山东省济宁市嘉祥县第三中学2020-2021学年八年级下学期英语第一次月考试卷（含听力音频）

In America, there are chores for children of different ages, American people think it's important to tell children their duty in the family. Use this list of age chores for your children.

A man went to see a doctor.

"Open your mouth." the doctor said.

The man opened his mouth and the doctor looked in quickly.

"It's clear what's wrong with you. You need more exercise." the doctor said.

"But doctor" the man said." I don't think so."

"Don't tell me what you think" the doctor said." I am the doctor, not you. I know what you need, I see hundreds of people like you. None of them get any exercise. They sit in offices all day and in front of the television in the evening. What you need is to walk quickly for at least 20 minutes a day."

"Doctor, you don't understand." the man said,"..."

"I don't want to hear any excuses" the doctor said," You must find time for exercise. If you don't want to get fat and have health problems when you are older."

"But I walk every day." the man said.

"Oh, yes, and I know what kind of walking that is. You walk a few feet to the train station from your house, a few more feet from the station to your office, and a few more feet from your office to a restaurant for lunch and back. That's not real walking. I'm talking about a walk in the park for treaty minutes every day."

"Will you listen to me, doctor!" the man shouted, getting angry with this doctor who thought he knew everything.

"I'm a postman." the man went on," and I walk for seven hours every day!"

Life is always full of stress these days. How do you usually solve your stress? Do you know doing housework is helpful in solving strees? In fact, doing something like washing dirty clothes may rally make people relaxed. "Doing some housework such as folding clothes or cleaning the room is a good way to face our stress without taking am medicine," says Carol Clark, a successful psychologist (心理学家) in New York. She often advises people who are under lot of stress to try doing housework every day. "While washing something," she says, "you can imagine you're washing away some trouble in your life."

Do people all agree with her idea? Here are some ideas about it.

"Housework is the main reason for the stems in my life," says Linda in France(法国) " Get me out of doing the housework and then I'll really be relaxed."

Gary is a single (单身的) father. "So, a man pays a psychologist 5200 an hour for his problem about stress.

However he is just told to go back home and do some housework. I really don't know who is crazier, the psychologist or the man!

Feb 12th. 2020. a boy named Dalian became a volunteer in Wuhan No.1 Hospital. Because of COVID-19, Wuhan had been locked down(被封锁). He wanted to save more people. In the hospital, he was responsible for(对……负责) taking out rubbish, sweeping the floor disinfecting (消毒) the hospital, dealing with used protective suits防护服) and bringing meals to patients(病人).

The young man Dalian, had to work 12 hours every day, changing his protective suit three times day.

While working, he couldn't drink anything or go to the bathroom. He also can't touch the patients. It is a risk.

Dalian was afraid of getting sick at first," When I entered the hospital, I was kind of nervous and felt like I couldn't move." he said. But after he saw more patients get better with the help of the doctors and nurses, he become happier and braver. He told all the patients not to give up. He tried his best to help them.

He sang the songs 10 cheer sick people up and he also communicate with them heart to heart.

Dalian's story has gone viral (走红的) online. People were surprised by his experience, and described him as having" a heart of gold".