Tower and I realized that I was witnessing (目击) an act of terrorism.

My wife and I spent the day watching the terrible pictures over again. When I watched family members looking for their loved ones, the pain in their eyes was something I would never forget. I couldn t understand how something this terrible could have happened.