Unit 8 Making a Difference同步练-2025-2026学年人教版英语八年级下册

Unit 8 Making a Difference 一、根据句意及汉语注释完成单词（每小题1分，共5分） 1. When the singer finished singing, the ________ (听众) stood up and cheered. 1. In last week’s basketball match, we deeply realized the importance of ________ (团队合作). 1. The museum has a special rule: Every child must be with an ________ (成年人) to enter the exhibition hall. 1. This new English dictionary is ________ (值得) buying — it has clear explanations (解释) and many useful examples. 1. My mum taught me some ________ (实用) ways to protect the environment, like turning off lights when leaving a room. 二、用方框中所给词语的适当形式填空，每词仅用一次（每小题1分，共5分） value sign up success search for miss 1. Mike put up the posters to find his ________ dog — he was really worried about it. 1. Last week, Lucy decided ________ for the English drama club to improve her speaking skills. 1. Everyone should understand the ________ of education — it helps us open more doors for the future. 1. My little brother spent an hour ________ his lost toy car in the living room yesterday afternoon. 1. The school’s science exhibition was very ________ — more than 100 students took part in it. 三、用合适的词完成句子，每空限填一词（每小题1分，共5分） 1. Thank you ________ inviting me to your birthday party. 1. Air is very important to us, just as fish can’t live ________ water. 1. Our teacher always says the key ________ success is working hard. 1. Last weekend, the wind was so strong ________ we couldn’t go hiking with our classmates as planned. 1. My parents provided a quiet study room for me when I was preparing ________ the exam last month. 四、语法填空（每小题1分，共10分） Helen was always interested in helping her neighbourhood. Her first volunteer experience was for the American Red Cross 1. _________ she was in high school. She volunteered almost every year. One summer she served food to others. And another year she organized 2. ________ art program. After she retired (退休), she 3. ________ (start) volunteering to help the old. When her father was older, he was not able to see 4. ________ (clear). This made her sad, because her father always enjoyed 5. ________ (read). She thought it would be helpful to read to elderly people in 6. ________ (she) neighbourhood. She also helped one man write some 7. ________ (story). Andy was almost 100 years old, and Helen wrote down information 8. ________ his life when she visited him. She put the information in a book 9. ________ got it published. Andy was very excited to share his life experiences with his children and grandchildren. Helen says, “The most 10. ______ (meaning) part of volunteer work is becoming friends with the people I help.” 五、阅读理解（每小题2分，共8分） Now in hospital, we can see not only doctors, nurses and patients, but also hospital helpers. Hospital helpers are new to many people. They can help people do a lot of things. For example, they can get appointments with a doctor and see the doctor with patients. In these years, there are more and more hospital helpers in big cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. The number of old people is growing fast in these cities. Many of them don’t know how to get appointments with doctors online. And they often get lost in big hospitals when they go there. Also, their children may live far from them and can’t go to the hospital with them. So these old people have the need for hospital helpers. In fact, many young people also use helper services. And they’re usually more open and trusting (轻易信赖别人的). With the help of hospital helpers, patients can spend less time finishing medical examinations (检查). And thanks to hospital helpers, patients feel warm and relaxed. However, experts say hospital helpers still need to improve their services, so people can trust them much more. Hospital helpers should be friendlier and more careful. They also need to have basic medical knowledge. ( )1. What can hospital helpers do according to the text? [A] Help build new hospitals. [B] Give medicine to patients. [C] Check the patients for doctors. [D] Go with patients to see doctors. ( )2. Why do young people use hospital helper services more easily? [A] They are always very busy. [B] They trust others more easily. [C] They live far from hospitals. [D] They know little about hospitals. 1. What do experts advise hospital helpers to improve? [A] Work longer hours. [B] Learn more about medicine. [C] Be kinder, pay more attention, and learn medical facts. [D] Must learn how to use new hospital machines by themselves. ( )4. What is the text mainly about? [A] A new job and why it is important. [B] Why young people trust hospitals. [C] Problems in hospitals today. [D] How to help old people in cities. 六、完形填空（每小题1分，共15分） One morning, when I was leaving for my work, a middle-aged man came up and asked me for help. He said he had no 1________ to get food for his large family. “You look 2________. Why don’t you work?” I asked. “3________ because I cannot get work, sir.” “If I give you work, what pay do you want?” “As long as (只要) I can get bread 4________ my family, sir,” he answered. I decided to 5________ if he really meant what he said. “OK. I’ll give you one pound an hour, if you will 6________ a brick (砖) under your arm and walk around the square for five hours without stopping.” “Thank you, sir. I will.” I found a brick and made him start his walk before I went to my 7________. I never thought he would do what he 8________. When I came back five hours later, I saw him 9________ walking, with the brick under his arm. I stopped him and gave him 10________ pounds. He thanked me and told me that some people had offered to help him 11________ they knew why he was doing all this. He would go and ask 12________ for work. Before leaving, he asked if I would give him the 13________ . I did. Several years later, a well-dressed man greeted me on a train. Seeing I was not sure who he was, he 14________ that he was the brick man and had his own job now. “You know, I still stick and always value it as the most 15________ thing I have as it has brought me luck and success.” In fact, it was not the brick that made the man successful, but his persistence (坚持) in doing even a very little thing. 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