江西省新目标版2019年中考英语模拟试卷（四）（含听力音频）

—No. He is their physics teacher.

—Yes，and         of us were late for school today.

—Not yet. But don't worry. She         soon.

—I think it's Bob's.

    April 27 is a special day in Britain. It's 1Take Our Daughters to Work Day. It was2 to Britain in 1994 from America. On that day thousands of girls take a day 3school and go with one of their parents to their work places. By doing this, it can 4 girls more about the society 5they live.

    Now the girls can have a close look at 6 their parents are doing. This may help them to be7 when they have to choose a 8 Mary9a day of work at her mother's office. This helped her10her mother's work 11. She said that this made her feel more confident about her future. Schools and many companies12 the activity, too. Some schools 13make the day a necessary part of school life.

    Experts think that girls with more self-confidence are more likely to be 14than common girls.  15 parents can set good examples both at work and at home for them, they will do better than others. Take Our Daughters to Work Day is surely a step in the right direction.

    Exercise comes from a Latin word that means" to keep busy". Keeping busy is a way of keeping healthy. You need exercise  your mind, your body, and your social skills（交际能力）.

    Exercising your mind

    Exercise  improve your mind. Everyone should do some mental（智力的）exercises every day. These  of exercises help you think clearly. They help you solve problems quickly and . They kelp you study and learn new things to make life more .

    You can do mental exercises by yourself  with other people. You can read and think by yourself. You can also play a thinking game with your family.

    Exercising your body

    Exercise helps keep your body healthy. A healthy body helps you sleep well and work well. Physical exercise  you look and feel fit and healthy.

    Some kinds of physical exercise  your whole body. These include walking, running, jumping rope and swimming. Playing sports is still another way to keep your body in good shape. It exercises  mind, too.

    Exercising your social skills

    Exercise helps you improve your social skills. Social exercises help you learn to make friends.

    Working and playing with  are two ways to improve your social skills. They help you learn cooperation（合作）. The more you work at improving your skills, the more successful you'll be.

    In ancient Chinese stories, the moon is home to Chang'e and her pet rabbit Yutu. Now, Chang'e and Yutu are really there!

    On Dec. 2, 2013, the Chang'e-3 lunar probe（月球探测器）took off from Sichuan, China. On Dec. 14, 2013, it landed successfully on the moon. Several hours later, Yutu, China's first moon rover（月球车）, "walked" out of the probe and onto the moon.

    Yutu is a big robot that weighs 140 kg. It is about 1.5 meters long and 1.1 meters tall. It has six wheels and travels at 200 meters per hour.

    There are cameras on both Yutu and Chang'e-3. They can take pictures of each other. That's how Yutu got is first picture on the moon.

    Yutu and Chang'e-3 will explore（探索）the moon.

    Yutu can walk around and work for three months. It can look for natural resources（资源）on the moon. Chang'e-3 can work at the landing site for one year and it can watch the space from the moon.

    They both get energy from the sun. So they "get up" to work when the sun rises, and "go to sleep" at night.

    China is now the third country in the world to soft-land on the moon after the US and the former Soviet Union.

    Also, China is planning to send its Chang'e-5 lunar probe around 2017. The probe will fly back to the Earth and bring natural resources from the moon.

    When will China fly a human to the moon? There's no plan yet. But the door is now open.

    The Hunger Games is a book by an American author Suzanne Collins. It came out in 2008 and has sold millions of copies. You can buy it in 26 different languages.

    The story happens in the future, after the destruction（毁灭）of North America. There are twelve poor districts governed（统治）by the rich Capitol.

    The Capitol organizes the Hunger Games every year. One boy and one girl aged 12 to 18 in each of the twelve districts are chosen to fight. Only one person will live. The whole country must watch the games on television.

    The story is about Katniss Everdeen, a sixteen-year-old girl. Her younger sister, Prim, is chosen, but Katniss volunteers to go instead. She has to fight with a boy named Peeta.

    Where did the idea for The Hunger Games come from? One night in 2003, Suzanne Collins was watching TV. At that time, there was a war between the US and lraq. The only programs she could find on TV were "reality" programs and news about the war. Suzanne says that the two things started to mix together in her head and she had the idea for The Hunger Games.

    Some parents in the US have complained about the violence（暴力）in the book. But Suzanne says she is very worried about how much violence we see on TV nowadays. Suzanne is also worried about the amount of reality TV we watch." We put too much of our lives on TV, "she says." And we care less for people because of this." She says that writing about death and violence in the story was the hardest thing for her to do and she hopes it will make people think about what they watch in the future.

    If you do not use your arms or your legs for some time, they become weak. When you start using them again, they slowly become strong again. Everybody knows that. Yet many people do not seem to know that memory works in the same way.

    When someone says that he has a good memory, he really means that he keeps his memory in practice by using it. When someone else says that his memory is poor, he really means that he does not give it enough chance to become strong.

    If a friend says that his arms and legs are weak, we know that it is his own fault (过错). But if he tells us that he has a poor memory, many of us think that his parents are to be blamed（责备）, and few of us know that it is just his own fault.

    Have you ever found that some people can't read or write but usually they have better memories? This is because they cannot read or write and they have to remember things; they cannot write them down in a little notebook. They have to remember days, names, songs and stories; so their memory is the whole time being exercised. So if you want to have a good memory, learn from the people: practice remembering.

    The world is an interesting place. Different people like different things. Some people like loud music. Other people don't

    Many people like sports, but they do not all like the same sports. In some countries, cricket is a very popular sport. In others it is not popular at all. No one plays it or watches it on TV. However, most people like soccer. The World Cup is very popular.

    Different people like different foods. Some people do not like meat. Some people do not like potatoes or bread. They prefer rice.

     Most people have their favorite colors. Some people like bright colors. Others prefer pale colors.

    Many people like traveling. Different people like different places, some people like to go to the country. They like the fresh air. Some people like to go to the cities. Because they like shopping.

What do you like? Have you got an idea?

A: Hi, Amy!

B: I went to the City Museum with my friend last Saturday.

A: Really?

B: By bike.

A:

B: We saw many old things there, including a very old can.

A: A can?

B: It was used for keeping water warm.

A:

B: It was made in 1892.

A: Oh, great! I'm going to visit the museum this weekend.      

学生参加体育运动的兴趣不同，理由各异。多数学生学习疲倦时，通过运动来放松自己。

男孩们参加各项体育活动，希望运动能使自己更强壮。女孩们也喜欢运动，希望运动能帮助自己减肥和保持苗条。你对运动的观点。

注意：*文中不能出现自己的姓名和学校名称。

*短文开头已给出，不计入总词数。字数：80词左右，不可逐字翻译。

*参考词语：lose weight，keep slim （保持苗条）

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