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Unit 2 I’ll help to clean up the city parks
单元话题任务型阅读练习
基础语篇巩固练
（23-24八年级上·山东潍坊·期中）
It was a warm spring day. Chen Beier, a TV host (主持人), was on her way to Atule’er, a small village on a
cliff (悬崖) in Sichuan. She was going to make a programme about the village. People could only get there by
climbing a very long ladder (梯子).
In 2021, China had eradicated extreme poverty (消除绝对贫困). And life has greatly changed in Atule’er
too. Years ago, there were no schools for children. Many people died because they couldn’t get medical help in
time. Now schools and hospitals are built. People can go to school and see a doctor easily.
Chen was on her way to Atule’er but it wasn’t easy to finish the trip. When Chen was in the middle of the
ladder, she felt so tired that it was difficult for her to go any further. But the woman didn’t ________ and went on
her climb. Thanks to Chen, people can easily see how life in China’s countryside has changed.
China has changed a lot. Many people outside China, however, couldn’t believe it. After all, China has a
large number of poor villages like Atule’er. Now, Chen has shown us what can be done about people’s doubt (质
疑): Don’t just tell them. Show them.
1．What is Chen Beier?
2．How could people get to Atule’er?
3．Why did many people die in the village in the past?
4．Fill in the blank with a proper word or a phrase. (在空白处填入合适的词或短语使句意完整)
5．What should we do about people’s doubt?
（23-24八年级下·黑龙江佳木斯·期末）I own a small restaurant providing hot meals for my customers
(顾客). One day, I felt uncomfortable and closed my door early. When I walked outside, an old lady sat near my
door.I invited her to come in and provided her with a hot meal. She was happy and she told me it was her
birthday. I wished her a happy birthday and asked what she had gotten for her birthday. She told me that a hot
meal was already enough.
I asked her how old she was and she told me about it. I felt so worried about her as she told me she had no family.
Then I reached into my pocket (口袋) and pulled out all the money and asked her to help me count (数数) it. She
was happy to do so. After counting the money, she was surprised and she said she hadn’t seen that much money
for a very long time. I told her to count out 83 dollars and that was her birthday gift — one dollar for every year.
She was so excited that it brought her to tears (眼泪). She told me it was the best gift she had ever received. As for
me, it was also my best day I had ever spent. When we help others, we will make ourselves feel happy as
well.Answer the questions according to the passage.
1．Why did the writer close the door early on that day?
2．What did the writer provide for the old lady after inviting her to come in?
3．Why did the writer feel worried about the old lady?
4．How old was the old lady?
5．What does the writer try to tell us at the end of the story?
（23-24八年级下·广东深圳·课后作业）回答问题
If you have no special plans for your holidays, why not spend your time helping others? Don’t listen to
people who say that the young people today often think only of themselves. It’s not true at all. More and more
people in the USA volunteer to spend their school holidays working for others. And they don’t do it for money.
Here are some of their stories.
Alice Hamilton, 17
I’m going to help the Forest Center build new hiking paths (小路) in the mountains. It’s going to be
wonderful — I’ll spend the whole summer living in the tent and breathing the clean mountain air. I’m going to
sleep under the stars. It’ll be a nice sport, and I’ll be able to do something good at the same time.
.Jason Moore, 18
This summer, I’m going to volunteer with Special House Program. They build good, low-cost houses and sellthem to families that are not very rich. They’ll teach me what to do, so I’ll help people and also have a chance to
learn how to build houses.
Trish Anderson, 16
I’m going to teach kids who have trouble reading. I’ll work for a program called Reading For Life. Every
day, I’m going to help kids choose and read books that they like. I want to be a teacher and I love children and
reading, so this is going to be a great experience for me.
1．The young people today often think only of themselves, don’t they?
2．What does Alice Hamilton think of the coming voluntary work?
3．Who will learn to build houses this summer?
4．What’s wrong with the kids who Trish Anderson is going to teach?
5．How is Trish Anderson going to help the kids?
（24-25八年级上·山东烟台·期末）阅读下面短文，完成短文后的问题。
If you like poems (诗), the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, US is a good place for you. There is a night
table in the middle of the park. A note on it reads, “Take a poem, leave a poem.”
Amanda Barrows, a 31-year-old park ranger (管理员), thought up an idea. She said, “I never thought
visitors would love the idea. They left over 100 handwritten poems on the night table in months.”
Three years ago, Barrows began writing poems. She attended a poetry class to keep herself writing. The
class asked students to find a way to bring poems into communities. “Why not bring poetry to the city parks
where I work?” Barrows thought.
Barrows started her work. A friend of hers provided her with an old night table. Then Barrows filled the
drawer (抽屉) at the top with fresh paper and pens and added a box at the bottom for poems. Then she asked her
close friends to help her fill the drawer with their favorite poems for people to take. Finally, she put her idea into
practice.
Barrows planned to leave the night table in one park for four days before moving it to a new park. “I
wanted more people to join in the project,” Barrows said.
“Barrow’s project is a great way to bring poems to people. That’s why it gets so many likes,” said Lauren,one teacher of the poetry class.
1．What does Barrows do?
2．How long has it been since Barrows began writing poems?
3．What does the fourth paragraph mainly talk about?
4．Why did Barrow plan to move the night table from one park to another?
5．What does Lauren think of Barrow’s project?
（23-24八年级上·重庆九龙坡·期末）阅读下面短文，根据短文内容，完成下列各题。
Community canteens (社区食堂) are places for old people to have meals, as the elderly may have trouble
in cooking. However, these canteens have become more and more popular among young people recently. Why do
so many young people choose to have meals in these “elderly” community canteens?
Many young people are too busy with work to cook for themselves. “I used to spend two hours cooking and
washing dishes, only to eat for 10 minutes,” said Chen Luo, an engineer from a nearby office building. The nearby
community canteen is a perfect choice.
Compared with food ordered online, foods in these canteens are much healthier. Fang Wenjing, a teenage
boy from Hangzhou, can order a meat dish, 2 vegetable dishes and a bowl of rice for only 20 yuan in the nearby
community canteen. “Though the dishes are cheap, they are healthy and have a home-cooked taste, just as I
expected,” said Fang.
However, some people show different opinions about these community canteens. They doubt whether the
canteens can make sure the dishes are fresh and healthy with such low prices. Besides, meals there are all home-
made dishes with fewer specials in different places. “Though other restaurants are a little more expensive than the
community canteens, I prefer to enjoy the beautiful environment and nice service there,” said Linda Wang, a
young English teacher.
Anyway, community canteens really meet the daily needs of people who live in big cities. What do you
think?
1．Do the community canteens only serve old people now?2．What can Fang Wenjing choose to eat in a community canteen with 20 yuan?
3．Why do many young people have meals in the community canteens?
4．If you want to eat out, would you like to choose community canteens or other restaurants? Why?
（24-25八年级上·安徽合肥·期中）When it comes to volunteer work, an unforgettable experience enters
my mind.
Last weekend, I went to the Old People’s Home as a volunteer with my friends to help the old.
We brought flowers and fruit along with our best wishes. While we were there, some of us talked with the
old. The interesting stories made them happy and relaxed. In order to make the houses clean and tidy, others did
cleaning carefully. How meaningful it was! The happy moments we spent together were also recorded on my
phone. Although we all felt tired, we thought it was worthwhile.
As the saying goes, the roses in her hand, the flavor in mine. What we did that day is not only meaningful
but also a chance to learn how to care for others. Besides, always helping people in need is important and
necessary, for it will make the world full of love!
1．What did the writer and his friend bring to the old? (不超过10个词）
2．Why is helping people in need important and necessary? (不超过10个词）
3．Please give a good title for this passage. (不超过10个词）
（23-24八年级上·湖南长沙·开学考试）阅读下面的短文，根据短文内容回答问题。
For most of us, watching a movie is a pretty common thing to do. But for the blind people who can’t see, it
can be very difficult. In Kunming, Yunnan Province, there is a very special theater, Xin Deng Theater (心灯影院).
It’s blind-friendly.
More than 5,000 volunteers help at the Xin Deng Theater on weekends. Most of them are university
students. Their job is to narrate (讲述) films to blind moviegoers. Before working, volunteers will learn how to
tell of a film.
Every Saturday, volunteers will come to the bus stop to pick up the blind and take them to the Xin DengTheater. Then all the blind will sit down to enjoy a movie together. When the movie begins, a volunteer will give
lively narrations. He describes what is happening on the screen, including facial expressions (面部表情), the
background and even the clothing. With the help of the narrator, the blind immerse (沉浸) themselves in the
movie. They laugh when something funny happens and sigh (叹气) during sad situations.
Volunteers at the Xin Deng Theater help blind moviegoers better enjoy their theater trips. Yifan, one of the
volunteers, has narrated more than 20 movies. “I could feel they were enjoying the film. I was so glad that my
volunteer work could bring enjoyment to them,” he said. “I felt as though I was shining a light on their lives.”
1．Why is Xin Deng Theater special?
2．How many volunteers help at Xin Deng Theater?
3．Do volunteers help the blind every day at Xin Deng Theater?
4．How do the volunteers help the blind enjoy the movie?
5．What do you think of the volunteers’ work?
重难语篇拔高练
（23-24八年级下·江苏南京·期中）请认真阅读下面短文, 并根据短文内容回答问题。
A volunteer in the Xingxinxiangyin project plays basketball with a boy with autism (自闭症). For Wan
Shiyu, a 20-year-old social work major at Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) in Hubei province, voluntary
work goes beyond her studies—it represents the duty by young people to social development through selfless
devotion.
Wan’s voluntary project, named “ Xingxinxiangyin” (Star and Heart Intertwined), which provides
rehabilitation (康复) services for children with autism. Wan’s project focuses on lifelong and all-around recovery,
with activities for the specific needs of children with autism.
Zhu Yufeng, a 22-year-old graduate of the School of English for International Business at Guangdong
University of Foreign Studies, won a gold prize in the competition for his project, “ Yaolan” (Cradle for Yao
ethnic group), which focuses on poverty alleviation (扶贫) and rural revitalization (农村振兴) in Ruyuan Yao
autonomous county (自治县), Guangdong.Zhu organizes students from various majors to connect Yao embroidery (刺绣) with market needs. The
project has improved the income (收入) of villagers and brought new life to Yao embroidery. According to Zhu,
the yearly sales of the Yao embroidery have increased from around 5 million to over 14 million with the help of
the Yaolan project. It has also improved a deeper relationship and friendship between the Han and Yao ethnic
groups as we worked together to make the lives of villagers in the county better” , Zhu said.
In the Public Service Venture sector of the competition, Dong Zexin, a 24-year-old student majoring in
information and communicating engineering at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications won a silver
prize for leading his team “ Xingyaoxiangcun” (Sparked Country through Youth Power and Technology). The
main goal of the project is to connect college students with voluntary activities in rural areas around Beijing.
“ It reminds me of the charm of volunteer work. Whether ifs young people, those in their middle age, or
even the elderly, everyone can find a role in making our society better, he said.
1．What does voluntary work represent according to Wan Shiyu?
2．What are the names of the projects mentioned in this article?
3．Who won a gold prize in the competition for his project?
4．What is the main goal of the project “Xingyaoxiangcun”?
5．What can you do to make our society better? (请自拟一句话作答)
