江苏省无锡市新吴区2018-2019学年九年级中考英语二模试卷

—About 40 minutes by coach. Wanna go?

—Thanks, I am sleepy. I really need ________.

—You ________. I'm not asking you for it.

—He is racing ________ the clock to finish his report on his project.

—Oh, you know ________. You have to learn to type first.

—________ It's the last thing I want to see in the world.

One morning, when I was leaving for my business, a middle-aged man came up and asked me for help. He said he had no money to get food for his large family. "You look 1. Why don't you work?" I asked. "Simply because I cannot get work, sir." "If I give you work, what pay do you want?" "As long as I can get bread for my family sir." he answered.

I decided to find out if he really meant what he said. "OK. I'll give you one pound an hour, if you 2 a brick under your arm and walk around the square for five hours without stopping." "Thank you, sir. I will."

    I found a brick and started him on his walk before I went to my 3. I never thought he would do he had said.

When I came back five hours later, I saw him still 4 with the brick under his arm. I stopped him and gave him five pounds. He thanked me and told me that some people had 5 to help him when they knew why he was doing all this. He would go and ask them for work 6.

Before leaving, he asked if I would give him the 7. I did.

Several years later, a well-dressed man greeted me on a train. Seeing I was not sure who he was, he 8 that he was the brick man and had his own business now. "You know. I still keep that brick and always consider it as the most 9 thing I have as it has brought me luck and success."

In fact, it was not the brick that made the man successful, but his faithfulness(坚定) in doing 10 a very little thing.

    Jack, the giant in Internet of things (物联网) of USA, was invited to work in Wuxi. He has heard that Wuxi is very beautiful in spring with different flowers opening up. He plans to visit some gardens, so he has collected information about them online as follows:

Tips:

    ①Garden cards are sold in each ticket office. ￥198 per person for unlimited travel within one year.

    ②Coupon tickets are sold in each ticket office. ￥170 per person for one travel in each park.

    ③Foreigners with passport are allowed a 50% off discount on each full price ticket.

    Big as the World is, Home is Where We Go Back (《世界再大，也要回家》) is a group of hand-drawn comics by a college student. It shows us parents' deep love when their daughter is at home and away.

    But one day, you happen to find it hard for your parents to do things they used to be able to. Their memory and their hearing are getting worse and worse. You are going faster and faster without knowing that they are walking slower and slower—they are growing old. When you finally understand it is time to repay your parents, could there be enough time left? So, go home before it is too late! Show your love by spending more time with your parents.

    Hassan's face brightened. "Good," he said. He lifted our kite, red with yellow. He licked his finger and held it up, tested the wind, then ran in its direction. The spool(线轴) rolled in my hands until Hassan stopped, about fifty feet away. He held the kite high over his head, like an Olympic athlete showing his gold medal. I jerked the string twice, our usual signal, and Hassan threw the kite highly in the sky.

    I took a deep breath, and pulled on the string. Within a minute, my kite was rocketing to the sky. It made a sound like a bird flapping its wings. Hassan clapped his hand and ran back to me. I handed him the spool, holding on to the string, and he spun it quickly to roll the loose string back on.

    At least two dozen kites already hung in the sky, like paper sharks swimming in the sea. Within an hour, the number doubled. A cold breeze went through my hair. The wind was perfect for kite flying, blowing just hard enough to give some lift, make the sweeps easier. Next to me, Hassan held the spool, his hands already bloodied by the string.

    Soon, the cutting started and the first of the defeated kites whirled (回旋) out of control. They fell from the sky like shooting stars, showering the neighborhoods below with prizes for the kite runners. I could hear the runners now, shouting as they ran the streets. Someone shouted reports of a fight breaking out two streets down.

    I kept stealing glances at Baba sitting with his friend, wondering what he was thinking. Was he cheering for me? Or did a part of him enjoy watching me Tail? That was the thing about kite flying: Your mind flew with the kite.

    They were coming down all over the place now. The kites and I was still flying. My eyes kept wandering over to Baba. Was he surprised I had lasted as long as I had? You don't keep your eyes to the sky, you won't last much longer. I snapped my gaze back to the sky. A red kite was closing in on me—I'd caught it just in time. I tangled(纠缠) a bit with it, ended up besting him when he tried to cut me from below.

    Before we upload a photo of ourselves to social media, like WeChat, we'll use an app to smooth our skin, make our eyes look bigger, and give us longer eyelashes and fuller lips. With a couple of touches on our mobile phone, we're able to get a quick fix and present the "best" pictures of ourselves to the world.

    However, the problem is, when we simply edit our imperfections away, we're also changing the way we look at our ourselves. ①

    Last month, researchers from the US Boston University published an article Selfies Living in the Era of Filtered (滤镜) Photographs. The article listed the bad effects of photo editing on people and the possibility to cause appearance worries. ②

    The researchers think that these apps make it difficult to tell the lines between reality and fantasy. "These apps allow one to change his or her appearance in minutes and follow an unrealistic standard of beauty." the article says. ③

    In the past, people may have compared their looks to those of celebrities who were famous that time. But for today's young people, beauty standards are most likely set by what they see on social media. From birth, they are born into an age of social platforms, and their feelings are connected to how good they look," a British doctor Escho told The Independent.

    ④"Now you've got the comparison of your real self to fake self that you present on social media," Renee Engeln, a professor at Northwestern University, told the HuffPost website.

    Engeln further pointed out that when people spend too much time making such comparison, they may become "beauty sick" and find it difficult to accept what they actually look like.

    So when we look in a real mirror, we shouldn't think to ourselves, "Do I look as good as myself in the Beauty Cam?" Instead, we should think, "I feel good, I have my health."

—Thanks. Tom hasn't come yet, I (wait) for him.

—Tea is without doubt the most popular. It (drink) by many people.

    China and Western countries may have different cultural beliefs about certain animals, but when it comes to pigs, somehow we have the same idea that pigs are ugly and lazy.

    But the truth is that pigs do have some finer qualities. And maybe there's m better time to clear their names than now, with the arrival of the Year of the Pig on Feb 5 this year.

    For starters, science long ago proved that pigs aren't stupid at all. According to a research, "pigs are mentally (精神) and socially like dogs and chimpanzees. They like to play. They can remember things for a long time. And they can tell who treat them welt and who don't.

    There are lovable pig characters in cartoons too. Peppa Pig, a UK animated television series that begin in 2004, has now become one of the most popular cartoons in 180 countries and areas. The four members in the cartoon's pig family teach children from all over the world to get on well with fiends. Their dally stories show that family members are the most valuable persons to cherish (珍惜). And in China, the adventures of McDull, a piglet who works hard towards his dreams even though he keeps failing, have been made into films since 2001. McDull is slow and patient, and not afraid of repeated failures. He has a heart of gold.

    Perhaps these are the qualities of pigs to keep in mind when we celebrate this Chinese New Year—their intelligence (智力), cuteness, patience and innocence.

Xi Jinping stated again "two century goals" during the National People's Congress.

The secret of friendship is the good in other people.

If the waste , our environment will be more beautiful.

Because of the Marathon, we another way to the park.

Boeing 737 MAX8 airplane, crashing on the way to Nairobi, .

Excuse me, I'd like to know in my room?

注意事项：①内容需根据mind map自拟，要求语气通顺、意思连贯、符合情景；②词数在90个字左右，首尾已在答题卡上给出，不计入总词数；③文中不得出现真实姓名和学校名称。

Dear teachers and classmates,

    It's my honor to speak here. Today I'd like to talk about doing our part as a middle school student. Everyone can play an important part in building a better society. As students we can do our part.

    That's all. Thank you for listening.