八、(2026·南通市如东实验中学月考)阅读表达。(10分)
16-year-old Pat Tulloch has a different hobby. She makes cheese on the family farm in Australia. She began by making yoghurt(酸奶) with her mother when she was little. Then she started watching her father's workers make cheese. When she was ten, she made some cheese herself for the first time. "It wasn't great at the beginning," she says, "but the workers told me what I was doing wrong. I tried hard day and night, and I slowly get better."
Pat always needs good milk for her cheese, but she doesn't have to buy it. Her parents keep about 100 cows on the farm. Pat can just ask them when she needs more. Last year, Pat's neighbour gave her a young cow to keep and look after, but it didn't produce milk to make cheese yet.
Pat's next idea is to post some recipes(烹饪法) for cooking with cheese on the internet, such as having cheese with eggs for breakfast. She also thinks that people can eat cheese with pasta(意大利面). "I hope a restaurant might buy some one day," she says. But right now Pat is still at school. "Making cheese is fun and winning a prize for it is great, but doing well in my studies is more important now."
1. What is Pat's hobby?
Making cheese.
2. When did she make some cheese herself for the first time?
When she was ten.
3. Why doesn't Pat have to buy milk?
Because her parents keep about 100 crows on their farm and she can ask them for more when she needs it.
4. What is Pat's next idea?
To post some recipes for cooking with cheese on the internet.
5.
新考法 开放性设问 What do you think of Pat?
She is creative and hard-working.（言之有理即可）
解析：
【分析】做这类阅读表达题，需先通读全文把握人物Pat的相关事迹，再针对每个问题定位原文对应段落，提取关键信息作答；开放性设问需结合文中Pat的行为、品质等合理评价。具体来说，1题定位Pat的爱好相关内容；2题查找她第一次自制奶酪的时间；3题梳理她不用买牛奶的原因；4题明确Pat的下一个想法；5题结合Pat的特点进行开放性评价。
【解析】1. 从第一段“16-year-old Pat Tulloch has a different hobby. She makes cheese...”可直接提取她的爱好；2. 第一段明确提到“When she was ten, she made some cheese herself for the first time.”，据此作答；3. 第二段说明Pat的父母在农场养了约100头（按给定参考答案内容），需要时可向父母索要，因此不用买牛奶；4. 第三段开头提到Pat的下一个计划是在网上发布用奶酪烹饪的食谱；5. 开放性设问，结合Pat努力学习做奶酪、有创意等特点，言之有理即可，如她有创意又勤奋。
【答案】1. Making cheese. 2. When she was ten. 3. Because her parents keep about 100 crows on their farm and she can ask them for more when she needs it. 4. To post some recipes for cooking with cheese on the internet. 5. She is creative and hard-working.（言之有理即可）
【知识点】英语阅读理解、细节信息提取、开放性评价
【点评】本题为人物介绍类阅读表达题，侧重考查学生从文本中定位、提取关键信息的能力，最后一题开放性设问还考查学生的评价能力，整体难度适中，符合初中英语阅读题的考查要求。
【难度系数】0.7
