广东省广州市2018年英语中考模拟试题(四)

    "What is success?" Mr. Black asked his 6th grade business class. It was his opening conversation for the first class of the term."Success is riding in a sweet car, watching an 80-inch TV, and living in a place with at least twelve rooms." One student answered, earning（博得）laughs from all the students.Mr. Black smiled, but shook his head. "Tom, that is excess(过量). That is not success.""How about being able to provide for your family?" A blonde girl named Sandy in the front suggested as an answer."Now we're getting closer," Mr. Black smiled, "but try thinking about what you need and what you want."

    "Getting everything you want." Tom shouted out an answer again, trying for more laughs.Mr. Black sighed（叹气）. "I believe we've already talked about excess versus(与…比较) success.""Getting everything you need, but some of what you want?" James, sitting in the back wondered aloud."Quite right!" Mr. Black clapped. "Success is getting everything you need and some of what you want. The more you get that you want, the more successful you are. You do reach a point where you are living in excess, though.""What does this have to do with business?" Tom asked. It seemed if it wasn't funny, he wasn't happy.

    "Well, Tom, think of it this way: the point of business is to make a living to support your family. Once you have properly seen to (确保) their needs, you can then see to getting the extras that you want.""What if I don't have a family?" he continued to be difficult."Then you have to provide for yourself, a family of one.""He has goldfish to think about!" Peter, Tom's friend, shouted out.

    "Then he needs to provide for a family of one with a fishbowl." Mr. Black corrected himself.Tom nodded, satisfied with that answer."So in the next nine weeks, we're going to study basic business situations, like having a checking account and understanding credit cards（信用卡）."Tom rubbed his hands together excitedly. "When do we get to start spending?""You already are, Tom. You're spending time with us!" Mr. Black laughed. "Now, let's see what you guys know about credit cards…"

    Many people take running as a way to keep fit. They like to run in hot weather and enjoy the feeling of being wet through with sweat while running. Cold weather during winter months, with low temperatures and freezing cold winds, may keep many people from running in the open air .

    However, a new study shows that the drop in temperature is a good reason to run. In fact, running in cold weather helps improve one's performance. Many runners might find it easier to run in winter than in hot weather.

    Lower temperatures reduce stress on the body. When you run in cold weather, your heart rate is lower .And the body needs less water on a cold day than in warm weather because dehydration levels are lower in winter than in warmer conditions . John Brewer is a professor of applied sports science at ST. Mary's University in London. For this study, he and other researchers put a group of people into a room where summer and winter weather conditions are recreated. The test subjects, were asked to run 10,000 meters under both conditions and their biological measurements were recorded and studied.

    From the study, every movement runners make produces heat .The heat can be really damaging unless the body can lose it .One way in which people lose heat is by sweating. The body loses heat through droplets of sweet. The body also loses it by transporting the blood to the surface of the skin and it puts more stress on the heart, particularly in hot conditions because it's much harder to lose heat when the outside environment is warm. As the result shows running in hot temperatures results in 6 percent higher heart rates. 

    When running in cold conditions, the body does not have to work hard to pump blood to the skin surface .Therefore, it requires less energy.The most important things for people who run in cold conditions is to wear the right clothing. Keep as dry as possible when exercising in low temperatures. Wear mittens on your hands instead of gloves. Wear more than one layer of clothing to keep sweat away from your skin.So don't let winter weather keep you indoors. Simply get ready for the low temperatures and start running.

    Although people everywhere seem to enjoy drinking coffee，they don't all have the same coffee culture. In Europe for example, coffee shops are common places for people to meet friends while they drink coffee. On the other hand, places like this were not as common in North America in the past. Instead, people in North America liked to drink coffee in their homes with friends. The coffee culture in the USA changed, when Starbucks (星巴克) coffee shops spread throughout the country．

    The first Starbucks coffee shop opened in 1971 in downtown Seattle, Washington，in the USA. It was a small coffee shop that cooked its own coffee beans. The coffee shop's business did well, and by 1981 there were three Starbucks stores in Seattle.

    Things really began to change for the company in 1981. That year, Howard Schultz met the three men who ran Starbucks. Schultz worked in New York for a company that made kitchen equipment (设备) . He noticed that Starbucks ordered a large number of special coffee makers, which caused his great interest. Schultz went to Seattle to see what Starbucks did. In 1982, the original Starbucks owners hired Schultz as the company's head of marketing (市场营销).

    In 1983, Schultz traveled to Italy. The special environment of the espresso (浓咖啡) bars there caught his eyes. Back in the USA, Schultz created an environment for Starbucks coffee shops that was comfortable and casual, and customers everywhere seemed to like it. Starbucks began opening more stores in the USA. Then the company opened coffee shops in other countries as well. Today, there are more than 16,000 Starbucks coffee shops all over the world.

    However，that does not mean Starbucks has not had problems. In fact, many Starbucks stores have closed over the past few years. On the one hand, this is because there were too many coffee shops competing (竞争) for business in one small area. On the other hand, stores in some countries closed because the coffee culture there did not match with the comfortable environment offered by Starbucks.

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    Alex Smith， a fifteen-year-old boy， studied in an American boarding school (寄宿学校). In this school， students could go into town after school in the afternoon

    One afternoon， Alex walked to the town. He looked about at the shops and then went to a cinemaIt was eight o'clock. He was a little worried， He walked back to the school as fast as possible.

    When he arrived， he ran quickly to the main entrance (入口). It was locked. He looked up at the window of his dormitory(寑室). It was on the third floor. The window was openBut the door was also locked. Then he saw another open window on the first floor. It was the window of the teachers' officeAlex quickly climbed into the room. Just then， he heard someone opened the door. He had to hide under the sofa at once. One minute later， a teacher came inUnder the sofa Alex had to lie on the floor.

  me two days  a model plane.

  advice Mr. White gave us!

He will tell you    he the news.

The books you bought    to your house tomorrow.

They were    a word when they met again 20 years later.

I don't understand     late for school.

Mum     out at night.

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