浙江省舟山市2019届中考英语模拟试卷（四）

    On 28 of March Richard Byrd stood outside the small house. He shook hands with the men who were leaving. They were heading back to the main camp on the coast of Antarctica (南极洲).

    He would 1 to work at the base camp.

    "I don't like leaving you here alone," Pete Demas said." I'll be 2,"Byrd replied.

    He was looking forward to the challenge of spending the winter at the base camp. He would be recording the weather. There was plenty of food and fuel (燃料) in the tiny house. He felt sure 3would go wrong.

    But something did go wrong. Byrd was burning the fuel for 4. But the fumes (有毒气体) were not leaving the house. Slowly he was being poisoned (中毒). On May 31 he broke down.

    When he came to, he made himself into his sleeping bag. Three days later he 5it was a

    Sunday. The men would be 6 his radio message. Byrd moved hard out of bed and 7 the call. He didn't want the men to know how 8he was. It was too dangerous for them to come to save him.

By will-power alone, Byrd managed to stay alive. He was so 9that he could hardly walk. But he forced himself to do the basics. He 10food and made myself eat. He took 11 of weather and sent radio messages. But by late June, the men 12that something was wrong. Most of the time, Byrd's messages made no sense.

    On August 11 Demas and two others reached the base camp. They 13 recognized (认出) Byrd. He was very thin and looked terrible. Byrd 14 them and then fell to the ground. The men had arrived in time. After two months of care, Byrd's good 15 returned. He and his men worked together again.

    One morning while Officer Vogel was on his coffee break in a restaurant, a man ran in a yelled. "Officer! A little kid is driving a car down the street!"

    He ran out at once and saw a car going slowly--about 25 miles an hour--but it was going very straight. He jumped into his police car and followed it. When the car was stopped, Officer Vogel looked inside. The driver was a little boy. His name was Rocco Morabiro and was 5. In the back seat was his two-year-old sister. Both children wen crying.

    "I want my mummy!" the boy cried." But she can't get here. I have the car." Then he had an idea." Just a minute." He told Officer Vogel." I can drive. I'll go to get her."

    "No!" Officer Vogel said. "You stay with me!" Then he drove them to the police station and he called their mother. They had many questions for Rocco. The first question was: "Where did you get the car keys?"

    Rocco said. "From the top of the refrigerator." At seven that morning Rocoo's father was work and his mother was sleeping, Rocco saw the keys on top of the refrigerator. He climbed on a chair, and took the keys.

Rocco got into the car and started the engine (引擎). When Rocco's sister heard the engine she ran to the car and cried. She wanted to go with him.

It was 7 a. m.—rush hour—so there was much traffic. Rocco drove one mile in heavy traffic. Then Officer Vogel stopped him.

    Newspapers and TV stations heard about Rocco, and a lot of reporters went to his house. Areporter asked Rocco, "What do you want to be when you grow up?"

    "A truck driver," he said, smiling.

    The Silk Road is the name of different roads that long ago connected Europe, Africa and Asia. People reached these different places along these roads. Scientists believe people began to travel the Silk Road about 3000 years ago. By the time the Chinese silk trade became important in the world. The Silk Road covered almost 6500 kilometers. It went from Rome to China, which is from the West to the Far East.

    Merchants travelled along the Silk Road to carry silk, of course. They also carried and traded other things like spices (香料), cloth, jewels and gold.

    Along and around these ancient path(小路), have come many fascinating and mysterious stories.

    It is said that Roman soldiers who lost a war travelled through central Asia. They decided to live somewhere near the ancient Chinese villages. Some of these Romans married local Chinese women and the legend of the blond-haired, blue-eyed tribes of China was started.

    Some historians believe that the people of Kashmir were taken away from their country Israel. They were prisoners (俘虏) of war almost 2800 years ago. People say that these people travelled along the Silk Road. They kept their Jewish way of life for a long time.

    During its busiest period, the Silk Road allowed people from many different cultures and countries to meet each other and mix. The Silk Road allowed the sharing of valuable things and new ideas. It included people and trading goods from different areas. All these peoples travelled the Silk Road. And they shared goods, stories, languages, and cultures.

    In modern times, the old Silk Road routes (路线) are still used, but now they are crossed by trains instead of camels and horses. There is even silk route museum in Jiuquan in China. It has over 35, 000 objects from all along the Silk Road. In this way, China protects the history of many countries and peoples.

    For most people, the word "fashion" means "clothes"。 But people may ask the question, "What clothes are in fashion？"And they use the adjective "fashionable" in the same way:

    "She was wearing a fashionable coat. His shirt was really a fashionable colour."

    But of course there are fashions in many things, not only in clothes. There are fashions in holidays, in restaurants, in films and books. There are even fashions in school subjects, jobs…and in languages.

    Fashions change as time goes. If you look at pictures of people or things from the past, you will see that fashions have always changed. An English house of 1750 was different from one of 1650. A fashionable man in 1780 looked very different from his grandson in 1860.

    Today fashions change very quickly. Some of this is natural. We hear about things much more quickly than in the past. Newspaper, radios, telephones and television send information from one country to another in a few hours. Newfashions mean that people will buy new things, so you see there is money in fashion.

    Soap is widely used in our lives around the world. Once soap was a dangerous-to-make hair (产品). But it is something that it would be difficult to live without today.

    Soap is everywhere. We use it every day and  (认为)it as something important in our lives.

    It also has an amazing (历史), in Babylon around 2800 B. C. the  (最早)known soap was made and used. Ancient Egyptians also made soap. At one time, soap-making was not  (安全).

    That's because lye(碱液)(导致)chemical burns or even made people blind in the making process. Other dangerous materials were also  (混合)with animal fats and oils. Later. soap became  (可购得的)in stores and people gradually stopped making it in their homes.

    Originally (最初), soap was not mainly used for  (清洁).Instead, it was used as gel(凝胶) for making hair stay in place or smell good. The Arabs first made the soap that we know today. They created colored, liquid, and hard soaps. They even had soaps which were used for shaving(刮胡子).

    Soap became people's (最喜欢的)in the late 1800s. Advertising in Europe and the US helped people understand the connection between cleanliness and good health. Now. Soap is something we wouldn't want to live without.

    "After walking through the mirror, many strange things happened to Alice. One day, she (meet) a unicorn(独角兽).'What－is－this? 'the unicorn asked its friend. 'That is a child,'  (reply)the friend. 'Ah,' said the unicorn, I always thought they were fabulous monsters(传说中的怪兽)! Is it alive？'Alice then said, "Do you know,' I always thought unicorns, were fabulous monsters ? I never saw one alive before!'"

    Fifty years before Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) wrote (he) stories about Alice, many people still believed in the myth (神话) of unicorns. But in the early nineteenth century, a French (science) named Baron Cuvier showed that unicorns were only a  (product) of imagination.

    For hundreds of years before that, things were very different. Everybody (believe) that unicorns were real, but very few people saw them. Julius Caesar, who built the Roman Empire, ever said that the animal had the head of a deer, the  (foot) of an elephant and a one-meter-long horn on its forehead. Marco Polo, who thought he saw a unicorn in India, agreed that it had elephants' feet and a horn,  said it had a pig's head. He was almost certainly describing a rhinoceros(犀牛)! By the sixteenth century，when books about animals were  (become)very popular, everyone agreed that the unicorn looked like a white horse with a horn.

    The summer solstice(夏至), around June 21, is the longest day of the year in the northern half of the world. On that day, the sun is the highest in the sky, so the earth gets the most hours of light. People in many countries celebrate that day in a holiday called Midsummer.

    Different countries celebrate Midsummer in different ways. In towns in Sweden, people put up a Midsummer Pole(仲夏柱) made of wood covered with flowers. They dance and sing around it. After wards, they eat fish, new potatoes and strawberries. That night, young people pick seven different flowers and put them under their pillows(枕头) when they sleep to dream about the person they will marry.

    In Finland, people go out to the country and build huge fires to celebrate Midsummer. In the past, people believed that the fires drove away bad luck. Now, they're a reason to get together with friends for a big party all night. Because Finland is so far north, the sky is light most of the night on Midsummer. Many Finnish people start their summer vacations on that day.

    In some parts of Spain, people have big parties and enjoy fireworks(烟花) on the beaches at night to celebrate Midsummer. Some people believe that plant medicines work the best if they are made on Midsummer, so women go out to collect the plants that night. Some people put the plants in water and then wash their faces with the water for good health. And of course there are special foods: fish, potatoes and corn bread.

内容要点如下：

1）参观城市博物馆。了解武汉文化；

2）走进课堂，交流学习情况；

3）去东湖划船，欣赏风景；

4）在家举办朋友聚会，品尝美食；

5）补充一至两点个人想法。

注意：

1）文中不得透露个人姓名和学校名称

2）词数: 80-100

3）内容连贯，不要逐条翻译；

4）邮件的开头已给出。不计入总词数。

参考词汇：City Museum城市博物馆The East Lake东湖 view  n.景色

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