湖北省荆州市2018年中考英语试卷

—No,         much.

—That's true. A happy family provides a loving ______ for its children.

—Take it easy. The more you prepare, the better you will feel.

—No, we        . We have to wait until the light turns green.

—Yeah. Americans can       avoid buying Chinese products.

—Yes, there is.  But life is like a mirror.     you smile at it, it will smile back.

—You'd better         signs around the school to tell all the students about that.

—Why not        Jingzhou and have a look at the ancient city wall?

—He lives in Wuhan.

—It was wonderful! I have never seen such a great football match before.

    One day, when a successful businessman opened the door of his car, a dog sleeping 1his car suddenly came out and bit (咬) his leg!  He threw a stone at the dog,2he was not able to hit it. How angry he was!

    Upon3his office, the businessman called a meeting of the workers. He took out his anger(愤怒) on them. Gradually, the businessman's anger4the company.

    The businessman was still angry after returning home. His wife asked him, "Why are you so late today?" The man5, "I didn't go to the office to play soccer. I went to work. So don't ask such stupid questions!"

    His wife was troubled about being shouted at6. She turned her anger on their son who was watching TV. "This is all you do. You have no 7 in studying!  Turn off the TV now!" she shouted.

    The son became8as well. He walked out of his house and saw a dog passing by. He picked up a stone and threw it at the dog9. The dog ran away, barking(犬吠) in pain.

    Sometimes, when we are angry about something, we might take out our anger on 10. We should learn to control our anger.

    In 1997,12-year-old American girl Caitlin and 14-year-old Zimbabwean (津巴布韦人) Martin became pen friends through their schools. They didn't realize at that time how their handwritten letters would change their lives.

    It all began as a school task. Everyone in Caitlin's class was supposed to choose a pen friend from another country. All the other kids picked countries like France or Germany, but Caitlin chose Zimbabwe because the name sounded exotic(异国的) and cool.

    Martin lived with his family in one of Zimbabwe's worst slums(贫民窟) where they shared one room with another family. And a bed was their only piece of furniture.

    When Caitlin's first letters reached Martin, they were simple and general. The two kids wrote about their favorite music and what they liked to do. But as Martin gradually revealed more about his life and his letters started arriving written on pieces of trash, Caitlin realized what the living conditions were like for Martin. Without telling her parents, she began sending money with her letters—$ 20 at a time. While the money was not much to Caitlin, it meant more food for Martin's family and enabled him to pay his school fees.

    It lasted six years from their first exchange of letters to Martin's arrival in the United States. With the help of the money from Caitlin's parents later on, Martin finished his university and got his MBA from Duke University.

    Today, Caitlin and Martin aren't only best friends, but they also share their story in a book called I Will Always Write Back. They want to encourage readers to look beyond their own lives and do something kind for others, which might greatly influence their lives.

    When it comes to shopping for clothes, my mother and I have always disagreed on what fits me well. To me, if it zips, it fits. My mom, however, usually tells me I need a bigger size.

    When I was a teenager, I wanted to dress like my friends, but my body size made it impossible. When mom told me something didn't suit me, or I needed a bigger size, all I heard was that my body was wrong.

    To avoid arguments, we stopped going shopping together. This continued until I got engaged(订婚) last year and needed to buy some clothes. When I tried on a blouse, my mother looked at me, and I knew what was coming. "You need a bigger size," she said.

    There was no bigger size. I tried to hold back my tears(眼泪). Maybe I could buy it alone, of course, but my mom is my favorite person to hang out with. The idea of looking for a wedding dress without her seemed just as scary as taking her with me.

    And so the day came. As I tried on a simple white dress, I saw tears in my mom's eyes. "You look beautiful!" she told me. Nothing could have shocked me more.

    This one didn't zip up at the back and I did actually need a bigger size, but my mother didn't say that. She just told me how beautiful I looked. In that moment, all the arguments in the past ended. We didn't buy a dress that day. We decided to see more.

    A few weeks later, we found the perfect dress. We both loved it as soon as I put it on.

    And during those few weeks, mom and I also found the perfect fit for our shopping relationship.

    Don't be too surprised if you see a car going down the road without a driver in Beijing these days. Last month, Baidu began to test its self-driving cars on open roads in Beijing.

    Since then, companies like Tesla, Uber and Baidu have been working to produce and test their own self-driving cars.

    Self-driving cars are safer than regular cars. They can remove the stress of driving and allow disabled or blind people to get around more easily.

    In one test, researchers pointed a laser pointer(激光棒) at the car's sensors(传感器) while it was moving. The car mistakenly thought that the laser beam was in its way and slowed down or changed the direction.

    The software that is used to direct the cars may not be safe enough. When we use our computers or smartphones, they sometimes crash (崩溃)  without any reason. But if this happened to a self-driving car, the results could be deadly. Improvements to the software could be a solution to this problem.

    World famous scientist Stephen Hawking(霍金) died the age of seventy-six in his home in Cambridge, England on March 14. British Prime Minister Theresa May said Hawking was one of(great)  scientists of his time. She also said, "His achievements will not(forget)."

    Hawking was one of the most respected scientists in the modern history of/ 'fiziks/. Because of an uncommon disease(疾病) , he was kept to a wheelchair., the disease did not stop Hawking from studying. He used every new day that life offered(continue) his research of the universe(宇宙). He said, "Where there is life, there is hope." He developed way of thinking about problems in his mind to reach a solution.

    This way of thinking has led to his important discoveries. He was(one) person to present the idea of some special energy in the universe. At the same time, Hawking tried to explain many of these difficult(science) ideas to more people. He(write) several popular science books, including the bestseller A Brief History of Time which made him a household(家喻户晓的) name.

    Stephen Hawking spent his whole life understanding the universe. He is, no doubt, a legendary(传奇的) scientist of all time.

周末不要独自外出。(go)

在雪天里登山是很危险的。(be)

汤米被那只狗绊了一跤，磕断了门牙。(fall)

必须阻止工厂向江河湖泊排放污水。(prevent)

他总是问我作业做完了没有。(finish)

1）What is your hobby?

2）How do you develop your hobby?

3）Share your happiness you get from your bobby.Give at least one example.

提示词语：practice， different， forget， no longer

要求：

1）可以适当发挥，文中不得出现真实姓名和学校名称；

2)语言通顺，意思连贯，条理清楚，书写规范； 

3)词数：80词左右。短文开头已给出，不计入总词数。

My Hobby

    Everyone has his or her own hobby and so do I.