八年级下U1 Helping those in need
（B卷·提升能力）
【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100分，考试时间为
100分钟。
第Ⅰ卷 选择题
一、语法选择(共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分)
Throughout the year, ___1___school organizes charity events and activities. One of ___2___events of the year
is the food drive. For the past few years, this has been a very successful
charity event and most of the students have taken part in it. Each school does
its food drives a bit ___3___. However, most of the time the food drives are
set up in a similar style.
In my school it usually lasts for ___4___weeks. Most of the time,
students will bring the food ___5___home. The food ___6___for a long
period of time, such as canned goods and pastas. We ___7___organize activities outside the school. Some students
go door to door around their neighborhood asking ___8___people are willing to donate some food. Some set up
donation boxes in churches and ___9___areas such as stores or cinemas. The students all work really hard and the
members of the community are very supportive.
After that time is over, we will bring the collected food to our local Community Table. The families in our
community can go for ____10____warm meal if they need to. Usually, a group of students go with one of our
teachers to deliver the food. I ____11____food with our teacher last year, and to my ____12____ ，I saw so many
families who were struggling with hunger in our community.
I was glad that our school was able ____13____out all of those families. We do this several times each year.
____14____meaningful event! Sure, we can't change the world, ____15____we can do our best to make our world
a better place.
1. A. we B. us C. our D. ourselves
2. A. popular B. the most popular C. more popular D. most popular
3. A. differently B. different C. more different D. most differently
4. A. few B. little C. a few D. a little
1 / 105. A. to B. at C. into D. from
6. A. should keeping B. should be kept C. should keep D. should kept
7. A. also B. too C. either D. as well
8. A. since B. how C. if D. why
9. A. others B. another C. other D. the others
10. A. / B. the C. an D. a
11. A. delivered B. deliver C. delivers D. will deliver
12. A. surprise B. surprising C. surprised D. surprisedly
13. A. help B. to help C. to helping D. helped
14. A. How a B. How C. What a D. What
15. A. because B. so C. although D. but
二、完形填空 阅读短文，掌握大意，选出最佳选项。（共10分，每小题1分）
Ewan Drum has always liked superheroes. He is interested in how they help people. At the age of seven, he told
his parents, “I want to ___16___ like a superhero and help the homeless.” A
few months later, Ewan’s family planned a day of ___17___. Wearing his red
superhero clothes, Ewan ___18___ helped pass out 70 bag lunches to hungry
people in a park in Detroit, Michigan. That’s ___19___ Super Ewan was born.
Soon people learned about Ewan’s good deeds (事迹). People donate (捐
赠 )money and something else, and Ewan handed them out to those in
___20___. When someone donated bottles of water, Ewan and his family held a drive to get even more. They
__21___ the water to Flint, Michigan, a city that had unsafe drinking water. Another time, a business donated six
turkeys for Thanksgiving. With his parents’ ___22___, Ewan used social media (媒体) to ask for more turkeys and
other dishes. “In the end,” he says, “we handed out 64 turkey dinners to ___23___ all round Detroit.”
Ewan has a motto: Everyone can be a superhero to someone. During a speech Ewan told the listeners, “It’s not
___24___ to help people. You can keep some socks and snacks in your car to help people in need. Every ___25___
thing helps and can make someone feel happy.”
16. A. get up B. dress up C. look up D. turn up
17. A. giving B. playing C. showing D. reading
18. A. safely B. seriously C. happily D. suddenly
19. A. what B. why C. how D. who
2 / 1020. A. bed B. fact C. addition D. need
21. A. sold B. took C. lent D. drank
22. A. order B. help C. time D. problem
23. A. heroes B. listeners C. families D. leaders
24. A. difficult B. possible C. necessary D. important
25. A. boring B. little C. interesting D. sad
三、阅读 （共两节，满分45分）
第一节 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）
A
The greatest feeling in the world comes not from receiving gifts or getting good grades in the exams. It starts
when you do something for others. You feel it when you drive an hour to a hospital to meet the sick children. And
you feel it when you sit down to comfort (安慰) your friend after her mother died.
My friend took me to a Youth Group meeting in his school. Then they invited me to join in feeding the
homeless. Early that Saturday morning, a group of 15 teenagers began making sandwiches, washing fruit, and
counting bags of cookies. For the first time in my life I realized that we, the teens of America, could make a
difference. It made me join the Youth Group.
I work at a coffee shop. It’s not the best job, but sometimes it’s worth it. One day, the store was empty and I
was bored. Looking out of the window, I noticed an old man sitting outside. He never came in to buy anything
because he didn’t have any money. I took a cup of coffee, walked outside, and handed it to him. The smile on his
face made my day, and as I walked back into the store, I paid for the coffee myself. Then I knew how the members
of the Youth Group felt every time they helped someone. Knowing that you can help others is great.
26．Where was the Youth Group meeting held?
A．In a club B．In a park C．In a school D．In a coffee shop
27．What did the writer give the old man?
A．glass of water. B．A cup of coffee. C．A bag of cookies. D．A sandwich.
28．Which of the following can replace (替换) the underlined words?
A．made me happy B．made me sad C．made me angry D．made me ill
29．What can we know from the passage?
A．The writer is from America.
B．The writer doesn’t like her job.
3 / 10C．The writer helped feed the homeless on a Sunday morning.
D．The writer went to the Youth Group to meet her classmate.
30．Which is the best title for the passage?
A．My work B．The Youth Group C．How to help others D．The greatest feeling
B
In life, many people are always ready to help others and they ask for nothing in return. We call those people
volunteers. But why do they do that? Read on.
Volunteering is good for your resume. Your experience of being a
volunteer gives the interviewer（面试者）a clearer picture of who you are.
According to a survey, 1 out of 5 interviewers in the US agreed that
volunteer experience was an important reason for giving someone a job.
_________ By volunteering, you encourage（鼓励）others to make
good changes. Serving food at a food bank and working with teenagers in an after-school activity are also great
examples to make others love volunteering.
Meeting people who have similar interests and ideas becomes easy. The way someone chooses to spend his or
her free time shows the person’s values（价值观）. Sharing the same values while helping others is a great way to
make new friends. By volunteering, you will have more friends in a short time.
“Doing good” is important. Every day we may watch or hear sad news and stories. However, volunteering is a
good way to make the world a better place. Even a simple thing can make a difference. If we all join together, those
simple things can add up to a big change!
Volunteering is never difficult. There is always a group for you. To find the right group to join, you just need
to use the Internet.
31．What does the underlined word “resume” mean?
A．审查 B．笔记 C．表演 D．简历
32．Which of the following can be put back into the blank?
A．Volunteering makes children more outgoing.
B．Being a volunteer sets a good example for others.
C．Making other people love volunteering is easy.
D．There won't be good changes without volunteering.
33．What can you do when you volunteer according to the passage?
A．Listen to other volunteers’ bad news and stories.
4 / 10B．Ask other volunteers to make good changes every day.
C．Meet some volunteers with the same values as you.
D．Make other volunteers have more new friends in a short time.
34．What’s the structure（结构）of this passage?
A．①/②③④⑤/⑥ B．①②/③④/⑤⑥ C．①/②③④/⑤⑥ D．①②③/④⑤/⑥
35．What’s the best title for this passage?
A．Where to volunteer B．How people volunteer
C．Popular volunteer jobs D．Why people volunteer
C
Mel found a wallet on her way back home. She picked it up and looked inside. Five hundred dollars! Mel
thought about the bike she wanted. She had asked her mum for one, which would cost 460 dollars，but her mum
said they had no money. Mel looked around. No one had seen her with the wallet. She put it into her school bag and
ran home fast.
When she got home, she put the wallet in her treasure box. However, there was one problem. How could she
tell her parents about it? Then Mel remembered the prize of the science competition was five hundred dollars. She
would tell her parents she had won it.
The next day, Mel rushed home from school. She was just about to tell her mother the good news when her
mother said,” “I have enough money left over this week for a treat. I’ve bought some strawberries. You can have
one.” Mel’s news darted( 猛冲 ) back inside her, like a moth( 蛾子 ) into a dark corner. What would happen if her
mother lost her wallet and someone kept it? They might not have any food for weeks! Mel ran to her room. She
opened the treasure box and took the wallet to her mother.
“I found this,” she said. “It has five hundred dollars in it.”
“Wow!” said her mother. “Five hundred dollars!”
She looked inside the wallet. “It could be Mrs. Maka’s,” she said. “We’ll have to take it to her right now.”
Mrs. Maka was very pleased to get her wallet back. “This money is to get my eyes fixed, or I will go blind,”
she said. She gave twenty dollars to Mel，but Mel refused.
After that, Mel and Mrs. Maka became good friends. Mel helped Mrs. Maka make a garden and Mrs. Maka
showed Mel how to make clay pots(陶罐).One day，Mrs. Maka said, “Mel, my clay pot won a prize—1000 dollars
and a red bike! I can’t ride a bike. Would you like it?”
36. How did Mel get the 500 dollars?
5 / 10A. She found it on her way home. B. She won the prize of a competition.
C. She borrowed it from her friend. D. She saved it from her pocket money.
37. From the underlined sentence，we can infer that Mel felt _________.
A. bored B. sorry C. sick D. disappointed
38. What did Mel do with the money in the end?
A. She gave it to her mum. B. She kept it in her treasure box.
C. She bought herself a bike. D. She returned it to Mrs. Maka.
39. From the last paragraph we can know that _________.
A. Mel’s dream finally came true B. Mel became good at making clay pots
C. Mrs. Maka didn’t like the bike at all D. Mrs. Maka needed more money for her eyes
40. What does the passage mainly tell us?
A. Trust is the best choice. B. Honesty makes close friendship.
C. Do well and have well. D. Don’t wait to correct your mistakes.
D
I’ll never forget the Easter in 1946. I was twelve, my little sister, Ocy, was ten and my older sister, Darlene,
was fourteen. We lived at home with our mother, and the four of us knew what we should do without dad. My dad
had died five years before leaving Mom with no money and three school-aged kids to raise．
By 1946, a month before Easter, the pastor（牧师） of our church announced that a special holiday offering
would be taken to help a poor family. We talked about what we could do. We decided to buy fifty pounds of
potatoes and lived on them for a month. This would allow us to save twenty dollars of our grocery money for the
offering. Then we thought that if we turned our electric lights off as much as possible, we'd save money on that
month's electric bill．
The night before Easter, we were so excited that we could hardly sleep. We didn’t care that we wouldn’t have
new clothes for Easter; we had seventy dollars for the sacrificial offering. We could hardly wait to get to the
church!
Finally, we sat in church proudly. When the offering began, mom put in a ten-dollar bill and each of us kids
put in a twenty-dollar bill. We sang all the way home from church. Over lunch, mom had a surprise for us. She had
bought a dozen eggs, and we had boiled Easter eggs with our fried potatoes!
Later that afternoon the pastor dropped by. Mom went to the door, talked with him for a moment, and then
came back with an envelope in her hand. We asked what it was, but she didn’t say a word. She opened the envelope
and out fell a bunch of money．
6 / 1041．The first paragraph mainly tells us that_________.
A．the writer’s father died early B．the writer’s family lived a very hard life
C．the writer had many sisters D．the writer’s mother was very hard-working
42．Why did the church raise the money?
A．To help poor people. B．To see which family donated most.
C．To celebrate Easter. D．To buy Easter eggs for kids.
43．Why did the family buy fifty pounds of potatoes?
A．They liked to eat potatoes. B．They wanted to save money for the offering.
C．They wanted to pay the electric bill. D．They were too poor to buy other vegetables.
44．According to the text, put the following sentences into the right orders.
a. We sang all the way home from church．
b. Mom got an envelope with money in it.
c. We were so excited that we could hardly sleep
d. The pastor announced to hold a special holiday offering
e. Mom put in a ten-dollar bill and each of us kids put in a twenty-dollar bill．
A．d--a--c--b—e B．d--c--b--e—a C．d--e--c--a--b D．d--c--e--a--b
45．From the text we learn that_________________.
A．No pains, no gains. B．Do well and have well.
C．Money is the most important. D．Saving can help people live a good life.
第二节 阅读填空（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）
根据短文内容，将下面A---E五个句子分别填入文中空缺处，使得补全后的短文意思通顺，结构完整。
Over the last few years. I have found that one of my favourite things to do in my free time is to volunteer, I
have volunteered for a lot of different organizations and did different jobs. These have included simple. everyday
activities like taking dogs for walks at an animal rescue centre and running activities for children at an after-school
club. ______46_____
However, no matter what kind of volunteering. I always love it and I will encourage others to have a try. Here
are my top four reasons why I think volunteering is so worthwhile.
1.______47______
By volunteering, you are carrying out a job - even though you're not being paid — so you can get valuable
experience and skills. These may be useful in the future. For example, many volunteering jobs will help you to get
7 / 10experience in working as a team.
2.You can meet new people.
One of the best things about volunteering is meeting the other volunteers!____48______
3. It's a way to get confidence（自借）.
Many volunteers say that the voluntary work has helped them to feel more confident in different ways. For
example, I used to be quite a shy person.______49______
4.You can have lots of fun!
Doing an activity that you wouldn't usually do， with like-minded people, should mean that you have a really
fun time. You will also feel good knowing that you are doing something good.
These are just a few of the many reasons why I suggest that you look for volunteering chances in your local
town or city. There are many different things that you can take part in, and remember that any kind of volunteering
is good volunteering._____50_____ The most important thing to remember is that as well as helping others, you
can get a lot from it too!
A. It's a good chance to get experience and skills.
B. If you like, you can start with something small and who knows what it will lead to！
C. But I have also volunteered to do some more difficult jobs, like translating and managing a charity event.
D. They may be very interesting and friendly people and might just turn out to be great friends too.
E. However, my volunteering experience has helped me to talk confidently to strangers, even in front of a crowd!
第2卷 写作（共30分）
第一节 、短文填空（共5小题，每小题1分，满分5分）
Dear Mr. Wang
We are writing to ask for your p_________(1) to hold an English Corner activity.
In order to o_________(2) our students more activities to practise speaking English, we are going to hold
English Corner on the playground in front of our school library. We think it is better to have the activity on Friday
afternoons. After school, students can go to take part in it. In the English Corner, students can not only
i__________(3)their English, but also make new friends and learn from each other Could you please give us
permission to have this activity?
Could we put up a poster on the school notice board? Also, we would like to i__________(4) some English
teachers to join us. Is it OK for us to do that? We are r__________(5) looking forward to your reply.
8 / 10Yours sincerely,
Class 8
节 完成句子。（共5小题，每题2分，满分10分）
1.他主动提出组织一场足球赛。
He ________ _______ ________ a foot ball match.
2,他难以理解这道数学题。
He ______ ______ _______ this math problem.
3.上学改变了我的生活。
_______ ______ ______ changed my life.
4,为了健康，Peter决定戒烟。
______ _______ ________ get healthy, Peter decided to________ ________ ________.
5,这位女孩常受尽痛苦的折磨。而我们都是健康的好学生。
The girl ________ ________ pain. We are all good students _________ _______ _________.
第三节：书面表达（15分）
许多学生喜欢在暑假期间做一些义务性工作。那你想不想在暑假期间做这样的工作呢?请根据以下
的内容提示, 写一篇短文, 80词左右, 可适当发挥。
内容包括:
1. 你准备在暑假期间去老人院(old people’s home)做义工;
2. 你将为他们准备一些礼品;
3. 另外，你还会准备一些书送给他们, 陪他们聊天和阅读;
4. 你准备一周去那里三次；
5. 你的感想。
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