1 . 你将听到一篇短文，请根据短文内容，选出每个问题的最佳答案。短文读两遍。
1. Where did Lily do the volunteer activity?

A．In a hospital.

B．In a park.

C．At school.

2. Which group was Lily in?

A．Group 1.

B．Group 2.

C．Group 3.

3. How did they go to the volunteer place?

A．By bike.

B．By bus.

C．On foot.

4. What did the students in Lily’s group do?

A．They watered the flowers.

B．They watered the trees.

C．They picked up the rubbish.

5. How long did they do the volunteer work?

A．For three hours.

B．For two hours.

C．For one hour.

2 . 阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，从所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案，使短文连贯完整。

Last Saturday morning, I had a yard sale with my sister. We gave out notices to tell people that we wanted to raise some money for a student ______ our school. The student ______ ill but her parents didn’t have enough money. Maybe because of our kindness, our sale went very ______. We were very excited because the more old ______ we sold, the more money we could collect for the student. Just then, a boy came to our sale. A ring ______ by him.

“Can you tell me ______?” he asked. “Twenty yuan,” I answered.

Then he asked us, “Could I buy it for 15 yuan? This is all I have.”

I said, “Who do you want to buy it for?”

“My mother. Tomorrow is ______ birthday. I want to give this nice ring to her. At the same time, I can also do something for the student.”

We were moved. ______ we decided to let the boy get it. After saying thanks to us, he went away with ______ ring happily. And we were happy, too.

That day we ______ enough money for the sick student.

1.

A．on

B．in

C．with

D．by

2.

A．are

B．were

C．is

D．was

3.

A．bad

B．badly

C．well

D．good

4.

A．thing

B．things

C．coin

D．coins

5.

A．was picked

B．is picked

C．picked

D．picks

6.

A．how much this is

B．what this is

C．how much is this

D．what is this

7.

A．she

B．her

C．herself

D．hers

8.

A．But

B．If

C．Because

D．So

9.

A．a

B．an

C．the

D．/

10.

A．collect

B．has collected

C．is collecting

D．collected

3 . 假如你是李华，上周五你们班在家长会上做了一项关于“父母是否同意孩子做志愿者”的调查，请你根据表格中的内容，写一篇英语短文汇报本次的调查结果，并表达你自己的观点及理由。

比例	观点	原因
65%	赞同	1.可以学会关爱他人； 2.能学会团队合作、与他人相处
35%	反对	1.浪费时间，影响学习； 2.担心孩子们在活动中的安全问题
你的观点	……	1.……； 2.……

要求：
1.包含所有要点，可适当发挥；
2.词数不少于70，短文开头已给出，但不计入总词数。
参考词汇：influence影响    survey调查

Last Friday, our class did a survey about whether parents agree that their children should be volunteers at the parents’ meeting. Here are the results. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4 . In April this year, lots of bags full of small change were seen at bus stops in Tianjin. They were made for passengers to turn their notes (纸币) into small change. And such an idea came from four students from Zhongbei Middle School, Tianjin.

“People will surely feel worried when they take a bus without coins. We just want to do something to help them.” said Wang Yongcun, 15, one of the four students.

The four boys spent their whole weekend making the change bags. After that they went to see the number of the passengers at each bus stop near their school, and then chose the top six stops to put the bags.

Many people think that the four boys have really done a good job. But things didn’t go as the boys thought. Two days later, they found that the money was gone, and that even the bags were missing. It really made them sad but they would not give up. Their classmates and teachers came to help them in time. They put their pocket money in bags again. And the teachers also taught them to make better change bags. They tried their best to do it.

The four boys feel very happy because they have done something good for the passengers. Their warm hearts are moving. More and more people are beginning to join in the activity.

1. What does the underlined word “change” mean in Chinese?

A．机会

B．变化

C．替代

D．零钱

2. The idea of small change bags came from ________.

A．four students from Zhongbei Middle School

B．four teachers from Zhongbei Middle School

C．four passengers from bus stops in Tianjin

D．four workers from bus stops in Tianjin

3. What can we know from Wang Yongcun’s words?

A．Where the change came from.	B．Why they made the change bags.
C．How they made the change bags.	D．When they made the change bags.

4. Which of the following is TRUE according to Paragraph 4?

A．Nobody helped the four boys.

B．The four boys didn’t meet any problems.

C．Many people were unhappy with the four boys.

D．The four boys would keep making the change bags.

5. What is the best title for the passage?

A．Practice Makes Perfect	B．Reading Makes a Full Man
C．Helping Brings Happiness	D．All Roads Lead to Rome

5 . In October, I told the students in my class about my Thanksgiving plan. “I’d like all of you to help with housework to make some money,” I said. “Then we’ll buy food for someone who might not have a nice dinner on Thanksgiving Day.” I wanted the children to know that it was ______ to give than to receive.

Early in Thanksgiving week, the students couldn’t wait to go shopping.

I watched them ______ when they ran up and down the supermarket aisles (走廊).

“Flowers!”Amy cried. The group moved very fast towards the holiday ______ .

“It will be great ______ you use the money to buy some food,” I said. “But Mrs. Brown,” the children cried “we want flowers.” Finally I agreed to their ______. They were very happy.

After we got the ______ about a needy grandmother, we drove to her house.

When we arrived, an old woman came to the door to welcome us. My little group carried the food into the old woman’s house. When Amy put the purple flowers on the table, the woman seemed very ______. “She’s wishing it were a bag of rice,” I thought.

One hour later, we walked out of the old woman’s house. ______ the kitchen window, we saw her walk past the food, straight to the flowers. She ______ the flowers, with a happy smile on her face.

The children’s idea was ______. The old woman really liked the flowers. Sometimes a person needs a pot of purple flowers on a dark November day.

1.

A．harder

B．easier

C．better

D．worse

2.

A．carefully

B．easily

C．directly

D．slowly

3.

A．postcards

B．plants

C．desserts

D．activities

4.

A．because

B．before

C．if

D．although

5.

A．request

B．plan

C．condition

D．suggestion

6.

A．course

B．invitation

C．service

D．information

7.

A．bored

B．surprised

C．worried

D．excited

8.

A．For

B．By

C．Through

D．With

9.

A．avoided

B．admired

C．grew

D．picked

10.

A．wrong

B．crazy

C．basic

D．right

6 . Babur Ali comes from West Bengal in India. He lives in a small village. His village doesn’t have a school, but Babur is ______ because he goes to a private school in the next village. His school costs 12 pounds a year. This is ______ for many children in Babur’s village. Because they also want to learn, Babur teaches ______ everything he learns. More and more children want to learn,   ______ Babur’s friends help him teach. The classes are in Bamboo huts (棚子), but sometimes they sit outdoors. The school is free and now has a ______, the Anand Shiksha Niketan School, and Babur is the head teacher.

Babur’s days are very busy. He has no free time. He ______ at 5 o’clock in the morning. And then he helps his mother ______ the housework. At 8:00 he goes by bus to his school three miles away. He studies hard all day until 4:00 in the afternoon. Then he travels back to his village and at 5:00 he ______ the classes. He teaches English, history and math until 8:00 in the evening. He says, “I love ______. I am never tired.”

Now the school has 650 students and ten teachers. Babur wants to study at university, but he doesn’t want to ______ teaching. He says, “I always want to teach poor children.”

1.

A．brave

B．lucky

C．healthy

2.

A．right

B．expensive

C．possible

3.

A．him

B．her

C．them

4.

A．so

B．but

C．unless

5.

A．rule

B．sign

C．name

6.

A．gets up

B．gets off

C．gets back

7.

A．in

B．to

C．with

8.

A．forgets

B．begins

C．changes

9.

A．exercising

B．teaching

C．sleeping

10.

A．feel

B．advise

C．stop

7 . Mario Green and Mary Brown from Riverside High School give up several hours each week to help others.

Mario loves animals and wants to be an animal doctor. He volunteers at an animal hospital every Saturday morning. Mario believes it can help him to get his future dream job. “It     1     (is) easy work,” he says, “but I want to learn more about how     2     (care) for animals. I get such a strong     3     (feel) of satisfaction when I see the animals get     4     (well) and the look of joy on their     5     (own) faces.”

Mary is a book     6     (love). She could read by     7     (she) at the age of four. Last year, she decided to try out for a volunteer after-school reading program. She still works there     8     (one) a week to help kids learn to read. “The kids are sitting in the library, but you can see in their eyes that they’re going on a     9     (difference) journey with each new book.     10     (volunteer) here is a dream come true for me. I can do what I love to do and help others at the same time.”

9 .

Mary is a middle school student. She lives in the center of the city (城市). Next to her _______ is an old people’s home. On weekends, she always goes there with her _______ Alice, Sam, Tony, Betty and Henry. They try their best to _______ the old people happy.

Mary and Alice like _______. Mary can play the piano and Alice can sing for the old people. Tony and Sam do well in telling stories. They often tell stories to _______. Sometimes, Tony and Sam _______ some interesting storybooks to the old people. Betty and Henry love sports. They _______ kung fu for the old people and play ping-pong. After that, they talk to the old people and play chess _______ them. The old people look very happy.

When people ask Mary and her friends, “ _______ do you always go to the old people’s home?” They always say, “Because it is ________ and meaningful.”

1.

A．store

B．home

C．classroom

2.

A．teachers

B．friends

C．brothers

3.

A．make

B．want

C．call

4.

A．history

B．art

C．music

5.

A．him

B．her

C．them

6.

A．spell

B．take

C．watch

7.

A．do

B．need

C．know

8.

A．with

B．on

C．for

9.

A．What

B．When

C．Why

10.

A．boring

B．interesting

C．difficult