山东省淄博市2019年中考英语试卷

    For thousands of years, people farmed the land. They grew fruits and vegetables. They hunted and fished for meat. They1cloth, dyes(染料) and paper from plants. They used stone and metal for weapons and tools.

    People progressed to making machines powered 2water and steam(蒸汽), and even later, by coal, oil, and petrol. Large cities were built. Factories3of machines created jobs in the cities for thousands of people. The Industrial Revolution(工业革命) changed the lives of many people because, for the first time, more people lived in cities than on 4. Companies built power plants(工厂) to make5to run the machines, factories and cities. 

    People did not realize these activities were6the Earth. They didn't realize bow7oil, gas, coal and minerals were being used up. 8cities grew bigger and spread across the land, plants and animals began to disappear. Their nature homes were destroyed(破坏) as people moved into new places. 

    As time passed, people began to 9 the need to protect the Earth and its natural resources(资源). They saw that plants and animals needed protection, so they wouldn't disappear forever. People joined together to tell10around the world to conserve(节约) our natural resources and care for the Earth. And so. Earth Day was born. Each year, more and more people take part in Earth Day. What can you do to help?

    Like you, plants need good things like food, water, and minerals in order to grow. Usually they get these important nutrients(营养) from the rich soil(土壤) in which they're planted. But there's another way to grow plants that doesn't use soil. It's called hydrogenic gardening.

    "Hydrogenic" means "working with water." In a hydrogenic garden, plants grow with their roots in water, not in dirt. The water is filled with special food for the plants that gardeners have carefully measured and prepared.

    Hydrogenic plants grow quickly. In ordinary gardens, plants need time and energy to grow long roots that search the soil for food and water. In a hydrogenic garden, plants can use their energy to grow tall instead. And because there is no soil, there are no weeds and few insect pests(害虫). Gardeners don't need to spray(喷洒) plants with dangerous chemicals. Both the plants and the environment stay healthy. 

    Scientists hope that, one day, hydrogenic gardens may be able to help hungry people all over the world grow enough food-even in countries that have bad soil, or weather that is too hot, too cold, or too dry. And astronauts hope to take hydrogenic gardens with them to the spaceship they fly to Mars, so that they will always have fresh vegetables, and the fun of growing a garden without dirt. 

    Can you imagine walking in, sitting next to a stranger and asking for the latest news or putting a recent novel down next to someone's coffee and asking for their opinion before giving yours?

    But more than 300 years ago, this kind of behaviour was encouraged in thousands of coffeehouses all over London. In 1712, the Starbucks site(位置) today was occupied(占据) by Button's coffeehouse Inside, poets, writers and members of the public gathered around long wooden tables drinking, thinking, writing and discussing literature into the night. On the wall, near where the Starbucks community notice board now stands, was the white marble(大理石) head of a lion with wide-open mouth. The public was invited to feed it with letters and stories. The best of the lion's digest(文摘) were published in a weekly edition of Joseph Addison's Guardian newspaper, named "the roaring of the lion". 

    Today, few people know Button's. It's just one of London's forgotten coffeehouses. 

    London's first coffeehouse was opened by a Greek named Pasque Rosee in 1652. While a servant for a British merchant in Turkey, Rosee developed a taste for the exotic(异国情调的) Turkish drink and decided to import(进口) it to London. People from all walks of life came to his business to meet, greet, drink, think, write, and joke. 

    I did not grow up in a family with books.My process of being a reader seemed amazing. I got lost in one book that opened up my world and changed my life. My primary school teacher always gave her pupils time to read for pleasure in school. She believed it would improve reading greatly. It was a biography(传记) of actress Greta Garbo. I picked it up and began to read from cover to cover. The words I read attracted(吸引) me and I was excited. I realized that there were other women like Greta who had made great efforts and changed their lives. I recognized(认识) myself in her. 

    From then on, my teacher had a hard time keeping me supplied(提供) with books. She dug up all the biographies of women that she could find.

    It has been a long road. I am now a physics professor in a university. Recently, someone gave me Justice Sonia Sotomayor's autobiography. Once again, I am encouraged and am imagining new possibilities for my life. 

One of my friends sometimes takes aside another friend to talk to her about something she doesn't want me to hear. It makes me feel sad. What should I do?

Some of my friends are in a fight. like them all equally(同样地), but they say I have to choose sides. Help!

I look up to my sisters. They're both intelligent(聪明的) feel that I'll never be as good as them.

I am the shortest person in my class, and my classmates call me "Tiny Mouse." How can I make them stop?

I always use the computer and can't stop I feel that I'm not getting any smarter and the computer is warping(扭曲) my brain.

My Dear Azhaan,

    I want you to know that you remind me of myself in so many ways. You are like a better and Improved version(版本) of me. I look at you and I see myself. your eyes. I wish I had that confidence(信心) and even some of your bossiness(霸气) at that age. Yet, I'm also troubled on seeing this confidence  disappearing, because you are  many different things. I want you to know that your confidence is one of the things about you. All of us admire your confidence. However, you areconfident enough these days, because you are beginning to dislike your own body.

    You are not fat. I agree that you could be a little healthier. You could eat a little less junk food. However, I don't know when you'll begin to enjoy fruits, but I believe that you will.

    I think one of the moments offor me was when you were born, and the doctor said, "Congratulations, you have another baby boy," not because you were a boy but because you were healthy.

    You're too young to understand this  no one realizes the importance of a normal life it is away from them. What I for you is happiness: the understanding that you are not perfect and that it is okay because none of us is!

    Stay confident and keep your head , my little boy-who is growing up too soon!

Love,

Ammi

    Ernest Hemingway, the son of a doctor and a music teacher, was born in 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois. Hemingway's father(teach) him early on how to hunt and fish, two activities Hemingway loved throughout his life. Instead of (go) to college, Hemingway became a reporter for the Kansas City Star.

    Later, in Europe, he worked as a driver  the Italian army until he was wounded and shipped home, where he again wrote for newspapers. Two years , he moved to Paris, where he hoped to improve his writing. There he became friends with other (America) writers, including

    Gertrude Stein and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

    Hemingway developed  style of writing that was simple and direct. He chose words sparingly(俭省地), avoided using adjectives, and trusted the reader to understand (mean) of his writing. As he put it, "I always try (write) on the principle(原则) of the iceberg(冰山). There is seven eighths of it under water for every part that shows. "This style continues to influence Writers today. In his career(生涯), which lasted some 40 years, Hemingway earned the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize. He was one of the finest writers of the(twenty) century.

    For a while Emest Hemingway lived in Key West, Florida, where he had nearly 50 cats. One of them was a cat with six toes(脚趾), which a ship's captain had given him. Today his Key West home is a museum, and many cats still live there. Some of them are (child) of Hemingway's six-toed cat. Hemingway was married four times and had three sons. He died in 1961. 

    Around the world, people live in homes of many shapes and sizes. In some countryside, people live together with their family in a huge house with gardens or backyards. On the other hand, the buildings in cities are usually very close together.

    A home can be any kind of building—large or small. Some people even have homes on boats, in tents or in caravans that can be moved around. Caravans are mobile homes. They are towed(拖，拉) by either a car or a huge truck. Some of them are holiday homes. We can see many families staying together in these caravans.

    In the past, rich and important people built strong castles to keep their families safe. The castles(城堡) were built on hill tops with high walls and some even had moats. Moats were deep and wide ditches(壕沟) filled with water. They made it difficult for enemies to attack.

    Today, we have different ways of protecting our homes. Some homes are installed(安装) with video cameras and an alarm system. These will help to alert(向……报警) home owners if someone tries to break in.

    Homes are important to all the people. Everyone needs a home where they feel sheltered and safe. 

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