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Unit 8 Have you read Treasure Island yet?
1.鲁迅家里有两个保姆，不知何故，发生了几次口角。鲁迅受不了整天的吵闹，竟病倒了，晚上经常失
眠。隔壁的俞芳小姑娘问道：“大先生，你为什么不喝止她们?”鲁迅微笑着说：“她们闹口角是因为彼
此心里都有气，虽然可以暂时压下去，但心里那股“气”是压不下去的，恐怕也要失眠，与其三个人或
两个人失眠，那么还不如让我一个人失眠算了。
2.名流免不了被邀请作演讲，鲁迅也不例外。他演讲时旁征博引，妙趣横生，常常被掌声和笑声包围。
一次，他从上海回到北平，北师大请他去讲演，题目是《文学与武力》。有的同学已在报上看到过不少
攻击他的文章，很为他不平。他在讲演中说：“有人说我这次到北平，是来抢饭碗的，是“卷土重来”
但是请放心，我马上要“卷土重去”了。一席话顿时引得会场上充满了笑声。
3.有一次，鲁迅的侄女在鲁迅家作客，吃晚饭时，她问道：“你和爸爸哪儿都象，就是有那么一点不象。
“哪一点不象？”鲁迅问道。“爸爸的鼻子又高又直，你的鼻子又扁又平。”侄女说。“你不知道，”
鲁迅笑了笑，“小时候，我鼻子跟你爸爸的是一样的，只是后来才变扁变平了的。”“那是为什么
呢？”侄女不解地问。“那是到了后来，我住的环境比较黑暗，到处碰壁，所以把鼻子都碰矮了!”鲁迅
说。
4.广州的一些进步青年创办了南中国文学社，希望鲁迅为创刊号撰稿。鲁迅说：“文章还是你们自己先
写的好，我以后再写，免得有人说鲁迅来到广州找青年来为自己捧场了。”“我们都是穷学生，如果刊
物第一期销路不好，就不一定有力量出第二期了。”文学社青年说。“要刊物销路好很容易，”鲁迅风
趣而又严肃地说，“你们可以写文章骂我，骂我的刊物也是销路好的！”
5.鲁迅很喜欢吃糕饼糖果等甜食。有一回，人家送了柿饼给他，他喜欢得不行，藏起来自己偷偷享用，
舍不得给别人吃！只有在女士来做客时，才“大方”地拿出来，因为女士们胃口小，只能吃个一两片而
已！他还能吃辣椒。在江南水师学堂读书时，有一次他期末考试成绩优异，学校发给他一枚金质奖章，
鲁迅没有把奖章作为自我炫耀的标牌，却懂得实惠，跑到鼓楼街把它卖了，买一大串红辣椒回来。每读
书至夜深人静、天寒人困之时，就摘下一只辣椒来，分成几截，放进嘴里咀嚼，直嚼得额头冒汗，眼里
流泪，嘘唏不已。只觉周身发暖，睡意顿消，于是捧书再读。
6.叶永蓁曾问鲁迅，为什么阿Q是地地道道的中国人，却要取个外国名字呢。鲁迅幽默地说：“阿Q光头，
脑后留一条小辫子，这个Q字不正是他的滑稽形象吗？”
7.有个女师大的学生，未经家长允许，竟和别校一男生去逛了公园。她父母知道后，找到学校大吵大闹，
指控校方管教不严。那位封建死板的校长“老小姐”，像泼妇一样斥责女学生：“太不像话了!”鲁迅正
好经过那里，得知原委后，诙谐地说：“现在风和日丽，这么两位青年学生一块逛公园，有什么不好?那些公园青年人都不准去逛，难道都得成了老太婆、老头子才能去逛吗?”
8.鲁迅辞厦门大学教授赴广州中山大学任教前，厦门大学校长林文庆为鲁迅饯行，宴席上有资本家在座。
林说：“厦大是私立大学，谁出了钱，谁便可以说话。”鲁迅从袋里掏出一个铜板说：“我捐给厦大一
个铜板，我要说话。”林闻之语塞。
9.1934年，国民党北平市长袁良下令禁止男女同学同泳。鲁迅看不惯，说：“同学同泳，偶尔皮肉相触，
有碍男女大防。不过禁止以后，男女还是同吸着天地间的空气。空气从这个男人的鼻孔呼出来，被那个
女人的鼻孔吸进去，又从那个女人的鼻孔呼出来，被另一个男人的鼻孔吸进去，简直淆乱乾坤。还不如
下一道命令，规定男女老幼诸色人等，一律戴上防毒面具，既禁空气流通，又防抛头露面!”说着还模拟
戴着防毒面具走路状。听讲的人笑得前仰后合。
10.20世纪30年代，一些作家的主观主义毛病很厉害。一次，有人请鲁迅谈谈这一问题，鲁迅没有多说，
只讲了两个故事：其一，有个农民，每天都得挑水，一天，他忽然有所感悟道：“皇帝用什么挑水吃的
呢?”后又自言自语：“一定用金扁担的！”其二，有个农妇很想吃柿饼，于是她就想：“皇后娘娘是怎
么享福的呢?一定是一觉醒来就下令，快拿一个柿饼来吃吃！
拓展阅读
（一）
【语篇来自二十一世纪学生英文报·试题原创】
Mark Twain: father of American literature
On the night of Nov 30, 1835, a boy named Samuel Clemens was born in Florida, US. Many years later, the
world would know this boy as Mark Twain.
Mark Twain is one of the greatest US writers of all time. Some people even call him the father of American
literature.
Like many US writers of his day, Twain had little school education. As a teenager, he worked as a printer.
Later, he worked as a riverboat pilot, miner and freelancer for newspapers. These experiences gave him wonderful
writing material.
Mark Twain is considered the greatest humorist of his age. His jokes go to the roots of human nature. In
1873, Twain released a book called The Gilded Age. The book made fun of the very wealthy people of the time.
Besides humor, Twain developed a unique writing style that was very American. Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn (1885 in the US) describes the adventures of a boy, Huck Finn, and a black slave, Jim. Twain used dialects in
the novel, making the character’s speech sound like real Americans: using local dialects, newly invented words,
and regional accents.
Twain’s writing style has influenced many writers. “All modern American literature comes from one book by
Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn,” Ernest Hemingway wrote in 1935.In 1910, Twain died of heart disease. But his brilliance keeps on shining to this day.
1．Mark Twain was born in________.
A．1830 B．1873 C．the UK D．the US
2．Mark Twain’s________ gave him wonderful writing material.
A．educational experiences B．working experiencesC．family D．teachers
3．Mark Twain released the book The Gilded Age in________.
A．1835 B．1873 C．1885 D．1935
4．Mark Twain used dialects in his novel to________.
A．extensive English
B．enable readers to understand
C．make the character’s speech sound like real Americans
D．make the character’s speech sound like real British
5．Mark Twain died of________.
A．heart disease B．an accident C．lung disease D．the virus
（二）
【语篇来自二十一世纪学生英文报·试题原创】
Remember honest Zhou
He is known as the father of modern Chinese literature. But his influence has gone beyond literature to the
world of ideas, arts and politics. No wonder Chairman Mao Zedong once called him “the sage of modern China”.
Oct 19 is the 80th anniversary of the death of Zhou Shuren, commonly known for his pen name Lu Xun.
Today his writing is still widely read and several of his stories and essays are included in China’s public school
curriculum.
As one of the leaders of the New Culture Movement (1915-1923), Lu Xun is known for making honest
comments on Chinese institutions, culture and customs.
Take the story From Baicao Garden to Sanwei Study for example. The writer wrote about his youth from his
playground Baicao Garden to his school the Sanwei Study, where a respected teacher instructed him in Chinese
classics. The name “sanwei”, which translates as “three flavors”, refers to comparisons of different types of
reading to different types of foodstuffs. Confucian classics are like rice. History books are like dishes. And
literature is like sauce and seasoning.
It was in this strict traditional learning environment that he started to form a solid understanding of Chinese
feudal society.
So when he wrote his first short story, A Madman’s Diary, he declared war against the broken society. Thestory made a huge splash in China’s literary world when it was published in 1918 for being among the first to use
colloquial language together with the hard-to-read classical language that “serious” authors were meant to write in
at the time. The story also turned heads for its extremely critical take on the downside of Chinese tradition, which
Zhou compared to cannibalism.
Three years later, another important story, The True Story of Ah Q, was published. It saw Lu Xun look at the
Chinese psyche at the time. The writer criticized it through Ah Q, a peasant who always considers himself
superior to others even as he is humiliated and finally executed in the end. This characterization was on-the-nose
enough that the phrase “the Ah Q spirit” is widely used even today.
“In all of Chinese literature, Lu Xun is … a sharp observer of the era he lived through, and a remaker of
language and form,” commented The Guardian newspaper.
6．________ called Lu Xun “the sage of modern China”.
A．Mao Zedong
B．Zhou Shuren
C．Guo Moruo
D．Mo Yan
7．What are history books like according to Lu Xun?
A．They are like rice.
B．They are like dishes.
C．They are like sauce.
D．They are seasoning.
8．Ah Q represents ________.
A．the Chinese grass-root people during the feudal period
B．Lu Xun
C．nobles during the feudal period
D．royals during the feudal period
9．The underlined word “criticized” means ________.
A．赞扬 B．学习 C．展露 D．批判
10．What’s the passage mainly about?
A．Lu Xun—the sage of modern China.
B．How to write stories.
C．Some influential stories.
D．Famous works of Chinese literature.
（三）（23-24八年级下·全国·课后作业）When I’m in trouble, I always take out a book and read quietly. I put
my heart into it so that I’ll forget all the unhappy things. I’ve developed a habit of reading in this way.
When I was a little boy, I was interested in comic books and storybooks. When I was a middle school
student, I began to read novels, plays, essays (散文) and so on. I found I could get much from them. Little by
little, I took a great interest in literature (文学) and last term I won the first prize in the composition contest (作文
竞赛) among high school students in our city.
Reading “The Emperor’s New Clothes” makes me laugh a lot about the emperor’s silly behavior. “The Little
Match Girl” makes me feel sad. Robinson Crusoe takes me into a strange world full of danger. And I am also
deeply moved by Helen Keller’s spirit of being strong and never giving up. Besides these, books also tell me other
things—how to be a brave man and how to tell the difference between right and wrong. In a word, good books can
let me know what I don’t know before. So I think good books are just like my best friends.
11．What was the writer interested in when he was a little boy?
A．Comic books. B．Essays. C．Novels. D．Plays.
12．What does the writer think of the emperor in the story “The Emperor’s New Clothes”?
A．Clever. B．Brave. C．Outgoing. D．Stupid.
13．Why does the writer think that good books are like his best friends?
A．Because they can teach him many things that he doesn’t know.
B．Because they can make him learn a lot about history.
C．Because they have beautiful pictures for him to enjoy.
D．Because they can tell him interesting stories and make him laugh.
14．What is the best title for the passage?
A．My interesting hobby
B．Everyone should read books
C．Classic books are good
D．Students should be friends with books
（四）
（22-23八年级下·山东济宁·期末）At about 22:00 on February 4, 2022, at the opening ceremony（幕式）of the 24th Winter Olympics, a
children’s choir（合唱团）from Hebei Province sang the Olympic theme song. Deng Xiaolan, who was born in
Yijiazhuang Village, Fuping, took the children from a small village to the center of the world stage.
When Deng came to Malan Primary School in 2003, she asked the children, “What song can you sing?” To
her surprise, the children were too shy to sing a song. Deng was very sad. At that time, she decided to do
something. “I want children in my hometown to have music in their childhood,” she said.
Deng came to Malan Village again and started to work as a music teacher in 2004. It took Deng at least seven
hours to reach the village from Beijing. Although she met many difficulties, Deng was happy to find that the
children were very interested in music and most of them were good at music.
Over the past 18 years, she spent at least half a year each year teaching music. It is Deng’s wish to give her
students a concert in a natural environment. In 2013, Deng started concert in Malan Village to give her young
students a chance to feel the magic of music.
When she watched the performance at the opening ceremony of the 24th Winter Olympics, Deng said, “The
children in the mountains have bright eyes, like the stars in the sky. Their voice is like the sound of nature, and
their love for singing is moving（令人感动的）.”
15．What is the main purpose（目的）of writing Paragraph 2?
A．To introduce the children to the world.
B．To show how much Deng loves music.
C．To ask people to help the poor children.
D．To show the reason why Deng taught music in the village.
16．What can we learn from Paragraph 3?
A．Deng Xiaolan was a music teacher in Beijing before.
B．Children in Malan Village had difficulty in going to school.
C．Deng Xiaolan felt tired after returning to Malan Village from Beijing.
D．Deng Xiaolan found that the children of the village had a talent in music.
17．How many years did she spend teaching the children singing before they sang the Olympic theme song?
A．14 years. B．15 years. C．18 years. D．20 years.
18．What does the passage is mainly about?
A．The importance of music to children.
B．The life stories of the children in Malan Village.
C．The success of the children in Malan Village in the Olympics.
D．Deng Xiaolan, who brought music to the children in Malan Village.（五）
（21-22八年级下·广东广州·期末）Many people think of traditional arts, they think of music. And, in
China one of the most famous traditional artists is Tan Dun.
Tan Dun was born in a small village near Changsha, Hunan in 1957. He spent his early childhood with his
grandmother. He worked as a violin player and arranger for a Beijing Opera troupe(京剧团). At the age of
nineteen, he heard Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony(贝多芬第五交响乐) for the first time and decided to be a
composer(作曲家). When he was twenty, he studied music in Beijing. In the middle of 1980s, Tan Dun had a
further study on music at Columbia University. Since then, he has lived in New York.
Tan Dun once said in an interview that he only studied Eastern music before the age of twenty, and after
twenty he started to be educated in Western music. And by the age of thirty, he deeply understood both traditions.
The educational experience gave him the power to create excellent works that connect the traditional and the
modern, the East and the West.
Tan Dun has two great inspirations(灵感) for his music. The first is to join together Western and Chinese
music. For example, his music for the Beijing Olympics in 2008 came from an old Chinese song and used both
traditional Chinese and Western musical tools. His second is to use natural sounds in his music. For example, he
created a piece called The Water Concerto in 1998. All the sounds used in the music are made with water.
With his music, Tan Dun tries to find the balance of the music between the East and the West as well as the
music and nature.
19．In which year did Tan Dun make a decision to be a composer?
A．In 1957. B．In 1976. C．In 1980. D．In 1998.
20．Which of the following about Tan Dun is NOT correct?
A．Tan Dun tries to find the balance in his music.
B．Tan Dun didn’t start to study western music until twenty.
C．Tan Dun is one of the most famous traditional artists in China.
D．Tan Dun created the Olympic music with modern western tools.
21．What does the underlined phrase “the educational experience” in the third paragraph refer to?
A．He spent his early childhood with his grandmother.
B．When he was twenty, he studied music in Beijing.
C．His further study on music at a foreign university.
D．His study background in both China and America.
22．Which are the two inspirations for Tan Dun’s music?
① join together western and Chinese music ② an old Chinese song
③ use natural sound in music ④ use water sounds in musicA．①② B．①③ C．②③ D．②④
（22-23八年级下·全国·单元测试）Look at the main characters from Detective Conan carefully and then
answer the questions.
Dr. Agasa
An odd inventor lives beside Shinichi’s house. He is the first one to know Conan’s secret. He invents small
tools for Conan to solve cases.
Gin
He is from a secret crime organization. He uses medicine to turn Shinichi into a kid.
Kogorou Mouri
Ran’s father, a foolish detective, owns a detective agency. He becomes famous with Conan’s help.
Edoagawa Conan
The child form（形式）of Shinichi. He is very smart and good at soccer. He lives in Ran Mouri’s house
without letting Ran know his secret. He is also a member of Detective Boys. He uses a changing voice bow and
his watch to help Kogorou Mouri to solve cases.
23．Who is the first one to know Conan’s secret?
A．Dr. Agasa. B．Gin. C．Edoagawa Conan. D．Kogorou Mouri.
24．What does Gin do?
A．He owns a detective agency. B．He helps people solve cases.
C．He turns Shinichi into a kid. D．He invents things all day long.
25．Edoagawa Conan helps ________ solve cases.
A．Ran Mouri B．Kogorou Mouri C．Dr. Agasa D．nobody
26．From the information above, we can get that these characters are from a ________.
A．newspaper B．advertisement C．detective comic D．magazine
27．Which of the following is NOT TRUE?
A．Edoagawa Conan is very smart and good at soccer.
B．Dr. Agasa invents small tools for Conan to solve cases.
C．Gin is from a secret crime organization.
D．Kogorou Mouri, Ran’s father, is also a smart detective.
（六）
（22-23 八年级下·江苏·单元测试）On Saturday morning, every boy in town was happy, except Tom
Sawyer. Tom’s aunt said he had to paint the fence(围栏). It was thirty yards(码) long and three yards high! When
he was working, some boys came along and made fun of him.
Ben was the first one who came happily with an apple in his hand.“I’m going swimming,” said Ben. “Do you want to come? Oh, you have to work, don’t you?”
Tom got a little angry, but soon he had a wonderful idea.
“Work?” he said. “I don’t think this is work. It’s fun. Does a boy get a chance like this every day?”
Ben thought about this. He was watching Tom’s every move and was getting more and more interested.
After a while, he said, “Tom, will you let me do some painting?”
“No way. You see. Aunt Polly wants it to be done properly. I’m the only one that can do it right.”
“Oh, please, Tom,” begged(恳求) Ben.” I’ll be really careful. Let me try! I’ll give you my apple in return.”
“Well, all right, Ben,” said Tom. “But you must be careful.”
He gave Ben his brush with worry on his face but joy in his heart. He started to eat Ben’s apple.
All day, boys passed by and wanted to paint. When Ben got tired, Billy began to paint. He gave Tom his
favorite kite. Then Johnny gave him twelve marbles(玻璃球), and so on.
That afternoon, Tom got many toys, and the fence got three coats of paint. Aunt Polly was so pleased when
she saw the painted fence that she gave Tom a large cake!
28．At first, Tom Sawyer was unhappy because ________.
A．he had no time to play B．he had no apples to eat
C．he had no toys to play with D．he had no friends to talk with
29．When Tom Sawyer was working, Ben came along to ________.
A．give him a hand B．ask him to swim C．make fun of him D．give him an apple
30．The underlined phrase “in return” means “________” in Chinese.
A．归还 B．返回 C．回报 D．报酬
31．Which of the following is TRUE?
A．Tom thought painting the fence was very fun.
B．Tom got many toys and a large cake in the end.
C．Tom was the only boy who could work carefully.
D．Aunt Polly was angry when she saw the painted fence.
32．From the passage, we know Tom Sawyer was very ________.
A．polite B．clever C．brave D．lazy
（七）
（23-24 八年级下·安徽·课后作业）People from Europe and America brought Africans to America as
slaves (奴隶) before and during the 19th century. 33 After the American Civil War, the African—
American people in the U. S. A．were not slaves. Their music became famous. It started in the south, then it
traveled to the north. Music became blues and then jazz.
34 A person sang the blues when he or she felt sad. Usually, he or she lost something—a person ormaybe money or a job. Blues express sad feelings, sometimes in a funny way. People played blues first with only
one or two instruments, for example, a guitar, a harmonica (口琴) or a piano. 35 Some famous blues
musicians are Bessie Smith, John Lee Hooker and B．B．King.
Jazz came soon after blues. Composers used more musical instruments. 36 Some famous jazz
musicians are Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis and Wynton Marsalis.
Musicians change the music to show their emotions (情感) when they play blues and jazz. 37
Today people all over the world still like to listen to blues and jazz because all people have strong feelings
sometimes.
阅读短文，从所给的七个选项中选出能填入文中空缺处的最佳选项。
A．These Africans brought their music with them.
B．Europeans and Americans brought music together with them.
C．Sometimes they sang without any instruments.
D．They play the music differently each time.
E．The two kinds of music attracted (吸引) people so much.
F．Jazz can be happier and is often faster.
G．Blues and jazz became very popular in the 20th century.
