【正文】 (Working as … ) ___________________________________________________________________________六、短文填空Are you looking for something fun? Would you like to help other people in your s 1 time? Then j 2 us and be a volunteer! You can help people in many w 3 . Schools need help with t 4 care of children while the teachers are having a meeting. H 5 need volunteers to look after children while their parents see a doctor. Animal lovers can help take care of those h 6 dogs and cats. There is something for everyone.“As a volunteer, I don’t want to get a 7 . Seeing the children’s happy faces, I am happy, too.” said Carlos Domingo, an old woman of 62. “I often p 8 puter games in my free time before. Now I help older people l 9 how to use puters.” said a 10 volunteer at the age of 18.If everyone is willing to help others, we’ll have a better world to live in.1. ________ 2. _________ 3. ________ 4. _________ 5. ________6. ________ 7. _________ 8. ________ 9. _________ Step Four Ability Improvement （能力提升）一、完形填空One midnight, a little girl was thirsty and got up to drink some water. She walked to the bedroom door and 1 it. The little girl looked outside but walked 2 and stood in the center of the room, because it was so 3 in the hall and she was afraid. Her mother said: “Don’t be afraid, honey. Have courage (勇氣), I believe you can do it yourself!” “ 4 is courage?” she asked, running to her mother’s bed. “Courage is the brave breath (呼吸),” her mother answered. “Mom, do you have courage?” “Certainly.” her mother replied, The little girl held out her cold hands, saying: “Mom, blow some of your breath of courage to 5 .” After her mother blew into her little cold hands, the little girl clenched her fists (握拳) 6 , afraid that the “breath of courage” would 7 away. Then with her fists clenched, she walked out of the bedroom towards the kitchen with 8 to be afraid of. Her mother said to herself: “It will be nice 9 someone can blow some courage to me. Then I can also hold it in my hands when I feel terrified.”In a word, the thing that we are afraid of is nothing but the 10 in our mind. The person who we should win is nobody but ourselves.2. A. in B. back C. out D. down3. A. bright B. dark C. cold D. warm4. A. What B. How C. Where D. Why5. A. me B. you C. her D. it6. A. politely B. happily C. luckily D. carefully7. A. pull B. run C. move D. took8. A. something B. anything C. everything D. nothing9. A. because B. though C. if D. until10. A. fear B. idea C. worry D. secret二、閱讀理解AName: Lin Tao Grade: 8 School: Sunshine Middle SchoolSubjects Assessment Chinese He can understand most articles well, but a little poor in poems.Math He is the best in the class. Keep it up.English He is a little weak in this, but he is always trying his best to catch with others.Physics He can work out many difficulties. Well done!History He is not good at this, but is doing better than before.Geography He knows a lot about different places in the world well.Biology He always gets high marks this term.. He is a good jumper.Remarks（評語） Lin Tao has the ability to do a lot better. He must do more work next term.1. The table above is a(n) . A. poster of a boy B. advertisement C. school report D. piece of news2. Lin Tao’s best subject is . A. Chinese B. Math C. Physics D. GeographyB When he was a little child, Andrew had a serious bad habit of sucking（吮吸） his fingers all day long, especially when he had nothing interesting to do: when he was sleeping, when watching TV, when sitting on the sofa and so on. At the beginning, his parents didn’t think it was a bad habit.Therefore, as time goes by, the boy couldn’t give up his habit. Now, in his twenties, Andrew seems to have developed the bad habit into another one: he always bites his nails(指甲). He cannot stop biting his nails all the time. There’re moments when he even doesn’t know that he is doing it. He realized it was a problem and this worried him a lot. Some of his friends told him about this bad habit, and he stops for a while. But then, if he isn’t busy doing something, he starts biting his nails again! In fact, there’re a lot of bacteria(細菌) in your nails and they can cause some disease. Also, the nails will bee ugly and hard to recover. The worst thing is that this bad habit will bring the mental illness（心理疾?。? If people cannot correct it in time, it can affect man’s mental health.In short, bad habits are very worrying, especially when the person with the habit is in public and cannot stop himself or herself doing it. Still, there must be ways to give up these bad habits and these people should try their best to stop doing them.3. When Andrew was a little boy, he had a bad habit of . A. biting his fingers B. biting his nails C. sucking his nails D. sucking his fingers4. What’s the Chinese meaning of the underlined word “recover” in paragraph 3?A. 覆蓋 B. 修復 C. 發(fā)現(xiàn) D. 報告5. Which is TRUE according to the passage?A. Andrew’s parents found it was a bad habit at the beginning. B. Andrew had a kind of mental illness when he was a little child.C. Andrew himself wasn’t worried about his habit in his twenties.D. Some of Andrew’s friends tried to help him stop his bad habit of biting nails.CWild animals are our friends, but many of them are getting fewer and fewer. We should try to protect them. The four animals below are now in danger.Tibetan antelopes (藏羚羊) are mediumsized animals. They mainly feed on grass. They are usually found in groups of about 20. They are killed for their wool, which is warm, soft and fine and can be made into expensive clothes. Although people can get the wool without killing the animals, people simply kill them before taking the woo