牛津版（深圳·广州）2018-2019学年初中英语八年级下册期中考试模拟试卷（3）

Dear neighbours,

    Next Saturday is the Volunteer Day of our community. Here is the plan.

    7: 30 a. m.: Meet at the Community Centre for breakfast.

    8: 00 a. m. —8: 30 a. m.: Decide which ofthe following organizations you'd like to work for. You can begin thinking about what you may want to do now.

    Happy Homes: It provides home repairs for people in need.

    Elder Care: It sends volunteers to old people's home. Volunteers can play games with the old people there, or talk with them.

    City Parks Association: It needs volunteers to help plant flowers and pick up trash (垃圾) in city parks. These are outdoor activities, so remember to bring some drinking water!

    Love and Learning: It helps children with learning disabilities. Read books out loudly to groups of children and help them with their homework.

    8: 30 a. m. —9: 00 a. m.: Get on the bus for your chosen activity, and ride with the other volunteers to your activity sites (地点).

    9: 00 a. m. —12: 10 p. m.: Work as a volunteer.

    12: 10 p. m. —1: 00 p. m.: Share lunch with yourvolunteer group.

    1: 00 p. m. —3: 30 p. m.: Go on with your volunteer work.

    3: 30 p. m.: Get on the bus that will take you back to the Community Centre. You can talk with other volunteers and share your experiences.

    To know more information, please call 718-384-782. We are looking forward to your joining.

Central Community

    I volunteer with Meals on Wheels every Friday. A week ago, I had the pleasure of helping one of my customers (顾客). She is in her eighties and is very weak and I always bring her lunch on Fridays. She looked worried when she opened the door that day. She told me her phone was broken and that she couldn't receive the call from her doctor. She went to her neighbours, but they were not at home. She thought maybe the mailman could help her, but he didn't come. She was disappointed.

    Having heard her story, I decided to do something for her. I called the phone company immediately and made sure they knew that getting this phone fixed was urgent (紧急的). I took down her phone number and her name just to make sure I could call her later to make sure that the phone had been fixed.

    I called the phone company twice that day. They told me they had checked the phone line and got the phone connected. The old woman was so thankful that she was in tears (眼泪), hugging me for nay help. After that, I called her every day to make sure she was fine.

    My heart is filled with love and happiness. It does not take much time or effort to help someone like a neighbour. Sometimes, all that is needed is a smile, a hug or a phone call.

    Have you ever saved money to do something special? Cindy Evans and her third-grade class are sure to answer, "Yes!"

    Cindy Evans works at Big Beaver Elementary School in Big Beaver, Pennsylvania. One day, she and her third-grade class read about the Great American Smokeout in Weekly Reader. The Smokeout is an event to help people give up smoking. The American Cancer Society runs it.

    "We read that about l million people give up smoking each year," said Ms Evans. Then her students asked her. "What does 1 million look like?" Ms Evans told her class the best way to see 1 million was to collect 1 million things.

    "I was thinking about collecting 1 million small things like erasers," said the teacher. But her students had a better idea: to collect 1 million pennies (分) and give them away to the American Cancer Society. Soon the class started their big job.

    Many people in the neighbourhood joined the students. According to Ms Evans, the bank in their neighbourhood had to keep more pennies because so many people were collecting them.

    That June, the class went to the office of the American Cancer Society with 1,177,500 pennies, or$11,775. They hoped that the money could help more people keep healthy.

参考词汇：表演节目  give performances；修理  repair

Dear Tina,

    I'd like to tell you our plans for voluntary work in April.

Yours,

Li Hua

    During the 2016 Rio Olympics, people were surprised to see the round, purple marks on the body of the famous American swimmer Michael Phelps. What happened to 1? In fact, he just visited a 2 of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and had "cupping (拔火罐)". Massage (按摩) and acupuncture (针灸) are two other important kinds of TCM. Chinese massage can make you relaxed and flesh. In acupuncture, doctors put long needles (针) into the patients' heads, faces, arms… It takes away 3, though the look is funny.

    TCM is an important part of Chinese culture and it has a long history. The 4 medical classic in China. Huangdi's Classic on Medicine, came out more than 2,000 years ago. The book is about the relationship between man and 5. In Chinese culture, yin and yang are the two parts of nature. Nature keeps balanced if yin and yang work well together. The human body needs such a 6 too. TCM helps to do mat. Quite specially, for some health problems, a doctor of TCM will not give you 7. Instead, he may give you just a food plan and right ways to eat.

    For example, it is common to eat on the way to school, at our desk, or in front of the TV. But TCM thinks it's 8. Here are the correct ways: Sit down to eat. While eating, turn off the TV and 9 the work desk. Eat seasonal foods. Do not miss any of the three meals. Also, get your body moving often, just as the saying goes, "Running water is never stale (陈腐的)."

    Nowadays, traditional Chinese medicine is becoming more and more 10 around the world. A government report says that people in 183 countries and areas are now using TCM.

    Nathaniel Hawthorne went home with a broken heart. He told his wife Sophia that he  (lose) his job.

    To his surprise, she spoke to him with great joy.

    "Now," she said  (happy), "you can write your book! When you had your job, you didn't have time to write down what you were thinking about. Now, you are free. You can do what you like and make your dream  (come) true!"

    "Yes," said the man sadly, "but what shall we live on while I am writing it?"

    Instead of  (say) any words, she took out a small box  opened it. There  (be) a large amount of money.

    "I've always believed you are  talented man," she told him. "I knew that someday you would write a great book. So every week, out of the money you gave me for everyday use, I saved a little bit. Now this money can help  (we) through the year."

    With her trust and confidence, one of the  (great) novels of American literature, The Scarlet Letter, was born.

    Some of the famous  (story) have followed a word of encouragement or an act of confidence by a loved one or a best friend.

—But in fact, it's difficult to do it well.

—Sure. In this way, we can exchange our thoughts and maybe find a new way to solve the problem.

—OK. The first stage is to draw a rough sketch of the building.