人教版八年级下册英语Unit 2课文文本+听力-温故知新

Unit 2 I’ll help to clean up the city parks.

Section A

1b Listen and number the ways the boy and girl could help others.

Conversation 1
I hope to work outside.
我希望在户外工作。
You could help to clean up the city parks.
你可以帮忙清理城市公园。

Conversation 2
I’d like to help homeless people.
我想帮助无家可归的人。
You could give out food at the food bank to help feed them.
你可以在食物银行分发食物来帮助喂饱他们。

Conversation 3
I want to cheer up sick kids.
我想让生病的孩子开心起来。
You could ask hospitals to let you visit the kids.
你可以请医院让你去探望孩子们。

Conversation 4
I’d like to help kids with their schoolwork.
我想在功课上帮助孩子。
You could volunteer in an after-school study program to teach kids.
你可以在课外学习项目中做志愿者来教孩子。

2a A group of students are planning a City Park Clean-Up Day. Listen and check (√) the things they are going to do to tell people about it.

Now we need to come up with a plan to tell people about the city park clean-up.
现在我们需要提出一个计划来告诉人们城市公园清洁日活动。
Yeah, but I’m hungry, Bob.
是啊，但我饿了，鲍勃。
Let’s have lunch first.
我们吃午饭吧。
No, we need to start now.
不行，我们需要现在开始。
Clean-up Day is only two weeks from now.
清洁日就在两周后。
You’re right, Sally.
你说得对，莎莉。
We can’t put off making a plan.
我们不能推迟制定计划。
As we talk, I’ll write down all our ideas.
我们讨论时，我会写下所有想法。
Then we can decide which ideas are best.
然后我们可以决定哪些点子最好。
Um… well… we could put up signs.
嗯……好吧……我们可以张贴告示。
That’s a good idea!
好主意！
Let’s make some notices, too.
我们也做些通知吧。
Then I’ll hand them out after school.
然后放学后我会分发它们。
OK. Great!
好。太棒了！
And we could each call up 10 students and ask them to come.
我们每人可以打电话给10个学生，请他们来。
Hey, we’re coming up with a lot of good ideas, aren’t we?
嘿，我们想出了很多好点子，不是吗？

2b Listen again. Fill in the blanks.

2d Role-play the conversation.

Hi, Tom.
嗨，汤姆。
I’m making some plans to work in an old people’s home this summer.
我在计划今年夏天去养老院工作。
Really?
真的吗？
I did that last summer!
我去年夏天做过！
Oh, what did they ask you to help out with?
哦，他们请你帮忙做什么？
Mm… things like reading the newspaper to the old people, or just talking to them.
嗯……比如给老人读报纸，或只是跟他们聊天。
They told me stories about the past and how things used to be.
他们给我讲了过去的往事和曾经怎么样。
That sounds interesting.
听起来很有趣。
Yeah, a lot of old people are lonely.
是啊，很多老人很孤单。
We should listen to them and care for them.
我们应该倾听和关心他们。
You’re right.
你说得对。
I mean, we’re all going to be old one day, too.
我的意思是，我们所有人有一天也会老去。

3a Read the article. What do Mario and Mary volunteer to do?

Students Who Volunteer
Mario Green and Mary Brown from Riverside High School give up several hours each week to help others.
河滨高中的马里奥·格林和玛丽·布朗每周花几个小时来帮助他人。
Mario loves animals and wants to be an animal doctor.
马里奥热爱动物，想当一名兽医。
He volunteers at an animal hospital every Saturday morning.
他每周六早上在一家动物医院做志愿者。
Mario believes it can help him to get his future dream job.
马里奥相信这能帮助他获得未来的梦想工作。
“It’s hard work,” he says, “but I want to learn more about how to care for animals.”
“工作很辛苦，”他说，”但我想学习更多关于照顾动物的知识。”
“I get such a strong feeling of satisfaction when I see the animals get better and the look of joy on their owners’ faces.”
“当我看到动物好转和它们主人脸上喜悦的表情时，我感到强烈的满足感。”
Mary is a book lover.
玛丽是个书虫。
She could read by herself at the age of four.
她四岁时就能自己阅读了。
Last year, she decided to try out for a volunteer after-school reading program.
去年，她决定参加一个课外阅读志愿者项目的选拔。
She still works there once a week to help kids learn to read.
她现在每周去那里一次，帮助孩子们学习阅读。
“The kids are sitting in the library, but you can see in their eyes that they’re going on a different journey with each new book.”
“孩子们坐在图书馆里，但从他们的眼睛里可以看到，每本新书都在带他们开始一段不同的旅程。”
“Volunteering here is a dream come true for me.”
“在这里做志愿者是我的梦想成真。”
“I can do what I love to do and help others at the same time.”
“我既能做喜欢的事，还能同时帮助他人。”

Section B

1C Listen and number the pictures 1 to 4 in the correct order.
听录音并按1-4的正确顺序给图片编号。

This morning,
今天早上，
I’m talking with a very wonderful young man,
我在和一位非常优秀的年轻人交流，
Jimmy the Bike Boy.
自行车男孩吉米。
Good morning, Jimmy.
早上好，吉米。
Good morning.
早上好。
So Jimmy, tell our listeners what you do.
那么吉米，请告诉我们的听众你做些什么。
Well, I find or buy old bikes that nobody wants.
嗯，我寻找或购买那些没人要的旧自行车。
Then I fix up the bikes
然后我把这些自行车修好，
and give them away to kids
并把它们送给孩子们，
who don’t have enough money to buy their own bikes.
那些没有足够钱买自己自行车的孩子。
That’s fantastic!
那太棒了！
What gave you the idea?
是什么给了你这个想法？
I guess I take after my father.
我想我继承了我父亲的性格。
He loves to help people.
他喜欢帮助别人。
He always volunteers to help people in need.
他总是志愿帮助有需要的人。
Wow, your parents must be proud of you!
哇，你父母一定为你感到骄傲！
I guess so, but now I’ve run out of money,
我想是的，但现在我的钱用完了，
so I can’t buy any more old bikes.
所以我不能再买旧自行车了。
Oh, that’s too bad.
哦，那太糟了。
Yeah, I need to come up with some way of getting money,
是的，我需要想个办法来筹钱，
or I’ll have to stop.
否则我将不得不停止了。

1D Listen again. Circle T for true or F for false.
再听一遍。圈出T代表正确，F代表错误。

2b Skim the letter and answer the questions.

Dear Miss Li,

I’d like to thank you for giving money to Animal Helpers.
我想感谢您捐款给“动物助手”组织。
I’m sure you know that this group was set up to help disabled people like me.
我相信您知道这个组织是为帮助像我这样的残疾人而成立的。
You helped to make it possible for me to have Lucky.
您的帮助让我拥有“幸运”成为可能。
Lucky makes a big difference to my life.
“幸运”彻底改变了我的生活。
Let me tell you my story.
让我讲讲我的故事。
What would it be like to be blind or deaf?
失明或失聪会是什么感受？
Or imagine you can’t walk or use your hands easily.
或者想象您无法走路或自如使用双手。
Most people would never think about this, but many people have these difficulties.
大多数人不会想到这些，但许多人正面临这些困境。
I can’t use my arms or legs well, so normal things like answering the telephone, opening and closing doors, or carrying things are difficult for me.
我无法灵活使用四肢，因此接电话、开关门或搬东西等日常事务都很困难。
Then one day last year, a friend of mine helped me out.
直到去年某天，一位朋友帮助了我。
She talked to Animal Helpers about getting me a special trained dog.
她向“动物助手”申请为我提供一只受过特殊训练的狗。
She also thought a dog might cheer me up.
她还认为狗狗能让我振作起来。
I love animals and I was excited about the idea of having a dog.
我热爱动物，拥有狗狗的想法让我激动不已。
After six months of training with a dog at Animal Helpers, I was able to bring him home.
在“动物助手”与一只狗共同训练六个月后，我终于带它回家了。
My dog’s name is Lucky—a good name for him because I feel very lucky to have him.
它叫“幸运”——这个名字很贴切，因拥有它我深感幸运。
You see, I’m only able to have a “dog helper” because of your kindness!
您看，正是您的善意让我获得了这位“狗助手”！
Lucky is very clever and understands many English words.
“幸运”非常聪明，能听懂许多英文指令。
He can understand me when I give him orders.
当我发出命令时它能理解。
For example, I say, “Lucky! Get my book,” and he does it at once.
比如我说：“幸运！拿我的书来”，它会立刻照办。
Lucky is a fantastic dog.
“幸运”是只非凡的狗。
I’ll send you a photo of him if you like, and I could show you how he helps me.
如果您愿意，我会寄它的照片给您，将来还能展示它如何帮助我。
Thank you again for changing my life.
再次感谢您改变了我的生命。