山东省泰安市2018年中考英语试卷

    During the Warring States Period (475-22IBC), there was a man called Yue Yangzi. One day he saw a piece of gold on the road. He picked it up and 1 it home. But his wife was not 2 and said, "I hear that a great man doesn't drink a thief's water or accept alms(施舍物) .What do you think of the action of keeping others' thing for yourself?" Yue Yangzi felt sorry 3 what he had done, so he put the gold back to the place where he found it.

    The next year, Yue Yangzi decided to go to a faraway school to improve himself. A year later, he came back home 4. "Why have you returned?" asked his wife in surprise, "You've 5spent one year studying with scholars (学者们)." "I come back because I 6you very much."

    Without saying anything, his wife took a pair of scissors and went to the loom(织布机)at which she had worked. 7 the half done cloth, she said, "The cloth is woven from the best silk. Now 8 I cut it ,all my previous（先前的）work will be wasted. It's the same as your 9.You can learn a lot only by working hard. Now, you've stopped half way. Isn't it the same as cutting the cloth on the loom?"

    Yue Yangzi was moved by 10she said. He again left home to visit scholars. Several years later he became a learned man.

    If you are given only 1yuan, could you live in a city for one day? It seems this may be a little difficult. But students from Xi'an did it.

    On April 10, more than 60 students from a middle school of Xi'an took port in the One Yuan Metropolis

    Survival. Students not only have to live, but also have to deal with a lot of hard tasks in this charitable(慈善的） activity. It has happened in eight cities and is going to four others, including Beijing, in May.

    To make money, many students looked for part-time jobs and experience how hard life was. Zhang Qiyue, 14, asked more than 10 restaurants for a job and finally got one chance. "We were upset when they said no. But gradually, we got used to it." he said. After being a waiter for an hour, he got 25 yuan.

    Some made use of their talents by singing and dancing in parks or shopping malls. Many people who walked by took notice and helped them. Zhao Jiacheng,14, drew pictures and made paper crafts (手工). "This showed it's important to learn a special skill,” he said.

    Living was hard, but finishing the tasks wasn't any easier. They went to different places to finish tasks in a short time. The most amazing one was when they had to exchange things worth thousands of yuan with only a piece of paper in half an hour. "We learned how to explain to others. From a balloon to a cake to a bottle of yogurt... after almost 20 tries, we succeed," he said. They will give all the money they made to poor schools in Tibet.

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    A photo of a boy who arrived at school with a head full of icicles(冰柱）has drawn widespread attention to children from poor rural families.

    Wearing only a thin jacket, Wang Fuman, 10, had braved -9C weather to travel over an hour from his village home to reach Zhuanshanbao

    Primary School in Zhaotong, Yunnan province.

    "After walking more than 4 kilometers through the freezing snow, he arrived with his hair and eyebrows completely frozen, causing laughter among his 16 classmates," said Fu Heng, the school's principal, who uploaded(上传) Wang's photos on Monday morning. Fu added that his classrooms do not have heating because of a lack of money.

    After hearing Wang's story, the Yunnan China Youth Development Foundation offered a public donation(捐赠) for children from poor families on Tuesday. It has promised to give each needy child 500 yuan ($75) to help them stay warm in winter. By 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday, the provincial foundation bad collected over 300,000 yuan in public donations according to their websites.

    Wang, who has been nicknamed "Snowflake Boy"(冰花男孩）by netizen (网友),became well-known online. By Wednesday morning, his picture had been 'liked" more than 260,000 times on Sina Weibo. "Many children in cities don't have the strong willpower of this boy. I hope all his efforts will be rewarded(回报)," a netizen wrote on Sina Weibo.

    The name Fuman translates as "full of happiness", but Wang does not come from a rich family. He lives in a mud hut(土坯房) with his grandmother and elder sister, and seldom sees his parents because they are migrant workers in other cities.

    "I love school. We can have bread and milk for lunch, and we learn lots of things in class," Wang said. His village now has electricity and tap water, "and my family is getting help to build a new house close to the school", he said. "I think our life will get better."

    Some scientists say that animals in the ocean are increasingly threatened(威胁) by noise pollution caused by human beings. The noise that influences sea animals comes from a number of human activities. It is caused mainly by industrial underwater explosions(爆炸) , ocean drilling, and ship engines. Such noises are added to natural sounds. These sounds include the breaking of ice fields, underwater earthquakes, and sounds made by animals themselves.

    Decibels (分贝) measured in water are different from those measured on land. A noise of one hundred and twenty decibels on land causes pain to human ears. In water, a decibel level of one hundred and ninety five would have the same effect（效果）.

    Some scientists have proposed setting a noise limit （限度）of one hundred and twenty decibels in oceans. They have observed that noises at that level can frighten and confuse whales（鲸鱼）.

    A team of American and Canadian scientists discovered that louder noises can seriously injure some animals. The research team found that powerful underwater explosions were causing whales in the area to lose their hearing. This seriously affected the whales' ability to exchange information and find their way. Some of the whales even died. The explosions had caused their ears to bleed.

    Many researchers whose work depends on ocean sounds object to a limit of one hundred and twenty decibels. They say such a limit would mean an end to important industrial and scientific research. Scientists do not know how much and what kinds of noises are harmful to ocean animals. However, many scientists suspect that noise is a greater danger than they believed. It's time for them to take action to help ocean animals.

    These days people are crazy about Wu Dajing. He broke his own world record in men's 500m short track speed skating(短道速滑)!

    When he was young, he noticed two Chinese speed skaters on TV and then he decided to take up this sport. Wu smarted to learn to skate in 2004, and six years later he became a member of the national team.

    On February 22, 2018. Wu won the men's 500m short track speed skating with a time of 39.584 seconds and became the first Chinese man to win an Olympic short track gold. “

    I'm happy to win China's first gold here and I look forward to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics,” Wu said.

    In fact, it is the first time Wu has shown his talent in skating. He has won many medals at many world championships (锦标赛). Wu believes that as long as he works hard, he will succeed.

A. Many people think he is really the “pride of China”

B. I did my best in the event.

C. He won second place in the same competition four years ago in Sochi

D. The young man won China's first gold at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games.

E. Wu was born on July 24, 1994 in Jiamusi, Heilongjiang Province, China.

—I p restaurants that can provide customers with free Wi-Fi.

    In today's world, sleep experts often say that for a better night's rest, Americans should turn their smart phones or iPads before sleeping. Such electronic products make the brain more , and then influence their sleep. But according to a latest survey, more than 90% of Americans regularly use a computer or some other of electronic products in the hour before bed.

    Researchers find that man-made light from some electronic products at night may reduce(减少) the brain chemicals that help . In the study, the researchers let volunteers read, play games and watch movies on a screen for different time while measuring much light their eyes received. They found that two hours of before a bright screen at night reduced the sleep chemical levels by about 22%.

    Then the researchers studied the college students often used computers at night. They got the results. And researchers say that may not only cause sleeplessness, but also the risk of obesity(肥胖症), diabetes(糖尿病) and other diseases.

    To be on the safe side, the researchers suggest that we should use computers than before, or turn down our screens as much as possible before sleeping.

    [1] I'm a 34-year-old man, married, lived in a nice house, and have a successful career. But my life was not always so great. I had a learning disability from an early age. I went to a special school where I got plenty of extra (额外的) help. Still, I suffered the rest of my school days in public schools.

    [2] My life improved greatly when I discovered art. The art world gave me a chance to express myself without words. I went to a workshop and gradually became good at making things with clay. Here I learned my first important lesson: disabled as I was in language, I could still be smart and well express myself with clay. And my confidence（自信）came along.

    [3] I got my next lesson from rock climbing. It was a fun thing but I was scared from the start. ⑶I soon noticed it wasn't a talent thing; it needed lots of practice. So I did it more. After about five years of climbing, I found myself in Yosemite Valley on a big wall. I learned that if you fall in love with something and do it all the time, you will get better at it.

    [4] Later I decided to learn ⑷①          to read and write. I practiced reading and ⑷②          , which I used to avoid as much as possible. After two years, I was literate(有文化的).

    [5] Through the long process with art, ⑷③             , and reading and writing, now I've got to a point in my life: I am smart enough to dive into (潜入) an area that is totally unknown, hard, but interesting.

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参考词汇：classic 经典作品； open up one's eyes 开阔眼界；improve oneself 提升自我； be more confident 更自信；responsibility 责任；cooperation 合作。

Growing up with Reading

    Have you watched the program Everlasting Classics on CCTV? This program makes us more interested in reading books, especially classics.