天津市2018年中考英语试卷

—Let's do it______.

—Yes. We don't have to wait.

—No. You______. There will be plenty of time.

—Yes. I______ there with my parents last year.

—At ten o'clock.

—________.

    My name is Damian Costa. I was born in a small village in Italy in 1952. I spent the first few Years of my life there before my family1to Perth Australia.

    We arrived in Australia in the summer of 1957. I went to2and I had to attend special classes to learn English as all the lessons were taught in English.

    We did not have much3, so we lived very simply. My parents worked as cleaners. They earned（挣钱）just enough for us to survive（维持生活）and4 a little money. My father had always wanted to5a small restaurant. Finally.6ten years of hard work, in June1967, he managed to save enough and opened our first pizzeria（比萨饼店）.

    7business was slow at first, it soon got better. I helped out at the pizzeria after school and at weekends. Just two years after we8my father decided that we needed a full-time waiter. Then he decided to9me the art of making wood-fired pizzas.

    Today we have three branches(分店), in Perth. Sydney and Adelaide. My children have10learned how to make pizzas and they quite enjoy it. I hope to pass on the business to them.

Dear Susan,

    How are you? I'm going to visit Hong Kong with Mum and Dad next month. We'll arrive on the second of August, it's so exciting! We can meet each other soon!

    I will spend a day in Ocean Park on the third of August. I know that you've visited Ocean Park many times before. Can you give me some advice on what to see in Ocean Park?

    I would also like to visit you at your home on the fourth of August. Are you free on that day? I've bought a present for you. I think you'll love it.

    By the way, would you like to go to Disney land with me? I really want to take some photos with you in Disneyland .You know I love the famous cartoon characters of Disney such as Snow White and Mickey Mouse very much. I know you love them too.

    When can you go to Disneyland with me? Please let me know. I'll stay until the ninth of August and go back to England on that day

    See you soon

Love

Lily

    I did something wrong today.

    While at the beach this afternoon. I met a boy called Bob We talked a lot. He said that it was fun playing on the cliffs (悬崖). I told him that I was not allowed to go near that place(Mum and Dad had always told me it was dangerous to play there). He called me a coward. I wanted to prove to him that I was just as brave, so I agreed to go with him.

    We wanted to make our way down to explore (探索)the area, so Bob started to climb down and I followed him. Unluckily, some rocks came down after us. One of them nearly hit my head. We could not get back up. We shouted and shouted for help, but for a long time no help came. I was really scared. I wanted to cry. Then, we heard some sounds. Someone had heard us. A woman tied (系 )a rope around herself while a man at the cliff top held the rope. She made her way down to save us.

    My parents were relieved (宽慰的)that I was unhurt, but they were angry that I had done such a risky thing. I apologized and promised that I would not do anything like that again.

    In the 13th century. Marco Polo the world known Italian travelled saw many wonderful things in China. One of the things he discovered was money made of paper. People in the West did not have such kind of money until the I5th century. However the Chinese began to use it in the 7^th century.

    Paper was invented by a Chinese man called Cai Lun almost 2,000 years ago. But it was not made in Europe until the year I 100. Four hundred years later, a German discovered that he could make the best paper from trees. After that countries rich in forests, such as Canada Sweden. America. Finland became the most important ones in paper making

    Paper can be used in many ways. The common uses include newspapers magazines and books. But do you know that paper can be used for keeping warm? In Finland, the farmers wear paper boots to keep their feet warm in the snow. And even houses can be insulated(使绝缘)from heat or cold with paper.

    However, we have to understand that paper still comes from trees now. If we keep on wasting so much paper, there will not be any trees left on the earth some day in the near future. Every day people throw away about 2, 800 tons of paper in our city. It takes 17 trees to make one ton of paper. This means that we are cutting down nearly 48.000 trees every day. The fact is that it takes more than 10 years for a tree to grow.

    So we must start saving paper right now. We can use both sides of every piece of paper. We can make useful things out of used paper. We can use china cups instead of paper ones. When shopping, we can use fewer paper bags and reuse them if we have some

    In short, we should keep a balance (平衡)between using paper and protecting trees, and do it now before it is too late.

A: Lingling, you look unhappy. What's up?

B: Dad. I have a problem with my best friend

A:

B: We've been friends for five years. We went to different schools last term. And she came to study at my school this tern. I was very happy al first

A: Can you tell me how she's different?

B: She doesn't like me to see my other friends

A: 

B: Yes. I have. But she refused to listen.

A:

B: No. I don t know.

A: Maybe she doesn't feel sure of herself

B: Maybe. What shall I do then?

A: You can introduce her to your other friends and encourage her to join in more.

B: I see. Thanks, Dad.

I have to the bus at the next stop.

Cover him with a coat and he is warm.

We are the days to the end of this tour.

He successfully solved the problem .

In those days, books were produced .

Albert Einstein(1879-1955)

Early Life

    Albert Einstein was born on I4th March,1879 in Germany. He was an extraordinary (非凡的)person since he was born. Einstein wasn't able to speak a word until three. He was curious(好奇的)and imaginative. He loved watching things carefully and asked a lot of questions about them

His questions were often hard to answer for teachers.

Schooling

    Einstein started school in 1885. Though he did well in maths and science, he failed in many subjects like history geography and languages. He was not the teachers' favourite. He didn't enjoy going to school. Einstein finished high school in Switzerland and entered a university in Zurich. He graduated（大学毕业）as a teacher of maths and physics in1900.

Scientific Work

    After graduation. Einstein worked at the Patent Office. He spent much time studying physics. By 1909, Einstein had become a top scientist. Though he became successful in the field of science, he still put great effort in scientific research. Finally, he won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1921.

Later life

    Einstein kept at his research until he died in 1955. Scientists studied his brain(脑)after his death to see if there was anything special about it. However there was no conclusion(结论).

    Today, many famous scientists still think Einstein is the smartest man in the world.

    How do we know the time? A clock, a watch or a cell phone can help us. However many years ago there were no clocks and knowing the time was not so easy. Over the centuries people have developed different wof telling the time.

    About 5,500 years ago, the Egyptians ithe sun clock. This was a tall stone structure. Its shadow (影子)showed the movement of the sthey were able to determine（测定）midday.

    About 3,500 years ago, the Egyptians made a sundial. It was smaller than the sun clock and could measure (测量)the time for half a day. On cdays or at night it was impossible to tell the time with a sun clock or a sundial.

    Water clocks were the fclocks not to use the sun. The idea is simple. Water flows（流动） from one container（容器）to another. When the water reaches a certain l it moves a lever (控制杆)and this shows the hours. The Egyptians used water clocks about 3,400 years ago. These clocks were popular in the Middle East and China, but they fto keep accurate（精确的）time.

    In the 13th century, the mechanical clock was invented. This was more accurate, bwas expensive to make. Over the next few centuries it was developed. For example, springs(发条)were added around 1500. This iaccuracy and allowed clocks to be smaller.

    In 1927, the first quartz clock was developed. Clocks became cheaper to build and own. People began depending on them more and more to run businesses, markets and so on.

    More recently, in1956, came the digital clock. And nowadays satellites（人造卫星）send our cell phones the time to the exact second. There has been a lot of progress in timekeeping but some things never c. Man of us still have trouble getting out of bed on time and not missing appointments.

⑴上周五放学后李华乘公交车回家，看到有人在吃橘子，并把橘皮扔在车上。

⑵李华把橘皮捡起，放进垃圾桶。

⑶乘客用手机拍了照片，发布到网上。

⑷老师知道后表扬了李华，李华说这是他应该做的。

⑸你觉得

参考词汇：果皮peel    垃圾桶dustbin   发布post   表扬praise

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⑴词数：80-100个。

⑵短文的题目和开头已给出，不计入总词数。

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