英语周报八年级上册2023-2024第二十六期图片

英语周报八年级上册2023-2024第二十六期图片

My six-year-old came home from school this week with two envelopes. One was for a donation to help people in the Philippines. The other was to help hungry families have a Thanksgiving meal.

“I’ll put a check in each of these. Then you can add your own money from your piggy bank, okay?” I said, thinking he’d be so excited to put his own stamp on things.

“That’s okay, mom. You put money in. I don’t want to waste mine,” he sweetly sang as he colored. “I want to fill my bank all the way up.”

Ack! I guess I know what our dinnertime discussion will be about tonight, I thought.

I had figured that through watching his parents donate items, helping us take toys from time to time to needy kids and putting money in the basket at church, he would just understand why it was important to help people in need — and even want to do it himself.

But of course he doesn’t really understand yet. “There’s a big disconnect between the people ‘over there’ and my piggy bank,” said parenting educator Vicki Hoefle.

“There’s nothing wrong with the child. There’s just no connection.”

As for having that conversation immediately, or forcing my son to put money into the envelopes: “Try not to do it now,” Hoefle said. Teaching a child about donating their own money or toys or time to people in need “should be a gentle introduction into what we hope will be a way of life for our kids.”

She suggested these things to help children understand the importance of giving:

* Just talk about it. Then explore the issue from a perspective he can understand.

* Use the course of a year to introduce kids to opportunities. That way, they won’t be shocked when you ask them to stuff their own money into an envelope （like this writer just did）.

* Pick a family charity for the year and have a conversation about how you all can help throughout the year.

* Think of this not as something you must teach, but as something to expose them to.

At her house, Hoefle said, “When you got something new, you gave something up.” Each birthday, her children would pick what toys they had outgrown and give them away. “There was a comfort in it. It just became a natural part of the kids’ lives.”

So I will fill those envelopes alone this time. But I’ll make sure he understands why they should be filled—gradually.

1.When the writer asked her son to give money to help the poor, he __________.

A. declined to donate

B. sang a sweet song

C. put all his money in a bank

D. seemed very surprised

2. Hoefle’s attitude towards children’s unwillingness to donate money can be best described as “___________”.

A. criticalB. tolerant

C. positiveD. worried

3.Which of the following is Hoefle’s approach to educating kids about charity?

A. Giving courses about charity.

B. Setting a rule for children to give.

C. Inviting a lot of poor people home.

D. Giving children enough real life chances.

4.What can we learn about the writer from the passage?

A. She often makes donations for people in need.

B. She taught her son a lesson over dinner that evening.

C. She is at a loss as for what she should do next.

D. She invited a parenting educator home for advice.

5.What is the best title of the passage?

A. Kids, please help those in need.

B. Why are kids unwilling to donate?

C. Kindness is lost in the young generation.

D. How can we help kids learn generosity?

英语周报八年级上册2023-2024第二十六期图片试题答案

1.A

2.B

3.D

4.A

5.D

【解析】

试题分析：文章大意：文章的作者通过自己儿子不愿意给别人捐零花钱的事情，想到教育专家Hoefle说的关于如果帮助孩子学会慷慨。

1.细节理解题。从文章第三段的句子：“That’s okay, mom. You put money in. I don’t want to waste mine,” he sweetly sang as he colored. “I want to fill my bank all the way up.”可知作者让儿子将储蓄罐里面的钱捐出来一些，儿子却拒绝了，选A。

2.推理判断题。从第七段的句子：“There’s nothing wrong with the child. There’s just no connection.” 可知Hoefle对于孩子不愿意捐赠钱的态度的容忍的，选B。

3.推理判断题。从第八段的句子：Teaching a child about donating their own money or toys or time to people in need “should be a gentle introduction into what we hope will be a way of life for our kids.” 可知Hoefle认为教育孩子捐赠给有需要的人要给孩子足够的生活的机会。选D。

4.推理判断题。从第四段的句子：I had figured that through watching his parents donate items, helping us take toys from time to time to needy kids and putting money in the basket at church, he would just understand why it was important to help people in need — and even want to do it himself.可知作者经常给有需要的人捐东西，选A。

5.主旨大意题。文章的作者通过自己儿子不愿意给别人捐零花钱的事情，想到教育专家Hoefle说的关于如果帮助孩子学会慷慨。所以选D。

考点：考查教育类短文阅读

It’s such a happy-looking library, painted yellow, decorated with palm-tree stickers and sheltered from the Florida sun by its own roof. About the size of a microwave oven, it’s pedestrian-friendly(对行人友善的), too, waiting for book lovers next to a sidewalk in Palm Beach country Estates, along the northern boundary of Palm Beach Gardens.

It’s a library built with love.

A year ago, shortly after Janey Henriksen saw a Brian Williams report about the Little Free Library organization, a Wisconsin-based nonprofit organization that aims to promote literacy(读书识字) and build a sense of community in a neighborhood by making books freely available, she announced to her family of four, “That’s what we’re going to do for our spring break!”

Son Austin, now a 10th-grader, didn’t see the point of building a library that resembles（类似） a mailbox. But Janey insisted, and husband Peter unwillingly got to work. The 51-year-old owner of a ship supply company modified（修饰） a small wooden house that he’d built years earlier for daughter Abbie’s toy horses, and made a door of glass.

After adding the library’s final touches (装点), the family hung a signboard on the front, instructing users to “take a book, return a book,” and making the Henriksen library, now one of several hundred like it nationwide and among more than 2,500 in the world, the only Little Free Library in Palm Beach County.

They stocked it with 20 or so books they’d already read, a mix of science fiction, reference titles, novels and kids’ favorites. “I told them, keep in mind that you might not see it again,” said Janey, a stay-at-home mom.

Since then, the collection keeps replenishing (补充) itself, thanks to ongoing donations from borrowers. The library now gets an average of five visits a day.

The project’s best payoff, says Peter, are the thank-you notes left behind. “We had no idea in the beginning that it would be so popular.”

1.In what way is the library “pedestrian-friendly”?

A. It owns a yellow roof.

B. It protects book lovers from the sun.

C. It stands near a sidewalk.

D. It uses palm-tree stickers as decorations.

2.Janey got the idea to build a library from __________.

A. a report on a Wisconsin-based organization

B. a spring break with her family

C. a book sent by one of her neighbors

D. a visit to Brian Williams

3.The library was built __________.

A. by a ship supply companyB. on the basis of toy horses

C. with glass D. like a mailbox

4.The passage tells us that the borrowers__________.

A. get paid to collect books for the library

B. receive thank-you notes for using the library

C. donate books to the library

D. visit the library over 5 times on average daily

英语周报八年级上册2023-2024第二十六期图片试题答案

1.C

2.A

3.D

4.B

【解析】

试题分析：文章大意：文章主要讲述了Janey Henriksen一家建立微型图书馆的故事。

1.C 细节题。根据第一段的it’s pedestrian-friendly(对行人友善的), too, waiting for book lovers next to a sidewalk in Palm Beach country Estates判断C正确。

2.细节题。根据文章第三段第一句A year ago, shortly after Janey Henriksen saw a Brian Williams report about…可知Janey Henriksen是因为看到一篇关于the Little Free Library organization准备建社区图书馆的报道后受到启发才建这样特殊的图书馆的。故A正确。

3.细节题。根据文章第四段第一句Son Austin, now a 10th-grader, didn’t see the point of building a library that resembles（类似） a mailbox.可知D项正确。

4.B 细节题。根据文章的最后一句话进行判断。

考点：考查说明类短文阅读

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