八年级下U1 Helping those in need 测试卷
（A卷·夯实基础）
【牛津（广州，深圳，沈阳）版】
学校：__________班级：__________姓名：_________ 考号：___________
温馨提示：
本试卷共分第Ⅰ卷和第Ⅱ卷两部分，第Ⅰ卷为选择题；第Ⅱ卷为非选择题；满分为90分，考试时间为100
分钟。
第Ⅰ卷 选择题
一、语法选择（15分）
My dad seemed nervous today! We were driving to the store to get
some last-minute things ____1___ a big dinner in our house when he got a
phone call. An important customer（顾客）of my dad's company would
come to our house and my dad had not met ____2____ at all.
As we drove to the store, we _____3____an old man at the side of the
road. He had a flat tire(瘪的轮胎）Normally, my dad would stop, 4 this
time he said, “We're too busy right now!”
About half 5 hour later, we finished buying the things. When we were heading back home from
supermarket, we saw the old man still there 6 on the tire.
This time, my dad pulled the car over and we got out. “Do you have 7 trouble, sir? he asked.
“Yes,” said the old man. “I ____8______ get the wheel off. Many people passed by. You are the person ____9____
has stopped to help me. ''
In no nine, the old wheel 10 for a new one by my dad and me. The man saw that we were pretty messy, and
he offered 11 money to us. Of course, my dad said no.
We made our way home. At about 6 p. m. , the doorbell rang, and my father answered the door. He was
shocked. It was the old man with the flat tire!
The old man felt as 12 as my father did. He shook my father's hand 13 and said, “ As I see it , the deal is
done! You're a nice person and you have taught your son well."
Of course, my dad just does 14 he can to help others, and he never expects anything in return. But it often
happens that 15 we do the right thing, the right thing happens to us.
1. A. at B. for C. on D. with
2. A.he B. him C. his D. himself
3. A.notice B. are noticing C. have noticed D. noticed
1 / 104. A.but B. or C. so D. as
5. A.a B. an C. the D. \
6. A.to work B. to working C. working D. works
7 A. some B. few C. any D. many
8. A. mustn't B. needn't C. shouldn't D. can't
9. A. which B. who C. whom D. where
10. A. was changed B. changed C. change D. is changed
11. A. pay B. to pay C. paying D. paid
12. A. surprised B. more surprised C. surprisedly D. surprising
13. A. excited B. more excited C. most excited D. excitedly
14. A. why B. how C. what D. when
15 A. before B. when C. unless D. although
二、完形填空(每题1分，共10分)
My neighbor is a doctor. He and his wife are some of the _____16_____ people I have ever met. A few years
ago, we started this kind of “favor war” where one of us would do something kind for the other, such as
_____17_____the driveway or building a shed, and next time the other would ______18______to top it with
another favor.
Yesterday morning, it snowed heavily and I remembered he shoveled (铲) my driveway for me. So I took out
my shovel and took care of both our driveways and sidewalks because it was my turn to do a favor _____19_____.
It took a while but I finished it and got into my car for work.
That night I got a ____20____on my door, it was my neighbor. He immediately shook my hands and thanked
me for shoveling his driveway and sidewalk, so that he was able to get to work earlier and ______21______a boy.
“As soon as I started the car early this morning, a call came through that a young boy in our neighborhood
was seriously ill._____22_____, my partner and I were only about 2 minutes away, but the closest ambulance 10
minutes,” added he. “A young boy got to live his life because you did me the favor.”
It wasn’t too much _____23_____to shovel a driveway, but what I did got a young boy to see his family
again, go back to school again and live his life again. _____24_____favor is too small. Even the smallest favor
can make the biggest ______25______. One favor will always be followed by another.
16. A. nicest B. busiest C. richest D. happiest
17. A. looking for B. going down C. cleaning up D. walking across
2 / 1018. A. try B. stop C. agree D. refuse
19. A. soon B. back C. again D. first
20. A. note B. kick C. gift D. knock
21. A. met B. saved C. supported D. encouraged
22. A. Finally B. Actually C. Luckily D. Suddenly
23. A. practice B. trouble C. attention D. experience
24. A. No B. Any C. Some D. Each
25. A. choice B. progress C. decision D. difference
三、阅读理解（分2节，共35分）
第一节、阅读选择（30分）
Volunteers needed for a community maintenance shop (维修店)
Are you thinking about helping others? Are you good at talking with people? Come and join us.
Length of working time:
From 10amto4 pm next weekend.
Volunteers must:
*Have finished high school education.
*Be between eighteen and twenty-four years old.
*Speak English and Chinese well.
*Be friendly and patient.
What you need to do:
⒈ Invite visitors to choose one from the following items:
*The fixer does the repair and the visitor watches.
*The fixer and the visitor do the repair together.
*The visitor does the repair and the fixer helps.
⒉ Give out posters to invite more people to join in the fixing competition next month.
What you can get as a volunteer:
If you are willing to help us, you can get a free volunteer shirt. Also, every volunteer will get a free ticket to
the national park. We offer free lunch.
Categories (种类) include:
Furniture, garden tools, clothing, electronics, book and paper repair and bicycles.
If you are interested, you can call us at 732-3694 or email us at repaircafe@163.com. Please contact us on
Sunday, April 5, at1:00pm- 5:00 pm.
26. What’s the purpose of the poster?
3 / 10A. To describe the free community maintenance shop.
B. To introduce different kinds of old things.
C. To find volunteers for the community maintenance shop.
D. To show the new environment of a maintenance shop.
27. Who can be a volunteer in the maintenance shop?
A. Cindy — She is 14 and is a middle school student.
B. Eric — He is studying in Grade Three in a high school.
C. Mike — He is friendly but can’t speak English.
D. Lucy — She is 20 and can speak English and Chinese.
28. What can we get from the passage?
A. Anyone in the maintenance shop can get a free shirt.
B. The volunteers should teach the visitors how to fix things.
C. You have two ways to contact the maintenance shop.
D. You can contact the shop on the morning of April 5.
B
A poor boy lived in a small town. He sold goods from door to door to pay for school. One
day, he only one cent left, and he was hungry. He decided that he would ask for a meal at
the next house. However, when a young woman opened the door, the boy was shy, so he just
asked for some water. The woman knew he was hungry, so she brought him a large glass of
milk. He drank it slowly, and then asked, “How much should I pay for it?” “You won't pay
for it. My mother has told me that it is good to help the people who are in trouble.” She
replied. The boy said, “Then I thank you from my heart.” As the boy left that house, he felt stronger. He knew he
had many things to do.
Many years later, the young woman became ill. The local doctors couldn't save her. People had to send her to a
big city. When the doctor knew who the woman was, he was excited and tried his best to save her life. He
succeeded. The woman needed to pay for the medical bill. The doctor learned that she couldn't afford it. So he
wrote something down on the medical bill. The woman read the bill, “You have paid it with a glass of milk.”
29.Why was the young woman sent to a hospital in a big city? _________
A. Because she was seriously ill
B. Because she had lots of money
4 / 10C. Because she wanted to visit the doctor
D. Because she knew the poor boy worked there
30.From the passage we can know the doctor(the poor boy) ________.
A. let the young woman pay for the bill.
B. was always thankful for the young woman's kindness.
C. didn't remember the young woman.
D. failed to save the young woman's life.
31. Which is the following sentences is true?
A. The young woman had a bad mother.
B. The poor boy asked for some money.
C. The young woman and her mother were both kind to others.
D. The poor boy became a famous engineer when he grew up.
32.What's the best title(标题) for the article?
A.A kind Mother B.A Lovely Young Woman
C.A Poor Boy D.A Glass of Milk
C
How can kids become heroes? Do they have to save the world? No. To become a hero, kids just have to think
about what others need and find a way to help. Katie Stagliano is one of those hero kids.
Katie loved to garden. When she was 9, she harvested a huge cabbage which weighed 40 pounds. The cabbage
was far bigger than what her family needed, so she thought about what to do with it.
She knew that there were lots of hungry people in South California, where she lived. So she decided to donate
her enormous cabbage to a soup kitchen. It turned out that her kind donation helped feed more than 275 people.
Then Katie thought about other gardeners who had more vegetables than they could eat.
Suddenly, she saw a way to solve both problems. Katie realized that she could help fight against hunger by
encouraging kids to plant vegetable gardens and donate their harvest to hungry people. That's how Katie's Krops
was born.
Katie says, "My dream is that there are no hungry people." To make that dream come true, Katie got her whole
school involved. The students planted a huge garden, but Katie knew she could do more. She contacted an
organization called Fields to Families, which sent a master gardener to help.
It's so great to help people," Katie adds, but kids don't have to grow huge cabbages. If they could grow "even
one vegetable plant and donate the harvest to a local soup kitchen, we could make a huge difference in the fight
5 / 10against hunger".
It's been several years since Katie Stagliano started work on her dream. Today, more than 60 gardens around
the United States are being grown by kids. Young gardeners have donated tens of thousands of pounds of fresh
vegetables to stop hunger.
Sadly, many people are still hungry. However, Katie's Krops and hundreds of child gardeners are planting and
harvesting to change that.
33．What did Katie Stagliano want to do?
A．She wanted to be a hero. B．She wanted to grow a huge cabbage.
C．She wanted to help those hungry people. D．She wanted to encourage kids to donate vegetables.
34．What made Katie start to help hungry people?
A．Her harvest of a big cabbage. B．Her duty to help the poor.
C．Her interest in planting vegetables. D．Her desire to become a hero.
35．What did Katie do to realise her dream?
A．She planted a huge garden. B．She asked an organization for help.
C．She donated her harvest to her school. D．She encouraged all the citizens to work with her.
36．What is the best title of this text?
A．A Hero Kid. B．The Harvest Donation.
C．Child Gardeners. D．Katie Stagliano's Dream.
D
People volunteer for many reasons. For many teenagers, they are asked to do volunteer work, because many
high schools now ask students to finish some volunteer work hours before they can graduate(毕业). But there are
many other reasons why it is a good idea for teenagers to do volunteer work. Volunteering is a great way to find a
new interest or a possible job, make friends and have fun. And they can get experience to make it easier for
themselves to get into a university.
What kind of volunteer work is good for teenagers? The best way to choose is to sit down and make a list(清
单). On their list, teenagers should write down their hobbies and interests, what skills(技能) they have, what kind of
things they want to learn more, and how much time they want to use to do volunteer work. To help to decide what
to do, they can think about if(是否) they would like to work in public or behind the scenes, and if they would like
to have rich experiences or would like to do one thing.
Where to find volunteer work in your city? There are many ways that can help you find teenager volunteer
work in your city. Many cities have a community(社区) volunteer office where you can look for all kinds of one-
6 / 10time or ongoing volunteer work. Most service clubs put information about their volunteer needs on their websites,
or you can always call them to see if they are looking for volunteers. In the United States, you can also look for
suitable(适当的) volunteer work on www.volunteermatch.org.
Volunteering is a wonderful way for teenagers to become more active in their community, and they can get
skills and experience for the future. Teenagers should be encouraged to do different volunteer work to find which is
the best for them. A few years later, they will find benefits(好处) from their volunteer work.
37．For many teenagers, why do they have to do volunteer work now?
A．Many high schools are now asking students to finish some volunteer work hours before they can graduate.
B．Volunteering is a great way to find a new interest or a possible job.
C．They can make friends and have fun.
D．They can get experience to make it easier for themselves to get into a university.
38．The underline word “ongoing” in Paragraph 3 means ______.
A．短期的 B．长期的 C．一次性的 D．正在举行的
39．In which way can NOT you find volunteer work in America?
A．Go to the community volunteer office to find one-time or ongoing volunteer work.
B．Find information about volunteer needs on the website of service clubs.
C．Call the service clubs to see if they are looking for volunteers.
D．Look for suitable volunteer work on www.zgzgz.org.
40．Which is the following is NOT true?
A．Many teenagers are made to do volunteer work.
B．They should decide what kind of volunteer work they want to do before looking for it.
C．You can only find volunteer work in your area.
D．Teenagers benefit a lot even many years later after their volunteer work.
第二节、阅读选择（5分）
There are many people who need to be helped around us. And helping those in need can make the world better.
Now more and more young people are willing to give a hand to those in need.______41____ Here are some ways to
help others.
_____42____Volunteers visit homes for the old people and orphans（孤儿），or care for the people who
have no home. They also plant trees, pick up rubbish and clean public places.
Unlike traditional voluntary work, skill-based（以技术为基础的）voluntary work needs volunteers t0
7 / 10learn about the job or have special lessons for it. ____43____They have history lessons so that they can
introduce some historical knowledge to visitors.
____44______But it shows our care for others and changes the way we look at ourselves. Voluntary work gives
us a chance to think about what we have, and what is important in our life. ___45______
A. For example, in China many children work as guides in museums in summer holiday.
B. Maybe this is the reason why more and more people like being volunteers.
C. As we know, voluntary work takes up our time and can be difficult sometimes.
D. Do you want to join them?
E. The traditional way is to use free time to help people in need.
第2卷 非选择题（共30分）
第一节、短文填词（5分）
My name is Vivien. I became a v__________(1) three years ago. I know voluntary work means a lot to those in
need because I was once helped. When I was five, my leg was badly h_________(2) in an accident. The doctor said
I had to stay in hospital for at least half a year. In the beginning, I couldn’t move and often s_______(3)from pain. I
even cried at night. But things started to change when a boy called Steve came to visit me. The first time he came,
he brought me some interesting comic books and talked with me. Then he often told me funny stories, played
games with me and e__________(4) me. What he did made me very happy and raised me s_________(5). He
visited me twice a week until I was well enough to go back to school. I want to say thank you to him. And now I
offer help to the children without parents.
第二节、完成句子（每题2分，共10分）
1.我们要好好地照顾老人。
We should the old.
2.他夜以继日地学习为的是能够赶上其他同学。
He studies so that he can catch up with other students.
3.我父亲对他的工作要求严格。
My father very his work.
4.他希望成为一个大人物。
He _______ ________ ________ a big person.
5.为了筹钱，他们在学校卖书。
_________ ______ _________ raise money, they sold books in the school.
8 / 10第三节、书面表达（15分）
假设你叫李华，是初二（1）班的班长。请根据以下提示给班主任陈老师写封申请信。
原因 同学张明家境贫寒，父亲又不幸身患重病，急需救助
计划 举办旧书义卖活动，全班一起努力为张明一家筹集善款
时间：本周二至周五放学后
地点：学校图书馆前及校门口
希望 得到老师的批准和支持
【写作提示】
1 主要人称：第一人称
2 主要时态：一般现在时和一般将来时
3 可用素材：
（1）词汇 ask permission, voluntary activity, suffer from,
illness, in order to, plan to, be going to, would like to
（2）句型 In order to ..., we are going to ...
We would like to have the activity ...
Dear Mr. Chen,
We are writing to ask permission to have a voluntary activity.
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Could you please give us permission to have this activity?
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
Class 1 Grade 2
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