浙江省杭州市拱墅区、滨江区2020届九年级中考英语一模试卷

    Clara Daly was sitting on an Alaska Airlines flight from Boston to Los Angeles when she heard a worried voice over the loudspeaker, "Does anyone know American Sign Language (ASL)?"

    Clara, 15 at the time, pressed the call button (按钮). An air hostess came by and explained the situation, "We have a passenger on the plane who's blind and deaf" she said. The passenger seemed to want something, but he's traveling alone and she couldn't understand what he needed.

    Clara had been studying ASL for the past year to help blind and deaf people. She knew she'd be able to finger spell into the man's hand. So she rose from her seat, walked toward the front of the plane, and knelt (跪)by the scat of Tm Cook, then 64. Gently taking his hand, she signed, "How are you? Are you OK?" Cook asked for some water.

    When it arrived, Clara returned to her seat. She came by again a bit later because he wanted to know the time. On her third visit, she stopped and stayed for a while.

    "He didn't need anything. He's lonely and wanted to talk," Clara said.

    So for the next hour, she talked about her family and plans for the future. Cook told Clara how he had become blind and shared stories of his days as a traveling salesman. Even though he couldn't see her, she "looked attentively at his face with such kindness," a passenger reported.

    "Clara was amazing," an air hostess told Alaska Airlines in an interview" You could tell Cook was very excited to have someone he could speak to, and she was such an angel (天使)

    Cook's reply 一"Best trip I've ever had"

    Many people travel to different places in the world by air. Usually it takes a long time, perhaps half a day, for passengers to stay in the plane. So airlines offer passengers food. But it is common that they feel bad about food taste. Do you agree?

    To solve this problem, airlines try hard to improve their food. They would like to do so because they don't want to lose customers.

    However, according to scientific research, part of the reason why plane food tastes bad is that at high altitude (海拔)we can't taste things as well as we do on the ground. Also scientists have found that our noses become very dry even before a plane takes off. As the plane moves up, the change in air pressure reduces one third of the sensibility (感觉)of our taste buds (味蕾). So our taste buds become senseless. The sad fact, however, is that our noses don't know it.

    All of these helps explain why food on the plane tastes so bad. They also help explain why airlines choose to offer passengers salty and spicy food. Without doing so, the food would be tasteless.

    Now there are many researches on this. According to one of them, some volunteers are asked to lie with their feet higher than their heads for weeks. And scientists write down their feelings about food taste.

    Though scientists try their best, it is not as easy as they thought. Because they can't deal with the special environment successfully, such as the change in air pressure, making food taste good is still hard for them.

    Have you ever had an experience where you meet someone new, learn their name and think to yourself, "Wow, they really look just like their name!" What does this mean, exactly? Scientists are suggesting that humans tend to associate people's names with their appearance, and can even guess someone's name based on how they look.

    Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel collected thousands of photos of people faces. They labeled (贴标签)each photo with four names. Then, they asked volunteers to guess which of the four names was correct.

    The volunteers were able to guess the right name 38 percent of the time. It seems that humans are able to recognize certain characteristics of faces that can give them clues (线索)about someone's name, Reader's Digest reported.

    However, this only works when we're looking at names within our own culture. In addition, the volunteers were not as good at guessing the real names of people who use nicknames (昵称) more often than their real names. This shows that a person's appearance is affected by their name only if they use it often.

This kind of face一name matching happens because of a process of self-fulfilling prophecy(自我实现预言), as we become what other people expect us to become," Ruth Mayo from the university told science news website EurekAlert.

    Previous studies have shown that gender and race (种族)stereotypes (刻板印象)can affect a person's appearance. The researchers believe there are also similar stereotypes about names. For example, people tend to think that men named Bob should have rounder faces because the word itself looks round, People may think that women named rose are beautiful. They expect them to be delicate and feminine, just like the flower they are named for.

Five tips for safe running

    We all know that exercise is good for our health. But some kinds of exercise may be better than others. Running, for example, may help to protect against heart disease and other health problems.

    Running is good exercise, but it can be hard on the body. Here are five ideas to reduce (减少、降低)the risk of injury (受伤).

    Do not run too much, too soon or too fast. Most people get running injuries when they push their bodies too bad. The body needs time to get used to increase in distance or speed. Muscles and joints (关节)need time to recover.

    Most running injuries do not come unexpectedly. Usually, there are warning signs. They may include body aches, sore muscles and pain that does not go away.

    There is no single best shoe for every runner. You should find the shoe that offers the best fit and support for your feet. More importantly, you should change your shoes every 500 to 800 kilometers.

    Take time after each run to write down what you did and how you felt. Look for patterns, things that happen over and over again. These notes will help you find the best exercise for you.

    As we said earlier, running is hard on your body. So physical fitness experts suggest some form of cross training to improve muscle balance and to help you stay injury free. They say swimming, yoga, and riding a bicycle are good exercises to combine (结合)with running. These exercises are easier on the body.

    It was about 8:30 on a busy morning. An old gentleman in his 80s came to the 1. I heard him saying the nurse that he was in a hurry for an appointment at 9:30.

    The nurse had him take a 2 in the waiting area, telling him it would be at least 40 minutes 3 someone would be able to see him. I saw him looking at his watch and decided, since I was not busy 一 my patient didn't 4  at the appointed hour, I would examine his wound. While taking care of his wound, I asked him 5 he had another doctor's appointment.

    The gentleman said no and told me that he6to go to the nursing home to eat breakfast with his 7 . He told me that she had been there for a while and that she had a special disease. I asked if she would be 8 if he was a bit late. He replied that she 9 knew who he was, and she had not been able to recognize him for five years now. I was 10, and asked him, "And you still go every morning, 11 she doesn't know who you are?"

    He smiled and said, "She doesn't know me, but I know who she is." I had to hold back12 as he left.

    Now I realize that in marriages, true love is acceptance of all that is. The happiest people don't 13 have the best of everything: they just 14 the best of everything they have.15isn't about how to live through the storm, but how to dance in the rain.

    Thangga(唐卡)is a special kind of painting. It (find) only in Tibet, China now. It has a long history   started from the Tang Dynasty (唐朝). Thangga paintings show Tibetan people's lives. In recent years, Thangga paintings have caught the public's attention. At the same time, the Chinese government has also tried hard (protect) the art.

      color of Thangga paintings looks wonderful and special. Because of the special environment of Tibet and the excellent skills of artists, the paints (颜料)used in Thangga are different  other ones. They are made from minerals (矿物质 like gold and silver, as well as sone plants. The paints were made by hand. The beautiful colors could last for (hundred) of years.

    However, with the development of technology, people now use  (cheap)and more easily made chemicals to make Thangga paints. The traditional paints  (take) a lot of work and they were made in many secret ways.

    Later people stopped making the paints  forgot about them. So the old skills were (complete) lost. It's a pity that the traditional Thangga paintings are difficult to find now.

Dear Jack,

    I'm happy to hear from you. In your email you asked about how 1 study in the situation of the ongoing novel coronavirus outbreak. Now I'm writing to you about it.

Yours,

Li Ming