浙江省宁波市普通高中2020年保送生九年级英语模拟测试卷

    While he was driving his Ford, he saw an old lady on the side of the road, who needed help. So he 1in front of her Mercedes and got out. He looked 2 and hungry. Even with the smile on his face, she was worried. Was he going to hurt her? He could see that she was frightened. He said, "I am here to help you, ma'am. By the way, my name is Bryan."

    Well, all she had was a flat tyre. Bryan crawled under the 3. Soon he changed the tyre. But he got dirty and his 4hurt.

    She couldn't thank him enough. She asked him how much she should 5him. He told her that if she 6 wanted to pay him back, the next time she saw someone who needed help, she could give that person the help that he or she needed.

    The lady7 off. A few miles down the road she saw a small and shabby 8. She went in to eat. The waitress came over and smiled, 9 her a clean towel to wipe her wet hair.

    She noticed that the waitress was nearly eight months pregnant(怀孕). When she finished her meal and the waitress went to get 10 for her hundred-dollar bill, she slipped right out of the restaurant. When the waitress 11, she saw four $100 bills on the table.

    When she climbed into bed that night, she was still thinking about the12 the lady had left to her. How could she have 13 how much they needed it?

    With the birth of the baby next month, it was going to be hard. And she knew how worried her14was. As he lay sleeping next to her, she said in a low15, "Everything's going to be all right, Bryan."

    We didn't have a tree. My dad had as much pride as anybody, I suppose, so he wouldn't just say that we couldn't afford one. When I mentioned it, my mother said that we weren't going to have one this year, that we couldn't afford one, and even if we could—it was stupid to mess up your house with a dead tree.

    About three days before Christmas, I was out collecting for my paper route. It was fairly late—long after dark—it was snowing and very cold. I went to the apartment building to try to catch a customer who hadn't paid me for nearly two months— she owed me seven dollars. Much to my surprise, she was home. She invited me in and not only did she pay me, she also gave me a dollar tip.

    On the way home, I walked past a Christmas tree shop and the idea hit me. The selection wasn't very good because it was so close to the holiday, but there was this one real nice tree. It had been a very expensive tree and no one had bought it; now it was so close to Christmas that the man was afraid no one would.

    He wanted ten dollars for it, but when I told him what I had, he said he might sell it for that. I really didn't want to spend the whole money on the tree, but it was so pretty that I finally agreed. I dragged it all the way home— about a mile, I think— and I tried hard not to damage it. I arrived at home at last. My heart was bursting as I announced that I had a surprise.

    "Where did you get that tree?" my mother exclaimed. But it wasn't the kind of exclamation that indicates pleasure. After she knew the truth, she said that I was going to end up in the poorhouse because I believe in stupid things like Christmas trees. My mother had never talked to me like that before and I couldn't believe what I was hearing.

    From self-driving cars to carebots for elderly people, rapid development in technology has long represented a possible threat to many jobs normally performed by people. But experts now believe that almost 50 percent of occupations existing today will be completely unnecessary by 2025 as artificial intelligence continues to change businesses.

    "The next fifteen years will see a revolution in how we work, and a revolution will necessarily take place in how we plan and think about workplaces," said Peter Andrew, Director of Workplace Strategy for CBRE Asia Pacific.

    A growing number of jobs in the future will require creative intelligence, social skills and the ability to use artificial intelligence.

    The report is based on interviews with 200 experts, business leaders and young people from Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. It shows that in the US technology already destroys more jobs than it creates.

    But the report states: "Losing occupations does not necessarily mean losing jobs — just changing what people do." Growth in new jobs could occur as much, according to the research.

    "The growth of 20 to 40 person companies that have the speed and technological know-how will directly challenge big companies," it states.

    A 2014 report by Pew Research found 52 percent of experts in artificial intelligence and robotics were optimistic about the future and believed there would still be enough jobs in the next few years. The optimists pictured "a future in which robots do not take the place of more jobs than they create," according to Aaron Smith, the report's co-author.

    "Technology will continue to affect jobs, but more jobs seem likely to be created. Although there have always been unemployed people, when we reached a few billion people there were billions of jobs. There is no shortage of things that need to be done and that will not change," Microsoft's Jonathan Grudin told researchers.

    Of course, she wasn't really my aunt and, out of fear, I never called her that to her face. I only referred to her as "My Aunt Fannie" because the name always made my father laugh quietly and gave my mother cause to look strictly at both of us—at me for being disrespectful of my elder and at my father for encouraging my bad behavior. I enjoyed both reactions so I looked for every opportunity to work the name into as many conversations as possible.

    As a young woman, my mother had worked in the kitchen of a large Victorian farmhouse. During those years my mother helped Aunt Fanny make the best blueberry jam ever tasted by anyone in Glenfield. She was well-known for her jam and for never sharing the recipe(食谱) with others. Even though my mother knew the recipe by heart, as long as Aunt Fannie was alive, she never made the jam without Aunt Fannie in our kitchen to direct the process and keep the secret.

    Each August, my mother would prepare me for Aunt Fannie's visit. One year, after I had helped with the jam process Aunt Fannie gave me a coin and then made me promise that I would never spend it. "Hold onto this coin," she said, "and someday you will be rich. I still have my very first coin, given to me by my grandmother." So I kept the coin in a small box and waited to become rich.

    I now have the blueberry jam recipe and the coin from Aunt Fannie. In people's eyes Aunt Fannie's success resulted from that secret recipe. But to me, it was just a common recipe. Neither have made me become a rich person, but I keep them as reminders to hold onto the valuable things in life. Money can make you feel rich for a while, but it is the relationships and the memories of time spent with friends and family that truly leave you wealthy. And that is a fortune that anyone can build.

    One should always stand still and hold on to the handrails while taking escalator in Metro Stations, according to a new safety notice issued by Shanghai Shentong Metro Station on Saturday.

    The notice asks passengers not to walk, lean, play or face the wrong way on the escalator. Trolleys and heavy objects should not be taken on escalators,

Many people often stand to the right of an escalator and leave the left side others to walk. But Shanghai Metro said one should always stand still on the escalator.

    "Stand right and walk left" used to be thought of as good (manner) when taking escalators. But it (prove) that standing on only one side of an escalator could damage the machine because of the uneven load, Shanghai Metro said.

    In 2010, Shanghai was the host of World Expo, it encouraged passengers to stand on the right side of escalators so that in a hurry could walk up and down (fast).

    But Shanghai Metro said it stopped encouraging people to do so years ago.

    "Many people got used to it," said Feng Hao from Shanghai Metro. "They should never run or even walk on an escalator, it is actually dangerous."

    Shanghai Metro said the notice is not compulsory, for the safety of others and the passengers themselves, they should consider (follow) it.

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